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pstrongWatch the summit live below./strong/p pa href="http://www.truthout.org/live-blogging-health-care-summit57169"read more/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TRUTHOUT/~4/N5wxZsIfiek" height="1" width="1"/

p class="rteleft"Dick Cheney is a sadist./p p class="rteleft"On Sunday, in an a target="_blank" href="http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=9818034"exclusive interview/a with Jonathan Karl of ABC News' quot;This Week,quot; Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that the Bush White House ordered Justice Department attorneys to fix the law around the administration's policy interests./p p class="rteleft"quot;I was a big supporter of waterboarding,quot; Cheney told Karl, as if he were issuing a challenge to officials in the current administration,/p pa href="http://www.truthout.org/cheney-admits-war-crimes-media-yawns-obama-turns-other-cheek56924"read more/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TRUTHOUT/~4/X_qj_Fi02jw" height="1" width="1"/

p class="rteleft"The story of the financial debacle will end the way it began, with the super-hustlers from Goldman Sachs at the center of the action and profiting wildly. Never in U.S. history has one company wielded such destructive power over our political economy, irrespective of whether a Republican or a Democrat happened to be president./ppa href="http://www.truthout.org/robert-scheer-goldman-plays-we-pay58769"read more/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TRUTHOUT/~4/Reb1orwdTVw" height="1" width="1"/

p class="rteleft"Here's the a target="_blank" href="http://www.truthout.org/haiti-earthquake-live-blog-hatian-prime-minister-says-hundreds-thousands-dead56040"link/a to Wednesday's live blog./p p class="rteleft"strong5:26 pm PDT/strong:nbsp;We couldn't leave for the day without first reporting on this development./p pa href="http://www.truthout.org/haiti-live-blog-day-3-port-au-prince-stacked-with-dead-bodies56082"read more/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TRUTHOUT/~4/hf6oXe3q0XA" height="1" width="1"/

p class="rteleft"strong7:45am PDT:/strongnbsp;The BBC has a disturbing first hand a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8458516.stm" target="_blank"video report/a from a hospital in Port-au-Prince where, last night, injured people waiting for treatment slept amongst dead bodies./p p class="rteleft"strong7:37am PDT:/strongnbsp;The Washington Post a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011401013.html?hpid=topnews"reporting /athat the Haitian Red Cross estimates between 45,000 and 50,000 deaths./p pa href="http://www.truthout.org/haiti-earthquake-live-blog-hatian-prime-minister-says-hundreds-thousands-dead56040"read more/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TRUTHOUT/~4/w9wjVsehnyk" height="1" width="1"/

p class="rteleft"Police violence, discourse on quot;securityquot;, and xenophobia: the war declared by the government against the emRoms/em and the emgens du voyage/ema href="#1"sup[1]/sup/a has unleashed wide-spread indignation. The philosopher Greacute;goire Chamayou puts this new state-organized man-hunt into perspective./ppa href="http://www.truth-out.org/they-are-channeling-social-anger-offering-it-outlet63012"read more/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TRUTHOUT/~4/pMUy0EBPtgE" height="1" width="1"/

p class="rteleft"Washinton - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who may seek the Republican nomination for president, is trying to sell the biggest load of revisionist nonsense about race, politics and the South that I've ever heard. Ever./p p class="rteleft"He has the gall to try to portray Southern Republicans as having been enlightened supporters of the civil rights movement all along. I can't decide whether this exercise in rewriting history should be described as cynical or sinister. Whichever it is, the record has to be set straight./ppa href="http://www.truth-out.org/eugene-robinson-barbours-generation-gap63009"read more/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TRUTHOUT/~4/ANV0mXadXkA" height="1" width="1"/

p class="rteleft"Washington - Watching the great civil rights march on television in August 1963, I couldn't help but notice that hundreds carried signs with a strange legend at the top: quot;UAW Says.quot; UAW was saying quot;Segregation Disunites the United States,quot; and many other things insisting on equality./p p class="rteleft"This quot;UAWquot; was a very odd word to my 11-year-old self and I asked my dad who or what quot;U-awe,quot; as I pronounced it, was. The letters, he explained, stood for the United Auto Workers union./ppa href="http://www.truth-out.org/ej-dionne-jr-on-missing-big-labor63008"read more/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TRUTHOUT/~4/JdZEM8NXN0g" height="1" width="1"/

The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has welcomed the re-election of the Gillard Government, and has welcomed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's announcement that the next round of federal hospitals funding will be available for regional and rural hospitals. But the Association has warned that fixing the rural health crisis will require much more than just one round of hospital funding-it will need a systematic, big picture approach that also builds the rural health workforce and ensures the sustainability of rural practices and health services into the future... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K8X4KPv74PK7jqjYekUzVIaJmw0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K8X4KPv74PK7jqjYekUzVIaJmw0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K8X4KPv74PK7jqjYekUzVIaJmw0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K8X4KPv74PK7jqjYekUzVIaJmw0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/1dFs-duSmdA" height="1" width="1"/

GPs have indicated that they want more educational support in regards to managing cardiorespiratory resuscitation (CPR) in general practice, which has prompted the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) to develop two new online learning activities with a focus on CPR. Dr Ronald McCoy, RACGP spokesperson, said that completing the CPR Theory Online activity and Accredited Basic CPR 2010 activity would enable GPs to refresh both their theory and skills in CPR through its blended learning format... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UgHnIbY64X4UGYIIWWqcIgra080/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UgHnIbY64X4UGYIIWWqcIgra080/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UgHnIbY64X4UGYIIWWqcIgra080/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UgHnIbY64X4UGYIIWWqcIgra080/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/c4qdU3a1xyo" height="1" width="1"/

The RACGP welcomes the Labor Party into government, and urges the new government to maintain a strong focus on issues affecting the healthcare sector, especially in relation to general practice. RACGP President Dr Chris Mitchell said that the College was looking forward to working with the new government to improve access to high quality healthcare for everyone and calls on the government to keep investing directly into general practice... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Am1HZmgzmHRZfr0jJxR6P5Lhd0M/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Am1HZmgzmHRZfr0jJxR6P5Lhd0M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Am1HZmgzmHRZfr0jJxR6P5Lhd0M/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Am1HZmgzmHRZfr0jJxR6P5Lhd0M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/25vZXG4RF-Q" height="1" width="1"/

The at 6th Modern Drug Discovery and Development Summit will feature plenary keynote presentations from Mathai Mammen, Senior Vice President of Research and Early Clinical Development at Theravance; Gilles J. A. Gallant, Vice-President of Clinical Oncology at Human Genome Sciences; Tom Novak, Ph.D,Senior Vice President of Research Development, Fate Therapeutics; and Hans-Joachim Bohm, Ph.D. Global Head of Chemistry, Roche. Productivity in the pharmaceutical industry is flagging. It is now clear that the traditional pharmaceutical Research Development model is not sustainable... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UtB7V_zNrLZJOX2cS3XxSckor6s/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UtB7V_zNrLZJOX2cS3XxSckor6s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UtB7V_zNrLZJOX2cS3XxSckor6s/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UtB7V_zNrLZJOX2cS3XxSckor6s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/0n4x-1fnkEw" height="1" width="1"/

Stephen Turner, Founder Chief Technology Officer of Pacific Biosciences and Michael R. Jackson, Vice President, Drug Discovery and Development of Burnham Medical Research Institute will give a keynote presentation at the 5th Assay and Drug Discovery Technologies Conference to be held this year in San Diego, CA Sept. 20-21, 2010 by GTCbio. DNA polymerases possess performance characteristics far beyond what first and second generation sequencing technologies have achieved... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EsO-e3LBigGlqHCMv89E-yjkcfA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EsO-e3LBigGlqHCMv89E-yjkcfA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EsO-e3LBigGlqHCMv89E-yjkcfA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EsO-e3LBigGlqHCMv89E-yjkcfA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/hw-ODNmK4dM" height="1" width="1"/

In the first human study of its kind to be published in more than 35 years, researchers found psilocybin, an hallucinogen which occurs naturally in "magic mushrooms," can safely improve the moods of patients with advanced-stage cancer and anxiety, according to an article published online in the Archives of General Psychiatry... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/V-4EDjMxPTBs8W4iw5Iiu_fDPQs/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/V-4EDjMxPTBs8W4iw5Iiu_fDPQs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/V-4EDjMxPTBs8W4iw5Iiu_fDPQs/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/V-4EDjMxPTBs8W4iw5Iiu_fDPQs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/fTM1eZIADAs" height="1" width="1"/

Following extensive consultation with the pest control industry, RSPH is pleased to announce that the following qualifications have received their accreditation from Ofqual, the regulatory body for qualifications, and can now be offered by approved centres: Level 2 Award in Pest Management Level 2 Certificate in Pest Management Level 3 Diploma in Pest Management The RSPH has amended and developed its pest control qualification portfolio in response to changes in the government regulations regarding accredited qualifications... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f8f8PqInzw47M22kUeDpGDwm-H4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f8f8PqInzw47M22kUeDpGDwm-H4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f8f8PqInzw47M22kUeDpGDwm-H4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f8f8PqInzw47M22kUeDpGDwm-H4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/uw7aNwW2_RE" height="1" width="1"/

One of the most ambitious large-scale projects in Human Genetics has been launched: Epitwin will capture the subtle epigenetic signatures that mark the differences between 5,000 twins on a scale and depth never before attempted, providing key therapeutic targets for the development of drug treatments. The project is a collaboration between TwinsUK, a leading twin research group based at King's College London, and BGI, one of the world's largest genomic organisations headquartered in Shenzhen, China... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SUWuw2J7e4bWeuvSzoIAX-h7y6M/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SUWuw2J7e4bWeuvSzoIAX-h7y6M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SUWuw2J7e4bWeuvSzoIAX-h7y6M/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SUWuw2J7e4bWeuvSzoIAX-h7y6M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/GVdK2blwSvE" height="1" width="1"/

A new accreditation programme is launched, by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), which is designed specifically for smaller enterprises in the Third Sector which offer training to their staff, supporters or the general public. As the health and well being sector enters a period of tremendous change, it is vital that all the participants are able to identify high quality training that is relevant to their needs... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dz1YV2G8pubt8MwsqQ8-eWgmHF4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dz1YV2G8pubt8MwsqQ8-eWgmHF4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dz1YV2G8pubt8MwsqQ8-eWgmHF4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dz1YV2G8pubt8MwsqQ8-eWgmHF4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/MZ2A1T0sZaE" height="1" width="1"/

A new study in the September 6 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology helps define the role of an important ciliary protein, CEP290. The results could be applied toward targeted gene therapy in cilia-related diseases. Mutations in human CEP290 cause cilia-related disorders that range in severity from isolated blindness to perinatal death. CEP290 mutations are known to cause Meckel syndrome, Joubert syndrome, and NPHP - the most common syndromic form of cystic kidney disease in childhood - among others... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/BR2SfxDnbSUrXW_327oGLv8nRCM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/BR2SfxDnbSUrXW_327oGLv8nRCM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/BR2SfxDnbSUrXW_327oGLv8nRCM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/BR2SfxDnbSUrXW_327oGLv8nRCM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/2YldS9HniBo" height="1" width="1"/

Only one in ten people know that radiotherapy helps cure forty per cent of cancer patients according to new figures* published by Cancer Research UK today (Tuesday). The survey of more than 2,000 people from across the UK also reveals just 14 per cent are aware that half of all cancer patients could benefit from radiotherapy as part of their treatment. Cancer Research UK believes lack of public awareness about radiotherapy's importance in treating cancer is having a serious impact on providing world class treatment for the UK... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/aQDYIptQrfVnAoWBgYSGr76mgXY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/aQDYIptQrfVnAoWBgYSGr76mgXY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/aQDYIptQrfVnAoWBgYSGr76mgXY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/aQDYIptQrfVnAoWBgYSGr76mgXY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/mZzC1ipENrI" height="1" width="1"/

The Australian Psychological Society (APS) congratulates Julia Gillard on her re-appointment as Prime Minister of Australia and looks forward to working productively with the Gillard government to address pressing community issues including health reform. "This government is coming in at a time when the community is facing major challenges," APS president Professor Bob Montgomery said. "The APS is calling on this new government to address those challenges including inclusive health reform, improving access to mental health care and addressing the impact of climate change on the community... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/xJsHLqoEp1VG7J1WKj6Zrd0Cpqc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/xJsHLqoEp1VG7J1WKj6Zrd0Cpqc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/xJsHLqoEp1VG7J1WKj6Zrd0Cpqc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/xJsHLqoEp1VG7J1WKj6Zrd0Cpqc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/whrV6pjwMIM" height="1" width="1"/