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Live Strong

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Wear Yellow! Order wrist bands at the Lance Armstrong Foundation. They are currently backordered but order now!
Update (8/28/04): Changed the word ‘here’ to Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Update (9/28/04): The Lance Armstrong Foundation is again taking orders for bracelets with a delivery lead time of 3-4 weeks. Go place your order!!
Update (02/11/05): Lance will be on the Oprah Winfrey show today. Check your local listings for time and channel.
Update (07/02/05): The 2005 Tour has started! Order your LIVESTRONG wristbands from the the Lance Armstrong Foundation now. Buy 10 or 100 and give the extras to others. If you can’t afford to buy them yourself join together with some friends to make your contribution.



Acronyms of Pain

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It’s unlikely that you will find these acronyms in an IM chat:

The dry-erase boards scream profanity across the ER.
Letters of blue roar:
“OOC (out of control — usually after crack or methamphetamine)!”
They cry:
“ICH (intra-cranial hemorrhage),
AMS (altered mental status),
SSCP (substernal chest pain),
GIB (gastrointestinal bleed),
AAA (abdominal aortic aneurysm),
SBP (spontaneous bacterial peritonitis)!”
They mock:
“AOB (alcohol on breath)!”
HOD (heroin overdose)…”
Via Hermes.
(Ed. colors added)

bush Science

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It will be interesting, perhaps depressing, to see which US scientists are selected to advise the World Health Organization. Previously WHO had selected appropriate scientists for their needs. Now the administration will pick them based, I guess, on the administration’s needs:

Instead, Steiger’s Office of Global Health Affairs now will choose “an appropriate expert who can best serve both of our organizations,” he said. HHS experts made available also must advocate U.S. government policies, Steiger said.
Yep, I like that last key criteria. Apparently good science is not the main goal.
Via David Harris.