Sunday, May 17, 2009

Aggressive After Brain Anyeurysm

AGAINST GOLIATH DAVID

Quando incontrai Augusto Odone, lui mi chiese di prendere in mano il Comitato Italiano Mielina. Era stato lui a farlo nascere in Italia e in tutto il mondo. L’obiettivo era quello di continuare a promuovere la ricerca farmacologia per offrire una speranza ai bambini malati di adrenoleucodistrofia e ai loro genitori. Lorenzo era malato di una malattia rara e demielinizzante. Augusto aveva contribuito a combatterla “scoprendo” l’olio che prende il name of his son and still allows you to slow its progression.

accepted well aware of the difficulties in this field is the lack of "numbers" needed to obtain adequate funding dedicated to the development of medicines. An almost impossible challenge, against all laws of the market: get a huge amount of money necessary for the development of molecular medicines that will never bring the profit necessary to cover the cost of research and production and to involve the pharmaceutical industry, the only repositories of knowledge necessary to go from an idea to a product administration. In

help came the global economic crisis. He questioned certain rules of profit "at all costs" and led to the development of "Corporate Social Responsibility." Based on this new "ethical" business, the international community is now asking companies to take responsibility for the problems of adaptation and humanization derivantidalla their activities.
CEOs and managers of multinational companies should also begin to realize that the historical and current economic situation has led to new forms of entrepreneurship: often fueled by public money, they can collect the collaboration of entities universities, hospitals, the same industry, non-profit consortium. For the "business" of the drug, the objective must be to obtain an effective medicine to combat disease but little interest from the point of view.

What the industry "health" is still a problem with broad spectrum. The search for profit puts the moral and ethical questions. One wonders if the "attention disorder" (Add) and "hyperactivity (ADHD) have been crafted to achieve new market shares. It is assumed that scientific research should be driven by pharmaceutical interests which guide scientists. There is indignant the fact that millions of people can not afford the costs of therapy and do not have a state health system. You agree that, due to a patent or intellectual property, life-saving molecules have high costs and often inaccessible.

Certainly this is the time when "Big Pharma" (the giant accused of running cartels and interests that go beyond the welfare of the patient and whose profit exceeds that of the top 490 corporations combined) could dispel any gossip dedicating a small percentage of its profits to various children much less fortunate than us all.

Massimiliano Fanni Canelles

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Used Stand Alone Tubs

Works great for a great country


the last millennium, Italy was the scene of 30,000 earthquakes. These have resulted in 120,000 casualties and damage in the last century to 100 billion euro in the last 40 years. The high seismic risk of a large part of the national territory (45% in Italy), among the highest in Europe, however, depends not only on the frequency and intensity of earthquakes, but also by the vulnerability of the housing stock in Most regions of historical and artistic importance, but no guarantees in terms of seismic resistance.

A situation that would require some time a correct classification of the area (only recently defined and agreed) rules and appropriate legislation on earthquake risk in the municipalities. Only September 14, 2005, with severe delays on dozens of past earthquakes in the name of the 27 children who died in the dramatic collapse of the school of San Giuliano di Puglia, was launched the decree defines "technical standards for construction" in seismic areas . Finally, the legislature sets the rules for the safety of old buildings and new construction in the towns at risk.

But with Italian style, from that moment began the transitional phases, extensions, referrals to postpone the entry into force of the law, the latest being in February 2009, which refers to the whole in July 2010. Extensions which, thankfully, exclude strategic buildings such as schools and hospitals, but, given what happened at the hospital of the Eagle, however, have not been applied or, at least, have not been met. Currently only 14% of buildings in seismic zone is built with security policies, and if now begun to rule the new development in 20 years we would still have 82% of homes insecure. Action is therefore needed as soon as possible, not only on newly designed buildings, but also on the structures and ancient monuments.

is true that the costs of actions to secure the Italian heritage could be around 200 billion euro, but it is also true that all the technical and economical analysis show that intervening before the earthquake would generate a savings of at least 40-50% of the cost of a seismic event, not to mention the number of lives that would be saved in this way.

Moreover, as already outlined in the "House Plan" of the Government, the effort this could act as a push to market the building and not in crisis. So, given the possibility of harmonizing laws that allow the timing, procedures, capital and control in public procurement for the so-called "Great Works" as the bridge across the Strait, divert attention and funding on the part of a "Great Work of prevention" like that which would alleviate the Italian seismic risk, could be the real solution for the future of Italy and its citizens.

Massimiliano Fanni Canelles

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Where Store Can I Find The Gel Spiker

blame Eva


The United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women describes as unacceptable "any act of violence based on gender causes or is likely to cause physical damage , sexual or psychological, including threats of violence, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private. While affirming the right to equality has long been an integral part of human rights, solo nel 1993, a Vienna, con questa carta il tema della violenza contro le donne entra nel dibattito internazionale. Sono passati 16 anni da quella chiara presa di posizione, ma la violenza nei confronti delle donne rimane tutt’ora presente nei Paesi industrializzati, come in quelli in via di sviluppo, senza differenza di ceto sociale o culturale.


In Italia, la percentuale di donne che hanno subito una violenza fisica o sessuale raggiunge il 32% e per la maggior parte l’artefice è il partner o l’ex partner. L’incidenza è maggiore per le donne separate e divorziate e nella quasi totalità dei casi le violenze non vengono denunciate. Ma non sono solo le forme fisiche della violenza to affect the female population: 2 million women undergo behavior persecutors (stalking) and 7 million are victims of psychological violence. To all this we must add more labor and sexual exploitation of immigrants in Europe, the phenomenon of trafficking for prostitution or forced labor. But in the third world, the situation is even worse abuses, abductions and murders take place in the total indifference of the authorities, who show absolutely non-compliant in taking the appropriate actions to not only prevent but also to investigate and punish those responsible for violence. Much of the girls did not have time to be born: it is "deleted" at the time of delivery.


The adolescent may be the "prize" to be reserved for combatants or a useful means of extracting information. During the Bosnian War were 20,000 women raped. During the civil war in Sierra Leone almost all the thousands of women and girls abducted by rebel forces during that conflict were raped and forced into prostitution. Not only that in Rwanda, scene of one of the most tragic massacres of the century, women raped, dying of AIDS. Even in the genocide in Darfur, thousands of women and girls were raped and infected with HIV. These facts, as other equally dramatic, such as female genital mutilation, discrimination against women to access to food, health and education, prenatal sex selection and the lack of birth registration could be the cause of the disproportion between male and female population that exists in certain regions of our planet. The origin of time, God wanted to give a companion to man.


The man decided to punish her, however, considering the cause of the loss of Eden. So, over the centuries, women were humiliated, raped, beaten, enslaved to have inherited from their mother is to blame, and the unfairness and immorality of Eve. It is "likely", however, that the real cause of this tragedy resident other reasons: the ruthlessness of the human race, perhaps in the characterization of hormonal, sexual and characterization of the difference in mechanisms of survival of the ancestral species. Of course, today, the man should be aware that, thanks to that apple taken with courage and curiosity, Eva has led to the conquest of knowledge.

Massimiliano Fanni Canelles