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“The First Cell”: book by Dr. Azra Raza on Why the “Slash-Poison-Burn Approach” to Cancer Has Failed

“ The First Cell ” : book by Dr. Azra Raza on Why the “Slash-Poison-Burn Approach” to Cancer Has Failed https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/23/the_first_cell_dr_azra_raza_on From her profile page at Columbia university:   Physician's Profile: https://cancer.columbia.edu/azra-raza-md AZRA RAZA, MD Department of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology Director, Myelodysplastic Syndrome Center Watch Video Profile Introduction: Dr. Raza is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University in New York, NY.She started her research in Myelodisplastic Syndromes (MDS) in 1982 and moved to Rush University, Chicago, Illinois in 1992, where she was the Charles Arthur Weaver Professor in Oncology and Director, Division of Myeloid Diseases. The MDS Program, along with a Tissue Repository containing more than 50,000 samples from MDS and acute leukemia patients was successfully relocated to the University of Massa...

“Bedlam”: Film Shows How Decades of Healthcare Under-funding Made Jails “De Facto Mental Asylums”

The documentary film  "Bedlam" about how people have mental illness end up in prison. “Bedlam”: Film Shows How Decades of Healthcare Underfunding Made Jails “De Facto Mental Asylums” https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/27/bedlam_documentary_mental_health_criminal_justice https://drkenrosenberg.com/bedlam https://www.inquirer.com/health/kenneth-paul-rosenberg-bedlam-mental-health-crisis-20191023.html 5 questions: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg on why mental illness is ‘the greatest social crisis of our time’ by Sandy Bauers, For the Inquirer ,   Updated: October 23, 2019 HANK GANS In 1946, Life magazine published an exposé on mental hospitals, focusing on the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry. The title: “ Bedlam 1946 .” That dreadful facility, like so many others, eventually closed. A good thing? Not completely, according to Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, who maintains that people simply went fro...