Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Which comes first? The wrists & ankles snapping like kiln-dried twigs? Or the early mid-life, out-of-the-blue stroke & heart attack?

(I have heard of two new heart attacks, friends of friends in their early 40s, in just the past month. And yet another friend dropped to the sidewalk unconscious in Tribeca last summer after suffering a stroke. He is not even 40!! He had blacked out, didn't know who or where he was -- and still cannot speak properly or use his right hand.)

Someone really has to find a better way to manage this infection or, at the very least, help us to protect ourselves against all these nasty side effects.

Where have all the community-based research institutes and amFARs (oh, sorry, Amfar recently dropped the 'Am' in order to reposition itself to tap into the boondoggle of international HIV/AIDS funding and recently re-branded itself the "Foundation for AIDS Research" aka FAR) gone??

We all know the answer: picking the low-hanging fruit (big reward for only somnambulant effort) by signing up for Big Pharma "me too" trials that any lobotomized blind monkey could do with one hand tied behind her back.

Where are the activists?

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