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Tylenol Toxicity Terror The "therapeutic ratio" of a drug compares the amount required to produce harmful effects with the amount required to provide benefit. The therapeutic ratio of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, is about 2:1 -and even lower if your liver has been compromised by hepatitis or alcohol. An Extra-Strength Tylenol contains 500 milligrams of acetaminophen. The recommended daily maximum is eight pills -4,000 mg, or four grams. A person taking twice that much can incur severe liver damag...
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 11:36am PDT
New Orleans public housing residents take back their homes Public housing residents took action Saturday to take back their homes, despite the efforts of HANO (Housing Authority of New Orleans) and HUD authorities to stop them. Residents rallied at the Florida, St. Bernard, C.J. Peete and Magnolia sites, forcing their way through locked and boarded doors to begin gutting and repairing apartments....
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2006 6:28am PDT
Sri Lankan court allows limited resettlement of evicted villagers More than two years after fundamental rights petitions were filed, the Supreme Court in Sri Lanka ruled on May 8 that 7,456 Tamil families evicted from the Palaly High Security Zone (HSZ) on the Jaffna peninsula be resettled in their village Valikamam. Onerous conditions apply, however, which mean that the villagers must be vetted and supervised by the military, which will remain entrenched in the area....
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2006 6:25am PDT
Exploitation of child labourers in India The desperate conditions affecting the rural as well as the urban poor in India are forcing growing numbers of children to toil often in subhuman conditions. They are deprived of their most basic rights as children, including education and a joyful childhood. Most have never been to school or dropped out at very young ages....
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 6:16am PDT
Hunger and malnutrition increase in many parts of the world Amongst the primary Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) proclaimed at the turn of the new century by the United Nations were the eradication of extreme poverty and a halving of the numbers suffering hunger across the globe by 2015....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 6:39am PDT
People Protest The High Price Of Gas NEWARK (FinalCall.com) - The Peoples Organization for Progress, a Newark-based activist group, demonstrated in front of a gas station on May 6, protesting the rising cost of gasoline. Lawrence Hamm, chairman of the group, somehow managed to formulate a chant that described his personal dilemma. "I told anyone in earshot that I could not give my daughter lunch money because I need to buy gasoline to get to work," Mr. Hamm told The Final Call. ìIt costs me $56 to fill up my Dodge Cara...
Posted: Sat, Jun 3, 2006 11:15am PDT
How One of NYC's Biggest Landlords is Driving Out Thousands of Low-Income Residents One of the biggest owners of rent-stabilized apartments in New York - the Pinnacle Group - is carrying out an aggressive campaign to chase out many of its low-income and elderly tenants living in Harlem, the South Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn. Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez has been reporting on the issue for the Daily News for the past month....
Posted: Fri, Jun 2, 2006 7:21am PDT
The Role of Pharmaceutical Companies and Access to HIV Treatment in the Developing World We look at the issue of H.I.V and AIDS by examining the role of pharmaceutical companies and access to treatment. Last week, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution that would increase pressure on companies, governments and the WHO to reform the system for producing and distributing drugs in developing nations....
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 9:39am PDT
Pills Profits Protest: A Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement A excerpt of the documentary "Pills Profits Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement." The film examines the international grassroots response to the AIDS crisis and takes an in-depth look at the battle for access to HIV treatment among the poorest and most marginalized communities around the world....
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 9:38am PDT
Is U.S. AIDS Policy Undermining the Global Fight Against the Disease? The United Nations General Assembly Special Session on AIDS opened on Wednesday. Protesters gathered outside the UN building in New York City to calling on world leaders to fulfill their commitments to fighting AIDS and accused the Bush administration of undermining the international drive against the disease in its global AIDS policy. We speak with David Bryden of the Global AIDS Alliance....
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 9:37am PDT
Earthquake Death Toll Tops 5,400 in Indonesia; 200,000 Left Homeless The death toll from a weekend earthquake in Indonesia has topped 5,400. More than 20,000 people were injured in the disaster and as many as 200,000 people have been left homeless, many without shelter or food. We go to Java to speak with an officer with the United Nations Children's Fund....
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 8:50am PDT
Vigilance Needed in Fight Against Human Trafficking SAN FRANCISCO – In 2005, the term human trafficking turned from an abstract notion into a household word. The media depicted cases of modern-day slavery. Stations aired movies and a miniseries that portrayed the stories. The evening news and local newspapers covered the latest law enforcement raids. What the media left untold is the impact of human trafficking on you and your community....
Posted: Mon, May 29, 2006 9:31am PDT
Caste-ism vs. ‘Merit’: India’s toilers should reject framework of reservation debate The plans of India’s United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to expand caste-based reservations in central government-funded universities, including a series of elite professional schools, have provoked widespread student protests and an outcry from the corporate media and big business. Doctors in Delhi, Mumbai and many other cities have mounted walkouts in support of the students and the Indian Medical Association has lent its voice to the protests....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 11:18am PDT
Cost-cutting and poor planning behind New Orleans levee failures The Independent Levee Investigation Team released a draft report Monday on the failure of the New Orleans flood protection systems during Hurricane Katrina, which struck Louisiana and Mississippi in the southern US on August 29, 2005. The report is an indictment of the American political and social system, concluding that much of the damage and loss of life caused by the hurricane could have been prevented with better planning and more resources....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:34am PDT
In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina 
Hurricane Katrina opened a window on a world of hurt often ignored by media, policy makers, and the public. Facing enhanced environmental vulnerability and stranded by a lack of public transit, residents of the poorest and blackest neighborhoods of New Orleans quickly educated America that disasters and rescues are not equal opportunity affairs....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 11:15am PDT
Houston's Anti-Homeless Civility Ordinance Set to Expand 
On Monday May 8, The Houston City Council's Committee on Homeland Security and Public Saftey met about expanding the Civility Ordinance to new neighborhoods....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 12:32pm PDT
US Congress passes more tax cuts for the rich The US Congress this week passed another round of extraordinary tax cuts for the rich, worth an estimated $70 billion over five years. The bill is part of the relentless redistribution of social resources in the United States, from the vast majority of the population into the hands of a small oligarchy. It will be signed into law by President Bush early next week....
Posted: Sat, May 13, 2006 9:22am PDT
Taking Care of Your Teeth Naturally “Modern” society is used to buying everything necessary for oral hygiene in prefabricated, mass-produced packaging. But people all over the world use natural toothbrushes made from plants which contain beneficial oils and properties, growing around them. The precursor to the modern toothbrush was a twig. This article will explore different ways to take care of your teeth and mouth naturally, without paying off a major corporation for those benefits....
Posted: Fri, May 12, 2006 9:02pm PDT
BUDGET VOTE MAY COME TODAY - YOU CAN STOP IT Call your representative 1-800-459-1887 TOLL FREE. Tell him/her: Please oppose a budget deal that forces cuts in health care, education, nutrition, child care and many other services. Cutting services to pay for tax giveaways to millionaires hurts our nation....
Posted: Fri, May 12, 2006 9:20am PDT
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