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Dr. Hector Quezad, director of the Dario Contreras Hospital in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, describes the generosity of Dominican women in volunteering to breastfeed haitian infants who have arrived for care without their mothers.

In this clip from Da Ali G Show, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen speaks to four medical professionals about medical marijuana, homeopathic medicine, cloning, and breast reduction surgery. Cohen's new movie, Brüno, a mockumentary comedy film, is due to be released on July 10, 2009.

A man who came in to the ED complaining of severe back pain raised my hackles for a hundred nebulous reasons, which in aggregate summarized this patient in my mind as: Arrogant Liar. Turns out he was selling pills, and someone overdosed.
Death from misuse of prescribed opiate narcotics such as oxycontin spans the medico-social gamut from criminals to graduate students, and may be more common than death from H1N1 influenza.

Professor Casadaban of the University of Chicago appears to have died of the plague, caused by the bacteria Yersinia Pestis that he was studying.

MSNBC's Keith Olberman lets loose on Sarah Palin for proposing and propagating the myth of death panels. Don't hold back, Keith!

Stocks of both live and attenuated (killed) polio vaccine from 1961 and earlier were evaluated by Dr. Maurice Hilleman and found to have been contaminated with SV40, which is a Simian Immunodeficiency Virus. There is concern that the virus may predispose humans to cancer.

This fake news piece from The Ointment spoofs the Wal-Mart clinics, with an actress pretending that she is taking care of patients without any special training, having been promoted from the Photo Lab. She also pretends that she is getting medical support from a 12 year old boy in India. It's reasonably good comedy, but how true is it?

In this BBC interview, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert tells of the extremely high civilian casualty rate in the ongoing military conflict in Gaza.

Dunes City, Oregon, a small town with the population of 1,200 demands healthcare solutions and their elected official actually take up the issue.