Doctor Arrested, Charged With Killing Patients During Hurricane Katrina Chaos

September 24th, 2005 Hurricane Katrina - Multi-day movie with DMSP night visible and daytime true color as background (Approx 15M). You may need to install a new viewer to see them, InterVU for Windows 95 and VMPEG are free viewers and either of them will work.

September 24th, 2005 Hurricane Rita plowed into the Gulf Coast early Saturday, lashing Texas and Louisiana with driving rain, threatening to flood low-lying regions and knocking power out to half a million people as transformers exploded. Rita struck just east of Sabine Pass, on the Texas-Louisiana line, bringing a 20-foot storm surge and up to 25 inches of rain according to National Hurricane Center said.

June 14th, 2006 Hurricane Katrina devastated scores of IT businesses. One bright turning point has arrived - The New Orleans IT Recovery Center.

October 1st, 2005 Doctors in New Orleans are bracing themselves for what they call a "second disaster" as New Orleans-area residents return to their devastated city. While environmentalists warn of the long-term danger to health from possibly polluted floodwaters, and rumors of disease swirl, front-line emergency doctors say the actual health danger will come from accidents.

September 2nd, 2005 Randall Robinson reported in The Huffinton Post that "black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive". Note: I briefly searched google news for corroborating evidence/reporting.

June 18th, 2006 Cure for diabetes could be around the corner after US scientists found cells from the spleen can transform into insulin-producing cells. US researchers were able to halt, and even reverse, the disease in mice.

July 18th, 2005 A Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center team is launching a high-tech study to determine if early screening using a special camera and images transmitted over the Internet can prevent blindness in Medicaid patients with diabetes. "Medicaid patients are rarely screened and are at risk of becoming blind," said Ramon Velez, M.D., M.

January 29th, 2007 A large study, conducted by Dr. James M. Brophy and his colleagues, from the McGill University Health Center in Montreal, confirms that selective COX2 inhibitors - Vioxx (rofecoxib) and Celebrex (celecoxib) are both associated with increased risk of repeat heart attack.

September 29th, 2005 The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors on Thursday about reports of suicidal thinking in some children and adolescents who are taking Strattera, a drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Manufacturer Eli Lilly & Co.

January 9th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Andhra Pradesh police Saturday grilled disgraced former Satyam Computer Services chairman B. Ramalinga Raju and his brother and former company managing director B.

March 17th, 2006 I am tired of reading news everyday along the lines of - x number of chickens were culled at y to prevent (fear of) spread of bird flu. These chicken are being mercilessly killed, mostly by wringing their neck or worse.

August 13th, 2005 A cheap drug, enfurvitide, has shown promise in stamping out hidden pockets of HIV in three people who have long been infected with the virus. The result is described by the US scientists as merely a “proof of concept”, but has inevitably sparked talk of a cure for AIDS.

May 28th, 2007 BCCI (Board of Chaos for Cricket in India) cricket team lead by an w%$^ (only words I can think of are non-parliamentary) won over cricket minions Bangladesh and are back to thumping their pathetic little chests. What is interesting is that these ant-killers wimped out when playing a man's game in West Indies.

January 9th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Disgraced former chairman of Satyam Computer B. Ramalinga Raju and his brother and former company managing director B.

April 11th, 2009 What can not be cured must be endured. And diabetes perfectly fits in to this category.