Posted in Environmental Policies, History and Culture, Pesticides, Pharmaceutical Industry, Podcast, Public Education, Public Health on 02/13/2008 04:36 pm by admin
Dr Kokayi has the opportunity to interview authors of two new cutting edge books that rethink our approach to cancer and the so call war on cancer. The books offered are Cancer 101 Solutions to a Preventable epidemic by Liz Amstrong, Guy Dauncey and Anne Wordsworth and The Secret History of the War on Cancer, a fascinating narrative by Dr Devra Davis, who also wrote the forward to Cancer 101 Solutions. This three hour special addition of GMR examines the relationship or our fascination with our chemical and industrial products and our susceptibiity to cancer as well as efforts of industry and the corporate industrial complex to cover up the true causes of cancer in the West.
Posted in Global Warming, Health, Hurricane Katrina, Pharmaceutical Industry on 09/21/2005 06:03 pm by admin
The Discussion began with Hurricane Katrina and global warming. Hurricanes and other anomalies have intensified in the last 50 years and the potential for social catastrophe is discussed in the face of future catastrophes. On the main topic of protecting ourselves from the harmful affects of taking prescription drugs, discussion insues on how medicine can enter our systems and interfere and disrupt our physiology in ways that are not intended. Some drugs may have signals that warn us, but some may be silent and we may not realize what is happening until we are seriously ill. Open call discussions from dedicated listeners ranged from interesting and informative topics on insurance, manipulating our diet as a form of therapy and the substitution of ones drugs with herbal medicine.
Faybiene Miranda’s Poem of the Week Title: Just another day on the old plantation
Posted in Health, Pharmaceutical Industry on 07/07/2005 03:35 pm by admin
Dr. Kokayi and Ed Taylor, a member of the financial community and someone who links commerical med tech ideas to big money, look at big pharma in action. The procedures that pharmaceuticals must follow  in order to gain FDA approval for the new drugs they develop are hightlighted along with the shortcomings in this present system.
Faybiene Miranda’s Poem of the Week Title: How do you look at racism?
