Ethyl Eichelberger died a suicide rather than tolerate the debilitating side effects of the AIDS treatments of the day.
As Klytemnestra:
Nefertiti:
From Joe E. Jeffreys’s memorial note in TDR (The Drama Review), “Ethyl Eichelberger, 1945–1990” (35.1 [Spring ’91], pp. 10–12):
Born James Roy Eichelberger in Pekin, Illinois, to Amish Mennonite parents, he received a drama scholarship to Galesburg’s [...]
Bruce Schneier asks, “Did you know that, in some jurisdictions, police can inject midazolam into suspects to subdue them?” The article he links to (Demetria Kalodimos, “I-Team: Injection Used To Subdue Prisoners Medical Expert Says Practice Is Troubling,” WSMV [Nashville], 10 July ’08), seems either artfully or inartfully written:
But many people said that the injection [...]
Jane Mayer, in Harper’s (Scott Horton, “Six Questions for Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side,” 14 July ’08):
A physician was called in for consultation—one of many instances in which health professionals have played truly disturbing roles in this program. (I personally feel that the medical and psychological professionals who have used their skills to [...]
That’s the title of a paper delivered at Appropriate Healthcare Technologies for Developing Countries 2008 (program here) by Michael Dobson MRCP, FRCA, University of Oxford, UK, Robert Neighbour C.Eng, F.I.E.T., Diamedica Ltd, UK.
Abstract: The anaesthetic standards committees of the ISO are dominated by representatives from equipment manufacturers. The standards produced are such that their main [...]
Rohit K. Singla, “Missed Opportunities: The Vaccine Act of 1813” (1998):
In February 1813 Congress handily passed and the President enthusiastically signed a piece of ground-breaking legislation which has been long overlooked by legal historians—An Act to Encourage Vaccination.[2] The Act established a national source for uncontaminated, smallpox vaccine. Without any textual basis in the Constitution, [...]