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Flesh and Stone
http://www.fleshandstone.net
Flesh and Stone is a public interest news site delivering independent reporting on health care and science news, trends, and commentary. We look at how medical and scientific discoveries are influenced by politics and the economy. Our goals are simply to inform and educate, and provide a public space for health and science policy discussions that may influence positive policy changes.
- Added on: Aug 19th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Kat
- Listed in: Journalists Health
- Tags: arts commentary Public Policy wellness health news Science News
Recent Posts
H1N1 France: From vaccine refusal to riot police in just 7 days
The extreme cynicism with which the French considered H1N1 vaccination just one week ago has been replaced by panic and exasperation at not being able to get vaccinated. Riot police have been deployed at certain vaccination stations. Flesh & Ston...
Water management: How the French do it
Olivier Fontaine coordinates study data for the technical data unit of the Rhône-Mediterranean-Corsica branch of the ‘Agence de l’eau’ (Water Agency), the French body that oversees the use and conditions of all water resources...
Man in 23-year ‘coma’ was conscious all along
Rom Houben describes his experiences in an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel which is being published in many European papers, including Liberation in France. He was totally paralysed after the accident and has been cared for in a hospital i...
Citizens sue Minn. governor for eliminating funds for medically required diet
Six Minnesotans are suing Gov. Tim Pawlenty over his decision this past summer to cut (or “unallot”) $5.3 million from a special dietary program that covered 5,072 residents. Last week, members of the state House of Representatives Rul...
CERN’s big bang simulator makes first proton collisions
Last night in a tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland, CERN physicists smashed proton beams together for the first time in the Large Hedron Collider (LHC). The LHC was restarted last Friday after the massive machine was taken down for repairs in S...
“It’s all so different to studying in France”
The following is an authorized translation of an article appearing in Le Figaro. The original version is available here. Internet members of Le Figaro recount their foreign student experiences acquired via the student exchange programme Erasmus (Eu...
