The outcry for social and racial equality–and the resulting protests across the nation–has forced Dartmouth College and create a new college course. With the deaths…
Should gays be able to donate gays ? FDA To Lift Ban On Gay Bloods Gay Donors Celibate For At Least One Year Via NY Times reports: The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it would scrap a decades-old lifetime prohibition on blood donation by gay and bisexual men, a change that experts said was long overdue and could lift the annual blood supply by as much as 4 percent. The F.D.A. enacted the ban in 1983, early in the AIDS epidemic. At the time, little was known about the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes the disease, and there was no quick test to determine whether somebody had it. But science — and the understanding of H.I.V. in particular — has advanced in the intervening decades, and on Tuesday the F.D.A. acknowledged as much, lifting the lifetime ban but keeping in place a more modest block on donations by men who have had sex with other men in the last 12 months. In a statement, the agency said it had “carefully examined and considered the scientific evidence” before changing the policy. It said it intended to issue a draft guidance detailing the change in 2015. The shift puts the United States on par with European countries like Britain, which adjusted its lifetime ban in favor of a 12-month restriction in 2011. Men’s health advocates welcomed the move, saying that the ban was not based on the latest science and that it perpetuated stigma about gay men as a risk to the health of the nation. Legal experts said the change brings an important national health policy in line with other legal and political rights, such as permitting gay and people to marry and to serve openly in the military. “This is a major victory for gay civil rights,” said I. Glenn Cohen, a law professor at Harvard University who specializes in bioethics and health. “We’re leaving behind the old view that every gay man is a potential infection source.” He said, however, that the policy was “still not rational enough.” The shift will have far-reaching implications for the nation’s blood supply. The Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, has calculated that the change could add about 317,000 pints of blood to the nation’s supply annually, an increase of 2 percent to 4 percent. About 8.5 percent of American men — or about 10 million people — report having had sex at least once with a man since turning 18, according to the Institute. The new policy will exclude the 3.8 percent of American men who report having had a male sexual partner in the past year, a group that could double the potential new supply, the institute said in a report. Discuss…
Porsha Williams believes she knows the real reason that Wendy Williams no longer watches “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.” Porsha’s “Dish Nation” co-star Gary…
Daily Mail posted that AkON is going to extreme lengths to avoid EBOLA. You know being African import and all – and I figured, not that I care, that I’d call those fuckers out for sensational tabloid journalism in efforts to get traffic and serve ad campaigns because the retards of the world are going to pass this story around like it is face, since they saw in on FB…dumbing down of our nation has happened. Thanks Social Media…you’re worse that the EBOLA Akon is apparently Avoiding…. Here he is in 2001 – in his bubble…
Friday night on Z Nation Season 1 Episode 3, survivors encountered a group of psycho outlaws as they made their way through the City of Brotherly Love. Needless to say, this stop in Philadelphia was one they would soon regret. Watch Z Nation Season 1 Episode 3 Online While Cassandra’s old group wants her back in the fold, she’s ditched them. Tobias has lost his mind, and the Black Summer appears to be to blame. He states with enthusiasm that “in time’s like these it’s eat or be eaten.” Yes, Cassandra and her counterparts are actually a bunch of cannibals, which made for the biggest takeaway from Z Nation Season 1 Episode 3 . Meanwhile, Addy and Mack are trying to contact Citizen Z in the Arctic, but Addy is soon captured by Tobias’ men and taken away to their camp. Addy ends up in a cave with live humans missing body parts. Normal. Garnett demands that Addy be released, and in return Tobias suggests a trade of Addy in exchange for his Sunshine, which Cassandra agrees to. Cassandra would’ve been left for dead by the men, but the ladies decide to rescue her, and soon enough, Citizen Z comes in and saves the day. Using an AM frequency, the heroes are able to blast music that cause the Z’s to follow their truck, and not a moment too soon, considering these events. By the time Garnett breaks through the gates, with zombies chomping at the bit, they overrun the camp, causing Tobias to seek shelter anywhere. He chooses to hide in the cavern that Addy found earlier. Big mistake. The victims there enjoy a nice meal courtesy of him, while Addy and Cassandra are both saved and have lived to fight another day … for now. Want to see all the action? Follow the link to watch Z Nation online at TV Fanatic and catch up on this new series of the post-apocalyptic sort.
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