Ruminations and Revelations
Yesterday’s Roundup:
10 Reasons this Resistance Chick is Feeling Super Hopeful: Saturday's Good News
It’s probably pretty good, late Saturday night it had 232 Recs. Of course it’s good, the professor has not lost her mojo.
Tuberculosis Treatment
Reuters: U.S. FDA approves TB Alliance's treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis
FDA: FDA approves new drug for treatment-resistant forms of tuberculosis that affects the lungs
“The threat of antimicrobial-resistant infections is a key challenge we face as a public health agency,” said FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Amy Abernethy, M.D., Ph.D. “The bacterium that causes tuberculosis can develop resistance to the antibiotics used to treat it. Multidrug-resistant TB and extensively drug-resistant TB are public health threats due to limited treatment options. New treatments are important to meet patient national and global health needs. That’s why, among our other efforts to address antimicrobial resistance, we’re focused on facilitating the development of safe and effective new treatments to give patients more options to fight life-threatening infections. This approval also marks the second time a drug is being approved under the Limited Population Pathway for Antibacterial and Antifungal Drugs, a pathway, advanced by Congress, to spur development of drugs targeting infections that lack effective therapies. We hope we continue to see more development of antibacterial drugs for treating serious or life-threatening infections in limited populations of patients with unmet medical needs.”
One NRA donor has taken it upon himself to launch a grassroots campaign to root out what he calls malfeasance on behalf of the group's leadership. David Dell'Aquila, who has donated around $100,000 to the NRA over the past four years, filed what could be certified as a class-action lawsuit against the organization, citing previous reporting as evidence of fraud and misconduct.
Dell'Aquila also sent letters to the New York State attorney general, the Washington, D.C., attorney general—which has opened its own inquiry—and the NRA's board of directors, urging all three to take the reported financial misconduct at the NRA seriously.
Thank you for a great bunch of Good News! Former PDXer over here in Bend, and I greatly appreciate the GNR curators like yourself [arhpdx], continually bringing the many goodnewsnuggets you sustainably harvest for feeding our minds and our laughter and hope engines, and really for nourishing our souls. Yours was a rich pre-dawn breakfast after my First Sleep, and I will have some research to do later digesting all of your dishes. [more]
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SerenaRose posted this image on Thursday, and her picture cured my revulsion of pink. Thanks, Serena, for the glory of rhododendrons.
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- Stacey Abrams, for launching Fair Fight 2020 to fight voter suppression across 20 states
- Olympic fencing gold medalist Race Imboden, who took a knee to protest racial injustice during the medal ceremony at the Pan American Games
- The tens of thousands of protesters standing up to their authoritarian governments in Russia and Hong Kong, the largest such protests in years
- The researchers who came up with the two antibody drugs that have dramatically reduced the death rate from the Ebola virus
- Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), who has become the point person among her Democratic House colleagues for explaining the human toll of Trump's immigration policies
- Federal Judge Arenda Wright Allen, for ruling that the Gloucester County, Virginia School Board policy that barred trans student Gavin Grimm from using the boys’ restroom violated his constitutional rights under Title IX
- Gymnast Simone Biles, for capturing her 6th all-around title with a first-ever "triple-double" (two flips, three twists) and first-ever double-double dismount on the balance beam
- The New York's Child Victims Act, which lifts the statute of limitations so older victims of child sexual abuse can file lawsuits. (Hundreds so far, most against the Catholic church.)
- Federal Judge Amy Totenberg, for ruling that Georgia may no longer continue using paperless voting machines starting in 2020, and must fix errors in Georgia's voter registration database
- Elizabeth Rowan, whose petition to rename the road in front of New York's Trump Tower "President Barack H. Obama Avenue" has gathered over 300,000 signatures
Spoiler Alert … Top Results of Bill’s poll —
- The tens of thousands of protesters standing up to their authoritarian governments in Russia and Hong Kong, the largest such protests in years — 31%
- Elizabeth Rowan, whose petition to rename the road in front of New York's Trump Tower "President Barack H. Obama Avenue" has gathered over 300,000 signatures — 16%
- Federal Judge Amy Totenberg, for ruling that Georgia may no longer continue using paperless voting machines starting in 2020, and must fix errors in Georgia's voter registration database — 15%
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