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August 2, 2009 - Sunday 

Current mood:  determined
Category: Music
L.A. NEEDS THE DR. DEMENTO SHOW

When I was growing up, I remember listening to the Dr. Demento radio show on Sunday nights on KMET. Dr. Demento's call to "Wind up my radio" was something I appreciated before having to begin another week. As I child, I needed Dr. Demento's imprint of hilarity to endure life. Today, I still require that same humor. -Aaron B. Cohen (Petition Author)

PLEASE sign this petition to BRING BACK DR. DEMENTO LIVE TO THE AIRWAVES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA! We will be proposing this idea to the SOUND LA first and then to various local radio stations once we get a plethora of signatures.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/drdementofans


Please sign this petition and pass it on to your friends!!! Aaron and I will even invite you to our listening party when Dr. D returns to the airwaves!

Thanks for your support,
Doreen Mulman

Note: The ipetitions website may ask you for a donation. You do NOT need to pay it for your signature to be counted.


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July 28, 2009 - Tuesday 

Current mood:  distraught
Category: Pets and Animals
My friend, Nora, and I witnessed something this morning that blew my mind. Before I tell you what it was, let me tell you a little backstory.

Late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, my cat (Harley) was struck by a car and killed. My neighbor found her laying in the street dead, the left side of her face was crushed and her eyeball hanging out onto her sweet little cheek. The rest of her was unscathed.

My neighbor (Don Wildman, the host of the History Channel's "Cities of the Underworld") buried Harley in my backyard for me. He and his wife were incredibly sweet and caring throughout the ordeal. Mrs. Wildman was the one who found Harley. Both of them broke the news to Nora when she was out looking for Harley.

Since Sunday, my house has been very quiet. Except for the sounds of weeping. Nora and I both break down often. We've been through a lot in the past 5 years and this tragic event has us shellshocked. The remaining three cats have also been acting quite depressed, especially Trixie, the little calico who was raised with Harley.

My other calico, Gracie, who already went through the death of her sister, Sunny, last year, is really the subject of this blog, however.

Early this morning, I asked Nora to put Harley's basket on the floor so all the cats could check it out. Harley spent a lot of time in it and it's got her scent all over it. Trixie sniffed the basket a few times and walked away looking very sad.

What happened next was incredible. Gracie walked past the basket. She jumped up on a nearby table and rooted around in this bag of fabric scraps that I've been meaning to add to my sewing notions. Gracie found a piece of black lace, about the size of a hankerchief, picked it up in her mouth, then walked over to Harley's basket, laid the lace inside the basket, then straightened it out inside the basket with one paw.

After a moment, she looked up at Nora and then at me, then walked away...

Nora and I stared at each other for a while. How would a cat know that black lace was so appropriate a choice? We don't know. But one thing is for certain, Gracie wanted us to know that she knows that Harley is gone and she is grieving for her.


 

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January 10, 2009 - Saturday 

Current mood:  tired
Category: Life
LIFE AFTER INFECTION: TO TOUCH? OR NOT TO TOUCH?
By Doreen Mulman

A RECENT QUESTION FROM A FELLOW NF/MRSA SURVIVOR:

Do you find yourself not wanting to shake hands with people? I have observed as I was leaving the restroom a few times that not too many people wash their hands. That TOTALLY freaks me out! I want to scream at them! I have always been somewhat of a germaphobe but now it's heightened intensely! I get weird looks from people all the time... I totally cannot help myself! I wash and use Purell on my hands constantly as do my wife and kids... I was just wondering if I was a little more OCD than most... Thanks!

MY ANSWER:

It's really a two-way street for me.

I don't let people touch me AT ALL if possible. Unfortunately, I know A LOT of huggers. I hate being hugged. Sometimes it HURTS, especially if they press my arm or shoulder.

I try to avoid shaking hands, but it's not always possible. One day, my accountant shook my hand. A little later, he asked me about my arm. After I told him about it, he asked if he shook my hand. I said YES, and fully expected him to say, "Good, because you have been through so much, I want to congratulate you!" or something POSITIVE.

Instead, he got a bottle of Purell out of his drawer and proceeded to clean his hands RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, as if I was still infectious and ill-mannered enough to touch people with my diseased hand. Pretty stupid to think I could even still be walking around with flesh eating bacteria. UH, DUH, I nearly died!!! They had to rid me of disease for me to live!

I AM A VERY RESPECTFUL HUMAN, I would never infect people if I had something that could be caught! HE REALLY HURT MY FEELINGS ON SO MANY LEVELS. It's been so hard for me to be near people ever since then. I basically HIDE IN MY HOUSE all the time.

Oh, and handwashing is a simple and effective way to stop the spread of skin infections. Everyone should wash their hands often, especially after touching common surfaces in stores and gyms, after touching money, or after touching someone they KNOW IS ILL with any type of infection, skin or internal.
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December 21, 2008 - Sunday 

Current mood:  sad
Category: Life



ELIZABETH CONNABLE CORWIN MULMAN
7/14/1946 - 5/3/2009

<3  forever in our hearts  <3




This blog was originally posted on September 12, 2007.


My brother (Alan) and sister-in-law (Liz) have lived together since 1970 or '71, so I have pretty much always called Liz my "sister-in-law."


In reality, Liz and Alan only got married a few days ago. A photo of Liz on their wedding day is below. She jokingly says it was a "shotgun wedding," because as you can see, she looks like she's about seven months pregnant. Unfortunately, she's not.

Liz was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer a few days earlier. Monday, her doctor drew three liters of fluid from her abdomen, providing some relief from the bloating, pressure and pain. Today (Wednesday) Liz is undergoing surgery to remove the cancer. We hope.


Liz is like the sister I never had. She filled in as my dad's health care provider in 2004 when I was in the hospital with NF. In fact, she helped care for me during my illness, as well. She gave both Dad's and my doctors Hell (which they NEEDED) and, no doubt, she played a huge role in my survival. She and I cared for Dad until his death in 2005 and then Liz flew to Hawaii to care for her dying aunt. Soon after that, Liz's mom died, as well.


Liz is a woman with a heart of gold and I am devastated by the news of her cancer. Aside from all the loss of the past three and a half years (my arm, my dad, Liz's mom, Nora's mom, etc. etc.), my brother and I lost our mom to uterine cancer in 1970, so the feelings of déjà vu are quite undeniable. This was finally the last bad news I could handle, the numbness I have felt for so long now has finally given way to a flood of tears ...


I LOVE YOU, LIZ, PLEASE GET WELL. EVERYONE READING THIS, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE PRAY FOR MY SISTER-IN-LAW. SHE'S ONLY 61 YEARS OLD AND, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, HAS A HEART OF GOLD ... THE WORLD NEEDS HER HER A LOT LONGER THAN THIS.



Please read the comments below for updates! The newest updates are always at the bottom ...

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December 18, 2008 - Thursday 

Current mood:  sad
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
(A moment of silence ...)

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, actress who portrayed STAR TREK's Nurse Chapel, dies of leukemia:

According to the family, donations in Roddenberry's memory can be sent to:

Precious Paws
18034 Ventura Blvd. Ste. 430
Encino, CA 91316

or

C.A.R.E.
P.O. Box 56631
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
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December 4, 2008 - Thursday 

Current mood:  shocked
Category: News and Politics
This is really freaky. I went to grade school with the man they are talking about in the following news articles. He happens to be sitting right behind me in a 2nd grade class photo I have, which I will post in this blog. I last saw Robert working as a bagboy at Ralphs on Laurel Cyn about 5 or 10 years ago. Apparently the police searched his house (which is in foreclosure) on the 6700 block of Vantage (about a block from Ralphs), where they found the mummified remains of his elderly mother, Barbara. The police have talked to Robert and pending an autopsy, it *may* become a criminal case. His mother would have been 86 years old, if she were alive. The news said that she has been dead for nine months to a year. I'm thinking Robert was overwhelmed by everything or didn't know what to do. In addition to her body, the house had trash halfway up to the ceiling and Robert was living in there with 26 cats, 3 opossums and a raccoon. The yards are full of junked cars and trash, too.

I FEEL SO SORRY FOR THE LITTLE BOY I ONCE KNEW ...
 
 
Mummified Body Found in North Hollywood Home
December 3, 2008

NORTH HOLLYWOOD -- Police say they have found a body that has been decomposing for about a year inside a home in North Hollywood that was occupied by a man, 26 cats, three opossums and a raccoon.
A mortgage broker told police the home was foreclosed at midnight on Monday and expressed concern about the homeowner, 86-year-old Barbara Hunt.

When officers arrived at the house in the 6700 block of Vantage Avenue Tuesday, the woman's 48-year-old son, Robert Hunt, let them inside.

Officers said the home was surrounded by rusty cars and garbage in the yard, which was also unkempt.
Once inside the home, the stench was overpowering and the home was packed with 4-feet of garbage, officials said.

Officers made their way to a back bedroom, where clothes and furniture were piled against the door.
That's where they found the skeletal body, lying on the bed, wearing "old lady clothes," according to Los Angeles police Lt. Alan Hamilton of the North Hollywood Detective Division.

The home was so badly packed with garbage that firefighters had to hoist the body out through a back window, officials said.

Authorities have not yet been able to identify the badly decomposed body, but it's believed it is that of Barbara Hunt.

Police offered mental health services to Robert Hunt, however, they would not say whether he accepted.
His whereabouts were not known early Wednesday.

Neighbors said they recently asked the son how his mother was and he responded by saying, "She's at home. She's doing fine. She has good days and bad."

The coroner's office is working to identify the remains and determine the cause of death.
Police do not suspect foul play but say the case has been forwarded to elder abuse investigators.
 
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MRS. ALEXANDER'S SECOND GRADE CLASS (1968)
 
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December 1, 2008 - Monday 

Current mood:  exhausted
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

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November 23, 2008 - Sunday 

Current mood:  bummed
Category: Life
Staph infections have ruined the life of Brook Park man

by Harlan Spector/Plain Dealer Reporter
Saturday November 22, 2008, 7:26 PM
 
BROOK PARK -- Roger Chorich's days are a blur of TV watching and bumping around the house in a wheelchair. He pops painkillers and antidepressants, and obsesses about bill collectors.

He will never know for sure how he got to such a dark place. Wracked with intractable infections since double knee replacements four years ago, he finally had to have his left leg amputated in August 2007. Then last month doctors took the right leg.

How was infectious staph able to burrow deep into his joints and render him a double amputee?

Was the hospital less than sterile?

Who's at fault?

Anyone?
 
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November 23, 2008 - Sunday 

Current mood:  happy
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

The Time/Life RGB set is ready and is gorgeous! I received my advanced copy on 11/21/08. The set's packaging is really great, the disks are housed (literally!) in a miniature RGB Firehouse! Here's a photo I took of one side of it: RGBFIREHOUSE.JPG. Look for my name (Doreen Mulman) and the names of several other dedicated GB webmasters in the "Thanks for Assistance in the Creation and Promotion of this set goes to" section in the set's enclosed booklet. Please go get your Real Ghostbusters boxed set by clicking my affiliate banner near the top of: http://doreen.mkbmemorial.com. My hosting fees are due in a few days and I need your help to keep my sites online! Thank you! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and holiday season! -Doreen

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November 21, 2008 - Friday 

Current mood:  thoughtful
Category: Life

Woman blames Brooklyn ER for failing to spot devastating infection

BY JOHN MARZULLI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Updated Thursday, November 20th 2008, 8:16 AM

Tabitha Mullings at Brooklyn Hospital Center and with her fiance, Kahseem Davis (below). She blames hospital for failing to diagnose infection that left her partially blind and without feet and hands.

 She went to a Brooklyn emergency room suffering from what she thought was just a kidney stone, but a medical nightmare left her partly blind and a quadruple amputee.

Tabitha Mullings claims doctors at Brooklyn Hospital Center failed to diagnose an infection that has literally eaten her alive.

"Sometimes I can't believe it's me laying here," the mother of three told the Daily News Wednesday from her bed in the very hospital she blames for her ravaged body.

Wiping tears with a bandaged stump, Mullings struggled to explain how in a little more than a month she has gone from vibrant mom to a shell-shocked victim dependent on relatives to feed her.

"At first I didn't want to live anymore, but I've got three kids and I'm their mother and their father," Mullings, 32, said.

A spokesman for the hospital failed to respond to requests for comment.

Mullings and her lawyers plan to hit the hospital with a medical malpractice suit today in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

"I'm angry at the people in the emergency room," Mullings said. "I don't think they did their job."

Her agonizing ordeal began Sept. 14, when she went to the Fort Greene emergency room in pain. Doctors diagnosed it as a kidney stone.

Lawyer Sanford Rubenstein said Mullings was given painkillers and sent home.

"They needed to admit her to the hospital, not send her home with pain medication," Rubenstein said. "She needed to be worked up much more thoroughly, not discharged."

When the pain intensified, Mullings dialed 911 twice in 24 hours, but medics determined she did not need to be hospitalized, she said.

On Sept. 15, Mullings' fiancé rushed her back to Brooklyn Hospital Center, where the sepsis infection became not only obvious but full-blown. The infection quickly choked off blood flow to her extremities and her right optic nerve, and she lapsed into a semicoma that lasted two weeks.

"I woke up with black feet and black hands," Mullings said.

Grappling to get the infection under control, doctors were forced to amputate both her feet and hands. The infection rendered her blind in her right eye.

Mullings said that just a week before her catastrophic illness took hold, she passed the state court officers exam and was looking forward to a career as a civil servant.

Now, battling depression, her dream is to someday walk again with the use of prosthetics and to be a helpful mother again to her three sons - Charles, 14; Enrique, 12, and Matthew, 9.

"I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me," said Mullings, who is expected to be transferred by the end of the week to the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in Manhattan. "I believe in taking negatives and turning them into positives."

She is not alone in her fight. Her brother, aunt and grandmother split shifts around the clock feeding her and holding up glasses of water for her to drink.

"She is a woman who shows amazing strength and courage in her determination to live as normal a life as possible," Rubenstein said.

jmarzulli@nydailynews.com

Click here: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/11/20/2008-11-20_woman_blames_brooklyn_er_for_failing_to_.html for pics and article

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November 17, 2008 - Monday 

Current mood:  working
Category: Life
$13.5m awarded in hospital death
Jury faults doctors at Dana-Farber/
By Brian MacQuarrie
Globe Staff / November 6, 2008

The family of a 40-year-old Hopkinton woman who died following a cycle of experimental chemotherapy at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute was awarded a total of $13.5 million yesterday by a Suffolk Superior Court jury, according to the family's attorney.

The jury deliberated for nine hours over two days before awarding $9.4 million plus interest in the July 2003 death of Amy Altman, the mother of two young daughters.

The jurors decided that Altman's death could have been prevented if Dana-Farber doctors had investigated the cause of chronic diarrhea that surfaced during an unusual treatment protocol for a tumor behind her knee, said Robert Higgins, the plaintiff's lawyer.

Altman developed the diarrhea about two months after she began receiving chemotherapy every two weeks instead of the standard regimen of once every three weeks for Ewing's sarcoma, Higgins said. That form of cancer affects bone and soft tissue and usually afflicts adolescents and children between the ages of 10 and 20.

Higgins said Altman agreed to the quickened treatment suggested by Dana-Farber oncologists, who he said had never tried the protocol on an adult. Altman is the only adult in the country believed to have died from the experimental regimen, Higgins said.

"She knew there were side effects, but what she did not know is that they could be really bad and dangerous when you're compromised from chemotherapy," Higgins said. "She had complete and total faith in the Dana-Farber and the doctors there."

However, Higgins said, Altman's complaints about the diarrhea were dismissed as an expected side effect in separate consultations with two Dana-Farber oncologists, Dr. Suzanne George and Dr. Jeffrey Morgan.

Altman soon began suffering extreme abdominal pain and could not urinate, Higgins said.
 
She died less than two days after being admitted to Brigham and Women's Hospital for a massive infection by a flesh-eating bacteria that apparently had caused the diarrhea, Higgins said.

"Instead of making sure it wasn't a problem, they wrote it off as not a big deal," Higgins said. "In fact, it was a very big deal."

The autopsy found that the cancer had been cured, Higgins said.

Dana-Farber officials declined to discuss specifics of the case.

"We deeply regret what happened in this case and sympathize with the patient's family and friends," the institute said in a statement. "Cancer is a terrible disease that still claims far too many lives. Nevertheless, we strongly disagree with this verdict and firmly believe that the physicians involved provided a high standard of care."

Higgins said that Altman's husband, an FBI agent attached to the Boston office, was satisfied that the death had been found to be preventable.

"He was pleased that the jury listened to all the evidence and that they found what had happened to his wife shouldn't have happened," Higgins said.

The lawyer for the physicians, who were both named as defendants, could not be reached for comment yesterday. Dana-Farber was not included as a defendant, said Higgins, a medical malpractice lawyer at Lubin & Meyer of Boston.

Dana-Farber never made a settlement offer and did not issue an apology, Higgins added.

In 1994, Boston Globe columnist Betsy Lehman and another patient, Maureen Bateman, received fourfold overdoses of chemotherapy at Dana-Farber during experimental treatment for breast cancer. Lehman died Dec. 3, 1994, and Bateman suffered irreversible heart damage. The institute did not discover the mistake, which was attributed in part to ambiguous instructions, for 10 weeks.

Afterward, Dana-Farber invested millions of dollars in safety improvements, including training programs, computers that monitor potential overdoses, and the hiring of physician assistants and other staff to give doctors more time with patients.

© Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company.
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November 7, 2008 - Friday 

Current mood:  busy
Category: Life

New mom who lost limbs to flesh-eating bacteria settles LDS Hospital suit

By Pamela Manson
The Salt Lake Tribune

Posted: 10:21 AM- A Bountiful woman who lost three limbs to flesh-eating bacteria has settled a malpractice suit that alleged medical personnel mismanaged the near-fatal infection.

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September 26, 2008 - Friday 

Current mood:  ecstatic
Category: Life
Gov. Schwarzenegger Signs Legislation to Protect Patients, Prevent Deadly Hospital Infections
 
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed legislation that will create a robust prevention and surveillance system over deadly hospital infections—fostering improvements within hospitals and providing consumers with important information about hospital infection rates. Curbing hospital infections will also save health care dollars by reducing patients' length of stay and readmissions, as well as minimizing avoidable deaths and illnesses.
 
"These important measures will help save lives and health care dollars by reducing the number of infections that people are exposed to while staying in the hospital," Governor Schwarzenegger said. "Impr oving patient safety within hospitals and arming consumers with information about hospital infection rates will better protect Californians and improve the overall quality of health care."
 
SB 1058 by Senator Elaine Alquist (D-San Jose) establishes the Medical Facility Infection Control and Prevention Act or "Nile's Law," which requires hospitals to develop more comprehensive policies and procedures to improve and ensure effective infection control practices. It also requires the Department of Public Health to establish a health care acquired infection program that will receive reports from hospitals on specified hospital-acquired infection rates. In addition, hospitals would be required to screen certain high-risk patients for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) and to provide instructions regarding aftercare and precautions to prevent the spread of the infection to others.
 
SB 158 by Senator Dean Florez (D-Shafter) expands upon the current responsibilities of the existing California Department of Public Health's (CDPH) Healthcare Associated Infections Advisory Committee. The bill requires hospitals and skilled nursing facilities to establish plans to improve patient safety. This bill also contains detailed training requirements for hospital infection control committee chairs, clinicians, and all licensed and non-licensed hospital staff. 
 
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that every year two million patients contract a hospital acquired infection while being treated for something else, and almost 100,000 die every year from these infections.
 
SB 891 by Senator Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) builds on existing law that authorizes health facilities to practice Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) by establishing the Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Pilot Program at CDPH. The program will authorize up to six eligible acute care hospitals that are licensed to provide cardiac catheterization laboratory service in California, and that meet prescribed, additional criteria to perform scheduled, elective primary percutaneous coronary intervention for eligible patients. 
 


Actress, grieving mother speak to urgency of Florez' fight against hospital infections
 
FRESNO – Senator Dean Florez, D-Shafter, will be joined this Friday in Fresno by the mother of a young man who died from the ravages of a preventable hospital infection as he calls on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign a measure to address this growing threat to patients. 
 
Senate Bill 158, designed to help curb a growing epidemic of healthcare-acquired infections (HAI), currently sits on the Governor's desk awaiting signature.  According to the Department of Public Health, more than 250,000 patients who are admitted to California hospitals develop an HAI each year, 14,000 of which prove fatal.  It is estimated that 70% of these HAI could be avoided with intensive monitoring and prevention measures, which Senate Bill 158 seeks to implement.
 
Speaking on behalf of the bill will be Carole Moss, who 15-year-old son Nile Calvin Moss succumbed to one of these so-called "superbugs," which have grown increasingly resistant to antibiotics.  Her loss prompted Moss and her husband to become advocates for patient safety through their foundation, Nile's Project.  Details can be found at http://www.nilesproject.com.
 
Actress and patient safety advocate Alicia Cole, herself the survivor of a near-fatal healthcare-acquired infection, traveled to Sacramento earlier this year despite her pain and fatigue to testify on behalf of SB 158, sharing with legislators graphic evidence of her terrifying experience.  In 2006, a routine20procedure in a top-rated hospital led to a case of necrotizing fasciitis, more commonly referred to as "the flesh-eating disease," for which she continues to receive daily medical treatment.  While Cole will be unable to travel to Fresno, Cole will speak on behalf of SB 158 Friday morning in Bakersfield and her story will be included in press packets for Fresno media.
 
Senate Bill 158 would require the Department of Public Health to report annually on the infection control measures being implemented and rate of HAI on a hospital-by-hospital basis, allowing Californians to make informed decisions about which hospital they choose to use.  The measure would empower a panel of experts to continually review and improve the state's infection control programs and establish training requirements for hospital employees, particularly in hand hygiene.
 
Cole is the face of California's '5 a Day' Nutrition Program advertising campaign and has appeared on Eve, Veronica Mars, Silk Stalkings and Beverly Hills 90210, in addition to representing a wide range of companies in corporate industrial and training films.
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September 10, 2008 - Wednesday 

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
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'Ghostbusters 3' Needs Some McLovin

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(Sept. 7) -- Columbia Pictures is getting serious about creating a new installment of its 'Ghostbusters' franchise, Variety reports.
 
During a recent interview with E!, Dan Aykroyd implied that Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd would likely write in the new installment, even though Rogen denied rumors last week.
 
The studio would not comment on the development and has been mum on recent rumors that there was interest in making a third 'Ghostbusters.'
 
'Ghostbusters' was Columbia's highest grossing film ever, until it was beaten by 'Men in Black' and then 'Spider-Man.' An attempt to make a third installment of the franchise was stymied in the dealmaking stage. Sources said so much gross was pledged to the participants that it was next to impossible for the studio to make any money on a third installment.
 
No deals will be made with the original cast until the script is ready, but the gross percentage will certainly be an issue.
 
http://www.popeater.com/movies/article/ghostbusters-3-needs-some-mclovin/162254
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September 8, 2008 - Monday 

Current mood:  hopeful
Category: Life

Observatory
Marijuana Ingredient May Fight Bacteria

By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Published: September 5, 2008

Marijuana may be something of a wonder drug — though perhaps not in the way you might think.

Researchers in Italy and Britain have found that the main active ingredient in marijuana — tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC — and related compounds show promise as antibacterial agents, particularly against microbial strains that are already resistant to several classes of drugs.

It has been known for decades that Cannabis sativa has antibacterial properties. Experiments in the 1950s tested various marijuana preparations against skin and other infections, but researchers at the time had little understanding of marijuana's chemical makeup.

The current research, by Giovanni Appendino of the University of the Eastern Piedmont and colleagues and published in The Journal of Natural Products, looked at the antibacterial activity of the five most common cannabinoids. All were effective against several common multiresistant bacterial strains, although, perhaps understandably, the researchers suggested that the nonpsychotropic cannabinoids might prove more promising for eventual use.

The researchers say they do not know how the cannabinoids work or whether they would be effective, as systemic antibiotics would require much more research and trials. But the compounds may prove useful sooner as a topical agent against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, to prevent the microbes from colonizing on the skin.

FROM: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/science/09obdrug.html

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