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... rabble news History of discrimination against gays and lesbians In the recent past, lesbians and gays have been treated as mentally ill and have been subjected to conversion “therapies,” including electroshock treatment.

We have been targeted by discriminatory laws, such as an immigration law which prohibited our entry into this country and subjected those who were immigrants to the threat of deportation (1952-1977), as well as a penal law which criminalized certain forms of gay male sexual expression and rendered gay men vulnerable to indefinite incarceration as “dangerous sexual offenders” (1892-1969).

Gay and lesbian seniors face health-care obstacles When gay and lesbian seniors were growing up, homosexuality was still illegal and/or treated as a psychiatric disorder.

Common “treatment” used to include lobotomies and shock therapy, if not jail.

>by Gilles Marchildon March 27, 2006 Ageing is not always easy.

As if wrinkles and arthritis weren't bad enough, you might have to hide your identity.

Earlier this month, two McGill University researchers released a study which shows gay and lesbian seniors face huge obstacles when seeking adequate health care.

From 2003 to this past January, 90 people were interviewed in Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax.

Participants included 38 gay and lesbian seniors as well as 31 health-care providers and 21 caregivers like partners, children and friends.

The study concludes that discrimi...

... PRESS RELEASE Board-Certified Internist Opens State-of-the-Art Dermacare Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Home Printer-Friendly Board-Certified Internist Opens State-of-the-Art Dermacare Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Only Physician-Based Laser Skin Care Franchise Offers Doctors New Revenue Stream SCOTTSDALE, AZ - (MARKET WIRE) - 03/27/2006 - Dermacare Laser & Skin Care Clinics®, the nation's only physician-based laser aesthetic skin-care franchiser, announced today that Abraham J.

Sayegh, M.D., has opened a new Dermacare clinic at 7320 E.

Deer Valley Road.

in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Board-certified in internal medicine, Dr.

Sayegh has practiced in the Phoenix area since 1989, and serves as the Medical Director for Hospice of Arizona and as a team physician for the Harlem Globetrotters.

He is the former Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Paradise Valley Hospital in Paradise Valley, Ariz.

He learned about Dermacare's unique business model and total commitment to safety from a colleague.

(Click here for details) "I was seeking a revenue-enhancing opportunity to work with patients who are excited about receiving care without adding to my reimbursement, bureaucratic and paperwork challenges or my malpractice premiums," explains Sayegh.

"After extensive research and due diligence, only Dermacare met my stringent requirements.

No other company demands on...

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By Elizabeth Cohen Press & Sun-Bulletin t was during the plague of the 1500s, as the story goes, when four thieves made their fortunes.

The key to their success was a potion made by melding oils from various plants.

They would distill the concoction and then pour it into a long "beak" of a mask, which they would wear when they went out to rob the dead.

Using this scheme they attained great wealth - and never contracted the plague themselves.Is it true?

Is it apocryphal?

It is difficult, if not impossible, to confirm.

But what nobody can dispute is the fact that thousands of people are today usin...