There's A Natural Cure for Cancer ?

Amazing ....and yet again sad. There is some news going around about a natural cure for cancer. Sources say, a Graviola tree in the Amazon, that grows a fruit called "sour sop" , is said to be 10,000 times stronger than chemo therapy. And unlike chemo, it only targets the malignant cancer cells leaving the good ones intact.This fruit is said to be a cure for12 different types of cancers, including breast, colon, lung and pancreatic cancers. But here's what so amazing about this story---It's not on the news! I have not heard any main stream media coverage on this discovery. It's not in the morning news (which is by the way, where you would expect to see a health segment), nor is it on the evening news.

Why would this story not get coverage? ---or better yet , why isn't this on the market? The issue is ( which really shouldn't be an issue), the billion dollar drug companies who actually went out and spent millions researching this fruit, can't patent it. They can't patent it because its a completely natural agent and under federal law not patentable. There for not profitable so not accessible? Sad.

Viral Marketing?

So, Today I was doing some online surfing and stopped by the Jezebel (a feminist blog), and this interesting headline caught my attention. It reads , "Swine Flu is the Hottest New Viral Marketing Idea". At first I thought to myself, "wow a possible pandemic hitting the US and there are people actually using it as a get rich marketing tool.
I then realized it isn't really that surprising... It was just a matter of time before some greedy CEO came up with an idea to make money of others people's pain. Disease is the number one money marketing agent, making billions at a time. This reminds me of the greed of pharmaceutical industry who instead of looking for a cure, would go for those most profitable market and create drugs that would be required for one's life time.

America's Next Top Role Model ?

Ex-model Tyra Banks is on a role with her her reality T.V show America's Next Top model and her talk show, but I question whether her tactics and the way her show portrays women effects the impressionable young minds of the youth today.