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But consider this.

The World Health Organization published a report in 1998 stating that there were 273 million cases of malaria worldwide.

A study conducted by the Kenya National Research Institute determined that recent outbreaks and exposure yield a conservative estimate of 515 million cases worldwide.

This data has increased interest in the disease, including the Roll Back Malaria campaign initiated by the World Health Organization.

Its goal is to cut the numbers in half by 2010.

What about our friends in the pharmaceutical companies?

With such a worldwide epidemic, they should be all over this disease, right?

The truth is that before this campaign was initiated, not one of the 24 largest drug companies had an in-house research program for malaria.

Something about the way medicine is being run through corporations needs to change.

The societal cost of our capitalistic medical community is hurting the world at large.

Doctors must take the Hippocratic oath before they can practice.

This oath states that as a doctor, one will do no harm.

But when doctors and researchers believe that there is no incentive for them to create a vaccine for a worldwide pandemic, when 80 percent of funding goes toward drugs that simply treat Americans cosmetically, and when curing entire populations is put on hold to research boner pills, doctors do the grea...

Why can't life be like a Fram oil filter?

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, characters on shows like Happy Days would drink from plain tins labeled "Soda" or "Beer." But by virtue of the feverish branding of everything short of Colin Farrell's genitals (although the buzz is that his left testicle is in talks with United Airlines), products and logos are now an integral part of the pop-culture furniture - and that's the central impediment to the success of product placement.

The neon Bud sign, like so many other corporate symbols, has been branded into our brains.

So when it pops up in Brokeback Mountain, it doesn't register or make an impact.

Like trees on a mountainside or ex-wives on a Billy Bob Thornton, it's now just another part of the scenery.

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