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- Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide.
- They are among the biggest-selling drugs of all time, the "happiness pills" that supposedly lift the moods of those who suffer depression and are taken by millions of people in the UK every year. But one of the largest studies of modern antidepressant drugs has found that they don't work.
- Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AEC) have found evidence that certain fungi possess another talent beyond their ability to decompose matter: the capacity to use radioactivity as an energy source for making food and spurring their growth.
- A common virus that causes throat and eye infections may also play a role in obesity, according to US scientists.
- It was a scourge of centuries past, a disease that ravaged the body and brain, drove geniuses to madness and slowly brought its victims to a terrible death.
- Brands such as McDonald's, Starburst, Haribo and Skittles are using the internet to target children now that new rules from the media regulator Ofcom have made it difficult to advertise during children's television.
- Gene-Engineered Food
- ...since the restrictions on advertising were lifted in 1997, drug makers have been using direct-to-consumer marketing as a tool to get people to believe they are mentally ill.
- The green lobby says even low levels pose a health risk
- The hands expected to protect and serve have poisoned the weakest and most vulnerable portion of the population: the children. The American government and drug manufacturers have created anarchy among innocence, transformed children into mere investments, and turned a blind eye to the destruction of the world's future.
- Endangering the Food Supply
- The solid statistics amassed since the 1970s point to only one conclusion:...publicly funded, universally available health care is simply the most powerful contributing factor to the overall health of the people who live in any country. And in the United States, we have got the bodies to prove it. - The FDA is Rapidly Becoming a Public Enemy
- A lawsuit filed Friday in Kansas against Coca-Cola Co. alleges that the soft drink maker included ingredients in its beverages that could form cancer-causing benzene. - ...the little-known company that has been working in...genetic research with the Government’s US Department of Agriculture-- Delta & Pine Land-- is about to become part of the world’s largest supplier of patented genetically-modified seeds (GMO), Monsanto Corporation...
- The reactionary campaign against knowledge and information is reaching frightening new heights.
- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced late yesterday that U.S. commercial supplies of long-grain rice had become inadvertently contaminated with a genetically engineered variety not approved for human consumption. - Did you know that if your doctor is "mainstream" or "orthodox," he probably doesn’t know what he is doing? Did you know there is little or no evidence that today’s $2 trillion-dollar medical system works any better than various cheaper alternatives?
- Politicians sell terror and fear; pharmaceutical companies sell disease.
- When you dig into a strawberry Yoplait yogurt, take a moment to contemplate where the beautiful pink color comes from. Strawberries? Think again. It comes from crushed bugs.
- According to the most recent CDC estimates, one in 166 children in the US suffers from an autistic disorder. Twenty years ago, autism only affected one in 10,000 children.
- Aspartame is a neuropoison
- An Indian non-governmental organisation says samples of Coca-Cola and Pepsi products are showing even worse levels of pesticides than in a previous study.
- The question arises: When a child is reported to be better on Ritalin does "better" mean more compliant, less aggressive, and less disruptive?
- Breast cancer. Genital abnormalities. Distortion and damage of genetic material. Common ingredients in cosmetic products have been linked to these hazards..
- Without Your Knowledge or Consent
- Beaks seared off with hot blades; pregnant sows with barely room to take a step. And the scale of suffering is set to soar
- Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the physician who published a paper in 1998 showing a link between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism, is being charged with professional misconduct by the UK's General Medical Council.
- Seattle mother arrested for "kidnapping" her own baby to seek alternative treatments
- Test Tube Meat Nears Dinner Table
- We need omega-3 oils for our brains to function properly. But where will they come from?
- The marketing of Tylenol is one of the all-time triumphs in the annals of corporate public relations.
- Toxicity of the herbicide - CDC to Women:Prepare to Give Birth!
- Bisphenol A, found in baby bottles and microwave cookware, permanently altered genes in newborn lab rats, a study finds. - "Pollution is now so bad in our country that the bodies of our children have higher levels of pollution than their parents."
- Dreher's Jamaican Pregnancy
- "After taking into account income, age, sex, race and immigrant status, Canadians were 33 percent more likely to have a regular doctor and 27 percent less likely to have an unmet health need."
- The measles virus has been found in the guts of children with a form of autism...
- Time to Dust Off that Old "No Nukes!" Button
- High levels of chemicals found in 10 volunteers
- Merck Targets Children for Sex Disease Vaccine
- "The Earth is flat, pigs were invented by Monsanto, and genetically modified organisms are safe. Right."
- The war on drugs is an attack on rationality. Reason lost yet another skirmish recently when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on April 20 that “no sound scientific studies” supported the medical use of marijuana.
- EXPERIMENTAL WEATHER MODIFICATION BILL FAST TRACKING FOR PASSAGE IN U.S. SENATE & HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - The pharmaceutical industry has a dream: at least one disease (and more than one prescription drug) for every American.
- America’s Worsening Healthcare Travesty
- Tons of chemicals in antibacterial soaps used in the bathrooms and kitchens of virtually every home are being released into the environment, yet no government agency is monitoring or regulating them in water supplies or food.
- An estimated 2 million babies die within their first 24 hours each year worldwide and the United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate in the developed world, according to a new report.
- Around your home there are countless gadgets whose electrical fields, scientists now warn, are linked to depression, miscarriage and cancer.
- The number of children taking antipsychotic medicines soared 73 percent in the four years ending in 2005...
- Middle-aged English people are "much healthier" than their American counterparts, even though the US spends far more on medical care than the UK...
- A renowned U.S. scientist who has documented fertility and sex changes -- including decreasing penis size -- due to environmental contamination says he wouldn't apply pesticides on his own lawn. - If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food
- To make one at home, you need four fresh ingredients. The processed version isn't so simple.
- A chemical used to make food wrapping and line tin cans could be the cause of surging prostate cancer rates in men, says a study
- Exposure to household toxins is linked to just about every disease that we know of, most notably cancer.
- Accidental poisonings from the nation's most popular pain reliever seem to be rising, making acetaminophen the leading cause of acute liver failure.
- Every psychiatric expert involved in writing the standard diagnostic criteria for disorders such as depression and schizophrenia has had financial ties to drug companies that sell medications for those illnesses, a new analysis has found.
- Top Republicans...recently sold the future of our children to Big Pharma for a paltry $4 bucks a pop.
- In the year 2005 there were 175,000 new cases of lung cancer in the United States. The months of January and February of 2006 have already yielded 172,000 new cases of lung cancer in our nation. What has lead to this shocking new development?
- If medical professionals begin telling children at a very young age that they can change the way they think, feel, and behave by simply taking a pill, they will logically continue to take drugs in attempt to mood-alter whenever they have problems in life.
- Young boys who drink fluoridated tap water are at greater risk for a rare bone cancer, Harvard researchers reported yesterday. - What part of arsenic's threat to human health does the Bush administration not understand?
- AP calls study independent, omits previous human studies showing Aspartame danger
- Children as young as five have suffered strokes, heart attacks, hallucinations and convulsions after taking drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
- There is no money to be made in cures, but there are billions of dollars to be made in treatments. The medical establishment is afraid of anything which would prevent people from getting diseases, because they make money off treating diseases.
- Radioactive forever - Kansas & Nevada littered with destroyed & dangerous war machines
- The debate over the health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Britain reopens today with research which suggests that infant deaths were higher in areas where rain fell as the plume of fallout passed overhead.
- W.House pushes more schools to drug-test students
- In Africa, a child succumbs every 30 seconds to malaria.
- Heavy marketing by drug companies probably contributed to the increase in the use of anti-psychotic drugs among children, said Dr. Daniel Safer, a psychiatrist affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, who called the potential side effects a concern.
- Organic foods protect children from the toxins in pesticides, while foods grown using modern, intensive agricultural techniques contain fewer nutrients and minerals than they did 60 years ago, according to two new scientific studies.
- Traces of a carcinogenic chemical have been found in soft drinks at eight times the level permitted in drinking water.
- Our children are eating silicon in school cafeterias.
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