Archive for the 'Health' Category
Canada: Sales Halt Ordered for Thousands of Natural Health Products
February 9th, 2010Via: National Post:
Makers of natural-health products say they are bracing for widespread layoffs and millions of dollars in losses after Canada’s pharmacy regulators issued a surprise directive recently urging druggists to stop selling unlicensed natural remedies.
The order affects thousands of herbal treatments, multi-vitamins and other products, most of them waiting for approval from Health Canada [...]
Airport Body Scanning Raises Radiation Exposure
February 5th, 2010Via: Bloomberg:
Air passengers should be made aware of the health risks of airport body screenings and governments must explain any decision to expose the public to higher levels of cancer-causing radiation, an inter-agency report said.
Pregnant women and children should not be subject to scanning, even though the radiation dose from body scanners is “extremely small,” [...]
States Storing Newborns’ DNA Without Parental Consent
February 5th, 2010Via: CNN:
When Annie Brown’s daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis.
While grateful to have the information — Isabel received further testing and she doesn’t have [...]
One in Five Children in New York City Relying on Emergency Food Aid
February 4th, 2010Via: NBC New York:
One in eight Americans needed emergency food help in 2009—–one of five children in New York City are relying on emergency food.
These sad statistics come from Feeding America and the Food Bank for New York City.
“Food insecure” is the bureaucratic term for hungry people — and New York is, unfortunately, a textbook [...]
City of L.A. Wants Construction of New Buildings to Include Catchment Systems to Handle Toxic Runoff During Rain Storms
February 2nd, 2010What is happening to the millions of people who are breathing the air that’s carrying all the pollutants that are winding up in the toxic runoff?
This is the Los Angeles Times from 2002:
A report by a Washington, D.C., environmental group says that children in California are at greater risk of contracting cancer from inhaling toxic [...]
Bill Gates: “We must make this the decade of vaccines”
January 29th, 2010Sure, Bill. Tell me another one. Oh, by the way, how are those flying syringes coming along?
Via: AP:
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world’s poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said Friday.
Calling upon governments and business [...]
U.S. Babies Mysteriously Shrinking
January 28th, 2010I’ve been seeing this article around but avoiding dealing with it because I just blow my stack when it comes to stuff like this. I’m posting it so people will stop submitting this.
I guess it gives me an excuse to post a link to the Weston A. Price Foundation again.
Cutting to the chase, with regard [...]
Hospitals Should “Be Extra Careful with Linear Accelerators”
January 25th, 2010This piece is classic New York Times. There must be an editorial template at that rag. Write about atrocity, smooth it over with experts and a clear, non-sticky Everything Is OK gel.
The article below reads like this:
Behold the marvels of modern medicine. Sure, atrocities happen here and there. Well, maybe more often than that. [...]
Internet Generation at Risk of Rickets
January 23rd, 2010I really had to laugh at this:
“Fifty years ago, many children would have been given regular doses of cod liver oil, but this practice has all but died out,” noted co-author Tim Cheetham, also a professor at Newcastle.
The good professor should visit our home!
Rebecca, my wife, did a lot of research into cod liver oil. [...]
Monsanto’s GM Corn Damages Organs: A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health
January 13th, 2010Via: International Journal of Biological Sciences:
We present for the first time a comparative analysis of blood and organ system data from trials with rats fed three main commercialized genetically modified (GM) maize (NK 603, MON 810, MON 863), which are present in food and feed in the world. NK 603 has been modified to be [...]
