Posted on May 15, 2008 by Sopan Greene
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Prevnar, an anti-pneumonia vaccination given in the United Kingdom, likely causes a significantly worse form of pneumonia to develop. This life-threatening lung disease, called Serotype 1, has become ten times more prevalent in ten years.
Serotype 1 pneumonia causes the pleura, the lining of the lungs, to become infected. The disease is suffered primarily [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2008 by Sopan Greene
Source: Health Freedom USA
DRUG COMPANY SEES COMPETITION, TRIES TO KILL IT
Maybe you take weight loss supplements and maybe you don’t. But protecting them, and the claims that the FDA recognizes are appropriate for them, has become a matter of urgency since GlaxoSmithKlein (GSK)has attacked the entire supplement industry through direct [...]
Filed under: Codex Alimentarius, Corporations, Health, Nutrition | Tagged: current events, dietary supplements, drug companies, drugs, FDA, genetically modified food, GlaxoSmithKlein, gmo, GSK, news, pharmaceutical industry, weight loss supplements | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 14, 2008 by Sopan Greene
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it. As a result, many supermarkets have gone about formulating foods that are devoid of commonly-recognized baddies such as saturated fat (sigh), salt, added sugar, and artificial additives. However, I was interested to read that here in the U.K., the Wal-Mart-owned supermarket chain Asda has explicitly named aspartame is a list of “nasties,” [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2008 by Sopan Greene
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Another story proving that there isn’t a food shortage, there’s a big problem with the politics and systems around distributing food. The article is about India, but it could just as easily be about dozens of other countries.
… About 72 per cent of the fruit and vegetable production of country goes waste because [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2008 by Sopan Greene
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The current flu season is shaping up to be the worst in four years, partly because the vaccine didn’t work well against the viruses that made most people sick.
The 2007-2008 season started slowly, peaked in mid-February, and now seems to be declining. Based on adult deaths from flu and pneumonia, this season is [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by Sopan Greene
Source: Coalition for Safe Minds
A paper published in the medical journal Health & Place found that children living next to a mercury polluter have a higher risk of developing autism. The research, from University of Texas Health Science Center (San Antonio), by researchers Raymond Palmer, PhD and colleagues, determined that a community’s distance to a [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by Sopan Greene
Source: Avaaz
Dear friends,
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Have you noticed food costing more when you shop? Here’s why — we’re plunging headlong into a world food crisis. [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by Jim Gregorich
Source: Naturalnews.com
Friday, April 18, 2008
by: Mike Adams
Drug giant Merck has been caught red-handed in a scheme to deceive the FDA and the public over the integrity of its scientific studies, say top medical authorities. According to reports that were (amazingly!) published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and detailed in the Washington [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by Sopan Greene
Full Story: Information Clearing House
By Richard C. Cook
24/04/08 “GlobalResearch” — - Rising worldwide food prices are resulting in shortages, riots and protests, promises by governments to expand food aid, expressions of concern by international bodies like the World Bank, and stress on household budgets even in developed countries like the U.S. [...]
Filed under: Corporations, Globalization, Health, History, New World Order, Nutrition, Politics, Poverty, Scandals, Solutions, Sustainability | Tagged: agriculture, council on foreign relations, current events, ethanol, food, news, starvation, world hunger | No Comments »
Posted on April 24, 2008 by Jim Gregorich
Source: commondreams.org
Published on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by One World.net
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - About 300,000 U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or major depression. Another 320,000 veterans likely suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), a type of physical brain damage often caused by explosions [...]
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