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Monday, May 12th, 2008
By Jo Hartley | Environmental and farm worker groups have now sued the Bush administration for allowing the continued use of four pesticides. They claim that the government brushed aside its own evidence that the chemicals are toxic to workers, children, and animals.
The suit challenged the Environmental Protection Agency's 2006 decision to reauthorize the four pesticides used on fruit and ...
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Does Organic Really Mean Organic?
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
By David Gutierrez | The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has renewed its approval for 46 non-organically produced substances to be used in foods and beverages that are labeled "organic." At the same time, the agency withdrew its approval for a type of food coloring and a food additive.
Under the Organic Foods Production Act, the USDA's National Organic Standards Board ...
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The Sick Science Tobacco Companies Pursue
Monday, April 28th, 2008
By Scott Thill | Those who complain about how the internet or advances in technology haven't done enough to make us smarter or better may not truly remember what life was like before either. For one, digging up any type of public or private information took loads more work, especially when offending parties, from governments ...
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Exposed: the great GM crops myth
Monday, April 21st, 2008
By Geoffrey Lean
Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent.
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
The study – carried out over the past three ...
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Canada Likely to Label Plastic Ingredient ‘Toxic’
Thursday, April 17th, 2008By IAN AUSTEN OTTAWA — The Canadian government is said to be ready to declare as toxic a chemical widely used in plastics for baby bottles, beverage and food containers as well as linings in food cans.
A Nalgene brand bottle, which is made with bisphenol-a.
A person with knowledge of the government’s chemical review program spoke ...
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FDA Accused of Intentionally Creating Drug Monopolies
Thursday, April 17th, 2008By David Gutierrez The outgoing chief executive officer of pharmaceutical giant Wyeth has accused the FDA of "establishing monopolies" by requiring new drugs to prove that they work better than products currently on the market. "If you're the first company to get approved in a certain area and competitors can't get on the market, the FDA is now establishing monopolies. And that's certainly not their mandate," Bob Essner said. Essner said ...
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How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
Thursday, April 17th, 2008By Onnesha Roychoudhuri Author Charles Barber discusses Americans' unrealistic notions about happiness. We've medicalized a lot of life issues that aren't mental illnesses. While we've now become accustomed to the barrage of prescription drug commercials on prime-time TV, it's jarring to learn that this advertising is legal only in the United States and New Zealand. The pharmaceutical industry doesn't just target Americans directly, but also ...
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Food Additives as Damaging as Lead
Monday, April 7th, 2008British Researchers Find Artificial Colors Harm Children's Brains, Request Phase-Out By Annie Bell Muzaurieta A team of British researchers from Southampton University carried out a study to look at seven food additives, and their findings were grim: The additives are doing as much damage to children's brains as the lead in gasoline. According to an article in The Independent, the researchers said children's intelligence was being damaged by the ...
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A Deeper Look At Drugs In Our Tap Water
Friday, April 4th, 2008Cathy Sherman Picture this: Three guys go into a bar. The batender asks, "What'll you have?" "A beer", says the first guy. Second one says, "Whiskey" and turning to the third guy asks, "what about you?" "Oh me, I really need a good strong kick, one with lots of punch to it... Yep, I think this day calls for a big one on tap! Hey bartender, how about some of your ...
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Media Tells People To Drink Soda Not Water
Friday, April 4th, 2008As proof that mainstream health information continutes to become increasingly detached from reality, the mainstream media (MSM) has launched a new wave of misinformation designed to discredit the health benefits of drinking water! Just today, for example, Fox News ran a story entitled, Skip the Water, Have a Soda Instead. ((http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,345...) Other news organizations, such as the Chicago Tribune also jumped on the bandwagon, declaring that drinking eight glasses ...
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Mobile phones ‘more dangerous than smoking’
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation. Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation. The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, ...
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Are We Really That Ill?
Saturday, March 29th, 2008CHICAGO - America has reached a point where almost half its population is described as being in some way mentally ill, and nearly a quarter of its citizens - 67.5 million - have taken antidepressants. These statistics have sparked a widespread, sometimes rancorous debate about whether people are taking far more medication than is needed for problems that may not even be mental disorders. Studies indicate ...
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Is this the End of Antibiotics?
Friday, March 28th, 2008Eventually antibiotics are going to be seen as one of the worst things to ever come out of pharmaceutical science because in the end, they have made us only weaker in the face of ever increasingly strong super bugs that are resistant to all the antibiotics doctors have at their disposal. When we look at how deep the rabbit hole goes with antibiotics, we will get sick in our souls. ...
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An apple a day keeps the McDoctor away
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Shake-up of hospitals will open door to McDonald's sponsorship. Firms such as McDonald's and Virgin could be allowed to sponsor NHS hospital wards under radical plans announced by the Government to allow sponsorship of health services and create a new era of open competition between hospitals. Private companies will be allowed to create some "brand awareness" such as a logo on hospital property but they would not be allowed to gain a ...
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Eli Lilly E-Mail Discussed Unapproved Use of Drug
Saturday, March 15th, 2008John C. Lechleiter, an Eli Lilly official who is about to become the company’s top executive, wrote an e-mail message in 2003 that appears to have encouraged Lilly to promote its schizophrenia medicine Zyprexa for a use not approved by federal drug regulators. Mr. Lechleiter’s comments came in a March 2003 e-mail ...
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