Today, insights on reducing disease, including colorectal and pancreatic cancers. Then, what young people should know about taking steroids. Also, the latest on protecting against flu. Also, how to make a big difference in the second forty years of life. From the environmental section, twelve hundred new coal power plants …
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Since the flu pandemic was declared, there have been several so-called “vaccine experts” coming out of the wood work attempting to justify the effectiveness of vaccines. All of them parrot the same ridiculous historical and pseudoscientific perspectives of vaccinations which are easily squelched with the following 9 questions. Claim: The …
Tick bites have long been synonymous with bad news, responsible for transmitting diseases such as Lyme disease, Ehrlichiosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but this must be a carnivore or BBQ lover’s worst nightmare. A growing body of research suggests that bites from a particular tick are causing an unusual allergic reaction to …
Phthalates, chemicals used to soften plastics, are found in many personal care products such as hair sprays, perfumes, nail polish, sunscreens and lotions. They are also used in medical devices, on timed release pills (where they are often part of the coating), in children’s toys and plastic food containers as …
If we lose the ash tree, we’ll lose culture as well as nature. Reading the shocking news about ash die-back, the disease that has now killed most of Denmark’s ash trees and many of those across the rest of northern Europe, I was reminded that when we lose our wildlife …
Out of all the meaningless slogans bantered around this election season, President Obama’s clinging to the “clean coal” banner ranks as one of the most specious. “Clean coal” is a hoax, and the president knows it, and outside of appeasing a few Midwestern Big Coal sycophants and his Duke Energy coal buddy Jim Rogers, who helped …
While watching Gary Null’s documentary ‘GMOs Ticking Time Bomb’, I was reminded of a run-in that I had with a transnational agribusiness concern in India a couple of years back. It sent a popular Indian newspaper a three page letter complaining about an article that I had written and which …
Sounds like a science fiction horror story, but it is what is happening. Today, I heard about Zombie Bees being found now in Washington State, and a new swarm sighted in British Columbia. What? It is thought these bees are infected with a parasitic fly causing them to erratically fly …
Dr. Toni Bark is a pediatric physician and a prestigious homeopathic doctor practicing in the Chicago area. This year she was awarded the honor of vice president of the American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to receiving her medical degree from Rush Medical College and pediatric internship at NYU, she …
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The team led by Manel Esteller, director of the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program in the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Professor of Genetics at the University of Barcelona and ICREA researcher, has identified epigenetic changes that occur in adult stem cells to generate different body tissues. The finding is …
Robert L. Klitzman is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University. He co-founded and for five years co-directed the Columbia University Center for Bioethics, and is the Director of the Ethics and Policy Core of the HIV Center. He is the author …
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Medications are nutrition. That’s essentially the rationale behind a couple of Big Pharma corporations’ decision to give a failed Alzheimer’s drug a second chance. In early August, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson said they were ending large-scale clinical trials of their experimental drug bapineuzumab in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease, …
A swine flu vaccine used in 2009-10 is linked to a higher risk of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy in children and teens in Sweden and Finland, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said FridayThe EU agency studied the effects of the Pandemrix vaccine on children in eight European …
Forget about carbs. The next time you want to enjoy a meal that includes rice—a steaming bowl of it perhaps, or some rice pasta or rice drink—think about this: A study by Consumer Reports says that eating rice once a day can increase the arsenic levels in your body by …
*French researchers studied privately for two years, 200 rats fed GM corn. Tumors, serious diseases … a massacre. And a bomb [for the] GMO industry. This is a real bomb that launches this September 19 to 15 hours, the very serious American journal “Food and Chemical Toxicology” – a benchmark …