Archive for the 'Health' Category
The Teflon Toxin
August 12th, 2015Via: First Look: Concerns about the safety of Teflon, C8, and other long-chain perfluorinated chemicals first came to wide public attention more than a decade ago, but the story of DuPont’s long involvement with C8 has never been fully told. Over the past 15 years, as lawyers have been waging an epic legal battle — […]
Secret Sanctions Revealed Against University Hosting $1.25 Billion Bio Lab
August 8th, 2015Via: USA Today: Kansas State University — where a controversial $1.25 billion biosecurity lab facility is under construction — secretly faced federal sanctions last year after repeatedly violating safety regulations during its research with bioterror pathogens, records obtained by USA TODAY show. Kansas State’s “history of non-compliance” during four consecutive inspections over two years shows […]
New Zealand Parents Feeding Junk Food to Children Until Their Teeth Dissolve to the Gums
July 29th, 2015Via: Stuff: Children as young as 18 months old are having multiple rotten teeth pulled out as parents feed toddlers soft drinks through sipper bottles, and chocolate biscuits and Milo as bedtime treats. Dentist and veteran anti-sugar lobbyist Rob Beaglehole said he pulled several teeth on Monday from an 18-month-old, and had once treated a […]
Colorado City Stops Water Fluoridation
July 28th, 2015Via: Natural Society: Snowmass, a skier’s paradise tucked into the Colorado Mountains, and part of Aspen, has decided to stop fluoridating its water. The news comes just after the latest groundbreaking study on water fluoridation concluded that there was zero relationship between water fluoridation and cavity prevention. As Anthony Gucciardi shared with you on July […]
Detroit-Area Doctor Sentenced for Widespread Cancer Treatment Fraud
July 15th, 2015Via: The Detroit News: U.S. District Judge Paul Borman on Friday called Fata’s crimes “horrific and unprecedented” before sentencing him for the complex, far-reaching conspiracy aimed at defrauding Medicare and Blue Cross Blue Shield of $34 million by prescribing unnecessary treatments. Fata, 50, is ineligible for parole. Fata’s conspiracy ensnared several hundred patients across Metro […]
Nearly One-Third Of 847,000 Veterans In Backlog For VA Health Care Already Died
July 15th, 2015Via: Huffington Post: More than 238,000 of the 847,000 veterans in the pending backlog for health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs have already died, according to an internal VA document provided to The Huffington Post.
New Zealand: “HPV Vaccine Has Done This to My Child”
July 12th, 2015Via: Youtube / Amber Smith: This was a very hard video to post, my 12 yr old daughter was fine before her vaccine, now this is her life. We live in New Zealand and I thought our healthcare system was ok, we have been left to deal with this ourselves. I’m showing this because I […]
Blood & Fog: The Military’s Germ Warfare Tests in San Francisco
July 10th, 2015Via: Discover: The Nuremberg Code was drafted in 1947 following the appalling revelations of human experimentation committed in Nazi concentration camps. The overarching goal of the Code was to establish a set of rules for the ethical conduct of research using human subjects, guaranteeing that the rights and welfare of such participants would be protected. […]
U.S. Vaccine Researcher Sentenced to Prison for Fraud
July 2nd, 2015Via: Nature: Rare is the scientist who goes to prison on research misconduct charges. But on 1 July, Dong-Pyou Han, a former biomedical scientist at Iowa State University in Ames, was sentenced to 57 months for fabricating and falsifying data in HIV vaccine trials. Han has also been fined US$7.2 million and will be subject […]
Doctor Who Practiced Alternative Medicine Murdered
July 2nd, 2015Via: News-Press: The killing of a popular Estero doctor has left family and friends puzzled and saddened. The body of Dr. Teresa Ann Sievers, 46, was found Monday morning at her Jarvis Road home after she didn’t arrive at work. “We don’t know anything but that she was murdered,” said Sievers’ sister, Annie Lisa, 52. […]
