Archive for the 'Health' Category
H5N1 VIRAL-ENGINEERING DANGERS WILL NOT GO AWAY
March 27th, 2013Definitely check out Channel 4’s Utopia. It’s a pretty good documentary series. *grin* Via: Nature: Barely two months after a small group of influenza virologists lifted a moratorium on work to make the H5N1 avian flu virus as transmissible between humans as seasonal flu, researchers are at it again. Earlier this month, a Dutch scientist […]
When Harm in the Hospital Follows You Home
March 26th, 2013Via: ProPublica: A slip of the scalpel, an invisible microbe, a minute miscalculation. It’s estimated that something goes wrong for more than one million people per year during a visit to the hospital. Some patients experience a full physical recovery. Some are never fully healed. But even if patients are lucky enough to physically heal, […]
The Lack of Dirt in Childhood and Autoimmune Diseases
March 23rd, 2013Via: Smithsonian: “Move to a hygiene society, and it does not matter your race or ethnicity—allergy rises.”
Iraq: Two U.S.-Led Wars Have Left Behind Hundreds of Tons of Depleted Uranium and Other Toxic Wastes
March 23rd, 2013Via: Al Jazeera: Contamination from Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions and other military-related pollution is suspected of causing a sharp rises in congenital birth defects, cancer cases, and other illnesses throughout much of Iraq. Many prominent doctors and scientists contend that DU contamination is also connected to the recent emergence of diseases that were not previously […]
Dylan Ratigan Quits MSNBC, Help Vets Create Network of Organic Hydroponic Farms
March 22nd, 2013Via: Dylan Ratigan: If you are reading this, you likely know I left a highly-successful, self-titled show at MSNBC last June in search of meaning and purpose in my work and life. I had lost both after 18 years in Manhattan and the chaos surrounding the hollow political debates permeating America’s media and politics. After […]
Test of Anthrax Vaccine in Children Gets Tentative OK
March 19th, 2013Oh sure. Via: Reuters: A presidential ethics panel has opened the door to testing an anthrax vaccine on children as young as infants, bringing an angry response from critics who say the children would be guinea pigs in a study that would never help them and might harm them. … Under a 2005 law, children […]
Infections With ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Are On The Rise In U.S. Hospitals
March 19th, 2013Almost as an afterthought, this sentence closes out the piece: And doctors have to use antibiotics more carefully to prevent more germs from developing into dangerous superbugs. So, in other news, The Insane Overuse of Antibiotics in Industrial Meat Production and FDA Won’t Regulate Use of Antibiotics in Healthy Livestock Intended for Human Consumption. And […]
Risks of MRI Dye Omniscan? ‘Burn the Data’
March 19th, 2013Via: ProPublica: In 1994, a scientist studying her company’s new medical imaging dye reached troubling findings. Her boss, she recalls, told her to “burn the data.” That alleged request surfaced this week in a groundbreaking trial over the dye, which is injected into patients to sharpen MRI scans and has been owned since 2004 by […]
This Is Anarcho-Herbalism
March 15th, 2013Via: Alchemy Works: A society of people who are responsible for their own health and able to gather or grow their own medicines is a hard society to rule. These days we are dependent on the power structure of industrial health care – the secret society of the doctors, the white-male-dominated medical schools, the corporate […]
Soylent: Man Wants to Avoid the Time Consuming and Expensive Practice of Eating Food, Develops a Sort of Pharmaceutical Grade Nutrient Slop Instead
March 14th, 2013I’m not suggesting that anyone do this, or not do it. I’m posting this mainly because it made me laugh. I had similar ideas (although not as well thought out and more poorly executed) when I was in my 20s and single. It might surprise you to see that I’m not steadfastly against something like […]
