Archive for the 'Health' Category
Bird Flu Researchers to Continue Work on Engineered Virus
January 25th, 2013Via: Guardian: Research on lab-engineered strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus is set to restart a year after the scientists voluntarily paused it to allow for an international public debate on the safest way to proceed. Last year, two teams of scientists in the United States and the Netherlands submitted papers for publication in […]
Most Probiotic Supplements Contain Genetically Modified Additives
January 25th, 2013Via: Natural News: A Natural News investigation into the probiotics industry has turned up alarming information about how probiotics are formulated and labeled. We’ve found that nearly all probiotics available in the U.S. market today are secretly formulated with genetically modified ingredients that are intentionally not listed on the label. The most common such ingredient […]
Britain: Antibiotic-Resistant Diseases Pose ‘Apocalyptic’ Threat
January 24th, 2013Via: Guardian: Britain’s most senior medical adviser has warned MPs that the rise in drug-resistant diseases could trigger a national emergency comparable to a catastrophic terrorist attack, pandemic flu or major coastal flooding. Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said the threat from infections that are resistant to frontline antibiotics was so serious that […]
Around 800 European Children Have Developed Narcolepsy After Being Immunized with the Pandemrix H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine
January 23rd, 2013When I posted about this story back in October 2011, there were 79 victims in Finland. And now… Via: Reuters: Emelie Olsson is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she’s often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day she can barely stay awake, and often misses school […]
Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
January 22nd, 2013Via: Independent Science News: In the course of analysis to identify potential allergens in GMO crops, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has belatedly discovered that the most common genetic regulatory sequence in commercial GMOs also encodes a significant fragment of a viral gene (Podevin and du Jardin 2012). This finding has serious ramifications for […]
Hearing Loss Partially Reversed in Noise-Damaged Ears of Mice
January 18th, 2013Via: Los Angeles Times: Anyone who’s gone to too many rock concerts or worked with loud machinery for too long (or listened to too many kazillion-decibel advertisements at a movie theater) may eventually pay the price: hearing loss caused by damage to tiny, sound-transmitting cells in the inner ear. Researchers now report they can regenerate […]
Fast Food Linked to Childhood Asthma
January 14th, 2013Via: AFP: Children who frequently eat fast food are far likelier to have severe asthma compared to counterparts who tuck into fruit, a large international study published on Monday said. Researchers asked nearly half a million teenagers aged 13-14 and children aged six and seven about their eating habits and whether in the previous year […]
The Placebo Phenomenon: An Ingenious Researcher Finds the Real Ingredients of ‘Fake’ Medicine
January 11th, 2013Via: Harvard Magazine: Two weeks into Ted Kaptchuk’s first randomized clinical drug trial, nearly a third of his 270 subjects complained of awful side effects. All the patients had joined the study hoping to alleviate severe arm pain: carpal tunnel, tendinitis, chronic pain in the elbow, shoulder, wrist. In one part of the study, half […]
Diet Soda Linked to Depression in NIH Study
January 10th, 2013Via: U.S. News: Millions of people reach for an afternoon diet soda as a pick-me-up to make it through the rest of the day. But new research suggests sodas and other sugary drinks — especially artificially sweetened ones — could be related to depression. According to the research, which will be officially released at the […]
Secret Government Documents Reveal Vaccines to be a Total Hoax
January 9th, 2013Via: Natural News: Through several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Dr. Tomljenovic was able to obtain transcripts of private meetings that were held between the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), a so-called “independent expert advisory committee” that makes recommendations to the government about vaccine policy, and various British health ministers over the […]
