Archive for the 'Health' Category
10,000 Cattle Dead In Vietnam: Cows, Buffalo Part Of Mass Die-Off
January 22nd, 2011Via: Huffington Post: In the latest of a string of mass animal deaths, 10,000 cows and buffalo have died in Vietnam. Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development confirmed the news this week that more than 10,000 cows and buffalos died nationwide due to harsh weather conditions. Cattle have been dying throughout Vietnam, which has […]
Antibiotics May Be Responsible for Increase in Asthma in Children
January 21st, 2011Via: Boston Globe: One of the great public health mysteries is why asthma has become more common among children, even as air pollution has decreased and fewer parents are smoking. One possibility is that antibiotics have kept infants’ immune systems from developing properly, making them vulnerable to asthma and allergies later on. The Yale study, […]
Atrocities at Philadelphia Abortion Clinic
January 21st, 2011My guess is that there has been some level of official complicity in the operation of this slaughterhouse for decades; the article alludes to this. Multiple coverups must have occurred to have kept this psychopath out of the regulatory spotlight for so long. Via: MSNBC: A doctor whose abortion clinic was a filthy, foul-smelling “house […]
Mom Accused of Playing Game on Facebook While Baby Drowned
January 19th, 2011Via: Reuters: A Colorado mother who told police her 13-month-old son drowned in the bathtub while she was playing a game on Facebook was charged on Friday with child abuse resulting in death. Shannon Johnson, 34, was advised of the charge against her via a video hookup from the jail where she is being held […]
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
January 16th, 2011Please click through and read the whole thing. Via: The Atlantic: Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science. […]
Mitre/JASONs Advise Pentagon to Collect DNA and Complete Human Genome Sequences for All Military Personnel
January 14th, 201123andme.mil? Don’t laugh. Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe, was one of the briefers on this. As you may or may not know, Wojcicki is married to Google’s Sergey Brin. I don’t know what’s more terrifying to consider: What the military is going to do with this, or what Google is going to do with this. […]
Germany: 4,700 Farms Closed Due to Dioxin Contamination of Animal Feed
January 7th, 2011Via: BBC: German officials are investigating possible “illegal activity” after a company allegedly supplied 25 animal feed makers with 3,000 tonnes of contaminated fatty acids. Tests from the Harles und Jentzsch plant in Schleswig Holstein found excessive levels of the poisonous chemical dioxin, officials said. Some 4,700 German farms have been shut. Officials say the […]
Czech Doctors Go for Broke
January 7th, 2011Via: BBC: Dozens of Czech hospitals could find themselves struggling to provide basic care on 1 March after almost 4,000 doctors – one quarter of the total number working in the country’s hospitals – tendered their resignations in protest at low wages. The resignations are being co-ordinated by the doctors’ union (Lok), which says successive […]
Joe Bageant Is Very Ill; Inoperable Cancer
January 5th, 2011Via: Joe Bageant: A note from Joe Dear friends, associates and fellow travelers, As you may or may not know, I have been struck down by an extremely serious form of cancer. Presently I am back in the United States receiving treatment through the U.S. Veterans Administration hospital system. Due to the nature of the […]
How America Turned Into a Nation of Speedfreaks and Ritalin Patients
January 3rd, 2011Via: Alternet: In the fullness of history, all the different varieties of speed may have been products of the twentieth century, even though they are still around nearly a decade into the twenty-first, and show no sign of waning. Speed is too much of a reflection of its time. The twentieth century was an era […]
