Archive for the 'Health' Category
“A Plan that Would Require Americans to Get Not One, Not Two, But Three Flu Shots” – “Trust the Scientists” – “Massive Public Education Campaign”
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Breathing Polluted Air May Wreak Havoc on Our DNA, Reprogramming Genes in as Few as Three Days
May 19th, 2009VIa: National Geographic: Breathing in polluted air may wreak havoc on our DNA, reprogramming genes in as few as three days and causing increased rates of cancer and other diseases. So says a new study that tracked DNA damage in 63 steel-foundry workers in Brescia, Italy, who, under their normal factory conditions, were exposed to […]
Hard to Stomach: The Ten Worst Meals in America
May 19th, 2009Via: Minyanville: Wrap it up in colorful paper like McDonald’s (MCD) and place it next to an adorable talking dog llike Taco Bell (YUM) and Americans will eat just about anything. But cheeseburgers and chalupas aside, some foods are so unappetizing they defy even the biggest appetites. And yet, they’re willfully consumed. Minyanville takes a […]
Did the Swine Flu Evolve in a Lab?
May 13th, 2009Via: Edmonton Sun: The World Health Organization and leading influenza research groups are investigating unpublished claims that the new H1N1 swine flu virus may have evolved in a laboratory, not in nature. The Geneva-based agency was informed of the pending publication over the weekend by the author, a retired Australian virologist named Adrian Gibbs. It […]
Hospitals Begin to Move Into Supermarkets
May 12th, 2009Via: New York Times: As walk-in clinics at stores like CVS and Wal-Mart offer convenient alternatives to doctors’ offices and hospital emergency rooms, some hospitals are fighting back — with walk-in clinics at some of those same retailers. Around the country, hospitals are now affiliated with more than 25 Wal-Mart clinics. The Cleveland Clinic has […]
Elsevier Published Six Fake Medical Journals
May 11th, 2009Via: Guardian: The relationship between big pharma and publishers is perilous. Any industry with global revenues of $600bn can afford to buy quite a lot of adverts, and pharmaceutical companies also buy glossy expensive “reprints” of the trials it feels flattered by. As we noted in this column two months ago, there is evidence that […]
U.S. May Add Shots for Swine Flu to Fall Vaccine Regimen
May 7th, 2009Via: Washington Post: The Obama administration is considering an unprecedented fall vaccination campaign that could entail giving Americans three flu shots — one to combat annual seasonal influenza and two targeted at the new swine flu virus spreading across the globe. If enacted, the multibillion-dollar effort would represent the first time that top federal health […]
Bank of England Carried Out Pandemic Flu Exercise in 2006, “With Eerie Prescience”
May 4th, 2009Via: Independent: With eerie prescience, the City tracked a pandemic using a ‘bird flu’ scenario in 2006 – leaving it better prepared for the effects of the swine flu outbreak. … UK financial regulators have rehearsed how a pandemic like the swine flu, now spreading from Mexico, will affect Britain. In the most detailed disaster […]
“It was nothing malicious, Oxford believes, just some flu vaccine research that broke out of containment.”
May 4th, 2009Via: NPR: The question, then, is how nasty the virus will end up being. Professor John Oxford at St. Bart’s and the Royal London Hospital says there’s some reason for cautious optimism. “In one sense, it’s one of the mildest shifts because most people on the planet have got some memory, have come across H1N1 […]
