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| Taking a Closer Look at the Stories Ignored by the Corporate Media |
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Archive for the Month of November, 2005.
Viewing Science / Health NEWS articles 1 through 17 of 17.
- "The first thing to know is that it's a huge leap for a bird virus to become a human virus that spreads efficiently in people," said Dr. David Butler-Jones, appearing on CTV's Canada AM.
- While some consider the idea farfetched, some military tacticians have already pondered ways to turn weather into a weapon. - Ten superfoods to beat cancer
- Patients in the United States reported higher rates of medical errors and more disorganized doctor visits and out-of-pocket costs than people in Canada, Britain and three other developed countries...
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is censoring health information. The pharmaceutical companies are the winners. You and your family are the losers. - About half of all cancer cases are fatal, and death by cancer is often prolonged, painful, and very expensive. Those who manage to survive cancer live out their lives molded by the after-effects of harsh treatments popularly known as "slash and burn" -- surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or some combination of the three.
- · Scientist says device disproves quantum theory · Opponents claim idea is result of wrong maths
- About 10 vials of virus were created, each containing about 10 million infectious virus particles.
- The drug in Japan carries a note listing impaired consciousness, abnormal behaviors, hallucination and other psychological and neurological symptoms as possible serious side effects.
- When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us—and force us to vaccinate and medicate our children in the name "health" and "policy" and for “the greater good” we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies, and, apparently, our children.
- Under little-noted rulings over the last three years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has allowed meat processors to use small amounts of carbon monoxide to maintain the red color in fresh meat sold in pre-assembled or "case-ready" packages. - U.S. regulators are studying the deaths of 12 children in Japan who took Roche AG's flu-fighting drug Tamiflu...
- Top federal drug officials decided to reject an application to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill months before a government scientific review of the application was completed...
- Consider the centerpiece of the Thanksgiving feast, the hybrid turkey raised in a factory farm in conditions of pain and squalor on a diet of chemical-infused feed. Close confinement requires the use of a long list of antibiotics to control such diseases as rhinotracheitis and colibacillosis. And let's not talk about what the bird picks up during processing. One of the last stages at the slaughterhouse is a dip in chlorine to wash off pathogens.
- Rodent Trials Show Biotech is Squeaky Unclean
- As human beings, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves. As part of modern living, we create a wide variety of chemical toxins that go into the ecosystem through rivers and streams, the air, the soil and so on. Not only that, we actually synthesize toxic chemicals and then inject them directly into the food supply -- knowing full well that they are poisonous and are major contributors to the epidemic rates of chronic disease we are experiencing today.
- Can Prozac make you want to die? The idea seems strange, given that the drug and similar antidepressants are supposed to do just the opposite.
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