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Archive for the Month of June, 2005.
Viewing Science / Health NEWS articles 1 through 26 of 26.
- Drug companies' marketing efforts may sometimes be more subtle than pens emblazoned with their product's name or full-page ads in leading medical journals. Some journal editors say they regularly receive submissions that appear to be written by the drugmakers' marketing machines, not the scientists whose names appear as authors.
- Americans guzzle 65 billion gallons of fuel a year and lately we have been paying a pretty penny at the pump. Now we introduce you to a new way to save on those gasoline dollars.
- Pesticides and other man-made chemicals may lower male fertility for at least four generations, according to new research.
- Public concern about the safety of high voltage power lines will be heightened today by a study showing children living within 200 metres of the overhead electricity cables have a 70 per cent increased risk of developing leukaemia.
- In addition to autism, Thimerosal has now been linked to a host of developmental disorders including Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and, ironically, the pharmaceutical industry is now making money hand over fist off drugs prescribed to treat children with these disorders. - A good case can be made that marijuana prohibition costs too much -- in money, but also in ruined lives and harm done to society.
- The federal government has the power to prevent sick patients from smoking home-grown marijuana that a doctor recommended to relieve their chronic pain, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a setback for the medical marijuana movement.
- An extensive research study confirms what advocates have been saying for over fifty years: children of gay and lesbian parents are doing just fine. - A cow has tested positive for mad cow disease in the United States, agriculture officials said, opening the door to possible changes in testing procedures in the US beef industry.
- Increasing numbers of young American children are showing signs of serious malnourishment, fueled by a greater prevalence of hunger in the United States, while, paradoxically, two-thirds of the US population is either overweight or obese.
- Despite calls for more transparency after revelations about the side effects of ibuprofen, the FDA has withheld 28 pages of information on a new wave of painkillers
- Forty stories tall, with twirling arms as long as several semis, at least 243 wind towers would be scattered over 50 square miles in what the wind industry says will be the most productive land-based wind farm on Earth. Farmers who toil to make $50,000 in a good year could rent their land to developers and add half that much--guaranteed--by watching the wind blow.
- ...the US must put in place a REAL "fire-wall feed ban" that would stop the current feeding of billions of pounds of blood, meat, bone meal, animal fat and poultry feces to cattle in the US. These on-going feed practices amplify and spread mad cow disease.
- A major study has found fresh evidence of a link between red and processed meat and bowel cancer, scientists say.
- We are on the verge of a welfare disaster in this country. Eighty percent of autistic children are under the age of 17. In a few short years, the states are going to be forced to provide support for an overwhelming number of disabled autistic adults. “The costs will be in the trillions.”
- Morning sickness might have evolved to ensure pregnant women do not digest too much unhealthy food, say scientists.
- A California consumer legal group is campaigning to require warning labels on potato chips, saying they contain a chemical known to cause cancer and state law requires the warnings.
- More than 1,200 military personnel who received the anthrax vaccine before going to Iraq have developed serious illnesses.
- The American Civil Liberties Union charged Tuesday that the Bush administration is placing science under siege by overzealously tightening restrictions on information, individuals and technology in the name of homeland security.
- National Institutes Of Health Officials Plan Trial On 100 Children
- Six million children could be saved each year if poor countries spent just $1.23 (68p) per head of their population on basic healthcare such as immunisations.
- Many farmers want to grow this 5000 year old long fiber plant that has been turned into thousands of products since being domesticated by the ancient Chinese. That is their heresy. The enforcer is the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Washington, DC, which has placed industrial hemp on its proscribed list next to marijuana.
- The delay in confirming the United States' second case of mad cow disease seems to underscore what critics of the agency have said for a long time: that there are serious and systemic problems in the way the Agriculture Department tests animals for mad cow - Swiss researchers have developed the world's most economical car that could circle the globe on only eight litres of fuel.
- The finding by the National Academy of Sciences panel is viewed as critical because it is likely to significantly influence what radiation levels government agencies will allow at abandoned nuclear power plants, nuclear weapons production facilities and elsewhere.
- A controversial chemical used by DuPont Co. to make the nonstick substance Teflon poses more of a cancer risk than indicated in a draft assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency, an independent review board has found
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