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Rachel's Democracy & Health News #847
"Environment, health, jobs and justice--Who gets to decide?"
Thursday, March 23, 2006.
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Ten Tenets: The Law of the Commons of the Natural World
Read moreWASHINGTON - Bird flu likely would be detected in the United States this year, federal officials warned Monday as a top UN official said efforts to fight a pandemic in Africa were hamstrung by a lack of money.
Migratory birds are increasingly likely to bring ashore avian influenza to the United States and would be subject to increased monitoring under government plans to reduce the risks of a viral wildfire, Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt told journalists.
Nigeria, February 11,
Read moreA February 2006 issue of Prevention magazine features a young, fit, happy looking couple on its cover, surrounded by headlines like, "How to be (and stay) happy" and "18 best foods to fight disease." Taken at face value, the approximately 4.5 by 6.5-inch, full color booklet appears to be a publication dedicated to exactly what its title implies: "Preventing" disease and health problems. It's when you crack open the cover that the magazine begins to contradict itself.
Sure, there is some valuable content on the 216 pages that follow -- such as an article on using peppermint as a
Read moreReviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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READING, England, March 1 - Underarm antiperspirants may contribute to the risk of breast cancer because they contain aluminum salts with metal ions that mimic the effect of estrogen.
Until recently, it was thought that such estrogen-mimicking substances were uniformly organic -- either phenolic or carbon ring structures -- but evidence is mounting that some metals can also binding to estrogen receptors, said
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Dear Members & Friends of the Organic Food Network,
So far in this series, we have looked at what to eat and what not to eat to strengthen our immune systems and "be healthy." The e-mail preceding the start of this series offered different perspectives on the bird flu issue and gave us some background to understand the possibilities should the bird flu virus mutate and spread to humans. Remember that this is all speculation at this point and that my position is that we can all use this opportunity to improve our health habits and
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"Environment, health, jobs and justice--Who gets to decide?"
Thursday, March 16, 2006
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Getting Beyond Risk Assessment
Most environment-and-health decisions are now made using numerical
risk assessment. But this
LA JOLLA, California, March 17, 2006 (ENS) - A team of researchers from three institutions have described a possible pathway for a virulent strain of the avian flu virus H5N1 "to gain a foothold in the human population" that they say would require only "minor" mutations in the virus.
The H5N1 avian influenza virus, commonly known as bird flu, is a highly contagious and deadly disease in poultry. So far, its spread to humans has been limited, with 177 documented severe infections, and nearly 100 deaths in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand,
Read morePRESS RELEASE:
Leading doctor and ANH Medical Director, Dr. Damien Dowling, rebuts Professor Ernst on claims that natural products are worthless for protection against bird flu
For immediate release
Leading doctor rebuts Professor Ernst on avian influenza claims that natural products worthless Dr Damien Downing, President of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, Medical Director of the Alliance for Natural Health,
Read moreCHICAGO (Reuters) - Optimism is good for the heart, a study said on Monday. The most optimistic among a group of 545 Dutch men age 64 to 84 had a roughly 50 percent lower risk of cardiovascular death over 15 years of follow-up, according to the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Previous research has suggested being optimistic boosts overall physical health and lowers the risk of death from all causes. A positive attitude also has been shown to help patients who suffer from heart disease caused by narrowed arteries.
The new study measured participants'
Read moreThe Journal of the American Medical Association is rocking the boat in conventional medicine. An article in JAMA has come up with the suggestion -- aghast! -- that doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies. Most people didn't know that doctors routinely accept bribes (including hundreds of thousands of dollars in "contractor's fees" for signing patients up for drug trials), so this news may come as a bit of a shock to some.
Big Pharma spends nearly $19 billion a year bribing and influencing physicians, by the way. That's billion with a "B." How much money is $19
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