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Health & Wellness News tagged with Drugs

The Cost of Dying - Watch 60 Minutes This Sunday - VIDEO
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, humans, medicine, disease, drugs, AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit )

Tierney
- 18 hours ago - cbsnews.com
(CBS) One of the biggest problems in health care is that many Americans are "dying badly," says Dr. Ira Byock. He says many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, relying on uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives
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Jail Nurse Charged for Obtaining Prescription Drugs Illegally
Health & Wellness  (tags: nurse, drugs, IllegalDrugMarketing, inmates )

Lone
- 1 day ago - localnews8.com
POCATELLO - A nurse hired to work at the Bannock County Jail has been charged for allegedly obtaining prescription drugs illegally, announced the Bannock County Sheriff's Office Thursday afternoon
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Keep Your Food Safe: Call Today!
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, food, drugs, safety, nutrition, humans, protection )

Tierney
- 7 days ago - secure3.convio.net
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that foodborne diseases, such as Salmonella and Campylobacter, are increasingly resistant to antibiotic treatments. Countless scientific studies have concluded that antibiotic resistance is re
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Maine Voters First to Licence Medical Marijuana
Health & Wellness  (tags: medicalmarijuana, cannabis, marijuana, medicalcannabis, maine, elections, voters, patientsrights, drugs, medicine )

BMutiny
- 13 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Maine voters overwhelmingly approve licencing Medical Marijuana; other States poised to vote on similar measures. Landslide victory for Cannabis advocates! Federal Law will no longer interfere in States' Medical Cannabis regulation.
15 comments
H1N1 Vaccine Shortage Fabricated to Create Hysteria, Boost Demand?
Health & Wellness  (tags: flu, swine flu, H1N1, vaccine, tactics, ethics, interesting, health, drugs, disease )

Elena
- 14 days ago - naturalnews.com
NaturalNews) There's a fascinating book by author Robert Cialdini called Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion.
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GLOWING CORAL PHOTO: Fluorescence Found to Aid Healing
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, health, drugs, Fluorescence )

Nancy
- 15 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Injured corals develop colorful glowing "scabs" to help themselves heal, a new study has found. (See pictures of animals made to glow for science.)
1 comment
Take Action-Tell the RBGH Profiteers Why You Buy Organic to Avoid Genetically Modified Bovine Growth Hormone
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, children, diet, drugs, family, food, government, health, humans, nutrition, prevention, risks )

Daphna
- 15 days ago - organicconsumers.org
Following up on our successful campaign against Yoplait and Dannon, the Organic Consumers Association is now asking our members to write to ice cream companies that still allow the use of genetically modified bovine growth hormone (Dreyer's, Edy's
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USA: Limit Use of Non-Therapeutic Antibiotics in Food Animals
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, illness, food, government, risks, health, diet, drugs )

Tierney
- 18 days ago - secure2.convio.net
The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA), H.R. 1549/S. 619 would phase out, within two years of enactment, the common practice of continually feeding antibiotics important in human medicine to non-sick food animals.
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Scientists Claim Junk Food Is as Addictive as Heroin
Health & Wellness  (tags: junk, food, heroin, addiction, drugs, obesity, health, healthcare, humans, research, warning, risks, illness, science, study, medicine, prevention, interesting, disease, diet, investigation, society, government, children, nutrition, family )

Tom
- 20 days ago - grist.org
Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds. "This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings."
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Chasing the Junk Food Dragon: How Junk Food Affects Brain Like Heroin
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, diet, drugs, family, food, health, humans, investigation, nutrition, prevention )

Daphna
- 20 days ago - treehugger.com
Before you or your child dig into that plastic jack-o-lantern (or its post-consumer equivalent) full of sugary snacks, you might do well to check out former FDA Commissioner David Kessler's new book The End of Overeating. The book highlights the addictive
3 comments
The Benefits of Honey: A Remedy for Sore Throats, Wound Care and More
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, children, diet, drugs, family, food, health, healthcare, humans, interesting, nutrition, prevention, protection, treatment )

Daphna
- 20 days ago - motherearthnews.com
Spring brings a picture-perfect day. You're enjoying yourself on a well-deserved vacation. Then you fall, a victim of loose gravel. Your leg is a mess. At the local hospital, you're given a cream to apply two times a day to keep infection at bay. Returnin
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Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act-Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, medicine, safety, risks, protection, study, food )

Tierney
- 30 days ago - actionnetwork.org
Most doctors commonly warn their patients never to take antibiotics if they are not actually sick. Yet that is exactly what is happening on industrial farms where food animals often are given low doses of antibiotics over long
10 comments
Tell the Health Dept: Contraception Is NOT Abortion! Take Action!
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, women, prevention, medicine, protection, drugs )

Tierney
- 32 days ago - healthcare.change.org
The Department of Health and Human Services is quietly trying to redefine "abortion" to include birth control. This would effectively end health insurance coverage for the pill and potentially block emergency contraception for victims of rape.
17 comments
The ABCs (and Ks) of Vitamin Deficiency
Health & Wellness  (tags: protection, medicine, nutrition, prevention, humans, health, food, drugs, environment, family, diet, children, babies, women )

Daphna
- 34 days ago - divinecaroline.com
In the sixth grade, we spent a large portion of health class talking about nutrition. We learned about the food pyramid, cholesterol, and the mechanics of the digestive system. We also spent an inordinate amount of time discussing nutrition-related diseas
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Poorer Nations Get Swine Flu Jabs
Health & Wellness  (tags: risks, warning, drugs, swine flu jabs )

Elderberr
- 38 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
About 100 developing nations will begin receiving donations of the vaccine against swine flu as early as November, the World Health Organization says.
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