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Health & Wellness News tagged with Illness

Should Diabetes Consume Alcohol?
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, diabetes, diabetic, alcohol, diet, healthcare, illness, news )

FatJ
- 3 days ago - diabeticdietfordiabetes.com
Alcohol can make blood glucose too high or too low. Moderate amount of alcohol can cause blood sugar to rise but excess alcohol can actually decrease our blood sugar level even to an unsafe level.
28 comments
No More Toxic BPA in Our Food- Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, study, research, safety, nutrition, health, humans, family, diet, children, cancer, illness, prevention, warning )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - act.credoaction.com
Did you know that a chemical that has been implicated in everything from miscarriages to cancer to sexual dysfunction can be found in your groceries? Bisphenol-A -- BPA -- is contained in a broad range of food packaging including baby bottles, water bottle
3 comments
Medical Marijuana Usage From Ancient Egypt to Obama's Medical Marijuana Statements
Health & Wellness  (tags: illness, treatment, study, science, society, health, humans, disease, drugs, ethics, AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, cancer, research, healthcare, interesting, government )

Faith
- 4 days ago - examiner.com
First recorded use of marijuana for medical purposes was in ancient Egypt. It was used to treat inflammation of the eye and used for some ailments of the uterus. In India medical marijuana was used as far back as 800 B.C. for congestion
9 comments
Ask Your Senator to Support Real Change in the Food Safety Bill-Please Take Action!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: food, health, illness, risks, safety, protection )

Tierney
- 5 days ago - action.foodandwaterwatch.org
The recent food recalls illustrate some of the problems with our current food safety system. Many of these food safety outbreaks may have been prevented if the Food and Drug Administration had stronger food safety regulations in place. We've got a grea
7 comments
News Flash! Scientists Find That Cigarettes May Be Dangerous!
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, health, illness, cigarette smoking )

Katie
- 5 days ago - sustainablog.org
A team of American and French scientists have just documented the fact that there are a lot of bacteria in cigarettes and that the bacterial population includes some human pathogens. They don't actually know if this leads to human disease- after........
16 comments
Social Security Disability Claims Denied More Often in Delaware
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, illness, interesting, warning, humans )

JoAnna
- 6 days ago - delawareonline.com
Federal appeals reveal pattern of errors by Dover judges Some injured workers forced to wait years for benefits
35 comments
ACTION ALERT: Ban BPA In All Consumer Products!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: bpa, consumer product, health, sickness, studies, illness, risks )

Simone
- 6 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The artificial compound bisphenol A (BPA) is currently used by many major food brands as a lining metal cans. It is also found in baby formula containers and in other consumer productucts such as the plastic linings of metal water bottles. Studies have
9 comments
11 Toxic Cosmetic Ingredients You Must Avoid
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, disease, health, family, humans, illness, investigation, prevention, research, study, women )

Daphna
- 6 days ago - ecosalon.com
The greener we become, the more we have to scrutinize. I for one have cleaned up my home, my diet, my cleaning products and "" of utmost importance "" the products I put on my skin. I'm an avid ingredient reader and do the research "" after all, my skin i
4 comments
CDC: 4 People in NC Test Positive for Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu, First Such US Cluster
Health & Wellness  (tags: medicine resistant, H1N1 strain, illness, death, research )

Lone
- 8 days ago - chicagotribune.com
ATLANTA (AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday
6 comments
YouTube - Announcing the Winner of the Health Reform Video Challenge   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, babies, health, healthcare, illness, Health Reform Video Challenge, Health Reform )

Kelli
- 10 days ago - youtube.com
Help put the final ad on the air:After nearly 1,000 submissions, 20 amazing finalists, and more than 3 million views, Organizing for America supporters and a panel of experts have picked the winner of the OFA Health Reform Video Challenge.
2 comments
Vaccines on Horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, Herpes
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, vaccines, disease, illness, humans, medicine, prevention, protection, research, safety )

Dee
- 11 days ago - news.yahoo.com
MARIETTA, Pa. - Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.
12 comments
New Mammogram Advice Raises Questions, Concerns
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, cancer, breast cancer, mammograms, protection, prevention, disease, illness, death, safety, study, treatment, warning )

Dee
- 11 days ago - news.yahoo.com
NEW YORK - For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences. Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure out if they should even be getting one at all.
3 comments
Heart Patients Lacking Vitamin D More Likely to Be Depressed
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, illness, research )

Cal
- 11 days ago - cnn.com
People with heart disease and similar conditions who don't have enough vitamin D are more likely to be depressed than their counterparts with adequate levels of the "sunshine vitamin," according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American H
3 comments
Rx: Cranberries
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, family, food, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, nutrition, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - lime.com
Maybe we should add cranberries to the long list of things to be grateful for at Thanksgiving. Cranberries -- a staple food source with settlers and Native Americans in the northeast -- were valued for their thick skins, allowing them to surv
2 comments
Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic! - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: Petition, warning, protection, risks, humans, illness, health, food, government, environment, children, family, diet, ethics )

Daphna
- 13 days ago - change.org
Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic! To tell the USDA that you want the National Organic Standards Board to take a strong stand against the use of nanotechnology in organic food.
6 comments
 
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