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Health & Wellness News tagged with disease

H1N1 Vaccine Shortage Fabricated to Create Hysteria, Boost Demand?
Health & Wellness  (tags: flu, swine flu, H1N1, vaccine, tactics, ethics, interesting, health, drugs, disease )

Elena
- 21 hours ago - naturalnews.com
NaturalNews) There's a fascinating book by author Robert Cialdini called Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion.
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Food Industry Dictates Nutrition Policy
Health & Wellness  (tags: illness, health, Factory Farms, diet, disease, risks, safety )

Tierney
- 2 days ago - organicconsumers.org
New York (CNN) -- Beyond the unhealthy influence that our demand for factory-farmed meat has in the area of food-borne illness and communicable diseases, we could cite many other influences on public health, most obviously the now-widely recognized relat
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Health Ills Abound as Farm Animal Runoff Fouls Wells, Laws Neither Applied or Enforced
Health & Wellness  (tags: environment, safety, health, disease, risks, treatment, food )

Tierney
- 2 days ago - organicconsumers.org
MORRISON, Wis. - All it took was an early thaw for the drinking water here to become unsafe. There are 41,000 dairy cows in Brown County, which includes Morrison, and they produce more than 260 million gallons of manure each year, much of which is spr
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New Vaccine Offers Hope in Africa's Malaria Battle
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, malaria vaccine, medicine, humans, disease, death, prevention, protection, research, treatment )

Dee
- 4 days ago - abcnews.go.com
A mother watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube in her baby's head. Blood streamed into the anemic 4-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million African children every year.
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As Donors Focus on AIDS, Child Illnesses Languish
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, AIDS, children, disease, illness, death, prevention, protection, treatment )

Dee
- 4 days ago - nytimes.com
JOHANNESBURG- Diarrhea kills 1.5 million young children a year in developing countries - more than AIDS, malaria and measles combined -- but only 4 in 10 of those who need the oral rehydration solution that can prevent death for pennies get it.
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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
- 6 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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Outrunning Breast Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, cancer, breast cancer, disease, illness, prevention, protection, marathon, survivor )

Dee
- 6 days ago - capitalnews9.com
Training for any marathon takes some motivation. Training for one of the world's biggest, the New York City Marathon, takes a little extra. To help raise awareness and money for those dealing with the disease a local woman is once again lacing up..
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Side Effect of Plastic: Aggressive Kids
Health & Wellness  (tags: babies, children, diet, disease, family, food, government, health, humans, illness, nutrition, news, protection, research, society, warning )

Daphna
- 6 days ago - enn.com
Plastics containing Bisphenol-A have been linked to child misbehavior Yes we know, everything causes cancer, nothing is safe for our kids, a lot of paranoia, right? Sometimes these concerns are for real. A chemical of significant
4 comments
Ask EPA To Ban Carcinogenic Pesticide Methyl Iodide -Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, research, protection, humans, illness, health, government, environment, ethics, death, disease, risks )

Daphna
- 7 days ago - change.org
Under the Bush administration the EPA approved this carcinogenic new pesticide. However, a week ago, we heard promising news. The EPA has just indicated that it plans to re-consider methyl iodide, pending the results of California's independent Scientific
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Oh, Snap: City Attorney Demands Proof of Cocoa Krispies' Immunity-Boosting Claim
Health & Wellness  (tags: protection, humans, illness, nutrition, health, family, ethics, children, diet, disease, food )

Daphna
- 8 days ago - blogs.sfweekly.com
Kellogg's just can't get a break. First, one pissed-off cereal consumer realizes that Froot Loops cereal contains no actual fruit and decides to sue for false advertising. Now Kellogg's is dealing with more false advertising claims, this time from San Fra
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"Some Can't Go Home to Recover From Flu" --H1N1 Vaccinations in Canada
Health & Wellness  (tags: society, rights, healthcare, disease, care )

Janet
- 10 days ago - thechronicleherald.ca
The homeless, the downtrodden, the drug-addicted,& healthcare workers are the first to be vaccinated for H1N1 ['swine'] flu virus."If somebody who's homeless gets sick, where do they recover for 3 or 4 days if they don't end up in hospital?" Crowe asks .
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Study Suggests Insecticide Causes Lupus and Arthritis
Health & Wellness  (tags: disease, environment, family, health, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, prevention, safety, risks, warning )

Daphna
- 11 days ago - planetsave.com
New research out of Philadelphia suggests a link between women's exposure to household insecticides (including roach and mosquito killers) and the autoimmune disorders rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Previous research has shown a link of agricultural pest
1 comment
| A Taste for Bold Ideas -- Chewing Gum to Detect Malaria?
Health & Wellness  (tags: treatment, research, science, study, prevention, interesting, health, environment, illness, disease, children, AlternativeMed )

Daphna
- 15 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Add two new weapons to the potential arsenal against malaria -- chewing gum and chocolate. They are among dozens of unconventional approaches to global health problems that won backing today from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The found
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Mercury Poisoning Concealed
Health & Wellness  (tags: investigation, health, government, disease, family, safety, science, risks, society, research, humans, illness, interesting, news )

Elena
- 19 days ago - manitobawildlands.org
A Japanese publication about methyl mercury poisoning exposes former Canada Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau blocking publication of studies about mercury problem at Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario
6 comments
Take Action-American Cancer Society Cancer Network-Health Care Must Cost Less
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, cancer, disease, family, health, healthcare, humans, illness, medicine, protection, treatment, government )

Daphna
- 22 days ago - secure3.convio.net
This week the Senate Finance Committee passed a bill that capped health insurance premium at 13 percent of a person's annual income. It's a good step, but the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network believes that cap should be reduced to 10 percent
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