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Detroit Mother Who Refused To Drug Her Child---Video   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, children, death, diet, drugs, environment, ethics, family, government, health, humans, interesting, investigation, nutrition, protection, risks, safety, science, society, study, treatment, warning )

Kenneth
- 9 days ago - youtube.com
Maryanne Godboldo is a Detroit Michigan mother who made international press when she faced down a tank and swat team, sent to her house after she refused to administer a powerful and potentially lethal psychiatric drug to her daughter.
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Tell Congress: Just Say No to Back-Room Deals With Drug Companies ACTION US
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, family, disease, big pharma, livestock, antibiotics, medicine )

Nancy
- 14 days ago - secure.nrdconline.org
Drug companies and factory farms are creating something more alarming than pills and livestock: they're pushing antibiotics on healthy animals, incubating dangerous, drug-resistant strains of bacteria that are spreading to humans.
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Report Offers a Bit of Good News for American Moms
Health & Wellness  (tags: babies, children, ethics, family, government, health, healthcare, humans, medicine, nutrition, prevention, protection, risks, society, study, women )

Rosemary
- 16 days ago - cnn.com
There is a little good news for mothers in the United States. The U.S. has moved up six places -- from 31st to 25th -- in the annual Save The Children State of the World's Mothers report. That puts the U.S. right between Belarus and the Czech Republic.
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U.S. Senate: We Don't Like Toxics! ACTION
Health & Wellness  (tags: toxins, TSCA, children, health, family, prevention, Safe Chemicals Act )

Nancy
- 23 days ago - action.momsrising.org
Here's what is happening right now: Our current chemicals legislation, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), has not been updated since 1976. Back then, we didn't know as much about how toxic chemicals can migrate from the materials and products in...
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Water Bill of Rights ACTION
Health & Wellness  (tags: family, health, water, water policies, prevention, environment )

Nancy
- 24 days ago - takepart.com
As depicted in Participant Media's documentary, Last Call at the Oasis, the United States faces a significant crisis in terms of water quality and quantity. Our aging infrastructure, overuse of chemical pollutants, and inefficient practices are wasting...
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Avery's Bucket List: Parents' Website For Infant With Spinal Muscular Atrophy Goes Viral
Health & Wellness  (tags: Avery's Bucket List, illness, baby, spinal muscular atrophy, family, support, video, viral, miracles needed )

BarbCat
- 25 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Avery Canahuati has never gone swimming or worn a Halloween costume, but she has received her first kiss. She is just 5 months old, and these three items have already been placed on her "bucket list," a heartbreaking catalogue of things to do before her
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Psychiatry and the DSM----Shredded
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, babies, children, diet, death, disease, government, drugs, environment, ethics, exercise, family, food, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, nutrition, news, prevention, protecti )

Kenneth
- 31 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
An article on the placebo effect of antidepressants and a multitude of quotes by psychiatrists and psychologists who rip to shreds the field of Psychiatry and its billing book, the DSM
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URGENT! Deny Dow's Petition to Approve 2,4-D Resistant Corn - ACTION!
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, family, food, government, health, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety )

Elizabeth
- 34 days ago - change.org
Please send comments before April 27 to USDA expressing your belief that the new Dow 2,4-D resistant corn should not be allowed on the market.
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A PETITION FOR A STRONG NATIONAL ALZHEIMER'S PLAN ACTION
Health & Wellness  (tags: study, treatment, Alzheimer's, US, family, health, research )

Nancy
- 34 days ago - alz.org
Alzheimer's is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States and the only one among the top 10 without a way to cure, prevent or even slow its progression.
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Frontline: The Child Cases
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, children, coroners, disease, death, family, healthcare, investigation, medicine, protection, research, science, society )

Kit
- 37 days ago - video.pbs.org
As a society we consider child murder the most heinous of crimes. This Frontline investigation focuses on the major mistakes in both the diagnoses of child murder, as well as the mistaken assumptions that are used to convict innocent people.
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Keep Hospitals McDonald's-Free ACTION
Health & Wellness  (tags: hospitals, McDonalds, junk food, prevention, family, diet )

Nancy
- 37 days ago - act.stopcorporateabuse.org
Hospitals are no place for the world's leading junk food brand. Yet, 22 hospitals across the country have a McDonald's store inside.
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Tell the USDA to Deny Approval of 2,4-D-Resistant GMO Crops. ACTION
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, family, agent orange, toxins, world, environment )

Nancy
- 38 days ago - sumofus.org
I am writing today to urge you not to approve Dow's genetically engineered corn (DAS-40278-9) out of concerns that it will dramatically increase the use of 2,4-D (Docket No. APHIS-2010-0103), a major component of the chemical Agent Orange, specifically,
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The Elkhorn Manifesto -- What Do Hemp and Hitler Have in Common?
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, cancer, death, disease, drugs, ethics, family, food, government, healthcare, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, research, science, study, treatment )

Kit
- 42 days ago - worldaudit.org
Today, thanks to the efforts of pioneer hemp researchers and public advocates such as Galbraith, Jack Fraizer, Jack Herer, Chris Conrad, Ed Rosenthal, Don Wirtshafter and others, the federal government's unjustifiable suppression of our state's right-->
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Why Is Marijuana Illegal?
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, cancer, children, disease, drugs, family, food, government, healthcare, medicine, prevention, research, safety, society, study, treatment )

Kit
- 42 days ago - drugwarrant.com
Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.
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Who Is the Biggest Drug Cartel in the World? Big Pharma
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, cancer, children, death, drugs, environment, family, food, government, healthcare, illness, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection, research, risks, science, society, study, treatment, warning )

Kit
- 46 days ago - blog.buzzflash.com
According to a March 9, 2012, New York Time article: High-strength painkillers known as opioids represent the most widely prescribed class of medications in the United States. And over the last decade, the number of prescriptions for the strongest-->
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