In just three years, the price of staple foods like wheat, corn and rice has almost doubled, and this week, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said that if left unchecked, global food shortages could set the world back seven years in the fight against
Sales of anti-inflammatory pharmaceuticals are a multi-billion dollar industry. Yet as we've learned with the Vioxx fiasco and all the tens of thousands of deaths surrounding that drug, anti-inflammatory medications can be extremely dangerous.
A judge has denied bail for a doctor and his wife who are accused of running an illegal pharmacy out of their medical practice, supplying drugs that led to the deaths of 56 people from accidental overdoses.
In a victory for antiabortion forces, doctors in South Dakota are now required to tell a woman seeking an abortion that the procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique living human being."
A controversial breast cancer treatment consisting of a combination of high-dose chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant does not extend the lives of patients, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Texas
Nearly a decade has passed since 46 states agreed to divide $206 billion from the nation's largest cigarette companies to cover health-care costs related to smoking.
We've seen a widespread trend to greenwash all kinds of junk food, such as chips, sugary cereals, breakfast bars, cookies, etc. But masking a junk food with labels that say "all-natural" or "organic" doesn't necessarily make them healthy.
Honey is a more effective cough remedy for children than many over-the-counter medications, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the Penn State College of Medicine
According to an article by Matthew Day published in The Telegraph, doctors recruited homeless people in Poland for a vaccine trial and paid them less than 5$ to be tested with what they were told was a flu vaccine which was actually a bird flu vaccine
, a recent study (reported on the ScienceDaily site) has found green tea improves the risk factors involved in heart disease (2). Drinking green tea improves the way cells in the lining of the circulatory system work.
We believe the world will be a better place when the Right To Water is acknowledged by all nations as a fundamental human right, and that this addition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights represents a major step toward the goal of water for all.
VIDEO:The Take -- is well worth watching, has turned his attention to the struggles around rice in Haiti. Here, in seventeen minutes, is one of the best treatments of the recent food riots in Haiti, and their long history.
