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ACTION ALERT: Tell General Electric: Pennsylvania Deserves Clean Air! PLEASE SIGN !
Health & Wellness  (tags: general electric, asthma attacks, health, illness, pollution, legalisation, prevention )

Simone
- 173 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The outdated and inefficient Homer City coal plant in Indiana County is one of the largest polluters of harmful sulfur dioxide in the United States -- responsible for 660 asthma attacks and 43 premature deaths every year.
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Radiation From Cell Phones and WiFi Are Making People Sick -- Are We All at Risk?
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, environment, illness, safety, society, warning, ethics )

Letitia
- 174 days ago - alternet.org
We are now exposed to electromagnetic radio frequencies 24 hours a day. Welcome to the largest human experiment ever.
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Hot-Spotting: It's How, Not How Much
Health & Wellness  (tags: americans, children, disease, dollars saved, drugs, healthcare, illness, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection, safety, society )

Kit
- 178 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Let's take a health care example. Imagine if you could identify a small number of patients who end up eating up most health care dollars. Let's say you could focus resources just on them, improve their health outcomes, while also cutting the overall-->
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Asthma for Profit?
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, children, drugs, ethics, family, government, healthcare, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, news, prevention, research, risks, safety, treatment, warning )

Sheldon
- 179 days ago - care2.com
... "My son was admitted into the care of Lehigh of Lehigh Valley Hospital on 11/1/11 for a severe asthma attack and was set to be release on 11/8/11 because he had a really good recovery. On November 7th, the night before his release I disagreed" ...
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So What Does It Mean That Studies Reveal That Moderate Drinkers Are Healthier Than Teetotalers ?
Health & Wellness  (tags: prevention, illness, healthcare, health, alcohol consumption, warning, risks, study, protection, research, Body-Mind-Spirit, diet, disease, food, interesting, humans )

Cal
- 179 days ago - alternet.org
We all know that drinking too much can be bad for us; but did you know that drinking too little could be hazardous?
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Nuke Accident-Linked Cancer May Be Impossible To Detect
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, illness, risks, study, cancer, Fukushima, radiation, exposure to radiation, experts, divided, nuclear power plant, accident, fear, small dose )

Naoko
- 180 days ago - japantimes.co.jp
Experts remain divided over health risks from small doses of radiation.
8 comments
ACTION ALERT: Stop Over-Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs for Foster Children! PLEASE SIGN !
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, wellness, psychotropic drugs, dangerous, laws, children, protection, prevention, illness )

Simone
- 185 days ago - forcechange.com
Recent studies show a disturbing over-prescription of antipsychotic drugs for children in foster care. Foster children often receive more than one prescription of powerful psychotropic drugs like Seroquel and Zyprexa, drugs used to treat severe bipolar
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America Conned: Psycho Pharma Drug Pushing Empire Under Fire
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, babies, Body-Mind-Spirit, children, death, drugs, ethics, government, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, news, nutrition, prevention, research, risks, study, treatment, warning )

Kenneth
- 187 days ago - naturalnews.com
Is America truly stricken with widespread mental illness? Do tens of millions need mind-altering drugs? A flurry of media articles lead readers to a realization that Big Pharma and the "mental health" industry have deceived Americans on a grand scale .
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F.D.A. Revokes Approval of Avastin as Breast Cancer Drug
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, disease, drugs, FDA, healthcare, illness, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, society, study, treatment, warning )

Kit
- 188 days ago - nytimes.com
Fascinating look at the background intricacies of workings of the FDA and final decisions. The commissioner, Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, said that the drug was not helping breast cancer patients to live longer or control their tumors, but did expose-->
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Hotel Soap Fighting Disease Abroad
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, humans, world, society, protection, prevention, illness, children, Body-Mind-Spirit, safety, news )

Cal
- 189 days ago - cnn.com
Derreck Kayongo's Global Soap Project collects used hotel soap bars, reprocessing it to save lives in impoverished countries.
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Eat Your Greens, or Your Gut Gets It
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, diet, research, news, food, illness, healthcare, humans, study, prevention, nutrition, Body-Mind-Spirit )

Cal
- 190 days ago - motherjones.com
While Big Food rams its Tater Tots and frozen pizza school lunch agenda through Congress, we're learning more about the effects of diets high in starchy foods and low in green vegetables. And it's not pretty.
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Tear Drops May Rival Blood Drops in Testing Blood Sugar for Diabetes
Health & Wellness  (tags: diabetes, blood, tears, AlternativeMed, children, disease, ethics, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, news, protection, research, safety, science, study )

Lindsey
- 191 days ago - happynews.com
Scientists are reporting development and successful laboratory testing of an electrochemical sensor device that has the potential to measure blood sugar levels from tears instead of blood -- an advance that could save the world's 350 million diabetes patie
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HEALTHCARE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: Lack of Soap Means Illness, Death for Millions of Children
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, children, children, healthcare, world, health, study, prevention, protection, illness, disease, humans, Body-Mind-Spirit, death, safety, science )

Cal
- 192 days ago - cnn.com
Across the globe, 2.4 billion people do not have access to clean sanitation, according to the World Health Organization. An estimated 1.5 million children die every year because their immune systems are not mature enough to battle diarrheal and respirator
22 comments
ACTION ALERT: Tell Campbell's to Say No to BPA! PLEASE SIGN !
Health & Wellness  (tags: campbell, BPA, dangerous, chemicals, children, health, illness, legalisation, food, family )

Simone
- 196 days ago - forcechange.com
To urge Campbell's to stop using BPA in the manufacture of food cans as trace amounts of these chemicals have been proven to leech into the food and may be harmful to children.
62 comments
ACTION ALERT: Put An End To the Use Of Neurotoxic Pesticides! PLEASE SIGN !
Health & Wellness  (tags: pesticides, environment, health, healthcare, children, illness, warning, study, prevention )

Simone
- 199 days ago - forcechange.com
As of 2007, over 33 million pounds of organophosphate pesticides were used in the United States, with 3.5 million pounds alone used annually in California. Organophosphates are not only the most commonly used pesticides and replacements for DDT,
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