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Richmond Bans Genetically Modified Plants
Health & Wellness  (tags: GMOs, genetically modified, farmets, garden, great news, health, ethics, food, prevention, interesting, safety, risks, science, society, news, protection, humans )

Elena
- 9 hours ago - theprovince.com
RICHMOND, B.C. -- Richmond City Council says engineered crops and plants have no place the gardens of Metro Vancouver. Councillors have voted unanimously to ban further genetically modified species from Richmond soilalthough the ban is unenforceable ...
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TEPCO: 2-1/2 Times More Fukushima Radiation Released Than Previously Announced
Health & Wellness  (tags: environment, health, illness, investigation, medicine, nuclear, protection, research, science, treatment )

Kit
- 1 day ago - commondreams.org
The nuclear meltdowns at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant released at least 2-1/2 times more radiation than Japan's government had announced last year, the company responsible for the disaster said in a Tokyo news conference today.
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Panelists Give Two Cents on Medical Pot Legalization
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, medicine, research, investigation, humans, illness, health, Body-Mind-Spirit, cancer, disease, drugs, ethics, government, news, science, study, treatment )

John
- 1 day ago - athensnews.com
All agreed that marijuana could be beneficial as medicine, but some of the panelists stressed that additional research is needed before it is legalized for medicinal use.
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Doctors 'Rewire' Hands of Paralysed Man
Health & Wellness  (tags: science, Washington University's school of medici, new surgery, rewiring nerves, spinal cord injury, possible breakthrough, paralysis )

Judy
- 8 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Surgeons at Washington University's school of medicine said the operation may prove to be a breakthrough for some patients paralysed by spinal cord injuries.
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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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ASPARTAME: POISON IN DISGUISE. Ban Artificial Sweeteners From Children's Food Products. SIGN NOW!
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, lies, science, safety, risks, food, medicine, drinks, research, protection, prevention, interesting, health, healthcare, humans, illness, investigation, diet, disease, drugs, ethics, children, study, warning, nutrition, society, government, FDA )

Jim
- 26 days ago - forcechange.com
One would think that artificial sweeteners were originally developed as healthy alternatives to sugar. This is not true at all. Each artificial sweetener that is now on the market(saccharine, aspartame, cyclamate, acesulfame, and sucralose) was discovered
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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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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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PLEASE SIGN!! Urge President Obama to End the War on Drugs! *** TAKE ACTION***
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, cancer, death, diet, disease, drugs, environment, food, government, healthcare, humans, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, research, safety, science, society, study, treatment )

Kit
- 39 days ago - secure2.convio.net
For the first time, we have a real, coordinated international opportunity to end the failed war on drugs. Tell Obama to stand with Latin American leaders to end the drug war today! Please Sign!
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How Music Improves the Memory of Dementia Patients
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, treatment, music therapy, dementia patients, science, study, interesting, AlternativeMed )

Cal
- 40 days ago - theweek.com
Millions of elderly Americans suffer from Alzheimer's. And listening to tunes from their salad days could help them unearth old memories -- and make new ones
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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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Cord Blood Stem Cell Treatments (Infographic)
Health & Wellness  (tags: Health, Science, Infographic )

Joel
- 45 days ago - cordblood.com
For more than 20 years, cord blood stem cells have been used to treat life-threatening diseases. Today, the stem cells found in cord tissue also are showing the potential in laboratory studies to treat other serious conditions.
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Dear Media, Please Ask Obama to Explain His Escalating War on Medical Marijuana
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, Americans, cancer, death, disease, drugs, environment, government, healthcare, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, research, safety, science, society, treatment )

Kit
- 46 days ago - stopthedrugwar.org
Monday morning's DEA raid of Oaksterdam University is making major headlines, but there's one detail missing from the coverage: why the f#$k is Obama at War with Medical Marijuana in the first place? Seriously, why is any of this even happening at all?
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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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Protecting Psychologists Who Harm: The APA's Latest Wrong Turn
Health & Wellness  (tags: Abuse, Americans, Body-Mind-Spirit, drugs, government, humans, investigation, psychology, science, society, study, terrorist )

Kit
- 48 days ago - truth-out.org
Sadly, the same repackaging and renaming strategy of illusion and deception characterizes the APA's latest gambit to both protect and disguise the role of psychologists as purveyors of harm. But to fully understand this new ploy - a so-called "task force"
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