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Sign Up: USDA June 29th Deadline to Halt GE, Drug and Industrial Chemicals in Food Crops
Offbeat  (tags: GMOs, GE food, GE crops, Obama, USDA, pollution, politics, science, environment, Sustainabililty, organic, eco-friendly, healthy, food, family, protection, interesting, society, abuse, nutrition, prevention, risks, cancer, NewTechnology, medicine )

Abc
- 182 days ago - examiner.com
Many social welfare, health and environmental organizations are asking Americans to sign up before June 29 to halt the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) proposed rule which will significantly weaken the regulation of Genetically Engineered
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Mystery Condition Leaves Hedgehog With No Spines
Offbeat  (tags: animals, hedgehog, treatment, illness, unusual, odd, hospital, medicine )

Tom
- 267 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
An animal hospital is appealing for help to fix a hedgehog with no spines. Experts are baffled by his condition, which has caused his skin to dry and his spines to fall out. Practitioners of alternative medicine are asked to suggest possible remedies.
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Medical Pot Smokers Can Light Up at Festival
Offbeat  (tags: AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, health, interesting, medicine, news, prevention, research, society, americans, GoodNews, health, rights )

Summer
- 440 days ago - foxnews.com
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Medical pot users got a high-five from the Santa Cruz City Council. The city's smoking ban is being lifted temporarily so medical pot patients can light up at a weekend marijuana festival.
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Can We Really Transplant a Human Soul?
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, interesting, technology, medicine, soul, supernatural, world, society )

Maria
- 603 days ago - newsmonster.co.uk
The suggestion, highlighted again this week, that donor patients could not only be acquiring the organs but also the memories - or even the soul - of the donor is surely one such story.
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Beware of Lemons Slices in Your Drinks When Dining Out!
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Susan
- 639 days ago - articles.mercola.com
Two out of every three restaurant lemon wedges in a study were covered in disease-causing bacteria -- incl. fecal bacteria. A tot. of 25 dif,potentially dangerous, microorganisms were discovered.FYI, used to be a cert. restaur.inspector,but 2/3 ratio...!
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Spanking Kids Increases Risk of Sexual Problems as Adults.
Offbeat  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, child, children, culture, ethics, education, government, health, humans, interesting, politics, society, safety, sadness, rights, violence, Body-Mind-Spirit, children, family, health, illness, investigation, medicine, preventi )

Susan
- 645 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Children who are spanked or victims of other corporal punishment are more likely to have sexual problems as a teen or adult, according to new research presented today.
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Chronic Pain Harms The Brain
Offbeat  (tags: AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, disease, illness, humans, healthcare, health, medicine, research, science, treatment, discovery, interesting, health, science, off-beat )

Susan
- 671 days ago - sciencedaily.com
People with unrelenting pain are often depressed, anxious and have difficulty making simple decisions. Here's the reason why.
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Blue-Eyed Humans Have A Single, Common Ancestor
Offbeat  (tags: culture, family, interesting, humans, society, world, babies, health, humans, medicine, research, study, discovery, GeneticEngineering, medicine, science, scientists, humans, news, unusual )

Susan
- 676 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Jan. 31, 2008) -- New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor!
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Cigarette Toxins Disable Gene Which Slows Aging
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Susan
- 679 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Toxins in cigarette smoke wipe out a gene that plays a vital role in protecting the body from the effects of premature aging. Rahman has spent years studying how the 4,700 toxic chemical compounds in cigarettes assault lung tissue.
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Marijuana Vending Machines
Offbeat  (tags: drugs, health, interesting, treatment, medicine, humans, humor, odd, organic, off-beat )

Suzybell
- 682 days ago - cnn.com
A herbal nutrition center will allow patients to get prescription marijuana from a vending machine. Affiliate KCAL reports.
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What Happens to Your Body W/in a Hr. After You Drink "the Real Thing"
Offbeat  (tags: Body-Mind-Spirit, brain, diet, disease, drugs, health, heart, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, nutrition, protection, risks, safety, warning, safety, culture )

Susan
- 689 days ago - organicconsumers.org
Within the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. This is 100 percent of your recommended daily intake, and the only reason you don't vomit as a result of the overwhelming sweetness is because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor.
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Vaccines, Chronic Disease, Autism and Biological Warfare.
Offbeat  (tags: vaccinations, vaccines, measles, complications, doctors, diseasealert, children, babies, death, disease, family, health, healthcare, illness, medicine, protection, risk, risks, safety, toxins, cancer )

Alf
- 809 days ago - healthwisdom.org
Its all here, indisputable truth that vaccination is a fraud, is dangerous, is causing a host of health problems and deaths and is only promoted because it is the pharmaceuticals biggest money spinner.
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Human-Animal Embryo Research Approved!!!!!!!!!
Offbeat  (tags: medicine, unusual )

Lex
- 822 days ago - unexplained-mysteries.com
British regulators decided on Wednesday to permit in principle the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research into illnesses such as Parkinson's, Motor Neurone Disease and Alzheimer's.
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