Livestock and poultry producers routinely feed antibiotics to animals to boost growth rates or counteract unhygienic living conditions. This creates antibiotic-resistant bacteria transmitted to humans through water, soil, animal contact, or food we eat.

Industrial-style livestock operations increases the use of antibiotics in animals. Thousands of animals are crammed into the unhygienic, crowded quarters of a typical factory operation, and antibiotics are dispensed constantly through the animals' feed.

Pneumonia is the #1 killer of children. Every 15 seconds a child dies from pneumonia. For the first time we have new vaccines to prevent these deaths and antibiotics to treat pneumonia - BUT THEY DO NOT REACH THE WORLD'S POOREST CHILDREN.

Cuts in Public Mental Health and Medicaid are putting lives at risk. The mentally ill are facing hard choices: go to the the ER when in crisis, go without care, risk suicide, become homeless, self-medicate, go to jail, become crime victims or worse.

A. Of 25 infectious diseases that have historically caused high mortality in human beings, many probably reached humans from domesticated animals. including diphtheria, influenza A, measles, mumps, pertussis, rotavirus, smallpox and tuberculosis.

There are reports coming our of Argentina of attempts to intimidate the lead researcher of the study showing that Roundup - the glyphosate herbicide developed by Monsanto, could cause brain, intestinal and heart defects in fetuses.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina announced Tuesday the suspension of flights from Mexico as a precaution against the spread of swine flu and called on tens of thousands of visitors from North America to contact the Health Ministry.

The IMSS is the largest social security institution in Latin America, it is a fundamental pillar of the individual and collective wellbeing of the Mexican society and a main redistributing element of Mexico's richness; it is, doubtlessly,

A Health Travel Guides medical travel patient testimonial - weight loss surgery patient

A Massachusetts man who received the nation's second face transplant asked for a mirror four days after the operation. "I just wanted to see what the new Jim looked like," James Maki said in an interview with The Boston Globe published Thursday,