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04/26/10 - Demodex mites in acne rosacea - The hair follicle mites Demodex folliculorum and Demodex brevis and their role in the pathogenesis of rosacea have been the subject of much debate in the past.
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04/23/10 - Deadly airborne fungus in Oregon set to spread - The new, rare strain has killed 1 in 4 infected, researchers say
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03/31/10 - Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ?Synthetic Organisms,? Molecular Kill-Switch Included --
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10/26/09 - Mobile phones cause brain cancer, says World Health Organisation World Health Organisation, WHO Author: Karl Flinders Posted: 08:11 26 Oct 2009 AddThis The World Health Organisation (WHO) has found links between the use of mobile phones and the development of brain cancer. The WHO has carried out a 10-year study that has evidence that heavy mobile users have a higher risk of developing brain tumours later in life, reports the Daily Telegraph. The results of the ?20m study are expected to be published. Elisabeth Cardis, who heads the report team, said, "In the absence of definitive results and in the light of a number of studies which, though limited, suggest a possible effect of radio frequency radiation, precautions are important."
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10/26/09 - Radical Environmentalism: Justifying a Chinese Style Population Control Tyranny Sunday, October 25, 2009, 11:01 PM Wesley J. Smith The one child policy in China has led to forced abortion, female infanticide, eugenics, awful heartbreak, and countless other oppressions. But in the world of radical environmentalism, that may be unfortunate?but it is also, apparently, justifiable. How else interpret this statement in the Observer by Alex Renton, which deals with the supposed need to control population to save the planet from carbon dioxide.
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10/25/09 - MOBILE USE IS LINKED TO BRAIN TUMOURS Story Image Heavy mobile use is linked to brain tumours Saturday October 24,2009 By Daily Express reporter Comment Speech Bubble Have your say(32) LONG-term mobile phone users could face a higher risk of developing cancer in later life, according to a decade-long study. The report, to be published later this year, has reportedly found that heavy mobile use is linked to brain tumours.
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09/30/09 - Reversing Systemic Origins of the Pseudo Earth - Dr Mike Castle PhD Polymer Chemist and World Geoengineering Expert
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07/29/09 - Stop Poisoning Your Body With 'Food' Ten Most Common Food Additives (Toxic, Deadly) -- Want to look better and feel better? What if you could avoid just 10 food ingredients and make a huge improvement in your health. Paula Owens (PaulaOwens.com) the author of "The Power Of 4" says avoiding these 10 things will change your body dramatically. Owens has a master's degree in holistic nutrition and a bachelors degree in kinesiology.
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07/29/09 - Prepandrix; Pandemrix - influenza virus H5N1, inactivated, vaccine, with AS03 adjuvant; bird flu vaccine; avian influenza vaccine; pandemic influenza vaccine -- Description: Prepandrix "prepandemic vaccine" is a conventional egg-cultured inactivated influenza virus H5N1 (A/VietNam/1194/2005 NIBRG-14) clade 2 inactivated split-antigen vaccine. Sodium deoxycholate and formaldehyde are used for virus inactivation. The H5N1 clade 2 bulk material is being manufactured from a laboratory version seed virus of the wild-type virus provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The reference virus, A/Vietnam/1194/2004 (H5N1) NIBRG-14, was developed using reverse genetics, with reassortment strain combining the H5 and N1 segments to with an influenza virus PR8 strain backbone. In addition the H5 was engineered to eliminate the ... truncated (just the beginning)
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07/13/09 - The Bottled-Water Ban of Bundanoon -- By dan.mitchell - The Big Money -- Here in America, we're struggling to decide whether companies that sell bottled water should divulge what the water might contain. The residents of Budanoon, a small town in Australia, have taken a more radical approach by voting to ban the stuff altogether.
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07/13/09 - Fewer Regulations for Bottled Water Than Tap, GAO Says -- By SARA GOODMAN -- Bottled water manufacturers are not required to disclose as much information as municipal water utilities because of gaps in federal oversight authority, according to reports released yesterday by government auditors.
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06/18/09 - Health Buzz: Asbestos Health Emergency and Other Health News -- EPA Declares Public Health Emergency A fter Montana Mine Poisons Locals -- The Environmental Protection Agency declared its first ever public health emergency yesterday in a Montana community where residents were poisoned by asbestos from a nearby mine, the Associated Press reports. At least $125 million over the next five years will go toward cleaning up the town of Libby, where local miners wearing contaminated clothes and shoes unknowingly tracked asbestos from the mine into their homes. Another $6 million of federal grant money will go toward medical care for an estimated 500 people with asbestos-related illnesses. Those include residents of another town, Troy, Mont., who've also developed illnesses like lung cancer and asbestosis, the Washington Post reports. More than 200 people have died from asbestos poisoning linked to the mine, which is now closed, according to AP.
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06/18/09 - Team homes in on genetic causes of neuroblastoma -- By Julie Steenhuysen -- CHICAGO (Reuters) - A missing stretch of DNA on a chromosome involved in nervous system development may help explain why some children are predisposed to a deadly type of tumor called neuroblastoma, researchers reported on Wednesday. The study is the first to show that repeats or deletions of a genetic sequence, as opposed to "spelling mistakes" in the four-letter genetic code -- influence cancer risk, said Dr. John Maris of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, whose study appears in the journal Nature.
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06/18/09 - Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam -- by Prof. Marjorie Cohn -- From 1961 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange, which contained large quantities of Dioxin, in order to defoliate the trees for military objectives. Dioxin is one of the most dangerous chemicals known to man. It has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a carcinogen (causes cancer) and by the American Academy of Medicine as a teratogen (causes birth defects). Between 2.5 and 4.8 million people were exposed to Agent Orange. 1.4 billion hectares of land and forest - approximately 12 percent of the land area of Vietnam - were sprayed.
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06/16/09 - 2008 confirmed rise in weather disasters-Red Cross -- By Patrick Worsnip -- UNITED NATIONS, June 16 (Reuters) - A global trend towards increasing weather-related disasters was confirmed in 2008, the second deadliest year in the past decade for natural catastrophes, an annual Red Cross report said on Tuesday. The number of people reported killed by natural disasters last year -- a total of 235,736 -- was surpassed only in 2004, the year of the Indian Ocean tsunami, said the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
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06/16/09 - UN warns of 'megadisasters' linked to climate change -- GENEVA (AFP) ? The United Nations on Tuesday raised the prospect of "megadisasters" affecting millions of people in some of the world's biggest cities unless more is done to heed the threat of climate change. "We are going to see more disasters and more intense disasters as a result of climate change," UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes said at the opening of a four-day conference on reducing disaster risks.
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06/15/09 - Battle Over the Baby Bottle: Should Containers With Bisphenol A Be Banned? -- By MICHAEL B. FARRELL -- The California Senate recently passed a bill to outlaw the sale of sippy cups and baby bottles that contain bisphenol A, or BPA, adding momentum to a campaign against the chemical that's gaining support in statehouses across the United States. In recent weeks, Minnesota outlawed baby-food containers made with the chemical that some scientific studies suggest is a health hazard for young children as well as adults. Chicago decided to nix baby bottles made with BPA from city shelves, and a ban in Connecticut passed the legislature and awaits the governor's signature.
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05/22/09 - Environmental illness and its treatment -- Vickie Jackson -- Detroit Alternative Medicine Examiner -- A recent article took a brief look at the issue of clinical ecology (http://www.examiner.com/x-7281-Detroit-Alternative-Medicine-Examiner~y2009m5d20-Clinical-ecology-briefly-explained), introducing the concept of an alternative medical approach to chronic illness that may have origins in environmental factors. To continue on that theme, it is necessary to examine the subject from the patient's side: environmental illness, or as it is also called, multiple chemical sensitivity or MCS.
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05/13/09 - Doctors learn how environmental toxins disrupt health -- Exposure to environmental toxins can majorly impact health and longevity. Despite the growing body of scientific literature surrounding toxicity, health care practitioners are generally inadequately trained to deal with this growing threat. It is unlikely that your physician utilizes the latest scientific findings on environmental toxins. How then can he or she advise you about sources of toxic exposures and ways to enhance your body?s detoxification systems?
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04/20/09 - Report: Drinking water possibly tainted
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