health

Article: Georgianne Nienaber: Ayiti Kale Je Video Offers Fearless Look at Haiti's Christmas Cholera

If reading about Haiti's cholera epidemic is your cup of tea on Christmas Eve, sensationalist news coverage of lynchings of voodoo priests will top your Google search. UPI , Reuters, Agence France-Presse and others are reporting that 45 Vodun (the...

Article: Dr. Blaylock: Body Scanners More Dangerous Than Feds Admit

The growing outrage over the Transportation Security Administration’s new policy of backscatter scanning of airline passengers and “enhanced pat-downs” brings to mind these wise words from President Ronald Reagan: “The nine most terrifying words in...

Article: Scientists give all-clear for meat and milk from cloned cattle

Meat and milk from cloned cattle and their offspring is safe to eat, government advisers have determined.The conclusion by the Advisory...

Article: Review of the TSA X-ray backscatter body scanner safety report: hide your kids, hide your wife

I am a biochemist working in the field of biophysics. Specifically, the lab I work in (as well as many others) has spent the better part of the last decade working on the molecular mechanism of how mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility...

Article: Response to University of California - San Francisco Regarding Their Letter of Concern

Thank you for sharing the April 6 letter you received regarding general-use full-body x-ray screening systems used for airport security. As with...

Article: Billions wasted over swine flu

Billions of pounds in public money were wasted worldwide on buying drugs to combat a swine flu "pandemic that never was", says Newport West MP Paul Flynn.He has compiled a report on the H1N1 virus for the Council of Europe.

Article: Whooping Cough Epidemic in California Kills 5 Babies

State health officials say whooping cough is now an epidemic in California and is on pace to break a 50-year record for infections and deaths for the year.As of June 15, California had 910 recorded cases of the highly contagious...

Article: Is Toxic Corexit Rain Killing Crops in Mississippi?

Yobie Benjamin, writing for The San Francisco Chronicle, is reporting what nobody else in the corporate...