Health

Drugs companies putting profit ahead of medical discoveries, warn scientists

Multi-billion pound pharmaceutical giants have spent the last decade developing new drugs that have produced little benefit and caused considerable harm, experts say

Discovery of magnetic sensors in fish and rats may explain why some people can ‘feel’ wi-fi, smart meters, power lines and electropollution

It may also explain the efficacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Increasingly recognized as a safe and effective means to promote health, TCM is based on Taoist principles of the interplay of Yin-Yang, or positive and negative

Circumcision Should be Stopped

Following recent deaths as a result of circumcision David Richards explains why he thinks the practice should be stopped

Danish Farmer Reverses Illnesses in pigs by reverting to a GM-free diet

Genetically Modified soybean linked to chronic diarrhoea in the animals, along with birth defects, reproductive problems, bloating, stomach ulcers, weaker and smaller piglets, and reduced litter sizes

History shows polio caused by pesticide exposure, then was eradicated by decline in DDT use

History shows polio caused by pesticide exposure, then was eradicated by decline in DDT use

New study reveals that vaccination had little to do with eradicating polio

Elderly patients ‘helped to die to free up beds’, warns doctor

Elderly patients ‘helped to die to free up beds’, warns doctor

Hospitals are using end-of-life care to help elderly patients to die because they are difficult to look after and take up valuable beds, a top doctor has warned

Sun exposure reduces pancreatic cancer risk by nearly 50 percent

Trouble is sunlight is free. Consequently you don’t hear too much about its health benefits

Vaccinated children have up to 500% more disease than unvaccinated children

Study reveals unvaccinated children show far less incidence of common childhood ailments than vaccinated children

The Common Food Ingredient That’s Making You Stupid

Researchers find a common ingredient in many “healthy” foods alters the brain’s “ability to learn and remember information”

Energy saving light bulbs ‘contain cancer causing chemicals’

Experiments in Germany find bulbs emit ‘carcinogenic substance’ when switched on

Mysterious illness strikes hundreds of flight attendants, causes rashes and hair loss

Are ‘toxic uniforms’ really to blame, as claimed? Or is it the effects of Fukushima?

Greater Purpose in Life May Protect Against Harmful Changes in the Brain Associated With Alzheimer’s Disease

Greater Purpose in Life May Protect Against Harmful Changes in the Brain Associated With Alzheimer’s Disease

New study finds that a stronger sense of purpose in life protects against the more harmful effects of Alzheimers

Electromagnetic hygiene – Can qi really help us be healthier?

Lloyd Burrell looks at a new approach to health that combines the ancient Chinese concept of qi, chi or ‘life force’, and its interaction with electromagnetic fields

Rates of cancer, leukaemia and congenital deformities higher in Fallujah than those reported in the aftermath of nuclear explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Click to enlarge

The Children of Fallujah – families fight back

Robert Fisk on the legacy of the Anglo-American ‘liberation’ of Iraq

The Children of Fallujah – the hospital of horrors

Part II of Robert Fisk’s report from Fallujah a decade after it was ‘liberated’ by U.S. forces

Obama betrays the left; cheers continued expansion of drug war, criminalization of plant-based medicine

This doesn’t mean the alternatives we’re presented with are any better. Just look at Mitt Romney. It’s just that elections are now used to create the illusion of choice

Prof.  Peter Duesberg says AIDS is really a cancer caused  by a recreational drug used by gays, and is exacerbated by the popular AZT treatment

The AIDS Hoax

Prof. Peter Duesberg says AIDS is really a cancer caused by a recreational drug used by gays, and is exacerbated by the popular AZT treatment

The Myth of Nicotine Addiction

The Myth of Nicotine Addiction

“Governments, pharmaceutical companies and ‘big tobacco’, are all in cahoots to make people think smoking is addictive, and quitting is difficult. Neither is true.”

Reporter: I’d always thought it wouldn’t be possible that I’d get sick — “I wanted to visit Fukushima again and again and report. But…”

More indications that the effects from Fukushima may be far worse than officially acknowledged

Bear in photo has hair loss and oozing sores on the left side of its neck. Click to enlarge

Polar Bears Show Signs of Mysterious Illness

USGS issues announcement about polar bears with oozing sores, hair loss in Alaska — 3 of 4 captured yesterday affected — Similar symptoms as recent mystery seal deaths. Although Reuters reports no link to Fukushima we can’t help but wonder