Edible Microchips to Monitor Drug Taking Habits January 20th, 2012 I wonder if people will tell Siri to remind them to take their digestible sensors? Via: Independent: An edible microchip that records the precise details of a patient’s pill regime will be available in Britain by the end of year following a commercial deal [...]
Radioactive iodine in rainwater: Canadian public was in the dark January 15, 2012 Print Version Source: Montreal Gazette After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Canadian health officials assured a nervous public that virtually no radioactive fallout had drifted to Canada. But last March, a Health Canada monitoring station in Calgary detected an average of 8.18 [...]
U.S. Claims Immunity from Lawsuit Brought by Victims of Medical Atrocities in Guatemala January 11th, 2012 Via: CNN: The United States has rejected the grounds of a lawsuit stemming from experiments involving sexually transmitted diseases and human subjects in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948. At the same time, the government announced increased aid to [...]
Cannabis Treatment Threatens Deadly Painkiller Industry January 10, 2012 Print Version Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post Pharmaceutical painkillers are now responsible for more deaths in the United States than heroin and cocaine combined. These pharmaceuticals are responsible for more than 15,000 deaths conservatively in 2008 alone. With no sign of slowing down, the painkiller industry is [...]
GlaxoSmithKline Fined Over Illegal Vaccine Experiments Killing 14 Babies January 5, 2012 Print Version By Anthony Gucciardi Vaccine and drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been fined 400,000 pesos (around the equivalent of $93,000) by an Argentinian judge for killing 14 babies during illegal lab vaccine trials that were conducted between 2007 and 2008. In addition to [...]
Leaked: US to Start ‘Trade Wars’ with Nations Opposed to Monsanto, GMO Crops Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post The United States is threatening nations who oppose Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) crops with military-style trade wars, according to information obtained and released by the organization WikiLeaks. Nations like France, which have moved to ban one of Monsanto’s [...]
Anger over secret drug trials on Indian children January 4, 2012 Print Version Source: Asia One BHOPAL, India – Indian activists have reacted in anger after 12 doctors were fined just 5,000 rupees (S$122) each for conducting secret drug trials on children and patients with learning disabilities. The Madhya Pradesh state government said the [...]
Monsanto GMO Seeds Use to Further Expand Within US December 30, 2011 Print Version By Mike Barrett Activist Post While genetically modified foods are continually being banned in other countries, the US is slow to follow the very necessary trend. The USDA has chosen to step back and give Monsanto even more power over GMO [...]
FDA Won’t Regulate Use of Antibiotics in Healthy Livestock Intended for Human Consumption December 30th, 2011 Via: Guardian: Environmental and consumer groups have condemned the US Food and Drug Administration’s move to renege on its long-held policy to regulate the use of human antibiotics in animal feed. Last week, the agency quietly announced it [...]
The Leading Cause of Breast Cancer: Medical Radiation December 28, 2011 Print Version Source: Cryptogon But keep getting those scans, the New York Times reminds you: The most consistent data suggest that women can reduce their risk by avoiding unnecessary medical radiation, forgoing hormone treatments for menopause that combine estrogen and progestin, limiting [...]
News: FDA Won’t Act Against Ag Antibiotic Use December 26, 2011 Print Version Source: Wired With no notice other than a holiday-eve posting in the Federal Register, the US Food and Drug Administration has reneged on its long-stated intention to compel large-scale agriculture to curb over-use of agricultural antibiotics, which it had planned to [...]
Merry Monsanto — Military Industrial Agriculture December 24, 2011 Print Version Owen Myles, Contributing Writer Activist Post Today I read an article on slashdot titled “New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops“. Before you navigate away from this article, please be assured they were not citing the National Enquirer. The study was conducted in France, [...]
Amish Dairy Farmer Selling Raw Milk Won’t Be Cowed by FDA December 23, 2011 Print Version By MICHAEL TENNANT New American Milk may do a body good, but selling it without the government’s stamp of approval does not. Dan Allgyer, an Amish dairy farmer, is finding that out the hard way. The federal government [...]
Alarm as Dutch lab creates highly contagious killer flu December 20, 2011 Print Version Source: London Independent A deadly strain of bird flu with the potential to infect and kill millions of people has been created in a laboratory by European scientists – who now want to publish full details of how they did it. The [...]
Physicians Oppose Mandatory Flu Vaccine for Health Workers December 18, 2011 Print Version Strong: AAPS In a letter to Colorado public health officials, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) opposes a rule requiring workers in health care facilities to have an annual influenza vaccination or lose their jobs. Workers who had a [...]
