"Silvino was riding his bike on a dirt road near our home when he was poisoned by toxic agrochemicals, sprayed on a nearby field of soybeans. He died soon afterwards. He was 11," said his mother, Petrona Villasboa, a rural activist in southern Paraguay. Silvino Villasboa died in 2003 in... » read this article

It doesn’t matter to “our” supposed representatives in D.C. that a majority of Americans prefer a single payer, all-inclusive health care system, especially once they understand how it works and how it would be better (truly universal, more efficient and more effective) than our current dysfunctional profit care system. It... » read this article

Editor's Note: For a clearly presented summary of "Codex Alimentarius", in straight-forward language, see our republication from Wikipedia. The article is published multi-lingual on Wikipedia. In 2005, Alan Bock wrote for the Orange County Register (U.S.) his warning: The vitamin police. Tell me, again, just why the United Nations is... » read this article

Editor's note: Do you use vitamins or other food supplements as part of your daily diet like millions of others around the world? Your freedom to use them may be in jeopardy. Information on Codex Alimentarius is re-published below (from Wikipedia) primarily because of the way these international standards for food... » read this article

30 April 2009 The outbreak of a swine flu epidemic that threatens to assume global proportions is exposing the disastrous consequences of the subordination of all aspects of social life to the capitalist market and the competing interests of nationally-based corporate elites. The potential toll in illness, death and economic... » read this article

60 Minutes: Bad Economy Leaves Cancer Patients Without Health Insurance In Dire Straits In the economic crisis, public hospitals are needed now more than ever. If you're down on your luck without insurance, the county hospital can be your last resort. Recently thousands of letters went out across Las Vegas... » read this article

Editor's Note: This informative article on two contrasting subjects, herbal medicine and the latest technologies in eye care comes from our good friend, Cari Cannon, O.D. in West Roxbury, MA (U.S.) - LMB   April 6, 2009 Herbal Medicine is the oldest form of medicine known to mankind and herbs... » read this article

20 January 2009 A report recently released by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), The State of the World's Children 2009, has found that women living in the least developed countries of the world are 300 times more likely to die as a result of childbirth or pregnancy-related complications than... » read this article

A letter addressed to the Finlay Institute from the World Health Organization in July 2006, asking for help in producing millions of doses of the anti-meningitis vaccine, was the motive for the inauguration at that renowned center of Cuban biotechnology, of a plant with a production capacity of up to... » read this article

For the first time in my life, I've just been prescribed an opioid painkiller: hydrocodone/acetaminophen, commonly known by the brand name Vicodin. The occasion was a medical procedure known as brachytherapy. I'll explain more about that below, but it's pretty low on the fun meter. There can be lingering pain... » read this article

THE first therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of advanced lung cancer has been registered in Cuba, the only one for this type of malignancy world-wide, reported the national news agency, AIN. Named CIMAVAX EGF, the antigen has been shown to be effective, extending patients’ survival and quality of life, said... » read this article

Eating meat and dairy products may increase the risk of prostate cancer, research suggests. Such a diet raises levels of a hormone called Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) which promotes cell growth. A University of Oxford team examined the results of 12 studies, featuring a total of nearly 9,000 men. They... » read this article

People who have long spells of sick leave for psychiatric reasons are twice as likely to die from cancer as healthier employees, research suggests. The "unexpected" finding could help pick out at-risk groups, the University College London researchers reported in the British Medical Journal. Among 6,500 civil servants, those who... » read this article

October 1, 2008 - BBC - Colonial clue to the rise of HIV The arrival of colonial cities in sub-Saharan Africa at the dawn of the 20th Century may have sparked the spread of HIV. US experts analysed one of the earliest samples of the virus ever found, in the... » read this article

A new study released Wednesday, entitled �The Measure of America,� provides a wealth of data demonstrating the profound and deepening social decay of the United States. Commissioned by the Oxfam charity and several foundations, and published by Columbia University Press, the report documents, using government figures, the dramatic decline of... » read this article

The Drugging of our Children  (SSRI drug dangers and the Columbine shooting) 103 minutes In the absence of any objective medical tests to determine who has ADD or ADHD, doctors rely in part on standardized assessments and the impressions of teachers and guardians while the they administer leave little room... » read this article

International Coalition for Drug Awareness is a group of physicians, researchers, journalists and concerned citizens dedicated to educating about the dangers posed by many Rx medicines. http://www.drugawareness.org/myblog/breaking-news-from-fox-news-douglas-kennedy.html... » read this article

Editor's Note: The New England Journal of Medicine saw our republication of their article, Physicians and Execution (Volume 358:403-404  January 24, 2008  Number) in its entirety. One of their representatives wrote a threatening letter to us, demanding that we remove it from Axis of Logic. Apparently, they have little interest in... » read this article

CAPE TOWN, Nov 8 (IPS) - What is known so far about the scope and prevalence of extensive drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in sub-Saharan Africa may only be the tip of the iceberg, said TB experts Thursday during the 38th Union World Conference on Lung Health, in the South African coastal... » read this article

�I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with�.It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.�» read this article