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Health/Medicine
  • Natalia Ruiz Díaz , Inter Press Service

    "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
  • Ed Ciaccio , DandelionSalad

    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
  • David Walsh and Sean South , WSWS

    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
  • Scott Pelley , CBS 60 minutes

    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
  • Cari Cannon, O.D. , Cannon Eye Care

    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
  • Bruce Mirken , Marijuana Policy Project

    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
  • Iris Armas Padrino , Granma International

    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
  • Special Report , BBC

    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
  • Special Report , BBC

    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
  • Special Report , BBC

    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
  • Patrick Martin , WSWS

    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
  • Gary Null , Gary Null Health

    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
  • Commentary by Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic. Excerpts from The New England Journal of Medicine

    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
  • Cathy Garger , Axis of Logic exclusive

    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
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World News
  • US launches major Afghan assault
    US forces have launched a major military operation in southern Afghanistan in the first big push to drive the Taliban out of a key stronghold since Barack Obama became US president. Four thousand marines, backed...
  • DPRK fires fourth short-range missile off east coast
    The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired the fourth short-range missile in the day off its east coast on Thursday evening, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.     DPRK fired the fourth missile at...
  • Honduras: U.S. friends carry out a coup
    MILITARY OFFICERS and right-wing forces in Honduras with long ties to the U.S. government organized a coup to topple the democratically elected president at the end of June--and the reaction of the Obama administration was...
  • Finding Fish, But Israelis Too
    "They told us 'go west or we will shoot you'," says Ashraf Sadallah. "Initially, we refused, so they began shooting very close all around our boat." At 6am on Jun. 16, Sadallah and his brother...
  • Hondurans Marching for Zelaya
     Tens of thousands of Hondurans are marching towards the capital to support the return of constitutional President Manuel Zelaya after a coup three days ago, informed grassroots leaders.   Representatives of the teachers union told...
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