Guess Who’s Paying A Premium To Make Americans Fat: You Are. How Taxpayer Subsidies Fuel Obesity And Other Disease

Guess Who’s Paying A Premium To Make Americans Fat: You Are. How Taxpayer Subsidies Fuel Obesity And Other Disease
We Already Know That Taxpayer Subsidies To Unhealthy Food Industry Giants Are A Rip-Off–Here’s The Proof That They’re Killing Us Too If 70 percent of your countrymen were at risk of contracting a deadly disease, or already dying from it, and you found out who was secretly paying to make them sick, you would want that person prosecuted to the full extent of the law, wouldn’t you?… Read the rest

Drug-Resistant Bacteria Reaching Crisis Levels: Alarming Rise In Cases Of Sepsis May Herald True Crisis

Drug-Resistant Bacteria Reaching Crisis Levels: Alarming Rise In Cases Of Sepsis May Herald True Crisis
Crisis of Drug-Resistant Bacteria: Routine Infections Becoming More And More Untreatable If you’re not in the medical profession, chances are you’ve probably never heard a lot about sepsis in your lifetime. Barring a vague notion you picked up from medical dramas on television that it is some kind of disease, you probably never think about it at all. But we may be on the verge of hearing a whole lot more about sepsis, and many other formerly routine infections.… Read the rest

Monsanto ‘Faked Scientific Data:’ More Heat For Agri-Chem Giant As Former Executive Speaks Out

Monsanto ‘Faked Scientific Data:’ More Heat For Agri-Chem Giant As Former Executive Speaks Out
More Cracks In The Monsanto Façade: Former Company Exec Drops Bomb Claiming Faked Data In Order To Gain Regulatory Approval And the trickle of bad news on Monsanto turns to a stream, then a river, then a flood. It seems the company–despite employing an army of PR flacks and a second, covert army of scientist/flacks who are tasked with cranking out refutations of any and all science that contradicts the company line–just can’t seem to catch a break.… Read the rest

Fighting Germs Through Reward Stimulation: How Feeling Good May Help Boost The Immune System

Fighting Germs Through Reward Stimulation: How Feeling Good May Help Boost The Immune System
Immune System May Be Linked To Feeling Good: Rewarding Stimulation Found To Cause Heightened Immune Response To Germs Feeling good may actually help you to…well, feel good. Scientists looking at how the body fights germs when nerve cells in the brain that signal reward are lit up say that positive feelings may be linked to a supercharged immune system based on a study conducted on mice but which may have broad implications for how humans treat illness in the future.… Read the rest

Judge Serves Up A Hot, Steaming Cup Of Justice To Monsanto: Rules In Favor Of Coffee Grower Who Blames Roundup On Her Cancer

Judge Serves Up A Hot, Steaming Cup Of Justice To Monsanto: Rules In Favor Of Coffee Grower Who Blames Roundup On Her Cancer
One Lump Or Two: Judge Rules Against Monsanto In Coffee Grower’s Case Blaming Roundup For Her Cancer Score one for the good guys. In the face of Monsanto’s ongoing assault on human health and that of the planet itself, in which the company employs malleable scientist-sockpuppets loyal to its cause (and money), fights tooth and nail through easily-bought senators against consumers’ right to know what is in our food, and admits it employs an entire department devoted to countering any science that contradicts their pro-GMO party line, a rare win was recorded in a Hawaii courtroom the other day.… Read the rest

Insecure Infants Study Suggests That Newborns Who Travel For Frequent Overnights Away From Primary Caregiver More Insecure

Insecure Infants Study Suggests That Newborns Who Travel For Frequent Overnights Away From Primary Caregiver More Insecure
Insecure Attachments: Study Shows Babies Who Spend Nights Away From Primary Caregiver Less Secure In a new study that may have profound implications for a society in which divorce is common and out-of-wedlock child-rearing is becoming more and more normalized, a University of Virginia researcher says her study shows that infants who went on frequent overnight visits away from their primary caregiver had more insecure attachments to the caregiver.… Read the rest

Personalized Cancer Vaccines On The Horizon For Merck, Along With Big, Big Profits

Personalized Cancer Vaccines On The Horizon For Merck, Along With Big, Big Profits
Merck To Launch Partnership With Biotech Giant Moderna To Develop Personalized Messenger-RNA Anti-Cancer Vaccines One thing they didn’t foresee in all those hopeful, idealistic classic science fiction books was that when the future comes, it will come first for the very very rich. To wit, consider the announcement that Merck is going to partner with biotech leader Moderna Therapeutics to develop a commercial application for personalized cancer vaccinations.… Read the rest

Long Considered Off-Limits To Vaccine-Peddlers, Pregnant Women Are Being Targeted As Next Likely Revenue Stream

Long Considered Off-Limits To Vaccine-Peddlers, Pregnant Women Are Being Targeted As Next Likely Revenue Stream
They Aren’t Off-Limits Anymore: Vaccine Peddlers Seek New Revenue Stream, Pregnant Women You Can Say NO to Vaccine Mandates Here: http://TinyURL.com/VaccinationISViolation Long considered to be off-limits to vaccine makers, pregnant women are finding themselves increasingly targeted by vaccine makers eager to peddle their products to a potential new revenue stream. Even supposedly independent researchers are cynically eyeing the use of words and marketing as potential pitfalls to selling the drugs to pregnant women.… Read the rest

Alarming New Study Points To Possible Brain Damage Occurring In Unborn Babies Even As Late As The Third Trimester

Alarming New Study Points To Possible Brain Damage Occurring In Unborn Babies Even As Late As The Third Trimester
Zika Continues To Alarm: Study Finds That Brain Damage Can Still Occur Even In The Third Trimester For pregnant women, the first trimester is the hardest part–at least in terms of worrying about things like miscarriage, and normal fetal development. Some diseases, like rubella, which can result in traumatic results for fetuses if contracted in the first trimester are considerably less so if contracted later in the pregnancy.… Read the rest

If You’re Unhappy And You Know It: European CDC Reports Gonorrhea Cases Have Doubled

If You’re Unhappy And You Know It: European CDC Reports Gonorrhea Cases Have Doubled
Like a Clap Of Thunder Echoing Across The Continent: European CDC Reports Gonorrhea Cases Have Doubled If you have college-age children who have a European walkabout planned this summer, you might want to make sure you have a good long talk with them first regarding the dangers of unprotected sex. For supplemental reading, you might give them some literature on how antibiotics work–or, as has become more and more frequent, how they don’t work anymore, at least not as well as they once did.… Read the rest