U.K. and Australia Fight Breast Cancer with Free Screening for Women 50+
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, with one in nine women affected at some stage in their lives.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, with one in nine women affected at some stage in their lives.
By David Gutierrez | For the first time, a branch of the U.S. government has admitted that the common industrial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) may pose a health risk.
BPA is a crucial ingredient in the hard, clear polycarbonate plastic found in water and baby bottles. It is also used to make liners for food and infant [...]
Legalise Cannabis Alliance | A BREAST cancer victim made medical history recently, as the first person in Scotland to be prescribed cannabis as a treatment for chronic pain.
Former National Health Service nurse Jeanie Rae, 57, has been taking a purified extract of the controversial drug to treat the agonising nerve damage in her right arm [...]
By Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D. | The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental action organization, recently conducted an in-depth study into the quality of drinking water across the United States. Reviewing the tap water quality data for 19 major U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, they compiled their findings and made [...]
By David Miller | Those who say that they favour science and rationality can end up supporting the opposite. Science and rationality retain a very significant force in public debate and is thus worth exploiting by vested interests. The strategic use of science is a well used part of the armoury of the public relations [...]
In response to increasing flagrant attempts to censor political websites, we are running a special contest with a top prize of $5,000 in order to encourage people to get active and educate others about the growing threats to Internet freedom.
The VeriChip Corporation, manufactures of the VeriChip — the microchip made to be implanted in humans — has taken a considerable downturn after evidence has emerged showing the chip could cause cancer.
A Christian organization is pressuring the community of Elberton, Ga., to tear down a massive, granite monument that lists an alternative set of Ten Commandments that the organization labels satanic.
McCain has a history of melanoma, the most deadly skin cancer — one most sunscreens won’t protect against.
By Stephen Lendman - RINF | When it comes to observing US and international laws, treaties and norms, the Bush administration is a serial offender. Since 2001, it’s:
– spurned efforts for nuclear disarmament to advance its weapons program and retain current stockpiles;
– renounced the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and asserted the right to [...]
By Stephen Lendman - RINF | Pro-business Supreme Court rulings are nothing new, and it’s likely most damaging one ever occurred in 1886. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railway, the High Court granted corporations legal personhood. Ever since, they’ve had the same rights as people but not the responsibilities. Their limited liability status exempts [...]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: “An arms race is entering its new stage. There is a threat of new weaponry looming on the horizon.” What exactly did he mean by saying that?
Almost 8,000 U.S. recipients of the vaccine used to protect against cervical cancer have reported adverse reactions, ranging from pain at the injection site to serious side-effects, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Billboard | QUESTION: A liberal friend of mine in New York saw the Twin Towers fall while stuck in traffic on the Verrazano Bridge. She was so shook up, and remained so scared that in 2004 she voted for Bush, simply out of fright.
ANSWER: Well, he used that. He played on people’s fear, instead of people’s [...]
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SchNews | If you knew that someone was putting poison into your water supply, what would you do? Call the authorities? Well don’t bother cos it’s the government wot’s doing it!
If you live in the West Midlands or the North East, the chances are that you already have a fluoridated water supply - and comments [...]
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“Shopping for a cure” often does more harm than good. Don’t let slick advertisers sucker you into it.
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Lab animals fed irradiated food have developed illnesses from cancer to immune system failure. So why is the government pushing the same food on you?
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Controversy over the “abortion pill” has stymied scientists’ ability to research its potential to treat breast cancer and other diseases.
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McCain, a cancer survivor, would be unlikely to get coverage under his own plan if he did not have government-provided insurance.
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By Rich Stacel | According to the latest research, species around the world are going extinct faster that previously thought, at a rate not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. The Living Planet index which was released today shows that due to destructive human activity, the diversity of all life on earth has decreased [...]
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By Alexander Zaitchik | With key medical marijuana ballot initiatives likely to pass, and a more pot-friendly majority in Congress, there is room for optimism. You have to hand it to the Republican National Committee: Those guys really know how to pick the wrong fight.John McCain, already running against the public opinion grain in support [...]
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Presidential candidates are pushing “clean coal” but many suspect it is causing a rare form of blood cancer.
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Scientific studies indicate that marijuana can halt the spread of numerous cancer cells, including the type that Kennedy suffers from.
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NaturalNews | The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S. military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear bombs dropped at the end of World War II. DU is a waste product of uranium enrichment, containing approximately one-third the radioactive isotopes of naturally occurring uranium. Because of [...]
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BBC News | Allowing scientists to carry out stem cell research using hybrid human-animal embryos “is a step too far and should be banned”, the Commons has been told.
Senior Tory MP Edward Leigh said there was “no evidence yet to substantiate” the claims this could lead to treatment for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Gordon Brown has urged [...]
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AP | The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees.
Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department’s Office of Accountability and Transparency last [...]
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By Loretta Napoleoni | Slavery is in our refrigerators. From fruit to beef, from sugar to coffee, slave labor brings food to our tables. “Miguel,” a Mexican slave freed by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a US human-rights organization, may have harvested the apples we eat at breakfast. Miguel picked fruit under guard in the [...]
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