The Swine Flu pandemic will be a public health turning point around the globe because the consequences are likely to be so uneven and so unfairly felt depending on where you are.

Is there anyplace where you can be assured that the air is clean?
Probably not.
Pollutants emitted from factories, traffic and cooking stoves half a world away could make the air you breathe in the United States more hazardous to your health, reports a committee of the National Academies.
For example, you might think that the air atop [...]

Hunters and those who eat the meat from deer, elk and other large animals they shoot may find themselves at risk for memory problems and other brain and nerve functions.
The reason is that lead from the bullets or shotgun pellets can leach into the meat and then accumulate in the bodies of those who eat [...]

I can’t believe that the anti-health reform zealots haven’t loudly weighed in on a proposed piece of legislation called the “Happy Act,” which would provide taxpayer-aided medical care for pets.
The bill, “Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years,” was introduced by Michigan Rep. Thaddeus McCotter and proposes to change the tax law to permit annual [...]

Touted as our next Industrial Revolution, the use of nano particles continues to sweep across the global business world like the high tech tsunami it is.
Inventions and new applications fly off laboratory benches and out of clean rooms faster than patents can be filed or danger to public health even assessed.
Globally, sales of nano-based products [...]

I spoke to eight or ten of them this morning as they waiting for their school bus outside my house. They weren’t shy on sharing their strong opinions on how to avoid getting sick.
“I don’t touch anybody or anything or let anybody touch me,” said one youngster, and then quickly backed up to prevent his [...]

We’ve all seen the ads on television where an elderly person has fallen to the floor and is unable to get up.  They tout the live-saving ability of personal emergency response pendants which are worn around the neck and linked to an emergency dispatch center to give the elderly or house-bound a way to call [...]

Zoonotic diseases are caused by infectious agents that can be transmitted between animals and humans. Now that we’ve defined what it is, you should know that these species-jumping pathogens have caused more than 65 percent of infectious disease outbreaks worldwide over the past 60 years.
In addition to death and illness, researchers for the Institute of [...]

The tortuously protracted, unalterable progress of the growth of the first batches of H1N1 vaccine is almost over. Everyone concerned about the looming pandemic is closely watching the vaccine as it finally leaves it laboratory birthplace and is shipped to 90,000 health departments, hospitals and doctor’s offices that will administer the immunization.
What’s not getting the [...]

(This coldtruth.com special report is a follow up to last week’s story on dirty water.)
If your neighbor had plenty of water but you hadn’t enough to keep your family, your livestock and your crops alive, would you fight for it? Would you go to war?
Lots of people – from multi-degreed behavioral psychologists to barroom philosophers [...]