The EPA is worried about drugs getting into the water supply. DEA is concerned about drugs getting into your kids. And the FDA – the agency responsible for legal drugs – has finally decided to weigh what to do with all the extra medications lying around most homes.
Here is a fact of life that will surprise no one: Those who are poor sell what they can and those who have wealth buy what they want.
It’s only a snapshot, but 20 physicians and nurses from ten states allowed their bodily fluids to be tested for the presence of chemicals that are linked to health problems and are everywhere in our environment. All the medical professional were found to have surprising levels of toxic chemicals in their systems.
“In God we trust. Everyone else must test for E. coli.”
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 [...]
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 [...]
After years of cajoling from the U.S. Senate and pleading from health activists, the Office of the Surgeon General finally warned the public of the dangers of asbestos.
Back in April, then-acting Surgeon General Steven Galson issued a statement about the deadly fiber and the illness it causes.
It wasn’t literature. Just 341 words explaining the most [...]
Home much liquid did you consume today? Was it clean? Will you become ill, spawn a deformed child, get cancer, die a lingering death?
In an attempt to head off some of the pithy comments accusing me of being a fear monger, let me admit that, in this case, I am.
I don’t think most of us [...]
