(NaturalNews) A member of the Spokane, Washington, City Council says he was threatened with removal from a health panel if he espoused anything other than the consensus view that vaccines for children should be mandatory.In an interview with local CBS affiliate KREM, Councilman…
(NaturalNews) China has a dastardly reputation for producing garbage consumer products of poor quality that may contain things like toxic heavy metals and lead paint. But the world’s largest economy (by some measures) is increasingly exporting garbage food products as well, including…
(NaturalNews) Have the big banks stopped being banks? If you believe the banking insiders speaking in their own words, then you would have to conclude the answer is yes.In a recent interview with Bloomberg News, Niels Storm Stenbaek, chief economist at the Danish Bankers Association…
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LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization denies that politics swayed the decision to declare an international emergency over the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa despite evidence showing senior staffers discussing the diplomatic and economic fallout of such a move.
MEI Pharma lost more than two-thirds of its market value on Monday after the company’s cancer drug failed to meet the main goal in a mid-stage study. The drug, pracinostat, was being tested in combination with chemotherapy drug azacitidine to treat patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) – a blood cancer where immature blood cells in the bone marrow fail to become healthy cells. The trial failure raised questions about the
I love Brian Wansink and so was delighted to see his work celebrated quite prominently this past week. That is, I was delighted up to a point.When I say I love Brian, I mean it quite genuinely, and both personally and professionally. Personally, we are friends. Brian could well have inspired the lyrics of “for he’s a jolly good fellow.” A good…
By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) – Although oncologists increasingly distinguish breast, lung, and other cancers by their molecular drivers, cardiologists have lagged behind in efforts to do something similar for heart disease. A study published on Monday could help remedy that: Researchers have found evidence of a genetic basis for an enigmatic kind of heart attack that preferentially strikes young women. Just as breast cancers driven by one mutation
Doctors in white coats marched in the rain from Freedom Plaza near the White House to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on March 22, 2010 to show support for health reform and to ask the Senate to do likewise. I was one of those doctors, drenched but undeterred. We represented thousands of health care providers in organizations like the National…
Extroverts, neurotics and the conscientious among us need to be extra careful!