Giving vitamin A supplements to children under the age of five in developing countries could save 600,000 lives a year, researchers claim. Writing in the British Medical Journal, UK and Pakistani experts assessed 43 studies involving 200,000 children, and found … Continue reading
Environmentalists campaigning against GM crops and toxic pesticides have been handed a powerful legal weapon that could have far-reaching implications. An appeals court in Minnesota, US, has ruled that pesticides that had carried on the wind to an organic farm … Continue reading
A day after the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced West Nile Virus (WNV) was detected in mosquitoes collected in Arlington, Lexington’s public health officials released the following information about WNV and avoiding mosquito bites. Lexington has not had any … Continue reading
By Helen Briggs Health editor, BBC News website – - – - – - A strain of Salmonella resistant to the most powerful antibiotics has been found in the UK, France and Denmark. The outbreak emerged in Africa then spread … Continue reading
By Linda Carroll, msnbc.com contributor For years we’ve been told that caffeinated coffee was bad for us. It’s unhealthy and addictive, doctors warned. But as vindication for all who stuck by their energizing elixir, a new study shows that guzzling … Continue reading
ScienceDaily (June 18, 2011) — Laboratory-grown gingival cells treated with vitamin D boosted their production of an endogenous antibiotic, and killed more bacteria than untreated cells, according to a paper in the June 2011 issue of the journal Infection and … Continue reading
The problem is not that much of the information we are getting is incorrect. It is to say that we are only getting half the story! Continue reading
Most vaccination serums are created by using fragments of dead micro-organisms to trigger an immune system response to the invading organism. The H1N1 nasal mist however is a “live vaccine” (contains the live H1N1 micro-organism). **If you plan on taking … Continue reading
As stated in previous articles I have been quite suspect, in light of the available data, that the World Health Organization (WHO) and similar organizations around the world are making a larger case of the Swine Flu (H1N1) virus than … Continue reading
This simplistic yet sound advice is more applicable today than ever before. It has been reported that thousands of people in America alone have been infected with the H1N1 (Swine Flu) Virus. There is however a greater danger lurking in … Continue reading
Seasonal Flu Update It has recently been reported bu the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC)(02/14/12) that for the first time this season the number of respiratory specimens collected in the US testing positive for H1N1 has jumped to 10% … Continue reading
Jan 23, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – A 39-year-old man from southwestern China died yesterday from H5N1 avian influenza, the country’s second death in less than a month from the disease, according to Xinhua, China’s state news agency. Since 2003 China … Continue reading
Just like everything else within society in general, the conventional medical community and within our government, when it comes to autism the focus is on the symptom’s and not the disease itself. Today our government, health insurance companies and the … Continue reading
By David Ibata The Atlanta Journal-Constitution DeKalb County on Friday reported its first human case of West Nile virus this year, a 79-year-old man from Tucker – The victim, whose name was not disclosed, is recovering at home, according to a … Continue reading
New research has found that in the route to building a better sunscreen, caffeine may be the key. Caffeine has been found to change the activity of a gene involved in the destruction of cells that have DNA damage and … Continue reading
They may not have found a cure for the common cold – but they seem to have found a way of shortening its life. Zinc lozenges may shorten the life of the common cold by as much as 40 per … Continue reading
Tasmanian scientists have discovered a compound occurring naturally in seaweed which could help provide the key to beating swine flu. The Japanese seaweed Undaria arrived in Tasmania in ballast water more than 20 years ago. A compound in the seaweed … Continue reading
Parents and nutritionists are up in arms about a line of designer toddler drinks containing mostly milk and sugar that are aimed at children as young as 1 year old. They say the health claims of Mead Johnson’s Enfagrow Premium … Continue reading
It is believed that there will be 50million doses of the H1N1 vaccines available by the end of August and another 150million available sometime around the end of September. This leaves some 150million Americans “unprotected” against the virus. The question … Continue reading
We left off, in the first part of this article, with opening up the idea of juicing to extract the desired enzymes from foods that are hard to digest in their whole form. This is actually a very logical approach … Continue reading