Embattled biotech company Monsanto will pay a hefty fine for stockpiling over 72kg of highly dangerous pesticide and spraying it on “research crops,” even after it was banned by the US government. Monsanto acknowledged that it used methyl parathion, the active ingredient in Penncap-M, on corn seed and other crops on the Hawaii island of Maui back in 2014, knowing that it was prohibited by the... 

A toddler starved to death after his vegan parents fed him almost nothing but raw fruit and vegetables and at one point only breast milk for a week, despite his obviously weakening state. Ryan O’Leary, 30, and Sheila O’Leary, 35, were arrested last week in Cape Coral, Florida after their 18-month-old son died on September 27 weighing only 17 pounds, which is the weight of an average seven-month-old. An... 

A new study from the University of Virginia has revealed that American females are three times more likely to die or be seriously injured in car accidents than men: American car companies believe one type of female test dummy suffices to ensure women don’t die in car crashes. And she’s five feet tall and weighs 110 pounds. That’s incredibly far from the build of an average American woman. According... 

A team of doctors in the US has said daylight saving time should be ‘eliminated’ because it can damage people’s health. They said shifting the clocks back and forth every year leads to a rise in the number of heart attacks and strokes and can affect children’s brain development. Young children, the elderly, women and people with cancer appear to be more susceptible to the effects... 

US researchers have identified the first new strain of HIV since the year 2000, further expanding our knowledge of the extraordinarily complex virus. The newly discovered substrain falls within the same type behind the global HIV pandemic that kicked off in 1981. In order for a new subtype to be declared, at least three cases must be detected and verified independently of each other. In this instance,... 

Canadian Health Minister Christine Elliott recently made an appearance at a Rexall drugstore in Ontario where she claims to have gotten a “free” flu shot. But video evidence shows that there wasn’t actually a needle in the syringe that was pressed up against her arm, proving once again that when it comes to politicians, it’s always vaccine for thee, but not for me. As part of the staged influenza... 

Many people with asthma could cut their carbon footprint and help save the environment by switching to “greener” medications, UK researchers say. Making the swap would have as big an “eco” impact as turning vegetarian or becoming an avid recycler, they say. It’s because some inhalers release greenhouse gases linked to global warming. But the Cambridge University team... 

A school in Sweden is going completely vegetarian in an effort to positively impact the climate, according to reports. The Gitarren Preschool in Umeå is testing the new policy during a trial period with a plan to implement it permanently, making it the first school in the municipality to pursue the radical approach. All food served at the school will be totally meatless, and children will not have... 

Eight children have been diagnosed with cancer at the same elementary school in Ripon, California – prompting parents’ fears that a 4G cell phone tower could be to blame: The affected students at Weston Elementary School in Ripon are all under the age of 10, each with different types of cancer: brain, kidney, liver and lymphoma. If this is what a 4G tower can do, just you wait until they roll... 

According to all possible and impossible researches, insect populations are decreasing and as annoying and disgusting as they are, they are important to our ecosystem, God did not create them for nothing but he certainly did not create them as food for us either. They are diminishing because of the abusive use of farming fertilizers, insecticides, etc. yet despite having their numbers lowering faster... 

An examination spectacularly failed by all would-be professional surgeons from five universities in South Africa two weeks ago will now be written in an easier multiple-choice format to improve the pass rate: Zach Koto, president of the council of surgeons at the Colleges of Medicine of SA (CMSA), announced at a media briefing held in Joburg on Tuesday that the multiple-choice format will be used,... 

Because the problems caused by the proliferation of rats in the Netherlands will continue to worsen considerably in the coming years, according to Bastiaan Meerburg, a researcher at Wageningen University, a large-scale study into the behavior of these rodents, so that a potential plague can be effectively avoided: “I expect that the rat plague will really get a lot worse“, he said to the newspaper.... 

A Philadelphia jury on Tuesday said that Johnson & Johnson (J&J) must pay $8 billion in punitive damages to a man over his claims that a drug manufactured by the US firm caused him to grow breasts. The verdict in favor of Nicholas Murray, 26, came first in one of thousands of Risperdal cases pending in Pennsylvania. Murray, like other male plaintiffs in the mass tort litigation over Risperdal,... 

Russia might still have a reputation as a nation of hard drinkers, but a report by the World Health Organization showed alcohol consumption has dropped by 43 per cent since 2003. The WHO put the decrease down to a raft of measures brought in under sport-loving President Vladimir Putin, including restrictions on alcohol sales and the promotion of healthy lifestyles. ‘The Russian Federation has... 

A major emergency was declared In Russia after a top secret research lab blew up. One of the world’s largest virus research facilities, located in Siberia has blown up releasing strains of HIV, Ebola, Anthrax, Smallpox and God knows what other viruses into the air. Firefighters and rescue services were scrambled on Monday to respond to a fire that broke out in Koltsovo, a scientific hub several...