For the first time US regulators have approved commercialized biotech apples amid attempts by the organic industry and other institutes to block the genetically modified fruit. The two apple varieties modified to resist browning are developed by the Canadian company Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc., and were approved by the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service... 

Norwegian scientists say global warming will lead to more wildfires in the forests surrounding the site of the 1986 nuclear accident, leaving Europeans exposed to radioactive elements still present in the exclusion zone around the plant. “A large amount of Caesium-137 still remains in the Chernobyl forests, which could be remobilized along with a large number of other dangerous, long-lived, refractory... 

Drinking grape juice or red wine in moderation, or eating red grapes could help overweight people burn fat more easily and improve their health, while helping them to manage metabolic disorders such as fatty liver, new research claims. The study published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry exposed human liver and fat cells, which had been grown in the lab to extracts from four chemicals found... 

Media buries statistics and studies pointing to vaccine dangers. Since 2005, the MMR vaccine has killed over 100 people while the disease has killed none. It makes you question what other statistics are there on the multitude of vaccines being pushed on society today and how many deaths per vaccine vs the deaths by the disease itself? Source  Read More »

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is thought to have emerged some 40,000 years ago, started to be prevalent some 10,000 years ago and developed some dangerous resistant strains around 6,000 years ago. A recent study tracks the history of Tuberculosis around the world and over the centuries. The article “Tuberculosis genomes track human history” by Ewen Callaway in the recent publication of Nature... 

CDC refuses to revise vaccine guidelines as it runs cover for big pharma. The flu vaccine has claimed another child and the Disneyland measles outbreak is being blamed on the unvaccinated but the system cannot explain away fully vaccinated people coming down with and even spreading the flu. The vaccine hoax is starting fail. Infowars reporter Rob Dew covers this and looks at European studies revealing... 

The Church of England has expressed opposition to an amendment on a bill up for debate next week that would allow so-called “three-parent babies.” Introducing laws to allow in vitro fertilization (IVF) babies to be born with DNA from three different people would be “irresponsible,” said medical ethics adviser to the Church of England, Rev Dr. Brendan McCarthy. An amendment to the Human Fertilization... 

A new study shows that an infant’s brain reprocesses what it has learned and creates new knowledge even during sleep. Babies from 9 to 16 months of age remember the names of objects better if they had a short nap, German researchers from the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in the city of Leipzig, both in Germany, said in a study. The sleeping... 

A new study reveals that hundreds of British patients died last year over healthcare issues. The study by the College of Emergency Medicine has found that 150 of the patients who died, could not be admitted because of hospital bed shortages. Another 350 died because they were not treated fast enough. This is while a separate report has revealed that 4 million pounds have been spent on unapproved schemes... 

A four-year-old Australian boy has received the world’s first treatment for managing type 1 diabetes after doctors fitted him with an artificial pancreas. The new device, which looks like an mp3 player, was attached to Xavier Hames’s body using several tubes inserted under his skin, Australian health officials said on Wednesday. The four-year-old became the first patient to use the new device... 

The Brazilian health minister warns of the C-section “epidemic.” The Brazilian health minister has warned of the soaring number of cesarean sections carried out in the country’s health clinics as compared with natural birth, saying the “epidemic” must be stopped. “The epidemic of cesarean births in the country is unacceptable and it must be treated as a public health problem,”... 

A new study suggests that drinking coffee on a regular basis may protect individuals against malignant melanoma, a leading cause of skin-cancer death. Avid drinkers of coffee, those who take four or more cups daily, were 20 percent less likely to develop malignant melanoma than non-coffee consumers, according to a study published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) on Tuesday. The study... 

A view of the airfield at Sheremetyevo International Airport. A full passenger plane was quarantined in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport for about 4 hours, after pilots told the ground staff one of the travelers was suffering from suspected Ebola symptoms. “Several minutes before landing we received an alert from the pilots about a passenger, and after being put in quarantine, she was looked at by... 

A human embryo clone used in stem cell research. A novel embryonic stem cell therapy has apparently proved successful as a woman who has received the treatment for a severe heart failure has been reported “well” by doctors. The patient’s cardiologist, Philippe Menasche of the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, presented the positive results on Friday, saying she was doing “well”... 

Agriculture personnel cull geese at a farm in Chiayi county, southern Taiwan, January 11, 2015. A third highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has been detected in southern Taiwan. The Taiwan Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine said Friday that for the first time in Taiwan avian influenza virus H5N3 has been identified on two goose farms in the southern cities of Kaohsiung...