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Indian Baby Girl Dies Hours After Getting 5 Vaccinations
On February 21, 2013, a one month-old baby girl died after receiving her first vaccinations. Baby Ayushi Gupta died at the Maltibai Hospital, Thane, West Mumbai in India just hours after receiving her vaccinations for Hepatitis B, DPT (diptheria, pertussis and tetanus) and oral pulse polio drops.
Her parents blame her death on the vaccinations and have filed a complaint with the Thane Nagar police...
Study Shows Sugary Drinks Kill About 180,000 People Every Year
It is alarming to know that most Americans drink sugary beverages. In fact a massive propaganda (advertisement) campaign started back before my time. Soda pops were only 5 cents according to my Dad.
However, at that time sodas and other drinks were likely made with real sugars as opposed to high fructose corn syrup which is used in most drinks today as a form of sweetener (a cancer inhibitor). In...
Major US retailers reject 'frankenfish' GMO
A number of top US grocery stores, including Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, have pledged to reject selling the genetically engineered “frankenfish” if it is allowed on the market in April.
The mutant fish was engineered by scientists at a company called AquaBounty, which has spent more than 15 years and $50 million researching and perfecting the frankenfish. The mutants can grow to market size...
US commission paves way for anthrax vaccine testing on children
A US commission has advised that anthrax vaccination trials be carried out on children. The board gave strict guidelines for testing to put infants at no more than “minimal risk,” but critics accuse them of using children as guinea pigs.
The presidential commission described the necessity to test the vaccine on children because in the event of a mass bioterrorist attack a large proportion of the...
Researchers grow natural teeth from epithelial cells
Researchers from King’s College London have achieved a breakthrough method during which they can grow real teeth from a person’s own gum cells.
The study published the Journal of Dental Research is first major advance in developing a method to replace missing teeth with new bioengineered teeth.
Researchers isolated some cells from adult human gum (gingival) tissue from patients and grew...
Monsanto: Patenting death
Monsanto has yet another case pending in the court system, this time before the U.S. Supreme Court on the exclusivity of its genetically modified seed patents. Narrowly at issue is whether Monsanto retains patent rights on soybeans that have been replanted after showing up in generic stocks rather than being sold specifically as seeds, or whether those patent rights are “exhausted” after the initial...
New 'Monsanto Protection Act' Gives Monsanto Power Over US Government
There truly is no rest for the wicked, and Monsanto is at war once again against health conscious consumers with the latest ‘Monsanto Protection Act‘, managing to sneak wording into the latest Senate legislation that would give them blanket immunity from any USDA action regarding the potential dangers of their genetically modified creations while under review. The USDA would be unable to act against...
NYC Mayor Bloomberg's Soda Ban Struck Down by Judge
It is the ultimate dream of socialist control freaks to dictate every detail of your life: what you eat, what you think, what you say and even whether you have the right to self defense. New York City Mayor Bloomberg tried to take his control freak power grab one step beyond all reason with a recent regulatory ban on large sodas. But not all sodas, mind you: diet sodas laced with toxic aspartame were...
Thousands of dead pigs dumped in Chinese river
Nearly 3,000 dead pigs have been fished out of the Huangpu River in China – a source of drinking water for millions of Shanghai residents. The number is likely to increase as the operation progresses.
It is remains unknown who dumped the carcasses into the Huangpu River or what the cause of their death may have been. One possibility is that the pigs were discarded into the waters by some farmer...
New York officials warn of 'absolutely terrifying' meningitis outbreak
New York is facing a deadly meningitis outbreak that is targeting gay men, many of which are HIV-positive. The city’s health department said several gay men have been found dead in their homes, and is urging people to immediately get vaccinated.
“Since August 2010, we’ve detected 12 cases of this very specific strain but what we’re most concerned about is that in the past four weeks there...
UK falls behind on premature mortality
A study shows that Britain has a worse record of premature death than other developed countries.
Britain has a worse record of premature death than other developed countries, a new research reveals.
According to a detailed analysis of the 2010 Global Burden of Disease data, in 1990 the UK ranked 10th in a league table of 19 countries showing years of life lost (YLL) per 100,000 members of the population....
Adopted children in US families become guinea pigs for drug companies
Adopted children in American families sometimes become “guinea pigs” for pharmaceutical companies to test new drugs. Such children are prescribed five potent psychotropic medications at a time. This is beneficial both for the adoptive parents and health care professionals.
Russian diplomats found that the adoptive mother of Maxim Kuzmin who died in late January in the U.S. gave him a drug...
BPA Damages Cell Function, Found in Fetuses at High Level
There is growing evidence that points to the serious health threat of toxic bisphenol A (BPA) running rampant in the U.S. and abroad. This chemical is extremely prevalent in the environment, and researchers note that 90% of the U.S. population is ‘contaminated’ with the chemical and don’t even know it. To add to the mounting evidence of BPA’s damaging effects, two studies have concluded that...
China admits 'cancer villages' existence
China has acknowledged the existence of so-called “cancer villages” as Chinese people have been concerned about the impact of pollution on their health for years.
The environment ministry released its latest report on Friday entitled “Guard against and control risks presented by chemicals to the environment during the 12th Five-Year period (2011-2015)”.
“The toxic chemicals...
New Treatment enables Paralysed Animals to Walk Again, to be Tested on Humans soon
Using a cocktail of drugs and electrical impulses, researchers regrew nerves linking the spinal cord to the brain, allowing rats to walk, run and even climb stairs. The team now say human trials will begin within two years
Scientists behind groundbreaking research that enabled enabled rats with severed spines to run again after two weeks have outlined their plans for human trials.
The technology brings...