Nuclear facilities and power plants are contaminating local Canadian food and water with radioactive waste that increases risks of cancer and birth defects, says a new report to be released today.
Ninety-five Colombian farmers are suing the oil company BP in the high court in London for allegedly causing serious damage to their land, crops and animals.
In the first case of its kind, the farmers are claiming that BP Exploration Company (Colombia) Ltd, which joined forces with Colombia's national oil company and four foreign multinational corporations in a consortium to construct the 450-mile (720km) Ocensa pipeline, caused landslides and damage to soil and groundwater, causing crops to fail, livestock to perish, contaminating water supplies and making fish ponds unsustainable.
It was announced this week by state authorities that the sealed pesticide
plant that leaked deadly methyl isocyanate gas on December 3 1984 is to be
opened to the public for a week next month to coincide with the 25th
anniversary of the disaster.
Around 3,500 people died immediately when a storage tank of the plant run by
US group Union Carbide - bought by Dow Chemicals in 1999 - spewed the poison
gas over the populated slums of Bhopal in central India.
CHICAGO - Advice about soft drinks and health from one of the nation's largest doctors groups will soon be brought to you by Coke.
The American Academy of Family Physicians has prompted outcry and lost members over its new six-figure alliance with the Coca-Cola Co. The deal will fund educational materials about soft drinks for the academy's consumer health and wellness Web site, http://www.FamilyDoctor.org.
If you can't find any swine flu vaccine for your kids, it won't be for
a lack of positive thinking. In fact, the whole flu snafu is being
blamed on "undue optimism" on the part of both the Obama administration
and Big Pharma.
SYDNEY - As the world focuses on the impact of climate change, little attention is being paid to yet another environmental bane: increasing contamination of air, water and soil.
The combined effects of this environmental scourge have contributed to global epidemics of cancers, lung and other degenerative diseases, and costing health systems across the world millions of dollars, experts say.
Forty-two years after she was exposed to asbestos in the Pambula beach hamlet, 470 kilometres south of Sydney, Jeanette Hennessy Wright, 51, was diagnosed with mesothelioma in July 2008.
If and when health care reform finally passes, we will have
successfully ameliorated only half of the crisis. The treatment half.
The next step has to be focused upon doing something about the poisoned
filth we've collectively nicknamed "food." Without any real changes in
how our food is produced, the health care system will continue to bloat
and fall apart. Not unlike the insides of an average American body.
Uninsured people are also more likely to
have undiagnosed and undertreated medical conditions, according to a
new study comparing chronic illnesses among Americans with and without
health coverage. The results offer possible clues to a recently
reported higher death rate among people who lack insurance.
Autumn has arrived in the Northeast. The leaves are turning colors, the days are getting shorter, and the weather has a hint of the chill to come. It's a time of change in many ways. Our nation is grappling with the daunting challenges of health care and global warming. Another change is coming as well. It's called the good food revolution. By bringing locally grown, organic, nutritiously rich food to a table near you, the good food revolution can help us tackle these larger societal issues, and benefit us all.
The New York Times pointed out how a flawed and inadequate USDA meat inspection system has
jeopardized the safety of those who eat meat and makes the simple act
of eating a burger a potential game of Russian roulette.
E. coli O157:H7, a virulent bacteria found in cattle manure was first
identified in 1975 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) and identified as a cause of human illness in 1982.
