For anyone unsure Congress protects profits over lives, human health and the environemt, take a look at the move to stop tracking toxins in our water!! From OpenCongress.org...
The government issued warnings on Friday about two materials used daily by millions of Americans, saying that one causes cancer and the other might. Government scientists listed formaldehyde as a carcinogen, and said it is found in worrisome quantities in plywood, particle board …
As the third most common cancer type in the U.S., raising awareness of screening programmes is undoubtedly important. But Washington residents were turned off by a series of billboards for colon cancer, featuring a person with a pained expression and the line: 'What's up your bu …
Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders.
A larger than average proportion of Danish women are smokers, while the country also has high levels of alcohol consumption, both of which have been shown to increase the risk of developing cancer.
'Given poor government regulation, many of the cleaning products available on the market contain "everyday" carcinogens such as formaldehyde, nitrobenzene, methylene chloride, and napthelene, as well as reproductive toxins and hormone disruptors.
Even occasional smoking or secondhand smoke causes immediate damage to one's organs and poses risk of serious illness or death, the U.S. Surgeon General said in a new report released Thursday. "There is no risk-free level of exposure to tobacco smoke," it said.
With the death of Elizabeth Edwards from her long battle with breast cancer, and with my wife having a small tumor removed from her breast yesterday (hopefully benign), I wanted to take a moment to emphasize the importance of women doing self exams, and having mammograms as reco …
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Even as she lay on her deathbed surrounded by family, Elizabeth Edwards was the one providing comfort to everyone around her, family friends said today.
Whether it was advice about politics, clothes or boys, Elizabeth Edwards was always ready dispense her wisdom.
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