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Toxic Waters - Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering - Series

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Charles Duhigg - Sep. 13 (Investigative Report) - In the past five years, companies and workplaces have violated pollution laws more than 500,000 times. But the vast majority of polluters have escaped punishment.

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Expanding waistlines may cause shrinking brains

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Nora Schultz - Aug. 23 (Special Report) - Brain regions important for cognition are smaller in obese older people, making their brains look up to 16 years older than they are. As brain shrinkage is linked to dementia, this adds weight to the suspicion that piling on the pounds may up a person's risk of the brain condition.

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How to feel up in a downturn

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Oliver Burkeman - Aug. 15 (Special Report) - When Napoleon Hill set out to discover the secret principle underlying all human success, he brought an appropriate degree of diligence to the task. Over two decades, he interviewed the leading entrepreneurs of his era (Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell), the leading financiers (John D Rockefeller, Charles Schwab) and the leading politicians (Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson – and Joseph Stalin, which tells you something about the definition of "success" we're dealing with here). Hill, who had been born into poverty in America's Appalachian mountains in 1883, wanted to know what his interviewees had in common: how had they achieved such wealth, power, fame and, apparently, fulfilment?

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China: Where Poisoning People Is Almost Free

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Vivian Wai-yin Kwok - Aug. 07 (Special Report) - In addition to its cheap labor costs, China has another comparative advantage as the world's factory: Companies often pay almost nothing to pollute China's air, water and soil and to poison its people.

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Common insect repellent affects nervous system: study

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Agence France-Presse - By Marlowe Hood - Aug. 05 (News Report) - experiments on insects, as well as on enzymes extracted from mice and human neurons, showed for the first time that it can interfere with the proper functioning of the nervous system. The researchers say further studies are "urgently needed" to assess deet's potential toxicity to humans, especially when combined with other chemical compounds. Their findings may also shed some light on the so-called "Gulf War Syndrome," the name given to a complex and variable mix of neurological symptoms reported by tens of thousands of US military veterans who served in the first Gulf War against Iraq in 1990-1991.

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Modified corn seeds sow doubts

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Globe and Mail - By Martin Mittelstaedt - Aug. 04 (News Report) - With so much crammed into one seed, the modified corn will be able to confer multiple benefits, such as resistance to corn borers and rootworms, two caterpillar-like pests that infest the valuable grain crop, as well as withstanding applications of glyphosate, a weed killer better known by its commercial name, Roundup. But a controversy has arisen over the new seeds, which were approved for use last month by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency: Health Canada hasn't assessed their safety.

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FDA concludes mercury in dental fillings not risky

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Lauran Neergaard - Jul. 29 (News Report) - The government declared Tuesday that silver dental fillings contain too little mercury to harm the millions who've had cavities filled with them - including young children - and that only people allergic to mercury need to avoid them.

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Gargantuan helpings of fast food surge in popularity

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Kansas City Star - By Joyce Smith - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Restaurants across the land, feeding a trend begun several years ago with the introduction of Hardee’s Thickburger, are offering ever-larger burgers, sandwiches and rich dishes. In this economy, restaurateurs say, they want to give more value for the money. And stressed consumers seem to have a taste for such comfort food. For some diners, words like low fat, diet, organic or healthy are just not on the menu.

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Drinking from Plastic Bottles 'Increases Exposure to Gender-Bending Chemical'

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Murray Wardrop - May. 22 (News Report) - Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that polycarbonate containers release the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) into liquid stored in them. BPA has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans.

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Ministry of Defence admits to further radioactive leaks from submarines

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Rob Edwards - May. 18 (News Report) - Radioactive waste has leaked from Britain's nuclear submarines nine times in the past 12 years, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted. Two of the leaks – including one at Devonport near Plymouth two months ago – had not been revealed until today.

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Pesticide in pools far above safe limit

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Australian - By Matthew Denholm - May. 18 (News Report) - Australia's pesticides regulator told The Australian it would review the use of the herbicide simazine, a common ingredient in swimming pool anti-algae treatments and suburban weed killers.

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Britain's farmers still restricted by Chernobyl nuclear fallout

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Terry Macalister, Helen Carter - May. 12 (Special Report) - Nearly 370 farms in Britain are still restricted in the way they use land and rear sheep because of radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident 23 years ago, the government has admitted.

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Potomac Fish Study Turns Up No Exact Cause of Abnormalities

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David A. Fahrenthold - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - More than 80 percent of the male smallmouth bass in the Potomac River are growing eggs, but after six years of searching, scientists still have not pinned down the pollutants that are causing the abnormality, according to research unveiled yesterday. Federal officials released the results of the largest-ever investigation into "intersex" fish in the Potomac watershed.

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FACT CHECK: Do smokers cost society money?

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Erica Werner - Apr. 09 (News Report) - Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too - by living longer. It's an element of the debate over tobacco that some economists and officials find distasteful.

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France to pay nuclear test victims

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Mar. 24 (News Report) - France carried out 210 tests in the Sahara Desert and the South Pacific, including Mururoa and Fangataufa, French Polynesian islands, from 1960 to 1996. Pierre Leroy, a French army veteran, said he was present when a nuclear test misfired in the Sahara in 1962. "We were 19, 20 years old. They told us, 'There are no risks, it's not dangerous'. There were no precautions," he said. Staff who took part in the French tests, as well as residents of areas close to the testing zones, have long complained of health consequences including leukemia and other forms of cancer.

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Black Women's Health: 4 Ways to Boost It

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

U.S. News & World Report - By January W. Payne - Feb. 23 (Special Report) - Two new publications, The Black Woman's Guide to Healthy Living and the American Cancer Society's report "Cancer Facts & Figures for African Americans," shine a spotlight squarely on black women's health. And for good reason: They're more likely than white women to succumb to top killers. African-American women are 35 percent more likely to die from heart disease, for example, according to the National Women's Health Information Center. African-Americans overall don't get the same level of heart disease care as whites because they don't undergo the same tests and treatments.

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Food producers need not report in-house test results

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Greg Bluestein - Jan. 29 (Special Report) - A federal inquiry into a deadly salmonella outbreak has exposed a dirty secret: Food producers in most states are not required to alert health regulators if internal tests show possible contamination at their plants.

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Gazan babies born into war

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Israeli offensive prevents newborns and pregnant women from getting medical care they need.

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Health | 'Visions link' to coffee intake

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 14 (News Report) - People who drink too much coffee could start seeing ghosts or hearing strange voices, UK research has suggested. ...However, academics say the findings do not prove a "causal link".

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Heroin Program's Deadly Toll

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Justin Scheck - Jan. 10 (Special Report) - harm-reduction leaders have struggled to address a sometimes-lethal issue: dangerous drug use by the very workers who are supposed to help users. In the circles of New York and San Francisco where Mr. Morse worked, at least five harm-reduction staffers have died of overdoses. These included needle-exchange founders in both cities, as well as psychologist John Watters, a needle-exchange advocate who started a study to track how outreach programs benefited drug users. Mr. Watters died from an opiate overdose in 1995.

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As Duties Weigh Obama Down, His Faith in Fitness Only Increases

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Eli Saslow - Dec. 24 (News Report) - Being elected president forces a man to take inventory of his life, so Barack Obama has trimmed his schedule to the bare essentials. He’s not in the White House yet, but gone are the hours he once spent reading novels, watching television and obsessing over the daily transactions of Chicago’s spo...

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Panel: EPA must consider effects of chemical barrage

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - By Liz Szabo - Dec. 18 (News Report) - Chemicals that interfere with the male hormone system are so common — and so potentially damaging — that the government should stop studying them one by one and consider their combined effect, an expert panel said Thursday. Phthalates and other hormone-disrupting chemicals pollute the air, water and dust and are found in hundreds of consumer products — including bug spray, perfume, pesticides, shower curtains, food containers, and plastic toys, according to a report released today from the National Research Council, which advises the government on science policy.

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It's official: Men really are the weaker sex

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Geoffrey Lean - Dec. 07 (News Report) - The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals. The research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet published – shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people.

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Nap without guilt: It boosts sophisticated memory

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Lauran Neergaard - Nov. 25 (News Report) - Take a nap. Interrupting sleep seriously disrupts memory-making, compelling new research suggests. But on the flip side, taking a nap may boost a sophisticated kind of memory that helps us see the big picture and get creative. "Not only do we need to remember to sleep, but most certainly we sleep to remember,"

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China: The World's Most Stressful Society | Newsweek International

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Melinda Liu - Nov. 15 (Investigative Report) - Many who knew [Tang] are reluctant to talk about him publicly, fearing trouble with the authorities, and most requested anonymity before agreeing to be interviewed. But his story reveals tensions that seethe just below the surface in China.

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