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Best of the Web: Dr. Gori on the passive smoking fraud

NetzwerkRauchen
YouTube
Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:22 UTC
Dr. Gio Gori, former deputy director of the US National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Cause and Prevention and chairman of the Tobacco Working Group, explains why the alleged dangers of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) are entirely fictional.

Talk recorded at the international conference "Thinking is forbidden", held in Brussels 27/28 January 2009 (originally: "Smoking Bans and Lies", organized by The International Coalition against Prohibition).

Part 1

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Best of the Web: Passive Smoking: An Institutional Problem


Forces International Media Network
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:38 UTC
Forces International are glad to re-introduce to our readers the multimedia version of the most concise and scientifically accurate documentary on the international fraud on passive smoking. In only thirteen minutes you can learn how to educate others, while gaining for yourself a full perspective on the depth of this fraud - and of the corruption of the institutions that promote it.

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Pennsylvania, US: Coal Region Still Far from Finding Cause for Mysterious Cancer

Andrew McGill
The Morning Call
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:35 UTC
Researchers studying a cancer cluster say they're still mastering the basics in an investigation that's stretched five years.

Five years have passed since federal researchers first came to Pennsylvania's coal region seeking the origins of a mysterious disease.

And while numerous government agencies, hospitals, doctors and universities have joined the hunt, a cause remains elusive, those gathered in Tamaqua for an update of the studies found out Wednesday.

"PV" is as well-known as anthracite in the Pennsylvania coal region, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the rare form of cancer has taken unusually strong root. Estimated to affect one in 100,000 Americans - though researchers aren't firm on that number - Polycythemia vera has been known to hit four families on a single street in Tamaqua.

The victims have little in common, researchers say. They don't have the same jobs, the same ancestry, the same lifestyle. The only things they share are age - the disease strikes few under 60 - and an attachment to the three-county region of Carbon, Luzerne and Schuylkill counties, home to one of the CDC's few confirmed cancer clusters.
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India: Seven More Children Die of Mysterious Illness in Bihar


Hindustan Times
Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:10 UTC
Seven more children have died of a mysterious disease in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district taking the death toll to 20, officials said on Sunday. The children reported high fever, followed by bouts of unconsciousness and convulsions, leading to their death. Local people termed the mysterious disease as chamki ki bimari and claimed that the symptoms are similar to encephalitis, a disease that causes inflammation of the brain.

Health officials however, are still unable to identify the disease.

"In the last twenty four hours, seven more children died due to a mysterious disease at two hospitals in Muzaffarpur. Till now twenty children have died of the disease and over 50 children have been admitted to different hospitals in the last six days," a district health official said.

Bihar health minister Ashwani Kumar Chaubey on Sunday said that government was serious to take care of children suffering from the unknown disease.
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Health

A new discovery could reverse the effects of a stroke

Amanda Kahan
wptv.com
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:09 UTC
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Fifty-year-old David Adams used to run a restaurant.

Then, five years ago, he had a stroke. His life changed in an instant.

Thanks to years of therapy, David's gotten his independence, and some skills back.

While David and countless others face the daily challenges of life after stroke, LSU researchers have been looking for a way to stop the damage.
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12 Cases of Rare Fungus Now Confirmed among Joplin Tornado Victims

Sarah Okeson
News-Leader.com
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:00 UTC
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The number of confirmed cases of a rare, sometimes deadly fungus that has sickened survivors of the Joplin tornado has risen to 12, according to the federal agency that is investigating the disease.

Five people with the fungal infections have died, but Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, said it was unclear if the five are included in the 12 confirmed cases or in addition to them.
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Lightning Danger: Being Struck Can Be Deadly But Some Injuries Subtle, Discovery Delayed

Randall Dickerson
Daily Journal
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:12 UTC
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Nashville, Tennessee - Summer weather brings increased chances of electrical storms, and two recent incidents in Tennessee underscore the dangers of lightning.

On Friday, a lightning strike during a thunderstorm set an apartment building afire in Memphis. Everyone inside escaped unharmed, but damage was considerable. Five days earlier, lightning struck a building in Gallatin, starting a fire that killed a woman who lived there.

While it isn't possible to be completely safe from lightning, there are ways to reduce the chances of being harmed.

The National Weather Service safety slogan cautions, "When thunder roars, go indoors."

Take heed, urges Dr. Corey Slovis, chairman of the Emergency Medical Department at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, because the consequences of being struck by lightning range from mild burns with no long-term complications to instant death.
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It's official: mobile phones are evil!


Dr. Mercola
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:17 UTC

Here's some news about cell phones and cancer which even the mainstream media has found impossible to ignore. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), has declared after a review of the research that cell phones are possible cancer-causing agents. The expert panel ruled that there was some evidence that cell phone use was linked to two types of tumors - brain tumors (gliomas) and acoustic neuromas.

Some scientists say the IARC classification is still not strong enough, and that cell phone radiation should have been classified as a "Probable Human Carcinogen" based on the existing science, but evidently there were not enough studies to classify it more strongly at this time.

Alasdair Philips of Powerwatch in the U.K. says,
"The existing science is very clear there is risk of cancer from cell phone use. The warning might have been 2A if there were a larger number of animal studies showing this, or if there were a larger number of up-to-date human studies. It's important to recognize the Interphone study on which the classification to a large extent relied was completed in 2004, and current studies reflecting usage patterns today would be far more damning, possibly earning a Class 1 "Human Carcinogen."
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India: Mysterious disease kills 13 children in Bihar


IANS
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:20 UTC
Thirteen children have died of a mysterious disease in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district during the past five days, officials said Saturday. Of these, five children succumbed in the last 48 hours.

"In the last five days, a total of 13 children have died of a mysterious disease and over 50 children have been admitted to different hospitals," a district health official said.

A.P. Singh, district civil surgeon, told IANS on phone from Muzaffarpur that the cause of the deaths could not be ascertained till now.

"We cannot say what disease led to the death of the children here. The disease is yet to be identified. Whether it is encephalitis or some unknown disease, we can say only after medical reports come," he said.
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BPA Exposure Worse Than Previously Estimated

Paula Crossfield
Civil Eats
Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:07 UTC
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According to a new study, exposure to the gender-bending chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA) is worse than previously estimated. The study, which appeared Monday in Environmental Health Perspectives, is the first to recreate the chronic daily intake of BPA in humans, which leaches into our food - our primary channel for exposure - via its packaging. Researchers showed this by feeding a steady BPA-spiked diet to mice, whereas previous studies have only used a single exposure.

BPA has been linked to fertility problems, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, attention deficit disorder and cancer. Scientists at the University of Missouri, led by Cheryl Rosenfeld, found that a constant stream of BPA into the body could result in the chemical sticking around longer than expected.

"When BPA is taken through the food, the active form may remain in the body for a longer period of time than when it is provided through a single treatment, which does not reflect the continuous exposure that occurs in animal and human populations," Rosenfeld said. "We need to study this further to determine where the ingested BPA becomes concentrated and subsequently released back into the bloodstream to be distributed throughout the body."
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