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Next Major Toxic Hazard that Can Ruin You and Your Children's Health

Susan Shaw, an internationally recognized marine toxicologist, author and explorer, shows evidence the toxic Gulf of Mexico oil slick is being kept off of beaches only at devastating cost to the health of the deep sea.


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Study Reveals How Cranberry Juice Conquers E. Coli

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Anyone who's had a urinary tract infection has probably heard of the centuries-old home remedy of swigging cranberry juice.

The knowledge that cranberries fight the bacteria causing these infections comes in handy, especially as the overuse of prescription antibiotics forces new strains of drug-resistant bacteria to evolve.

Although scientists are still not exactly sure how the fruit juice functions as a natural antibiotic, a new study has provided a bit more insight. A group of researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, Mass., investigated the nanoscale battle between cranberry juice and the infection-causing bacteria.

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Thousands in Gulf Suffer from Misdiagnosed Skin Lesions

Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana - Area residents have begun to show up at clinics and hospitals with mysterious scabs and pustules covering their extremities, as reported from residents to non-profit relief organizations in the Gulf.

One thirty-three year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous, has disclosed to Project Gulf Impact that upon seeking medical advice at a clinic, she was told she had scabies. Hours later, she was told by an area hospital that she had a staph infection. The woman was treated with a shot of penicillin and Elimite cream, a topical agent for the treatment of scabies mite infestations, and an oral antibiotic. In addition to the lesions, the woman reported aching bones, weight loss, stomach pains, inflammation in her leg and sties developing in her eyes.

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Study Finds: Light and Moderate Physical Activity Reduces the Risk of Early Death

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A new study by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Cambridge University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has found that even light or moderate intensity physical activity, such as walking or cycling, can substantially reduced the risk of early death.

The study, published by the International Journal of Epidemiology, combined the results from the largest studies around the world on the health impact of light and moderate intensity physical activity. It showed that the largest health benefits from light or moderate activity (such as walking and cycling) were in people who do hardly any physical activity at all. Although more activity is better - the benefits of even a small amount of physical activity are very large in the least physically active.

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Cloned cow milk is being sold illegally in Britain

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© AlamyCloning controversy: Milk from the calves of a cloned cow is being sold illegally in Britain


Milk from the offspring of cloned cows is secretly - and illegally - going into high street shops.

Despite deep unease among consumers, the milk is not being labeled or identified in any way, leaving shoppers in the dark about what they are drinking.

The dairy farmer involved said he wanted to remain anonymous because the British public regards cloning as so distasteful that buyers would stop taking his milk.

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New Details Emerge in CT Scan Radiation Overdose Scandal

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Radiation overdoses resulting from botched CT brain perfusion scans that occurred at hospitals across the country were larger and more widespread than previously known, according to a New York Times investigation. The Times' investigation also raises new questions about the role CT scan machine manufacturers may have played in the overdoses.

We've been covering the CT scan overdose scandal since it was first reported by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) last year. According to alerts issued by the agency in October and December 2009, machines involved in the botched CT scans, made by General Electric and Toshiba, had been wrongly calibrated and subjected patients who underwent brain perfusion scans following a stroke to excessive doses of radiation.

According to the FDA, at least 269 patients at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles were injured in this way. Another 37 received radiation overdoses at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, while 65 more at Alabama's Huntsville Hospital underwent botched CT scans. At the time, the FDA was also investigating 10 incidents at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in California.

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9 Steps to Heal Autoimmune Disease

Inflammation is "hot" topic in medicine. It appears connected to almost every known chronic disease - from heart disease to cancer, diabetes to obesity, autism to dementia, and even depression. Other inflammatory diseases such as allergies, asthma, arthritis, and autoimmune disease are increasing at dramatic rates. As physicians we are trained to shut off inflammation with aspirin, anti-inflammatory medication such as Advil or Motrin, steroids and increasingly more powerful immune suppressing medication with serious side effects. But we are not trained to find and treat the underlying causes of inflammation in chronic disease. Hidden allergens, infections, environmental toxins, an inflammatory diet, and stress are the real causes of these inflammatory conditions.

Autoimmune diseases, specifically, now affect 24 million people and include rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, thyroid disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and more. These are often addressed by powerful immune suppressing medication and not by addressing the cause. That's like taking a lot of aspirin while you are standing on a tack. The treatment is not more aspirin or a strong immune suppressant, but removing the tack.

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UK: Huge Rise in 11-Year-Old Girls on the Pill

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© Getty ImagesOver 1,000 girls in the first year of secondary school have been given prescriptions for the contraception pills.
The number of 11 and 12-year-old girls prescribed the pill by a family doctor has soared five-fold in the past decade, according to figures.

More than 1,000 girls in the first year of secondary school have been given prescriptions for the pill, according to figures from GPs, while a further 200 have long-term inject-able or implanted contraceptive devices.

The disclosure prompted warnings that Britain was "facilitating the sexualisation of young people at an every younger age".

It follows the publication of guidance by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence that sex education should be introduced from the age of five.

Trevor Stammers, chairman of the Christian Medical Fellowship and a GP in south London, told The Sunday Times: "If sex education is introduced in primary schools in the way being proposed, we will see many more 11-year-old girls seeking contraception without pointing out the risks.... We are going to make matters worse."

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Philip Morris Inc. Sent Marlboro Cigarettes Tainted with Pigs Blood and Nuclear Matter To Iran

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The Iranian Tobacco Company is being urged to adopt better supervisory measures regarding the distribution of cigarettes in the country.

An Iranian official says some of the most popular cigarette brands are contaminated with nuclear substances when smuggled into the country.

"Some of the most famous cigarette brands worldwide including Marlboro, which accounts for the bulk of smuggled cigarettes [into the Islamic Republic] are tainted with [hazardous] nuclear materials," Mehr News Agency quoted Mohammad-Reza Madani from the Society for Fighting Smoking as saying on Friday.

"The largest tobacco companies in the world use various tricks in order to keep their markets and increase their sales," Madani added.

He went on to add that the company responsible for the production of the tainted cigarettes is the "Philip Morris International, which is led by Zionists (Israelis)," and sells Marlboro outside the US.

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Best of the Web: FDA Warns Consumers of Serious Harm from Drinking Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS)

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NOT a miracle, NOT a mineral and definitely NOT the solution
Product contains industrial strength bleach

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to take Miracle Mineral Solution, an oral liquid solution also known as "Miracle Mineral Supplement" or "MMS." The product, when used as directed, produces an industrial bleach that can cause serious harm to health.

The FDA has received several reports of health injuries from consumers using this product, including severe nausea, vomiting, and life-threatening low blood pressure from dehydration.

Consumers who have MMS should stop using it immediately and throw it away.

MMS is distributed on Internet sites and online auctions by multiple independent distributors. Although the products share the MMS name, the look of the labeling may vary.

The product instructs consumers to mix the 28 percent sodium chlorite solution with an acid such as citrus juice. This mixture produces chlorine dioxide, a potent bleach used for stripping textiles and industrial water treatment. High oral doses of this bleach, such as those recommended in the labeling, can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and symptoms of severe dehydration.

Comment: To learn more about MMS and the background of the snake-oil salesman peddling this dangerous substance, check out the following SOTT.net articles:

Another Fraud Of Alternative Medicine: M.M.S.

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Down the Rabbit Hole - The Assassination of JFK, Bishop Jim Humble And The Nexus Conference

You can also read our exposé on this substance, MMS: Miracle or Trojan Horse?, by getting your copy of Issue #10 of Dot Connector Magazine today!