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Iran makes first herbal anti-cancer drug


Press TV
Tue, 05 May 2009 11:49 UTC
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Iranian researchers have produced the world's first anti-cancer medication derived from herbs indigenous to the country.

Spinal-z is a methanolic mixture of dried powdered seeds, domestic to Iran, which are considered poisonous on their own. The combination of the herbs has shown promising results in treating stomach cancer.

Iran's Deputy Health Minister, Hamidreza Rasekh, said that spinal-z, which has strong anti-carcinogen properties, has successfully finished the three phases of clinical studies and will be ready to enter the market soon.
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Family

Mother denied all access to her children

Daniel Foggo
Times Online
Sun, 10 May 2009 11:22 UTC
A court has denied the former wife of a rich City financier all access to their three children after she was found to be turning them against him.

In an extraordinary ruling, the woman, who was also judged to be too indulgent a parent, has been legally barred from seeing her children for three years. She was jailed for approaching one of them in the street and telling him she loved him in breach of a court order. She is facing a possible return to jail this summer for posting a video about her plight on the internet.

The woman judge presiding over the case justified banning contact between the mother and her children because they were being placed in "an intolerable situation of conflict of loyalties resulting in them suffering serious emotional harm".
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Health

Natural Remedies for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Sun, 10 May 2009 00:00 UTC
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common condition that many people struggle with. Statistics show that one in ten Americans display the symptoms of IBS, accounting for more than 2 million prescriptions and 35,000 hospitalizations each year. It is also the second highest cause of work absenteeism after the common cold.

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A Revealing Look at the Inside of Monsanto And Their Genetic Engineering Machine

Jeffrey M. Smith
Mercola.com
Sat, 09 May 2009 22:46 UTC
"Hope to "Save the World Through Genetic Engineering"

Monsanto was quite happy to recruit young Kirk Azevedo to sell their genetically engineered cotton. Kirk had grown up on a California farm and had worked in several jobs monitoring and testing pesticides and herbicides. Kirk was bright, ambitious, handsome, and idealistic -- the perfect candidate to project the company's "Save the World Through Genetic Engineering" image.
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Info

Flashback Morgellons: Terrifying New Disease Reaching Pandemic Status

Barbara Minton
Natural News
Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:30 UTC
It sounds like something from a bad sci-fi movie. People report the sensation of creatures crawling under their skin, mysterious moving fibers appear, and finally bugs and worms pop out. Unfortunately, these terrifying symptoms are all too true. The people having them are experiencing Morgellons, the latest and scariest in the series of bizarre diseases appearing in the last few years, seemingly from nowhere. Morgellons is now reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S. and abroad.

Morgellons is a multi-dimensional disease

Morgellons starts with relentless itching, stinging or biting sensations. Cotton-like balls may appear on the body with no reasonable explanation. Soon skin rash develops along with lesions that will not heal. Many sufferers report string-like fibers of varying color popping out through the skin lesions. These fibers can be black, white, red or even iridescent blue. Others report black specks falling from their bodies that litter their sheets and bathrooms. Eventually a variety of bugs and worms begin to find their way out of the body through the lesions. Other accompanying symptoms include hair loss, debilitating and chronic fatigue, hard nodules beneath the skin, and joint pain.
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Flashback Morgellons Disease May Be Linked to Genetically Modified Food

Barbara Minton
Natural News
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:22 UTC
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has given care giant Kaiser Permanente over $300,000 to test and interview 150 to 500 patients suffering from Morgellons Disease. The study will be done in northern California where many Morgellons patients live.

Prior to this news, people had written off the disease as a hoax or the result of hypochondria. But recent evidence suggests that the disease is indeed real, and may be related to genetically modified (GM) food.

What is Morgellons Disease?

On August 1, 2007, the CDC issued the following statement regarding Morgellons Disease: "Morgellons is an unexplained and debilitating condition that has emerged as a public health concern. Recently, the CDC has received an increased number of inquiries from the public, health care providers, public health officials, Congress, and the media regarding this condition. Persons who suffer from this condition report a range of coetaneous symptoms including crawling, biting and stinging sensations; granules, threads or black speck-like materials on or beneath the skin; and/or lesions (e.g., rashes or sores) and some sufferers also report systemic manifestations such as fatigue, mental confusion, short term memory loss, joint pain, and changes in vision.
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Record High Army Suicides Prompt Action

Blake Farmer
National Public Radio
Sat, 09 May 2009 22:35 UTC
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© Will InteractiveSoldiers now use an interactive video to role play as the buddy of another soldier in crisis. The choices made at the end of each scene lead either to finding help for this imaginary soldier or attending his funeral.
All Things Considered-- A U.S. soldier is now more likely than a civilian to take his own life. The Army crossed that threshold at the end of 2008 - a year in which 140 soldiers killed themselves - a record high. And the situation is getting worse, not better.

The Army counted 64 possible suicides in the first four months of this year, 11 of those were at Fort Campbell, Ky. - four suicides in January, three in February and four in March.

The stories from this sprawling post on the Tennessee-Kentucky line are tragic and disturbing. Sgt. Jeremy Duncan deployed from Fort Campbell to Iraq with a soldier who killed himself last year with a shotgun.
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Info

Brainy men may be healthier men

Ewen Callaway
New Scientist
Sat, 09 May 2009 22:08 UTC
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© Don Hammond / Design Pics Inc. / Rex FeaturesHealth and intelligence may be the result of the same genetic factors.
In addition to checking blood pressure and heart rate, doctors may want to test their patients' IQs to get a good measure of overall health.

A new study of 3654 Vietnam War veterans finds that men with lower IQs are more likely to suffer from dozens of health problems - from hernias, to ear inflammation, to cataracts - compared with those showing greater intelligence.

This offers tantalising - yet preliminary - evidence that health and intelligence are the result of common genetic factors, and that low intelligence may be an indication of harmful genetic mutations.

"It poses the question to epidemiologists: why is it that intelligence is a predictor for things that seem so very far removed from the brain," says Rosalind Arden, a psychologist at King's College London, who led the study.
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Health

WHO considers flu alert overhaul in face of mounting criticism

Andrew Jack
Financial Times
Sat, 09 May 2009 15:54 UTC
The World Health Organisation is considering an overhaul of its pandemic ratings system amid growing criticism that it provoked unnecessary alarm by rapidly escalating its warnings over swine flu.

Officials at the agency's headquarters in Geneva said they were discussing changes to the six-point scale to make clear in the future the gravity of the threat posed by a new virus.

The move comes against a backdrop of intensifying attacks on the WHO, which has been accused of "crying wolf" over its decisions to raise its pandemic alert from level three to an unprecedented five. This comes amid indications it may even go to the maximum level six.
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Health

WHO: Up to 2 billion people might get swine flu over next two years

Eliane Engeler and Alexander G. Higgens
Associated Press
Sat, 09 May 2009 15:50 UTC
GENEVA - The World Health Organization said Thursday that up to 2 billion people could be infected by swine flu if the current outbreak turns into a pandemic. The agency said a pandemic typically lasts two years.

WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the number wasn't a prediction, but that experience with flu pandemics showed one-third of the world's population gets infected.

"If we do move into a pandemic then our expectation is that we will see a large number of people infected worldwide," Fukuda said. "If you look at past pandemics, it would be a reasonable estimate to say perhaps a third of the world's population would get infected with this virus."
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