A major study says parents harm their children's development if they ban tree-climbing or conkers
It is a scene that epitomises childhood: young siblings racing towards a heavy oak tree, hauling themselves on to the lower branches and scrambling up as high as they can get. Yet millions of children are being deprived of such pleasure because their parents are nervous about exposing them to any risks, new research has revealed.
A 38-year-old man has died of anthrax in southern Kazakhstan, the ex-Soviet republic's emergencies ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
The man was admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in the city of Lenger on Monday.
The Kazakh emergencies ministry said the victim had caught the infection while slaughtering cattle.
Outbreaks of anthrax are relatively common in the Central Asian state. Owners of sick cattle have been known to sell meat from infected animals after culling them, bypassing veterinary checks.
Gibsonville - Even a state water quality expert with 29 years' experience can't guess what makes up the black gunk collecting on faucets in Walnut Crossing.
"As far as what this is, I don't have a clue," said Wade MacDonald, assistant regional engineer for the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
MacDonald went to Joe Albino's Walnut Crossing home on Monday and filled a jug with a liter of water for testing. MacDonald then swabbed the black stuff collecting on faucets and shower heads in Albino's home and stuck those in a container for more tests.
LOS ANGELES - Snack lovers, rejoice: Munching on potato chips just got a little healthier.
Four food manufacturers agreed to reduce levels of a cancer-causing chemical in their potato chips and french fries under a settlement announced Friday by the state attorney general's office.
WASHINGTON - Shakespeare once called sleep the "balm of hurt minds." Bodies, too, apparently. People with the severe form of apnea, which interferes with sleep, are several times more likely to die from any cause than are folks without the disorder, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Sleep.
The findings in the 18-year study confirm smaller studies that have indicated an increased risk of death for people with apnea, also known as sleep-disordered breathing.
"This is not a condition that kills you acutely. It is a condition that erodes your health over time," Dr. Michael J. Twery, director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, said in a telephone interview.
People with such disorders "have been sleep deprived for perhaps very long periods of time, they are struggling to sleep. If this is happening night after night, week after week, on top of all our other schedules, this is a dangerous recipe," said Twery, whose center is part of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
The institute estimates that 12 million to 18 million people in the U.S. have moderate to severe apnea. The condition is not always detected because the sufferer is asleep when the problem occurs and it cannot be diagnosed during a routine office visit with a doctor. Researchers tested the patients for sleep-disordered breathing in the laboratory and then followed them over several years.
Bashas' grocery stores in Arizona have pulled all Mexican-grown jalapeño peppers from the shelves after U.S. Food and Drug Administration tests showed some tested positive for salmonella bacteria.
The peppers were also pulled from Bashas'-owned Food City and AJ's stores.
Bashas' spokeswoman Kristy Nied says the FDA recently tested produce at the company's warehouse and told them Friday of the positive test.
Bashas' has sanitized its display cases and replaced the peppers with U.S.-grown produce. Stores will give refunds for peppers bought before Aug. 2.
The peppers came from one of two distributors, one in Arizona and one in California.
ATLANTA - The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.
The country had roughly 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006 - about a 40 percent increase from the 40,000 annual estimate used for the past dozen years. The new figure is due to a better blood test and new statistical methods, and not a worsening of the epidemic, officials said.
But it likely will refocus U.S. attention from the effect of AIDS overseas to what the disease is doing to this country, said public health researchers and officials.
"This is the biggest news for public health and HIV/AIDS that we've had in a while," said Julie Scofield, executive director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors.
Some have said that we are undergoing a devious plan of depopulation in the world, in which the secret government and the elite have decided there are too many people on the earth and billions must die so they can continue with their plans of utopia. I've heard these ideas mentioned again and again in the last years, but truly never gave much credence to the idea, until now.
In exploring the world, we all gather little truths, ideas that are not held by the masses, but we don't always put those puzzle pieces together. Our society has done a fine job in teaching us to separate facts, to focus on the small pieces and not see the bigger picture. We like to categorize things and events, as though neatness and organization counts when attempting to understand reality and we cling to the structures around us, fearful of change. We keep our horror aimed at the movie screen, fearing deviant maniacs and monsters, perhaps subconsciously knowing that if we disconnect from that screen, we may encounter the real monsters, which look just like us.
According to CNN and a study published in the
Journal of Allergy and Immunology, milk allergy is the most common food allergy, having established itself in the number one position in the last ten years. Interestingly, a new protein was introduced into the American milk supply just over ten years ago. Children with a milk allergy see the proteins found in milk as "foreign" which in turn triggers an allergic reaction. Are these recently introduced proteins responsible for the milk allergy epidemic? You decide. What the leading pediatric allergists (funded by Big Food and Big Pharma) failed to tell us ...
In the early 1990s, one of the world's largest chemical companies, Monsanto Corporation, in conjunction with a global pharmaceutical corporation, invented a drug that could be injected into cows to increase their milk production.
Mexico City - Mexican agriculture officials said Thursday that U.S. colleagues hunting for the source of a salmonella outbreak are rushing to a conclusion about finding the strain at a Mexican pepper farm.
The salmonella sample that one U.S. official called "a smoking gun" was taken from a water tank that had not been used for more than two months to irrigate crops, said the director of Mexico's Farm Food Quality Service, Enrique Sanchez.
