The Republic's Food Safety Authority is recalling certain batches of bottled juice drinks due to concerns about possible contamination.
The authority says the batches of Killowen Orchard juices are being taken off the shelves due to the presence of high levels of patulin, a toxic contaminant produced naturally by moulds in fruit.
The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit Thursday against Exxon Mobil Corp., claiming the oil giant has failed to clean up petroleum contamination from a marine fuel storage terminal near Aquatic Park that closed more than a decade ago.
The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, demands that Exxon Mobil remove gasoline and other petroleum products that remain in the soil and groundwater on the property and stop the small amounts of oil that are seeping into San Francisco Bay - all remnants of three tanks that fed a fueling station at Pier 49.
A drug commonly used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD) disorder in children, teens and adults has been linked to numerous adverse reactions, including suicide attempts, Health Canada has warned.
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego claim to have isolated more than two dozen promising and novel compounds from which new "designer drugs" might be developed to combat Avian flu.
A Kyoto university professor has developed a technique to create a large amount of antibodies for avian influenza using an ostrich egg, it has been learned.
WARSAW - Twenty-one homeless individuals in Poland have died after being given an unproven bird-flu virus vaccine, authorities have charged.
Prosecutors have accused three doctors and six nurses of misleading the homeless individuals by telling them they were being given a new influenza vaccine rather than a vaccine for the H5N1 bird-flu virus, The Daily Telegraph said Thursday.
Comment: What is the story behind 3 doctors and 6 nurses taking it upon themselves to experiment on the homeless in a misleading manner?
PHILADELPHIA - Scientists say they've developed a potential way to use DNA to vaccinate against avian flu, allowing rapid mobilization during an epidemic.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine said they used vaccine via DNA constructed to build antigens against flu, along with a tiny electric pulse, to immunize experimental animals against various strains of the bird-flu virus.
Bruce E. Levine
AlterNetFri, 04 Jul 2008 05:22 UTC
A "Daily Show" interview that hit a chord for me was Jon Stewart's conversation with Tal Ben-Shahar, who teaches "positive psychology" at Harvard and has written a self-help book. Early in the interview, a suspicious Stewart declares, "I am a psychology major, so I know a lot of it is bullshit."
Stewart, however, politely gives Ben-Shahar a chance to explain the value of his book and his course on positive psychology. Ben-Shahar is proud that his course is the most popular one at Harvard, to which Stewart gets an audience laugh by suggesting that perhaps the real reason it is so popular is because it is easy. This results in a nervous laugh from Ben-Shahar, who retorts that his exams are "actually quite difficult." Ben-Shahar then explains that there is now a "science of happiness" and offers a study to prove it, but an unimpressed Stewart quips, "How is that science?"
Comment: We know that the psychopaths will not stop at anything in order to control normal people and hide themselves in the society. It is no surprise then that psychology and psychiatry, with their potentials to help people to really understand themselves and the psychopaths, have been a prime target for corruption. Much critical discernment is needed when reading in that field.
Can't sleep? Well you're not alone, especially among women.
A 2007 poll by the National Sleep Foundation found that 67 percent of women frequently experience sleep problems and 29 percent use some type of sleep aid at least a few nights a week. Other surveys have consistently found that nearly half again as many women as men complain of insomnia.
Yet 75 percent of sleep research has been done on men, and until recently the researchers have been primarily men. The major texts for sleep studies have had, until recently, little to say about women's sleep.
Comment: What is the story behind 3 doctors and 6 nurses taking it upon themselves to experiment on the homeless in a misleading manner?