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© CBC NewsNaturopaths are pushing for broader prescribing powers, arguing that they are trained in primary care.
Need an antibiotic for that nasty lung infection? Your naturopath may soon be able to prescribe it.
That's because naturopathic doctors are among a group of medical professionals that are pushing for expanded prescribing rights - and they're recently seeing success.
Ontario just became the second province in Canada to get the green light for increased prescribing rights for naturopaths. British Columbia granted its naturopaths the right to prescribe a greater number of medications - as well as high-dose vitamins, amino acids, hormones, botanicals and herbs - in April 2009.
The announcement follows the granting of more powers to other health professionals, such as midwives and registered nurses.
Injection of cows with recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), the genetically engineered, potent variant of the natural growth hormone produced by cows, sharply elevates levels of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) in milk, Dr. Epstein warned the commissioner.
IGF-1, which is readily absorbed through the small intestine, increases the risk of cancer in people who drink milk from cows treated with rBGH, he warned. In 1989, Dr. Epstein had found evidence of breast cancer resulting from IGF-1 ingestion; a few years later colon and prostate data began to emerge.
© iStockphoto/Olga SoloveiCommon experience tells us that particular scents of childhood can leave quite an impression, for better or for worse.
"We found that the first pairing or association between an object and a smell had a distinct signature in the brain," even in adults, said Yaara Yeshurun of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. "This 'etching' of initial odor memories in the brain was equal for good and bad smells, yet was unique to odor." Sounds did not have the same effect, the research showed.
In the study, the researchers presented adults with a visual object together with one, and later with a second, set of pleasant and unpleasant odors and sounds while their brains were imaged by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). A week later, the researchers presented the same objects inside the fMRI and tested participants' associations of those images with the scents and smells.
There's a fascinating book by author Robert Cialdini called Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion. As someone who frequently writes about Big Pharma's social engineering tactics, I've read and studied many of these tactics, noting carefully how governments and Big Business use them to wage disinformation campaigns against the People.
I was recently chatting with friends on my Facebook page when a friend named Jennifer pointed out that she thought the vaccine shortage had been intentionally engineered to create greater demand once the vaccines were available. This immediately got me thinking about a chapter in the Cialdini book that writes about something I call the "disappearing cookies in the cookie jar" experiment.
This experiment reveals an extremely powerful strategy for influence. And as it turns out, the pharmaceutical industry is using precisely this strategy for fabricating huge demand for their vaccines in an effort to make sure all the vaccines sell out.
I was recently chatting with friends on my Facebook page when a friend named Jennifer pointed out that she thought the vaccine shortage had been intentionally engineered to create greater demand once the vaccines were available. This immediately got me thinking about a chapter in the Cialdini book that writes about something I call the "disappearing cookies in the cookie jar" experiment.
This experiment reveals an extremely powerful strategy for influence. And as it turns out, the pharmaceutical industry is using precisely this strategy for fabricating huge demand for their vaccines in an effort to make sure all the vaccines sell out.
Days after birth, French and German infants wail to the melodic structure of their languages
Only days after birth, babies have a bawl with language. Newborn babies cry in melodic patterns that they have heard in adults' conversations - even while in the womb, say medical anthropologist Kathleen Wermke of the University of Würzburg in Germany, and her colleagues.
By 2 to 5 days of age, infants' cries bear the tuneful signature of their parents' native tongue, a sign that language learning has already commenced, the researchers report in a paper published online November 5 in Current Biology.
Fluent speakers use melodic patterns and pitch shifts to imbue words and phrases with emotional meaning. Changes in pitch and rhythm, for example, can indicate anger. During the last few months of fetal life, babies can hear what their mothers or other nearby adults are saying, providing exposure to melodies peculiar to a specific language, Wermke says. Newborns then re-create those familiar patterns in at least some of their cries, she proposes.
Only days after birth, babies have a bawl with language. Newborn babies cry in melodic patterns that they have heard in adults' conversations - even while in the womb, say medical anthropologist Kathleen Wermke of the University of Würzburg in Germany, and her colleagues.
By 2 to 5 days of age, infants' cries bear the tuneful signature of their parents' native tongue, a sign that language learning has already commenced, the researchers report in a paper published online November 5 in Current Biology.
Fluent speakers use melodic patterns and pitch shifts to imbue words and phrases with emotional meaning. Changes in pitch and rhythm, for example, can indicate anger. During the last few months of fetal life, babies can hear what their mothers or other nearby adults are saying, providing exposure to melodies peculiar to a specific language, Wermke says. Newborns then re-create those familiar patterns in at least some of their cries, she proposes.
Gender-bending chemicals are largely exempt from new EU regulations, warns Geoffrey Lean.
Here's something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bending chemicals in such everyday items as waterproof clothes, rubber boots, bed linen, food, nappies, sunscreen lotion and moisturising cream.
The 326-page report, published by the environment protection agency, is the latest piece in an increasingly alarming jigsaw. A picture is emerging of ubiquitous chemical contamination driving down sperm counts and feminising male children all over the developed world. And anti-pollution measures and regulations are falling far short of getting to grips with it.
© Getty CreativeGirls will be girls and boys will be girls: everyday 'gender-bending' chemicals are feminising increasing numbers of babies
The 326-page report, published by the environment protection agency, is the latest piece in an increasingly alarming jigsaw. A picture is emerging of ubiquitous chemical contamination driving down sperm counts and feminising male children all over the developed world. And anti-pollution measures and regulations are falling far short of getting to grips with it.
A cat in Iowa has been infected with A/H1N1 flu, believed to be the first case of the pandemic strain in a feline in the United States, veterinary officials reported Wednesday.
The 13-year-old indoor cat was brought to the Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center at Iowa State University last week, where it tested positive for the A/H1N1 virus, the Iowa Department of Public Health said in a statement.
The case was then confirmed by both Iowa State and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"Two of the three members of the family that own the pet had suffered from influenza-like illness before the cat became ill," said Iowa's state health veterinarian Ann Garvey. "This is not completely unexpected, as other strains of influenza have been found in cats in the past."
Both the cat and its owners have since recovered.
The 13-year-old indoor cat was brought to the Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center at Iowa State University last week, where it tested positive for the A/H1N1 virus, the Iowa Department of Public Health said in a statement.
The case was then confirmed by both Iowa State and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"Two of the three members of the family that own the pet had suffered from influenza-like illness before the cat became ill," said Iowa's state health veterinarian Ann Garvey. "This is not completely unexpected, as other strains of influenza have been found in cats in the past."
Both the cat and its owners have since recovered.
© ALAMY2,127 babies died in the first 28 days of life in England in 2007
Ministers had been expected to find the cash to back the recommendations of a task force on neonatal care. Its report, published today, identifies a shortfall of 2,700 nurses and 300 other staff, such as physiotherapists and dietitians, in England's 162 neonatal units. Neonatal care is that delivered to babies in the first 28 days of life.
© Kellogg'sA box of Cocoa Krispies carries Kellogg's controversial claim that the cereal can boost immune systems.
Of all claims on cereal boxes, "this one belongs in the hall of fame," says Kelly Brownell, director of Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. "By their logic, you can spray vitamins on a pile of leaves, and it will boost immunity."
