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Pain Free Without Numbness: Substance Combination With Chili Peppers


Science Daily
Mon, 19 May 2008 22:35 UTC
A dentist's injection typically causes numbness for several hours. This experience could soon be history. Now, Clifford Woolf, professor at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, and his colleagues have developed a combination of two agents which is able to specifically block pain without producing numbness or motor paralysis. The substance is composed of a normally inactive derivative of the local anesthetic lidocaine, called QX314, and capsaicin, the pain-producing substance in chili peppers.

chili peppers
©iStockphoto/Angel Rodriguez
Scientists have developed a combination of two agents which is able to specifically block pain without producing numbness or motor paralysis. It includes an ingredient from chili peppers.
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Syringe

Research into MMR and autism wanted by US official

Phil Doherty
Sunday Sun
Mon, 19 May 2008 09:37 UTC
A FORMER top US official has admitted researchers were told not to look for links between autistic children and vaccine jabs.

Comment: "Trust us. We're the Government."

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Cow Skull

Monsanto: History of Contamination and Cover-up

Barbara L. Minton
Natural News
Fri, 16 May 2008 08:31 UTC
The new Monsanto has clearly come to dominate the American food chain with its genetically modified (GM) seeds. It's a master at enforcing its 674 biotechnology patents, using tyrannical and ruthless tactics against small farmers. This new Monsanto has also moved into the production of milk with it artificial growth hormones, seeking to dominate the dairy industry as effectively as it has the seed business. Has this new corporate image made us forget about the old Monsanto's decades long history of scorched earth and toxic contamination?
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People

Warning: Using a mobile phone while pregnant can seriously damage your baby

Geoffrey Lean
The UK Independent
Sun, 18 May 2008 22:51 UTC


Mobile phone user
©Associated Press
Scientists found that mothers who did use the handsets were 54 per cent more likely to have children with behavioural problems and that the likelihood increased with the amount of potential exposure to the radiation

Study of 13,000 children exposes link between use of handsets and later behavioural problems

Women who use mobile phones when pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with behavioural problems, according to authoritative research.
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Eye 2

Rat plague hits Bangladesh


Agence France Presse
Sun, 18 May 2008 22:23 UTC
Dhaka - The UN's World Food Programme began distributing emergency food aid on Sunday to 120,000 people facing famine in south eastern Bangladesh, where an invasion of rats led to widespread crop destruction.

People from the affected areas in the Chittagong hill tracks were struggling to feed themselves and had been eating wild roots from the jungle ever since the area was overrun by millions of rats, the WFP said.
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Heart

Flashback Why Your Right to Self-Ownership Includes the Right to Choose Your Own Dangers

Glen Allport
Strike the Root
Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:52 UTC
Danger Is My Middle Name--And So Is Yours
As soon as there is life there is danger. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Danny Shahar wrote an excellent column for STR recently (Paternalists Just Don't Understand) about drug prohibition. Shahar's column reminded me that I have been meaning to write a column of my own on the topic, covering only the two most basic arguments for freedom on this issue. So, with a nod of appreciation to Danny, here is that two-point column:
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Syringe

More parents claim vaccine-autism link

Ben Wasserman
foodconsumer.org
Tue, 13 May 2008 18:47 UTC
The United State Court of Federal Claims began another hearing on Monday to decide whether vaccines containing a toxic preservative known as thimerosal should be responsible for autism in thousands of children who received the vaccines, The New York Times reports. The results of the hearing are not expected until next year.

This hearing was said to be the second in a series of three in which the court is considering whether the government should pay millions to the families of some 4,800 autistic children. Parents in the case are claiming that thimerosal damaged their children's brains leading to development of autism. The toxic preservative was removed from pediatric vaccines starting in 2001. Now in some pediatric vaccines if not all, another toxic preservative, an aluminum compound, is used.
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Umbrella

Studies: insecticides in pet shampoo may trigger autism

Mu Xuequan
China View (Xinhua)
Thu, 15 May 2008 18:40 UTC
Insecticides in pet shampoos trigger autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to survey results presented Thursday at the International Meeting for Autism Research in London.

According to one of the first large-scale population-based studies to look how environmental factors and their interactions with genes contribute to the condition, mothers of children with an ASD were twice as likely to have reported using pet shampoos containing a class of insecticide called pyrethrins as those of healthy children.
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No Entry

Montville resident stands by seed moratorium

Susie O'Keeffe
Morning Sentinel
Sun, 18 May 2008 18:37 UTC
Monsanto-funded spokesman, Doug Johnson, recently wrote about one of Montville's main concerns with genetically modified seeds: health.

Corporations that create genetically modified organisms (and stand to make billions when on the market) do most of the testing, along with government agencies under enormous lobbying pressure.

Independent third-party testing does not exist.

How can we know if people are having adverse reactions when labels don't tell us which GMOs people are consuming?

Perhaps the recent rise in autism is due to GMO foods?
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Attention

First Beijing death linked to China virus outbreak


Reuters
Wed, 14 May 2008 17:58 UTC
China's capital has recorded its first death from an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease as authorities try to contain the spread of a potent virus just three months before the city hosts the Olympic Games.
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