The Eleven Most Implanted Medical Devices In America.

Implanted medical devices are one of the most profitable businesses of the U.S. healthcare industry. While many devices help extend and improve quality of life, a great many others may not be necessary. In some cases devices such as stents, screws, and artificial joints do not work well or are not any better than a [...]

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American Red Cross App Puts Emergency Care Instruction in the Palm of Your Hand.

Red Cross Teams Up with Dr. Oz and Sharecare to Launch Lifesaving App From the American Red Cross Web page   WASHINGTON, Wednesday, June 01, 2011 — Just in time for the busy summer season, a new smartphone app launched today by the American Red Cross, Dr. Mehmet Oz and the medical website Sharecare makes it [...]

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The National Children’s Study

From the Sacramento Bee: One of the largest and most comprehensive studies on how the environment is affecting U.S. children's health is about to be launched – and researchers want Sacramento kids to play a key role in it. Today, researchers and public health officials are holding a launch celebration at the Sacramento Zoo in [...]

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Ambulances must focus on patients, says Audit Office

Category A calls should be responded to within eight minutes. Continue reading the main sto A NAO report said patients’ emergency care was being delayed, with ambulances forced to queue outside hospitals and unable to respond to other calls. The health minister Simon Burns blamed the previous Labour government’s “perverse fixation” with targets. Some targets [...]

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FDA finally admits chicken meat contains cancer-causing arsenic.

Thursday, June 09, 2011 by Mike Adams (NaturalNews) After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that's fatal in high doses. But the real story is where this arsenic [...]

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New Study Finds Major Toxins in Many Cosmetics.

Lead and arsenic aren’t listed among the ingredients of lip gloss and eyeliner. However, Environmental Defence, a Canadian environmental group tested dozens of common cosmetics products and found that virtually all of them were contaminated with heavy metals. Researchers purchased cosmetics in Toronto, and sent them to an accredited laboratory to have them tested for [...]

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Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health.

Despite the considerable research on how climate change may affect public health, the impact of climate change on indoor environments has received relatively little attention. At the request of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the IOM examined the current state of scientific understanding of the effects of clim … Read More via RFF Library [...]

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International Crisis in Vaccine Funding.

The global drive for immunisation of children in developing nations has undoubtedly made substantial progress in recent years. According to GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation), their work alone has prevented 5 million future deaths from deadly illness and disease. The largest proportion of that has been in the imunisation of Hepatitis B. Immunisation [...]

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