From Los Angeles Times: We’ve all heard that the overuse of antibiotics is making them less effective and fueling the rise of dangerous drug-resistant bacteria. But did you know it may also be fueling the rise of obesity, diabetes, allergies and asthma? So says Dr. Martin Blaser, microbiologist and infectious disease specialist at New York [...]
Post Tagged ‘diseases’
Medicine | -Antibiotics Causing Disease?-
Geplaatst in -public health-, getagged allergies, antibiotics, asthma, asthma-2, cancer, diabetes-diseases, diseases, microbes, obesity, obesity-diseases op 27 augustus 2011 | 1 reactie »
Pesticides and Parkinson
Geplaatst in -public health-, getagged agriculture, chemicals, diseases, Parkinson's disease, pesticides, pesticides-2, scholars, studies op 24 juni 2011 | Reageer »
From The Oklohoman: California researchers who first established a link between two commonly used pesticides and Parkinson’s disease have found a third crop-enhancing chemical — ziram — that appears to raise the risk of developing the movement disorder. And they have found that people whose workplaces were close to fields sprayed with these chemicals — [...]
Noncommnicable Disease Pandemic
Geplaatst in -public health-, getagged autoimmune-diseases, cancer, diseases, environmental-justice, inequality-2, noncommunicable-disease, obesity-diseases op 24 juni 2011 | Reageer »
From Associated Press: Nearly two-thirds of deaths in the world are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease which are rapidly increasing at a cost to the global economy of trillions of dollars, according to U.N. estimates and preliminary results of a new study. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in [...]
Urgent Need To Fight Diseases Affecting The World’s Poor (via Health and Medical News and Resources)
Geplaatst in -public health-, getagged developing_countries, diseases, global_health, infectious_diseases, migrants, migrant_health, poverty, public-health, vaccines op 22 juni 2011 | Reageer »
From the 22 June 2011 Medical News Today article Despite significant advancements in increasing distribution and development of vaccines against childhood killer diseases – including pneumococcal disease, rotavirus, and Haemophilus influenzae Type B – global efforts to reduce the burden of infection from neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has greatly lagged, a … Read More via Health [...]
The National Children’s Study
Geplaatst in -ontwikkelingen-, -preventie-, -public health-, getagged asthma, autism, cancer, diabetes-diseases, diseases, studies, the-national-childrens-study op 12 juni 2011 | 1 reactie »
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 [...]
Graviola Extract as Tumor Solution.
Geplaatst in -public health-, getagged alternative-medicine, cancer, diseases, graviola-extract, health, rainforest-herbs, treatment, tumor, uncategorized, wellness op 10 juni 2011 | Reageer »
De boom groeit in de regenwouden van Zuid-Amerika, Midden-Amerika en Zuidoost-Azië. De vrucht is ook bekend als papaja, zuurzak of guanaba. Regenwoud bewoners hebben een zeer rijke geschiedenis van het gebruik van deze plant om zijn krachtige therapeutische eigenschappen – onder hen, het immuunsysteem, de bloedsomloop en lymfestelsel te ondersteunen. The tree grows in the [...]
Corrupt economy and fatal diseases.
Geplaatst in -preventie-, -public health-, -zorgnieuws-, getagged avian-flu, broke, bse, corrupt, diseases, economy, ehec, europe, european-union, flu, money, politics-and-history, sars op 2 juni 2011 | Reageer »
We live in a democratic, free and capitalist state, right? The European Union is based on a democratic constitution and should guarantee free markets but with tarrif protection we save our own agricultural market while manipulating the prices by influencing buyers. With lies about diseases, for example SARS; BSE or the avian flu! Just like [...]


