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Thousands of Faulty pregnancy tests
Category: Women's Health


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Thousands of women may be unaware they are expecting a baby after being exposed
to faulty pregnancy tests.
London's Kingston Hospital is seeking more than 1,400 woman who may have been
given the wrong test results.
Staff at 49 other hospitals across the UK are desperately trying to contact
thousands more.
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Small Penis Syndrome A Big Problem?
Category: Men's Health

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Does size matter? It does to men, according to this month's BJU

International, which contains a review of over sixty years worth of research
into penile size and small penis syndrome.
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Advice tool 'could reduce caesareans'
Category: Health
By Nic Fleming, Medical Correspondent
Date: 02/06/2007
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A computer-based system that helps women decide which type of birth is most appropriate for them could reduce the number of caesarean sections by 4,000 a year, says a study to be published today.
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Warning over fake batch of 'lifesaving'
Category: Health
by BEN FARMER date 2nd June 2007
SourceThousands of cancer patients have been warned to be on alert for a fake batch of a 'lifesaving' medicine.
Drug regulators recalled a batch of the prostate cancer drug Casodex after the discovery of counterfeit tablets.
A police investigation has been launched after a recent surge in the number of fake copies of key drugs for serious medical conditions.
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Disabled people abused in Serbia
Category: Gaia Atrocities
BELGRADE, Serbia - Troubled children bound tightly to fetid cribs they have never left since birth. A 6-year-old boy who tried to rip off his ear while tied to a chair. A teenage girl who attempted to gouge out her eyes as mental hospital staff stood by and did nothing.
The scenes of horror are chronicled in a report released Wednesday by Mental Disability Rights International, a U.S.
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Patient oozes green blood!
Category: Health

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A hospital operating theatre turned into a scene from the X-files when a patient
started oozing dark greenish-black blood, it emerged today.

However, the cause of the 42-year-old man's unusual blood colour was not
extraterrestrial but traced to the migraine medication he was taking.
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Gene tests 'to mean higher insurance
Category: Health
Insurance firms may use genetic information to increase premiums unfairly, a
senior doctor has warned.

Dr Richard Ashcroft, professor of biomedical ethics at the University of London,
said there was a risk that people would be discriminated against on the basis of
a poor understanding of genetics.
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Coke Faces New Charges in India
Category: Eco Matters
by Aaron Glantz

LOS ANGELES - The Coca-Cola company has been charged with illegally seizing
lands communally owned by small farmers and indiscriminately dumping sludge and
other industrial hazardous waste onto the surrounding community. This comes as
the multinational beverage giant announced a new effort Tuesday to protect
rivers on four continents.
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Crazy things happen during a full moon?
Category: Paranormal
It's common knowledge that more babies are born during a full moon, right? And
policeman, fireman, ambulance drivers and emergency room doctors and nurses will
tell you that full-moon nights are more dangerous, crazy or hectic.

Recently BBC News reported that some British police departments have decided to
add extra officers on nights with a full moon.
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Teenagers in 'sex health crisis'
Category: Health
UK teenagers are facing a "sexual health crisis" fuelled by
alcohol, drugs and risky sexual behaviour, a report warns.
They are "defining their lifestyle" by this behaviour,
encouraged by celebrity culture, the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health
and HIV says.
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Ancient Tomb Found in Mexico Reveals Mass Child Sacrifice
Category: Ancient Civilizations
The skeletons of two dozen children killed in an ancient mass
sacrifice have been found in a tomb at a construction site in Mexico.
The find reveals new details about the ancient Toltec civilization and adds
to an ongoing debate over ritualistic killing in historic Mesoamerica.
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Super fruit fly may lead to healthier humans
Category: Health

Super fruit fly may lead to healthier humans
In a triumph for pests, scientists have figured out how to make the fruit fly
live longer. But humans still may get something out of the deal.
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US doctor smeared for raising drug concerns
Category: Suppression & Deception
When a well-respected doctor raises concerns about the side effects of an
important medicine, you'd expect drug safety officials to investigate. Instead,
a spokesman for the US Food and Drug Administration is alleged to have chosen a
different strategy: smearing the doctor in question.
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Organ transplant industry pushes for legal right to buy & sell body parts on the global market
Category: Health
The World Health Organization (WHO) held its second Global Consultation on
Transplantation recently in Rotterdam. The WHO addressed the global shortage of
human organs available for transplantation as well as a trend toward "transplant
tourism" -- the buying and selling of body parts in the global marketplace with
the most sought-after organ being the kidney.
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Europe's seas face 'bleak future
Category: Eco Matters
Europe's seas are in a "serious state of decline" as a result of coastal
development, overfishing and pollution from agriculture, warn scientists.

The continent's regional seas will deteriorate even further unless action is
taken to curb the threats, they add.

Economic growth and the expansion of the EU, the researchers suggested, had
contributed to the state of the waters.
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Online freedoms under threat, says Amnesty
Category: Suppression & Deception
Internet repression is eroding freedom of expression online as more governments
block sites and arrest bloggers, a human rights group warned today.Amnesty
International said the internet could change beyond all recognition unless
action is taken and it called on governments and companies to respect people's
right to freedom of expression online.
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Way to detect skin cancer sans biopsy
Category: Health

NEW DELHI: Detecting skin cancer could soon
become non-invasive. A technique developed by American scientists uses lasers
pulsing at a thousand-trillionth of a second to diagnose skin cancers.
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Kenya: Maasais, Canaanites And the Inca Connection
Category: Ancient Civilizations
WHY IS ENKAI, THE Creator god of the Maasai, almost the
same as Enki, who created the Sumerians, as well as Enoch, the Canaanite hero
who stormed heaven, and Inca, the divine chief of the ancient Andeans?
Is it accidental that if you reverse the syllables of
those names - a word-game which ancient societies played all the time - you get
Ka'in of the Sumerians, Kainan of the Canaanites,
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The sunscreen myth: How sunscreen products actually promote cancer
Category: Suppression & Deception
The idea that sunscreen prevents cancer is a myth. It's a myth promoted by a
profit-seeking tag-team effort between the cancer industry and the sunscreen
industry. The sunscreen industry makes money by selling lotion products that
actually contain cancer-causing chemicals.
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Riddle of the bog
Category: Archaeology
A murder mystery preserved in peat is at the heart of the British Museum's revamped prehistoric galleries. Jonathan Jones turns detective.
A single brown fingernail lies on the leather bag of his chest, which tapers to nothing where the peat-cutting machine chopped him in two. His arm lies next to him, but these fragments of a body would mean nothing, were it not for the look on his face.
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Glacial Lake Vanishes in Southern Chile
Category: Eco Matters
A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared - and scientists want to know why.
Park rangers at Bernardo O'Higgins National Park said they found a 100-feet-deep crater in late May were the lake had been in March. Several large pieces of ice that used to float atop the water also were spotted.
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Putting feelings into words produces therapeutic effects in the brain
Category: Alternative Health
 Why does putting our feelings into words — talking with a therapist or friend, writing in a journal — help us to feel better" A new brain imaging study by UCLA psychologists reveals why verbalizing our feelings makes our sadness, anger and pain less intense.
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Biochemist says makeup isn't healthy
Category: Women's Health
A British biochemist says women who use make-up daily are absorbing almost five pounds of chemicals a year.
Richard Bence, who advocates the use of organic beauty products, said people should question the products they put on their skin, The Telegraph newspaper said Thursday.
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Men should exercise to reduce their risk of broken bones in later life
Category: Men's Health
 Serious fractures are common among older people and can have devastating consequences, particularly if a hip is broken. It is already recommended that women should take exercise to reduce the thinning of their bones, but now research published in PLoS Medicine shows that men too can help avoid fractures if they participate in sport or other vigorous activity.
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Reduce Risk of Alzheimer's by 30%
Category: Health
Recent research into the Western diet and the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease has led to suggestions that a higher processed food diet produces more cases of the disease.
A French study of 8,085 women and men aged 65 or over participated in the study. None of them had dementia or Alzheimer's at the start.
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The Secret Food Code Conspiracy
Category: Conspiracy Central
Imagine a world in which no food product could be penalised because of its origins or the way in which it had reached the supermarket shelf.A world where it was impossible to tell if a food item was organic, genetically modified or impregnated with hormones, and where herbal remedies were outlawed, undermining the complementary and alternative health care industry.
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Compact fluorescent light bulbs contaminate the environment with 30,000 pounds of mercury each year
Category: Eco Matters
A compact fluorescent light is a type of energy-saving bulb that fits into a standard light bulb socket or plugs into a small lighting fixture, and right now, compact fluorescents seem to be gaining in popularity.
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The insulin pill that could mean no more injections for diabetics
Category: Health
Diabetics may soon be able to take a pill to control the disease instead of daily injections after research by Jersey-based company Diabetology.

Dr Steve Luzio, part of a team from Cardiff University that has carried out trials, will present the results at the American Diabetes Association in Chicago today.
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Surge of Dead Seabirds Alarms Scientists
Category: Eco Matters
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Hundreds of dead seabirds that washed up along the Southeast coast in recent weeks apparently starved to death, but experts don't know why.

The deaths of the birds - similar to gulls and called greater shearwaters - have wildlife officials worried about possible changes in the ocean that could have affected the fish that the birds usually eat.
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Chocolate 'lowers' blood pressure
Category: Health
A mouthful of dark chocolate each day could reduce blood pressure, cutting the risk of stroke, research suggests.

Forty-four people with raised blood pressure were put into two groups. One ate six grams of dark chocolate daily, the other the same amount of white.
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Indian 'teen surgeon' surrenders
Category: Bizarre Times
A 15-year-old boy has surrendered to authorities in India, after allegedly performing a Caesarean section to set a record as the world's youngest surgeon.

Police had sought Dileepan Raj since arresting his parents on 25 June in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

The parents of the teenager, who are both doctors, allegedly supervised the operation on a 20-year-old pregnant woman.
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Israeli Archaeologist May Have Found Tomb of King Herod
Category: Archaeology
An Israeli archaeologist on Tuesday said he has found the tomb of King Herod the Great, the legendary builder of ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

Hebrew University archaeologist Ehud Netzer said the tomb was found at Herodium, a flattened hilltop in the Judean Desert where Herod the Great built a palace compound. Netzer has been working at the site since the 1970s.
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What Is Botanical or Herbal Medicine?
Category: Alternative Health
What Is Botanical or Herbal Medicine?
By: Jerry Johnson

A botanical is a plant or plant part valued for its medicinal or therapeutic properties, flavor, and/or scent. Herbs are a subset of botanicals. Products made from botanicals that are used to maintain or improve health may be called herbal products, botanical products, or phytomedicines.
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Catalyst squeezes fuel out of scraps
Category: Alternative Energy
By Michael Kanellos

Catilin has come up with a way to let biodiesel manufacturers consume both of their major food groups: animal fat and vegetable oil.

The company, which was developed from research at Iowa State University, has devised a catalyst that allows fuel refiners to mix different types of oils together in the same manufacturing process.
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New World Farming Began Around Same Time As Near East's
Category: Ancient Civilizations
People in the Americas began growing domesticated crops more than 10,000 years ago, according to a new study.

Ancient squash seeds, peanuts, and cotton balls found in the Peruvian Andes show that farming got started in the New World at about the same time that the first domesticated crops appeared in the Near East.
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A lively debate over the Dead Sea Scrolls
Category: Ancient Civilizations
The first commandment for showing the Dead Sea Scrolls is: "Let there not be too much light."

It has been handed down by the Israel Antiquities Authority, custodian of most of the 2,000-year-old parchments and papyri.
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China's Massive Dam Changing Weather
Category: Eco Matters
Two years before its completion, the world’s largest dam is already changing the local weather, say scientists studying the Three Gorges Dam on China’s Yangtze River. Both modeling and actual meteorological data suggest that the reservoir is cooling its valley, which is causing changes in rainfall.
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Rise of man theory ‘out by 400,000 years’
Category: Archaeology
Our earliest ancestors gave up hunter-gathering and took to a settled life up to 400,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to controversial research.
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Cancer patients hit by NHS cancer postcode 'lottery'
Category: Health
Cancer patients in Britain are subject to an appalling postcode lottery, damning figures reveal.
Some health trusts spend up to three times as much as others on each patient, with differences as high as £12,000.
The discrepancy means life expectancy for cancer sufferers could vary from region to region.
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Salt warning over packed sandwiches
Category: Health
Readymade sandwiches on sale to the public contain as much salt as seven packets of crisps, a new survey has found.

In a study of 140 sandwiches carried out for the BBC by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash), 41 per cent contained over two grams of salt, compared to an adult recommended daily allowance of six grams.
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Oscar the Cat Predicts Patients' Deaths
Category: Paranormal
Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live.
"He doesn't make too many mistakes.
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They're out there...
Category: Beyond Gaia
IT WAS 60 years ago this month that a mysterious aircraft crash outside the small town of Roswell in New Mexico set conspiracy theorists' tongues wagging. It's fair to say that they haven't stopped since.
In July 1947, materials were recovered from Roswell by the US military that, to this day, the US government insist were the remains of a top-secret research balloon.
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Bowling Invented in Ancient Egypt?
Category: Ancient Civilizations
Throwing stone balls along a lane might have been a popular game in ancient Egypt, according to evidence unearthed some 56 miles south of Cairo by Italian archaeologists.
A mixture of bowling, billiard and bowls, the game was played at Narmoutheos, in the Fayoum region, in a spacious room which appears to be the prototype of a modern-day bowling hall.
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Hidden Underwater City Wows Experts
Category: Archaeology
Alexander the Great founded Alexandria to immortalize his name on his way to conquer the world, but his may not have been the first city on the famed site on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. A Smithsonian team has now uncovered first underwater evidence pointing to an urban settlement dating back seven centuries before Alexander showed up in 331 B.C.
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Urine Offers Rich Phosphorus Source
Category: Bizarre Times
Recycling urine may be the answer to a looming global shortage of phosphorus, according to an Australian researcher.

Associate Professor Cynthia Mitchell, of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), said the world's deposits of phosphorus are due to run out in about 50 years.
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Pink Grapefruit Juice Most Nutritious
Category: Health
Pink grapefruit juice provides more nutrients per calorie than any other 100 percent fruit juice, according to a new study that analyzed several juices commonly found in major U.S. markets.
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Organic Food Test Detects False Labels
Category: Hoodwinked
A new test could help identify fraudulently labeled organic food, say British scientists.
It's based on testing the food for signs of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, which are banned in organic farming methods.
Alison Bateman of the University of East Anglia in Norwich and colleagues reported their findings in a recent issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
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Major Quake, Tsunami Likely in Middle East, Study Finds
Category: Eco Matters
In A.D. 551, a massive earthquake spawned huge tsunamis that devastated the coast of Phoenicia, now Lebanon.
Now a new underwater survey has finally uncovered the fault likely responsible for the catastrophe and shown that it rumbles approximately every 1,500 years—which means a disaster is due any day now.
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Cannabis 'raises psychosis risk'
Category: Health
Cannabis users are 40% more likely than non-users to suffer a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia, say UK experts.
Writing in the Lancet, a team led by Dr Stanley Zammit from Bristol and Cardiff Universities said young people needed to be made aware of the dangers.
In an additional article, experts said up to 800 schizophrenia cases a year in the UK could be linked to cannabis use.
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The forecast that’s right up your street
Category: Eco Matters
The Met Office will soon be able to issue detailed town-by-town forecasts that show precisely where extreme rain will fall, scientists said yesterday.
By 2011, new computers will allow forecasters to predict the exact path of downpours such as those that flooded Tewkesbury and Gloucester, giving communities much more accurate warnings of the risk they face.
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Shocking news: Britain’s a wet country
Category: Eco Matters
What on earth is going on with our weather? Three months’ worth of rain fell in a few places last week, Britain is drowning under floods of biblical proportions and nothing like it has been seen since Noah got his sea legs. In a wave of hysteria, the cry goes out for millions of sandbags, better drains and more flood defences. And fingers of blame are pointing at global warming.
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Extinction in the wild 'is danger to humans'
Category: Eco Matters
Scientists have discovered that the high level of extinction among wild species is making human life more precarious than thought.
Humans rely on what scientists call "ecosystem services": fresh water comes from forest-covered mountains, fish from healthy seas and fertile soils depend on insects, microbes and earthworms.
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Ghost buster 'fraud' claim
Category: Paranormal
A GHOSTBUSTER who boasted of his connections to the television show 'Most Haunted’ has been branded a fraud by its team of producers.

Antix Productions has revealed that Shane Hull – the man behind Moray Paranormal Investigations – has no connection to the show.
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7 New Wonders of the World Chosen
Category: Making History
LISBON, Portugal (AP)-The Great Wall of China, Rome's Colosseum, India's Taj Mahal and three architectural marvels from Latin America were among the new seven wonders of the world chosen in a global poll released on Saturday.
Jordan's Petra was the seventh winner. Peru's Machu Picchu, Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer and Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid also made the cut.
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Key to Successful Marriage: Say 'Thank You'
Category: Health
A successful relationship depends not just on how partners divvy up the household chores, but also on how they express gratitude.
A new study sheds light on why one partner often gets stuck with certain household chores while the other is oblivious to the piled-up laundry or overflowing garbage. The trick to harmony could be a simple “thank you,” the research indicates.
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Wish for rain to wash away Homer
Category: Bizarre Times
Pagans have pledged to perform "rain magic" to wash away a cartoon character painted next to their famous fertility symbol - the Cerne Abbas giant.

A doughnut-brandishing Homer Simpson was painted next to the giant on the hill above Cerne Abbas, Dorset, to promote the new Simpsons film.
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The missing grey cells that help to create an obsessive
Category: Health
Scientists at Cambridge have found changes in the brain that are linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The condition is quite common, affecting 2 to 3 per cent of the population, and is marked by obsessions and constantly repeated actions. In the film As Good As It Gets, Jack Nicholson played a novelist with the disorder whose obsessive behaviour made normal relationships almost impossible.
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The Best Way to Get Enough Calcium
Category: Health
A new study suggests that calcium from food sources may be more effective than calcium from supplements. It found that women who get most of their daily calcium from food sources have healthier bones and greater bone density, even though those who took more supplements tended to have higher average levels of calcium.
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10 Things Your Grocery Store Doesn't Want You to Know
Category: Health
Grocery shopping seems like a harmless enough activity. It’s a chore, but it’s one that most of us do at least once a week, without giving much thought to what’s going on behind the scenes at the supermarket.
How we shop has become a science that’s studied endlessly.
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Sunshine 'protective' against MS
Category: Health
People who spend more time in the sun as children subsequently have a lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), a US study shows.
The University of Southern California team suggest UV rays offer protection by altering the cell immune responses or by boosting vitamin D levels.
An earlier study found women who took vitamin D supplements were 40% less likely to develop MS.
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'Yo-yo' weight warning to mothers
Category: Women's Health
Mothers who gain or lose lots of weight between pregnancies could be putting their baby at risk, say experts.
Fluctuating weight ups the risk of dangerously high blood pressure and diabetes in the mother and the chance of stillbirth, research suggests.
The work by Dublin-based specialists is in the British Medical Journal.
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Alternative medicine — cure or crock?
Category: Alternative Health
Unconventional medicine has gone mainstream: More than 62% of U.S. adults have tried some form of alternative therapy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And according to another study, 70 percent of older adults use alternatives medicine. But that doesn't mean they've had success.
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Keeping Mind & Memory Sharp
Category: Health

Keeping both mind and memory sharp is vital to a full life. Anyone who has misplaced glasses or forgotten the name of the boss’ husband knows the agony of a memory gone AWOL.
In more severe cases, a slump in our mental abilities can be a sign of dementia or other serious conditions.
As we age, all of us risk experiencing a gradual decline in cognitive abilities.
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Flood water poses low health risk
Category: Health
Fears that filthy water from Britain's floods could trigger a health crisis are largely unfounded, experts say.
Flood water may contain dangerous bacteria like cholera from mixing with raw human sewage, but this is unlikely to trigger disease outbreaks, they say.
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Healing Colors DVD…Can it be the Solution to Electromagnetic Pollution?
Category: Alternative Health
There is a new player on the alternative medicine playing field, and if customer reactions are any indication, Alternative Two will soon be a major contender. Alternative Two has devised a way to protect the human bio-field from electromagnetic pollution through its color therapy video – Healing Colors DVD.
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Additives 'a risk to children's health'
Category: Health
Parents have been warned to remove food additives linked to hyperactive behaviour from children's diets by the EU's leading expert on the issue.
Dr John Larsen, who heads the European Food Safety Authority's panel on additives, said the measure would be "prudent" to protect youngsters' health.
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Indonesia prepares after psychic 'predicts quake'
Category: Psychic
Local officials in a quake-prone Indonesian province said Monday they were taking precautionary measures after a Brazilian psychic warned a powerful earthquake would strike next month.
Brasilia had passed on a letter from a "professor" and psychic predicting a quake would rock the island on December 23.
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Healing Herbs And Their Properties
Category: Gaia's Healing
The use of herbs in medicines is a long-standing tradition. Every culture in the world has, at one time or another, left documentation showing their use of herbs in the treatment of every known illness. Healing herbs are found in the wild, and as more and more people become interested in this form of holistic medicine, these herbs are now being grown in gardens.
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Alternative Medicines Need To Be Considered In Diabetes Management, Researcher Says
Category: Alternative Health
People with diabetes are risking their health by not discussing their use of complementary and alternative therapies with the health professionals managing their conventional treatment.
A review of the international health literature has shown nutritional supplements and herbal medicines are the most commonly used complementary and alternative therapies in diabetes.
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Deathbed testimony supports Roswell claims
Category: Beyond Gaia
ROSWELL, United States. As the former spokesman for the Roswell Army Air base in New Mexico on 8 July 1947, it fell to Lt Walter Haut (right) to issue a news release revealing that a “flying saucer” had crashed near the town.
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Sunshine 'helps to keep you young'
Category: Health
A healthy dose of sunshine may be the secret to staying young, British scientists have revealed.
Vitamin D is produced naturally by the skin in response to sunlight and may help to slow the ageing process and protect against heart disease, according to the study.
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Organic farmers face ruin as rich nations agonise over food miles
Category: Suppression & Deception
As she proudly surveys a plantation of avocado trees and bananas, surrounded by pools of fresh cow manure, Jane Kimani cuts an unlikely figure as an ecological villain.
Like other farmers in this village, about 15 miles (25km) outside Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, she lives in a modest dwelling of brick walls and a corrugated-iron roof only yards from cow sheds, a new apiary and vegetable plots.
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Alternative Medicine Saved Our Lives
Category: Alternative Health
These courageous pioneers faced extreme disability or death. But when they exhausted the best traditional treatments for their diseases, their hope endured. Instead of giving up, they sought—and found—new life on the frontiers of alternative medicine.
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Do You Know What's In Your Sports Drink?
Category: Health
You're in the middle of a 30-minute workout at the local gym, and you're parched. Should you pop open a Cytomax or a bottle of water?
Experts in sports nutrition say before you decide what to down, it's worth thinking twice about the length of your workout, the conditions you're exercising in and your intensity level.
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Were you born to snooze?
Category: Health
Can't get going in the mornings? You're not lazy, just a 'B-person'. It's your circadian rhythms, explains late riser Dan Roberts
Alarm clocks and I have never been the best of friends. Dozens of the little blighters have perished on my bedside table, mangled to a metallic pulp for daring to interrupt my slumber.
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Aluminium Found In Sunscreens And Sunblocks
Category: Health
Scientists at Keele University in Staffordshire have questioned the safety of aluminium added to sunscreens and sunblocks.
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Brain-Injured Man Speaks After 6 Years
Category: Making History
A brain-damaged man who could communicate only with slight eye or thumb movements for six years can speak again, after stimulating electrodes were placed in his brain, researchers report.

The 38-year-old also regained the ability to chew and swallow, which allows him to be spoon-fed, rather than relying on nourishment through a tube in his belly.
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World Water Week to focus on climate change, biofuels
Category: Alternative Energy
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Climate change and a potential water shortage in some regions, also due to the diversion of water to crops for biofuels, will be at the centre of the 2007 World Water Week which opens here Monday, with 2,500 international experts expected to attend.
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Microwave ovens destroy the nutritional value of your food
Category: Health

The rise of widespread nutritional deficiencies in the western world correlates almost perfectly with the introduction of the microwave oven. This is no coincidence. Microwave ovens heat food through a process of creating molecular friction, but this same molecular friction quickly destroys the delicate molecules of vitamins and phytonutrients (plant medicines) naturally found in foods.
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Food additives and food labels
Category: Health
It is sometimes difficult for consumers to determine which food additives to avoid. Chemical names are not commonly known, and food labels can be difficult to decipher. Below is a partial list of food additives that have been shown to pose problems for many consumers.

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Eating fish: good for heart, bad for environment?
Category: Eco Matters
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - Doctors recommend a good dose of salmon or tuna in the diet because of its benefits to the heart. But is it good for the environment? 
Surging demand for salmon in particular has been spurred in part by numerous studies touting the health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, which are present in some kinds of fish.
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Common vitamins no help for women's hearts: study
Category: Women's Health
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Middle-aged women at risk for heart disease received little benefit from taking vitamins C, E or beta carotene, researchers said on Monday.
Though vitamin supplements provided no heart benefit, eating a diet rich in those vitamins does make for healthier heart, their study noted.
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Aztec Ruler's Tomb Found Under Mexico City
Category: Archaeology
The tomb of the Aztec Emperor Ahuizotl (ah-WEE-zah-tol) could be just below archaeologists' feet, according to data from ground-penetrating radar.
A dig in progress beneath the Great Temple of the capital city of Tenochtitlan—now buried beneath Mexico City—may reveal the first Aztec tomb ever to be discovered.
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Pegs to be worn as a symbol of abuse
Category: Gaia Atrocities
Pegs to be worn as a symbol of abuse
TEAR Fund is calling on New Zealanders to start wearing clothes pegs to show outrage at child abuse. 
It follows the death of three-year-old Rotorua girl Nia Glassie who died after being subjected to brutal physical abuse. It has been alleged she was hung from a clothes line and put in a tumble drier -  hence the use of a clothes peg.
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Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data
Category: Hoodwinked
Years of bad data corrected; 1998 no longer the warmest year on record

My earlier column this week detailed the work of a volunteer team to assess problems with US temperature data used for climate modeling. One of these people is Steve McIntyre, who operates the site climateaudit.org.
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The Great Global Warming Swindle
Category: Suppression & Deception
A video for those who maybe interested in seeing a scientific view on Global Warming and how they believe we are being swindled. Are we being sucked in by a politically drive which is whipping up an emotive response from the general populous around Gaia? I let you decide...


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Biosensor Collar: A Proposed Alternative to Security Checks
Category: Suppression & Deception
In these days of airline travel, every passenger is a potential terrorist, and we must give up our toothpaste to prove we're not.
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Obese 'under-report' sugar intake
Category: Health
Obese people underestimate the amount of sugar they eat, making studies into the condition based on self-reporting very unreliable, UK researchers say.
But a new urine test has been developed which can for the first time work out how much sugar people have consumed.
In a study of hundreds of volunteers, researchers compared what people said they ate with data from urine tests.
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Fortify your diet with nature’s heart healers
Category: Alternative Health
Make room in your pantry for a new batch of disease-fighting products: foods fortified with sterols and stanols, plant compounds proven to protect your heart.
Sterols and stanols are found naturally in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and oils.
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Out-of-body experience recreated
Category: Paranormal
Experts have found a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in volunteers.
The experiments, described in the Science journal, offer a scientific explanation for a phenomenon experienced by one in 10 people.
Two teams used virtual reality goggles to con the brain into thinking the body was located elsewhere.
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Live long or die young, but keep the faith
Category: Paranormal
I've been feeling guilty toward Nancy Reagan.

I wasn't kind when I heard of her involvement with astrology. I dismissed it as flaky, made jokes about a White House controlled by psychics. But in the last few weeks, on a visit to India, I got sucked into the supernatural myself.

I could make excuses, invoke the "when in Rome...
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Forecasting trouble
Category: Psychic
EAST Riding residents are being warned about a clairvoyant scam operating in the area.
Residents are being asked to be on the alert for letters arriving in the post offering to predict their future for a fee.

Consumer advice officers at East Riding council’s trading standards service have received complaints about the same letters.
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Daddy is Alive and Well in Heaven
Category: Psychic
Today is Father's Day and I am so missing my dad. He died about ten years ago. I wish I could pick up the phone and call him in heaven. I'm dying to know what he has been up to spirit-wise, which of his old pals he's been hanging out with, what life in heaven is like, what work he is doing, how often he visits me, what insights he's had about the meaning of life.
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Co-Workers of Lisa Stebic Hire Psychic
Category: Psychic

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Extraordinary claims in MacRae mystery
Category: Psychic

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Psychic joins hunt for missing parrot
Category: Psychic

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Calls mount for princess to give up title
Category: Suppression & Deception
OSLO, Norway, Aug. 13 Pressure is growing for Norway's Princess Martha Louise to give up her title to erase what some consider an improper mix of rank with her psychic instruction.
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Ivor expands his hidden abilities
Category: Psychic
FABRIC shop proprietor Ivor Holland lifted the thin veil of mystery separating the material world from the spirit world.
Ivor, who owns Quality Textiles in Surrey Street, Littlehampton, discovered he was a natural psychic medium a few years ago when a former member of the Most Haunted TV show team, Derek Acorah, told him so.
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Norway princess 'talks to angels'
Category: Psychic
Norway's Princess Martha Louise says she has psychic powers and can teach people to communicate with angels.
The 35-year-old daughter of King Harald and Queen Sonja made the announcement on a website promoting her plans for a new alternative therapy centre.
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All UK 'must be on DNA database'
Category: Suppression & Deception
The whole population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database, a senior judge has said.
The present database in England and Wales holds details of 4m people who are guilty or cleared of a crime.
Lord Justice Sedley said this was indefensible and biased against ethnic minorities, and it would be fairer to include everyone, guilty or innocent.
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Archeologists find tunnel used by Jews to escape Roman conquest of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago
Category: Archaeology
JERUSALEM (AP) - Under threat from Romans ransacking Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, many of the city's Jewish residents crowded into an underground drainage channel to hide and later flee the chaos through Jerusalem's southern end unnoticed.
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Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's
Category: Health
That’s the method outlined in a paper published online August 12 by Nature Medicine. Scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center show how the body’s natural way of ridding the body of the substance is flawed in people with the disease.
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Asda palm oil ban to save rainforests
Category: Eco Matters
Two of the country's biggest retail names are to ban the sale of palm oil from unsustainable sources because of fears that it is leading to the destruction of rainforests. Palm oil has become one of the world's biggest traded commodities and is now the unidentified 'vegetable oil' in an estimated one in 10 of all products sold in Britain, from chocolate to cosmetics to animal feed.
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The Many Meanings of High Cholesterol
Category: Health
It is not unusual in medical practices today to treat symptoms rather than searching for and correcting the root cause of a problem. Consequently, some patients end up taking medication, maybe for life, to control a symptom rather than digging a little deeper to cure the underlying problem. Mark Stengler, ND, sees this happen often.
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Like Cures Like - The Power of Homeopathy
Category: Alternative Health
by Michael Carlston, MD
 

As an increasing number of Americans turn to more natural health-care approaches, one increasingly popular alternative is homeopathy -- a natural approach that stimulates the body to heal itself.
To gain more insight into this 200-year-old system of medicine, I spoke with Michael Carlston, MD, author of Classical Homeopathy (Churchill Livingstone).
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Many 'imagine' food intolerance
Category: Health
Millions of people in the UK have self-diagnosed a food intolerance and may be avoiding key foods as a result, a poll by a testing firm suggests.
Less than a quarter of the 12m people who claim to be food intolerant have had their condition formally diagnosed.
While many of the nine million who also claim to be intolerant may well be so, it is suggested they may just be fussy.
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Does Flying Harm the Planet?
Category: Eco Matters
Given the rage that air travel can provoke in even the most tranquil among us these days, it may be surprising that riot police aren't a more regular feature at airports. But Sunday's pitched battle between roughly 500 environmental activists and a phalanx of baton-wielding police at London's Heathrow airport wasn't about long lines, delays, lost luggage or missed connections.
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In Despair Over the Polar Bear
Category: Eco Matters
Pamela Larsen, 41, a mother of two young girls in Mt. Hood, Ore., gets a stomachache every time she looks up at the volcano nearby: the glaciers at its peak have definitely been receding over the years. As the mountainside gets browner and browner — evidence of climate change — the knot in Larsen's gut tightens.
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Greatest Mysteries: Is There a Theory of Everything?
Category: Mysteries
Ancient philosophers thought wind, water, fire and earth were the most basic elements of the cosmos, but the study of the small has since grown up. Physicists continue to carve the known universe into particles to describe everything from magnetism to what atoms are made of and how they remain stable.
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New Mystery of Invisible Matter Generated by Cosmic Collision
Category: Mysteries
Observations of a distant galaxy cluster collision reveal a core of invisible matter devoid of glittering galaxies-something that is hard to explain by current theories.
The invisible stuff is what astronomers call dark matter. They don't know what it is, but they know it exists because of its gravitational effects on normal matter and light.
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The 5 Most High-Calorie Drinks
Category: Health
You may be getting plenty of exercise, watching watch you eat and counting those calories carefully.
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The 7 Negative Aspects of Coffee
Category: Health
Coffee has played a significant role in human society since the 9th century AD when