Archive for the Politics Category

The 2010-2011 flu season is here. With it comes a mixture of good news and bad, but if you and I together spread facts instead of fear, we can once again tip the balance toward health in the US—and worldwide. Last year, the swine flu “pandemic”—warned to

Monsanto Whistleblower Says Genetically Engineered Crops May Cause Disease By Jeffrey M. Smith Monsanto was quite happy to recruit young Kirk Azevedo to sell their genetically engineered cotton. Kirk had grown up on a California farm and had worked in several jobs monitoring and testing pesticides and

Drug company GlaxoSmithKline is paying $750 million to settle allegations that it knowingly manufactured and sold adulterated drugs. Glaxo will pay $150 million in criminal fines and $600 million in civil penalties. Several of the company’s drugs were adulterated at one of the company’s plants between 2001

Costa Mesa, California is the first city in the United States to call for an immediate end to dental amalgam. Dental amalgam is a filling material that is 50 percent mercury. The resolution calls on federal and state agencies to eliminate amalgam, and asks dentists in Costa

Abbott Laboratories is taking its weight loss drug Meridia (sibutramine) off the market, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The company voluntarily withdrew the drug in the wake of findings showing an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes in people who used the drug.