We must take these public health choices out of the hands of corporate executives and put corporations in their proper place: subservient to public welfare. (Common Dreams) Should constitutional rights be used to shield corporations ...
District Court Judge Alsup amazed agency would be “that dumb.” The recently released Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report on cell phone radiation relied on obsolete and unrealistic methods that are endangering the lives of millions. ...
Skin cancer has increased significantly over the past 50 years and now a new study is raising suspicion that weed killers may play a factor. (Beyond Pesticides) Herbicide use is associated with an increased risk ...
A second class of drugs was found to be contaminated with a known carcinogen, raising concern that the FDA is not adequately monitoring existing drugs on the market. Drug regulators in both Europe and the ...
“Can anyone imagine the government ordering you to disconnect your child from life-saving care — to pull them from a hospital bed — knowing that it will cost them their lives?” The Trump administration has ...
“Oncolytic viruses such as the coxsackievirus could transform the way we treat cancer and could signal a move away from more established treatments such as chemotherapy.” A group of researchers recently conducted a clinical trial ...
“[The FDA investigation is] really just scratching the surface. It opens up many more questions than answers.” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed on Monday that PFAS, a class of manmade chemicals used ...
“With this fluorescence, you see the tumor so much clearer because it lights up like a Christmas tree.” Researchers used a synthetic form of scorpion venom to illuminate brain tumors via a new imaging method ...
The lawsuit is the first to go to a jury after a bombshell Reuters investigation in December exposed what Johnson & Johnson knew about the potential contamination of its baby powder. (Reuters) – A California jury ...
“Our cancer cure will be effective from day one.” A team of Isreali doctors has made the bold claim that they will have a “complete cure” for cancer in a year’s time. The Jerusalem Post ...
The first of dozens of lawsuits last scheduled for 2019 over the presence of talc in Johnson & Johnson baby powder began last week. Opening statements began last Monday in a lawsuit claiming that Johnson ...
PFAS: the “most insidious pollutant since PCB.” Minnesota’s 3M Co. is accused of poisoning drinking water in one Minnesota town with cancer-causing industrial pollutants, according to a detailed Bloomberg report. Located on a 1,750-acre property ...
Twenty percent of crops harvested in Brazil between 2013 and 2015 were not safe for human consumption because of a high concentration of pesticides. A Brazilian study published in the journal Chemosphere links colon cancer ...
“Thus, the jury could conclude that Monsanto acted with malice by consciously disregarding a probable safety risk.” After much speculation that a San Francisco Superior Court could overturn last August’s landmark verdict against Monsanto (now ...
Have you ever wondered why we the regular people usually lose? We lose because a) so many of us don’t care, b) we aren’t organized, c) we underestimate our opponents, but mainly d) we are ...
German pharmaceutical company Bayer has taken a stock market dive owed to its newest acquisition Monsanto, and recent media surrounding the carcinogenic impacts of their products. After a San Francisco court sided with a groundskeeper ...
The jury deliberation of the Johnson vs. Monsanto case began this week after closing arguments debating the tie between Roundup herbicide and Non-Hodgkins lymphoma were voiced Tuesday. The verdict of this high-profile case in the ...
Laboratory data denying a causal connection between the herbicide Roundup and one San Francisco man’s cancer has been the focus of dispute in the Monsanto lawsuit that has now crossed into its third week. San ...
California says weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer, but California also sprays it into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta which is home to much of the water supply for central and southern California. California government officially put ...
The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced that despite growing concern for a possible pediatric cancer cluster in one Indiana county, a state investigation found no evidence of such a cluster as widely reported. The ...
Monsanto is in hot water as it’s facing the first of thousands of lawsuits targetting the weed-killer, Roundup. A California man suffering from terminal cancer claims the herbicide’s active ingredient, glyphosate, is responsible for his ...
Dear EarthTalk: What is “light pollution?” Is it really a factor in breast cancer? —Gudrun Smythe, Madison, Wisconsin (EARTHTALK, by Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer) The glow of city lights blotting out stars in the night sky ...
One woman chose to keep her both breasts rather than get one removed. To her, it was better to die from cancer than to be called a mutilated woman, or worse, get divorced. Breast cancer ...
“This is a Shkreliesque move, and is near to first degree murder as one can get without risking jail,” said one critic, referencing the Big Pharma CEO that infamously raised the price of an AIDS ...