Play Not Spray is a self-described “coalition of parents and other concerned San Franciscans” opposed to the planned wide-spread spraying for the light brown apple moth - a pesticide bombardment scheduled for Bay Area counties come August.
As statewide reporting on the issue has made clear, there is simply no proof of the safety, efficacy or [...]
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Because each of us is biochemically and bioenergetically unique, each of us reacts differently to the toxic burden inflicted upon us by a polluted environment. But all of us benefit by both cleaning up the environment and otherwise addressing issues of public health, including how we all suffer from the poor lifestyle choices we, as [...]
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Thanks to Valerie at Creative Arts Dental Lab for sending us this link to a terrific Good Morning America story (with video) on the problems of lead in outsourced dental restorations.
Is There Lead in Your Dental Work?: Dental Work Made in China Might Contain Lead
For more on dental restorations, including the types we use in [...]
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An excerpt from the new Media Education Foundation documentary Big Bucks, Big Pharma…
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Percentage of U.S. nursing home patients on antipsychotic meds: 30
Percentage on antipsychotics at Providence Rest in the Bronx, where massage, aromatherapy and other alternative treatments are the norm: 2 to 3
Source: A Touch of Grace: Massage Therapy Aids Retired Nuns (WSJ)
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Posted in Informed Consent, Wellness, dental health, fluoride, mercury, tagged mercury, fluoride, dentistry, cancer, fluoridation, amalgam, toxcitiy, obesity, cholesterol, HRT, menopause, yoga on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
1945 Human Experiment Predicts Current Fluoride Ill Effects
A fascinating overview of a mid-20th century study showing increases in “bone defects, anemia and earlier female menstruation in children purposefully dosed with sodium fluoride-laced drinking water” and the legacy of the ongoing fluoridation experiment that makes great numbers of the American population into human guinea pigs. (Also [...]
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Posted in Informed Consent, Video, dental health, fluoride, tagged fluoridation, fluoride, fluorosis, Informed Consent, Video, water supply on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
“Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window except that the birds might eat them.”
Image by incurable_hippie, via Flickr (CC)
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Study: Over Half of Americans on Chronic Medicines (PhysOrg)
Tooth Loss Linked To Esophageal, Head and Neck, and Lung Cancer (Medical News Today)
Drug Marketing Shifts the Doctor-Patient Relationship (LA Times)
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Photo by Vaprotan, via Flickr (CC)
New Drug Reverses Dentists’ Anesthesia
The FDA has approved OraVerse, the first drug indicated for reversing the effects of local anesthesia used by dentists.
In the clinical studies, the patients who got OraVerse regained normal sensation in their lips faster than those who got the placebo. Within an hour after getting OraVerse, [...]
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