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Monthly Archives: August 2008

And this Week’s Blog Award Goes To……

LIVEJOURNAL
The Ambidextrous Chicken-Monkey’s Spaghetti Feed (maria_sputnik) wrote,
@ 2008-08-31 17:47:00
i am a crank
Below please find a crank letter. Any suggestions before I send it?
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Dear Women’s Health Research Center,
Hi, I wanted to give some feedback about an ad you ran recently in the Portland Mercury, soliciting women to join your study of continuous oral contraceptives/doxycyline.* The ad […]

Fear, stress among the poor hinder learning

LA Times
Rosemary Clandos, Special to The Times
September 1, 2008

RAISED IN poverty, Dr. Shauna Blake Collins fought fear during nearly 14 years of education. A dropout from a South-Central Los Angeles high school, she earned a GED diploma at 22, became a licensed vocational nurse, a registered nurse, and finally, at 41, a physician. Confidence came […]

Women warned not to wear perfume during pregnancy

ScotlandonSunday.com
Published Date: 31 August 2008
By Kate Foster

PREGNANT women have been advised to avoid using perfumes or scented body creams after research suggested the products can cause unborn boys to suffer infertility or cancer in later life.

Research on rats carried out by Professor Richard Sharpe has found that the reproductive system of male foetuses can be […]

Healthy lifestyle - Wild about yams?

Jamaica Gleaner
KIngston Jamaica
August 30, 2008
Heather Little-White, Contributor
While there is talk about the virtues of Jamaican yams and their probable contribution to the success of our Olympians in Beijing, traditional yam lovers shouldn’t go wild about all varieties.
The wild yam, for example, is a herb, not a tuber that you would expect to cook […]

Is Laughter a Challenge?

American Chronicle
EmPower Research
August 29, 2008

By B. Premila Kabuini  

Bogged down by the countless problems of day-to-day existence, it does seem like a challenge to put even a smile on your face.
I remember a quote by the world famous comedian Charlie Chaplin – “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” How true! The ability […]

The Healing Power of Sunlight

NaturalNews Insider Alert (www.NaturalNews.com)
Online reports / book announcements
MIke Adams - Health Ranger
August 29, 2008
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Dear readers,
Did you know you have probably never been told the straight truth
about one of the most potent, yet overlooked, healing nutrients in the
world? In fact, medical groups have actually spent the past three
decades convincing you to avoid this “nutrient” by scaring […]

NY Times Notes Merck Gardasil® Predatory Advertising Campaign

H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Opportunistic marketing isn�t new. Mass merchandising of tobacco products to minors delivered millions of “Hooked for Life” or at least until premature death “users” for BIG TOBACCO. With recent regulations that allegedly limited marketing tobacco to minors, rapacious advertising agencies and armies of mercenaries (lobbyists) have moved to a new, even more, profitable […]

Safe, Cost Effective PAP Test or Gardasil®

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Researchers and public health officials are FINALLY waking up, and stepping up, to ask tough questions about the cost effectiveness of administering a very expensive, and not thoroughly vetted vaccine to every girl and young woman in the free world. Is the use of Gardasil� as a preventive measure against cervical […]

The Missing Piece of Medicine

American Chronicle
By Terry Leder
August 26, 2008
“That missing piece of our complex human body is known and taught in grade schools as the body´s messengers, hormones. Hormones have not been completely ignored; there have been significant advances in this area of medicine as well. We have Endocrinologists to investigate and research how all of these substances […]

Hormones! Reader swings back

S.F. Examiner
POSTED August 26, 4:29 PM
Annie Gleason - S.F. Dating Examiner
Remember my earlier post about roller coaster relationships? Andy* and his date had had been on three great dates until “her hormones kicked in,” after which she didn’t want to see him again. Can these changes of heart be blamed on hormones or are we […]