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A video has emerged showing the difference between healthy lungs and smoker’s lungs in gruesome detail. Released by the city of Johannesburg for World No Smoking Day on May 31, the video above shows a woman holding up a pair of real lungs, presumably taken from a cadaver. She then holds up smoker’s lungs, which […]

For the first time in a while, pundits and politicians were talking about the drug that kills more people than any other each year in the United States. Alcohol upstaged opioid abuse in news coverage recently, but only after Rear Adm. Ronny L. Jackson withdrew his name for consideration to head Veterans Affairs in April, […]

Rosemary Gibson is a senior advisor at the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute, and is the author of numerous books investigating healthcare issues. Most recently she co-authored “China RX: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine,” with Janardan Prasad Singh, which documents what has led to China’s increasing dominance in the […]

This week consumers are hearing the news that “an egg a day may reduce heart disease risk.” Cynics might ask does a cigarette a day reduce the risk of lung cancer too? The truth is the chicken egg has the highest cholesterol of any other foodstuff—packing as much as 275 mg of cholesterol.  In 2008, […]

Most Americans are oblivious to the huge annual burden of chronic illness, injuries, and deaths linked to vaccines. Some of the blame for the public’s ignorance belongs to a complicit media that “pretends that vaccine-related injuries do not occur.” However, the lion’s share of culpability for the buried story likely rests with the two federal agencies charged with vaccine oversight—the Food […]

How did the once modest medical specialty of child psychiatry become the aggressive “pediatric psychopharmacology” we see today? Millions of children who were once just considered too active are now diagnosed with ADHD, conduct disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, mixed manias, obsessive-compulsive disorders, pervasive development disorders, irritability, aggression and personality disorders and given drugs. Children who […]

GUANDONG, China —Sun Yat-sen University’s (a Top 10 university in China) Dr. Zhibin Yao is not a household name in the American autism community, but perhaps he should be. Not only is he American-educated (University of Pittsburgh) and the author of 33 peer-reviewed studies, but he’s also the lead author of two of the most important biological studies ever done […]

Baby bibs, mats, and blankets tested by scientists with NAFTA’s environmental arm contain toxic chemicals linked to higher rates of cancer, infertility, and suppressed immune systems—substances already banned from most other products in Canada. Muhannad Malas, the toxics program manager at Environmental Defence, says the Commission for Environmental Co-operation study shows it’s time to do […]

GENEVA—The world could eliminate industrially produced trans fats by 2023, the World Health Organization said on May 14, unveiling a plan that it said would prevent 500,000 deaths per year from cardiovascular disease. Trans fats are popular with manufacturers of fried, baked, and snack foods because they have a long shelf life, but they are […]

An investigation by CBC has found that there is no standardization in how different provincial governments deal with “do not resuscitate” requests.  Those in Ontario wishing to avoid this can fill out a Do Not Resuscitate Confirmation (DNRC) form. The form has different names in different provinces and it is not always clear how Canadians should […]

In Santiago, Chile, dogs are being used to help children relax during dental treatment. The Labrador retriever therapy dog, Zucca, recently helped Mateo, a boy with autism, remain calm during surgery. Zucca is owned by Raul Valera who directs the non-profit organization, “Junto A Ti” – meaning “next to you” in Spanish. Valera said that […]

As Chinese companies are increasingly dominating the global pharmaceutical market, an expert says it is high time for U.S. policymakers to start treating medicine as a strategic asset and to ensure the American public has a healthy reserve of essential drugs laid away in case of a crisis. Rosemary Gibson, a senior adviser at the […]

In Part One, World Mercury Project reported on the European Parliament’s March 2018 resolution to promote tight Europe-wide coordination of vaccination policies and go after the so-called phenomenon of “vaccine hesitancy.”  In March and April, The British Medical Journal (BMJ) published short news summaries about the European Parliament’s resolve to shore up the European Union’s (EU’s) “fragile” vaccination programs. According to […]

When Janis* separated from her husband, she took Ativan in the morning and at night for two years while she tried out different antidepressants. “If you pop an Ativan, the anxiety goes away in 10 minutes,” she told Healthline. “It’s enormously addicting.”  We’ve heard plenty about the opioid epidemic, but there’s another less recognized prescription drug […]

Pharmaceutical companies gave at least $116 million to patient advocacy groups in a single year, reveals a new database logging 12,000 donations from large publicly traded drugmakers to such organizations. Even as these patient groups grow in number and political influence, their funding and their relationships to drugmakers are little understood. Unlike payments to doctors […]

\ It is difficult to open up a magazine or newspaper today without seeing a headline trumpeting the existence of a “mental health crisis”—particularly on our college and university campuses. Indeed, if the media coverage is to be believed, we are drowning in a sea of mental illness that threatens to overwhelm postsecondary institutions. The […]

TORONTO—Pauline Osena knows how crucial it is to have EpiPens close at hand for her two young sons, who are at risk of life-threatening anaphylaxis because of multiple food allergies. So it’s no surprise that the latest short supply of the emergency rescue medication—an auto-injectable device that delivers a shot of symptom-relieving epinephrine—has her worried. […]

Editor’s note: This article includes references to graphic sexual content that may be inappropriate for some readers. Today teenagers are viewing far more pornography than their parents realize. And the porn they’re watching is much more “hardcore” than moms and dads could possibly imagine. While this may be a surprise to many American parents who […]

The students wait eagerly for their teachers to turn their backs. That’s their cue to reach quietly for a small, sleek device they can easily conceal in their palms. It resembles a flash drive, but instead of computer files, this device stores nicotine. They take a hit, sucking on the device as they would a […]

Medical and surgical intervention during birth continues to rise in much of the world. Nearly 1 in 3 women who give birth in the United States have a caesarean section and around 50 percent have their labor induced or augmented—sped up with synthetic hormones. Our new research, published in the journal Birth, found that babies […]