Researchers probe why chemotherapy can sometimes have the opposite intended effect, making some cancer stronger and metastatic “In short, our study has identified a new link between chemotherapy and breast cancer metastasis…” Some patients with breast cancer receive chemotherapy before the tumor is removed with…
By Alex Pietrowski Within the past twenty years, studies have been showing that girls and boys are beginning puberty earlier in life than at any other time in history. Not coincidentally, the world has been inundated with a slew of toxic chemicals in products that…
By Rosalinda Rosales The greeting starts out routine. You bump into a friend at the grocery store and they ask how you are. You find yourself thinking you aren’t that busy, at least, not enough to describe how you are. Things have settled down and work…
By Katie Thomas, The New York Times, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica This story was co-published with The New York Times. Dr. José Baselga, the former chief medical officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, resigned under pressure on Wednesday as one of the editors in…
By Daisy Luther I can’t be the only one wondering what the heck is going on with our food system lately. The recalls on commonly consumed foods have been so numerous that it seems like there’s another one every other day. The contamination of our…
By Susan Boskey Let it be known that the cultivation of industrial hemp, a non-psychoactive variety of cannabis, is now possible for every state of these United States. This, with the passing of the Unified 2018 Farm Bill, December 2018, championed by Senate Majority Leader…
A Reuters investigation published Friday charges that Johnson & Johnson, a multi-billion dollar company known for its healthcare products, knew for decades that its iconic talcum baby powder “was sometimes tainted with carcinogenic asbestos,” but concealed the information from regulators and the public. Asbestos, “the name given to six minerals…
By Karen Foster Highly-cushioned running shoes are meant to protect against injuries, but they may actually do the opposite by changing the way we run, research suggests. Humans have been running for hundreds of thousands of years, and of course for most of that time…
In his classic 1991 essay in The Wall Street Journal, New York State Teacher of the Year, John Taylor Gatto, declared: “Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect…
McDonald’s, the world’s largest and most iconic burger restaurant chain, today announced it will address antibiotics use across its global beef supply chain by 2021. The new policy directs its global suppliers to reduce use of the drugs in beef produced for the company, with implementation beginning…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Scientifically, it’s been documented children continually are exhibiting lower IQs, aka the Flynn effect, decade after decade. Jun 14, 2018 – IQ scores have been steadily falling for the past few decades for those born after 1975. [Paraphrased from 1] Fluoride…
By Meadow Clark C.S. Lewis, beloved author of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe had an important warning about genetically edited babies…and he said it 74 years ago – in 1944. The Internet is enraptured that science may have crossed yet another threshold: another gene-edited baby greets…
By Sara Tipton After experiencing the hustle and bustle of the holiday season year after year, many of the best of get burned out, stressed out, and out wallets get wiped out. But this year, we’ve compiled a handy list of some healthy and natural…
By Mac Slavo In this Nov. 28, 2018, photo, He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, speaks during the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong. He made his first public comments about his claim to have helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)…
By Micheal Sikora We often see “artificial” or “natural” flavors listed among the ingredients on foods we buy, but do consumers know what these terms mean? Action Alert! Recently, the FDA announced that a group of six artificial flavors would no longer be permitted to be used as…
By Markab Algedi It doesn’t seem that many articles have been written anywhere about people on probation in the United States having to test for kratom or its active alkaloid mitragynine. In Skagit County, Washington, a drug court has started to test people for kratom. This should…
By G. Owen Schaefer, National University of Singapore The idea of scientists tinkering with the genes of babies was once the provenance of science fiction, but now it’s apparently entered the realm of reality: On Nov. 26, Chinese scientist He Jiankui reported the historic live…
By Markab Algedi The details relevant to the public in this story seem about as black and white as the headline of this article. A man passed away who was found with what one can only assume were deadly levels of the extremely potent, notorious opioid drug…
By Markab Algedi This has been bothering the shit out of me for a long time, probably even subconsciously before it was articulated in this article. Why the hell does the media treat natural disasters like festivals? Every negative, unnecessary detail possible is turned into…
By Catherine J. Frompovich There’s been a lot of buzz about GM mosquitoes to prevent the spread of the Zika virus. The Cayman Islands in the Caribbean took on a project to test their ability to ‘curb’ whatever those mosquitoes were supposed to be capable…
