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The Fatal Prescription Pad

Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care, Prescription Drug Abuse, Antibiotic Resistance, Prevention, Prescription Drugs, Health Care Reform, Antibiotics, Doctors, Penicillin, Prescription Painkillers, Wellness, Living News
Deepak Chopra

It's well known that the most expensive medical technology in America is a doctor's ballpoint pen. But now we discover that the prescription pad can also be deadly.

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Don't Confuse Real Healing With Suppression Of The Disease

Dana Ullman | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Biomimicry, Disease Suppression, Natural Healing, Health, Antibiotics, Living, Healing, Evolution, Symptom Suppression, Dana Ullman, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Living News
Dana Ullman

When a person experiences relief from any treatment, conventional or alternative, one should not necessarily assume that a real healing has occurred.

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Reforming Our Food Production Can Start With Curbing Antibiotic Use

Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Pamta, Antibiotics, Louise Slaughter, Food Supply, Food, Green News
Rep. Louise Slaughter

One of the immediate steps we can take to improve the conditions of livestock and the health of our fellow human beings is to limit the use of antibiotics.

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Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer's New Book Asks Why Don't We Eat Pets?

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Sustainable Agriculture, The Jungle, Vegetarianism, Eating Animals, Agriculture, Upton Sinclair, Books, Farming, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer, Factory Farms, Chickens, Pets, Livestock, Horses, Euthanize, Politics, Cats, Antibiotics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dogs, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, Books News
Rabbi David Wolpe

Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is a triple marvel: the research is serious and far reaching, the writing clear, clever, accessible and in a few instances graphically ingenious, and the cause is genuinely important.

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What Can Danish Hogs Teach Us About Antibiotics?

Laura Rogers | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Antibiotics, Pamta, Congress, Pork, Industrial Agriculture, Denmark, Health, Pew Charitable Trust, Laura Rogers, Health Care, Living News
Laura Rogers

Denmark's ban on the routine use of antibiotics on food animal farms is a success. The United States has an effective model to draw upon when it comes to protecting public health.

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More Than Half Million Kids React Badly To Drugs

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Hospitalization, Kids, Children, Prevention, Health, Side Effects, Prescription Drugs, Antibiotics, Medical Treatment, Drugs, Medicine, Penicillin, Children's Health, Drug, Wellness, Living News

CHICAGO — More than half a million U.S. children yearly have bad reactions or side effects from widely used medicines that require medical treat...

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Major Clue Found In Understanding Antibiotic Resistance

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Science, Health, Green News

US scientists have uncovered a defence mechanism in bacteria that allows them to fend off the threat of antibiotics....

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How To Stimulate Your Placebo Response

Dr. Frank Lipman | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Health, Antibiotics, Modern Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Natural Medicine, Doctors, Patients, Placebo, Functional Medicine, Placebo Effect, Alternative Medicine, Living News
Dr. Frank Lipman

After finishing my Internship at Baragwaneth Hospital in South Africa almost 30 years ago, I went to apprentice in a busy General Practice in Johannes...

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Antibiotic-Free Meat: Is the FDA Finally Catching Up to the American Consumer?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Antibiotics, Bpa, Fda Approval, Organic Food, Antibiotics Resistance, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

The beauty of our system is that when government lags behind, we as American consumers still have the power to direct the marketplace by the products we buy -- or don't buy.

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Making Sure Our Antibiotics Work

Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, House of Representatives, Superbugs, Mrsa, Agriculture, Antibiotics, Louise Slaughter, Agribusiness, Industrial Agriculture, Pamta, Politics News
Rep. Louise Slaughter

We are losing the ability to treat human infections and diseases because we have misused one of the greatest scientific products ever created.

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Who's Hogging Our Antibiotics?

Laura Rogers | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Farm Animals, Drug-Ads, Health, Antibiotics, Drugs, American Medical Association, Animals, American-Academy-of-Pediatrics, Meat, Living News
Laura Rogers

The way we are raising our food animals -- by regularly feeding them human antibiotics -- is putting human health at risk.

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Step One, Hone the Ask: Why We Should Better Regulate CAFOs

Paula Crossfield | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Food Movement, Meat Politics, Factory Farms, Antibiotics, Food Safety, Usda, Cafos, Barack Obama, Eqip, Green News
Paula Crossfield

We've been blaming consumers for their desire to eat lots of meat as an excuse for the unsafe and inhumane practices at CAFOs, which contribute to environmental degradation, our healthcare crisis and impact the safety of our food.

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It's Time to Take the Pharma Out of Farming

Steve Ells | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Food Matters, Politics of Food, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Antibiotics, Farm Animals, Chipotle, Agribusiness, Sustainable Agriculture, Food, Animals, Meat, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Steve Ells

Antibiotic use is not a prerequisite to life on the farm, but rather a threat to life itself. Let's preserve these drugs for the sick animals and humans who need them.

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The BBQ is Over...

Hillary Newman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Genetically Modified Food, Vegetarian, Green Living, Salmon, Biotech Agriculture, Bacon, Vegan, GM Foods, Center for Food Safety, Food Matters, Dna, Eating Matters, Fda, Nutrition, Health, Antibiotics, Hormone Treated Meat, Green News
Hillary Newman

The FDA is also not required to label when food comes from genetically engineered animals. Without clear labeling, many may soon be feeding their families manipulated animals.

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Have a Placebo

Doug Bremner | Posted 11.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Cholesterol Drugs, Health, Lipitor, Statins, Antibiotics, Doctors, Medication, Heard Disease, Overprescribed, Living News
Doug Bremner

One article in bmj shows that half of doctors prescribe their patients placebos; another shows that 23% of patients on statins were women without heart disease.

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God's Hybrid

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Antibiotics, Adverse Drug Reactions, Fatigue, Life Force, Detoxification, Bacteria, Health, God, Nutrition, Darwin, Diet, Brain, Digestive Tract, Natural Resources, McCombs Plan, Arthritis, LifeForce Plan, Candida Albicans, Aging, Hormones, Rockefeller, Skin, Headaches, Evolution, Colon, Probiotics, Inflammation, Candida, Living News
Dr. Jeffrey McCombs

Somewhere along the primordial way, a bunch of micro-organisms became enclosed by, fewer in number, but larger "tissue" cells and the evolutionary rac...

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A Response to Sally Pipes

Holly Robinson Peete | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Pharmaceutical Company, Mmr Shot, Pharmaceutical Industry, Vaccine Safety, Celebs Stop Taking Poisonous Shots at Vaccines, Sally Pipes, Health, Antibiotics, Autism Community, Cdc, Autism, Vaccinations, Pediatrician, New York Daily News, Hollyrod Foundation, Autism Thimerosal, Measles, Living News
Holly Robinson Peete

By using vaccines, we've been able to eradicate such diseases as smallpox, polio and measles. But the mercury used for decades as a preservative in the vaccinations is poison, pure and simple.

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Simple Economics, Complicated Medicine

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 10.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Economics, Pneumonia, Health Reform, Health Care, Health, Medicine and Doctor Performance, Antibiotics, Hospitals, Emericgency Room, Business News
Peter A. Ubel

Overuse of antibiotics leads not only to antibiotic resistance, but also creates potentially life-threatening side effects.

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USDA Revokes Tyson's "No Antibiotics" Label

AP | Marcus Kabel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Antibiotics-Free Chicken, Tyson Chicken USDA, Antibiotics, Revoked Labels, Tyson Foods, Business News

Tyson Foods Inc. plans to revise labels that say its fresh chicken is "raised without antibiotics" after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it ma...

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