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The Farm Bill Is a Climate Bill

Donald Carr | Posted 03.12.2012 | Green
Read More: Farm Bill, Crp, Green House Gas Emissions, Lobbyists, Climate Change, Epa, Conservation Reserve Program, Usda, Global Warming, Green News
Donald Carr

Climate Change activists should be concerned about proposed cuts to farm bill conservation programs, which would be the carbon emissions equivalent of adding 2 million cars a year to America's roads.

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Medicine and the Media: CRP Testing

Bruce A. Barron | Posted 11.16.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Heart Disease, Crp, Psa Tests, CRP Testing, Healthy Living Body, Cancer Screening, Health Media, Unnecessary Testing, Health Care, Unnecessary Screening, Healthy Living News
Bruce A. Barron

I present this discussion to demonstrate how misleading it is to attempt to inform the public about a complex issue sandwiched between advertisements for the treatment of bladder control and erectile dysfunction.

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Watching the Future Wash Away

Donald Carr | Posted 06.13.2011 | Green
Read More: Farming, Soil, Toxic, Run Off, Corn, Agriculture, Dead Zone, Conservation, Erosion, Chemicals, Corn Belt, Commodity Crop, Farm, Water, Agribusiness, Soybeans, Farm Subsidies, Usda, Farm Bill, Crp, Eqip, Green News
Donald Carr

Bad federal policy and intensifying storms are washing away the rich dark soils in the Midwest that made this country an agricultural powerhouse and that remain the essential foundation of a healthy and sustainable food system in the future.

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Wow! A Drug That Will Let Me Have Sex Once More a Month? Sign Me Up!

Doug Bremner | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Women's Health, Arousal, Hormone Replacement, Health, Desire, Sex, Testosterone, C-Reactive Protein, Atherosclerosis, Endothelial Dysfunction, Testoterone Breast Cancer, Testosterone Drug, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Sexual Medicine, Crp, Testoterone Patch, Hrt, Healthy Living News
Doug Bremner

The authors of the study imply that menopause is linked to a decline in libido for women, and that they need to take a drug to correct that. But I'm not aware of any literature supporting this.

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