NewsCloud.com Health News http://www.newscloud.com/section/health Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:45:32 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us From a married lady to young, single sisters http://www.newscloud.com/read/From_a_married_lady_to_young_single_sisters It's funny the perspective that time gives. Occasionally I see a young sister made crazy by society's romantic expectations and I want to reach down from my lofty perch of 30+ years of life experience, grab her and say, "It will all work out...truly it will." I think of my early 20-something self, so worried about being paired up with someone. I admit that in some romantic entanglements back then, I forgave when I shouldn't have, overlooked what should have been obvious, gave up things that ought to have been sacred and a few times tried to make Mr. Right out of Mr. Wrong for Me.

]]> Interview: Kavita Ramdas, Global Fund for Women http://www.newscloud.com/read/Interview_Kavita_Ramdas_Global_Fund_for_Women "I think there are many different ways in which you define leadership. As a feminist, and as a feminine feminist, I truly believe that we don't do a very good job in the United States of believing that you can lead by serving, and I think the United States needs to think deeply about being in service of the rest of the world." -Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women.

]]> Chinese Pollution = Increase in Cancer http://www.newscloud.com/read/Chinese_Pollution_Increase_in_Cancer In attempting to increase its economic development, the Chinese regime has managed to increase its mortality rates. China is one of the most polluted countries in the world, if not the most polluted.

Statistics furnished by the World Bank are astonishing: 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are located in China; 90% of urban groundwater in China is contaminated; it is estimated that circa 900,000 people die every year from air and water pollution.

Highly toxic heavy metals such as lead and mercury contaminate cultivable terrain thus poisoning the food, while the number of Chinese citizens who die due to lung cancer and other serious respiratory diseases is constantly increasing....


]]> Racism and the Calculus of Comparative Suffering http://www.newscloud.com/read/Racism_and_the_Calculus_of_Comparative_Suffering Disasters bring out the best and worst in people. On the one hand, millions of folks respond to the suffering of their fellow human beings with compassion, concern, and even significant financial assistance when needed. Be it a hurricane, an earthquake, tornadoes or the recent massive flooding in the Midwestern United States, the hearts, minds, and often wallets of large numbers of the nation's people are with those in need. And on the other hand, there's Rush Limbaugh, who has decided to use the flooding in Iowa not to demonstrate compassion, but as an opportunity to make derogatory statements about poor black folks: specifically those caught by the flooding in New Orleans after Katrina in 2005.

]]> Outrage brews as Ottawa set to honour Morgentaler http://www.newscloud.com/read/Outrage_brews_as_Ottawa_set_to_honour_Morgentaler The divisive debate about abortion rights in Canada is poised to erupt once again as Henry Morgentaler, the country's best-known abortion-rights crusader, is expected to be named to the Order of Canada. Even before the official announcement, Dr. Morgentaler's name attached to the highest honour in the land ignited a firestorm of controversy yesterday, with online blogs, people opposed to abortion and pro-choice supporters wading into the Order of Canada committee's decision.

]]> Farewell to My Uterus http://www.newscloud.com/read/Farewell_to_My_Uterus A personal account of a relationship between a woman and her reproductive organ. After a four-year battle with uterine fibroids, I am finally surrendering. Last Monday, I checked into N.Y. Presbyterian Hospital and underwent a hysterectomy. I am 34 years old.

]]> Exotic illnesses afflict American poor http://www.newscloud.com/read/Exotic_illnesses_afflict_American_poor Welcome to the 21st centruy, it looks surprisingly like the 19th.

]]> Teen Pot Use Falling In States With Medical Marijuana Laws - NORML http://www.newscloud.com/read/Teen_Pot_Use_Falling_In_States_With_Medical_Marijuana_Laws_NORML States that have enacted legislation authorizing the use of medical cannabis by qualified patients have not experienced an increase in the drug's use by the general population, according to a report issued this week by the Marijuana Policy Project and co-authored by NORML Advisory Board Member Mitch Earleywine.

]]> Healthy Diet May Curb Cancer Genes http://www.newscloud.com/read/Healthy_Diet_May_Curb_Cancer_Genes Channeling Hippocrates.

]]> Things would be different if Insite were in Montreal http://www.newscloud.com/read/Things_would_be_different_if_Insite_were_in_Montreal Imagine Vancouver's supervised injection site being situated not in the Downton Eastside, but in Montreal's gritty east end. The Harper Conservatives, so careful not to interfere in Quebec affairs, would stay as far away from the issue as politically possible.

]]> Testosterone gene could offer men competitive edge in sports: study http://www.newscloud.com/read/Testosterone_gene_could_offer_men_competitive_edge_in_sports_study The headline for the story is a wee bit on the misleading side because it says the gene could offer men a competitive advantage. In fact what it really COULD offer is an edge to men who cheat. A significant difference. CBC Radio also managed to suggest possbile racial discrimination because the genotype is more prevelant in Asian men, so if you're doing well and happen to be Asian, the suggestion is you might be cheating. Nevertheless it is an interesting example of how a person's genotype reacts with our environment and medicine.

]]> Clement seeks appeal of Insite decision http://www.newscloud.com/read/Clement_seeks_appeal_of_Insite_decision Health Minister Tony Clement says he will ask the federal justice minister to appeal a decision by the B.C. Supreme Court that saved North America's only sanctioned safe-injection site from closure at the end of June. On Tuesday, Mr. Justice Ian Pitfield granted users and staff at the popular but controversial facility known as Insite a permanent constitutional exemption from prosecution under federal drug laws.

]]> Air ambulances address issue of obese patients http://www.newscloud.com/read/Air_ambulances_address_issue_of_obese_patients The obesity epidemic meets the health care crisis. Meanwhile, we continue subsidizing corn syrup.

]]> Burger King Caves! http://www.newscloud.com/read/Burger_King_Caves After years of resistance, Burger King finally joined fellow fast food giants McDonalds and Yum! Brands in meeting farm worker demands for decent wages and working conditions. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Burger King announced on Friday that the fast food chain will begin paying a penny more per pound of Florida tomatoes in order to boost wages for tomato harvesters. A penny more per pound actually raises wages by 75 percent, if you can believe that. Until now, the standard rate has been about 45 cents for a 32-pound bucket.

]]> Federal scientists probe decline of B.C. salmon runs http://www.newscloud.com/read/Federal_scientists_probe_decline_of_BC_salmon_runs Salmon ecology is a complex puzzle: On the U.S. West Coast many salmon runs have completely collapsed, and in B.C. the situation is only slightly better. But in the North Pacific, including Alaska, Russia and Japan, many salmon runs are at or near all-time highs.

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