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Chinese Pollution = Increase in Cancer

Posted by bugaloo

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....

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Scientist to Congress: Oil Execs Commit High Crimes

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    Testimony to US Congress will also criticize lobbyists. "Revolutionary" policies needed to tackle crisis.

    New York - James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

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New Treatment Saves Man With Deadly Skin Cancer

Posted by cathee from New York Times

An experimental treatment that boosted a 52-year-old patient’s immune system to fight advanced skin cancer was successful, his doctors report.

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Kennedy out of 'successful' brain surgery

Posted by Jeff from Associated Press

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- After investigating all his options with his trademark intensity, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent 3 1/2 hours of risky and exquisitely delicate surgery Monday to cut out as much of his cancerous brain tumor as possible....

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Vaccine doubles survival of deadly brain cancer

Posted by aknight from MSNBC

A cancer vaccine more than doubled the survival time of people with the most common and deadly type of brain tumor, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

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Melting Antarctic glaciers may be releasing DDT, says study

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Adélie penguins in the Antarctic are as chock-full of pesticide DDT as they were in the 1970s, even though global DDT use has dropped 80 percent in the past three decades, says new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Researchers speculate that climate change is at fault -- honestly, is there anything climate change is not mucking up? -- as concentrations of the pesticide that had been trapped in ice are released by glacial melt and travel up the food chain. DDT has been banned in the northern hemisphere, but the World Health Organization has endorsed its controlled use to fight malaria in Africa. The purpose of the study "was not to further vilify DDT," says lead author Heidi Geisz, but to research how persistent the pesticide and other pollutants of its ilk can be.

sources: ScienceDaily, The New York Times
see also, in Grist: Study suggests link between DDT exposure and breast cancer

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Last surviving Brown v. Board plaintiff dies at 88

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Last surviving Brown v. Board plaintiff dies at 88 - Yahoo! News: "TOPEKA, Kan. - The last surviving plaintiff in Topeka's Brown v. Board of Education case, which led to the historic 1954 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in public schools, has died at 88. elma Henderson died Tuesday in Topeka, six weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Her son, Donald, said she wasn't

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