Health
UN receives Protests in Haiti
Peacekeepers from Nepal have been accused by some Haitians for bringing the cholera to Haiti for the first time in a century but the cholera strain has been matched to South Asia. There has been no evidence to justify the accusation the UN says. Violent protests against the UN peacekeepers caused the UN troops to…
Read MoreFood Shortage in US Households
Food shortage is the highest in US households since they have been collecting data in the 1990’s In 2009 almost 15% of households experienced a food shortage in their homes with single mothers being the hardest hit unable to put sufficient food on the table. More soup kitchens and community organizations that provide for the…
Read MoreToxic plume of chromium spread to underground wells
A well with increasing concentrations of the cancer causing pollutant Chromium, has been discovered earlier this year by water regulators. Lauri Kemper, assistant executive officer of the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, said and now more wells have been uncovered with elevated levels. In the tiny desert town of Hinkley that was made famous…
Read MoreNuclear fuel removed from California site.
This summer from a San Diego area, nearly 132 pounds of spent nuclear fuel was moved, the National Nuclear Security Administration disclosed Monday. It was taken in convoys to a federal facility nearly 1,000 miles away. Special shipping casts were used in packing the enriched uranium. NNSA said this was part of a federal effort…
Read MoreOlder drugs work as good as new for rare disorder
A rare disorder called Vasculitis who causes a need for long term treatment can find a cheaper medication that works just as well as the new drugs; a new research suggests .The older drug called Azathioprine had better results than the newer drugs had said Dr Roland Falk who is a kidney specialist. One in…
Read MoreTwin Towers Trade Center workers deadline for Health settlement
Illnesses caused by inhaling the pulverized remnants of the twin towers have more than 10,000 people suing the city and a lengthy list of other companies that have handled the massive clean up of lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks. Over exposure to the toxic dust of The World Trade Center have prompter thousands of…
Read MorePhysicians may have fee’s cut
Health costs are the reason the nation’s largest automaker blamed losing $3 billion in the first nine months of this year. A deal that the United Auto Workers make on health coverage said they would cut GM’s expenses by $3 billion annually before taxes .The health cost cut have physicians bracing for the impact as…
Read MoreThe Peanut Allergy Factor
A new study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology finds that the effects of children whose mothers ate peanut products during pregnancy were more likely to test positive for peanut allergies. That doesn’t mean, however, that these children will actually show allergic symptoms, since the test does not indicate the strength of reaction,…
Read MoreProposition 19 was apposed by voters
California voters rejected Proposition 19,that would have made marijuana use legal for anyone 21 or older to grow, possess and use small amounts of pot.Ten California cities voted Tuesday on local ballot that would have allowed them to tax recreational marijuana if Proposition 19 passed and one had a measure that would have banned medical…
Read MoreBody exhume from Muslin graveyard
The family of the Ahmadi sect was forced by police to exhume the body of their relative, Shehzard Waraich who died on October 30 because it was buried in a Muslim graveyard, which is against the law and Javed Islam the Sargodha district police chief said it was his job to enforce the law. The…
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