6 Nov
Almost a decade ago, the European Environment Agency (EEA) published its report titled, Late lessons from early warnings: the precautionary principle 1896-2000. The report is based on selected case studies from the last century detailing how inaction to early warnings resulted in late lessons learned some decades later.
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23 Sep
Can we solve some of the most difficult and pressing global problems such as poverty, education, AIDS and public health by investing directly in the future of 12 year old girls? There are more than 50 million girls living in poverty today and the evidence is on their side.
19 Sep
Dr Richard Jackson, Chair of the School of Health at UCLA, has done extensive work in the impact of the environment on health, particularly relating to children. He is an advocate of the need to address deep-rooted structural issues with our built environment that are creating epidemics of chronic illnesses. According to Jackson, “we are now medicalising the problems people are experiencing with their environment. We are no longer creating wellbeing.” (more…)
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The screening and scientific evaluation of Chinese medicinal herbs for drug development sometimes fails to replicate their clinical efficacy. Why is this so?
The primary cause of cardiovascular disease is vitamin C deficiency. Its abolition may profoundly improve human health and increase the life expectancy of human beings.
Okinawans, the world’s longest-lived people, believe that the food they eat is “nuchi gusui” which roughly translates as “medicine for life.”
A complex of lipids, profits and politics has overwhelmed many of us from taking a fresh, critical look at the mounting evidence that points to infectious and immune-mediated causes of atherosclerosis. This review presents a new hypothesis as evidence that falsifies some common assumptions about atherosclerosis.
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