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City To Study Use Of Fentanyl-Detecting Test Strips By Distributing Them In Exchange Vans

August 25, 2018 By Ethan McLeod, Baltimorefishbowl.com Create! Baltimore, Drugs, health

In its ongoing fight against a fentanyl-fueled surge in drug overdoses, the Baltimore City Health Department plans to study the efficacy of test strips that detect the potent synthetic substance in street-purchased drugs by handing kits out at mobile syringe and needle exchanges. The study will evaluate the outcomes of BTNX Rapid Response Urine Test strips “as a harm reduction strategy to reduce the negative consequences associated with drug use,” according to city spending board documents from this week. Health care providers, researchers, advocates and users are increasingly looking to BTNX strips–traditionally a tool for employers to detect drug use among recruits and workers– to test for the presence of fentanyl in street-bought drugs. Instead of dipping the strip into someone’s urine, one can dissolve some of the illicit drugs into water and use the test to determine whether or not it contains fentanyl.

5 Ways Trump’s Clean Power Rollback Strips Away Health, Climate Protections

August 22, 2018 John H. Cushman Jr., Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Clean Energy, Climate Change, health, pollution, Trump Administration

The Trump administration has proposed to replace the nation's landmark climate regulations with a watered-down version that would do next to nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and wouldn't even set a specific national goal. If the new plan survives legal challenges, it would fulfill a campaign pledge to abort the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. And in combination with the freezing of automotive emissions standards announced a few weeks ago, it would gut any attempt to achieve through federal regulations the goals of the Paris climate agreement, which the Trump administration has also renounced. Given that the new rule does not challenge the finding that greenhouse gas pollution from coal-fired power plants causes global warming and endangers people and the planet, nor court rulings that the Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to bring it under control, the proposal is breathtaking in its embrace of apathy.

Monsanto Found Guilty In Roundup Cancer Lawsuit

August 12, 2018 Commondreams. Resist! Cancer, health, Monsanto, Roundup

In an historic victory for those who have long sought to see agrochemical giant Monsanto held to account for the powerful company's toxic and deadly legacy, a court in California on Friday found the corporation liable for damages suffered by a cancer patient who alleged his sickness was directly caused by exposure to the glyphosate-based herbicides, including the widely used weedkiller Roundup. As Reuters reports: The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit alleging glyphosate causes cancer to go to trial.

Assange May Finally Leave Ecuadorian Embassy In London As Health Worsens

August 3, 2018 Staff, Rt.com Resist! Ecuador, health, Julian Assange, London

Julian Assange, who has spent more than 2,230 days in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, is expected to leave the building soon with his health deteriorating, sources say. This latest information about the WikiLeaks founder, who was already expected to leave the embassy “in the coming weeks,” was broken Wednesday by Bloomberg which cited “two people with knowledge of the matter.” The news agency reported that the whistleblower’s health “has declined recently.” The news comes days after Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno announced that Assange must "eventually" leave the embassy. “Yes, indeed yes, but his departure should come about through dialogue,” the Ecuadorian president said in answer to a reporter’s question on whether he will eventually have to leave. “For a person to stay confined like that for so long is tantamount to a human rights violation,” Moreno said, stressing that Ecuador wants to make sure that nothing “poses a danger” to the whistleblower's life.

New Study Finds Links Between RoundUp (Glyphosate) Herbicide And Fetal Defects

July 27, 2018 By Whitney Webb, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Argentina, glyphosate, health

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – A new study conducted by Argentinian researchers has found that glyphosate – the controversial herbicide marketed by Monsanto (now Bayer) as RoundUp – causes significant damage to pregnant lab rats and their fetuses at relatively low doses. The study, published in Archives of Toxicology, found that not only was the female fertility of pregnant rats impaired, but fetal growth was retarded and malformations were detected in their second-generation offspring. Researchers tested the glyphosate-based chemical in pregnant female rats at two different doses. The higher dose (200 mg glyphosate per kg of bodyweight per day) was chosen based on the no-observed adverse effect level (NOAEL) for maternal toxicity of 1000 mg/kg bw/day promoted by the agrochemical industry as safe for mothers and fetuses.

Warner Slack—Doctor For The People Forever

July 20, 2018 Ralph Nader, Nader.org Educate! Activists, health

Warner Slack was a humble, multi-faceted great American physician at Harvard Medical School’s affiliated hospitals. Yet after he passed away last month at age 85, Dr. Slack did not receive the news coverage accorded numerous late entertainers, athletes, writers and scoundrels. In fact, his life was ignored by the New York Times and the Washington Post. Dr. Slack, in his pioneering, brilliant humane work, always focused on the lives of the American people whom he served in the millions, directly and indirectly. It has been said that in a celebrity culture, we honor whom we value. Along the way the most important human beings who give us the blessings of liberty, justice, health, safety, knowledge and overall well-being mostly are missed or slighted by the priorities of a commercially driven culture.

700 Pound Heroin Spoon Installed Outside OxyContin Manufacturer

July 1, 2018 Nate Freeman, Artsy.net. Resist! Art, Big Pharma, health, Opioids

Connecticut - Art dealer Fernando Luis Alvarez installed a gigantic spoon-shaped sculpture by the artist Domenic Esposito in front of the headquarters of Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Connecticut, on Friday morning. Police soon arrived on the scene, told Alvarez that the sculpture needed to be removed, and issued him a ticket for “obstructing free passage.” When he refused to move the 700-pound work himself, he was arrested for “interfering with the police,” handcuffed, and briefly detained before going free. The work was then removed using a front loader.

Facing Deadly Levels Of Pollution, Will California Finally Step Up?

June 13, 2018 Kate Harveston, Popular Resistance. Resist! Air Pollution, California, health, Transportation

Humans do not exist in a vacuum. We are very much a part of the world, a part of our Mother Earth. And when Mother Earth is ailing, we fall sick as well. Indeed, multiple studies done by the California Air Resources Board have found a correlation between air pollution and respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease and lowered immune responses. California has a vibrant, growing economy. This abundance has led to increasing population growth. With that increasing population comes further damage to the environment as each new individual adds to the overall carbon footprint of the state.

Saturday: March Against Monsanto

May 18, 2018 March Against Monsanto-NYC, Popular Resistance Resist! Food and Agriculture, health, Monsanto

Saturday, May 19, at 6:00 PM in Foley Square, New York City, the global grassroots organization March Against Monsanto will hold it's 7th marchto bring awareness to the public of the human and environment rights violations by the agriculture/chemical company Monsanto now known as Bayer-Monsanto since the merger with pharmaceutical giant Bayer. NYC March Against Monsanto (MAM NYC) is just one of hundreds of cities across six continents participating in this global awareness campaign.

Farming For The Health Of People And The Planet

March 29, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG Radio. Podcast Factory Farming, Food and Agriculture, health

Our current food system has a large negative impact on the climate crisis and our health. Factory farms produce large amounts of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), pollute the land, air and water and deplete the nutrients in soil. We are eating foods that contain low levels of nutrients and contain hormones, antibiotics and pesticides that harm our health. Regenerative farming techniques ameliorate these problems by restoring the nutrients to the soil, lowering the need for chemicals (and water) and sequestering carbon. We speak with Pat Kerrigan of Organic Consumers Association

Morgan County Had 27 Overdose Deaths From 2011 To 2015

March 23, 2018 Russell Mokhiber, Morgancountyusa.org Educate! Drugs, health, West Virginia

That’s according to the Appalachian Overdose Death Mapping Tool released yesterday by the Appalachian Regional Commission and NORC at the University of Chicago. Outside of coal country, Berkeley County and Morgan County had the highest overdose death rates in West Virginia. Morgan County’s death rate was 51.1 overdose deaths per year per 100,000 population. That is twice the national overdose death rate of 20.6 deaths per year per 100,000 population and more than 50 percent higher than the Appalachian death rate of 30.6 overdose deaths per year per 100,000. Berkeley County’s death rate was 52.2 overdose deaths per year per 100,000 population. Berkeley County suffered 189 overdose deaths in the five years from 2011 to 2015. Michael Meit, co-director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Analysis, said that while the study covered only the years 2011 to 2015, “the 2016 numbers eclipse 2015.”

From Asthma To Cancer, ‘Blistering’ New Report Details Human Cost Of Fracking

March 16, 2018 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Educate! Fracking, health

The study (pdf)—described as "the most authoritative" of its kind—was published by Concerned Health Professionals of New York and Physicians for Social Responsibility. Researchers found that "by several measures, evidence for fracking-related health problems is emerging across the United States and Canada." Looking to Pennsylvania—a hotbed for fracking—as an example, the report says that "as the number of gas wells increase in a community, so do rates of hospitalization, and community members experience sleep disturbance, headache, throat irritation, stress/anxiety, cough, shortness of breath, sinus, fatigue, wheezing, and nausea." "Drilling and fracking operations are also correlated with increased rates of asthma, elevated motor vehicle fatalities, ambulance runs and emergency room visits, and gonorrhea incidence," according to the report...

48 Million Sickened Every Year By Cheap, Dirty Meat

February 24, 2018 Katherine Paul, Organicconsumers.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, health, Meat

If you live in the U.S., you’re far more likely to get hit with salmonella or some other foodborne illness, than if you live in the U.K. You can thank the factory farm industry for that. An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) and the Guardian found “shockingly high” levels of foodborne illness in the U.S. The Guardian reports that “annually, around 14.7 percent (48 million people) of the U.S. population is estimated to suffer from an illness, compared to around 1.5 percent (1 million) in the UK. In the U.S., 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year of foodborne diseases. Driving these grim statistics is the multi-billion-dollar industrial factory farm industry that not only makes us sick, but pollutes our water and air, exploits workers, is causing an antibiotic resistance crisis and is unconscionably inhumane.

Movements Of Millions Say No To Gene Drives

February 24, 2018 ETC Group, ETCGroup.org. Resist! Farmers, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, health

The largest rural movements in Brazil, representing well over a million farmers, are protesting a new Brazilian regulation that would allow release of gene drives, the controversial genetic extinction technology, into Brazil’s ecosystems and farms. On February 3rd and 4th, the National Coalition of Farmworkers and Rural, Water and Forest Peoples[1] met near São Paulo, Brazil and sounded the alarm about new Brazilian regulatory changes – a resolution passed on January 15th by Brazil’s National Technical Commission on Biosafety that would allow the release of gene drive organisms into the environment.

More Than Half Of US Babies Are At Risk For Malnourishment

February 4, 2018 Lauren Weber, the Huffington Post Educate! Food and Agriculture, health, New Economy

Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a groundbreaking policy statement highlighting the importance, and irreversibility, of the 1,000-day window. “Failure to provide key nutrients during this critical period of brain development may result in lifelong deficits in brain function despite subsequent nutrient repletion,” the AAP Committee on Nutrition said. In other words, no amount of catch-up can completely fix the lost time for brain formation. Malnourishing the brain can produce a lower IQ; lead to a lifetime of chronic medical problems; increase the risk of obesity, hypertension and diabetes; and cost that individual future academic achievement and job success. The impact can even be generational, perpetuating a cycle of poverty for lifetimes to come.

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