TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
(UR) China — China’s largest health scandal to date involving the sale of $90 million in unrefrigerated and likely fatal vaccines has caused an uproar among parents and doctors. Public backlash has reached a fevered pitch because authorities have done nothing to stop the illegal sale of ‘spoiled’ vaccines for polio, mumps, rabies, hepatitis B, Read More…
Washington, D.C. – In a stunning revelation, secret documents reveal the U.S. pressuring the EU to approve the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade pact through coercion and threats. The 240 pages of leaked text from the secretive trade pact reveal the Obama administration threatening to block European automobile imports into the U.S. if the Read More…
Dr. Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most prominent and popular primatologists, ethologists, and anthropologists, is starting to make a lot of noise about genetically modified foods and organisms (GMOs). She’s no stranger to speaking out against them, and joins a very long and growing list of scientists and activists trying to create awareness about the Read More…
Washington, D.C. — On April 19, The House Appropriations Committee approved its budget — at $21.3 billion in funding — for the fiscal year 2017. And in a report that accompanied the spending bill, the committee asked the FDA to extend Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption to certain “checkoff programs” that promote commodities in the agriculture Read More…
A since-deleted analysis posted the agency’s website shows it is relying on unpublished reports from groups linked to biochem industry The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used industry-funded research to conclude that the herbicide chemical glyphosate is not likely to cause cancer in humans—contradicting findings by the World Health Organization (WHO)—according to an analysis the Read More…
Lobbying allows special interest groups to control the way laws are shaped and how healthcare policies are both created and enforced. Pharmaceutical companies are some of the richest, most profitable companies in the world. Besides using profits to advertise products and influence prescription-writing target markets, Pharma spends extraordinary amounts of money on patents to protect Read More…