AJCDerm1.pdf (application/pdf Object) World Health Organization. NSSM 200 - Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests. Population control: Is it a tool of the rich? 28 October 2011Last updated at 00:08.
Nations agree on legally binding mercury rules. 21 January 2013Last updated at 06:27 ET By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News Rising gold prices has seen an increase in small-scale gold mines, most of which use mercury More than 140 countries have agreed on a set of legally binding measures to curb mercury pollution, at UN talks.
Delegates in Geneva approved measures to control the use of the highly toxic metal in order to reduce the amount of mercury released into the environment. Mercury can produce a range of adverse human health effects, including permanent damage to the nervous system. The UN recently published data that showed mercury emissions were rising in a number of developing nations. Furor on Rush to Require Cervical Cancer Vaccine. Mexico Mandates HPV Vaccine; U.S. States Consider It. Gov.
Rick Perry may be taking heat for his failed plan to require young girls in Texas to get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted disease human papillomavirus, but the Mexican government has decided it's a good idea, and many other U.S. states have considered similar plans. Mexico’s health ministry recently announced it will vaccinate all girls at age 9, beginning in 2012. The ministry said that more than 1.25 million girls had already been vaccinated from 2008 to 2010, and there are plans to vaccinate an additional 433,000 children. HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer among women in the country, and cervical cancer is the leading cause of death of women in some southern states in Mexico. Girl, 13, left in 'waking coma' after 'severe reaction. Lucy Hinks is unable to walk or talk after having injections at schoolParents warn others to check on potential side effects of Cervarix vaccine By Paul Sims Created: 11:17 GMT, 14 November 2011 Bad reaction: Lucy Hinks, 13, began to experience extreme exhaustion soon after having the cervical cancer vaccine alongside classmates which her parents are convinced caused it.
Eugenics Exposed U S Sterilization Victims Speak Out. Malaria vaccine trial raises hope. A malaria vaccine has shown promising results in a clinical trial in Africa.
EU E.Coli Bioengineered. E.coli outbreak poses questions for organic farming. Deadly E coli makes doctors shudder. Plague War. In 1998 South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission held hearings investigating activities of the apartheid-era government.
Toward the end of the hearings, the Commission looked into the apartheid regime's Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) program and allegations that it developed a sterility vaccine to use on black South Africans, employed toxic and chemical poison weapons for political asssassination, and in the late 1970s provided anthrax and cholera to Rhodesian troops for use against guerrilla rebels in their war to overthrow Rhodesia's white minority rule. South Africa's CBW program was headed by Dr. Wouter Basson, a former Special Forces Army Brigadier and personal heart specialist to former President P.W. U.S. Admits Bio-Weapons Tests. The United States secretly tested chemical and biological weapons on American soil during the 1960s, newly declassified Pentagon reports show.
The tests included releasing deadly nerve agents in Alaska and spraying bacteria over Hawaii, according to the documents obtained Tuesday. The United States also tested nerve agents in Canada and Britain in conjunction with those two countries, and biological and chemical weapons in at least two other states, Maryland and Florida. Researchers infected Guatemalans with STDs. U.S. govt. secretly spread STDs A presidential commission reaffirms previous reports on experiments in GuatemalaWithout their knowledge, subjects were exposed to STDsThe commission will give its report to President Obama in September (CNN) -- A U.S. presidential commission has uncovered more details regarding human experiments conducted by American researchers in Guatemala in the 1940s in which the subjects were exposed to sexually transmitted diseases.
The research reaffirms much of what is already publicly known: that between 1946 and 1948, U.S. researchers intentionally infected non-consenting subjects in Guatemala with STDs, in what the commission called a "clearly unethical historical injustice. " The United States has apologized for the incident, and the government has been sued by some of the victims and their heirs. Scientists Develop Influenza, That Could Kill Millions. It sounds like the setup for a Hollywood thriller: scientists in a lab create a virus as contagious as the flu that kills half of those infected.
We're safe as long as the virus remains locked up, but if it escapes or gets into the hands of bioterrorists, it has the potential to become a pandemic and kill millions around the world. Pandemic Influenza Training. Facts for Fighting the Flu. Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot. Insight: U.S. government investment gives flu vaccines a shot in the arm. Swine flu infected 1 in 5, death rate low, study shows. By Kate Kelland LONDON Fri Jan 25, 2013 4:41pm GMT.
Antibiotic 'apocalypse' warning. 24 January 2013Last updated at 08:18 ET By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Drug resistance is a problem in tuberculosis The rise in drug resistant infections is comparable to the threat of global warming, according to the chief medical officer for England. Prof Dame Sally Davies said bacteria were becoming resistant to current drugs and there were few antibiotics to replace them.