There is an association of vascular fluoride uptake with vascular calcification and coronary artery disease. OBJECTIVE: The feasibility of a fluoride positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan for imaging atherosclerosis has not been well documented.
The purpose of this study was to assess fluoride uptake of vascular calcification in various major arteries, including coronary arteries. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the imaging data and cardiovascular history of 61 patients who received whole-body sodium [¹⁸F]fluoride PET/CT studies at our institution from 2009 to 2010. Panel Finds Few Clear Environmental Links to Breast Cancer. The Leading Cause of Breast Cancer? Profiteers in the medical CT scan business took a big hit last week from a major new government report on the causes of breast cancer. Published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, the exhaustive analysis found that medical radiation, particularly the large radiation dose delivered by CT scans, is the foremost identifiable cause of breast cancer.[1] Almost 230,480 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed this year in the United States, and about 40,000 women will die of the disease, roughly one out of every 3,875 women.
Cell Phone Use Increases Cancer Risk. The World Health Organization recently found cell phone use to be in the same cancer-causing category as lead, engine exhaust, and chloroform.
Up until Tuesday, May 31, 2011, the organization tried to make it clear to consumers that no adverse health effects had been established. Despite these claims, a team of 31 scientists from 14 different countries reviewed many studies and made the decision that cell phone use could in fact cause cancer. The radiation emitted from cell phones is considered “non-ionizing” radiation. This refers to radiation that is not energetically powerful enough to chemically alter atoms. Similar to how microwave ovens cook food from the inside out, the non-ionizing waves emitted from cell phones essentially cook the brain in the same way. For this reason, it is recommended that you hold the cell phone far enough away from the body or head so that the waves don’t penetrate as deeply. TEDxIowaCity - Dr. Terry Wahls - Minding Your Mitochondria.
NY Times, Big Fix: BP, Gov't carpet-bombing Gulf people coverup - National Human Rights. BP Says Halliburton Destroyed Evidence in Gulf Spill Case. Sick Gulf residents continue to blame BP - Features. Just weeks after BP's oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, 2010, Fritzi Presley knew something was very wrong with her health.
The 57-year-old singer/songwriter from Long Beach, Mississippi began to feel sick, and went to her doctor. "I began getting treatments for bronchitis, was put on several antibiotics and rescue inhalers, and even a breathing machine," she told Al Jazeera. Deepwater trouble on the horizon: oil discovered floating near source of Gulf of Mexico spill (Photo gallery, video) MOBILE, Alabama -- Oil is once again fouling the Gulf of Mexico around the Deepwater Horizon well, which was capped a little over a year ago.
Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of small, circular patches of oily sheen dotted the surface within a mile of the wellhead. Rocky Kistner: Oil Spill Reported Near Deepwater Drilling Site in Gulf. Update March 20, 2011: A Coast Guard officer with a command center in Morgan City, LA, said today the Coast Guard has confirmed that oil is not coming from the Deepwater Horizon well but that they have found what appear to be smaller oil slicks in the Gulf.
Their investigation into reports of large oil slicks is continuing. Additional photos and information from pilots John Wathen and Bonnie Schumaker who flew over the area yesterday are expected to be released today. The Coast Guard is investigating reports of a potentially large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico not far from the Deepwater Horizon site. Shock: Gulf Truth Activist Shot At His New Orleans Home. The Mysterious Deaths of Nine Gulf Oil Spill Whistleblowers. Girl, 13, left in 'waking coma' and sleeps for 23 hours a day after 'severe reaction to cervical cancer jabs'
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.
Girl Dies within Hours of Cervarix /Gardasil Vaccine. Australian journalist wins prestigious award for exposing flu vaccine scandal. Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury. MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.
HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods such as breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups and condiments. Energy saving light bulbs 'contain cancer causing chemicals' Nutrients May Stop Brain Shrinkage Linked To Alzheimer's. Nevada Heath District Raids Picnic 1/2. Raw Foods Raid - The Fight For the Right To Eat What You Want. McLibel: Trailer. FDA draws criticism after U-turn on antibiotics in animal feed.
Environmental and consumer groups have condemned the US Food and Drug Administration's move to renege on its long-held policy to regulate the use of human antibiotics in animal feed.
Last week, the agency quietly announced it was withdrawing its plan to limit the use of antibiotics fed to healthy livestock intended for human consumption. Critics say the U-turn, which comes amid the FDA's own stated concerns over food safety, is at odds with its obligations to protect the public. The groups also criticised the timing of the announcement, which was made during the holiday season and disclosed only in the federal register. The use of low doses of antibiotics in agricultural animal feed contributes to drug-resistant superbugs, according to food and health experts. One leading food policy writer described the policy reversal as "pathetic" and "dismaying.
" Christine Escobar: He's Back! Former VP at Monsanto To Advise FDA Commissioner on Food Safety. Michael R.
Taylor, the former Vice President for Public Policy at Monsanto has returned through Washington's revolving doors and will now advise FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg on food safety. We learn of this discouraging connection on the same day the White House announced its new commitment to upgrading the country's food safety system. Much hope had been held out for a change in FDA perspective due to Commissioner Hamburg's lack of industry ties. Her career has consisted of public health research and policy positions. Institute for Responsible Technology - Before the FDA decided to allow GMOs into food without labeling, FDA scientists had repeatedly warned that GM foods can create unpredictable, hard-to-detect side effects, including allergies, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional problems.
Tepco admits radiation levels from Fukushima increasing — Now releasing 70,000,000 Bq/hr — Reactor 3 leaking most « EneNews.com. USA RADIATION CHARTS. Japan Expands Rice Ban as Contamination Spreads. Japan will extend a ban on rice shipments from a third city in Fukushima prefecture after local authorities found more tainted grain, deepening food-safety concerns nine months after a nuclear disaster.
The ban will likely cover the Shibukawa area of Nihonmatsu City, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, as rice samples from the area contained 780 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium, said Shinji Uchida at the grain division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The maximum allowed by the government for human consumption is 500 becquerels. The discovery came after authorities increased rice testing for cesium after tainted supplies were found in Fukushima City and Date City.
Some of the contaminated grain was sold to local buyers after Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato said in October that rice produced in the prefecture was safe to eat. Fukushima residents' urine now radioactive. Scientists test sick Alaska seals for radiation - Technology & science - Science. The secret life of plants.