~~~ Interesting Health News the Media doesn't Cover 11-25

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_Concern Over Canned Foods - WalletPop_

(http://www.walletpop.com/consumer-reports/insurance/article/concern-over-canned\

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Tests find wide range of Bisphenol A in soups, juice, and more.

 

 

BPA, has been linked to reproductive abnormalities and a heightened

risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease.

 

In Japan, most major manufacturers voluntarily changed their can linings

in 1997

to cut or eliminate the use of BPA. A 2003 Japanese study found that the

levels

of the chemical in subjects' urine dropped by 50 percent after the change

was made.

 

 

 

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_Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja | World news | guardian.co.uk_

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/falluja-cancer-children-birth-defec\

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Doctors in _Iraq_ (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq) 's war-ravaged

enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to

15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early

life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the

fighting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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_Up to 16 US soldiers committed suicide last month_

(http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=565776)

 

 

(From _http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news_

(http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news) )

 

 

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_In House, Many Spoke With One Voice - Lobbyists’ - NYTimes.com_

(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/us/politics/15health.html?_r=2 & hp)

Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in

part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s

largest biotechnology companies.

 

 

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_NYT: Drug firms raise prices ahead of reform - The New York Times-

msnbc.com_ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33959759/ns/health-the_new_york_times)

 

Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by

shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the

legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the

fastest

rate in years.

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_A Cell Phone on Your Hip Weakens Your Bones_

(http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/19/A-Cell-Phone-on-Y\

our-Hip-Weakens-Y

our-Bones.aspx)

Using an X-ray technique used in the diagnosis and monitoring of patients

with osteoporosis, researchers measured pelvic bone density in 150 men who

regularly carried their cell phones attached to their belts.

 

 

 

The researchers found that bone mineral density was lowered on the side of

the pelvis where the mobile phones were carried.

 

 

 

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Deciphering the Swine Flu scam

 

The most accurate, balanced, non-hysterical account of

the ongoing government and media manufactured

swine flu scam.

 

Source: A physician and doctor of public medicine who has

become a nun and is living in a monastery in Spain.

Her talk is in Spanish with English subtitles.

 

Main points and video at:

_http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/735.html_

(http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/735.html)