On June 18, a landmark event begins in San Francisco Superior Court. It is the first case to go to trial involving an individual suing Monsanto over its alleged concealing that glyphosate, the active ingredient in its Roundup product, causes cancer.
Ironically, hospital food has long been recognized as being some of the least healthy food and actually contributes to many of the ailments that people end up in the hospital for. One hospital has figured out the obvious and done something about it.
With legal marijuana showing up across more and more states in the United States, so, too, are the complications from taking too much of it. Our article by contributor Robert A. Nelson suggests a number of ways to help with the less serious of those complications based on a thorough review of the literature so far.
In a report published on February 20 in the journal Age and Ageing, the economic security of children was found to have a major impact on the health of those same people as adults later in life.
A new research study has calculated the vast number of viruses swirling around the atmosphere. This new discovery turns the conventional belief about the spread of disease on its head and raises another alarm for the spread of new pathogens created by glyphosate and other DNA-damaging chemicals sprayed on farm fields.
On March 6, California U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria began a week of hearings that will pit science against corporate lies related to the safety of Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer and its active ingredient glyphosate. The week will determine which of the testimony will ever make to trial.
A new study about how people catch the flu shows that it is far easier to contract the virus than was previously believed, which may help explain why it spreads so rapidly.
Those who are closest to it know the truth: Holding nursing homes accountable for their poor care and substandard facilities is a thing of the past. Trump is now making things even worse.
Eating healthy and nutritious food in schools in El Salvador is an effort that went from a pilot plan to a well-entrenched programme that has now taken off.
It is hard to believe that with all the damage Hurricane Maria caused in Puerto Rico, only 64 people were killed. Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló thinks so too.
A new scientific study has demonstrated that three of the most common herbicides are causing bacteria to develop increased resistance to antibiotics. This is really bad.
According to an analysis just made public by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been regularly allowing the use of unapproved pesticides – for years.
