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Dr. Oz recently revealed the results of a study on his show that determined that "10 of three dozen juice samples from five different brands came back with higher than the arsenic limit allowed in drinking water," according to a report by Supermarket News. Now Examiner.com reports that Dr. Oz's findings are backed up by a new study conducted by Consumer Reports. Meanwhile, Dr. Oz announced on a

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According to an article in Science Daily, a research team at the University of Michigan recently presented a group of test subjects with a very interesting moral dilemma. The subjects were placed in a 3-D virtual setting where there was a switch and two sets of railroad tracks. Along one set of tracks, there were five people hiking. On the other set of tracks, there was just one person hiking. Is

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According to a recent study published in Genetics in Medicine, there's a new test available that can determine whether or not a woman is carrying a baby with Down syndrome by analyzing her blood sample. This test is of great interest to doctors, because previous testing methods like amniocentesis could sometimes cause miscarriages to occur. Now, according to an article in The New York Times, a

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Many people are under the impression that patients in the U.S. have the right to decline treatment if they are mentally competent and aware of the consequences of such a refusal. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case if you visit certain hospitals. A construction worker who was hit in the head while on the job was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center where he

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A recent article in The Money Times by Abhishek Garg reports that life expectancy is declining in some areas of the United States. One of the main reasons given for lowered life expectancy in these regions was obesity. Other reasons mentioned were smoking and high blood pressure. The good news is that even though obesity is known to lower life expectancy, there is considerable evidence that a

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A new FDA report, obtained and brought to the attention of the public by Karl Stark of the Philadelphia Inquirer and available to anyone via the federal Freedom of Information Action Act (FOIA), reveals that a Merck vaccine plant located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania was cited for 49 items, including failure to follow good manufacturing practices and some contaminated vaccines for children.

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Merck, the maker of the very controversial Gardasil vaccine, has a pharmaceutical plant located in West Point, Pennsylvania, that discards pollutants from this facility into the Upper Gwynedd Township Publicly Owned Treatment Works (UGT POTW), according to a press release by the U.S. Department of Justice. The treated wastewater is released into the Wissahickon Creek, a tributary of the

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Reports of adverse reactions to the new HPV vaccine are escalating. One particularly heart-wrenching example is the story of an active 12-year-old little girl named Brittany who recently lost all feeling in her leg and collapsed two weeks after receiving the Gardasil vaccine. Although she once had dreams of earning an athletic scholarship, she now struggles to hobble around each day with the aid

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In The Physiology of Taste, written in 1825, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." This is the origin of the popular phrase, "You are what you eat." It’s no secret that America is facing an unprecedented obesity epidemic. So, just what are Americans eating?Cows fed Junk FoodAccording to an article in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,

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Broccoli is already known for its health benefits in the nutrition world, particularly for its cancer-fighting abilities. It regularly finds its way to the “top ten” lists of healthy foods compiled by many nutritionists and health experts according to Dr. Jonny Bowden in his must-read book The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth. This is not surprising, as it boasts a very powerful nutritional profile,

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Parents in Brazil are refusing to feed their children products made using genetically-modified sugar, according to an article at Food & Water Watch. Halloween is just around the corner, and unbeknownst to many American parents, foods like Kellogg's cereal and Hershey's chocolate may be made with sugar from genetically-modified sugar beets, warns Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel in a report at NewWest.net.

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An article posted at HattiesburgAmerican.com reports that Forrest General, a hospital in south Mississippi, is trying to push new mothers into having the Tdap vaccine (which immunizes for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) before they leave the hospital. Another article reports that the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) requires mothers who don't want the vaccine to opt out in advance.

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The Environmental Working Group (EWG) just published a very disturbing report concerning a study that EWG researchers conducted on 10 major brands of bottled water. While most people who drink bottled water do so because they believe the water to be free of dangerous contaminants, the EWG found that some brands of bottled water were nothing more than tap water! Worse yet, they found 38 dangerous

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