drugs: 1/21 of 21
Why our testing of antibiotics and other drugs may not be safe
Kathy Archibald
23rd May, 2011
The current testing protocol for new medicines is proven to be inadaquate. It's time for a radical new approach, argues Kathy Archibald, director of the Safer Medicines Campaign more...
Adverse reactions lead US patients to ask 'just how safe are antibiotics?'
Carey Purcell
23rd May, 2011
A growing number of American patients say they've been poisoned by fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Not only has this ruined lives, they say, it's exposed the unhealthy relationship between some drug manufacturers and medical regulatory bodies. Carey Purcell reports more...
Can the NHS ever be green?
Delny Britton
27th April, 2011
Delny Britton investigates the hidden impacts of western mainstream medicine - including pollution from pharmaceutical products, high carbon emissions and adverse drug reactions - and asks whether the healthcare sector can ever be truly sustainablemore...
UK rejects veterinary advice to ban antibiotic drug adverts to farmers
Tom Levitt
5th January, 2011
Strong industry lobbying sees Defra ignore concerns from its own vets about overuse and the spread of antibiotic-resistant bugs from farm animals to the food chain more...
E.coli and salmonella resistance 'spreading' due to antibiotics overuse
Tom Levitt
23rd September, 2010
Defra urged to stop 'downplaying' the problem and ban 'unacceptable' advertising of antibiotics to farmers more...
Commonly prescribed drugs linked to shrimp population decline
Ecologist
7th June, 2010
Study finds that antidepressants in waste water flowing into rivers and estuaries can make coastal marine shrimps more susceptible to predators more...
FDA supports ban on growth antibiotics in livestock
Ecologist
15th July, 2009
The US Food and Drug Administration has said that antibiotics should not be administered to livestock except to prevent or treat disease more...
Grow your own drugs: an interview with James Wong
Laura Sevier
2nd July, 2009
Plants can be much more than a pretty backdrop to life. Read this and you'll never look at a garden in the same way again... more...
Drugs on tap
John Naish
1st May 2009
Taking a pill for a headache may seem like the most natural thing in the world, but prescription drugs are forcing their way into every corner of our lives and environment, says John Naish more...
The environmental impact of drugs
Nick Kettles
19th May, 2009
How much rainforest does it take for one celebrity to snort another one under the table? Nick Kettles investigates the devastating environmental impact of cocaine use. more...
Drugs on tap
John Naish
30th April, 2009
Britain has a serious and unnecessary drug habit, but the implications of our pill-forevery-ill culture go far beyond the adverse effects on human health. The complex chemicals in modern pharmaceuticals, as well as the manufacturing processes involved, leave a massive industrial footprint on the natural world that is largely ignored by both science and government. more...
Behind the label: Smokeless tobacco
Pat Thomas
1st October, 2008
We get an entertaining selection of press releases each week at the Ecologist. Recently, however, amid claims for the greenest 4x4s ever, vegan-friendly breastmilk ice cream and strip-mining with a heart, one stood out. more...
drugs: 1/21 of 21
The safer cigarette
Devra Davis
15th May, 2008
What do government and industry do when something is toxic but massively profitable? Most of the time, says Devra Davis, they just invest in better class of PR… more...
Profitable Pollutants
Ecologist
15th May, 2008
It usually takes a major public health crisis to remove profitable toxins completely from marketplace. In the meantime most of us continue to be exposed to a variety of profitable poisons, including: more...
Cassandra: Youth
John Papworth
1st October, 2006
Did you say ‘youth problem’?It’s really the adult problem.
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School Uniformity
Rachel Ragg
22nd September, 2006
The exuberance of childhood celebrated in books such as Just William is now frowned upon as inappropriate behaviour, resulting in more and more children being prescribed behavioural drugs. Rachel Ragg investigates more...
Read the label: Fragrances
Pat Thomas
1st September, 2006
We are enamoured of fragrances, and virtually every aspect of our lives is touched by a fragranced product. But is it a touch too much? Pat Thomas reports. more...
We Are All Addicts
Edward Goldsmith
1st September, 2006
A 1971 editorial from the ecologist founding editor Edward Goldsmith on how our society is becoming ever more addicted to gimmicks intended to ensure our survival in ever less favourable conditions more...
ASBOs vs Nutrition
Pat Thomas
1st April, 2006
Over 1,000 juvenile delinquents showed a 44 per cent drop in antisocial behaviour when put on a low sugar diet. So why is the government completely ignoring what we are feeding our children, and yet is happy to spend £2,500 on administering each ASBO? more...
Medication nation
Mark White
16th December, 2005
Too fat, too thin, too sad, too happy... Whatever the problem Biotech is developing a vaccine or a pill to cure us. Mark White examines the consequences of a world where all our worries can be medicated away. more...
Avian flu - the ecology of an epidemic
Pat Thomas
1st December, 2005
Bird flu has been raging through Asia for more than a decade. But it is only recently that most of us have started to pay attention to the story. Pat Thomas seperates fact from fiction and asks whether this is a random act of nature or yet another man-made disaster. more...Members
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