Pharmaceutical industry 'rejoices' at demise of pioneering EPD allergy treatment
Charlotte Davis
13th April, 2012
Enzyme Potentiated Desensitisation is a groundbreaking treatment for allergy sufferers. But the recent closure of a firm championing EPD leaves its future in doubt. Drug companies and mainstream doctors are unlikely to be mourning, says Charlotte Davismore...
Special report 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...
The struggle to save Alaska's 'illness-busting' wild berries
Jessica Wapner
7th September, 2011
Despite being used to treat diabetes and infections, knowledge of Alaska's wild berries is in danger of being lost as young indigenous people embrace western lifestyles. Jessica Wapner reports
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Deforestation could fuel deadly spread of malaria, yellow fever and Lyme disease
David Hawkins
17th November, 2010
The economic and climate-related impacts of forest destruction are well known, but continued logging could unleash devastating new pandemics and spread fatal diseases into the human population, scientists tell the Ecologist
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Shocking legacy of 'uranium poisonings' haunts Obama's looming mining decision
Leana Hosea
2nd November, 2010
Despite disturbing claims about the impact of uranium, ten-thousand proposals for exploration in the Grand Canyon area have been submitted. A key fuel for nuclear power, the US must now decide between full scale uranium mining, partial mining or a twenty year moratorium. Leana Hosia investigates
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What is the health impact of air pollution?
Andrew Marszal
20th April, 2010
After the Clean Air Acts banished the smogs of the 50s and 60s, many thought that air pollution problems had disappeared. They were wrong
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How long until health foods become illegal?
Chris Milton
23rd March 2010
A huge number of UK citizens take food supplements or buy health food products, yet new legislation threatens to either remove these items from our shelves, restrict their dosages or ban them from making any health claims
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What is the Pill doing to our bodies and planet?
Yanar Alkayat
2nd February, 2010
It was the drug that fuelled the sexual liberation of the 1960s, but what price are we paying for our love of the contraceptive Pill?
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Mobile phones and health: what do we know?
Yanar Alkayat
21st July, 2009
In a matter of months, an Irish mobile network will launch 'Firefly' - the mobile phone for kids. With even official Government advice against such a move, Yanar Alkayat takes a timely look at what we know for certain about mobile phones and health
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Dioxin Dorms: Why I Can’t Give Up On New Paltz
Eric Francis Coppolino
19th June, 2009
When PCB transformers exploded in a New York university in 1991, contaminating the campus with dioxins, it set Eric Francis Coppolino on the path to becoming an environmental journalist.
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Making Sense of Swine Flu
Pat Thomas
1st April, 2009
In the last few years the Ecologist has written extensively on the flu – both the garden variety that strikes us on an annual basis and the wider threat of avian influenza, H5N1.
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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.
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Animal Testing: Science or Fiction?
Kathy Archibald
24th March, 2009
MPs, medical professionals and scientists unite in demanding a thorough evaluation of the utility of vivisection. By Kathy Archibald, Science Director of Europeans for Medical Progress
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The Flu Vaccine... A Shot in the Dark?
Pat Thomas
18th February, 2009
If we truly knew about flu, and the lack of effectiveness of the vaccine being offered as protection, would we really be so obedient about getting the jab?
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10 things you didn't know about bird flu
Dr Michael Greger
4th February, 2009
A dose of flu in winter is as inevitable as a broken boiler – and usually as harmless. But as public health expert Dr Michael Greger explains, intensive farming of animals around the globe may mean we are hatching out an influenza timebomb
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Oops, wrong brain
John Naish
28th January, 2009
What on earth are we thinking when we go into shops and buy lots of pointless stuff we just don’t need? John Naish says it’s not so much what’s on our minds, but which brain we use when we spend
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Raw milk - magic bullet or health hazard?
Laura Sevier
21st January, 2009
Unpasteurised milk can be a divisive subject, says Laura Sevier, but most of what you hear about the white stuff is pure whitewash
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Teflon Out of the Frying Pan
Pat Thomas
8th December, 2008
Credited in the Guiness book of records as the world's most slippery substance, Teflon has escaped the scrutiny of environmental regulators for 50 years. Now evidence suggests that the chemicals that leak from the Teflon pans during cooking may be more harmful to the environment and human health that DDT
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Ch-ch-changes
Eric Francis
1st October, 2008
Environmental toxins have given us lesbian seagulls and transgender crabs, but pollutants may also be causing gender ambiguity in humans, says Eric Francis
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As green as gold?
Phil Moore
25th September, 2008
Environmental group Global Response has challenged Wal-Mart’s claim that their Love, Earth jewelery is ‘committed to protecting the environment’.
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