http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/_newsgrabs.htm en-us sepp@lastrega.com Sun, 11 May 2008 13:52:20 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/05/11/coroners_muzzled_over_deadly_effect_of_tasers_newsgrabs_11_may_2008.htm NewsGrabs are a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and a wide range of (mostly) related sectors. Doctors Condemn "Threatening" Taser Court Ruling Doctors have condemned as corporate "intimidation" a court decision ordering a chief medical examiner to remove any reference to the use of a taser as an antecedent in the deaths of three men. Ohio examiner Dr. Lisa Kohler had noted in her autopsy reports that electrical shocks from Tasers were partially to blame for the deaths of individuals in three separate confrontations with police. Taser International, now notorious for it's stern legal defense having won 68 out of 68 lawsuits, filed and won a civil suit, forcing Kohler to delete all mentions... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 11 May 2008 13:52:20 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/05/04/_open_source_medicine_in_malaria_fight_newsgrabs_4_may_2008.htm Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and a wide range of (mostly) related sectors. Find what trends you may have missed - watch out for the weekly News Grabs. Here is this week's selection for you. Video: Open source medicine: Artesunate-mefloquine brings new hope in fight against malaria In what appears to be one of the first cases of where a cutting edge important pharmaceutical product is being "open-sourced", the Brazilian government and the non-profit Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, or DNDI announced that their new combination malaria drug will not be patented, so as to make it more widely accessible than previous anti-malarial treatments. In contrast... "the US... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 4 May 2008 12:07:32 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/04/27/the_dangers_of_selective_science_newsgrabs_27_april_2008.htm Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and a wide range of (mostly) related sectors. Find what trends you may have missed - watch out for the weekly News Grabs. The controversy over yet another "meta analysis" that allegedly found antioxidants don't prevent people from dying, was in full swing this week. A famous quip comes to mind: "There are lies, there are damned lies and then there are statistics". Apparently, anything can be manipulated using statistical analysis. The outcome of course depends what you put in in the first place. Garbage in, garbage out, it used to be called. An observation I just made and sent to a few friends:... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:32:09 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/04/20/farming_revolution_could_feed_the_world_newsgrabs_20_april_2008.htm Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and a wide range of (mostly) related sectors. Find what trends you may have missed - watch out for the weekly News Grabs. Here is this week's selection for you: UN calls for farming revolution The Unesco study recommends better safeguards to protect resources and more sustainable farming practices, such as producing food locally. More natural and ecological farming techniques should be used, it says. Unesco says wheat prices have risen 130% percent since March 2007 while soy prices have jumped 87%. "The status quo is no longer an option," Guilhem Calvo, a Unesco expert, told a news conference in Paris. "We must... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:51:11 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/04/13/food_health_information_outlawed_world_wide_newsgrabs_13_april_2008.htm Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and a wide range of (mostly) related sectors. Find what trends you may have missed - watch out for the weekly News Grabs. The theme this week is information about health properties of foods. Governments are schizophrenic. On the one hand they preach we should eat well to prevent heart trouble and cancer. On the other hand, they bow to pressure from pharmaceutical manufacturers and outlaw any information that could even suggest that a food is healthy in anything but a generic sense. Preventing illness? No way. Healing? Forget about it. Only [pharma] medicine can prevent and heal illness! Anyway, Here is this... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:17:35 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/04/06/new_study_questions_aspartame_safety_newsgrabs_6_april_2008.htm Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and a wide range of (mostly) related sectors. Find what trends you may have missed - watch out for the weekly News Grabs. Here is this week's selection for you: Review raises questions over aspartame and brain health Excessive intake of aspartame may inhibit the ability of enzymes in the brain to function normally, suggests a new review that could fan the flames of controversy over the sweetener. The review, by scientists from the University of Pretoria and the University of Limpopo and published recently in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, indicated that high consumption of the sweetener may lead to neurodegeneration.... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:30:17 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/03/30/why_mobile_phone_masts_are_more_dangerous_than_phones_newsgrabs_30_march_2008.htm Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and a wide range of (mostly) related sectors. Find what trends you may have missed - watch out for the weekly News Grabs. Here is this week's selection for you: Why mobile phone masts can be more dangerous than the phones So how does this form of biological feedback relate to mobile phones and their masts? Put very simply, because of the extreme sensitivity of at least some living cells to weak non-ionising radiation, the question is not why the weak radiation from a distant mast does so much damage, it is why a handset next to the ear doesn’t do very much... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:15:07 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/03/23/the_aids_vaccine_challenger_disaster_newsgrabs_23_march_2008.htm Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and (mostly) related sectors. Find what trends you may have missed - watch out for the weekly News Grabs. Here is this week's selection for you: AIDS Vaccines: A ‘Catastrophe’ Like The Challenger The two-decade search for an AIDS vaccine is in crisis after two field tests of the most promising contender not only did not protect people from the virus but may actually have put them at increased risk of becoming infected. Both field tests were halted last September, and seven other trials of similarly designed AIDS vaccines have either been stopped or put off indefinitely. Some may be modified and others canceled... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:41:03 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/03/16/genetic_engineering_from_monsanto_to_frankenfish_newsgrabs_16_march_2008.htm Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and (mostly) related sectors. Find what trends you may have missed - watch out for the weekly News Grabs. Here is this week's selection for you: Genetic engineering, horizontal gene transfer, and the emergence of infectious diseases Genetic engineering creates vast arrays of transgenic DNA that could spread, not only through cross-pollination with the same or related species, but also through the direct uptake of the transgenic DNA by cells of unrelated species, a process called horizontal gene transfer. Monsanto's Last Desperate Attempt to Save its (genetically engineered) Bovine Growth Hormone A new advocacy group closely tied to Monsanto has started a counteroffensive to... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:17:25 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/03/09/global_cooling_newsgrabs_9_march_2008.htm Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and (mostly) related sectors. Find what trends you may have missed - watch out for the weekly NewsGrabs. Here is this week's selection for you: Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling (PDF) There has been a one-year trend of cooling temperatures globally, as verified by the major temperature tracking stations, in 2007. It is too early to say if this is a reversal of the warming observed for the last decades, but it certainly is dramatic and it's unexpected. Global warming is not as clear-cut a thing as we are expected to believe, nor is the theory that says the warming we observe is... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:52:02 GMT