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Groundbreaking research finding shows that exposure to light during sleep promotes breast cancer while darkness prevents growth of tumors

News Target

by Mike Adams

June 19, 2006

New research conducted in the United States at the National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences reveals a startling finding: Exposure to light during the hours of sleep appears to aggressively promote breast cancer.

This effect is achieved due to light's ability to shut off production of melatonin, a hormone produced by the pineal gland. This hormone, which is naturally produced by the body during the hours of darkness, is known to be a strong immune system booster. Its presence also impedes the growth of cancer tumors by as much as 80 percent, according to research findings.

The drugging of foster youth

San Francisco Chronicle (CA)

June 11, 2006

ONE OF THE dark secrets of California's troubled foster-care system is the way some young people are being drugged at the slightest sign of stress or misbehavior.

State regulations provide a financial incentive for group-home "parents" to request and administer psychotropic drugs -- an option that the testimony of foster youth suggests is being exercised far too readily.

What Is Autism?

Washington Post

June 5, 2006

About 4.5 million Americans have developmental disabilities. That means they have severe physical or mental limitations that often require special attention at home and in school.

One of the more common of these disabilities is autism (pronounced AWE-tizz-um), a condition in which the brain doesn't work properly. People who have it often have trouble communicating or being with others. Autism usually shows up before

Feature: Salvia Under Siege -- Movement to Ban Herbal Hallucinogen Gains Momentum in Statehouses

Stop The Drug War

June 2, 2006

A member of the mint family related to the flowering sages enjoyed by gardeners, salvia divinorum is a southern Mexican herb that when smoked properly can induce a psychedelic experience something akin to an express acid trip.

It comes on like a fast-forward freight train; within a few seconds of inhaling, a full-blown psychedelic experience is underway, and within five minutes, it's all over. And as a legal product under federal law, it is sold in thousands of retail outlets in the United States as well as being easily available over the Internet. salvia leaves Hailing from the state of Oaxaca, salvia has been used as a sacred plant for generations by the Indians of the remote Sierra Mazateca.

N.Y. aides ask curb of shock use at center

The Boston Globe (MA)

by Scott Allen

May 20, 2006

State education officials in New York are calling for a near ban on the use of electric shock to discipline students at a controversial Massachusetts school for troubled children.

More than 150 of the 251 students at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center come from New York, and 77 wear electrodes on their arms or legs that teachers use to shock them if they misbehave. Massachusetts officials tried for years to close the Canton school, which uses an elaborate system of rewards and punishments to treat students with autism, mental retardation, and emotional problems. Judges have repeatedly protected the center's practices, finding that for certain troubled children, the fear of an electric shock may be the best way to prevent them from hurting themselves or others.

USDA Blocks Major Natural Beef Company, Creekstone, from Testing for Mad Cow Disease

Organic Consumers Association

May 8, 2006

A ranching and meat-processing company in Kansas wants to test all its cattle for mad cow disease at its own expense. The Bush administration won't let the firm do it.

Oh, but that's not all. If the company tries to buy the $20 testing kits, the feds will treat such a transaction as an illegal purchase of a controlled substance.

Privacy falls victim to free market in US

TMCnet

by Danny O'Brien

May 5, 2006

US laws are a clumsy patchwork that have emerged after various privacy scandals, which means that your right to keep your affairs secret varies wildly from context to context.

When Americans look to their courts and constitution to cut through legislative muddles, the results have been confusing. In a series of poor decisions, the US courts decided that if citizens hand over personal data to a third party, they thereby waive any constitutional privacy rights they might have over the data. This means that while the US bill of rights says the courts need a warrant to seize your papers, anything held by a third party has no special status.

Britain's oldest mother-to-be defends decision

CTV News (Canada)

May 4, 2006

A 63-year-old child psychiatrist who is set to become Britain's oldest mother defended her decision against accusations of selfishness on Thursday, saying her decision to bear another child was not made lightly.

Rashbrook, from Lewes, south of London, has two grown children from a previous marriage but recently remarried and underwent fertility treatment. She is due to give birth in two months. When asked whether she was too old to have a child, she replied: "No comment."

US awards $1 billion for cell-based flu vaccines

Cidrap

by Robert Roos

May 4, 2006

In an effort to modernize vaccine production while preparing for an influenza pandemic, the US government today awarded five contracts totaling more than $1 billion to develop cell-based technologies for making flu vaccines.

The awards to five pharmaceutical companies are intended to help create an alternative to growing flu vaccines in eggs, the time-consuming production method used since the 1950s, and boost US production capacity. The money comes from $3.3 billion Congress appropriated last December for pandemic preparations by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS listed the vaccine makers and their contract awards as follows: GlaxoSmithKline, $274.75 million; MedImmune, $169.6 million; Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, $220.51 million; DynPort Vaccine, $40.97 million; and Solvay Pharmaceuticals, $298.59 million.

Laser Therapy Comes to Tuolumne County

Reliable Answers (CA)

by Annette M. Hall

May 3, 2006

Laser Therapy is a revolutionary treatment option that is providing lasting pain relief from long-term ailments often responsible for years of suffering.

It wasn't that long ago that people with knee injuries were forced to endure surgery and long months of recovery time. Surgery was a dreaded experience and the outcome was never all that optimistic until laparoscopic surgery came along. With smaller incisions came faster recovery times and faster healing. Wouldn't it be terrific if you could get that same healing power without the surgery' Many Chiropractic patients are doing just that.

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