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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

`14 April - Netvibes RSS

What's New and Beneficial About Onions

(  I've used boiled onion as a dietary item to control a tendency to boils since youth. )

Manuka honey 'could help fight superbugs'

Lab experiments show it can clear bacteria found in festering wounds and contaminated hospital surfaces.
It works by breaking down the defences bacteria use against antibiotics, making it useful in treating superbug infections such as MRSA.


Corn Belt Debate : Crops or Cattle ?
( BSE in Canadian Dairy cattle has made access to grass fed Beef cattle a problem for years. Institutional testing in the US is forbidden. Result ? Nutritionally superior product is locked out as unsafe - something chronic in food regulations in both Canada and the US favouring a perverted chemically driven industry producing water pollution, generating disease, and killing sustainable organic practices.  )

North Korea's Pleas For Food Aid Draw SuspicionThere's a despicable reaction


EU biofuels targets are unethical, according to a report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
The Council is an independent body that was set up 20 years ago to ponder ethical issues raised by developments in biology and medicine.
It has been studying biofuels for 18 months - specifically relating to theEU Renewable Energy Directive target that biofuels should account for 10% of transport fuel by 2020, a much-criticised mandate originally designed as part of Europe's strategy to combat climate change.
Based on what it says is a set of ethical values which will be widely shared, the report says biofuels should:
  • not be at the expense of human rights;
  • be environmentally sustainable;
  • contribute to a reduction of greenhouse gases (some currently increase greenhouse gases);
  • adhere to fair trade principles;
  • have costs and benefits that can be distributed in an equitable way.
These principles would be backed by a mandatory - and strictly enforced - EU certification scheme, a little like the Fairtrade scheme.

“Start Quote

Multiple requirements for land use are not able to be met with current technology, current disturbances caused by climate change and current population growth requirements - we are going to have to improve”
Prof Joyce TaitESRC Innogen Centre, University of Edinburgh
The authors rehearse a familiar list of complaints about current biofuel production: it strips biodiversity when forests or peatlands are cleared to grow fuel crops; current biofuels produce too little energy; biofuels are imported from countries which often have low environmental standards; biofuels compete with food crops and contribute to pushing up food prices.
Currently 3% of UK road fuel is biofuel. The report notes that only a third of that met an environmental standard in 2009/2010.


Hillary Clinton : Middle East Reform risks being ' a Mirage in the desert'



Increased Inequality Revealed in Stroke Deaths Across Europe and Central Asia

"The striking conclusion that emerges is that stroke mortality has entered a period of rapidly increasing inequality between countries. Countries which had attained low mortality rates reached in the latter part of the 20th century experienced further declines, while countries with moderate as well as high stroke mortality (Groups B and C in this report) at the start of the period being examined had a further unprecedented increase in this cause of death."
They continue: "If we assume that stroke mortality can serve as a proxy for average BP [blood pressure] in a population, the data presented here clearly demonstrate the necessity to adopt actions to increase the diagnosis, treatment and hypertension control in the countries where the burden of hypertension sequelae is still growing. Policies to increase the rate of BP control offer the best approach, while primary prevention strategies must also be implemented."
Prof Redon concluded: "We hope that this paper will be a call to action in the face of the huge impact of stroke all over Europe"




Hosni Mubarak: from detention to where?

No tyrant is going to agree to leave if it means being hanged, drawn and quartered as soon as he steps down.

Is It A First Amendment Violation To Kick A Student Out Of Nursing School For Blogging About A Patient?

 


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