Tag: Health
Our Chemical Lives
The chemical industry began to accelerate following World War II. Today, chemicals are so omnipresent in our lives that many times we are unaware...
OxyContin: Time Bomb
In the medical community, chronic pain has become a major epidemic, and is thought to afflict many tens of millions of people worldwide. Pharmaceutical...
Sick
These days children and youth easily get into depression, frustration, complexes etc due to which they sometimes they get involved into activities which the...
TB Return of the Plague
TB is the most deadly infectious disease in history - it has killed over a billion people in the last 200 years. Multi-BAFTA winning...
The Weight of the Nation: Choices
The second film in the series poses a question that almost anyone who's struggled with excess weight has asked, if only in jest: For...
Secrets of the Dead: Killer Flu
In 1918, a flu pandemic ripped through the global population with such speed and virulence that by the end of the following year an...
Fluoride Deception
Hailed as a harmless chemical that would prevent tooth decay, new evidence shows how fluoride could be linked to serious health problems. Fluoridation was...
Greening The Revolution
Capitalism's profit-centered food system wages a war on the world's poor, especially farmers. While agribusiness reaps record wealth, starving protesters cry for affordable food...
The Bitter Truth About Sugar
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose...
Born Asleep
3,000 babies are stillborn each year in the UK, one of the worst rates in the developed world. Paul Kenyon meets the clinicians who...