Archive for the ‘health’ Category

Conservatives Happier Than Liberals

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.Read the full story

Ayoreo Indian dies after first contact

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

A Paraguayan Indian, who lived without contact with the outside world until 1998, has died of tuberculosis. Survival International has called his life, 'a symbol of the fate of indigenous people in the Americas since Columbus'.Read the full story

Mayor rules out Cherbourg contraceptive implants

Monday, April 21st, 2008

The Cherbourg Aboriginal Council has met the town s health service providers to confirm no young girls are receiving contraceptive implants. Last week, reports emerged that girls as young as 12, some with disabilities, were being given contraceptive implants in the Indigenous community of Woorabinda west of Rockhampton.Read the ...

AP probe finds drugs in drinking water

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.Read the full story

Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : Land invasion forces Yanomami into local town - News from Survival

Friday, February 15th, 2008

A group of Yanomami Indians have spent the past ten days camped in a local Brazilian town following the invasion of their land by goldminers and ranchers.Read the full story

Child welfare spokesman charged with porn - UPI.com

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A former Florida child welfare agency spokesman facing pornography charges allegedly held drinking parties for boys he photographed naked, it was reported.Read the full story

Inteligentaindiĝena Indigenismo Novaĵoservo: AFP.com | Suicides by US soldiers spike

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Suicide rates in the US Army have soared over the past three years, hitting levels not seen in more than a quarter century, army data released Thursday show.Read the full story

New study indicates that marijuana smokers face rapid lung destruction « The Frame Problem

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A new study finds that the development of bullous lung disease occurs in marijuana smokers approximately 20 years earlier than tobacco smokers.Read the full story

AFP.com | Agence France-Presse, a global news agency

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US scientists have taken a major step toward creating the first ever artificial life form by synthetically reproducing the DNA of a bacteria, according to a study published Thursday.Read the full story

Inteligenta Indiĝena Indigenismo Novaĵoservo: CENSORED: Lakota delegation declares Lakota control

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status Threaten Land Liens, Contested Real Estate Over Five State Area in U.S.West Dakota Territory Reverts back to Lakota Control According to U.S., International Law.Read the full story