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Latex For Less Mattress Review

May 7, 2018 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: May 9, 2018

My wife and I sleep on a king size Zinus Responsive Memory Foam Mattress. It was cheap. After nearly one year the mattress has held up pretty well for the price we paid, a very reasonable $237.15. Today’s price is … [read]

Neonicotinoids Affect Hormone Production in Humans

May 4, 2018 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: May 4, 2018

Neonicotinoid pesticides are known worldwide for their negative effects on bee populations, but a new study finds that this popular agricultural chemical may also be responsible for elevated levels of a key enzyme in estrogen production. This is big and… [read]

Massive Beef Recall for Plastic Contamination, Including Kroger Stores

May 3, 2018 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: May 7, 2018

More than 35,000 pounds of ground beef sold by North Carolina food processor JBS USA has been recalled after a consumer found hard, blue pieces of plastic in a package. The ground beef is in a variety of packages and… [read]

Best Supplements To Kill Lyme and Everything Else You Ever Wanted To Know About Lyme Disease

May 2, 2018 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: March 14, 2019

Lyme disease is grossly under-reported in the United States. Lyme cases have more than doubled since the 1990s. The number of counties that are now deemed high-risk for Lyme has increased by more than 320 percent. About 329,000 cases of … [read]

Less Opioid Prescriptions Where Marijuana Is Legal

May 1, 2018 by Michael Edwards

Two papers published in April in JAMA Internal Medicine that analyzed more than five years of Medicare Part D and Medicaid prescription data found that when states allow for the use of marijuana the number of opioid prescribed, and the… [read]

How Farmed Fish Degrades Our Health and the Environment – Better Options Included

April 30, 2018 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: April 30, 2018

More than 1 billion people across the world rely on fish as their main source of protein. Consequently, the world’s oceans are in trouble with marine life plummeting. More than 80 percent of the world’s fisheries are either considered fully… [read]

Seventy Percent of Reusable Medical Scopes Test Positive for Bacteria in New Study from California

April 29, 2018 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: April 29, 2018

A new paper published in the American Journal of Infection Control examined reusable endoscopes cleared for patient use at three separate hospitals in California and found that sanitation procedures are lacking. At the best performing hospital, 62 percent of scopes… [read]