The Drugs That Built a Super Soldier
Since World War II, little research had determined whether amphetamine
had a positive impact on soldiers’ performance, yet the American
military readily supplied its troops in Vietnam with speed. “Pep pills”
were usually distributed to men leaving for long-range reconnaissance
missions and ambushes.
Canada’s Social Spending is Still Among the Lowest in the Industrialized World
According to the most-recent OECD figures, Canada’s social spending was only 17.3% of the national GDP.
As previously noted, that puts Canada’s investments in social programs “near the bottom of the industrialized world.”
Air pollution is killing twice as many people as previously thought
Prof Jos
Lelieveld of the Max-Plank Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and also
part of the team, said: “Since most air pollutants come from the burning
of fossil fuels, we need to switch to other sources of energy urgently.
When we use clean, renewable energy, we are not just fulfilling the
Paris agreement to mitigate the effects of climate change, we could also
reduce air pollution-related death rates by up to 55%.”
EPA Proposes Use of 650,000 Pounds of Antibiotics Per Year on Citrus Fields
“The more you use antibiotics, the greater the risk that
bacteria resistant to the drugs will flourish and spread. The bottom
line is that the potential problems created by spraying massive amounts
of streptomycin on citrus fields could outweigh the original problem the
EPA wants to solve,” said Matt Wellington, U.S. PIRG’s Stop the Overuse
of Antibiotics campaign director.
New report exposes the Big Money Club against pharmacare | Canada’s Nurses
“The public should be aware of the powerful interests throwing huge
sums of money at the campaign to stop pharmacare,” said Linda Silas,
President of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU). “Big
decisions will be made this year on prescription drug coverage. It’s
crucial that the Canadian government stay laser-focused on the delivery
of public pharmacare for everyone and avoid the temptation of cozying up
to wealthy interests.”