No_drinking_water

The LA Times recently published a follow up to the announcement from the Environmental Working Group that over 20 major cities’ drinking water is polluted with hexavalent chromium (chromium-6). This is the same chromium-6 that was the subject of the lawsuit ...Read More

Dear Health Care Industry, Please stop making us radioactive. Love, the Health Care Industry?

The Associated Press recently released this article "Health Care Providers Pledging Less Radiation" covering the pledges made by health care providers to "stop the overuse of radiation on patients during medical exams." Yes, this is a bunch of radiologists who are ...Read More

Tracy Clark-Flory's Salon.com post, "All I Want for Christmas is Nothing," is a sobering post sharing her struggle to make meaning during this past holiday shopping season while she and her father faced her mother's final-stage lung cancer. If you've been ...Read More

Koman

Susan G. Komen for the Cure's been in the news recently for filing legal trademark oppositions against charities using any variation of "for the cure" in their names. Yes, part of the money Susan G. Komen for the Cure raises ...Read More

P!NK Donation

Where does one deposit a Giant Check? Is there a special Celebrity Giant Charity Money Bank? Read More

cigarettes cause cancer, people

Forty-three known carcinogens are in mainstream smoke, sidestream smoke, or both - and over 4000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette, many of which are toxic and/or carcinogenic. It's no new news that cigarettes cause cancer, but 43 carcinogens ...Read More