-- This is really, really frightening. I won;t even attempt a Zombie joke here. This is far worse. -- MCR

Britain's foremost professor of complementary medicine today launches a withering attack on the provision of homoeopathy on the NHS. Professor Edzard Ernst of Exeter University says the use of state funding to provide a treatment which works no better than a placebo cannot be justified. Homoeopathy may also be dangerous where it is subsituted for orthodox treatments of proven efficacy and involves doctors in deceiving their patients about the true value of the medicines they provide, he says. "Homeopathy could be (and often is) used as an alternative to effective interventions. For example, the advice from homeopaths not to immunise has become a major cause of low vaccination rates. Also, the strategy of using homeopathy as a benign placebo can only work if clinicians do not tell the truth to their patients," he writes in The Biologist.

The European Union, United States and Japan formally asked the World Trade Organization on Tuesday to settle a dispute with China over Beijing’s restriction on exports of raw materials, including rare earth elements critical to major industries.

"The NBAF is envisioned as a state-of-the-art, bio-safety level (BSL) 3 & 4 facility to enable the United States to conduct comprehensive research; develop vaccines and anti-virals; and provide enhanced diagnostic capabilities to protect our country from numerous foreign animal and emerging diseases. DHS chose a site on the campus of Kansas State University after a comprehensive three year federal examination of potential sites, studying varied and stringent evaluation criteria, environmental impacts, and the threats and risks of operating the NBAF."

MONTREAL - A worsening shortage in drug supplies has forced two hospitals in the Gatineau region to stop all elective surgeries. The Hull and Gatineau hospitals postponed 30 elective surgeries Monday and probably will postpone another 30 to 40 surgeries on Wednesday or Thursday, Dr. Guy Morissette, chief of the Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de l’Outaouais, said in an interview. “The reason is there is a shortage of supply of essential medicine,” he said.

Thousands of children with leukemia count on a particular drug to survive. But supplies are running dangerously low. In many cases, doctors have enough for only three weeks. CBS News correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook looked into what's behind the shortage -- and what's being done about it.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) calls Morgellons’ Nanoworms figments of sufferers' imaginations. How far down the rabbit hole of Geoengineering, Nanotech, Chemtrails, and such do you care to go? This article is a great place to start...

The scientists, who advocate geoengineering methods such as spraying millions of tonnes of reflective particles of sulphur dioxide 30 miles above earth, argue that a "plan B" for climate change will be needed if the UN and politicians cannot agree to making the necessary cuts in greenhouse gases, and say the US government and others should pay for a major programme of international research.