World Health Organization

The Worst Excuses Given For Not Going To A Friend's Event

I had an event recently, so I heard every single one of them: *Sorry, I'm busy on Thursday. You want to yell back, "But the event is Saturday!" *I had a bronchial cough and suddenly didn't feel well enough. Honey, if everyone who says they're too sick to go to an event really was sick, the Wor ... More >>

M.D.'s Are the New Pain-Pill Crime Wave

Dr. Dealer

California Says No to Labels on Genetically Modified Food

Food activists against "franken-food" will have to put a pause on taking down genetically modified products. Voters in California rejected Prop. 37, a law that if passed would have made California the first state to label processed food containing genetically modified ingredients. [See More: Mariju ... More >>

Europeans Are the World's Biggest Boozers

Is it really a surprise that the World Health Organization and the European Commission found that Europeans drink more than anyone else in the world? No, but the numbers, as reported by Reuters, are still pretty intriguing: the consumption of alcohol in the European Union is double the world average ... More >>

Food Industry Wants to Keep Dioxins in Your Dinner: Report

It's always good to know that the people who raise the nation's livestock and sow the country's crops really want to put health first. Or not. A group of top U.S. food producers has recently protested the Food and Drug Administration's upcoming demands for tougher dioxin limits in nutritional stap ... More >>

It's a Drunk, Drunk World

​Important news! Today is National Drink Wine Day. Consider it your obligation as an American citizen. Some of us did our part yesterday, but we're sort of overachievers. In other news, the World Health Organization has released new info on who's drinking, by country, and how much. Turns out A ... More >>

Cuomo Loses Bet on Jets to Penn Gov; WHO Calls for Ban on Kiddie Fast-Food Ads

​Governor Andrew Cuomo will have to hand over a basket of Nathan's hot dogs, Buffalo chicken wings, Hudson Valley apple cider, and local cheese and maple syrup to Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett following the Jets' loss last night. [NY Daily News] Forced to eat in due to money being tight, ... More >>

Were Your French Fries Cooked in Corn Oil?; Just How Much Salt Is in Your Favorite New York Food?

​In light of Mayor Bloomberg's plan to cut our salt intake, just how much salt is in New York foods? Delicatessen's bagel and smoked salmon plate has 105 percent of the recommended daily intake, Char No. 4's lamb pastrami sandwich has 92 percent, but Sigmund Pretzel Shop's pretzels only have ... More >>

A New Deputy Food Commissioner Will Protect Us From Our Food Here at Home; Codex Alimentarius Does the Job On a Global Scale

The Obama administration has created a new deputy food commissioner post in an effort to better curb salmonella and E. coli contamination following a rash of outbreaks in the last year, including the peanut product recall, the largest in U.S. history. An improved tracing system for identifying the o ... More >>

WHO Declares Level 6 Swine Flu PANICdemic; Fist Bumps Suggested

We seem to be experiencing a swine-flu comeback. After the assurances of the mayor and health commissioner that "underlying conditions" were behind the few deaths we'd seen in the city, things were pretty quiet for a while. Then we heard about an eighth death ("the first of a person older than 65") ... More >>

Swine Flu PANIC Lessens Despite Level 5 Upgrade and Joe Biden

The World Health Organization upgraded the worldwide swine flu panic to Level 5, but out our way people are still walking around as if nothing much were happening, though another local school, Bishop Kearney in Bensonhurst, has been closed. Twitterers are getting sick, not from swine flu but of it: ... More >>

Swine Flu PANIC Update: 2 Brooklyn Schools Close

Two more schools are closing due to SSF (suspected swine flu), this time in Brooklyn: St. Brigid's in Bushwick and Good Shepherd in Marine Park. The CDC number of confirmed U.S. cases holds steady at 64 at its website, but the CDC's acting director has told a news conference that it's now actually 9 ... More >>

Your Morning Dose of Swine Flu Panic

You already know that we're all going to die of swine flu. But! Did you know that the World Health Organization -- sponsored by the U.N., which patriots normally deride and ignore unless they need to be scared -- has upgraded the pandemic threat level from 3 to 4? That means "sustained human to hu ... More >>

Dr. Popp, the First Computer Virus, and the Purpose of Human Life: Studies in Crap Gapes At Popular Evolution

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Popular Evolution: Life-Lessons From Anthropology Author: Joseph L. Popp Publisher: Man and Nature Press Dat ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg Wants You To Quit Smoking (Wherever You Are)

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