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World Health Organization

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Specials

    September 18, 2007

    Letters

    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 >>

  • News

    April 24, 2007

    Green Card Negative

    We haven't been able to keep out immigrants based on their HIV status. But should we worry about it?

  • Film

    February 27, 2007

    Threat-Level: Killer Tadpole

    Korean box-office monster emerges from the Han River to slime us stateside

  • Books

    March 21, 2006

    Interpreter of Maladies Covers the SARS Spread

    Korean box-office monster emerges from the Han River to slime us stateside

  • News

    November 15, 2005

    Capitalizing on the Flu

    Flu pandemic would spark enough fear to make it a greed pandemic

  • Books

    September 6, 2005

    The Birds

    Crying fowl: A talk with 'City of Quartz' author Davis on another disaster in the making

  • Film

    April 5, 2005

    Treasure Hunt Saga Ignores Rules of Space-Time

    Crying fowl: A talk with 'City of Quartz' author Davis on another disaster in the making

  • News

    January 11, 2005

    When There Was No Choice

    On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the memory of illegal abortion fades

  • News

    November 2, 2004

    Kofi Annan vs. Me

    The United Nations is useless to blacks in Darfur. China will veto any meaningful action.

  • News

    September 21, 2004

    George W. Bush Ain't No Cowboy

    See how the little feller measures up to the Cowboy Code, and you tell me.

  • News

    September 21, 2004

    The Most Evil Crime

    As black Africans are murdered and raped, most Americans are indifferent

  • Columns

    June 24, 2003

    Horoscope

    As black Africans are murdered and raped, most Americans are indifferent

  • News

    April 29, 2003

    Sports

    As black Africans are murdered and raped, most Americans are indifferent

  • News

    April 15, 2003

    Leaving a Mess in Mesopotamia

    Long-Term Damage From a Short-Term War

  • News

    December 17, 2002

    Fueling Fears

    Expert Warns of Nuclear Horror at Indian Point

  • News

    November 5, 2002

    Nation

    Expert Warns of Nuclear Horror at Indian Point

  • Film

    March 26, 2002

    Occupational Hazards

    Laurent Cantet's Work Ethic

  • Specials

    March 26, 2002

    Letters

    Laurent Cantet's Work Ethic

  • News

    January 29, 2002

    Prevarication Becomes Electric

    New Awareness of EMF Health Risks Fuels Opposition to Chelsea Substation

  • News

    November 27, 2001

    Risky Chickens

    Bayer Refuses to Withdraw Animal Antibiotic That Causes Drug Resistance in Humans

  • News

    November 27, 2001

    Pakistan's Environmental Nightmare

    Millions of Refugees Deepen a Nation's Ecological Woes

  • News

    October 30, 2001

    The Exciting Game With Anthrax Rules

    Millions of Refugees Deepen a Nation's Ecological Woes

  • News

    October 2, 2001

    Gas Peddled

    Exaggerating the Chemical and Biological Terrorism Threat

  • News

    May 15, 2001

    The DNA Bomb

    Modified Crops are In the Crosshairs Now. You May Be Next.

  • News

    April 3, 2001

    No Rx Required

    The Fight to Make Morning-After Pills Available Over the Counter

  • News

    January 9, 2001

    Lethal Lasers, Alien Fossils

    A Roundup of Undercovered Technology News

  • News

    November 28, 2000

    An Epidemic Change

    World AIDS Day Theme Focuses on Men and HIV Prevention

  • News

    August 8, 2000

    You’re Going Too Far, Baby

    Activists Cry Foul as Cigarette Makers Woo Women in the Developing World

  • News

    July 11, 2000

    Lost Opportunity

    South African President Hedges on Cause of AIDS, Ignores Access to Medicine

  • News

    December 14, 1999

    Part 6: Ending the Epidemic

    African Prostitutes May Play a Crucial Role in Developing an HIV Vaccine

  • News

    August 24, 1999

    Casualties of War

    In Congo, civil strife allows polio to survive

  • News

    June 29, 1999

    Banned From Pride

    The INS Blocks A Visitor With HIV

  • News

    May 4, 1999

    Paper-Thin Reporting

    The INS Blocks A Visitor With HIV

  • News

    December 22, 1998

    We're Saving Our Own Lives

    Black activists will confront killer diseases at upcoming AIDS forum in Harlem

  • News

    September 15, 1998

    Human Rights = Public Health

    Remembering AIDS Pioneer Jonathan Mann

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