District judge dismisses Lejeune water suit

ENCToday reports that:

"After a U.S. District Court judge dismissed the case recently, lawyers of a woman who believes the time she lived aboard Camp Lejeune caused her non-Hodgkins lymphoma said they have filed an appeal."

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New Clues on Autism

According to a recent study conducted by Stanford University, environmental factors may play an even more important role than genetics in causing autism.
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This Company Spends Over $5M a Year to Lobby U.S. Government to Make You Sick

According to a recent story published on the Food Consumer website:

"The Monsanto Company spent $1.4 million to lobby the federal government just in the first quarter of 2011, according to a recent disclosure report. That's still less than the $2.5 million Monsanto spent in a single three month period only a year earlier."

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Is Your Meat Habit Giving You Diabetes?

According to Mother Jones, a leading independent news organization:

A new peer-reviewed study published in the journal Diabetes Care found a strong link between diabetes onset and blood levels of a group of harsh industrial chemicals charmingly known as "persistent organic pollutants" (POPs), most of which have been banned in the United States for years but still end up in our food (hence the "persistent" bit—they degrade very slowly).

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Pharmacyclics lymphoma drug shows continued promise

Reuters reports that:

"The latest results from a small, early stage trial of Pharmacyclics Inc's experimental drug for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma showed about 49 percent of patients responded to it, the company said on Saturday."

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Anniston residents march against alleged corruption

According to The Anniston Star:

"The protesters, including several children, marched around the courthouse seven times to protest the spending of the settlement money won in a lawsuit against the Monsanto Corporation for PCB contamination in Anniston. Protesters "

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House bill wants review of Fort McClellan Army base

According to the Albany Times Union:

"A bill introduced by Rep. Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, would have the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs investigate the health of soldiers who trained at Fort McClellan in Alabama to see if they were made ill by toxic substances at and around the former Army base."

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