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Oregon Researchers Show how Building Design Impacts Indoor Bacteria

Research center aims to understand the 'indoor microbiome' and improve it through architectural design

(EUGENE) - The Lillis Business Complex set the bar for sustainable buildings 10 years ago when it opened at the University of Oregon.

Now microbes drawn from the dust in 155 of its rooms have provided clues that could inspire future architectural designers to encourage a healthy indoor environment.

Is Netanyahu Certifiable?

Though I am not an expert on the subject, it seems to me that what Netanyahu needs most of all is some psychiatric help.

(LONDON) - The expanded and most explicit form of my headline question is this.

Is Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu of sound mind and knowingly talking propaganda nonsense about threats to Israel’s security in order to fool the world including most of its Jews, or, is he unbalanced, mentally disturbed, even clinically insane?

Keeping Firearms from the Mentally Ill

Once on any government "list," it is not always easy to get off. At the very least, the restoration of such individuals' right to buy or own firearms should come after a qualified clinician has determined the person is unlikely to relapse or become a danger to himself or others.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The Obama administration announced January 3, 2014 executive actions intended to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing a rule whereby states can submit information on such people to the National Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

Breast Cancer is the Second Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.

A team developed a public health study of women in the state of New Mexico , attended by 692 women with breast cancer. The study explored the differences in impact among non-Hispanic and Hispanic women.

(MADRID) - The Spanish Association Against Cancer - AECC - has launched an advertising campaign requesting assistance under the slogan "With your help we will overcome cancer."

Previous investigations showed a trend of lower survival in breast cancer in Hispanic women affected by socioeconomic factors, as lack of means to reach the healthcare and screening scores.

Marijuana: Best Modern Cure for Addictions

Hoorah for the anti-addiction drug, marijuana!

(PORTLAND, OR) - Whoever you are, you are reading this correctly. Maybe you don't believe it, but I will give you some ammunition.

Cannabis/marijuana as medicine, was formally introduced into the U.S. about 1850, just after it was introduced in Great Britain. It was considered the super drug and was used successfully for almost every disease common at that time.

Legal Experts Reject Food Industry Claims that GMO Labeling Laws Are Unconstitutional

According to GMA propaganda, state GMO labeling laws violate the First Amendment, which protects commercial speech by prohibiting the government from compelling “certain statements.”

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The food industry is playing every conceivable angle in its quest to keep labels off foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs)—including, according to a leaked document, threatening to sue the first state that passes a GMO labeling law.

Maine and Connecticut passed GMO labeling laws in 2013, but both have “trigger” clauses that prevent the laws from taking effect until at least four neighboring states.

An Open Letter to Soldiers with `Mental Health` Issues

You stand at the fork of two paths...

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - Are you a soldier or veteran who is supposed to have a 'mental health' issue such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia or PTSD? If you are, then I have some suggestions for you to consider.

My first suggestion is that you ignore any label that you have been given. For example, the term 'post-traumatic stress disorder' (PTSD) is an inaccurate and unhelpful way of labelling the appropriate, diverse and complex emotional responses that a normal human being will have to emotionally disturbing events of the type that are experienced during war.

Marijuana: Universal Medical Use of an Ancient/Modern Panacea

It is well known that medical marijuana permits have lowered the use and costs of medical treatment for the indigent on welfare, etc. The increased legal use of medical marijuana in Colorado and Washington will definitely decrease medical costs.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The search for a medical panacea has been going on for more than a couple of thousand years. It comes from the Greek language Panakeia who actually was the Greek Goddess of Universal Healing.

In other words, not a real person. She was said to have a poultice or potion, which would heal all diseases. This sounds like marijuana/cannabis to me.

Foreskin Advocate Speaks at UBC`s Buchanan Building

“There’s a 2,000-year body of Jewish writing, a 200 year body of medical writing illustrating that the purpose of circumcision is permanently damaging an innocent boy so that, when puberty comes, he will not be able to fully enjoy sex” - children’s rights activist Glen Callender

(VANCOUVER, BC) - It’s a rare thing to meet an activist who manages to remain persuasive and credible when naked from the waist down.

Judging by the audience’s reaction to children’s rights activist Glen Callender’s presentation at UBC on Friday, he pulled it off.

Oregon Receives a D+ for its Lack of Support for Emergency Patients, Ranks 32^nd in the Nation

“Oregon must take immediate action to address access to emergency care, especially for our most vulnerable people” - Dr. Melissa Johnson, president of the Oregon Chapter of ACEP

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Oregon improved its ranking — from 47^th place in 2009 to 32^nd place in the nation — with a D+ in the 2014 American College of Emergency Physicians’ (ACEP) state-by-state report card on America’s emergency care environment (“Report Card”).

Progress in four out of five categories contributed to this improvement.