by Sheri Fink, ProPublica – October 16, 2009 6:44 pm EDT Florida health officials are drawing up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases. The plan, which would guide Florida hospitals on how to ration […]
What foods, minerals, vitamins, and fatty acids help your eyes?
According to the June 2009 article,"‘Eye Food – fact sheet–Transitions Healthy Sight Survey," foods that fight cataracts and macular degeneration contain both phytonutrients and sulfur. Eggs contain cysteine, sulfur, lecithin, carotenoids and zeaxanthin. These nutrients help to protect the lens of the eye from cataract formation. When you add vitamin C to the cysteine, sulfur, […]
With Natural Gas Drilling Boom, Pennsylvania Faces an Onslaught of Wastewater
The McKeesport Sewage Treatment Plant, one of nine plants on the Monongahela River that has treated wastewater from Marcellus Shale drilling operations. (Joaquin Sapien/ProPublica) Workers at a steel mill and a power plant were the first to notice something strange about the Monongahela River last summer. The water that U.S. Steel and Allegheny Energy […]
Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling
Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been plumbing natural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hundred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in fluids to force the gas out. Somehow, stray gas worked into tiny crevasses in the […]
Natural Gas Politics
Four years after Vice President Dick Cheney spearheaded a massive energy bill that exempted natural gas drilling from federal clean water laws, Congress is having second thoughts about the environmental dangers posed by the burgeoning industry. With growing evidence that the drilling can damage water supplies, Democratic leaders in Congress are circulating legislation that would […]
Social Media Puts You in Charge of the (R)evolution
So I’ve been writing mini-rants, posting snarky comments and sending pointed tweets about the new media landscape for a while, and I decided to flesh out my thoughts more cohesively. The future of information. What should it be? We’ve already started down the road toward what will be a much more rigorous, wild, free flow […]
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