Another celebrity suffers from brain cancer.

http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/03/11/valerie-harper-cancer-today-interview/


Kathy


Your Phone vs. Your Heart

One measurable toll may be on our biological capacity to connect with other people.

The author speaks to how these devices rewire our brain for less empathy and can actually change gene expression, not only for mothers, but for their children.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/your-phone-vs-your-heart.html?_r=0


Jeromy


President s Cancer Panel: Environmentally caused cancers are 'grossly underestimated' and 'needlessly devastate American lives

They also urged doctors to use caution in prescribing CT scans and other medical imaging tests that expose patients to large amounts of radiation. In 2007, 69 million CT scans were performed, compared with 18 million in 1993. Patients who have a chest CT scan receive a dose of radiation in the same range as survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb attacks who were less than half a mile from ground zero, the report says.

http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/presidents-cancer-panel


Magda


Informant: Martin Weatherall



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