Health/Sick Care
At this moment, in America, there is no distinction within the U.S. Red Cross between blood that was donated by vaccinated versus unvaccinated individuals.
When you donate blood, the organization asks you whether you’ve received the COVID-19 vaccine, but that has nothing to do with your eligibility.
In fact, the Red Cross website makes a special point to mention that:
“The Red Cross, like all blood collectors in the U.S., is required to follow the eligibility guidelines set by the [FDA] … The FDA permits individuals to donate blood with no wait period after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine as long as they are feeling well and symptom free, and the vaccine they received is one approved by the FDA for use in the US.”
This means that as long as you say that you’re feeling alright, your COVID-19 vaccination status does not affect your eligibility to donate blood.
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Read MoreThe Who’s International Agency for Research on Cancer blamed rising cancer rates on an aging population, along with tobacco, alcohol, obesity and exposure to air pollution.
Story at a glance:
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) estimates more than 35 million new cancer cases in 2050.
This represents a 77% increase from the estimated 20 million cancer cases that occurred in 2022.
WHO blamed the rising cancer rates on an aging population, along with tobacco, alcohol, obesity and exposure to air pollution.
WHO ignored the emergence of rapid-growing “turbo cancers” in people who have received one or more COVID-19 shots.
Many of these cancers are showing up in young people, many under age 30, with no family history of cancer; treatment protocols are available to help recover from post-jab injuries.
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Read MoreA colossal tide of fertilizer and animal manure that runs off fields in Iowa and other farm states ends up in the Mississippi River. The same agricultural pollution problems are plaguing other iconic U.S. waterways, including Chesapeake Bay and Lake Erie.
Kindra Arnesen is a 46-year-old commercial fishing boat operator who has spent most of her life among the pelicans and bayous of southern Louisiana, near the juncture where the 2,350-mile-long Mississippi River ends at the Gulf of Mexico.
Clark Porter is a 62-year-old farmer who lives in north-central Iowa where he spends part of his day working as an environmental specialist for the state and the other part raising corn and soybeans on hundreds of acres that his family has owned for over a century.
Though they’ve never met, and live 1,100 miles apart, Arnesen and Porter share a troubling kinship — both of their communities are tied to a deepening water pollution crisis that is fouling the environment and putting public health in peril across multiple U.S. states.
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Read MoreBritish drugmaker GSK announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted an application for review of the company’s 5-in-1 meningococcal vaccine.
GSK’s MenABCWY vaccine candidate will target the five groups of Neisseria meningitidis bacteria (meningococcal serogroups A, B, C, W, and Y) that cause most cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) globally. It combines the antigenic components of GSK’s well-established meningococcal vaccines, Bexsero and Menveo.
Simplified immunization
The company says combining the protection offered by these vaccines into a single vaccine will reduce the number of injections, simplify immunization, and help increase series completion. Just under 12% of US adolescents have had the required two doses of Bexsero, which provides protection against meningococcal group B, the most common group of IMD-causing bacteria in US adolescents and young adults. Menveo prevents IMD caused by meningococcal groups A, C, Y, and W-135.
Among those who contract IMD, one in six will die and one in five may suffer long-term consequences such as brain damage. Teens and young adults are among those at greatest risk of contracting it.
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Read MoreConsumer Reports and the Environmental Working Group support state legislative efforts to ban food additives, prompting industry opposition, as concerns over regulatory expertise, consumer confusion and food safety arise. A representative from NCA explains why these matters should be left to the professionals at accredited government agencies like FDA.
At a Glance
Consumer groups are lobbying for state bans on food additives, arguing that these additives are unsafe.
NCA and other industry representatives oppose the proposed bans, citing concerns over regulatory expertise.
FDA is reviewing food additives and taking steps to remove some from the market, highlighting the ongoing regulatory process.
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Read MoreThe agency continue to investigate how the WanaBana cinnamon applesauce pouches became contaminated with lead.
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it’s winding down some of its U.S. response to lead-contaminated cinnamon applesauce pouches, which have sickened hundreds of children across the country.
The FDA will continue to actively investigate how WanaBana’s apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches, which were recalled in late October because of high lead levels, became contaminated. However, much of the work the agency has done to ensure no one else buys the applesauce pouches has ended.
The agency has pulled the product from stores and prevented any more of it from being imported into the United States. Two other products made by WanaBana — Schnucks applesauce pouches with cinnamon and Weis cinnamon applesauce — were also recalled and removed from stores.
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Read MoreSwiss food firm’s infant formula and cereal sold in global south ignore WHO anti-obesity guidelines for Europe, says Public Eye
Nestlé, the world’s largest consumer goods company, adds sugar and honey to infant milk and cereal products sold in many poorer countries, contrary to international guidelines aimed at preventing obesity and chronic diseases, a report has found.
Campaigners from Public Eye, a Swiss investigative organisation, sent samples of the Swiss multinational’s baby-food products sold in Asia, Africa and Latin America to a Belgian laboratory for testing.
The results, and examination of product packaging, revealed added sugar in the form of sucrose or honey in samples of Nido, a follow-up milk formula brand intended for use for infants aged one and above, and Cerelac, a cereal aimed at children aged between six months and two years.
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Read MoreIn this week’s Field Report, shining a light on India’s exploited shrimp workers, the spread of avian flu, and the big banks undermining climate goals.
A few months ago, along the coast of Andhra Pradesh in eastern India, Josh Farinella drove 40 minutes out of his way to visit workers who peel shrimp for Choice Canning, where he worked as a shrimp factory manager. He didn’t travel to the rural area for any of his job responsibilities; he was there to document injustice. He observed a crew of local women quickly peeling shrimp along rusty tables in 90-degree heat, wearing street clothes and flip-flops. They worked for long hours in a shed in a dirt field, far from the main work site, easily escaping the notice of auditors.
“These peeling sheds aren’t supposed to be there. They’re not supposed to be used by anybody,” Farinella told Civil Eats. “There are 20,000 pounds of shrimp per day going through these peeling sheds that are landing on U.S. grocery store shelves.” The high temperatures in the shed could easily lead to pathogen growth, he warned.
Farinella started his work for Choice Canning in 2015 at a production facility in his hometown of Pittston, Pennsylvania. In 2023, when the company offered him a high-paying managerial position at a new facility in Andhra Pradesh, he accepted. But four months into the job, he decided to come forward as a whistleblower, exposing what he says are the deplorable and unsanitary conditions in one of India’s largest shrimp manufacturers.
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Read MoreA major new study has confirmed that Covid mRNA vaccines contain a component that suppresses the immune response in recipients and stimulates cancer growth.
The study was conducted by an international consortium of renowned scientists and published in the prestigious International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.
The researchers investigated the impact on humans of a vaccine ingredient known as “N1-methyl-pseudouridine (m1Ψ).”
In the study’s paper – titled, “N1-methyl-pseudouridine (m1Ψ): Friend or foe of cancer?” – the scientists explain that vaccine ingredient plays a role in immune suppression and cancer proliferation.
m1Ψ was incorporated into Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine to enhance its efficacy.
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Read MoreTens of thousands of people rallied over the weekend in a central Tokyo park to protest the World Health Organization’s (WHO) proposed pandemic treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) — proposals that critics allege threaten Japan’s and other countries’ national sovereignty.
Citizen’s Association against the Pandemic Treaty organized the rally, with help from the World Council of Health (WCH) Japan, according to historian and author Chikatsu Hayashi and Masayasu Inoue, M.D., Ph.D., professor emeritus of molecular pathology and medicine at Osaka City University Medical School.
The rally called for Japan’s withdrawal from the WHO. Participants also opposed the “pandemic treaty” and IHR amendments and the Japanese government’s public health policies, Hayashi and Inoue, who both spoke at the rally, told The Defender.
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