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NOVANEWS Dr.Rebecca Carley. ADVERSE REACTIONS to immunizations are more common than many people realize. Please visit her website: http://www.drcarley.com/ Dr. Rebecca (Roczen) Carley received her Bachelor's degree in Diagnostic Ultrasound, attended medical school (and received the Samuel L. Kountz award for clinical excellence in surgery at graduation), and trained to be a general surgeon at State University of New York at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. Dr. Carley also worked as an attending Emergency Room physician at Kings County Medical Center in Brooklyn (which is the primary training affiliate for Downstate students), and is the largest hospital (and busiest trauma center) in the United States. Dr. Carley left the practice of General Surgery and "allopathic...

NOVANEWS We’ve all known for years that overexposure to the ultraviolet rays in sunlight can cause skin cancer. But now there is hard evidence of the damage that tanning beds can do, especially when people are exposed young. Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow@nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow@andyrNYT. Researchers at Harvard Medical School, who have followed more than 70,000 nurses for two decades, found that tanning-bed use increased the risk of developing all three major forms of skin cancer, especially for the young women who started during high school and college. Yale School of Public Health researchers found that indoor tanning increased the risk of developing basal cell carcinomas, the most common skin cancer, bef...

NOVANEWS Dear friends, Brazil's Congress has just passed a bill that gives loggers and farmers free rein to cut down huge swaths of the Amazon. OnlyPresident Dilma can veto it.Domestic pressure is mounting, but a massive global outcry will prove her international reputation is at stake. Let's tip her over the edge to stop the Amazon chainsaw massacre -- sign the urgent petition and tell everyone: The Brazilian Congress has just passed a catastrophic forestry bill that gives loggers and farmers free rein to cut down huge swaths of the Amazon. Now only President Dilma can stop it. Fortunately, the timing is on our side -- in weeks Dilma will host the world’s biggest environmental summit and insiders say she cannot afford to open it as the leader who approved the destruct...

NOVANEWS The new technologies to explode gas out of shale rock have serious consequences. By F. William Engdahl* author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Poliltics ( May 4 2012) – There is a global rush to embrace a new technique to extract hydrocarbons from the Earth. From Germany to Poland and France, from China and above all in the USA where the technique of hydraulic fracturing of shale rocks is most developed, governments and major oil companies are producing huge volumes of shale gas. A number of energy importing countries around the world are planning a major investment in extracting natural gas from their shale rock formations. The most ambitious plans are coming from China and from Poland in the EU. Germany is also heatedly debating the technique. The US Government’s Depa...

NOVANEWS   TREES are on the front lines of our changing climate. And when the oldest trees in the world suddenly start dying, it’s time to pay attention. North America’s ancient alpine bristlecone forests are falling victim to a voracious beetle and an Asian fungus. In Texas, a prolonged drought  killed more than five million urban shade trees last year and an additional half-billion trees in parks and forests. In the Amazon, two severe droughts have killed billions more. The common factor has been hotter, drier weather. We have underestimated the importance of trees. They are not merely pleasant sources of shade but a potentially major answer to some of our most pressing environmental problems. We take them for granted, but they are a near miracle. In a bit of natural alchemy ca...

NOVANEWS   http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?   It’s time for Britain’s doctors to take a stand in support of public health care. It is not difficult to see the sorts of things that are crying out to be done to make the NHS a genuinely better and more efficient service: things like slashing the number of managers and putting clinicians back in charge; kicking the internal market into touch; ending the ridiculous business management-inspired culture of audit-for-audit’s-sake; scrapping PFI and cancelling related debt; nationalising the pharmaceutical industry. I am a junior doctor currently working at Leigh Infirmary near Wigan in Greater Manchester. In early December I happened to read an article published in the latest edition of the British Medic...