Congressional hearings will begin next month on a Clinton Administration plan to revamp some key pesticide laws. Among the reforms, the Administration wants to drop a 35-year-old ban on cancer-causing pesticide residues in processed foods. The controversial proposal would allow minute traces of carcinogenic pesticides in food, as long as the health risk is minimal. The new rules would also prohibit the export of pesticides which are banned in the US, and ease the removal of dangerous…

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I'm havin to go back to local clinic after going to ER last week with a screw backing out of my lumbar fusion...and they are still sending me to C & P exams because I'm asking for more than the 10% they so graciously gave me at discharge. Had to vent...sorry good people. I get overwhelmed with the amount of good reading there is on here...while I am reading "The Weather Makers" by Tim Flannery (about the reality of clobal climate change...this book has astounded me so far!), "Up Till Now"… Continue

I am a disabled Navy veteran from the 90-92 period of Desert Storm. an untrained anesthesiologist tried "8 or 9 repetitive times" to give me an epiderual (the second of three I would suffer) to cut out post surgical infection from a pilonidal cystectomy. This surgical mishap has led to my having a L4-L5 fusion with rods and scews. I am a member of Paralyzed Vets of America due to this trauma induced degenerative disk disease and have since had C3-C7 fused also. Plus, sciatic nerve damage… Continue