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AGM McCarrison Society 26 March 2010

17:00 – 18:00 AGM (members only) To be held at – The Phoenix, 37 Cavendish Square, W1G 0PP, followed by 18:15 Open Meeting at The Medical Society of London, 11 Chandos Place, ...

A Celebration of DHA – Discovery, Achievement and Challenges for Global Health 4

Thursday, 27 May 2010 08:00 – 23.00: London (Opening event Wed 26th, Details,  Booking)Overview Starting in the early 1970s, several of the scientists presenting at this conference began producing robust experimental evidence su...

East less intensively reared meat - Chair's comment on Guardian article

“East less intensively reared meat”. Tim is right but it is worse! The intensively fed meat animal is fed in stalls, so they get no exercise: so muscle ...

Sustainable Food, Health and Climate Change

Published on 10 December 2009, the UK Government's Sustainable Development Commission report "Setting the Table" is already producing a flurry of comment at the Guardian online page Eat less meat ...

Debate in the House of Lords on prevention of Cerebral Palsy

On Wednesday 4th November  Lord Hameed of Hampstead, President of the Little Foundation, opened a debate on the prevention of cerebral palsy, He began by commenting on the neglect of an ...

ORGANIC FARMING - HEALTH DEBATE

ORGANIC FARMING: “There is no evidence of additional health benefits from eating organic foods” declared Jill Fine the Food Standard  Agency director of dietary health  according to an in depth article by...

UN poised to create Womens' Agency

The UN is poised to create a powerful new department for women who say they have been sidelined for decades, to rectify a glaring omission in the world body. O...

The Mother and Child Foundation and NMcCarrison Society has called for a World

Subject: new UN chance for supporting women/mothers  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/22/un-women-rights-agency  The Mother and Child Website has been calling for a "World Charter for Mothers", Also I have  asked for a UN Organization for ...

Intervention Strategies to challenge the Rise in Mental Ill Health

SHORT COURSE 8th and 9th September 2009 www.londonmet.ac.uk/IBCHN Aims and Objectives of the course •...

The ascendancy of the gene centred culture for research has been challenged.

Telegraph "Genetic 'magic bullet' cures have proven a 'false dawn' Leading scientist Prof Steve Jones has claimed that the hope that genetic research could provide a ...

Pesticides: High Court Judgement on over-spray

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The following are a few key statements taken from the High Court Judgment by Mr. Justice Collins:- "The word 'bystander' is not on its face entirely appropriate for c...

Mary Langman Prize Essay 2009/2010 REGISTRATION CLOSING

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Register by Monday 30th November 2009.The Pioneer Health Foundation exists to disseminate the ideas of the Peckham Experiment, a unique enquiry into the nature of health that took place between ...

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