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• Some schools use local farms for healthy menus
The Academy is one of three Kansas City-area private schools that participate in Bistro Kids' Farm 2 School program, which is committed to improving students' health by offering lunches from organic, natural, locally-grown food. "It's really, really ...
• Climate change helps spread deadly diseases
The society, based in the Bronx Zoo in the United States and which works in 60 nations, urged better monitoring of wildlife health to help give an early warning of how pathogens might spread with global warming. It listed the "deadly dozen" as avian ...
• Drug companies: No cold meds for kids under 4
The voluntary changes came less than a week after federal health officials said they also saw little evidence that the drugs work, but feared that parents would give kids adult medicines if the products were taken off store shelves. In addition, the ...
• EarthTalk: Painkillers and electric bikes
Many natural health care practitioners disparage drugs for merely masking the symptoms of larger problems. All headaches are not the same and gobbling down pain pills will not address the causes, whatever they may be. Some headaches are caused by ...
• Half-ton Mexican man dies of heart failure
The attention he would have received at a hospital would have been the same he got at home," said Julio Cesar Cano, spokesman for the Nuevo Leon state health department. "Moving a patient of that magnitude is very difficult. A normal ambulance won't ...