Author: Erin Elizabeth

A new report by consumer and business analyst group MindMetre Research believes that more research is needed to assess the harmful effects on oncology healthcare staff of administering cytotoxic drugs and whether enough is being done to protect them. The risks to pharmacy staff who prepare hazardous drugs are well documented and regulated but the risk of potentially harmful exposure to the people administering those drugs seem to have been overlooked. There have been a number of US and European studies indicating that oncology nurses administering chemotherapy experience symptoms, like hair loss and an unusually high rate of miscarriage, assumed to...

For those of you who honestly believe you can live and thrive on a couple hours of sleep a night (by the way, your body isn’t really thriving and is NOT happy with you), you’ll be interested to know you aren’t alone- elephants need only three to four hours of sleep per night too, in order to be their happy elephant selves during the day. RELATED ARTICLES: Can’t sleep? Drink this and fall asleep almost immediately. Diseases that could be caused by your Lack of Sleep But what gives? They are far bigger than us and expend far more...

Italy’s top court of appeals ruled that a homeless man, sentenced to 6 months in jail and a €100 fine for stealing €5 worth of food, should be exonerated. The court wrote that “the right to survival prevails over property” and that the man was acting “in the face of the immediate and essential need for nourishment.” This is a breath of fresh air for progressive humanists that see a world of abundance, locked down by greed. Deriving morality from an interpretation of the law is a noble deed and perhaps we are out of our fear-state. Similar to the...

George Orwell is as accurate now as he was when 1984 was originally published, possibly even more so. George Orwell ranks among the most profound social critics of the modern era. Some of his quotations, more than a half a century old, show the depth of understanding an enlightened mind can have about the future. “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” Though many in the modern age have the will to bury their head...