The Smarter Earth Institute

Source: The New York Times
Credits: John M. Broder
Dated: 2011-09-02

Source: Huffington Post
Credits: Laurie David (Producer/Author/NRDC Trustee)
Dated: 2011-05-26

By Dan Rather, The Huffington Post, January 12, 2011

We've all probably taken antibiotics at some point, and given it little thought. When an illness has gone on for a little too long, these miracle drugs often seem like a harmless magic bullet, able to cure anything. Some have even called antibiotics the greatest medical advance ever. But now, public health officials are warning that our decades-long love affair with these drugs is rendering them useless. When one doesn't work, we are given another. Increasingly, however, doctors are running out of options.

By Robert Preidt, USA Today, Jan. 12, 2011

Source: WebMD Health News
Credits: Daniel J. DeNoon (Author), Laura J. Martin MD (Reviewer)
Dated: 2010-06-28

FDA: Antibiotics in Livestock Affects Human Health

Agency Suggests Limits on Antibiotics in Animals Because of Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Source: USA Today
Credits: Richard Tren and Donald Roberts
Dated: 2010-06-23

By M. Davis, www.opednews.com, 5/3/09

While many in the media can't tell the difference between pandemic, epidemic and catastrophe, the nation continues to reel under the onslaught of media disaster-masters. To hear them tell it, we are at the foothills of a biological Second Coming, ushered in by legions of pig flu viruses on the march.

Who needs details or clarification when a mountain of hysterical rumor, inuendo and disinformation will do?

For instance, let's get down to basics and see if we can understand some major differences between: pandemic, epidemic and endemic.

Stephen Glai, The National, April 28. 2009

As a former, and by many accounts successful, finance minister, Benjamin Netanyahu presumably knows his way around economics. So when the Israeli prime minister says he will work to provide the Palestinians with economic, if not political, independence, might that not suggest his hard-line government understands that a prosperous Palestine would be an important first step towards a more stable Middle East?

Source: Associated Press

Credits: Jeff Donn (AP Writer), Martha Mendoza (AP Writer), Justin Pritchard (AP Writer), Don Mitchell (AP Contributor)

Dated: 2009-04-20

U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.