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When your health centre is a wasteland for more than 20 years, and all that remains

Trade unions and social groups denounce the fact that, during election periods, the Community of Madrid is filled with posters announcing the forthcoming construction of a health centre. Some of them have been like this for up to two decades.…

EcoWaste Coalition: Uphold the Ban, Block Lead Paint Imports

Imported Leaded Spray Paints Banned in 2020 Still Sold in Retail Stores   25 August 2023, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition deplored the unrelenting sale of imported spray paints banned by the authorities in 2020 for containing…

On-site Inspection Pushed, Group Urges Schools to Ensure Toxic-Free Environment for Students and Teachers

Just a few days before the school opening, toxic watchdog group BAN Toxics in coordination with Toro Hills Elementary School and Nick Joaquin Senior High School in Quezon City, conducted an on-site inspection of school facilities and pushed for the…

EcoWaste Coalition Promotes Young Learners’ Right to Adequately Labeled and Non-Toxic School Supplies

As the back-to-school season goes full blast, the EcoWaste Coalition took the opportunity to remind shoppers to insist, not only on their right to affordable school supplies but also on their rights to product information and to product safety. Upholding…

WHO seeks to integrate traditional medicine into health systems

A “World Summit on Traditional Medicine” hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) opened in Seoul with the participation of ministers, scientists and practitioners seeking to integrate this option into conventional health systems. In opening the proceedings, WHO Director-General Tedros…

BAN Toxics Urges DTI and FDA to Publish Registered Manufacturers and Distributors of School Supplies

Toxic watchdog group urges the Department of Trade and Industry and the Food and Drug Administration to publish the list of registered and notified brands of school supplies to guide the parents and the consuming public in buying school supplies.…

World Health Organization Summit aims to unlock power of traditional medicine through science

Speaking at the event on Thursday [17 August 2023], WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus underscored the “enormous” contributions of traditional medicine to human health and its understanding of the “intimate links” between health and the environment. Tedros stressed the importance of the gathering for…

Let’s attend to priorities

From the Humanist Health News Network REHUNO Health we set up a place of exchange where we find a new look at daily life based on experiential and existential psychology (the Psychology of New Humanism), which gives some concrete proposals…

Parents Warned Against Toxic Lead in School Supplies!

Toxic watchdog group BAN Toxics urged parents to be prudent and practice caution in buying school supplies after its recent market surveillance of school supplies in a popular public market tested positive for toxic lead – a cumulative toxicant that…

5G, microwaves and their effects on living organisms

The matrix of life The Earth’s ecosphere or sphere of life is permeated by the Earth’s magnetic field and its occasional perturbations caused by interaction with the solar wind plasma. Local geomagnetic fields are also slightly modified by natural atmospheric…

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