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From Baguio to Davao: Banned Mercury-Laden Cosmetics Sold With Impunity

29 April 2022, Quezon City.  Skin whitening cosmetics containing mercury, a toxic chemical, still abound in store shelves in open defiance of the national and global efforts to make these hazardous products a thing of the past. Despite the 2020…

ASD: demystifying, broadening, knowing and discovering the autism spectrum

In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly established 2 April as World Autism Awareness Day, with the aim of highlighting the need to contribute to improving the quality of life of people with ASD and to promote our inclusion in…

US military biological activities on the territory of Ukraine

Taken from Telegram channel of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation – translation by Saker Latin America Community. The following is the report of the “Briefing on the results of the analysis of documents related to the military…

Phytotherapy: Techniques, practices, ways and uses

Plants heal us and take care of us since our human history on this planet began, they are always at our service. When I pick one of them to make an infusion or tincture, I approach it carefully, with respect…

On a point of honour

The development and health of girls and adolescents run up against a thick wall of prejudice and ignorance. It is enough to go to the official website of the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, to check the situation of children…

Our menstrual cycles: demonised and costly

The period, the month, the issue, the period, the mens, “Andrés came”, Juana la colorada, “it came”, “I’m sick”, indisposed. You’re nervous: are you menstruating? You are hysterical. From menstruation onwards, you become a “señorita”. Menstruation is a hidden and…

My First Aid Kit: Turmeric-10-

This is the tenth in the promised series, as we have seen we are surrounded and accompanied, nourished and healed by great talents. There were only ten examples that we went through together, and those who know say that we…

More than 300 organisations deliver a manifesto against the health exclusion of thousands of people to the Health Ministry

On World Health Day, more than 300 organisations and groups have called on the Government, through a manifesto, to put a definitive end to the exclusion experienced by thousands of people in Spain, which began just 10 years ago with…

Asian NGOs Call on Governments to Regulate Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) in Products

6 April 2022, Davao City/Quezon City.  Non-government organizations (NGOs) from South, Southeast and East Asia, including the Philippines, have called on national governments to adopt and strictly implement regulations to address endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in products. The NGOs are participating…

Trota, the wise woman of medicine

Imagine you are living in southern Italy around the year 1115 AD, walking in a beautiful garden with an interesting woman who is talking and cutting plants as you go along. The Mediterranean sun pours over your head filling you…

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