Health
EcoWaste Coalition to LGUs: Conduct Safety Checks in Ammonia-Using Industrial Facilities
22 June 2023, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition urged local government units (LGUs) to conduct safety checks in ice and cold storage plants in their areas of jurisdiction following the ammonia leak and fire in Navotas City…
Drugs, drugs, and more drug crime. Isn’t it time for the Philippines to have a serious and deeper conversation about drugs?
by Karina Santillan (Manila) and Tony Robinson (London) Illegal drugs are an issue that’s wider than the drug smugglers and cartels who bring them into the country and the corrupt police officers who protect them for a slice of the…
What health model should we evolve towards in Chile?
Experts from the faculties of Medicine, Law and Economics at the University of Chile agree that the country should move towards a different health care system, with a single insurer at the centre, a large Fonasa (National Health Fund). The…
BAN Toxics Lauds FDA for Issuing Public Health Warning against Unauthorized Lato-Lato Toys
Toxic watchdog group BAN Toxics lauds the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Philippines for issuing the FDA Advisories Nos. 2023-1299, 2023-1300, and 2023-1301 – a Public Health Warning against the purchase and use of unauthorized Toy and Childcare Article (TCCA)…
Despite DTI’s Action, Online Sale of Fraudulent Products Containing Mercury Remains
16 June 2023, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition deplored the continued sale by online merchants of unauthorized cosmetics contaminated with mercury, a perilous chemical banned in cosmetics such as skin-lightening products. “Despite being flagged for fraudulent sales,…
No more child brides
The United Nations Fund reports that there are 650 million young women in the world who are forced into marriage; among them, 12 million are between the ages of 12 and 17. These early marriages have very serious consequences because…
EcoWaste Coalition: Toxic Lead Lurks in China-Made Spray Paints
10 June 2023, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has discovered two more imported spray paints with very high levels of lead, a hazardous chemical linked to a widespread injury to human health, including damage to the brain…
The “unique” interpretation of dreams
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…
Enforce the Phase-out Deadline on Mercury-containing Dental Amalgam in the Philippines
Environmental watchdog group BAN Toxics calls the attention of the regulators to enforce the phase-out deadline on the use of mercury in dental restorative procedures with the 3-year transitory period (ending in May 2023) in the country. This effectively bans…
France’s Global Warming Predicament
When one of the world’s most developed culturally elite countries, France, tosses in the towel on the IPCC 2°C barrier, it sends a loud and clear message that the global warming fight is losing the battle. Seriously, France expects 4°C.…
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