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Key cannabis compounds may help in the battle against one of the deadliest diseases

Talk about a new joint effort in cancer care.

A promising treatment approach for one of the most dangerous cancers has been identified by a team of researchers in Thailand exploring the effects of key cannabis compounds.

The research team looked at the two most well-known compounds in weed plants — THC and CBD — and discovered that both produced significant anti-cancer activity when tested on ovarian cancer cells.

Each slowed cell growth, formed fewer and smaller clusters and prevented them from spreading.

The results were most notable when CBD and THC were used as a combined treatment, proving highly effective at killing a large number of cancerous cells.

While more research is needed, a medication derived from marijuana could be developed to treat ovarian cancer, the 5th deadliest female cancer in the US, affecting more than 20,000 women each year.

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AGENT ORANGE: The “Safe & Effective” Herbicide That’s Giving Veterans Prostate Cancer, Lymphoma, Diabetes, And Much More

My father is a Vietnam Veteran—a real combat veteran unlike the stolen valor Senator from Connecticut, “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, who lied about his service on multiple occasions.

My father got drafted into the U.S. Army on April 9th, 1966; he didn’t have a choice.

He completed basic training at Fort Benning in Georgia, before getting sent to Vietnam, where he served in the 2nd Armored Division “Hell on Wheels” for a year. After returning stateside to Fort Hood in Texas, he got sent straight to Detroit as part of the Army’s Civil Disturbance Plan known as Operation Garden Plot. There’s no rest for the wicked, as the saying goes.

When my father landed in Vietnam, he was assigned to man the “open burn pits” in which the military burned absolutely everything: old equipment, chemicals, unexploded ordnance, medical waste, human waste soaked in diesel, plastics, rubber, paint, solvents, and massive amounts of Agent Orange–contaminated material.

Nearly all (90 percent) of Veterans on burn pit duty cited concerns about their exposure.

Yet as of May 2025, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has still not specifically researched whether there is any association between Veterans’ health effects and exposure to open-air burning in Vietnam.

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Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers

For the hundreds of communities who’ve been saddled with data centers in recent years, the bulky fixtures are sources of unbearable noise, soaring energy prices, and plenty of electrical fires.

Add another grim possibility to that list: debilitating rare cancers.

Reporting on the “data center boom” in the state of Oregon, Rolling Stone tells the story of Jim Doherty, a cattle rancher and former county commissioner of Morrow, in eastern Oregon.

Doherty’s story began when he noticed a rise in bizarre medical conditions among the county’s 45,000 residents, linked to toxins in the local water. Working with the county health office, the rancher-turned-official began a survey of 70 wells throughout his jurisdiction — 68 of which, his testing found, violated the federal limit for nitrates in drinking water.

Of the first 30 homes he visited, Doherty told RS that 25 residents had recently had miscarriages, while six had lost a kidney. “One man about 60 years old had his voice box taken out because of a cancer that only smokers get, but that guy hadn’t smoked a day of his life,” he told the publication.

But the spike in cancer-causing pollution wasn’t just the fault of local farms, as Doherty expected. It had its roots in a 10,000 square foot data center by the commerce giant Amazon, which first went online in Morrow County in 2011.

Basically, the allegations go like this: industrial megafarms operating in the area are responsible for churning out millions of gallons of wastewater, laden with nitrates from fertilizers. All that waste has to go somewhere, which is one way of saying it mostly ends up in the ground.

Amazon’s hulking data center, thirsty for water to cool its blazing hot computer chips, supercharged this process, adding millions of gallons of wastewater a year to the heavy volume of farm runoff, which Morrow County was already struggling to keep up with. Soon even the deepest reaches of the local aquifer were tainted, according to RS, as huge volumes of data center and agricultural wastewater saturated the water table.

This meant that the data center itself began taking on the toxic sludge as it drew on groundwater to cool its electronics. When it did, evaporation only further concentrated the wastewater, which occasionally contained nitrate levels eight times higher than Oregon’s safe limit. The super concentrated data center water then made its way back into the waste system, where it ostensibly piled up all over again.

In response to the allegations, Amazon spokesperson Lisa Levandowski said that “our data centers draw water from the same supply as other community members; nitrates are not an additive we use in any of our processes, and the volume of water our facilities use and return represents only a very small fraction of the overall water system — not enough to have any meaningful impact on water quality.”

Morrow County residents, however, beg to differ.

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More High Blood Pressure Drugs Recalled Due to Potential Carcinogens, FDA Says

The Food and Drug Administration confirmed in several notices that a recall of a type of high blood pressure medication has been expanded due to the presence of a potentially carcinogenic substance.

In three noticesissued this week, the FDA confirmed that 7,198 cartons of prazosin hydrochloride are being recalled nationwide by Ohio-based Amerisource Health Services and classified the recall as Class II.

N-nitroso prazosin, a nitrosamine found in the medication, is above the FDA’s acceptable limits, according to the FDA. Nitrosamines are a type of organic compound that is a potential human carcinogen that can form in food or other substances.

A Class II recall is considered by the FDA to be a serious but less severe product safety recall for a product that may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or if there is a remote chance of a serious adverse health consequence associated with the item.

Latest Drugs Under Recall

The three items are:

  • Prazosin Hydrochloride capsules USP in 1-milligram doses in 100-capsule (10×10) cartons, which are distributed by American Health Packaging. It has a Carton NDC of 68084-996-01, and it has individual unit doses of NDC 68084-996-11.
  • Prazosin Hydrochloride capsules USP in 2-milligram doses in 100-capsule (10×10) cartons, which are distributed by American Health Packaging. It has a Carton NDC of 68084-997-01, and it has individual unit doses of NDC 68084-997-11.
  • Prazosin Hydrochloride capsules USP in 5-milligram doses in 20-capsule (5×4) cartons, which are distributed by American Health Packaging. It has a Carton NDC of 60687-572-32, and it has individual unit doses of NDC 60687-572-33.

The FDA did not include any other information about the recalled items, including whether people should continue taking them. In numerous previous recalls for products that contain elevated nitrosamine levels, the FDA has generally advised people to continue taking the prescription medication.

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Cancer-Causing Drug Banned in Most Countries Still Allowed in U.S. Pork

Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with new cases rising steadily each year. That reality makes it all the more alarming when carcinogens are knowingly allowed to enter the food supply.

In the U.S., one example involves a feed additive used in pig farming that experts have already determined is unsafe at any level of exposure.

The concern is not limited to pork on your plate. Farm workers handling animal feed are directly exposed, and surrounding communities face contamination as waste from large-scale operations seeps into waterways.

When a compound carries risks for consumers, workers and the environment alike, the failure to act quickly carries consequences far beyond the farm.

Many countries have already responded by banning the additive outright, while American regulators have delayed meaningful action for decades. That leaves U.S. consumers vulnerable to a hazard others deemed unacceptable long ago.

This gap between science and policy has sparked closer investigation. Researchers and advocacy groups have examined how the additive persists in the food system and why regulators have been unwilling — or unable — to remove it. Their findings reveal how ongoing delays keep you at risk.

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Why cancer is hitting the Midwest harder than anywhere else in America

While the rest of the country’s cancer rates are falling, those in Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana and Kansas — known as the Corn Belt — are rising at an alarming rate, data shows.

The spike in America’s corn-producing states caught the attention of the University of Iowa’s Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, which gathered a panel to investigate the trend. 

One of the experts, Dr. Marian Neuhouser, a professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, served on the panel as an expert in nutrition and obesity.

“The panel came about after they noticed that the trends for cancer incidence were increasing at a faster rate in Iowa than in other states,” Neuhouser told Fox News Digital.

A data analysis by The Washington Post based on federal health datasets found that the number of people diagnosed with cancer in the six Corn Belt states has outpaced the national average since the mid-2010s. 

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Blood Pressure Medication Recalled Due to Possible Carcinogens

More than 580,000 bottles of blood pressure medication are being recalled across the United States due to possible carcinogenic substances, according to a notice from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The recall involves three separate lots of prazosin hydrochloride, a type of alpha-blocking medication, that were distributed by New Jersey-based Teva Pharmaceuticals, because a test result for N-nitroso Prazosin impurity C found that the substance’s levels are above the “acceptable intake limit” under a type of test for carcinogens.

The recall encompasses three dosages for prazosin hydrochloride capsules, according to the notice. They include 181,659 bottles of 1-milligram doses of the drug, 291,512 bottles of 2-milligram doses, and 107,673 bottles of 5-milligram doses.

It means that the medication contained higher than acceptable levels of nitrosamines, which are carcinogenic compounds that can increase the risk of cancer when taken at high doses over long periods.

The FDA classified the recall on Oct. 24 as Class II, which the agency says is a scenario where a product, drug, or food “may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences” or it includes “an outcome where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”

The medication bottles were distributed nationwide, it said. The recall, which was initiated voluntarily by Teva Pharmaceuticals, started on Oct. 7.

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The 15 Most Devastating Truths About the PSA Screening Disaster

The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test has screened 30 million American men annually for over three decades. The man who discovered PSA in 1970, Richard Ablin, now calls mass screening “a public health disaster.” Two landmark 2012 studies found no survival benefit from radical surgery compared to watchful waiting. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concluded PSA screening does more harm than good. Yet the $3 billion annual industry continues largely unabated.

These revelations emerge from three insider accounts: Ablin’s The Great Prostate Hoax, urologist Anthony Horan’s The Rise and Fall of the Prostate Cancer Scam, and oncologist Mark Scholz’s Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers. Together they document how a test meant to monitor existing cancer patients became a screening juggernaut that has left millions of men incontinent, impotent, or dead from unnecessary treatment.

The numbers are staggering. Since 1987, when PSA screening exploded nationwide, over one million American men have undergone radical prostatectomies. Studies show 40 to 50 men must be diagnosed and treated to prevent one death from prostate cancer. The other 39 to 49 men receive no benefit but face permanent side effects. Medicare and the Veterans Administration fund most of this treatment, pouring billions into a system that prominent urologists privately acknowledge has failed.

What follows are the most damaging truths about how PSA screening became entrenched despite overwhelming evidence of harm, why it persists against scientific consensus, and what this reveals about American medicine’s inability to abandon lucrative practices even when they damage patients.

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Study: Cannabidiol Alters Gene Expression Linked to Immune Response and Cell Death in Leukemia Cells

The study focused on K-562S cells, an imatinib-sensitive leukemia line, which were treated with CBD at an IC50 concentration of 17.69 μM for four and twelve hours. RNA sequencing revealed over 3,400 differentially expressed genes at both time points. Notably, CBD influenced oxidative stress pathways regulated by metallothionein genes (MT1, MT2, SLC30A2) and activated p53-dependent apoptotic markers such as TP53TG3, BBC3, CHAC1, DDIT4, NOXA1, and DAPK2.

Beyond apoptosis, CBD exposure was linked to altered immune signaling, including type I interferon activity, PI3K-Akt-mTOR regulation, and Toll-like receptor signaling—all central to leukemia progression. The compound also appeared to impact lipid metabolism and mitochondrial stability, underscoring its broad influence on cancer-related cellular processes.

The authors conclude that CBD induces sweeping transcriptional and signaling changes that could have therapeutic implications for blood cancers. While additional preclinical and clinical studies are needed, the research lays groundwork for exploring CBD as a potential precision therapy in hematological malignancies.

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Devastating COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effect Confirmed by New Data: Study

In one of the greatest violations of medical ethics in modern history, a new study from South Korea has uncovered devastating consequences from promoting and mandating the COVID-19 injections on the population.

These shots were pushed on babies and pregnant women, directly contradicting the ethical rule against introducing new medical interventions to such vulnerable groups before long-term effects are fully understood.

But they weren’t just aggressively promoted; they were enforced. Refusing the COVID-19 injection could cost you your job, bar you from concerts, businesses, and museums, and, in some cases, even deny you a life-saving surgery unless you complied with the mandate.

Now, as many doctors long warned, the consequences of such reckless health policy are surfacing, and one of the most alarming outcomes is a dramatic rise in cancer risk.

A large-scale population study out of South Korea has now found a 27% overall increase in cancer linked to the COVID-19 injections that were marketed as “safe and effective.”

Dr. John Campbell noted: “There’s a one in a thousand chance that this result arose by chance.” He illustrated the overall cancer rise with a stark graph, as seen in the short video below:

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