Gender & Health

In the last two years, at least two dozen leading nutrition scientists and experts have started working for large food companies, either as consultants or as members of health advisory boards. Most do not directly promote products, though Dr. Arthur Agatston, a practicing cardiologist and author of "The South Beach Diet," has a licensing deal with Kraft Foods to sell a line of South Beach foods, which are appearing on supermarket shelves this month. Read More

Under CAFTA American pharmaceutical giants would gain a five-year edge on the development of new drugs by low-cost competitors. Generic versions of name-brand drugs are the main weapon for battling the AIDS pandemic in the developing world. Read More

In 1990, McDonald's Corporation sued two members of London Greenpeacefor "libeling" the company. Why? They were handing out "What's WrongWith McDonald's? Everything They Don't Want You to Know" leaflets. Theleaflet exposed the corporation's disreputable business practices,including the exploitation of our children through advertising, itsanti-union agenda, and its promotion of an unhealthy diet.McDonald's Corporation hired expensive, high-powered lawyers to quashthe McLibel 2 in court. David Read More

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The food industry is working with politicians across the United States to rewrite laws in order to shield themselves from lawsuits based on obesity and related health problems. Read More

The war between the world's largest woodchip exporter, Gunns Limited, and the Australian conservation community has been raging for decades. But the company's recent efforts to silence Tasmanian activists through lawsuits could earn them millions and set a very dangerous precedent. ALSO: BlueLinx Buys Illegal Indonesian Timber Read More

Are World Bank-funded efforts to compensate for corporate emissions sustainable? Or will they affect poor communities disproportionately? Read More

Federal prosecutors yesterday charged W.R. Grace & Co. with exposing mine workers and residents in a small mountain community in Montana to deadly asbestos and covering up the danger. Read More

While the world's biggest CEOs and politicians gather in Davos, Switzerland to network and negotiate, activists and NGO-workers meet halfway around the world in Porto Alegre, Brazil to imagine other, more humanity-focused possibilities. Read More

The Kazipally industrial area - once good farm country - now accounts for more than one-third of India's pharmaceutical industry, meaning skyrocketing rates of cancer, heart disease and birth defects for its residents. Read More