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Antibiotic Free Pork Has More Parasites and Dangerous Bacteria

Consumers in recent years have become concerned about overuse of antibiotics in animals raised for food. It appears that eating antibiotic free animals may be even worse for you than the antibiotic treated animals-at least when it comes to pork.
Comparing swine grown without antibiotics and conventional swine production  showed that pigs raised outdoors without antibiotics [...]

New Anti-Malarial Medicine Treats Toxoplasmosis

A new Anti-Malarial drug that will be entering clinical trials for treating malaria also appears to be 10 times more effective than current medical treatments for toxoplasmosis, a disease caused by a related parasite that infects nearly one-third of all humans—more than two billion people worldwide.
A  team of researchers from the University of Chicago have shown that [...]