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1. Join the SOURCES Affiliate Program (March 28, 2010)
   Benefit yourself and benefit your clients, associates, customers, members, readers, and visitors to your website by introducing them to SOURCES' powerful publicity and marketing tools.
2. Sources Calendar (October 29, 2009)
   Listings of events of interest to journalists, editors, researchers, publishers and others working in the media and in publishing, covering Canadian and international events, press conferences, meetings, festivals and holidays, as well as award deadlines.
3. Sources News Releases (October 29, 2009)
   News releases from organizations and companies on a wide range of topics. Includes an extensive topic index, an archive of releases going back to the 1970s, and links to experts and organizations knowledgeable about the issues covered in the releases. Available via RSS feed as well as on the Sources.com website.
4. 5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis (September 23, 2009)
   Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you won't hear it in the corporate media.
5. The misbegotten “war against cancer” (September 21, 2009)
   
6. Meet the Real Death Panels (September 18, 2009)
   Harvard-based researchers found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
7. South Africa: Redouble Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality (September 10, 2009)
   Maternal health has been under the spotlight in South Africa after an analysis of maternal deaths was released in July showing an increase in the country’s maternal mortality rate. Researchers found that nearly four out of every 10 deaths (38.4 percent) were avoidable. They identified non-attendance and delayed attendance as common problems, together with poor transport facilities, lack of health care facilities and lack of appropriately trained staff.
8. Health Care Around the World (August 31, 2009)
   Overview of the various ways health services are provided around the world, as well as accompanying issues and challenges. Topics include health as a human right, universal health care, and primary health care.
9. Israeli Doctors Collude in Torture (June 30, 2009)
   Israeli human rights groups charge that Israel’s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture.
10. Helping you reach the media (May 14, 2009)
    Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
11. Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D. before the HELP Subcommittee (April 23, 2009)
    A single-payer reform would make care affordable through vast savings on bureaucracy and profits. As my colleagues and I have shown in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, administration consumes 31 percent of health spending in the United States, nearly double what Canada spends. In other words, if we cut our bureaucratic costs to Canadian levels, we'd save nearly $400 billion annually - more than enough to cover the uninsured and to eliminate co-payments and deductibles for all Americans.
12. Ottawa wanted U.S. to accept more lenient meat inspection regime (March 31, 2009)
    The Canadian government strongly opposed tougher U.S. rules to prevent listeria and lobbied the United States to accept Canada's more lenient standards.
13. Noise Busters (March 1, 2009)
    Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves.
14. Sources media training (2009)
    Media training to ensure that you are ready to handle media interviews. Topics include Message making, Staying newsworthy, Safe spokesperson techniques, Preparation and relaxation techniques, Media ethics and expectations. Simulations of all media venues including talk shows, double enders, stand-up interviews and scrums, print columnists, videographers, and editorial boards.
15. Sources News Release Archive 2009 (2009)
    News releases from 2009.
16. Sources Select Authors (2009)
    Authors available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
    
17. Sources Select Speakers (2009)
    Speakers available to take media calls about their area of expertise, and available for speaking engagements.
18. Sources Select Universities, Colleges, and Institutes (2009)
    Academic experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
19. Wikipedia's article about Sources - local version (2009)
    
20. Sources Archived News Releases 1977 - 2008 (December 31, 2008)
    News releases from 2008 and before.
21. Sources News Release Archive 2008 (2008)
    News releases from 2008.
22. Sources News Release Archive early 2008 (2008)
    
23. Sources Archived News Releases 2007 (December 31, 2007)
    
24. Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague (2007)
    Environmental noise pollution, a form of air pollution, is a threat to health and well-being. It is more severe and widespread than ever before, and it will continue to increase in magnitude and severity because of population growth, urbanization, and the associated growth in the use of increasingly powerful, varied, and highly mobile sources of noise. It will also continue to grow because of sustained growth in highway, rail, and air traffic, which remain major sources of environmental noise. The potential health effects of noise pollution are numerous, pervasive, persistent, and medically and socially significant.
25. Sources Archived News Releases 2006 (December 31, 2006)
    
26. First Aid (2006)
    A practical manual presenting the specific knowledge, skills and practices that First Aiders should have to act safely and effectively when caring for people caught up in armed conflicts and other situations of violence, such as internal disturbances and tensions.
27. Sources Archived News Releases 2005 (December 31, 2005)
    
28. Disaster and Mental Health (2005)
    The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults.
29. Sources Archived News Releases 2004 (December 31, 2004)
    
30. The Truth About the Drug Companies (2004)
    The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500 ($35.9 billion) were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together ($33.7 billion) [in 2002]. Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way.
31. Sources Archived News Releases 2003 (December 31, 2003)
    
32. Sources Archived News Releases 1979 - 2002 (December 31, 2002)
    
33. Abandoning the Public Interest (October 7, 2000)
    The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
34. MUZAK: Music to Whose Ears? (December 14, 1998)
    For many people background music, or ‘muzak" as it is commonly known, is both irritating and frustrating. For the UK’s 8.7 million deaf and hard of hearing people background muzak often causes pain, discomfort and unnecessary distress.
35. Ten Health Care Myths (September 17, 1995)
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
36. 10 Health Care Myths - Chinese Text (September 17, 1995)
    
37. Adverse Health Effects of Noise (1995)
    The effects of noise are widespread and impose long-term consequences on health.
38. Community Noise (1995)
    Critically reviews the adverse effects of community noise, including interference with communication, noise-induced hearing loss, annoyance responses, and effects on sleep, the cardiovascular and psychophysiological systems, performance, productivity, and social behaviour.
39. Sources Archived News Releases - Pre 1979 (December 31, 1979)