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European Medicines Agency releases second report on EU herbal Directive

The European herbal medicines law that requires registration with pharmaceutical trimmings is still new but it already appears unworkable. ANH says: "The THMPD is a broken law that needs fixing. We think we can do it, but we need your help!" A call for action: - Write to your member of the European Parliament to let them know you aren't pleased and - Contribute towards ANH's Read more...

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Record Numbers of Pregnant Women Are Refusing The Flu Shot

Getting a flu shot during pregnancy provides unanticipated risks to the baby. Specifically, one study showed that the H1N1 vaccination during the H1N1 pandemic was associated with thousands of cases of miscarriages and stillbirths which the CDC failed to inform vaccine providers. Current data from a 3-year reporting base is confirming previous reports that the majority of pregnant women are refusing influenza and other related vaccines that may jeopardize Read more...

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European Health Claims and Commission Regulations wipe out a century of nutrition & health research as "spam"

The Health Claims Regulation is the preposterous "firewall" erected by the European legislature, the Commission and EFSA between the consumer and that vast and historic body of knowledge to which generations of dedicated, conscientious and hard-working scientists and non-scientists made countless minor and major contributions. All the information not presented in the Commission's 222 claims is now lost forever. As far as EU's authorities are concerned, it will enter Read more...

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Food health claims - USA: Court affirms scientific free speech for healthy pomegranate juice

In a 335-page ruling handed down today, an Administrative Law Judge with oversight of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has upheld the right of pomegranate juice manufacturer POM Wonderful to tell consumers about the health benefits of its juice. Since 1996, POM has invested over $35 million to do scientific research on their pomegranate products at 44 top universities and scientific centers around the globe. Over 70 of Read more...

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Scanadu is building the medical tricorder - straight out of Star Trek

Scanadu is building the Tricorder, a medical technology straight from the world of Star Trek. Scanadu has assembled top scientists, engineers, and biohackers at their lab in the NASA Ames Research Park, located in Silicon Valley, California. Our vision is to put Tricorders into the hands of millions of people all around the world, enabling the individual to be a stakeholder in health, and bringing about a citizen-driven Read more...

Source: Hivskeptic.wordpress

Spinning Truvada « Unlimited insanity: Truvada to prevent HIV

Truvada is an HIV drug, an anti-retroviral medication. "As my previous post discussed, the data submitted as showing tenofovir successful in preventing “HIV transmission” don’t actually support the claim; and years of experience of using Truvada to treat “HIV infection” have shown that it is toxic, particularly to the kidneys." "Those unpleasant facts are hidden in plain view by adept techniques of spin. For example, statistically non-significant results are Read more...

Source: Xenophilius.wordpress

Is aging a disease?

It’s clear that the simple fact of growing older — chronological aging — is relentless and unstoppable. But experts studying the science of aging say it’s time for a fresh look at the biological process — one which recognizes it as a condition that can be manipulated, treated and delayed. Taking this new approach would turn the search for drugs to fight age-related diseases on its head, they Read more...

Source: Xenophilius.wordpress

Why omega-3 oils help at the cellular level

Scott LaFee – For the first time, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have peered inside a living mouse cell and mapped the processes that power the celebrated health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. More profoundly, they say their findings suggest it may be possible to manipulate these processes to short-circuit inflammation before it begins, or at least help to resolve inflammation before it becomes detrimental. The Read more...

Source: Xenophilius.wordpress

Drugs from lizard saliva reduce the cravings for food

In a study with rats published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Assistant Professor Karolina Skibicka and her colleagues show that exendin-4 effectively reduces the cravings for food. “This is both unknown and quite unexpected effect,” comments an enthusiastic Karolina Skibicka: ” Our decision to eat is linked to the same mechanisms in the brain which control addictive behaviours. We have shown that exendin-4 affects the reward and Read more...

Source: Orthomolecular

Cancer cures: 'Gerson Therapy' - a dirty word?

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service Censorship, Sports and the Power of One Word At the World Snooker Championships, one of the finalists, Peter Ebdon, who had qualified for the Snooker Championship finals an amazing 21 times in a row, was asked to remove a logo from his tee shirt. Peter Ebdon had raised a firestorm by wearing a logo that said, "Gerson Therapy." Interestingly, few of the photographs Read more...

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Medical Liars Lying About Medicine

The FDA knows that huge numbers of studies on drug safety were faked. Faked studies are a crime. It’s called fraud. And when the fraud leads to the deaths of people taking the drug, that’s a lot worse than fraud. "In this case, the FDA knows the studies are faked, BUT THEY DON’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. THEY LET IT RIDE. That makes them an accomplice to the Read more...

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UK: Back Door Attack on Homeopathy: Speak Out Now, Or Lose Your Freedom | Gaia Health

Access to homeopathic medicines outside the NHS in the UK is on the verge of being severely curtailed by new and entirely unwarranted regulation. No case has been made that the medicines have been harmful and need to be regulated. They have been unregulated for the last century with no ill effects. Nonetheless, UK regulations severely impacting everyone’s right to utilize homeopathic medicines will be implemented within the Read more...

Source: Psychcentral

» Sugar Can Make You Stupid - omega 3 fatty acids help minimize the damage

A new study out of the University of California-Los Angeles shows that a high-fructose diet sabotages learning and memory in rats. The study, published in the Journal of Physiology, also shows how omega-3 fatty acids can counteract that sabotage. “Our findings illustrate that what you eat affects how you think,” said Dr. Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Read more...

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Transform Medical Research and the United States Health Care System

In this article, John Thomas Shaw, the author of “The RX Factor,” a fact-based thriller that pits one man against Big Pharma and the FDA, proposes a solution to the business orientation of US medicine/pharmaceutical manufacturing. It is an interesting proposal that contributes to the ongoing discussion of how to overcome the obvious drawbacks of a public health system that makes illness itself profitable. In an economic sense, Read more...

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'Label jars, not people': Lobbying against the shrinks - New Scientist

James Davies meets protesters who claim the American Psychiatric Association is over-diagnosing and turning the pain of everyday life into mental illness... "LABEL jars, not people" and "stop medicalising the normal symptoms of life" read placards, as hundreds of protesters - including former patients, academics and doctors - gathered to lobby the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) annual meeting. The demonstration aimed to highlight the harm the protesters Read more...

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Researchers find evidence of disturbed immune system in autism | Machines Like Us

A University of Kansas Medical Center study found significantly lower levels of several cytokines, the immune system’s messengers and regulators, in the plasma of children with autism disorder (AD) compared to that of unrelated healthy siblings from other families who had members with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The study was published in the April 2012 International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience. In particular, of the 29 cytokine levels analyzed, the Read more...

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Quackbusters, Skeptics and the Web of Trust
Categories: Food for Thought
Society
The Media

What are 'quackbusters', you might ask.
Well, Tim Bolen has the answer to that question. On his site (quackpotwatch.org) he explains:
The "quackbuster" operation is a conspiracy. It is a propaganda enterprise, one part crackpot, two parts evil. It's sole purpose is to discredit, and suppress, in an "anything goes" attack mode, what is wrongfully named "Alternative Medicine." It has declared war on reality. The conspirators are acting in the interests of, and are being paid, directly and indirectly, by the "conventional" medical-industrial complex.
These so-called quackbusters seem to be a branch of a larger movement, the "skeptics". Their website at www.skeptic.com/ shows who they are. Skeptics think of themselves as having opinions based on scientific 'truth'. They are very outspoken and very much "out there" to disabuse the rest of us of any idea that does not fit into their version of the scientific world view.
While real scientific procedure requires there to be observation and experiment, formation and testing of hypotheses, and open discussion of both experiment and theories, the skeptics have firmly made up their mind on a number of issues. And they don't hesitate to tell us where we are going wrong...
Mercury and fluoride for instance are not poisons for skeptics, and anyone who thinks they are must clearly be a conspiracy nut.
Vaccination is good for you, as are chemotherapy and radiation cancer treatments offered by conventional medicine. If you oppose either of them you are simply a 'quack' or at the least you are an easy target for those who take advantage of your stupidity.
The practices of alternative medicine, including "chiropractic, the placebo effect, homeopathy, acupuncture, and the questionable benefits of organic food, detoxification, and ‘natural’ remedies" are a favorite subject of the skeptics. They know that only mainstream medicine should be relied on and everyone who is into those practices really needs to have their head examined.
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Thursday April 12 2012

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The Bio-Chemical Matrix - The Myths of Matrix Science
Categories: Food for Thought
Pharma
Society

by Jon Rappoport
www.nomorefakenews.com

The medical system kills 225,000 people a year.
(Starfield, JAMA, July 26, 2000, "Is US health really the best in the world?")

"In principle, gene therapy is a medical miracle waiting to happen ... after 17 years of trying, scientists are still struggling to make gene therapy work. Complications include rejection of DNA carriers ... [and] new genes end up where they shouldn't, or behave unpredictably."
("Gene Therapy: Is Death and Acceptable Risk?", Wired, Brandon Keim, August 30, 2007)

MARCH 28, 2012 - In discussing Matrix Science, I'm reminded of Philip Dick's sensational novel, Lies, Inc. It proposes an invention that can teleport humans light-years to a planet where a better way of life exists. The author then spends the rest of the book deconstructing this utopian legend and revealing the truth and the titanic power-grab that sit behind it.

Then there is HG Well's 1933 classic novel, The Shape of Things to Come, in which a world exhausted by war and economic collapse turns to a Global State as the only possible solution, after all other solutions have historically failed. This new ruling authority is based on Science. All religions are crushed. Education is designed to teach every child how to become a genius/global citizen. Eventually, the State withers away and is of course replaced by a spontaneous Utopia.

Science/technology: the final all-encompassing answer.

A significant aspect of Matrix propaganda revolves around myths about how human behavior can be transformed. Transformed through advances in biology and chemistry.

Populations are being trained to expect these momentous changes. A major selling point: no effort is required. Just ingest this tablet. Accept this new gene. All will be done for you by experts. Technocrats will design the future so you will fit into it happily.

The technocratic wing of Globalism has clout. It promises management of the planet through science, and who can argue with science? Central Planning will ensure proper benefits for all.

My late friend and colleague, hypnotherapist Jack True, once told me in an interview:
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Friday March 30 2012

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The world needs public trial of political leaders for war crimes and genocide
Categories: War Crimes

This is a guest post from Arun Shrivastava, New Delhi, India.
The world needs public trial of political leaders for war crimes and genocide
Copyright: Arun Shrivastava
Yes, public trial for treason, war crimes, and the genocide going on right now.
This is part of a very long essay on Depleted Uranium weapons, nuclear reactors and their environmental health impacts. In this article the long term consequences of radiation contamination from unilateral aggression of the US and NATO countries on South and West Asia are discussed. The Afpak (Afghanistan/Pakistan) region is being bombed daily and the cold blooded murder of nine kids out of the seventeen killed recently is just a small blip when billions are done in.
The toilet paper Amerikan $50,000 per Afghan murdered is a bloody joke. The world can pay ten times more to the survivors of each hanged western leader.
Depleted Uranium or DU [1] encased bombs have been used since 1991 by US and NATO forces knowing full well that the use of DU weapons is illegal being weapons of mass destruction [WMD] and amounts to War Crimes. These weapons were used in Gulf War 1 against Iraq, then in the Balkans and later, after 9/11 events, in Afghanistan, Iraq, North Africa, Libya and are now being used in Drone bombings in Pakistan.
“When 20 years ago I stated at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro that a species was in danger of extinction, I had fewer reasons than today for warning about a danger that I was seeing perhaps 100 years away.” Fidel Castro Ruz - March 21, 2012 Continue reading "The world needs public trial of political leaders for war crimes and genocide"

posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Tuesday March 27 2012
updated on Friday March 30 2012

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Pharmageddon
Categories: Pharma

This is an article by Vera Hassner Sharav of the
ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP)
A Catalyst for Debate about Medicine and Ethics

By way of introduction, Sharav cites a recent item in the New York Times about warnings the FDA is now requiring on statin drugs...
New York Times news item, Business Section, February 29, 2012: Safety Alerts Cite Cholesterol Drugs’ Side Effects by Gardiner Harris
“Federal health officials [ ] added new safety alerts to the prescribing information for statins, the cholesterol-reducing medications that are among the most widely prescribed drugs in the world, citing rare risks of memory loss, diabetes and muscle pain.
It is the first time that the Food and Drug Administration has officially linked statin use with cognitive problems like forgetfulness and confusion, although some patients have reported such problems for years. Among the drugs affected are huge sellers like Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor and Vytorin.
But federal officials and some medical experts said the new alerts should not scare people away from statins. “The value of statins in preventing heart disease has been clearly established,” said Dr. Amy G. Egan, deputy director for safety in the F.D.A.’s division of metabolism and endocrinology products. “Their benefit is indisputable, but they need to be taken with care and knowledge of their side effects.”
Diabetes patients and even those who develop diabetes while taking statins should continue taking the medicines, said Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic who has studied the medicines extensively.
“These are not major issues, and they really do not alter the decision-making process with regard to statins,” Dr. Nissen said. Last year, nearly 21 million patients in the United States were prescribed statins.”
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Friday March 2 2012

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Infoholix on CAM - Complementary and Alternative Therapies
Categories: Health

A recent blog post on the Infoholix site, Euro notes with mint sauce Part 5, lights up the world of alternative medicine with some little known facts.
Definitely worth reading...
There is also a whole archive - actually a veritable treasure trove - of information on that site you might want to look into.
Find it here
http://infoholix.net/
"By definition an infoholic is someone who cannot obtain enough information.
The world of COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE is an infoholic's paradise.
For within this world there is to be discovered a stunning, treasure trove of diversity, yielding wonderous and life-changing opportunities.
Within the pages of this FREE DIRECTORY of COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE you will discover worldwide connections to many different forms of healing and enlightenment.
Each category is accompanied by an introduction to the therapy. The entries are colour coded, according to the world map.
You will find new therapies added to the list periodically in my timeless quest for knowledge."
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Thursday February 9 2012

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FDA purposely hid aspartame dangers: open letter to the European Food Safety Authority
Categories: Health

In June 2011, the European Food Safety Authority has called for submission of relevant scientific data on the safety on aspartame, a contested sweetener made of two amino acids and methanol.
Campaigners have pointed out that the Authority (EFSA) is missing important but damning details in its review. The FDA's approval of the substance, says Betty Martini "was a political decision, taken over the objection of the FDA's own scientific panel. Studies used to obtain approval were sanitized, to hide damaging effects the sweetener had on laboratory animals and eventually, Donald Rumsfeld was brought in to push through the approval."
Now, new data has come to light confirming that early studies showed serious problems and that the FDA knew about the dangers the studies found. In an open letter to the European Food Safety Agency, which is reproduced in the second part of this article, Betty Martini points to those studies, which recently emerged, only as a result of citizens making and pushing through FOI act information requests for the documents.
Here is Betty Martini's open letter to EFSA ...
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Friday February 3 2012

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Does smoking tobacco fulfill a nutritional need?
Categories: Health

As counter-intuitive as this question might seem, nicotine is actually a nutrient source. It is one form in which we can obtain a vital nutrient: vitamin B3, also called niacin or nicotinic acid.
I have never seen this angle to smoking discussed in a clear form until I came across, through some friends on facebook, a very informative but kind of hidden away write-up by a parent who refused to just accept as fact what "everybody knows" - that kids start to smoke because of tobacco company propaganda.
Ironically, the article was languishing in a place called the CyberCemetery, an archive of government websites that have ceased operation (usually websites of defunct government agencies and commissions that have issued a final report).
The source URL is at govinfo.library.unt.edu/tobacco/
Here is the text...
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Wednesday January 25 2012

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