Every day, I come across a number of interesting news items and stories related to the topics of this site but I cannot report on them all. This is a new kind of post that brings you the links to stories I find interesting, grabbing them as I go. Some of them are only links, others come with a short comment...
US: House Poised to Vote on Government Take-over of Health Care
For those of you living in the US: check out what the National Health Federation has to say about the coming expansion of the health care or rather disease care system and its projected effects on freedom of choice. The reform bill is to be voted on in the House of Representatives on Saturday 7 November. You might want to call your representatives to give them a piece of your mind...
Don’t enclose our broccoli! (No Patents on Seeds and Animals campaign)
“The continuing patenting of seeds, conventional plant varieties and animal species leads to far-reaching expropriations of farmers and breeders: farmers are deprived of their rights to save their seeds, and breeders are under strong limitations to use the patented seeds freely for further breeding. The patent holder controlls the sale of the seeds and the planting, decides about the use of herbicides and can even collect royalties at the harvest – up to the finished food product.
Our food security is increasingly dependent on a few transnational chemical and biotechnological companies.”
Why This Doctor Questions Flu Vaccination
2009 may be the year of the vaccine show-down, the moment when enough of us start questioning all we're being told about vaccines. A survey published in the BMJ in August reported that less than half of healthcare workers in Hong Kong were willing to accept "pre-pandemic" flu vaccination. And that was before a letter from the Health Protection Agency to 600 United Kingdom neurologists on July 29th warning them to be on the alert for an increase in cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome following the vaccination campaign.
If nurses and doctors start questioning vaccination for themselves, sooner or later we'll have to advise patients to make their own minds up. They seem to be doing so anyway. A poll by Fox News
Eating, drinking and lifestyle changes can boost immunity to ward off seasonal flu
"It's really pretty simple," says Connie Diekman, RD, director of University Nutrition and immediate past president of the American Dietetic Association. "There are three key things to think about. Number one is hydration. Number two is foods and Number three is lifestyle issues."
The topic of this book is of pivotal significance. The pharmaceutical companies and top scientists rake in enormous sums of money by attacking germs and the media boosts its audience ratings and circulations with sensationalized reporting (the coverage of the New York Times and Der Spiegel are specifically analyzed). Individuals pay the highest price of all, without getting what they deserve and need most to maintain health: enlightenment about the real causes and true necessities for prevention and cure of their illnesses. “The first step is to give up the illusion that the primary purpose of modern medical research is to improve people’s health most effectively and efficiently,” advises John Abramson of Harvard Medical School. “The primary purpose of commercially-funded clinical research is to maximize financial return on investment, not health.”
The foreword to this book was written by Etienne De Harven, Professor Emeritus of Pathology at the University of Toronto and Member of the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York (1956 - 1981). You can find it here in PDF format.
CODEX MEETING IN GERMANY BEGINS AMID DISPUTES OVER NUTRIENT REFERENCE VALUES FOR CONSUMERS AROUND THE WORLD
The regular session of CCNFSDU [the Codex Nutrition Committee] begins on Monday morning, November 2nd; however, the Physical Working Group on the Development of NRVs [Nutrient Reference Values] Associated with Increased or Decreased Risk of Non-Communicable Diseases (an offspring of CCNSFDU) held its one-day session on Saturday, October 31st, with the NHF’s president Scott Tips in attendance.
“The purpose of this Working Group was to develop in advance of the general meeting some of the principles, concepts, and wording to be used in the creation of Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs) affecting non-communicable diseases. The meeting got off to an ironic start when the U.S. delegate Barbara Schneeman proposed adding into NRV language wording that would make sure the NRVs did not exceed an acceptable ‘Upper Limit.’ Twice, the European Commission delegate, Basil Mathioudakis, correctly questioned the need for this. In turn, I also spoke out three times emphatically against the appropriateness of such language, supporting the EC’s challenge and also telling the Group that it was mystifying that the USA could even take this position given that it is contrary to US law.”
This is an extremely important brochure that has been composed and sponsored by the Competence Initiative, an alliance of scientists and medical doctors who are concerned with electromagnetic pollution of our environment. The negative impact of cellphone technology on insects and birds is posing an extremely grave risk on the environmental health of the planet. Human beings are not immune. Several mechanisms of damage are known in Medicine. Cellphone technology was never safety tested and now both animals and humans around the world are paying the consequences of this criminal neglect sponsored by the World Health Organization and the ICNIRP (the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection).
This one is a long read at over 40 pages, but it is the best compilation of the science regarding radiation damage to insects, birds and mammals I have yet seen. Explains the problem in layman's terms but also provides all the scientific references for who wants to delve deeper into the rabbit hole.
FDA Hid Research Damning to Aspartame
The sweetener is still widely used as a low-calorie alternative to sugar, recommended for diabetics and anyone who wants to lose weight. Although many consumers are aware of the dangers of this sweetener, we believe the FDA should come clean and admit what happened. It should revoke the approval for aspartame and issue an international communication detailing its adverse health effects. The sweetener should no longer be used for human consumption, although perhaps, with appropriate warning, it could be sold as an effective ant poison...
The new alchemy: Mixing doctors and journalists to spin gold
A recent example of inflated claims the media made for one drug, based on a study reported in The Lancet, illustrates the problem. The glowing reports reflect not only media vulnerabilities, but also the way the hidden hand of industry exploits those vulnerabilities, through prepublication news releases that amplify optimistic claims made by researchers in scientific journals, while minimizing or ignoring risks and failing to report scientific dissent and financial conflicts of interest.
Hospital-acquired Infections Linked to nearly 100,000 Deaths Annually
Thanks to concerned citizens, such as former Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey of New York, whose Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths was established in 2004, attention has been drawn to the fact that there are 2 million cases of hospital-acquired infections each year, resulting in 100,000 deaths and an additional $33 billion in healthcare costs (www.hospitalinfection.org).
Video:Why I Left Mainstream Medicine - From A Nurse
I'm a nurse who is no longer willing to practice modern medicine due to what I've learned about the medical field. These are quotes from an interview I did on why I refuse to continue practicing. The actual interview is much more thorough than this. You may read it at my blog: Red Pill Reich
Is there a link between antidepressants and violence?
In 2006, David Crespi, a former banking executive with no criminal record or history of violence, killed his twin five-year-old daughters, stabbing them multiple times with a kitchen knife. He then called the police and sat with his daughters, blood all over him, until they arrived. Crespi, who was living with his wife and family in Charlotte, North Carolina (they have three other children), pled guilty to avoid the death penalty and is now serving a life sentence for the murders.
What wasn't mentioned at the time is the fact that Crespi was taking Prozac when he killed his daughters, along with the sleeping pill Ambien. He was taking the drugs (and had previously taken Zoloft and Paxil) because he couldn't sleep and was very anxious about losing his job with Wachovia Bank. Crespi became agitated and delusional on Prozac, according to his wife, Kim. Seven days after starting the drug, he killed their twin daughters, Tess and Samantha.
Swine flu Vaccine - I think I'll .... nope not for me ....
At this point in time though, I am in mourning over the missed opportunity we had to yet once again, teach our fellow human beings how to stay healthy. We've been extolled to wash our hands, get the vaccine. It goes much deeper than that. We should be sending flyers to homes about eating healthy, getting out in the fresh air, exercising .... No, instead we are opting for the "quick fix solution" - which really isn't a fix at all.
Rebecca Campbell files federal lawsuit over WHO flu scam in Seattle
This is a suit filed at the US District Court of Washington State in Seattle against Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of DHSS, Thomas Frieden, Director of the CDEC and Francis Collins, Director of the NIH as well as Margaret Ann Hamburg, Commissioner of the FDA.
The suit charges that a level 6 pandemic has been declared without proper cause, in the face of a very mild flu outbreak, that mass vaccinations are planned and can be enforced by US law, that vaccine maker Baxter has produced vaccine material contaminated with live virus, that vaccines contain toxic preservatives and adjuvants, and that martial law might be declared to enforce vaccination.
There is a demand for an injunction, and "that any officials of the federal government be thereby forbidden, now or in the future, to commit perjury concerning the alleged benefits or efficacy of any suspiciously derived/designed mandatory or voluntary vaccination". It also asks that a grand jury investigation be ordered "to prevent any possible injury to the American people by means of any aforementioned possible federally mandated martial law, with enforced vaccinations/ quarantines/ detentions, that a RICO (racketeering) investigation be conducted; and that an investigation by the US Attorney be ordered of several named officials, so as "to prevent any planned enforced bioweaponized vaccinations".
Video:USA: Swine Flu Government Data Scam
"If you've been diagnoses with probable or presumed 2009 H1N1 or swine flu in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: The odds are you didn't have H1N1 flu and probably didn't have flu at all. That's according to state by state test results obtained in our 3 months long CBS investigation..."
Amid all the disastrous swine flu news, here is a different point of view to consider:
"I would like to point out that S. and myself published on the effective technology of Washing hands about 3 years back. We also predicted the failure of all the "approved" technologies.
Now! I have good news. The Flu epidemic is OVER folks. It will be a memory before the vaccinations get a chance to work. Within the next 3 weeks the epidemic will be reduced to a mere 15% fraction of its current level. It has already spiked over and is rapidly dropping off. You can get the facts by Google (Key Words: Flu, Map). Once the spike drops it is over folks. The Vaccine wagon has sailed into ineffective status.
The other good news is that despite the fairly high rates of infection mortality has been trivial. Deaths from the Flu have not reached even marginally the levels normal for "seasonal flu." We may still get the "seasonal flu" this winter but I suspect not. Track the deaths for yourself if you want but normally the flu kills between 35,000 and 65,000 a year in the USA. We are no where near on trend for 5,000 dead yet and the epidemic is dropping off."
This quote is from a friend in the US... don't take it as gospel, but start watching for news that would confirm or deny this development.
Swine Flu Update – Epidemic hysteria revisited (PDF)
If someone told you that 98 to 99% of people diagnosed with swine flu actually did not have it, you would probably say they were misguided or had simply lost their senses. However, that is what a 3 month CBS investigation found, just published three days ago, on October 21, 2009. Furthermore, in 86 to 93% of these “probable” or “presumed” swine flu cases, regular seasonal influenza did not cause the symptoms, either. The vast majority of people diagnosed with the swine flu today most likely have a viral syndrome similar to the common cold.
Unfortunately, good news about the swine flu is a topic that people do not want to hear about. That is why it does nothing to generate ratings, sell newspapers, or sell vaccines, and, therefore, is widely ignored. It is also unfortunate that the fear and anxiety created by this campaign undermines people’s health, probably having a greater impact on public health than the swine flu, itself. When subjected to chronic stress and anxiety, it is hard for people to get through routine illnesses, and makes it more likely that a routine illness will turn into a severe illness.
Bird flu, influenza and 1918: The case for mutant avian tuberculosis
Traditionally, ‘‘flu’’ does not kill. Experts, including Peter Palese of the Mount School of Medicine in Manhattan, remind us that even in 1992, millions in China already had antibodies to H5N1, meaning that they had contracted it and that their immune system had little trouble fending it off.
Dr. Andrew Noymer and Michel Garenne, UC Berkely demographers, reported in 2000 convincing statistics showing that undetected tuberculosis may have been the real killer in the 1918 flu epidemic.
Video:WHO 'spins' pandemic: Does vaccine actually spread the flu?
WHO states it wants to 'spin' the influenza pandemic to maintain political interest so that governments will want to invest in vaccine production and stockpile vaccines.:
19 October 2007
WHO HQ, Geneva, Switzerland - A major risk factor is the underlying assumption that there will in fact be a pandemic. If there is not a pandemic within the next five years, there may be loss of interest and political awareness, and other public health needs may shift investment away from pandemic influenza. Therefore, it is critical to identify the best possible strategy to maintain political commitment.
"The main priorities for WHO for the year 2008 should be to choose the appropriate spin to be placed on the business plan in association with the right marketing strategy. WHO also needs to establish a detailed operational plan and to define financial resources i.e. donors, countries, and other stakeholders."
German doctors refuse to be bullied by authorities into giving "swine flu" jab
Fredrich Hoffmann, the head of Germany's national vaccine commission, has told doctors that they should give the untested "swine flu" jab to their patients no matter what their opinion about it might be, but German doctors are refusing to bow down and be bullied.
Dr Jürgen Seefeldt, a specialist in internal medicine from Paderborn, sent an open letter to the Dr Susanne Stöcker, an official from the German drug regulator, the Paul Ehrlich Institute, pointing out the reason why her statement in the media that the "swine flu" jab was not risky was an "infamous lie".
Seefeldt systematically lists the dangers of squalene and mercury citing relevant scientific literature. He also notes that these toxic ingredients are not necessary for making a vaccine.
"For this reason, Swissmedic has not yet authorised the administration of Pandemrix to pregnant women, children under the age of 18 and adults over 60," the regulator said in a statement.
Pandemrix was one of two vaccines approved by European Medicines Agency (EMEA) in September.
More than half of Chinese 'don't want swine flu shot'
But only 30 percent of those polled by the China Daily said they definitely would like to receive the shot. About 15 percent said they would make a decision based on what other people did.
It has long been known, for example, that mercury may bioaccumulate in the brain if not eliminated from the body, and that mercury is toxic to young, developing brains even at minute levels of exposure. It also has been acknowledged that dietary zinc is an essential mineral for maintaining the metabolic processes required to remove mercury from the body.
Less recognized, however, is evidence that diets including high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and other food additives may also lead to deficiencies in zinc and other trace minerals in humans.
Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Renal Failure
Low levels of vitamin D may account for nearly 60 percent of the elevated risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in African Americans, according to a report in the December Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). "Our study adds to previous evidence linking vitamin D deficiency to the progression of kidney disease and the need for dialysis," comments Michal L. Melamed, MD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY). "It also explains a fair amount of the increased risk of ESRD in African Americans."
EU - Poland: Food supplements industry attempts to tackle "borderline" products problem
The Polish Council for Supplements and Nutritional Foods (KRSiO) on 23 October submitted a legislative proposal that amends several provisions of the Food and Nutrition Safety Act regarding the classification of products as medicines vs. food supplements. The move is a last-ditch attempt by the industry to avoid potentially damaging effects of what it says is a flawed transposition of an EU directive specifying which food supplements may be sold in Europe, due to take effect on 1 January 2010.
Putin’s Proposed Reform Worries Drug Producers
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has promised to ban pharmaceutical makers from sending representatives to doctors’ offices, a practice they spend up to 50 percent of their revenue on and one of the last open channels for companies to promote prescription drugs.
“We should get rid of these so-called pharmaceuticals representatives working in medical institutions,” Putin said Oct. 9 at a meeting on the development of the drugs industry. In the past 10 years, Russia has seen the rise of “a clearly abnormal type of interaction” between medicine producers, particularly foreign companies, and parts of the medical community, he said.
It is impermissible to have “pharmaceutical holdings paying specialists to prescribe patients substances produced by these companies,” Putin said.
Patients, having adopted guidelines of their health care provider and internalized his images, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.
Patients suffer from duality; the conflict lies in choice between…following prescriptions or having choices; between being spectators or actors.
Journal of Participatory Medicine Launches at Connected Health
Patient engagement and patient empowerment are popular topics, with hundreds of thousands of Google hits, but there’s precious little information on how to do them well. A new academic journal being launched this week, the Journal of Participatory Medicine, aims to change that.
Participatory Medicine is a new approach that encourages and expects active patient involvement in all aspects of care. It builds on the work documented at the e-patients.net blog, whose slogan is “Because health professionals can’t do it alone.” The group’s landmark 2007 paper “E-Patients: How They Can Help Us Heal Healthcare” tells many stories of engaged, empowered e-patients who substantially improved their own outcome and the outcomes of others by supplementing or even going beyond what their physicians alone could do.
When a cell phone tower connects with a cell phone, electromagnetic radiation is created. When the cell phone is held against the ear, this radiation penetrates the brain.
Health study links mobile phone use to four kinds of cancer
The research, which has taken 10 years and cost £20million, found that heavy mobile users suffered up to 50 per cent more tumours. Scientists now say there is a "significantly increased risk" of people developing three different kinds of brain tumour and one of the salivary gland.
Alasdair Philips, of campaign group Powerwatch, said: "Mobile companies hide the figures on how much radiation they give off in the back of manuals.
"But modern phones give out 217 electromagnetic pulses every minute into your head. Primary school children should not have them, secondary school children should be encouraged to text rather than call, and males should not keep them in a pocket because they drastically affect fertility."
This should read 217 electromagnetic pulses per second, because that is the frequency with which "packets" of data are sent, which are then decoded at the receiving end. So we not only have microwaves at a frequency of one or more gigahertz (billions of cycles per second) but a very low frequency component as the on-off frequency of sending packets of information. Apparently it is the low frequency component of cell phone radiation that can interfere with biological processes, making mobile phone technology a great but still not exactly quantified health risk.
Do Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA?
… Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and “frisk” people at distance.
Alexandrov and co have created a model to investigate how THz fields interact with double-stranded DNA and what they’ve found is remarkable. They say that although the forces generated are tiny, resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication.
AstraZeneca Pays $520M To Settle Seroquel Probes
This was predictable. After Lilly and, more recently, Pfizer settled long-running investigations into off-label marketing practices of their various drugs - notably, antipsychotics - it was expected that AstraZeneca would follow suit. And so AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $520 million to settle two federal investigations and two whistleblower lawsuits over its Seroquel antipsychotic.
What's wrong with this picture? To me, it seems like nothing changes. There is no "death penalty" for corporations, so as long as they can make more money from illegal activities than it costs them to settle, they will continue to do so, no matter the rethoric:
An AstraZeneca spokesman says the drugmaker “is committed to strong, effective compliance programs, both in the U.S. and globally, to embed a culture of ethics and integrity in all our business practices. It has been and remains a key goal.”
Psychiatric Drugs & Suicides in Sweden 2007 investigation by Janne Larsson
There is no reason to believe that the reporting system for adverse drug events work
better in other countries. The catastrophic state of these “surveillance systems”
makes it possible to keep destructive drugs on the market year after year. All it takes
is for pharmaceutical companies to show that many persons have been exposed to
these drugs, and that almost no adverse event reports have been submitted; the
drugs must be “safe and effective”.
This example from Sweden shows that in 338 cases persons committed suicide after
having been prescribed psychiatric drugs – and none of these cases were reported
to the registry for adverse drug events. Instead of Eli Lilly claiming that the drug
Zyprexa was involved in 0 cases of suicide in Sweden 2007, the fact was that the
drug was involved in 52 cases in this subgroup of 338 persons. Instead of Wyeth
claiming the same for Effexor, the fact was that the drug was involved in 41 cases in
this group.
USA: Amgen Pharmaceuticals Sued By 15 States Over Kickbacks
The companies encouraged health care providers to bill third-party payers such as Medicaid for free Aranesp in hopes of taking business away from Johnson & Johnson’s Procrit. Amgen also conspired with INN and ASD Healthcare to provide sham consultant agreements, weekend retreats and other services to get them to purchase and prescribe Aranesp.
“Drugs should be prescribed to patients on the basis of need, effectiveness, and safety, not on a corporate giant’s promise of an all-expense paid vacation. In an egregious violation of the law, Amgen allegedly bribed medical providers and left taxpayers footing the bill for free drug samples,” Cuomo says in a statement.
The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex: A Deadly Fairy Tale
When we speak of the pharmaceutical industry complex, it does not refer solely to private drug manufacturers. The complex, like a Matrix that holds captive the health of the nation in medical slavery by its own design and manipulation, is a consortium, a spiders’ web woven with financial attachments throughout the medical profession. In addition to the pharmaceutical and medical device firms, this complex includes every government health agency...
If any one of us committed manslaughter, we would be behind bars instead of walking a crimson carpet into the offices of our elected officials in the Congress and Senate or past the gates guarded by the nation’s Cerberus, Rahm Emmanuel, to lobby the White House. Yet if we are a pharmaceutical executive, or a lobbyist representing a drug company who has collected a litany of charges including medical fraud, criminal salesmanship, gaming the insurance industries, repeated lying to federal officials, and manipulation of data regarding life-threatening adverse effects of drugs that have killed so many people, we can walk away with a fine, a surge in the stock market after a settlement, a financial bonus, and the personal satisfaction in not having to apologize so we can continue business as usual.
US: House Health Care Bill Contains MOTHERS Act
Minus the original bill's prologue about depression in new moms, much of the Act's provisions are in the House bill, but with slightly softened language. Postpartum depression screening is no longer, in essence, mandatory but is now something that "may" be included in a national education campaign for health professionals and the public. The bill also calls for research on the causes and treatments for PPD, studies of differences in PPD between different ethnicities, "[t]he development of improved screening and diagnostic techniques, Clinical research for the development and evaluation of new treatments."
So that ought to make Big Pharma and the Act's proponents happy.
Monsanto’s Toxic and Mutated World – Is Sugar Safe to Eat?
Of course, GMO sugar, like other GMO “foods,” doesn’t need to be labeled as such (because nobody in their right mind would buy it if it were). Half the refined sugar in the U.S. is from beets – and insiders say the industry has quickly converted to the GMO Frankenfood beets, estimating up to 95% of farmers are now using them. Beet sugar is often mixed with cane sugar, meaning that unless a product lists the ingredient as cane sugar or organic cane sugar then it now likely contains GMO mutant beet-derived sugar.
Video:Everything You HAVE TO KNOW About Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods
Jeffrey Smith talks about consumer power ... we are the ones who can get rid of GMOs in our foods. We just have to get the information out there and avoid the modified foods. "Healthy eating starts with no GMOs".
JUNK FOOD TURNS RATS INTO ADDICTS
To see how junk food affects the brain’s natural reward system — the network of nerve cells that release feel-good chemicals — Johnson started at the grocery store. He loaded up on typical Western fare, including Ho Hos, sausage, pound cake, bacon and cheesecake. Johnson fed rats either a standard diet of high-nutrient, low-calorie chow, or unlimited amounts of the palatable junk food. Rats that ate the junk food soon developed compulsive eating habits and became obese. “They’re taking in twice the amount of calories as the control rats,” says Johnson’s coauthor Paul Kenny.
Hold the MSG: Food Triggers for Epilepsy and Other Neurological Illnesses
Because of their activity--stimulating nerve cells to rapidly fire and burn out, ultimately resulting in nerve cell death, the food additives are considered to be "excitotoxins." While some naturally occur in the body, people who consume processed foods are exposed to a much greater amount than ever before since industrial food scientists regularly add them to processed foods to enhance the food's flavor. The most widely used food ingredients that have excitotoxic activity are monosodium glutamate, aspartame, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, and other additives that stimulate the taste buds and mask the flavor of many processed foods, Fresh, natural foods don't require this form of flavor enhancement. The artificial sweetener, aspartame, marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, and under several other brand names, is one of most widely consumed of the food additives with excitotoxic activity.
People for Safe Drinking Water
A collection of articles and references on the dangers of contaminants in drinking water - especially concerning fluoride, which is sometimes intentionally added to the water supply. Fluoride is not safe, either for humans or for animals. See also Fluoridated Water Kills Horses, Dogs
Video:Vitamin D and Cancer Prevention
In a new study, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center and Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UC San Diego used a complex computer prediction model to determine that intake of vitamin D3 and calcium would prevent 58,000 new cases of breast cancer and 49,000 new cases of colorectal cancer annually in the US and Canada. The researchers model also predicted that 75% of deaths from these cancers could be prevented with adequate intake of vitamin D3 and calcium. Dr. Cedric Garland, UCSD School of Medicine, lead researcher on the study discusses the implications of this finding and the proposed actions.
Curry spice 'kills cancer cells'
The chemical - curcumin - has long been thought to have healing powers and is already being tested as a treatment for arthritis and even dementia.
Now tests by a team at the Cork Cancer Research Centre show it can destroy gullet cancer cells in the lab.
An earlier article on this site talks about how and why curcumin and similar substances can turn cancer cells back into team players who feel they are part of the organism. SeeCancer: The ATP-Photon Hypothesis
Psychotropic drugs misused at nursing homes
Some Illinois nursing homes are misusing psychotropic drugs on residents, leading them to experience dangerous side effects and fatal falls, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
The newspaper said that it found 1,200 violations involving use of the drugs since 2001, affecting nearly 3,000 nursing home residents.
Gardasil Researcher Drops A Bombshell
Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15.
Dr. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the University of Missouri, made these remarks during an address at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination which took place in Reston, Virginia on Oct. 2-4.
FOURTH PERSON DIES IN SWEDEN FROM SWINE FLU JAB: NO END IN SIGHT
The news that a fourth person has died after taking the "swine flu" jab in Sweden is focussing attention on the failure of the Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) to halt the "swine flu" programme even as reports of serious side effects flood in.
The Swedish drug regulator has allowed the "swine flu" jab campaign to be launched even though there is no safety or efficacy data on the vaccine. GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix with mercury and squalene has been given approval under new and lax European Union regulations formulated by the European Medicines Agency, (EMEA) for a "pandemic emergency" that do not require safety or efficacy data.
The EMEA derives three-quarters of its funding from pharmaceutical companies.
The Plague, the Flu, and You
The media has everyone worrying about epidemics and pandemics. Yet there is nothing said about one of the great communicable diseases of all time: the plague. The Black Death.
Vitamin D might lessen your flu risk
Vitamin D deficiency is common in the winter as we receive it in large amounts from the sun and in smaller quantities from oily fish like mackerel, herring, sardines and foods like eggs and fortified milk.
Vitamin D is crucial in boosting the immune system and defending itself against invading organisms.
The unrecognised epidemic of vitamin D deficiency is a contributing factor of many chronic debilitating diseases as adequate vitamin D is required to support multiple organs in the body. Vitamin D deficiency affects the immune system's capacity to regulate itself.
Without Vaccine, Australia Shrugs Off Swine Flu
In light of Australia clearly showing the pussycat nature of H1N1, can somebody explain why America's media willfully ignores the news from Australia? However, despite the derelict media, I would think U.S. Health Generals would certainly be up on Flu news from Down Under, and certainly from Canada right next door.
Billions are spent each year on 'Cancer research' but effective methods of prevention and healing are just not being considered because they aren't a good source of pharmaceutical profit. Dr Max Gerson, the man who cured Albert Schweitzer, lost his life and almost saw his life's work destroyed because of this - his cancer cure actually worked and so it just had to be blocked.
Video (full length):The Beautiful Truth - Gerson's Cancer Therapy
Many poisons have been made illegal but ... there are still so many legal poisons used in both nutrition and "therapy", to make everyone sick. Fluoride, dental amalgams, monosodium glutamate, aspartame, vaccines, depleted uranium, genetically engineered foods, herbicides and pesticides and ... refined sugar - take your pick. The film will take you on an interesting trip and ... the beautiful truth is, that people around the world are saying NO to gm foods, they're saying no to irradiation, they're saying NO to food additives and they're saying YES to organic food, and beyond organic food they are saying YES to food that is local, that is appropriate scale, that is humane, that's biodiverse and that's socially just...
Europe - UK: Save our Herbs Campaign
The following is from Cropwatch, a group that lobbies for the preservation of natural aromas in perfumes and hygiene products.
"The purpose of this Cropwatch emergency mailing is primarily to ask all of you to seriously consider signing the Save Our Herbs petition at http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/support-herbal-medicine.html This organisation not only campaigns on behalf of the general public, but also represents a very significant proportion of medical herbalists of both Eastern and Western traditions, practising in the UK.
Time is very short - if you want to support this very worthy campaign ensuring the continued availability of safe Herbal Medicinal Products, the continued free use of a wide range of our safe endemic & imported Herbs by ordinary people according to our traditions, preventing the takeover of small Herbal Medicine Suppliers by pharmaceutical concerns, & opposition to Statutory Regulation of Herbalists, you will need to sign the petition by 31st October 2009. The Save Our Herbs campaign’s official website can be found at http://www.saveourherbs.org.uk/index.html and provides a wealth of background information to this potential crisis for Herbal Medicine."
Are Generic Biologics Impossible?
Democracy in Action is hosting a campaign for the inclusion of a workable path towards the approval of generic versions of biologics, into healthcare reform legislation. Apparently, biologics are more than 20 times as expensive as your normal run-of-the mill pharmaceutical drug...
GM crops no panacea for food security
Dr Hansen, who is associated with the Consumers Union (USA), a non-profit publisher of consumer reports, said: "There is a global agreement under the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTDI) and it basically answers the question what kind of agriculture will be most useful in feeding the poor of the world.
This four-year assessment, involving 400 scientists, concluded that 'business as usual is not acceptable.' They say the answer is not high technology such as genetic engineering or nano technology; rather the answer lies with small scale, ecologically rational agriculture that focuses on local food systems, reforms of trade laws and enabling policy environment and paying attention to gender issues."
USA: NAMI Got $23 Million From Pharma Companies
"... according to investigators in Mr. Grassley’s office and documents obtained by The New York Times, drug makers from 2006 to 2008 contributed nearly $23 million to the alliance, about three-quarters of its donations."
NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness in the US is a lobbying and pressure group that intervenes whenever legislation is considered that will affect the treatment of "mentally ill" people. One might be forgiven to think that they have the rights of the mentally ill at heart. It appears however that their allegiance is with those who manufacture psychiatric drugs rather than with the patients, since the vast majority of their funding come from those manufacturers.
New York State [susp]ends flu shot mandate
Gov. David Paterson attributed Thursday's decision to limited supplies of the H1N1 vaccinations, a number of doses far short of the federal government's expected delivery. The decision also tosses out mandated seasonal flu shots.
Video:A vaccine primer
Physicians and health professionals are now speaking out clearly of the risks and dangers of vaccination. We have tip toed around the American Medical model long enough.
Obama declares national emergency as US swine flu deaths hit 1,000
However, the White House said that declaring an emergency was a largely precautionary step aimed at allowing medical officials to bypass certain federal regulations in the event of a genuine disaster.
Video:CDC GUESSTIMATED H1N1 CASES
It really is not looking good for the CDC ... a massive percentage of test results were NOT the H1N1 swine flu. With a lot of cases it wasn't even the regular flu !
Does HIV mean certain death?
The HIV/Aids industry has long had the characteristics of a religion, but increasingly it is being revealed as a religion that has lost its way. Instead of fulfilling the legitimate purpose of inspiring charitable actions towards the millions in need, its most vocal representatives have become increasingly absorbed in denouncing ‘heresies’. It seems their purpose is not so much to cure, but to close down debate.
The results: At the end of the study, how many people who tested negative became positive, after repeated sexual intercourse with their HIV-positive partners?
The answer is – Zero. Zero people who tested negative became positive.
Yet we are seeing campaigns for "safe sex". Don't forget your condom, when practically there isn't any sexual transmission.
Video:Nobel Laureate Montagnier: HIV Can Be Cleared Naturally
Professor Luc Montagnier, 2009 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of HIV, reveals his views on the treatment of HIV and its relationship to nutrition and profit...
Experts want African aid funds channelled away from HIV
Top scientists are demanding a controversial overhaul of health spending in Africa, arguing that the billions of pounds targeted at HIV during the past 20 years have led to a neglect of other killer diseases and basic health problems such as diarrhoea.
Childhood diarrhoea kills an estimated 1.5 million children under five each year worldwide – at least half of them in Africa – although it is easily treatable with zinc tablets that cost little more than $2 each. Diarrhoea received less than 5% of worldwide research and treatment funding last year.
The real climate change catastrophe
By any measure, the supposed menace of global warming – and the political response to it – has become one of the overwhelmingly urgent issues of our time. If one accepts the thesis that the planet faces a threat unprecedented in history, the implications are mind-boggling. But equally mind-boggling now are the implications of the price we are being asked to pay by our politicians to meet that threat. More than ever, it is a matter of the highest priority that we should know whether or not the assumptions on which the politicians base their proposals are founded on properly sound science.
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