Bolivia Challenges Patentability of Life Forms
Bolivia has challenged, during the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations of the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), the prevailing philosophy of the patentability of life forms.
Bolivia's capital city La Paz - by Sepp
The patenting of life forms has brought serious problems, especially for farmers (see the case of Monsanto against Schmeiser for violation of its patent on genetically modified canola seeds) and for the biological resources of whole countries who find that all of a sudden, their herbs and traditionally used seeds varieties may have been patented by a multinational corporation to exclusively exploit, leaving the country or culture of origin high and dry.
Oh and... by the way, google refuses to serve up that article about Schmeiser's battle with the giant. That's why I am taking care to link it from time to time. And that's also why I have passed to using Microsoft's Bing as a search engine. Wonder how much Monsanto paid google to de-emphasize critical articles in search results...
GM Cotton: Monsanto admits their technology doesn’t work!
Monsanto has decided to tell the truth about something: its technology doesn't work!, reports The Hindu. I'm going to need a second cup of chai to digest this, Monsanto speaking honest!? Indian farmers and scientist have been seeing this in their Bt cotton fields for a few years: pests become resistant to Monsanto's genetically engineered toxins and thus farmers apply huge amounts of pesticides. Monsanto has always denied this, has the recent massive rejection of its Bt brinjal in India woken up its senses?
For years Monsanto has been shouting that the main - read only - benefit of Bt cotton in India (the only genetically engineered crop planted here) was the reduction in pesticide use. Well, it seems they have just admitted this is not true. Pink bollworm, a serious pest for cotton farmers in India, is now resistant to the toxin in Bt cotton. Meaning that this bug is now sort of a super-pest that farmers will have to work harder and harder to avoid.
What is Monsanto's solution to this? Maybe you have guessed it: use Monsanto's next weapon – same technology - Bt cotton 2.0. With double the amount of toxins (and almost double the price of non-Bt seeds).
High Fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Liver Scarring
“We found that increased consumption of high fructose corn syrup was associated with scarring in the liver, or fibrosis, among patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD),” said Manal Abdelmalek, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology at Duke University Medical Center.
“Our findings suggest that we may need to go back to healthier diets that are more holistic,” Abdelmalek said. “High fructose corn syrup, which is predominately in soft-drinks and processed foods, may not be as benign as we previously thought.”
The consumption of fructose has increased exponentially since the early 1970s, and with this rise, an increase in obesity and complications of obesity have been observed, Abdelmalek said.
“There is an increasing amount of data that suggests high fructose corn syrup is fueling the fire of the obesity epidemic, but until now no one has ever suggested that it contributes to liver disease and/or liver injury.”
Check those food and drink labels for HFCS or high fructose corn syrup...
Eli Lilly, desperate to sell bovine growth hormone, makes up scientific endorsements
At a Montreal animal science meeting in July 2009, Eli Lilly’s Elanco division sponsored a press release masquerading as a scientific paper that concluded — surprise, surprise — that bovine growth hormone is perfectly safe for cows and humans. Tucked into page two of the eleven-page Q&A document is a claim that “more than 20 leading health organizations in the United States” have endorsed the safety of the synthetic hormone, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Cancer Society and the American Medical Association.
The fact that none of these three groups have ever come close to singing the praises of bovine growth hormone — known variously as rBST or rBGH — went unnoticed until last month...
MSG Causes Rapid Brain Cell Death
Both Glutamate and Aspartame can cause neurons to become extremely excited and, if given in large enough doses can cause these cells to degenerate and die.
Within 15-30 minutes after exposure to high doses of MSG, the neurons suspended in tissue culture are seen to swell up like balloons. You can see the degeneration of the small structures within the cell under the microscope, called organelles. You will also see clumping of the chromatin of the nucleus. Within 3 hours these neurons are not only dead, but the body’s defense mechanisms begin to haul away the debris.
Studies show MSG fed Mice became Grossly Obese
Obsessed with the microscopic changes in the brains of the mice he overlooked something quite dramatic first noticed by his assistant. She pointed out to him that all of the mice were grossly obese. At first he thought it was just a fluke, but as the experiment progressed he noticed that indeed all the mice fed MSG became grossly obese.
USA: Extreme obesity affecting more children at younger ages
Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 710,949 children and teens that appears online in the Journal of Pediatrics.
Could this be a consequence of overconsumption of the corn syrup (see link above) in sweet drinks? Or is it the MSG in chips and other kinds of snacks...
Doctors should get Nutrition training
The issue of malnutrition has been a long-running concern in the NHS. Up to one in four patients may be at risk, research shows. But the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (Bapen) campaign group has warned that doctors working both in hospitals and as GPs often miss the signs.
Now if they would start training doctors not only to "recognize the signs of malnutrition" but how to use nutrients for preventive and active treatment for disease, we might actually get somewhere.
It appears that it would be hard to overestimate the importance of vitamin D for maintaining our bodies in good health.
FDA Warns About Zocor And Muscle Damage
The agency says there’s a potential for increased risk of muscle injury from the 80 mg dose of Zocor, or simvastatin, as the generic is known. In issuing its warning, the FDA notes muscle injury, or myopathy, is a known side effect with all statins, but this new concern highlights “the greater risk of developing muscle injury, including rhabdomyolysis” while on the highest dose. Rhabdomyolysis is the most serious form of myopathy and can lead to severe kidney damage, kidney failure, and sometimes death.
Why are people still taking these drugs? Statins have horrible side effects, if the comments on this earlier article are any indication.
Flu shots are worse than useless Ten Year Flu Vaccine Study Shows Increased Risk for Hospitalization
The results of this study showed that children whose flu was severe enough to require hospitalization were three times more likely to have been given a seasonal flu shot. Children with asthma were at even higher risk for complications.
Synergistic Effects of Mercury with Other Toxic Metals
Mercury and lead are extremely neurotoxic and cytotoxic, but their combined synergistic effect is much worse. A dose of mercury sufficient to kill 1% of tested rats, when combined with a dose of lead sufficient to kill less than 1% of rats, resulted in killing 100 % of rats tested...
Like alluminium and mercury both in the same vaccine?
The Phoenicians: Autism Recovery Denial, Drug Profits and the Media’s Flat Earth
As the original manufacturer of the mercury-based vaccine preservative thimerosal and the force behind Dick Armey’s addition of the “Lilly Rider” to the Homeland Security bill barring lawsuits against vaccine makers, Eli Lilly and Company is not exactly neutral on the issue of environmental causation for autism. Though the drug maker doesn’t currently manufacture vaccines, it maintains public lock step with vaccine manufacturers in terms of defending the “perfect safety” of vaccines and the “genetic” nature of autism.
Miscarriage after Thimerosal-containing Flu Shots
In its pursuit of banning all use of mercury in medicine, unless proven safe by appropriate toxicity studies, CoMeD filed declarations from pregnant women harmed by thimerosal-containing influenza shots in US District court.
Half a year after a request for a preliminary injunction, which has not yet been granted, to stop the administration of mercury-preserved flu shots to pregnant women, CoMeD members now seek to establish that damage they predicted to unborn children sadly has occurred. The declarations filed detail fetal deaths, miscarriages, stillbirths and premature births following the administration of flu shots containing thimerosal.
Yes! to Organic Medicine
The functions of a living organism that do not lend themselves to a reductionist description - those representing the organism's integrative activities and its interactions with the environment - are precisely the functions that are crucial for the organism's health. Because Western medicine has adopted the reductionist approach of modern biology, adhering to the Cartesian division and neglecting to treat the patient as a whole person, physicians now find themselves unable to understand, or to cure, many of today's major illnesses. There is a growing awareness among them that many of the problems our medical system faces stem from the reductionist model of the human organism on which it is based.
More recently, Mae-Wan Ho concluded that “decades of sequencing and dissecting the human genome in the hope of identifying genes for diseases have only served to confirm that the real causes of ill health are environmental and social”. Further, “It is not the genetic messages encoded in genomic DNA, but environmentally induced epigenetic modifications that overwhelmingly determine people's health and well-being. Early nutrition and parental care play a large role in an individual's physical and mental health and due attention must be paid to those aspects in delivering primary healthcare”.
I completely agree with Ho that “A new ‘organic medicine' could combine the best in non-invasive, non-destructive approaches from both traditional medical systems and contemporary science that would also revitalize indigenous medicines in all cultures and provide affordable healthcare for all. This project is all the more urgent in view of the increase in disease burden forecast for times of climate change.”
It is essential, for the benefit of humanity, that doctors from the two systems must intercommunicate with respect and with the same aim i.e. to heal the patients, not to get rid of the disease, such as those attempts in cancer treatment. Another urgent matter is that many medicinal plants in the world are being lost by the lack of knowledge in their usefulness, and therefore no conservation is attempted.
It is now clear that the time has come for appropriate sciences to join forces for the survival of our species...
U.S. Healthcare Reform Threatens Alternative Medicine
Because alternative medicine is highly effective in treating many of the chronic conditions which resist treatment by establishment medicine -from arthritis, heart disease, and chronic pain to insomnia and attention-deficit disorders - nearly 50 percent of Americans regularly use some type of alternative therapy, according to a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association. In fact, the study found that visits to alternative practitioners, for treatments ranging from acupuncture and chiropractic to herbal remedies, outnumber all visits to primary care physicians by almost two to one. Additionally, more than 100 million Americans "regularly consume dietary supplements as a means of improving and maintaining healthy lifestyles," according to a U.S. Senator who has worked on related legislation.
Nonetheless, "alternative therapies (including acupuncture, chelation therapy, biofeedback and holistic medicine) are not covered by Medicare," says the federal government. The same is true of Medicaid.
In the end, the essential point is not what the WHO recommends or whether acupuncture will be effective in relieving your chronic pain. The point is that every American deserves the right to make their own healthcare choices with their own healthcare dollars...
Codex Alimentarius: Health Alliance debates Food and Agriculture Organization
Dr Robert Verkerk, executive director of the Alliance for Natural Health, an international non-governmental organization, followed Dr Boutrif, questioning the independence of much of the science relied upon by Codex technical committees, providing evidence for the distortion of the process by large vested interests. Dr Verkerk also claimed that Codex’s work on genetically modified foods was inadequate to ensure consumer or environmental protection and that the basis for claiming that GM crops could alleviate hunger and poverty in developing countries was lacking. He advocated that agro-ecological models of agriculture that focused on the self-sufficiency of such agricultural communities—and not biotechnology—would be central to any resolution of the problems.
This is not doctor's advice, as you will plainly see when you start reading. Cal is just a normal guy with a bent for ferreting out biochemical connections and finding the important information hidden in scientific studies that the pharma-controlled cancer industry has no desire to make known. Since Cal is not an expert, you must make up your own mind ...
Sodium Bicarbonate Appears To Slow Progression Of Chronic Kidney Disease
A daily dose of sodium bicarbonate - baking soda, already used for baking, cleaning, acid indigestion, sunburn, and more - slows the decline of kidney function in some patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, reports a study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. "This cheap and simple strategy also improves patients' nutritional status, and has the potential of translating into significant economic, quality of life, and clinical outcome benefits," comments Magdi Yaqoob, MD of the Royal London Hospital.
Studies find treating vitamin D deficiency significantly reduces heart disease risk
Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute last fall demonstrated the link between vitamin D deficiency and increased risk for coronary artery disease. These new studies show that treating vitamin D deficiency with supplements may help to prevent or reduce a person's risk for cardiovascular disease and a host of other chronic conditions. They also establish what level of vitamin D further enhances that risk reduction.
Factors Predicting Mortality in the Elderly in the Community
Comments my friend in Australia:
Some studies make me chuckle.... "The findings regarding low vitamin C intake in men and low serum pyridoxine levels in women should be regarded with caution...."
What do they mean by caution? In case people suddenly start squeezing lemons and taking vitamin B6?
.... the reason women get anemia so much is cos they get told to take iron which poisons in the long run, when B6 deficiency is the main cause of anemia. If you are B6 deficient you get proteinuria.... The 2 deficiencies also allow too much iron to build up in the brain which causes dementia.... and vitamin C of course stops cancer and heart disease.... this study is soooo long ago and soooo simple
Welcome Our Microbial Overlords
Can the bacteria in our bodies control our behavior in the same way a puppetmaster pulls the strings of a marionette? I tremble to report that this wonderfully creepy possibility may be true.
The human body is, to some extent, just a luxury cruise liner for microbes...
Is High Cholesterol The Cause of Heart Disease? An Interview with Dr Uffe Ravnskov "I have never thought that it [the cholesterol theory of aterosclerosis] was true. I heard about it for the first time in 1962 shortly after having got my MD. My biochemical knowledge was still intact at that time and I knew that cholesterol was one of the most important molecules in our body, indispensable for the building of our cells and for producing stress and sex hormones as well as vitamin D. The idea that cholesterol in the blood should kill us if its concentration is a little higher than normal, as they wrote in the Framingham paper, seemed to me just as silly as to claim that yellow fingers cause lung cancer."
The Benefits of High Cholesterol
People with high cholesterol live the longest. This statement seems so incredible that it takes a long time to clear one´s brainwashed mind to fully understand its importance. Yet the fact that people with high cholesterol live the longest emerges clearly from many scientific papers...
Mercury: How To Get This Lethal Poison Out Of Your Body
Unfortunately, toxic mercury problems are common. Along with polar bears, beluga whales, ducks, otters, panthers, and all river fish as well as most large ocean fish, we humans are poisoning ourselves with mercury at ever increasing rates.
There's no doubt about it, mercury is the most alarming, disease-causing source of environmental toxicity that I see daily in my practice. Many of patients have toxic levels of mercury -- and they're not alone. I personally suffered from mercury toxicity and chronic fatigue syndrome...
Breaking the Monsanto seed monopoly - Eight Steps the US Department of Justice Could Take to Reform Farming
In a world in which food security is as much of an issue as nutrition, the establishment of a level playing field on the farm is vital to the health of our food system. And while the lack of federal oversight and regulation of trade practices on the farm has enhanced Monsanto's profitability drivng shareholder value, its costs are being externalized not only onto our nation's farmers but also onto the 300 million American eaters.
Review of Video: Food, Inc. this is by my friend Sterling Allan ofPESN - Pure Energy Systems News
A major step toward solving a problem is identifying the problem; and this film identifies several whoppers. Though the level of corruption and monopolization of the food processing industry is depressing, the film doesn't leave you feeling helpless. It presents a remedy: vote with your purchases, buy organic, and buy healthy. The power that companies like Monsanto wield to patent and control seeds is blatantly corrupt and must be stopped. Also exposed are the conflicts of interest within the government regulatory bodies tasked with protecting the food supply.
The Astonishing Court Case of Becky McClain
A former Pfizer scientist, Becky McClain, says she was fired from her job in the vaccines and genetic engineering division after she was inadvertently infected and subsequently debilitated by a genetically engineered lentivirus used in vaccine research. According to the article, the alleged infection left McClain with an "acute intermittent paralysis" described in the article as "a condition that causes complete paralysis as many as 12 times a month."
Links Between WebMD and Eli Lilly
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is investigating financial ties between Lilly and WebMD Health Corp because of a WebMD TV ad exhorting people to undergo a Lilly depression screening.
Lilly is not the only pharma company receiving unmarked product placement on WebMD.
Last summer, a video featured a woman patient confessing she was fearful of life while a voice over said she needed treatment for "general anxiety disorder" and the camera showed bottles of Forest Pharmaceuticals' antidepressant Lexapro moving down the manufacturer's assembly line. Get it? No disclaimer on the video or "sponsored content" appeared.
Another unsponsored WebMD video last summer urged people on antidepressants to remain on their therapy "despite side effects" and a third suggested women concerned about cancer, heart attack and stroke risks of postmenopausal hormone therapy should continue their treatment at lowered doses. Hang in there, valued customers.
And many troops are taking more than one kind, mixing several pills in daily “cocktails” — for example, an antidepressant with an antipsychotic to prevent nightmares, plus an anti-epileptic to reduce headaches — despite minimal clinical research testing such combinations.
The drugs come with serious side effects...
Gardasil: Will FDA 'eat crow' over this vaccine?
March 12th 2010 saw six very special women from around the world, present documents and research about the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix to the FDA by request. Never before have the FDA turned to members of the public regarding vaccine safety but in an extraordinary move this is exactly what happened. Dubbed the ‘Little Women’ by the FDA the group presented evidence that will shock the world and could have the FDA eating their words.
The reports that were presented, detailed worldwide data, proving that women and young girls have suffered severe adverse reactions, including death, after being vaccinated with the HPV vaccines.
Detailed charts were shown to the FDA clearly outlining evidence of girls from around the world showing very similar adverse reactions after having these vaccines. Only a few of these adverse reactions have ever been listed by either manufacturer on their leaflets.
MMR doctor proved right in week he was condemned as 'dishonest'
In the week that the doctor at the centre of the controversy over the MMR vaccine and autism was called “dishonest, irresponsible and callous” by a medical disciplinary board, a new study has been published that suggests he could be right all along. Researchers in New York have discovered that children with autism spectrum disorder also had inflammation in the ileum, part of the small intestine – the exact same discovery made by Dr Andrew Wakefield...
The new study, from the New York University School of Medicine, discovered that 143 children with autism spectrum disorder also suffered from chronic gastrointestinal symptoms, and inflammation in the small intestine.
1949 Noticing that polio strikes most in the summer, when children increase their intake of sugar, Dr. Sandler warns NC residents to cut down on sugar and dairy products in. Polio cases dramatically decrease to 249.
1950 The 1948 findings of Dr. Sandler in North Carolina are denigrated in the public media, which claim that Sandlers findings are a “myth.”
1950 Rockefeller Milk Trust and Coca Cola force return to previous levels of sugar and dairy product consumption. Polio levels rise to pre-1949 level....
"An amazing event took place last month that was banned from mainstream media but which was well represented on the internet, especially at youtube.com
In a very prestigious convention in southern California, Bill Gates rose to the occasion with a PowerPoint presentation that sounded like an out-take from V For Vendetta. You can see it yourself by searching youtube with the phrase Bill Gates Vaccines. Then watch the clip that comes up. Don't be deterred by seeing the extreme titles that various sites have given the talk-- just watch it yourself, very carefully. Then watch it 2 more times to make sure you got it. No kidding, just do it, and then call me and convince me that Gates didn't just say unequivocally and with no ambiguity that one of the main reasons he just invested $10 billion in global vaccines is that they are one of the 3 chief instruments that will reduce global warming by doing away with 1.5 billion people. I know, I know. Just watch it and tell me I'm wrong.
The CDC and NIH are stirring the cauldron yet again: Black Box-labeled drugs are being dispensed to healthy gay men and heterosexual women – as long as they’re African-American. What’s a Black Box drug? One that has caused permanent or fatal injury in patients at normal prescribed doses. Why would a healthy person take such a drug?
ANH challenges EU strategy on cancer
The Alliance for Natural Health is working with the office of Greek MEP Mr Theodoris Skylakakis, who has himself expressed concern over society’s approach to cancer, and particularly the lack of emphasis of prevention and the use of nutrition.
"to adopt policies to support the principles embodied in the World Health Organization's Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health launched in 2004".
and calls on the Commission
"to ensure that Community legislation contains incentives for researchers and industry to develop nutritional and other natural product-based approaches to cancer prevention validated through nutrigenomic and epigenetic research".
Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims
The risk of children suffering from flu can be halved if they take vitamin D, doctors in Japan have found. The finding has implications for flu epidemics since vitamin D, which is naturally produced by the human body when exposed to direct sunlight, has no significant side effects, costs little and can be several times more effective than anti-viral drugs or vaccine.
The first clause is that information sought under the RTI Act may be negated by citing the information to be confidential. What is more draconian is that anybody who tries to “mislead the public” without having “scientific evidence” can be imprisoned for not less than six months, which can be extended up to one year and imposed a fine...
Monsanto and company really are trying hard to force Indians to eat GM foods. Is it only because of the huge profits they envision or does someone think that there are too many Indians... ?
Conference to note on your calendar: Selling Sickness
An international conference: 'Selling Sickness: Influence on influence' will be held in Amsterdam on October 7-8, 2010. The focus will be understanding problems and developing solutions for improving pharmaceutical information and promotion to benefit the public. The host is Healthy Skepticism (Netherlands) assisted by the Dutch Institute for Rational Use of Medicine and Healthy Skepticism (International). The sponsors are the Dutch Ministry of Health and the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate. The conference is designed for everyone with an interest in pharmaceutical information and promotion including: the public, health professionals, policy makers, regulators, inspectorates, staff of pharmaceutical, advertising and public relations companies, staff of NGOs and journalists. More information on the conference programme, the speakers and registration will be coming soon...
Fosamax for Pre-Osteoporosis: A Bad Idea By Jeffrey Dach, M.D.
The Fosamax (Alendronate) medical study for FDA approval failed to show any benefit for the osteopenia group. Fracture rates actually went up for the osteopenia group.
Bisphosphonate drugs like Fosamax have severe adverse side effects of jaw necrosis (OJN), spontaneous femur fracture, atrial fibrillation (a heart rhythm disturbance), and severe bone and joint pain...
Vitamin D and calcium interplay
The body's skeleton needs adequate dietary calcium to reach its full potential in terms of bone mass. Still, many other factors affect bone mass, such as exercise, smoking and vitamin D - the latter through its effect on calcium absorption and direct effect on the skeleton.
Central Figure in CDC Vaccine Cover-Up Absconds With $2M by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The discovery of Thorsen's fraud came as the result of an investigation by Aarhus University and CDC which discovered that Thorsen had falsified documents and, in violation of university rules, was accepting salaries from both the Danish university and Emory University in Atlanta -- near CDC headquarters -- where he led research efforts to defend the role of vaccines in causing autism and other brain disorders. Thorsen's center has received $14.6 million from CDC since 2002.
Thorsen's partner Kreesten Madsen recently came under fierce criticism after damning e-mails surfaced showing Madsen in cahoots with CDC officials intent on fraudulently cherry picking facts to prove vaccine safety.
USA: Vaccine court finds no link to autism
A federal court ruled Friday that the evidence supporting an alleged causal link between autism and a mercury-containing preservative in vaccines is unpersuasive, and that the families of children diagnosed with autism are not entitled to compensation.
Special masters of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims released more than 600 pages of findings after reviewing three test cases and finding all the claims wanting.
"Petitioners' theory of vaccine-related causation is scientifically unsupportable," wrote Special Master Patricia Campbell-Smith in her conclusion about William P. Mead, whose parents, George and Victoria Mead, had brought one of the suits.
This is the special court of claims the US set up to hear cases brought for vaccine damage. Its purpose is to prevent vaccine damages being heard in the normal courts. One might argue that the court was set up to make sure the vaccination agenda the US government seems married to, will not suffer from adverse judgements pronounced by "normal" judges.
Rebecca Estepp, who attended the hearings and has a son with autism, says she was not surprised. "You have government attorneys defending a government program using government-funded science before government judges." (All funded with unlimited tax dollars). (Thanks Evelyn Pringle)
Pregnant women warned over Prozac risk to foetus
Pregnant women who take Prozac, the antidepressant, are twice as likely to give birth to babies with a congenital heart problem, the medicines regulator has warned.
The agency said it had looked at the evidence from a number of studies of fluoxetine, the active ingredient in Prozac, and concluded that it could double the background rate of congenital heart defects.
USA: State of Massachusetts joins lawsuit over anti-psychotic drugs in nursing homes
Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office joined a federal lawsuit yesterday that contends that Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to get its drugs, especially the powerful antipsychotic Risperdal, prescribed in nursing homes.
“The inappropriate off-label marketing of antipsychotic drugs to nursing homes is a significant health and safety issue for our seniors,’’ Coakley said in a statement released by her office.
Flu shots are futile: study Study co-author Dr. Tom Jefferson says he "can't see any reason" for vaccinating anyone against flu -- arguing the shots did nothing to save lives -- and that most influenza-vaccine studies are "rubbish."
"What troubled us is that [shots] had no effect on laboratory-confirmed influenza," said Dr. Roger Thomas of the University of Calgary, lead author of the paper published by the respected Cochrane Library.
"What we were looking for is proof that influenza ... is decreased. Didn't find it. We looked for proof that pneumonia is reduced. Didn't find it. We looked for proof deaths from pneumonia are reduced. Didn't find it."
If You Find Problems with Genetically Modified Foods: Watch Out!
In the early 1990s, Dr. Pusztai was awarded a $3 million grant by the UK government to design the system for safety testing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). His team included more than 20 scientists working at three facilities, including the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, the top nutritional research lab in the UK, and his employer for the previous 35 years. The results of Pusztai’s work were supposed to become the required testing protocols for all of Europe. But when he fed supposedly harmless GM potatoes to rats, things didn’t go as planned.
Within just 10 days, the animals developed potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, smaller brains, livers, and testicles, partially atrophied livers, and damaged immune systems.
“HIV-positive” tests and racial cleansing A tongue-in-cheek discussion of "HIV" tests by Henry Bauer
This little exercise was stimulated by a “CNN Presents” TV program on the night of Saturday, March 13. Several experts were deploring the fact that the rate of “HIV-positive” in Washington is more than 3 times the national average (3% vs. less than 1%). Naturally the experts called for even further “prevention” efforts and described a number of initiatives intended to enhance prevention...
Spiegel: 2009 swine flu pandemic a boost for Big Pharma
"The pharmaceutical industry did not influence any of our decisions," says Fukuda. But in mid-May, about three weeks before the swine flu was declared a pandemic, 30 senior representatives of pharmaceutical companies met with WHO Director-General Chan and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at WHO headquarters. The official reason for the meeting was to discuss ways to ensure that developing countries would be provided with pandemic vaccine. But at this point in time the vaccine industry was mainly interested in one question: the decision to declare phase 6.
Everything hung on this decision. At stake was nothing less than a move to supply large segments of the world's population with flu vaccine. Phase 6 acted as a switch that would allow bells on the industry's cash registers to ring, risk-free...
Western scientific medicine has been dominated for almost a century by a strong industrial interest group, the pharmaceutical manufacturers. This domination and the commercial interest behind it, prevent any real reform even in the face of evidence that some natural treatment method works better than the pharma-based method of choice.
Since public health is deteriorating, reform seems needed...
Technically, Senator McCain cannot withdraw the DSSA from the Senate without unanimous Senate agreement; however, he can publicly announce his intention to withdraw his support for the disastrous provisions of the bill, what he has already told Senator Hatch privately. We invite McCain to clear up the remaining confusion about his intentions and set the record straight!
It’s critical to receive confirmation from McCain directly.
McCain's DSHEA Repeal Legislation Delayed, Not Dead
For the time being, on the Senate side of Congress, the bill has apparently been delayed. However, unless and until McCain formally pulls his bill, the DSSA bill is still alive in the Senate for the rest of this year. The Hatch-McCain understanding does not, under Senate procedures, preclude any other Senator like Dorgan, or the anti-supplement, DSHEA-hating Dick Durbin (the Assistant Senate Majority Leader), from filing a Motion to Discharge S.3002 from the Senate HELP committee, where it currently is. If this happens the bill can be sent directly to the full Senate for a passage vote.
Aerotoxic Syndrome - Airplane industry's dirty little secret
Compressed air in airplane cabins has - since the 60's - been taken from the air the plane's jet motors compress. There is no guarantee that this air doesn't contain engine oil fumes - it often does and there aren't any air filters between the engine and the cabin. Engine oil contains organophosphates. Are you surprised that cabin crew and passengers may suffer "unexplained" toxic effects or so-called Aerotoxic Syndrome? The solution would be simple - a separate airpump/compressor for cabin air, but it has not been adopted. See this great Nexus article for the details...
Nanotoxicity in Regulatory Vacuum
Seven young women (aged 18–47yrs) working in a paint factory and exposed to nanoparticles for 5–13months fell ill and were admitted to hospital. Two subsequently died. Pathological examinations of the patients' lung tissue showed nonspecific inflammation, fibrosis and foreign-body granulomas (tumours resulting from inflammation) of the pleura (membrane around the lungs). Transmission electron microscopy revealed nanoparticles of polyacrylate lodged in the cytoplasm and the nucleus of cells and in the chest fluid. The polyacrylate nanoparticles were confirmed in the workplace.
Years of smoking associated with lower Parkinson's risk
Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease. A new study published in the March 10, 2010, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, shows that smoking for a greater number of years may reduce the risk of the disease, but smoking a larger number of cigarettes per day may not reduce the risk.
Let's give those smokers a break, now and then ...
Snake oil—or a breakthrough for bipolar disorder?
A number of trials so far have been successful and researchers involved are increasingly hopeful that micronutrients, as opposed to drugs, may represent an exciting step towards the successful restoration of mental health. This research points to the benefits of synergistic blends of micronutrients, as found in Truehope’s EMpowerplus formula, as compared with individual micronutrients such as niacin and omega-3 fatty acids which have shown very clear benefits in their own right previously.
Writing in Clinical Medicine Insight: Psychiatry, researchers Dermot Gately and Bonnie Kaplan found that among 682 adults diagnosed with bipolar disorder, symptoms decreased with increasing dosage of the EMpowerplus formula and reduced dosages of medications approved for bipolar disorder (lithium, anticonvulsants, atypical antipsychotics). The researchers claimed that ‘symptom improvements were significant and sustained at 6 months, and decreased symptom severity over the 6 months was associated with increasing micronutrient dosage and with reducing medication’.
Vitamin D is crucial to activating immune defenses
Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defenses and that without sufficient intake of the vitamin, the killer cells of the immune system - T cells - will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the body.
Danish scientist who "proved" vaccines don't cause autism absconds with $2 million
A Danish scientist who was a key researcher in two studies that purport to show that mercury used in vaccines and the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine do not cause autism is believed to have used forged documents to steal $2 million from Aarhus University in Denmark according to reports in the Copenenhagen Post Online and a statement from Aarhus University.
Poul Thorsen, MD PhD, headed up a research unit at Aarhus University that was hired by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prepare a series of studies that would exonerate thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative and adjuvant used in vaccines, and the MMR vaccine from any role in causing autism. The veracity of the three studies he co-authored is now in doubt.
Drug use in nursing homes puts elderly at risk
“Way too many patients in nursing homes are treated with antipsychotics purely to sedate them or to control behaviors that are difficult for the staff,’’ said Robert A. Stern, an Alzheimer’s specialist and brain researcher at Boston University School of Medicine.
USA: Supreme Court Accepts Appeal Over Vaccine Safety
In what could have huge implications for the vaccine industry the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear in a case which will decide if parents can sue vaccine makers. Parents who say that a range of preventive vaccines given their young children can cause serious health problems will have their appeal heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The justices Monday agreed to decide whether drug makers can be sued outside a special judicial forum set up by Congress in 1986 to address specific claims about safety.
A Positive Routine “HIV Test” Is Likely To Be a False Positive
The FDA said in 1987 that “the significance of antibodies in an asymptomatic individual is not known.” It is still not known, as positive tests have been reported in many illnesses, including multiple sclerosis, tuberculosis, malaria, and aplastic anemia. They have also been reported after immunizations to tetanus or influenza, and may even be caused by pregnancy itself.
“The problem of false positive tests applies to all screening tests, not just HIV,” states Jane M. Orient, M.D., executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). “If a population with a very low likelihood of a disease is tested, there will be very few positive tests. But even with an excellent test, a positive is more likely than not to be a false positive.”
HIV/AIDS theory: Evidence — Archives — Resources
Try to convince someone that HIV/AIDS theory is wrong, and you have a number of difficulties. An important one is that most people can’t imagine that “everyone”, the authoritative agencies, the big media, could possibly be wrong about such a thing. One way to respond to that is to show that competent, distinguished, well informed scientists explain how and why it’s never been established that HIV exists or that “HIV” cause AIDS, that in fact there’s strong evidence against those things, and that moreover the drugs used to treat patients on the basis of HIV/AIDS theory are deadly.
But how can you show people that?
Video:Is Fluoride Necessary?
More and more communities are beginning to jump on the anti-fluoridation bandwagon, such as Corning, New York, Bellingham, Washington and Juneau, Alaska....
Europe: Traditional Herbal Medicines in Legislative Distress
When the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive was passed in 2004, many herbal producers, including those producing herbs for the great and ancient traditions of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, saw the Directive as a ‘godsend’. Here was a piece of law that would give these herbal products a proper medicinal classification, meaning they could actually be used to help make sick people healthier.
Actually it did not turn out this way. The medicinal registration process is a hurdle so difficult to take that not one product of the prolific Ayurvedic and Chinese herbal traditions has successfully navigated its pitfalls. Even Europe's own herbal tradition is not in much better shape.
This shows what happens when the pharmaceutical lobby convinces legislators to "regulate" their competition. The Alliance for Natural Health is working to change this obviously insane law by proposing amendments and, failing this, to mount a legal challenge to it.
USA: Senator McCain Defends Dietary Supplement Proposal "Opponents have stated that the legislation would seek to limit consumers' ability to purchase dietary supplements, vitamins, or prescription drugs. That is completely false . If you take a vitamin now, this bill will in no way restrict your ability to take that vitamin."
McCain clearly hasn't read his own bill. Perhaps he needs a plain English version...
Well, the latest news is that McCain has withdrawn support for that bill (see next link just after this one). So the question becomes: Who wrote the bill for him? I guess he is not going to trust those people in the future...
McCain offered the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010, S. 3002, in February. The Arizona Republican will now collaborate with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on revised legislation that allegedly provides for transparency and safety within the supplement industry but without the intensive regulatory intervention proposed in S. 3002. No timeline is set for introduction of a new bill.
Bacterial balance keeps us healthy
The thousands of bacteria, fungi and other microbes that live in our gut are essential contributors to our good health. They break down toxins, manufacture some vitamins and essential amino acids, and form a barrier against invaders. A study published today in Nature shows that, at 3.3 million, microbial genes in our gut outnumber previous estimates for the whole of the human body.
... and remember - antibiotics kill those beneficial bacteria, leaving us weaker after each "cure".
Although ascorbate addition to medium generated H(2)O(2), ascorbate addition to blood generated no detectable H(2)O(2) and only trace detectable ascorbate radical. Taken together, these data indicate that ascorbate at concentrations achieved only by i.v. administration may be a pro-drug for formation of H(2)O(2), and that blood can be a delivery system of the pro-drug to tissues. These findings give plausibility to i.v. ascorbic acid in cancer treatment, and have unexpected implications for treatment of infections where H(2)O(2) may be beneficial.
Translation: Vitamin C was found to selectively kill cancer cells while not affecting normal cells in this experiment.
Why is this therapy not in general use yet - what are we waiting for?
Standard cancer treatments not only often fail to eradicate cancer, but can make it worse.
That argument isn't coming from a fringe proponent of alternative medicine, but from the founder of the University of Michigan's Comprehensive Cancer Center and a pioneer in research on why cancers recur and spread to other parts of the body.
SWEET POISON - ASPARTAME
In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain...
Big Pharma trying to prevent long-term safety studies of ADHD drugs Ritalin, Concerta by Janne Larsson
The companies producing methylphenidate products (like Ritalin and Concerta) are normally competitors, marketing ADHD as a disease and the narcotic drugs as its solution. But when they are threatened with marketing restrictions they have a common interest.
...the manufacturers were ordered [by the EU Commission] to submit data how they could do long-term studies of psychiatric adverse effects (e.g. depression, hostility and psychotic reactions) and of cognitive effects (effects on learning, intellectual function) of the drugs. The answer from the pharmaceutical companies was a confidential report Feasibility Assessment of a Study of Long-term Effects of Methylphenidate on Cognition and Psychiatric Outcomes written 30 October 2009 – now made public by a Swedish court.
As stated by the manufacturers: “This information is provided on behalf of the following Marketing Authorisation Holders for methylphenidate-containing medicinal products in the EU: Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, Shire, Medice and Laboratorios Rubió (also referred to as the “Consortium”).”
The document can only be characterised as an aggressive effort to explain why long-term studies about adverse psychiatric outcomes of methylphenidate treatment could not and should not be done, together with distorted facts about the beneficial long-term outcomes of drug treatment. The intention with the feasibility assessment study is clearly to stop or delay needed safety actions for methylphenidate drugs...
Janne Larsson, the Swedish investigator and writer of the previous article, has asked the European Commission to take decisive action to clarify, once and for all, what are the damaging side effects of these drugs.Here is his letter...
Ghostbusting in Paxil Birth Defect Litigation by Evelyn Pringle
A month before the first Paxil birth defect trial against GlaxoSmithKline was set to begin, the Associated Press ran the headline, “Glaxo Used Ghostwriting Program to Promote Paxil,” in reporting on a program called “CASPPER,” which allowed doctors to “take credit for medical journal articles mainly written by company consultants.”
“Drug companies frequently hire outside firms to draft a manuscript touting a company's drug, retain a physician to sign off as the author and then find a publisher to unwittingly publish the work,” the Associated Press said on August 19, 2009. “Drug company salespeople often present medical journal articles to physicians as independent proof that their drugs are safe and effective.”
Paxil Birth Defect Cases - Six Hundred and Counting
According to Vickery, Glaxo conducted a study on Wellbutrin (bupropion), another antidepressant, after discovering a possible link to birth defects. "The review found no problems with Wellbutrin, but discovered that a significant number of mothers who had been prescribed Paxil (nearly twice as many as those who had not taken the drug) had children born with heart defects," he says.
Australia: Merck Loses Vioxx Case, Must Pay Damages
Federal Court Justice Christopher Jessup found Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attack for users and was a defective product unsuitable to treat arthritic pain under the Trades Practices Act. He told the court a 2000 clinical trial showed “worrisome and important signals” of cardiovascular risk, although he dismissed claims Merck “turned a blind eye” to the results. At the same time, he ruled that Merck’s failure to warn doctors of the risks, instead emphasising its safety, amounted to misleading conduct.
Hormone replacement therapy linked to increased lung cancer risk
Women aged 50 to 76 who take estrogen plus progestin may have an increased risk of lung cancer, according to a new study published in the pre-print online edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
"Although HRT use has declined and is not recommended except for short-term treatment of menopausal symptoms, our results indicate millions of women may remain at risk of developing lung cancer," said Chris Slatore, M.D., principal investigator and an assistant professor of medicine (pulmonary and critical care medicine) in the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center; and a member of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.
Is the Gardasil Vaccine an Experiment on your Children?
To say that a virus is the main cause of cervical cancer is no more than a hypothesis. We all know that there are many environmental influences that cause one to have cancer. We are giving "False Hope" to parents when we state this vaccine will reduce the chances of their children getting cervical cancer. Another concern, like all the other vaccines recommended, there are no long-term safety or efficacy studies done on this vaccine and the short- term studies are of great concern.
Video:No Vaccines No Autism http://homefirst.com/ "We have a fairly large practice. We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken care of over the years, and I don't think we have a single case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines," said Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, Homefirst's medical director who founded the practice in 1973.
Video:Migranes, Maladies and [Mobile Phone] Masts
'To watch this big piece of tower go up 30 metres from your bedroom window and know that that is going to be radiating through your home 24/7...'
We all want the technology that connects us to the 21st century, but nobody wants it in their back yard.
But, as a woman interviewed in this video says: "Would you stick your head in a microwave oven?"
After Europe, it seems that the pharmaceutical industry, in collusion with certain lawmakers and regulators is now targeting the relative freedom of Americans to supplement their diet with nutrients. Do they really want to create a world wide black market in nutritional supplements? How crazy!
Actions like that will only hasten the demise of pharma-controlled medicine ... as people continue to rebelliously insist on popping those nasty vitamins and herbs.
USA: Goverment to Abolish Freedom of Access to Nutritional Supplements
If Arizona Senator John McCain has his way, many of the supplements you rely on for good health will disappear. And the cost of the few you can still get will explode in price.
Earlier this month, Sen. McCain introduced a bill falsely labeled the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010” (S. 3002). Sounds good, right? Nothing to worry about .McCain says: “Legitimate dietary supplement companies should have nothing to fear from this legislation. The purpose of the bill is not to create a sweeping regulatory structure, but instead a targeted structure that provides for openness, transparency and safety.”
Well, here’s what McCain didn’t say...
Robert Scott Bell Exclusive - Attack of the FDA They came for our tryptophan, and I said nothing…
They came for our ephedra, and I said nothing…
They came for our vitamin B, and I said nothing…
Now the FDA is coming for you – and every natural remedy you trust and have relied on for years and decades!
What can you do to stop it? Listen to Robert Scott Bell on the fight to protect Liberty and Freedom of Choice in health care!
Aloe Vera: FDA Shut Down a Surprisingly Effective Natural Cancer Cure
A terrorist attack exactly one month after 9/11 occurred in Tampa, Florida. But these terrorists were from the FDA, state health services bureaucrats and local sheriffs. The target of this attack was two highly successful, inexpensive experimental alternative cancer clinics using aloe vera extract. Some who were responding favorably to the treatments were now cut off and effectively sentenced to death by the federal and state governments.
My comment:For a great "do it yourself" method of curing with aloe, search Father Romano Zago aloe cancer
Successful use of intravenous vitamin C in Swine Flu patient
A 56 year old male was referred to Auckland Hospital ICU on 1 July 2009 with total respiratory failure, for ECMO external oxygenation. The patient had contracted H1N1 Swine flu (confirmed by tests) while on holiday overseas, and had developed what is known as ‘white out’ pneumonia. This refers to x-rays showing no air space in the lungs...
Vaccine Resistance Movement Website up and running
We are at a cross roads in history. Our basic freedoms, those which we possess from birth, are now being challenged globally. The inherent right to sovrenty/sovereignty of the body is one of them. The World Health Organization, acting in co-ordination with 194 signatory nations means to crush those rights and reshape the very essence of life as we know it by claiming ownership over self determination of our own bodies. Never has a groundswell of this magnitude been so prescient, never has the urgency of our times demanded greater action, or threatened the very fabric of our existence to such an extent.
UK: Cervical Cancer Vaccine Blinds 16 Year-Old Girl
We report the course of a 16-year-old girl who presented with near complete visual loss associated with chiasmal neuritis and a biopsy proven tumefactive demyelinating lesion on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in association with a recent immunization against human papilloma virus.
She had received her second vaccination against human papilloma virus 10 days prior to her presentation. There was no family history of demyelinating disease, collagen-vascular disease, or rheumatological disorders.
Video:Vaccinated By FORCE, NOW AUTISTIC This little girl was taken out of the arms of her mother who didn't want her vaccinated, forcibly given vaccines, and ended up in critical condition that very day!
Was German Regulator Fired To Appease Pharma?
The German government has sacked the head of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWIG) to placate the drug industry, a German MP and professor alleged in an interview with the BMJ.
Between 2002 and 2007, it seems he was given five research grants by Pfizer. With so much money being handed out, why would Pfizer not have any input into, or overseen how these funds were being used? It may never be known just how much of a hand Pfizer had in influencing Reuben’s research. And how many other Prof Reuben’s have yet to be identified?
'Manufacturing Depression': Are Doctors Overprescribing Antidepressants to the Tune of $10 Billion a Year for Drug Companies?
Is depression manufactured? Two decades after the introduction of antidepressants, it’s become commonplace to assume that our sadness can be explained in terms of a disease called depression. The National Institute of Mental Health estimates more than 14 million Americans suffer from major depression every year and more than three million suffer from minor depression. Some 30 million Americans take antidepressants at a cost of over $10 billion a year.
Vitamin D lifts mood during cold weather months
A daily dose of vitamin D may just be what Chicagoans need to get through the long winter, according to researchers at Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (MNSON). This nutrient lifts mood during cold weather months when days are short and more time is spent indoors.
200,000 Americans Killed Each Year in Hospitals by Medical Error
According to “Dead By Mistake,” a report detailing the findings of an investigation by the Hearst Corporation, approximately 200,000 people die in the United States every year from hospital infections and preventable medical errors. To make matters worse, the situation has not changed from 10 years ago, when the recommendations of a similar report by the federal government went ignored.
Car accidents, often classified as the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, kill fewer than 50,000 people per year.
“Ten years ago, the highly-publicized federal report, ‘To Err Is Human,’ highlighted the alarming death toll from preventable medical injuries and called on the medical community to cut it in half in five years,” the new report says. “Its authors and patient safety advocates believed that its release would spur a revolution in patient safety. But … the federal government and most states have made little or no progress in improving patient safety through accountability mechanisms or other measures.”
USA: The Drugs That Generated Most Adverse Event Reports
In the third quarter of 2009, the number of serious, disabling and fatal adverse drug events reported to the FDA numbered 29,065, compared to 26,809 in the same quarter a year earlier, an 8.4 percent rise, according to the Institute for Safe Medicine Practices. For the first three quarters of 2009 combined, the total number of reports was 8.1 percent higher than in the same period of 2008. (Link to article)
Adverse drug reactions on the increase. This is a trend going in the wrong direction. How about a new strategy to reverse the trend of drugs maiming and killing ever greater numbers of patients?
All it would take is a new rule: Every quarter, the drug with the highest number of adverse event reports gets removed from the market. Yes, pharmaceutical companies would squeal like pigs being stuck, but what gives them the right to put damaging products on the market and say it is for everyone's good?
Magnesium Theronate for Memory
…Begun at MIT, the research started as a part of a post-doctoral project by Dr. Inna Slutsky of TAU’s Sackler School of Medicine and evolved to become a multi-center experiment focused on a new magnesium supplement, magnesium-L-theronate (MgT), that effectively crosses the blood-brain barrier to inhibit calcium flux in brain neurons.
Published recently in the scientific journal Neuron, the new study found that the synthetic magnesium compound works on both young and aging animals to enhance memory or prevent its impairment. The research was carried out over a five-year period and has significant implications for the use of over-the-counter magnesium supplements. … “We are really pleased with the positive results of our studies,” says Dr. Slutsky.
Vitamin B3 shows early promise in treatment of stroke
When rats with ischemic stroke were given niacin, their brains showed growth of new blood vessels, and sprouting of nerve cells which greatly improved neurological outcome.
Now research is underway at Henry Ford to investigate the effects of an extended-release form of niacin on stroke patients.
Aspartame has been Renamed and is Now Being Marketed as a Natural Sweetener
Artificial sweeteners especially aspartame has gotten a bad rap over the years, most likely due to studies showing they cause cancer. But not to worry Ajinomoto the company that makes Aspartame has changed the name to AminoSweet. It has the same toxic ingredients but a nice new sounding name.
Despite the evidence gained over the years showing that aspartame is a dangerous toxin, it has remained on the global market . In continues to gain approval for use in new types of food despite evidence showing that it causes neurological brain damage, cancerous tumors, and endocrine disruption, among other things.
Abu Dhabi: Health warning on artificial sweetener
Excess usage of aspartame, a sweetener used as a sugar substitute in many foods and beverages, might lead to various health hazards, the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority has warned manufacturers in the emirate.
Placebo treatments stronger than doctors thought
“It’s not that placebos or inert substances help,” said Linda Blair, a Bath-based psychologist and spokeswoman for the British Psychological Society. Blair was not linked to the research. “It’s that people’s belief in inert substances help.”
While doctors have long recognized that placebos can help patients feel better, they weren’t sure if the treatments sparked any physical changes.
In the Lancet review, researchers cite studies where patients with Parkinson’s disease were given dummy pills. That led their brains to release dopamine, a feel-good chemical, and also resulted in other changes in brain activity.
Is WebMD Pushing Eli Lilly's Agenda?
A 2002 article on the gigantic medical site about pain and depression says "Lilly is a WebMD Partner," and an advertising award in 2004 went to the FCB "client" Eli Lilly & Co./WebMD-not clients.
Banner and skyscraper ads for Lilly's blockbuster antidepressant Cymbalta on WebMD's home page never seemed to yield to other advertisers in 2009-and the Washington Post reported Lilly and WebMD to be partners in 2000.
Now Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is investigating financial ties between Lilly and WebMD...
Pharmaceutical industry questions whether maximalist IP is in its own interests
On a panel on open innovation, Ludo Lauwers, senior vice president for Johnson & Johnson pharmaceuticals, said that the current innovation model is not sustainable for the pharmaceutical sector, and companies should seek open innovation solutions. Open innovation is a network of partnership, beyond classical networks, he said, and implies a change of mentality.
Bernard Munos, advisor on corporate strategy for Eli Lilly and Company, said industry has a strong proprietary culture and a non-disclosure policy, but a change of mentality is critical and although it is happening, progress is slow.
Maybe we created our own problem,” Munos said, adding that today any innovation has so much prior art that “to secure the access to this prior art so that you can practice your innovation it is almost an endless process,” taking years and raising costs so high that sometimes it is not worth pursuing the project, he said.
This is a paradoxical situation where a patent system that was designed to foster innovation is now actually hindering it, Munos said. The patent system was created in a pre-internet days, he said, and internet changed the dynamics of innovation.
Glaxo Birth Defect Litigation Reveals Paxil Promoters on Speed Dial by Evelyn Pringle
During his opening statement on September 15, 2009, Tracey told the jury that Doctor David Healy is "one of the most, if not the (most) world-recognized expert on pharmaceutical industry influence and the medicine, he is up there in the top five."
Healy "is going to explain to you how GSK corrupted the medical literature," he said, "how they used their money and influence to have doctors that they paid put out literature into the world so doctors ... could read literature that looked like literature, looked like science, smelled like science, appeared to be science, from very important people, people that were on boards, people that were professors, people that published hundreds of articles."
The drug company Glaxco-Smith- Kline last year spent $1.3 million sponsoring 14 consumer health groups such as the Asthma Foundation, the Cancer Council, Diabetes Australia and MS Australia. And drug companies are also spending more than a $1 million a week wining and dining doctors.
Is there a link between childhood vaccines and autism?
Why should the average person care about autism? Data show that one per cent of American school-aged children have an identified autism spectrum disorder. That's up from 0.0001 per cent in 1960. Where might we be in 20 years if the incidence continues to trend up 15 per cent a year as it has over the last decade? Public health agencies like to mitigate our sense of alarm by suggesting autism is just better diagnosed today. If this were the case then we'd expect to have hundreds of thousands of autistic adults in our midst -- people who've had autism all along, but were never identified/ treated as children.
The numbers just do not support this theory.
Aids Truth in Russia
. . . Where is deserted Africa allegedly doomed for total extinction from AIDS? Gor Shirdel, M.D. of Irish descent who is currently practicing in Kiev, has cured two patients from AIDS.
"I don’t believe that AIDS is incurable. Weak immune system is an issue that has been around for at least 200 years. It can be solved. Viruses found in the blood of those with AIDS is not the cause of the disease, it’s a consequence of immunodeficiency. The world thinks AIDS is incurable because two doctors, an American, Robert Gallo and a Frenchman ...
Myths behind AIDS might lead to billions in misspending
UNAIDS’s proposed budget for 2008 includes US$1.9 billion for prevention programs aimed at young people and the workplace. While some of this will be usefully spent in sub-Saharan Africa, the rest is effectively wasted.
At least US$5 billion has been wasted in this way in the last five years. Meanwhile, to the shame of the global health bureaucracy, a handful of diseases that are relatively inexpensive to prevent or treat — several vaccine-preventable diseases, diarrheal diseases, malaria and some acute respiratory infections — continue to account for about four million annual child deaths globally.
Roger England, chairman of Health Systems Workshop - an independent advisory group on health management in poor countries - says UNAids should be disbanded as its mandate is "wrong and harmful".
"HIV exceptionalism is dead - and the writing is on the wall for UNAIDS," Mr England said. "Why a UN agency for HIV and not for pneumonia or diabetes, which both kill more people?"
Those proposed new supplement regulations remind me of what we have had in Europe for a few years now. Who'd have thought the (EU) tail would ever be wagging the (US) dog... or is it a matter of McCain working for the same masters that control both of our respective areas? ... and yes, illegal doping was also used in the EU to "demonstrate the need" for a supplements directive. They aren't very original in their campaign strategies, are they?
USA: New Bill Seeks to Repeal Key Sections of Dietary Supplement Health
McCain’s bill is called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA). It would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). DSHEA protects supplements if 1) they are food products that have been in the food supply and not chemically altered or 2) if they were sold as supplements prior to 1994, the year that DSHEA was passed. If a supplement fits one of these two descriptions, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot arbitrarily ban it or reclassify it as a drug.
These protections are far from perfect. They discourage companies from developing new forms of supplements. New supplements may be arbitrarily banned by the FDA or adopted by drug companies in a way that precludes their further sale as supplements.
McCain’s bill would wipe out even the minimal protections contained in DSHEA. It would give the FDA full discretion and power to compile a discreet list of supplements allowed to remain on the market while banning all others.
USA: If Senator McCain Were Running Homeland Security . . .
Because a few highly-paid professional athletes took dietary supplements that were illegally spiked with steroids, Senator John McCain and his partner-in-crime Senator Byron Dorgan have introduced Senate Bill 3002 this month to require:
(1) comprehensive registration of all manufacturers, distributors, and holders of supplements; (2) prohibition of sale of any dietary supplement not on an FDA-approved positive list; and (3) burdensome reporting of each and every adverse event, whether serious or trivial, affecting dietary supplements...
Now, suppose, as scientist and author Durk Pearson has suggested, that after the failed attempt of Richard Reid (the terrorist shoe bomber) to blow up a transatlantic airplane, the government had reacted in the same way as McCain is proposing to do now.
That is, did Reid’s attempt mean that the U.S. needed to register shoe stores and shoe salesmen? Did it mean that the U.S. needed to create more regulations on shoe manufacturers? Did it mean that all new shoe designs had to be approved before sale by a shoe-design czar?
Official Recommended Intake for Vitamin D is Too Low 2,000 IU/Day or More Needed for Optimal Health
Vitamin D has been a natural part of man's experience forever, and 90% of vitamin D is derived from solar ultraviolet-B (UVB) irradiance. The health effects of vitamin D can be and have been determined from a variety of studies including ecological, observational (case-control and cohort), and cross-sectional studies.
Vitamin D helps both to prevent and to treat chronic diseases including many types of cancer, cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease, stroke, etc.), congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus (types 1 and 2), osteoporosis, falls, and fractures. It is also effective against infectious diseases including both bacteria and viral infections: bacterial vaginosis, pneumonia, dental caries, periodontal disease, tuberculosis, sepsis/septicemia, Epstein-Barr virus, and influenza type A such as A/H1N1 influenza. The autoimmune diseases include asthma, type 1 diabetes mellitus, multiple sclerosis, and perhaps rheumatoid arthritis.
Due to current lifestyles in the United States, most people do not spend sufficient time in the sun to produce the higher serum D levels associated with optimal health. Black-Americans are particularly vulnerable...
Electroshocker: A Prevention Special Report The 'electrosmog' that surrounds us—from cell phones, WiFi, and commonplace modern technology—may be seriously harming our health. Here's how to minimize your exposure.
So how does the human body respond to this pulsing radiation? "Think of a magnet," explains Dave Stetzer, an electrical engineer and power supply expert in Blair, Wis. "Opposite charges attract, and like charges repel. When a transient is going positive, the negatively charged electrons in your body move toward that positive charge. When the transient flips to negative, the body's electrons are pushed back. Remember, these positive-negative shifts are occurring many thousands of times per second, so the electrons in your body are oscillating to that tune. Your body becomes charged up because you're basically coupled to the transient's electric field."
Keep in mind that all the cells in your body, whether islets in the pancreas awaiting a signal to manufacture insulin or white blood cells speeding to the site of an injury, use electricity—or "electron change"—to communicate with each other. By overlapping the body's signaling mechanisms, could transients interfere with the secretion of insulin, drown out the call-and-response of the immune system, and cause other physical havoc?
Highly Hazardous Pesticide Use Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) releases Asian Regional Report on Community Monitoring of Highly Hazardous Pesticide Use
“Exposure to these pesticides puts communities at high risk of developing severe permanent health problems such as endocrine disruption, which can be caused at low doses of exposure to certain pesticides,” said Bella Whittle, coordinator of the project and author of the report. “It is especially distressing that the most vulnerable populations, such as women and children, the sick and malnourished, and the elderly are disproportionately affected and cannot escape the sources of exposure.”
Pesticide exposure robs Yaqui girls of breastfeeding
Long-term research led by Elizabeth Guillette, Ph.D., of the University of Florida found compelling proof that pesticides acted as endocrine disruptors and produced negative health impacts over the years to the exposed Yaqui indigenous communities.
Endocrine disruptors or EDCs, endocrine disrupting chemicals, include chemicals DDT and other pesticides.
Guillette’s latest research finds that some pre-adolescent daughters of mothers exposed to pesticide spraying will never have the ability to breast-feed their babies. With others there is uncertainly. Although there is breast growth some daughters lacked development of the mammary tissue needed to produce milk, or developed a minimal amount.
As the girls in the exposed group matured their breast size became much larger than normal, yet they had less mammary tissue and often none at all, while the unexposed girls were normal.
“A large study, using my techniques, was done in India showing the exact same results,” says Guillette.
European Commission to fund research into complementary medicine
The EC’s intention is that CAMbrella will address the ‘lack of funding and scientific cooperation that hampers this area of medicine’. The EC recognizes that CAM practitioners and a growing number of citizens of the EU are turning to complementary and alternative medicine ‘for disorders they feel cannot be treated with conventional therapy’. The EC estimates that the CAM spend by consumers now tops the €100 million mark. The EC envisages that the project ‘will help boost the well-being of European citizens by creating an EU-wide road map that encompasses the preconditions for future research within complementary and alternative medicine in Europe’.
Pharma researcher admits to faking dozens of research studies for Pfizer, Merck
Now being reported across the mainstream media is the fact that Dr. Reuben accepted a $75,000 grant from Pfizer to study Celebrex in 2005. His research, which was published in a medical journal, has since been quoted by hundreds of other doctors and researchers as "proof" that Celebrex helped reduce pain during post-surgical recovery. There's only one problem with all this: No patients were ever enrolled in the study!
Dr. Scott Reuben, it turns out, faked the entire study and got it published anyway.
USA: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center to issue anti-ghostwriting code
Ghostwriting, which allows pharmaceutical companies to mask promotional advertising as peer-reviewed scientific research, endangers public health and enables the pharmaceutical industry to control and misrepresent medical literature, Lacasse said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Doctors may read ghostwritten articles that promote a certain medication in an apparently unbiased medical journal and subsequently prescribe the drug more often, he said. Because the scientific basis of these studies may be faulty or one-sided, ghostwriting can harm patients, he said.
Prozac, used by 40m people, does not work say scientists
Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide, does not work and nor do similar drugs in the same class, according to a major review released today.
The study examined all available data on the drugs, including results from clinical trials that the manufacturers chose not to publish at the time... When all the data was pulled together, it appeared that patients had improved - but those on placebo improved just as much as those on the drugs.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the medicines safety watchdog, responded by asking an advisory committee to look again at the safety of the drug. The British equivalent, the MHRA, said it is “continuously monitoring” the safety of Avandia.
In a report, senators Max Baucus and Charles Grassley said the FDA had not banned the drug because it was too “cozy” with drugs firms.
Australia: Kids on ADHD drugs `poor at school'
CHILDREN with ADHD who use prescription drugs to manage their condition are 10 times more likely to perform poorly at school than ADHD kids who avoid medication, a new report reveals.
The report also finds stimulant drugs such as Ritalin and dexamphetamine make no significant difference to the level of depression, self-perception and social functioning of a 14-year-old with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Paxil Birth Defect Trial - Battle of the Experts
In the first Paxil birth defect trial that resulted in a $2.5 million verdict against GlaxoSmithKline in October 2009, the infant, Lyam Kilker, was born with three heart defects; an atrial septal defect, a ventricular septal defect, and an interrupted aortic arch, after his mother took Paxil while pregnant.
Why Retroviruses Appear in AIDS, Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases This article is a classic by Cal Crilly, edited by Fintan Dunne
Cal Crilly's devastating analysis of AIDS, below, highlights the outdated science behind current treatments and shows the true causes and cure.
He takes us on a densely referenced tour through the largely unknown mechanisms underlying viruses, reteroviruses, cancer and autoimmune diseases. So this has implications far beyond AIDS.
Cal's treatise is based on existing mainstream scientific and medical research. The kind of research the vendors of medicine's magic pills simply ignore in hope it will just go away. Crilly makes it impossible to ignore. An eye opener!
It's one of the best articles explaining what AIDS is and isn't...
Cancer patients with terminal disease who take a daily cocktail of vitamins could extend their lives by two years or even longer, claim researchers.
Three out of four in a pilot study survived an average of five months longer than the expected one year, and some were still alive three years after treatment started.
Dr Bob Lister, co-author of the study by British and Danish researchers, said the results were similar to the survival gains from new drugs and in some cases better.
But the important difference was there were no side effects reported by patients taking vitamins, he said.
Now imagine taking those vitamins BEFORE you develop any form of cancer. Can you imagine the improvement in public health? Yes it's true, that would be a real disaster ... for the pharmaceutical companies that peddle "treatments" rather than prevention or cure.
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that is naturally present in some foods and is also produced when ultraviolet rays from sunlight strike the skin and trigger vitamin D synthesis. Fish such as salmon, tuna and mackerel are good sources of vitamin D, and it is also available as a dietary supplement.
An important pre-condition for sunlight on the skin to produce vitamin D is the presence, in the skin, of cholesterol. Therefore, cholesterol inhibitors, also called statin drugs, although widely used, are entirely counter-productive. By blocking the liver's ability to produce cholesterol, those drugs prevent endogenous production of vitamin D, increasing our chances of developing heart disease.
Those drugs also come with - sometimes deadly - side effects. Some articles:
Cholesterol-Cutting Drugs Raise Diabetes Risk by 9% in Study
The researchers analyzed 13 studies of the medicines known as statins after a 2008 trial from London-based AstraZeneca unexpectedly found patients given Crestor had a 25 percent higher risk of diabetes. The new analysis involving more than 90,000 patients, published in the journal Lancet, shows the actual increase in diabetes is 9 percent, the risk is tied to the entire class of medications and the danger increases with age.
In the US, an average human weighs (at least) 82 kg (180 lbs). That means the USDA's standards, if fairly applied to us, would set our vitamin C requirement somewhere between 820 mg and 2,000 mg vitamin C per day.
The US RDA (recommended daily allowance) for vitamin C is different than that. Quite different...
There is a doctor search tool at the American Holistic Medical Association...
McCAIN TO FDA: REGULATE JOE THE PLUMBER
On February 3, 2010, John McCain introduced to the United States Senate the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010. Reflecting upon this poorly written bill, I am struck by the fact that John McCain apparently sees little difference between fissile material and dietary supplements. He is intent on regulating supplements as if they were radioactive enriched uranium rather than bioactive vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and botanicals that more often than not help people.
Why does this remind me of what happened in Europe with the EU food supplements directive? Because the same (pharmaceutical) forces are pushing for regulation ... now in the US. The purpose? Eliminate the competition of nutrient supplementation. It's bad for pharma's profits.
Forget Nutrition Charts, Eat What Grandma Said Is Good for You
In the last thirty years, we have had this kind of agriculture industrial complex, which by some measures has worked quite well. It's kept the price of food low; it's kept the food industry healthy; it's given us a lot of power overseas--we're big food exporters--but what we're getting in touch with, I think, is that the by-products of that system, or the unintended consequences and costs, are catching up--every thing from obesity to diabetes.
Because that was a system that specifically encouraged the consumption of cheap corn sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils from soy, processed foods of all kinds, a lot of cheap meat. So, there's been a public health impact that's dramatic. That is what's bankrupting the health care system: the fact that half of us suffer from chronic diseases linked to the diet.
Forget About Cell Phones “Preventing” Alzheimer's
The signal Arendash used was not from a cell phone in actual use, but from a machine generating a “clean” high-frequency carrier wave that was not pulsed or modulated.
And pulsing is the problem.
Digital pulsed cell phones, portable phones, iPods, Blackberries, wireless laptops, home routers and similar devices piggyback text, speech and video data onto their respective carrier waves.
By sowing confusion and false promises based on fatally flawed procedures, the Arendash study can only contribute to increased cell phone and wireless use - and a growing Alzheimer's epidemic.
“The exposure system they used, with the central antenna, produces a head-first, whole body exposure. We know from our work that this is not an efficient system for exposing brain tissue and with this system it is very unlikely that the exposures to the brain were focused.”
India Rejects First GM Vegetable
“There is no overriding food security argument for Bt brinjal,” or genetically modified eggplant, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said at a press conference in the capital, New Delhi, yesterday. “Our objective is to restore public confidence and trust in Bt brinjal.” A moratorium will be imposed until safety studies are carried out “to the satisfaction of the scientific community,” he said.
On Monday, he elaborated by saying the company "used to fake scientific data" submitted to government regulatory agencies to get commercial approvals for its products in India.
The former Monsanto boss said government regulatory agencies with which the company used to deal with in the 1980s simply depended on data supplied by the company while giving approvals to herbicides.
Psychiatrists want to call being angry a mental illness. How utterly mad!
Do you live surrounded by clutter - ancient copies of magazines, your children’s old toys, articles you’ve clipped out of newspapers over the years?
If you find it hard to throw out things of limited or no value, you could be suffering from hoarding disorder.
There’s also ‘intermittent explosive disorder’, which involves occasionally becoming very angry suddenly. People who become very angry, like Mr. T in the A Team, could have 'intermittent explosive disorder'.
Most bizarre of the proposed additions is one defined as ‘getting a thrill at being outraged by pornography’.
It was also described as Whitehouse syndrome after the campaigner Mary Whitehouse, who objected to sexual content on TV.
Well, if anybody is mad here, it seems to be the psychiatrists...
Wakefield Inquisitioners Have Their Day by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
I’ve been asked many times over the last few weeks to share my opinion on the verdict of the U.K’s General Medical Council (GMC) about Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the retraction of his 1998 article, “Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children” by the medical journal, Lancet. The many inquiries fall into four basic questions, answered below....
Paxil Birth Defect Litigation - First Trial A Bust for Glaxo
The first trial, in the case of Kilker v Glaxo, ended with a jury in Philadelphia finding that Glaxo "negligently failed to warn" the doctor treating Lyam Kilker's mother about Paxil's risks and the drug was a "factual cause" of Lyam's heart defects. The jury awarded the family $2.5 million in compensatory damages.
After the trial, juror Joe Mellon told Bloomberg that Glaxo did not conduct adequate studies on Paxil. "There were a couple of what I thought were safety signals and what the plaintiffs presented as safety signals that they should have maybe looked into further," he said.
New York New Jersey Mumps Outbreak - majority of ill were vaccinated
Vaccination status is known for 1,115 patients: 966 (91%) of 1,062 patients aged ≤18 years and 149 (33%) of 456 patients aged ≥19 years (Table). Of these patients, 976 (88%) had received at least 1 dose of mumps-containing vaccine before the outbreak, and 839 (75%) had received 2 doses. Among patients aged 7--18 years, the age group with the majority of cases and for whom 2 doses of MMR vaccine is recommended, 93% had received at least 1 dose, and 85% had received 2 doses.
The CDC says: "Although mumps vaccination alone was not sufficient to prevent this outbreak, maintaining high measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination coverage remains the most effective way to prevent outbreaks and limit their size when they occur."
I leave it to you to draw your own conclusions about the effectiveness of vaccines.
Lipitor is a drug that impedes cholesterol synthesis in the liver in an attempt to prevent cardiovascular illness. In a mechanical sense, this would be like taking a hammer to the red warning light to handle the lack of motor oil. In the process, the drug unbalances other vital functions of the human metabolism.
Judging from the experience of many Lipitor users, the drug is dangerous. Side effects range from sometimes excruciating muscle pains to kidney failure, from disorientation and memory loss to incapacitation. Earlier articles on Health Supreme have accumulated a range of spontaneous comments from Lipitor users and their relatives that are heart-rending to consider in their full implications.
And by the way, if you have not come across this vital information yet in your Google searches, you may blame the search engine for tweaking results to de-emphasize links that are critical of a major advertising client...
Former Pfizer Exec Sues Over Lipitor Marketing
A former Pfizer exec has filed a whistleblower lawsuit that accuses the drugmaker of illegally scheming to boost Lipitor sales by misrepresenting product labeling and federal cholesterol guidelines; using misleading educational programs for doctors, and unlawful sampling kickback schemes, among other things, that resulted in off-label marketing that allegedly defrauded Medicaid and Medicare.
Jesse Polansky, who was director of outcomes management from April 2001 until July 2003, claims “thousands of physicians have prescribed Lipitor to millions of patients for whom drug therapy is not recommended, and for whom the medication could be dangerous. (Whole article is here)
The study found that a complex dietary supplement powerfully offsets this key symptom of ageing in old mice by increasing the activity of the cellular furnaces that supply energy—or mitochondria—and by reducing emissions from these furnaces—or free radicals—that are thought to be the basic cause of ageing itself.
Ingredients consists of items that were purchased in local stores selling vitamin and health supplements for people, including vitamins B1, C, D, E, acetylsalicylic acid, beta carotene, folic acid, garlic, ginger root, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, green tea extract, magnesium, melatonin, potassium, cod liver oil, and flax seed oil. Multiple ingredients were combined based on their ability to offset five mechanisms involved in ageing.
The longest witch-hunt in UK medical history draws to a close
A reading of the GMC's adjudication in the hearing does remind one how far the orthodoxy has needed to go to destroy the credibility of a group of doctors who were simply trying to get to the bottom of a condition, the frequency of which has been rising rapidly, and that is causing devastation to children and their families. Despite the GMC's strenuous attempt to damage Wakefield's credibility in particular, it seems to have done nothing to dampen the resolve of the doctors to continue work in this field, in particular to help patients and their families.
It's also worth noting that the GMC hearing concluded that monies used from the Legal Aid Board, that are central to the investigation over professional conduct, were not used for personal gain. They were used to fund further research on the issue. Yet, this is the basis for the declaration of Wakefield's 'dishonesty'.
Possible cancer cure found in blushwood shrub
Scientists have identified a compound in the fruit of the native blushwood shrub that appears to "liquefy and destroy cancer with no side-effects", according to latest research.
"There is a rapid knock-down of the tumour, it disintegrates within 24 hours and we have a rapid healing response.
"The biggest tumour we treated was the size of a Coke can in a dog, and that animal is fully healed and healthy."
Dr Gordon said it had worked on skin cancers, such as carcinomas and melanomas, and bone cancer, and was a possible treatment for breast, colon and prostate cancer.
But she warned wannabe human guinea pigs against seeking under-the-table treatment.
She said it was "immoral, illegal, and unscientific" to seek to be administered the drug before approval, likely to take up to seven years, by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Red wine and dark chocolate are cancer killers
Red grapes and dark chocolate join blueberries, garlic, soy, and teas as ingredients that starve cancer while feeding bodies, Angiogenesis Foundation head William Li said at a prestigious TED Conference.
"We are rating foods based on their cancer-fighting qualities," Li said. "What we eat is really our chemotherapy three times a day."
"There is a medical revolution happening all around us," Li said. "If we're right, it could impact on consumer education, food service, public health, and even insurance agencies."
Best Beers for Bone Health?
The old advertising slogan that "Guinness is Good for You" may have some truth to it after all. Every pint of the black stuff contains as much silicon as a pinch of sand -- and that silicon, according to recent but controversial research, may help to keep your bones strong in old age.
Silicon is common element in the Earth's crust found in many raw foods. Grains and fruits are loaded with it, and the human body contains a total of 5-10 grams. The beer brewing process extracts silicon largely from hops and the husks of grains and dissolves it into the liquid, where the body can easily absorb it.
MONSANTO'S GMO PERVERSION OF FOOD By Byron J. Richards
In the 2010 growing season Monsanto plans to unleash its latest Frankenfood experiment on the American and Canadian public, a new version of genetically mutated corn with eight abnormal gene traits called Genuity SmartStax corn. It is the culmination of an astonishing scandal that has been steadily building over the past decade. During this time Monsanto’s mutated seeds have grown to 90% of the U.S. soy crop and 85% of the corn crop – and wheat is next on their agenda...
10 Reasons Why No One Needs GM Foods
GM foods won’t solve the food crisis - GM crops do not increase yield potential - GM crops increase pesticide use - GM foods have not been shown to be safe to eat - GM crops are a long-term economic disaster for farmers ...
The researchers assessed the use of analgesics during pregnancy and found that 34 percent of mothers reported acetaminophen use during pregnancy, and 27 percent of children had wheeze, an asthma-related symptom. The children whose mothers had taken acetaminophen were more likely to wheeze, visit the emergency room for respiratory problems, and develop allergy symptoms, compared to those children whose mothers did not take acetaminophen. The risk increased with increasing number of days of prenatal acetaminophen use.
Anti-depressant linked to breast cancer deaths
Women taking a popular anti-depressant at the same time as a drug used to stop breast cancer recurring are more likely to die from the disease, doctors warn.
Researchers have found that the anti-depressant Seroxat can interfere with tamoxifen, which is prescribed to thousands of breast cancer survivors for five years at a time.
AstraZeneca facing 26,000 suits over Seroquel
AstraZeneca PLC is facing as many as 26,000 lawsuits over its antipsychotic drug Seroquel as the drug maker prepares for its first jury trial over claims the medicine causes diabetes, according to court filings.
Authors of a new study propose a strict ban on medical ghostwriting
Once medical publishing's "dirty little secret," ghostwriting is no longer under wraps, thanks in part to a 2009 federal court decision to release 1,500 documents describing the strategic placement of marketing messages into peer-reviewed medical literature. In their article Lacasse and Leo say these cleverly crafted advertisements from pharmaceutical companies shape the literature in subtle but important ways, and can even affect how clinicians perceive and prescribe treatments.
"Your typical family practice physician is bombarded with glossy reprints," Lacasse explains. "The more prestigious the university and the researcher's name on it, the more weight that's going to carry with the doctor."
GlaxoSmithKline has revealed that sales of its vaccine reached £835 million in the fourth quarter of 2009. Sales of the drug Relenza have also earned it hundreds of millions of pounds.
In the same period, Novartis notched up vaccine sales of more than £800 million, the vast majority coming from H1N1 sales.
Meanwhile, drugs firm Roche reported an 8 per cent rise in annual sales last year, helped by sales of the swine flu drug Tamiflu, with profits up 14 per cent to £8.89billion.
These companies vehemently deny having influenced the way in which the swine flu pandemic was managed.
British & Japanese Data Show Autism Correlated With Vaccines
We previously published data from Japan showing a clear causal link between changes in the Japanese vaccination schedules and corresponding increases and decreases in rates of children having autistic conditions:- Japanese Data Show Vaccines Cause Autism. The UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s irresponsible and only answer to the Japanese data was it was “not UK data”.
Data from the UK’s General Practice Research Database shows that with each major change in the UK childhood vaccination programme the rates of childhood autism have increased significantly.
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