http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/pharma.htm en-us sepp@lastrega.com Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:57:55 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/04/11/slowing_down_the_pharmaceutical_plague_the_model_group.htm A plague of extreme proportion is the result of the misuse and over-use of the products of pharmacy, a word derived from the Greek pharmakon, translated as magic charm, poison, drug. Think of antibiotics actually creating virulent microbial species that are just about impossible to kill off, think about the so-called cholesterol lowering drugs that are now turning out to have all manner of side effects, from excruciating muscle pains to kidney failure as well as loss of memory and cognitive effects, think of psychiatric drugs which - rather than balancing the faults of character listed as "illness" - further unbalance a person to the point of violence and suicide. Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric... Pharma Sepp Hasslberger Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:57:55 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/03/05/mmr_vaccine_damage_dr_wakefield_defends_research.htm Dr Andrew Wakefield, a vaccine researcher who found that the combined measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine appears to lead to serious side effects, including post-vaccine autism in a number of the children receiving it, is being ostracized from the medical community and his carreer is being targeted to shut up unwanted criticism that could go to the heart of the multi billion dollar vaccine business. A friend in the UK alternative health scene sent the following information, which I would like to make available here: At a hearing that is being drawn out by the British General Medical Council (GMC) to last over 18 months, Dr Andrew Wakefield begins presenting his defence on March 27th 2008. Dr Wakefield and... Health Sepp Hasslberger Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:23:46 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/01/03/cultural_dwarfs_and_junk_journalism_quackbusters_on_the_loose.htm A new book by Martin Walker - Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism: Ben Goldacre, quackbusting and corporate science, takes on the UK variety of a particularly yucky kind of medical and industrial propagandists, the so-called quackbusters. The book can be downloaded freely from the Slingshot Publications site. Goldacre who it is claimed is a Junior doctor working in a London NHS hospital is actually a clinical researcher working at the centre of New Labour’s Orwellian spin operation that puts a sympathetic gloss on anything shown to create adverse reactions from MMR to Wi-Fi, while at the same time undermining cost-effective and long tried alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homoeopathy. Goldacre is involved with public health researchers... Health Sepp Hasslberger Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:37:24 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/12/06/swedish_data_shows_suicides_strongly_associated_with_antidepressant_drugs.htm According to data uncovered by Swedish investigative writer Janne Larsson, suicides are strongly correlated with psychiatric drug treatment and antidepressants. More than 80 per cent of suicides reported in Sweden in 2006 were committed by persons under psychiatric drug treatment and well over 50 per cent had taken antidepressant drugs. A recently enacted Swedish law requires health care providers to report suicides committed by persons in health care and up to four weeks after cessation of treatment. The reports are sent to the National Board of Health for investigation. In 2006, 367 suicides were reported. Data obtained through Freedom of Information requests show that better than 80 per cent of the persons who committed suicide had been... Pharma Sepp Hasslberger Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:47:40 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/11/23/adhd_psychiatric_drugs_bring_brave_new_world.htm "Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers." - Aldous Huxley - (1894-1963) Forword to 'Brave New World', 1932 Brave New World - Image from HuxleyNet. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD is said to be a developmental disorder. All but unknown as little as two decades ago, word has it... Pharma Sepp Hasslberger Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:12:51 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/10/08/should_we_discard_herbal_medicine_unless_provided_by_pharma.htm An examination of three randomized trials involving individualized herbal remedies was sufficient for two researchers to suggest that herbal medicine should be discarded. Not those herbal extracts that are provided by pharmaceutical companies, to be sure, but those mixtures of individual herbs prepared by practitioners following Chinese, Indian or other herbal traditions. The study was reported in the UK press and is drawing many comments from readers, largely in favor of herbal and medical diversity. The Daily Mail got its headline slightly wrong when saying Herb cures that 'do you more harm than good', after all, what was examined was not the safety of herbal remedies but their efficacy. The sideswipe on the safety of herbs seems... Health Sepp Hasslberger Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:22:13 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/10/04/bush_veto_of_child_healthcare_bill_leaves_mercury_in_vaccines.htm Without the usual television cameras, US President George Bush has vetoed a bill that was to expand a children's health insurance program. What the press avoids to mention in their reporting of the event however, is that the bill contained an important passage that would have mandated the elimination of toxic mercury from flu vaccines, a development sharply opposed by pharmaceutical companies. Thiomersal, the mercury compound used as a preservative in many vaccines has been quietly phased out in Europe, and in many of the vaccines used in the US (flu vaccines still contain it), but the situation is different in developing countries. Even vaccines that are thiomersal-free in the West, still contain the toxin when produced... Health Sepp Hasslberger Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:29 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/09/11/low_cholesterol_found_to_increase_cancer_risk.htm Have we been sent off in the wrong direction by producers of cholesterol lowering medications, doctors and thoughtless health advice? Yes indeed, says Al Sears, MD who practices in Florida, USA. To give an example, he points to a study recently published by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, which finds that the more you lower cholesterol the greater the risk of your liver enzymes going off kilter, your muscles dissolving in a potentially deadly disease called rhabdomyolysis and of contracting cancer. Rhabdomyolysis, the muscle dissolving disease, is preceded by horrendous muscle pains. Patients are reporting this to their doctors, but apparently they aren't believed most of the time. Quite little of these often valid... Health Sepp Hasslberger Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:51:56 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/08/25/lilly_sued_over_zyprexa_death.htm The parents of Scott Sexton are suing pharmaceutical producer Eli Lilly saying that Zyprexa, a commonly prescribed psychiatric drug caused their son to fall ill with pancreatitis and die, reports the South East Texas Record. According to a reader who commented on this earlier article on my site, Zyprexa is only approved for a rather small population of ill people, yet it is the 7th best selling drug world wide. Image: Electronic Frontier Foundation - Eli Lilly Zyprexa Litigation. Pharmaceutical whistle blowers have accused Eli Lilly to push Zyprexa for unapproved uses, a practice often called "off label" prescription. Medical doctors can use a drug for patients even if their illness is not what the drug was... Health Sepp Hasslberger Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:52:12 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/08/14/statin_drugs_cause_amnesia_behavioral_disorders_and_cognitive_loss.htm Duane Graveline, a former astronaut and medical doctor is one of the few 'lone voices' warning of the side effects of statin drug use. His website spacedoc.net probably has more information on statin drug side effects than any other place on the internet. Duane 'Spacedoc' Graveline, author of Statin Drugs Side Effects: the misguided war on cholesterol Doc Graveline has now released some more of his research into the side effects of cholesterol lowering drugs. These medicines, which are the biggest sellers in the history of our human pharmaceutical experiment, interfere with the body's ability to produce cholesterol in the liver, and not only that. By suppressing a vital metabolic pathway, they interfere in cholesterol production but... Health Sepp Hasslberger Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:23:39 GMT