04.12.09
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Movement of Life!
Dr Rath speaks about preventing heart disease, cancer, AIDS and the role of the petrochemical - pharmaceutical cartel in opposing any change
The pharmaceutical industry is not a health industry but an investment business accountable to the profit interests of its shareholders.
The prevention and eradication of disease decreases the global markets for pharmaceutical drugs and is therefore not in the interests of this industry and is being actively fought by them.
Micronutrients address the cellular root causes of diseases. By preventing diseases at their roots, this natural, non-patentable health approach threatens the multi-billion global drug markets and ultimately the continuation of the pharmaceutical investment business with disease.
The pharmaceutical industry, one of the largest investment industries in the world has now been exposed as an organized fraud: it promises health but delivers disease – and feeds itself on this global deception.
FDA Scientists Petition President Obama - Protect the Public, Protect the Whistleblowers
The attached letter from FDA Whistle blowers to President Obama petitions the president to act now to clean up the corruption in the FDA.
The words "Dear Mr. President" in the short article are linked to the PDF of the actual letter, which starts out with the words:
"The purpose of this letter is to draw your attention to the frustration and outrage that FDA physicians and scientists, public advocacy groups, the press, and the American people, have repeatedly expressed over the misdeeds of FDA officials. Recent press reports revealed extensive evidence of serious wrongdoing by Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, Dr. Frank M. Torti, top FDA attorneys, Center and Office Directors, and many others in prominent positions of authority at FDA. As a result, Dr. Frank M. Torti, Acting Commissioner and the FDA’s first Chief Scientist, abruptly left the Agency. But, the many other FDA managers who have failed to protect the American public, who have violated laws, rules, and regulations, who have suppressed or altered scientific or technological findings and conclusions, who have abused their power and authority, and who have engaged in illegal retaliation against those who speak out, have not been held accountable and remain in place."
I wonder how long the FDA will continue to be looked at as a kind of benevolent older brother by the health authorities of countries around the world. Unless the very serious shortcomings in the agency are addressed and eliminated, all we can get from following the FDA's decisions seems to be a less effective and more dangerous bunch of pharmaceutical products. So why imitate the FDA at all?
Who Owns Life, Not Monsanto?
In Canada food is not labelled, and campaigners have protested to find out what’s in their food by demanding labelling. The National Farmers Union has warned farmers not to buy Monsanto’s GM seeds because of their aggressive attitude. The Government has been unsuccessful in introducing any new GM crops such as wheat, rice, flax, and alfalfa because there was such an uproar by the people who have seen the damage and don’t want any more GM crops. Schmeiser said, “If we’re trying to stop them in the US and especially Canada, why would you want to introduce them in the UK and Europe?” He believes that now the Corporations have lost the ability to introduce any more GMOs in Canada they have turned their attention to other countries in the world. He compared this dominant strategy with the sale of agricultural pesticides and chemicals that have been exported wholesale to Africa and Asia once the North American markets were saturated.
Schmeiser's run-in with Monsanto, from beginning to end. One of the questions Schmeiser brought up before the Supreme Court in Canada: " 5. Who owns life? Has anyone, either an individual or a corporation, the right to put a patent on a higher life form?" That is a question that still needs answering, and it is legislators as much as courts who have to decide.
Corporate Monopoly on GM Science
As you may already know, you can’t just go into a store and buy genetically modified (GM) seeds. You have to sign an agreement with the company that produced them, and one of the conditions is that you may not save the seeds from your harvest.
What is less well known is that the agreements also prohibit you from using the seeds for research. That may not matter to most farmers, but it is important because it means that research into GM crops can be done only by the biotech companies or with their approval. If they don’t want a particular piece of research carried out, they can refuse permission to use their seeds. Even when they have given permission, if they don’t like the way the research is turning out they can stop it, or prevent the results from being published. Consequently, important decisions on GM crops and all GM organisms (GMOs) are increasingly based on evidence selected by the companies to put them and their products in the best possible light.
Advantame - new sweetener from Aspartame producer Ajinomoto
"We are all very excited about Advantame. The clean sugar-like taste means that it blends very well with sugar and high fructose corn syrup, providing food and drink companies with an alternative that has both nutritional and environmental advantages..."
Wasn't Aspartame bad enough?
Russians cure cancer with small version of Large Hadron Collider?
The treatment process involves focusing the flow of protons, accelerated to the speed of light, into a hair-thin ray, and directing it at the tumor, deputy head of the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Russian Sciences Academy, Yevgeny Levichev, told Life.ru website on Thursday.
The elementary particles will only destroy cancer cells, without harming the healthy ones, he said. Researchers also call the device an “ionic scalpel”.
Big Pharma: Smoking in Bed
Today, many in pharma are shocked by the fact that public opinion polls rank the industry close to big tobacco in overall approval ratings. In my view, that shock is well-founded. But the connection has a specific political history of shared alliances and agenda. It does not emerge from nowhere.
Cymbalta, Chantix Makers Busted For Misleading Google Ads
Yesterday, Bnet.com reported that 14 pharma companies had gotten warning letters from the FDA, which noted that the companies were misrepresenting their drugs' indications and were hiding side effect and risk information in various text ads that popped up during Google searches.
Among the companies were Eli Lilly and Pfizer, both of whom allegedly aren't giving the public proper risk information in those little text ads and sponsored links thingys that pop up all over the Net.
Seroquel, Wellbutrin Used For Highs In Prison
"Corrections officials throughout the country have long suspected that some inmates were either using the pills to get loaded, or "cheeking" them in order to later sell them to other prisoners to chop up and snort. Seroquel is an anti-psychotic that produces a hypnotic effect, and Wellbutrin is an antidepressant some liken to speed...."
"'It definitely goes on,' said John Madsen, secretary of the California Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors. 'Say someone is addicted to cocaine but can't get it. They'll try the next best thing. When it comes to drugs, addicts will find themselves doing just about anything.'"
Sen. Grassley Extends Pharma Probe To NAMI
As I noted last year, America's uber mental health advocacy group the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) was getting oodles from pharma companies, including $490,000 from Eli Lilly. What NAMI uses that money for isn't clear to me, but the group does a ton of lobbying on Capitol Hill and of state legislatures throughout the country. NAMI National's annual budget once ran around $12 million and roughly half of that came from pharma companies. Is it any wonder that NAMI never uttered a word of caution or alarm while scandals rolled out around Zyprexa and other atypical antipsychotics?
Bloomberg has an article about this:
Grassley Probes Financing of Advocacy Group for Mental Health
Inconsistent "AIDS tests" in the news
“Health experts last week warned that in addition to people mistakenly taking only one test, conditions for misuse of rapid diagnostic HIV test kits exist in the country [Uganda] and can lead to deceptive results.” ... Not only “can”, but do and have for a long time.
The epidemiology of “HIV” tests among different population groups demonstrates that testing “HIV-positive” may reflect a variety of physiological conditions, many of them by no means health-threatening, let alone life-threatening...
Much data cited in my book and on this blog reinforce the conclusion that “HIV” isn’t sexually transmitted and that having a sexually transmitted disease (chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes, syphilis) does NOT — contrary to a common HIV/AIDS shibboleth — predispose to becoming “HIV-positive”.
More debate urged after historic HIV murder verdict
“We need to figure out why these charges have escalated from criminal negligence to assault to aggravated sexual assault and now murder without there ever having been an informed public debate,” said Alison Symington, with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.
Symington would like to see an evaluation of the case by the attorney general and clear guidelines established for prosecutors to know how to proceed with an HIV non-disclosure case. She also wants an open dialogue on the issue.
“Do we as a society think not telling someone you’re living with about a sexually transmitted infection is the equivalent of murder? We really need to stop and have this debate.”
The Crown maintained two women, who can only be identified as H.C. and S.B., were essentially injected with a “slow-acting poison” that destroyed their immune systems and, because they didn’t know Aziga had HIV, they were unable to seek effective treatment, leading to their cancers and to their deaths.
This is despite the fact that no one has described, in a scientific publication, just how HIV is supposed to cause weakening of the immune system, and despite the fact that there is
no gold standard against which to measure the HIV tests, because the virus cannot be isolated from those who are said to be "infected".
Yes, that debate is indeed necessary.
Cell phones and brain tumors: a review including the long-term epidemiologic data
The results indicate that using a cell phone for more than 10 years approximately doubles the risk of being diagnosed with a brain tumor on the same ("ipsilateral") side of the head as that preferred for cell phone use.
New Zealand scraps ban on traditional lightbulbs
The standard low cost, low pollution incandescent light bulb had been banned in New Zealand but on Wednesday the NZ Goverment announced an end to the ban.
There have been concerns raised around the world about the high-energy costs involved in manufacturing so called "energy efficient" light bulbs along with the potential risks resulting from the use of the toxin Mercury in such bulbs.
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More information out there...
There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.
You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.
Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.
The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.
For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.
A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:
http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/
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The Finance 2.0 Manifesto - Dear G20...
Umair Haque addresses the assembled leaders of the G20 -
Finance 1.0 cannot power growth 2.0. Yesterday's finance cannot power tomorrow's prosperity. Bailouts, taxes, nationalization, regulation are what your discussions this week are focused on. These can limit the depth and intensity of the crash. But what they cannot do is build a radically more efficient, productive, and effective financial system.
That requires a better kind of finance altogether — one designed not merely to make the worst among us richer, but to make us all authentically, meaningfully wealthier. That's why finance 2.0 is the future.
Some may ask whether we need Umair Haque's advice on re-thinking the finance system. Perhaps the banking sector will somehow just right itself.
If you have any doubt that drastic action is indeed needed, I recommend you read "The quiet Coup" http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice where Simon Johnson, who was chief economist with the IMF not long back, looks at the banking crisis with a rather penetrating eye.
EU Court: No freedom of speech on medicines
Reporting to Nutraingredients today, Susie Ekstrand, of the Danish law firm, Lett, acting as counsel for Damgaard said: “This ruling is significant because it means anything written about a product that maybe deemed medicinal in one member state, can be deemed inappropriate and consequences may follow for the author.”
Canada Bans Lawn Chemicals - Multinationals Sue
The Canadian Cancer Society praised Alberta’s action as an “appropriate first step to limit the risk to human health and the environment.” Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and more than 100 Canadian cities have now enacted lawn and landscape chemical bans but the pesticide makers are fighting back. Last October, Dow AgroSciences filed a notice of intent to seek compensation from the Canadian government over Quebec’s provincial ban. Under provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Dow (which makes the weed-killer 2,4-D), claimed the Quebec ban “breaches legal protections owed by Canada to U.S. investors.” Chemtura filed a similar NAFTA-based claim over Canada’s ban on lindane for seed treatment.
Vioxx maker Merck drew up doctor hit list
Staff at US company Merck &Co emailed each other about the list of doctors - mainly researchers and academics - who had been negative about the drug Vioxx or Merck and a recommended course of action.
The email, which came out in the Federal Court in Melbourne yesterday as part of a class action against the drug company, included the words "neutralise", "neutralised" or "discredit" against some of the doctors' names.
It is also alleged the company used intimidation tactics against critical researchers, including dropping hints it would stop funding to institutions and claims it interfered with academic appointments.
"We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live," a Merck employee wrote, according to an email excerpt read to the court by Julian Burnside QC, acting for the plaintiff.
New Zealand: Group calls for greater controls on kids' medicines
Aspartame was in at least 81 children's medicines available in New Zealand , she said.
"We want to encourage manufacturers to remove questionable and potentially harmful ingredients from their products and give the consumer more information and choice, while we wait for our regulatory authorities to do something about the appallingly neglected area of children's medicine."
Texas Bill to Curb Psychiatric Prescriptions to Children
Rep. Sylvester Turner's bill would prohibit doctors from prescribing anti-psychotic drugs to children younger than 11 who are covered by Medicaid unless they get special permission from the state.
Thousands of Texas children under 2 years old have been prescribed anti-psychotics like Seroquel and Risperdal, Turner said – drugs that treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but can produce harmful side effects in children. His measure would force state health officials to review individual prescriptions, considering a child's diagnosis and whether a drug has federal approval for use in juveniles before approving the prescription.
Alaska Admits It Is Incapable of Protecting Children and Youth in Its Care from Harmful Psychiatric Drugging
Practically every day brings revelations that pediatric psychopharmacology is the result of illegal drug company actions to improperly influence psychiatrists to prescribe extremely harmful drugs to children and youth, in spite of there being no real evidence of their efficacy. "Rather than meeting its mandate to properly care for and protect these children and youth from harm, the actions of the State are reprehensible," Mr. Gottstein declared, adding "The State is also trying to hide its complicity by stopping the discovery process."
Creators Of Psychiatric Treatment Guidelines Deeply Tied To Pharma
An article in the Boston Globe details a new study in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics wherein researchers went through the American Psychiatric Association's treatment guidelines for depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and found that 18 of the 20 authors had ties to pharmaceutical companies. Medications for the three diagnoses are a $25 billion a year market for Big Pharma.
FDA Publicly Worries About Seroquel's Risks
"There remains a concern about longer-term risks with this drug, in particular risks related to metabolic changes," said FDA drug reviewer Thomas Laughren, in documents posted online. Laughren also pointed to a recent New England Journal of Medicine article that suggests antipsychotic drugs like Seroquel can increase the risk of sudden cardiac death.
AIDS: House of Numbers
A 2009 Documentary by Brent Leung takes on the most controversial human rights and human health issue of the last fifty years. Asking the un-askable, questioning the un-questionable, Mr. Leung uncovers the mass of information about HIV testing and the AIDS diagnosis that is daily suppressed by government and media, and hidden from public view.
Guinea Pig Kids: The Village Voice Buries the Bodies
The VERA Institute, essentially given a mandate to cover up the story, was paid three million dollars to admit that many children died, and to loudly assure the public that no drug could possibly be to blame. They excuse high dose Black Box drugs used on infants and children, up to 7 and 8 drugs at a time, each of which is capable of killing an adult.
They do this while simultaneously admitting that they were FORBIDDEN from looking at a SINGLE medical record for ANY of the children. The VERA researcher then tells the Voice reporter, Elizabeth Dwoskin, that they really can’t be sure of their assertion, or any assertion, because they had no access to medical records.
Man-made electromagnetic fields: are we at risk?
Belgian Liberal Member Frédérique Ries is sufficiently concerned that she is urging fellow MEPs to back precautionary measures before the full weight of scientific knowledge weighs in. On Wednesday evening the full European Parliament will consider her report on the matter.
It seems we are going towards an awareness of damage from electromagnetic communication technologies, and first steps are being taken to limit the damage that is being shown by several studies.
According to more recent news, the Frederique Ries report was approved by the EU Parliament on 2 April 2009 with 559 votes in favour, 22 against, and 8 abstentions.
What we now need is scientific discussion on how to change those communication technologies to make them harmless for human and animal life.
How Susceptible Are Genes to Mobile Phone Radiation?
In their articles, the experts in biomedicine and biosciences Prof. Franz Adlkofer, Prof. Igor Y. Belyaev, and Vladislav M. Shiroff show the broad range of international research efforts that document DNA and chromosome damages as well as chronic diseases resulting from electromagnetic radiation exposures. This is about non-thermal effects well below current exposure limits. UMTS radiation turns out to be especially hazardous.
Australia: Scientists speak out on mobile phone, cancer link
Epidemiologist Professor Bruce Armstrong has broken ranks on the world's largest research study, and top neurosurgeon Dr Vini Khurana has this week published his research review. Both find an increased risk of brain tumours on the side of the head the mobile is used after 10 years of calls, reflecting growing concerns around the world.
Wheel Motors to Drive Dutch Buses
Thanks largely to its in-wheel motors, the bus can travel twice as far as a conventional bus on a liter of diesel, says Arend Heinen, who is both an engineer and spokesperson for the company. That translates into a reduction in fuel consumption of 50 percent. The company has been awarded contracts to retrofit seven commercial buses with its technology, with the first to be completed next month.
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More information out there...
There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.
You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.
Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.
The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.
For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.
A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:
http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/
The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition
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Open-Source Healthcare
The healthcare industry is a textbook example of what Ivan Illich (in Tools for Conviviality) called a “radical monopoly.” The central function of the government’s “safety” and “consumer protection” regulations, in most cases, is either to exclude competing providers of a good or service from the market, to circumscribe the areas of competition between them, or to set a floor on the capitalization required for doing business and thus impose a mandatory minimum overhead. The overall effect, as Paul Goodman put it in People or Personnel, is to create a 300% or 400% markup in the cost of doing anything, and render us all dependent on institutional providers with bureaucratic cultures and high overhead costs...
Health insurance for $10 per year using the network
The core of this service is accepting that the care is third rate from day one. People will die because we don’t carry the right drugs. They’ll die because the expert system diagnostics are only 80% in practice. They’ll die because the trained worker is sick that day and sends his brother. They’ll die because the software had bugs. We accept that for every ten lives saved, one to three are lost.
It’s this tolerance for a bad healthcare system which allows this system to work at all: you can’t provide 99.9% health care on $10 per year. But you can provide 80% health care, and right now, that’s far, far better access to medical support than the poor can get any other way.
Launch of the Medicines Transparency Alliance
MeTA is an alliance of governments, pharmaceutical companies, civil society, and other stakeholders which aims to increase access to essential medicines for people in developing countries. This will be done by working to increase transparency and accountability in medicines procurement and supply chains to tackle inefficiency, corruption, and fraud in 7 pilot countries: Ghana, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Peru, the Philippines, Uganda, and Zambia.
In this first pilot phase, MeTA aims to focus on strengthening the capacity of 7 pilot countries to collect, analyse, disseminate, and use data on the quality, availability, pricing, and use of medicines. This work intends to help improve transparency and accountability with regard to the selection, regulation, procurement, distribution, and supply of medicines - including the ways in which they are prescribed to and used by patients.
How probiotics can prevent disease
The team also used probiotics to control disease in animals that were already infected. The results of these tests proved that administering these safe bacteria to an infected animal was as effective as the best available antibiotic therapies in eliminating the infectious agent and resolving the symptoms.
"We have shown that we can protect and even treat animals against pathogenic bacteria by introducing harmless bacteria at the site of the infection," said Dr Hill. "In order to use similar strategies in preventing or treating human disease we must understand the molecular basis of their efficacy. This understanding will provide the basis for intelligent screening and selection of the most appropriate protective bacterial cultures to go forward into human trials".
Study shows vitamin E tocotrienols delay tumour growth
The researchers from Kyushu University evaluated the anti-tumour activities of both gamma and delta tocotrienols in mouse cancer cells. They found that supplementing the diet of the mouse with tocotrienols (in vivo) significantly delayed tumour growth. This was found to be the case for both gamma and delta tocotrienols. The researchers also found that delta tocotrienols, when studied outside the living organism (in vitro), were particularly effective in delaying tumour growth through the induction of apoptosis (programmed cell death).
Omega-3 kills cancer cells
Docosahexanoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in fish oils, has been shown to reduce the size of tumours and enhance the positive effects of the chemotherapy drug cisplatin, while limiting its harmful side effects. The rat experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cell Division, provide some support for the plethora of health benefits often ascribed to omega-3 acids.
Bisphenol A: toxin in plastic bottles to be banned in the US?
Legislation has been announced by leaders from the US House of Representatives and the Senate to establish a federal ban on bisphenol A (BPA) in all food and beverage containers. The move follows an announcement by the gas and chemical company, Sunoco, that it could not be certain of the compound’s safety. They are now refusing to sell BPA for use in food and drink containers of children below the age of three.
Agricultural chemical industry shudders at organic White House garden
Here's an interesting twist in what appeared to be a piece of all-around good news: when officials at the Mid America Croplife Association discovered that the new White House kitchen garden was to be managed organically, they sent a letter to First Lady Michelle Obama asking her to consider managing the garden "conventionally"...
US Department of Agriculture jittery over GMO imports
In an apparently sharp reversal, the US Department of Agriculture is now borrowing all the arguments that it once pooh-poohed against obligatory trade of genetically engineered foods.
It's ok as long as the US is exporting, GMOs should not even have to be labeled ... but since other countries develop their own GMOs (in this case it's China) to export, there suddenly is a problem. Makes me scratch my head...
CODEX Committee on Contaminants in Foods discusses Melamine - Mum's the Word
NHF raised its nameplate at the CCCF meeting to speak out and oppose the 2.5 ppm upper limit on melamine contamination proposed by the Codex draft paper. At the very least the limit should be no more than 1 ppm, we argued before the Committee. And, preferably, there should be no detectable amounts at all.
The European Commission strongly opposed showing NHF’s comments in the Report, stating there was no need for the sentence. Canada and Japan both joined in the censorship move ...
The National Health Federation plans to oppose these ironically high limits on melamine contaminants. It is ironic because while touting consumer “safety” as its reason for imposing strict maximum upper levels on natural and healthy dietary food supplements in one Codex committee, the European Commission conveniently looks the other way when consumer safety is at risk by a man-made contaminant such as melamine.
Study: Housing Homeless Drunks And Letting Them Drink Saves Millions
The 98 street drunks whom the study tracked had cost the public $4,066 a month prior to entering 1811 and afterwards they cost $1,492 a month after six months in the facility and $958 a month after 12 months. That's a pretty big savings and, oddly enough, some of the residents began to drink less. Some even got sober.
Now if we could just get to the same realization on drugs other than alcohol, and end the prohibition, opening the way to damage reduction strategies, things might just turn around in a big way, as much of the crime that is caused by prohibition would simply cease to be lucrative.
Medicine: 'It's an odd trial where you know the outcome before you start'
Now, Harvard and the National Institutes of Health have launched a new investigation, which has uncovered some slides Dr Biederman showed to drug company executives, outlining plans to test their drugs. One slide said the trial "will support the safety and effectiveness of [the drug] in this age group". Another, about a separate trial, said it would "clarify the competitive advantages of [the drug]" over its rivals.
It is an odd kind of trial where you know the outcome before you start.
Book:MediSIN
This book is a fascinating and unique perspective of the unholy practices of allopathic medicine and the commercialization of devitalized and chemical based foods...
Doctors' Group Wants All Teens Screened For Depression
This is simply stunning stuff. While I'm not a depression denier--I know all about teen depression from personal experience--I am simply stunned that an allegedly reputable group of doctors would recommend such wholesale screening when they know damn well that psychotherapy is often inaccessible (for a number of reasons) and that doctors, with zero expertise in mental health care, will simply steer kids towards anti-depressants which have very rocky track records in terms of efficacy and safety.
Florida Docs Prescribed Antipsychotics Like Candy To Little Kids With ADHD
As a result of the approval process, prescriptions of atypicals in this population decreased by 75 percent last year and 40 percent fewer doctors even wrote prescriptions for the drugs at all. Shall we say that quite a few docs were being indiscriminate in the use of these drugs?
The Psycho-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex - Profiting from drugging women and children
In the United States, one in three doctor's visits by women involves an antidepressant prescription, 11 percent of women take antidepressants, and a 2007 study of pregnant women enrolled in Tennessee Medicaid revealed that antidepressant use during pregnancy increased from 5.7 percent in 1999 to 13.4 percent in 2003.
Glutathione Inhibits Tuberculosis in HIV Positives and Negatives
Intracellular levels of glutathione are depleted in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in whom the risk of tuberculosis, particularly disseminated disease is many times that of healthy individuals.
Treatment of blood cultures from human immunodeficiency virus infected subjects with N-acetyl cysteine, a glutathione precursor, caused improved control of intracellular M. tuberculosis infection.
TB: an 'opportunistic' infection
“HIV” has accomplished a great deal during its relatively brief existence: it has been responsible indirectly for a great many deaths (from mis-diagnoses and iatrogenic drug-induced damage); it has addled countless brains, not least among doctors and medical scientists; it has brought wasted expenditures over the years that cumulatively exceed the $170 billion that AIG “bail-outs” have cost; and, far from least, “HIV” has sapped from the media any remaining vestiges of common sense and everyday skepticism (investigative reporting? What’s that?!).
Despite these notable achievements, perhaps the greatest accomplishment of decades-old “HIV” has been to convert the millennia-old scourge of tuberculosis (TB) into an “opportunistic infection”...
Clinical Trials in New York City Orphans
I think it’s clear that ICC was founded with good intentions, to assist abandoned, ill and suffering infants. But I also think that a shocking and inexcusable ethical line was crossed when the children began to be used as pharmaceutical test subjects.
I will point out that the vast majority of ICC’s wards were children of crack addicts, themselves born chemically-addicted and profoundly debilitated, according to the childcare workers, nursing staff and children from ICC that I interviewed.
Further, I think, the relabeling of these children as “HIV positive” arises from the non-standardized, highly-flexible nature of HIV testing. Here is my summary of the limitations of the tests, Here is an extensive catalog of citations from the medical literature on the subject.
Geithner’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: The Entire Global Financial System is at Risk
Today five US banks according to data in the just-released Federal Office of Comptroller of the Currency’s Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activity, hold 96% of all US bank derivatives positions in terms of nominal values, and an eye-popping 81% of the total net credit risk exposure in event of default.
Continuing to pour taxpayer money into these five banks without changing their operating system, is tantamount to treating an alcoholic with unlimited free booze.
UK: Report says the problem's not bankers, it's society
THE ECONOMIC system is broken, and attempts by governments to fix it by kick-starting growth and consumerism are "delusional" and "pathological", the Westminster and Holyrood governments will be warned by their own advisers this week.
A ground-breaking report by the leading environmental advisers to First Minister Alex Salmond and Prime Minister Gordon Brown will deliver a damning verdict on capitalism and demand a radical shift to a fairer, more sustainable society.
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More information out there...
There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.
You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.
Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.
The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.
For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.
A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:
http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/
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Birth brain defect could be prevented with vitamin supplement
Scientists at The University of Manchester and Lancaster University say laboratory tests have shown that administering a combination of vitamins (tetrahydrofolate and folinic acid), dramatically reduces the risk of hydrocephalus.
Dr Miyan explained: “A combination of tetrahydrofolate and folinic acid - both naturally occurring substances - stimulated brain cell growth and had a significant positive effect on brain development in laboratory experiments on rats and reduced the incidence of hydrocephalus.
“In laboratory experiments, the combined folate supplement works at any stage during pregnancy which means that it may be effective even if it is commenced after the diagnosis of hydrocephalus is made at an 18 to 20 week pregnancy scan.
Vitamin D: Another study shows RDAs/RDIs grossly inadequate
The new research concluded that daily supplementation with four times the existing RDI for the under-50s i.e. 20 mcg of vitamin D3, during the winter months, achieved optimal circulating levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations in 80% of participants. The researchers considered that this dose to be adequate to optimize vitamin D status in most young women in Maine.
UK: Call to 'Save Our Supplements'
Miss Anne McIntosh, MP for Vale of York and Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Thirsk and Malton, has called on the Prime Minister to help prevent thousands of vitamin and mineral supplements from being wiped from the shelves of health food stores such as Holland and Barrett in Thirsk.
“Tony Blair noted that the legislation was ‘wholly out of proportion’. I have written to the current Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, urging him personally to intervene by taking up the matter with the President of the European Commission. Action is needed now to block the likely decimation of the specialist supplements market.”
Protecting the Brain: Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Lyme, MS, ALS, Autism, and Depression
It is important to strengthen the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) against cytokine invasion. Cytokines will only cross the BBB in an area that it is weakened. Low levels of vitamin B, a deficiency of certain essential fatty acids, and a viral infection, like a cold or flu can weaken the blood brain barrier. A study published in June 2002, in the scientific journal Differentiation, reported new evidence that mobile phone radiation can also weaken the BBB against harmful substances. Diet and dietary supplements can strengthen the brain’s protective barrier..
US: GAO Report on Dietary Supplements a Major Development
(by Citizens for Health) - We predicted late last year before, during, and after the election that 2009 would begin a time of change and challenge for dietary supplements. It looks like the first shoe has dropped: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) presented a report to Congress last week, titled Dietary Supplements: FDA Should Take Further Action to Improve Oversight and Consumer Understanding.
US: Tell Congress to Improve Food Safety by Stopping Factory Farming
OCA (the Organic Consumers Association) does not support HR 875 in its present form, given the fact that, if the bill's regulations were applied in a one-size-fits-all manner to certified organic and farm-to-consumer operations, it could have a devastating impact on small farmers, especially raw milk producers who are already unfairly targeted by state food-safety regulators.
For Whom the Bell Tolls - The Control of America's Farmers and Farm Lands
HR875 and S425 should explicitly seek to strengthen the natural resource base of the small farmers instead of creating a legal framework for predatory oligopolies to monopolize food production and distribution. In its present form it is a penal bill that has the potential to financially destroy small food producers.
The American people are facing contamination of their food from genetically modified organisms and pesticide. They are eating nutrition-deficient foods. It has been established beyond any doubt that natural foods are nutritious, ensure health and well-being. Yet the two bills fail to address these issues.
My comment: apart from the insane proposal to clamp down with controls on all agriculture just because the corporate controlled industrial agriculture has great potential of poisoning people, I think we should keep something basic in mind about food.
Local production of food should be the rule, not the exception. Export of agricultural products should be the exception, not the rule. This is a statement of principle and I realize that we are very far from it in today's world. We even import foods that CAN be locally produced, and in Europe, which has a jungle of agricultural subsidies, products often get exported and then get re-imported to profit from subsidies both ways. State control (and the state's desire to "support export") are some of the most pernicious forces that distort agriculture and therefore nutrition and health.
Products that are transported for thousands of miles don't get better while they travel, and they accumulate a lot of cost in terms of fuel and transport infrastructure. Products that are produced for export, instead of for local production, are produced with less of an emphasis on quality and more of an emphasis on quantity, as there is no one to complain to the producer, if his tomatos have no taste or his apples and oranges have less and less nutritional content.
Why not just return to local production for local people, and a small trickle of export where really needed? The food would be so much better!
Golden Rice Scandal Unfolds
Phase II clinical trials on children have been conducted with unapproved experimental GM rice enhanced in pro-Vitamin A that has the potential to cause birth defects and developmental abnormalities
More than 30 senior scientists and academics signed an open letter condemning researchers at Tufts University (Boston) in the United States for carrying out clinical trials of genetically modified (GM) ‘Golden Rice’ on children. The scientists claimed that the trials were in breach of the Nuremberg Code of Ethics brought in at the end of the Second World War to prevent any repetition of the experiments conducted by Nazi scientists including many on children.
The ‘Golden Rice’ in the trials (GR2) appears to be an experimental collection of transgenic events still in the laboratory, uncharacterised in terms of basic molecular genetics or biological and biochemical properties, not tested pre-clinically on animals, or subjected to any other safety assessment.
The City that Ended Hunger - By Frances Moore Lappé
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger.
In just a decade Belo Horizonte cut its infant death rate - widely used as evidence of hunger - by more than half, and today these initiatives benefit almost 40 percent of the city's 2.5 million population. One six-month period in 1999 saw infant malnutrition in a sample group reduced by 50 percent. And between 1993 and 2002 Belo Horizonte was the only locality in which consumption of fruits and vegetables went up.
Hyperbaric treatment for autism reports significant clinical improvements
Hyperbaric therapy traditionally involves inhaling up to 100% oxygen at a pressure greater than 1 atmosphere (atm) in a pressurized chamber. In the first randomized, controlled, double-blind multicenter trial, Dan Rossignol and colleagues, from six centers in the USA, studied 62 children, aged 2-7 years, to assess the efficacy of hyperbaric treatment in children with autism.
The study found that children with autism in the treatment group had significant improvements in overall functioning, receptive language, social interaction, eye contact, and sensory/cognitive awareness compared to children in the non-treatment group.
Rossignol wrote "Hyperbaric treatment is a safe treatment modality at 1.3 atm and ... appears to be a promising treatment for children with autism".
Superbugs Kill 90,000 patients a year!
American hospitals are treating sicker patients with more complex, invasive techniques—and helping people live longer. But every year in these same facilities some 90,000 Americans pick up infections that kill them. Hard-to-treat superbugs are an increasing problem as widespread use of antibiotics produces new germs that are drug-resistant—and few new medications are in the pipeline.
Silenced Drug Study Creates An Uproar
Study 15 suffered the same fate as many industry-sponsored trials that yield data drugmakers don't like: It got buried. It took eight years before a taxpayer-funded study rediscovered what Study 15 had found -- and raised serious concerns about an entire new class of expensive drugs.
Study 15 was silenced in 1997, the same year Seroquel was approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat schizophrenia. The drug went on to be prescribed to hundreds of thousands of patients around the world and has earned billions for London-based AstraZeneca International-- including nearly $12 billion in the past three years.
The results of Study 15 were never published or shared with doctors, even as less rigorous studies that came up with positive results for Seroquel were published and used in marketing campaigns aimed at physicians and in television ads aimed at consumers. The results of Study 15 were provided only to the Food and Drug Administration -- and the agency has strenuously maintained that it does not have the authority to place such studies in the public domain.
If the FDA can't tell us about a study that says a drug is dangerous, what are they good for?
Researcher Slams SSRIs, Citing Large Risks And Small Benefits
Joel Kauffman is an emeritus chemistry professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and in an article in the current Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons he does everything but call SSRIs--Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Luvox, Celexa, Lexapro--unsafe at any speed.
"At most, 11%–30% of patients with depression or related conditions who take SSRIs actually benefited beyond the placebo effect on normal doses... Adverse effects, mostly dose-dependent, will appear in up to 75% of patients on normal doses. Of these, studies suggest that suicidality will be observed in an additional 2%–13% of patients on normal doses..."
Kenya, Uganda VCTs turning in thousands of false HIV-positives
When two different tests were administered on all 6,255 subjects, a total of 131 people had “discrepant results” — where one was positive and the other negative.
Using a third confirmatory test, 27 of the subjects were finally confirmed to be carrying the virus, meaning that without such controls and using just one test, 104 people could have been told they were HIV-positive when they were not.
What is AIDS Denialism?
There is no single way of thinking about Aids from a critical point of view. I’m critical of the tests, and drugs, and the severity of the diagnosis; some people are on about causation, some about just the drugs, some about just the general theory (sex). But no one ‘denies’ that a lot of people died in the early and mid 80s, or that many more people died in the early 1990s after the introduction and in the first blush of high-dose AZT monotherapy, and that mortality reduced after the doses were lowered, and the new drugs took AZT’s place.
Malaria Vaccine Trials Raise Concerns over Risks to Infants
These recent trials of malaria vaccines on infants in Africa raise serious concerns over safety, not only of the malaria vaccine being tested, but of vaccines in general administered in large numbers to the young and very young. The malaria vaccine is being tested against a background of multiple vaccines, and furthermore, against vaccines with highly controversial safety record such as the hepatitis B vaccine.
From 1990 to the end of 2002, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), set up by the Centers for Disease Control and Food and Drug Administration in the United States, received reports of 9 520 serious adverse events in children under one year of age after one dose of hepatitis B vaccine, either alone or with other vaccines; among these were 627 deaths. In the same period, there were 38 600 serious adverse events and 753 deaths over all ages for the hepatitis B vaccine. Clearly deaths among infants less than 1 year after hepatitis B vaccination were much higher than those in adults and older children.
In the malaria vaccine trials, serious adverse events of 10 to 20 percent or more and even deaths in both trial and control groups were routinely dismissed as ‘unrelated to vaccination’, and hence did not even enter into the VAERS statistics.
The level of protection offered by the malaria vaccine was at best 65.9 percent in the follow up period of 3 months after the final dose, and there is no evidence it lasted longer than that. This level of efficacy is insignificant when treatment is promptly applied, and certainly not worth the risks of serious adverse events including death.
Yet, all the trials concluded that the vaccine was safe, and “immunogenic in young infants” and warrant a large scale phase III multi-centre trial.
Video: Cellphone Danger - Risks Exposed
Are Cellphones safe? This is the trailer to Cell Phone Wars movie shows just some of the risks. Your health is compromised by EMR ElectroMagnetic Radiation.
Mobile phone antennas: New judgement and ministerial crisis in France (PDF)
According to Next-up News, there are numerous lawsuits against the mobile phone companies in France - 135 is one estimate, but there may be more.
A planned round table on relay antennas, which was supposed to take place on 26 March 2009 with the participation of three ministers (Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister for Health, Chantale Jouanno, Secretary for Ecology and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Secretary for the Development of the Digital Economy), has been postponed at the Prime Minister's request to the end of April. However, in the face of the rejection of mobile phone relay antennas gaining ground among the French public, there will instead be an emergency meeting on 26 March involving some ministers and the mobile phone companies only.
SCEC - Solidarity and Local Complementary Currency in Italy
SCEC is in the form of a discount chit denominated in Euro equivalents (in denominations of 0.50 Euro, 1, 2, 5, 10 and 50 Euro). It is distributed for free and acquires value only when used. Businesses and professionals agree to give a discount to buyers who pay (in part) with SCEC, usually around 20 %.
SCEC is putting first emphasis on actually supporting local production and commerce over imports from far away and world wide commerce by multinationals. The currency makes local exchanges more convenient for people who use the system, as they get a break by virtue of getting substantial discounts on the normal price.
The Liquidity Network - a proposal for non-monetary liquidity
Feasta is making a determined effort to set up a system that allows participants to exchange goods and services with each other without anyone going into debt. Although our system will operate in parallel with the existing money system, it will not be a money system. The units used within our system will be units of measure analogous to kilos or metres. Like these measures, they will have no intrinsic value and will only operate as a counting device to give participants a way of comparing and expressing the value of the goods and services being exchanged and ensuring that some participants do not take more value from the system than they put in. Participants will not own the units in their account at any time.
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You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.
Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.
The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.
For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.
A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:
http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/
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Why big pharma mergers magnify failures
The fact that so many companies are now merging reflects the failure of each company to discover and develop its own replacement pipeline. To maintain growth, a pharmaceutical company must either produce enough new products to replace those that have gone off-patent or acquire rights to distribute drugs created by others. This is clearly not happening on a large enough scale. A small number of patented drugs, each with annual sales of $1 to $5 billion, accounts for most of the profits of the large pharmaceutical companies, and these profits are vanishing as the patents expire. Meanwhile, the number of new drugs approved for sale annually has steadily decreased over the past 15 years.
Today, programs that are thought to have an annual sales potential of less than $1 billion are usually stopped in their tracks. Some companies have abandoned their work in entire areas of medicine, such as antibiotics, because they believe the markets are too small to make a difference to their total sales.
This article provides an interesting look at Pharma's business model.
The product of pharma is money, rather than healthy people. Not even new drugs as such are a product, only new drugs that have blockbuster (more than $1 billion annual sales) potential. The model is creaking at the seams and pharma has become a dog-eat-dog game as evidenced by takeovers and mergers.
Pharma's business model appears to be unsustainable. It seems we should re-invent healthcare with human health in mind, rather than the maximization of pharma's profits.
One in seven US teens is vitamin D deficient
"These are alarming findings. We need to do a better job of educating the public on the importance of vitamin D, and the best ways to get it. To meet minimum nutritional requirements teens would need to consume at least four glasses of fortified milk daily or its dietary equivalent. Other foods rich in vitamin D include salmon, tuna, eggs and fortified cereals. A vitamin supplement containing 400 IU of vitamin D is another alternative..."
... and what about getting a few minutes in the sun each day? Makes lots of vitamin D when its rays hit the skin!
A reader notes that intoxication with lead can also cause vitamin D deficiency: "Lead accumulates in bones and inhibits formation of heme and hemoglobin in erythroid precursor cells. Before this happens, however, lower levels of lead can cause other problems. These are: impaired vitamin D metabolism, decreased nerve conduction rates, and developmental problems for children including: loss of IQ, hearing impairment, delayed growth, and behavior disorders."
Can Parkinson's Disease be Reversed?
Hanne Koplev is a veterinarian who lives in Denmark. She was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease but, unlike many others, she did not give up hope when told that Parkinson's was incurable and destined to get progressively worse...
Mass. doctor accused of faking pain pill data
The hospital said a routine review in May found that some of Reuben's research was not approved by an internal hospital review board. Further investigation found 21 papers published in anesthesiology journals between 1996 and 2008 in which Reuben made up some or all data.
The hospital asked the journals to retract the studies, some of which reported favorable results from painkillers including Pfizer Inc.'s Bextra, Celebrex and Lyrica and Merck & Co. Inc.'s Vioxx. His studies also claimed Wyeth's antidepressant Effexor could be used as a painkiller.
US: State of Massachusetts bans drug firm gifts to doctors
State officials gave final approval yesterday to regulations banning pharmaceutical and medical device companies from providing gifts to physicians, limiting when companies can pay for doctors' meals, and requiring companies to publicly disclose payments to doctors over $50 for certain types of consulting and speaking engagements.
The regulations will take effect July 1, and the first public reporting by companies will be due by July 1, 2010. The information will be posted on the Public Health Department website and will be searchable by company and by healthcare provider.
JAMA Editor In Chief "Upset" At Researcher For Pushing Conflict Disclosure
Catherine DeAngelis, editor-in-chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association and some researchers who failed to report conflicts of interest to the journal on a Lexapro study, have been found calling one other researcher, who brought the unreported conflict to the journal's attention, by phone to chew him out. What's ironic is that DeAngelis has made much hay out of her efforts to eliminate conflicts of interest from medical studies and yet there she was picking up the phone to call Jonathan Leo, an associate professor of neuroanatomy at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, and give him hell when she should have been thanking him for identifying an unreported conflict of interest that got past reviewers and editors at JAMA.
Prostate tests overdiagnose cancer
Most men over 50 have had a blood test that measures prostate specific antigen, or PSA, mostly for routine screening.
There begins the list of problems: Most men who undergo a biopsy for an abnormal PSA test don't turn out to have prostate cancer; high PSAs often signal a benign enlarged prostate. Of those who do have cancer, there's no proof yet that early detection saves lives - as most prostate tumors grow so slowly that had they not been screened, those men would have died of something else without the anxiety.
PSA tests for prostate cancer are notoriously unreliable - just like HIV tests.
Seroquel user wants judge to unseal papers for FDA
A patient who claims the psychiatric drug Seroquel gave him diabetes has asked a judge to unseal maker AstraZeneca's confidential documents about its side effects before U.S. regulators decide whether to approve a version of the drug for millions of new patients.
The documents in question include internal company analyses of safety data on Seroquel that the lawyers believe FDA staff and advisers have never seen.
"We think it's important that they have the benefit of what we have learned," Ellen Relkin, one of Baker's lawyers, told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Wednesday. "What we believe the FDA does not have are internal memos where they analyze the studies (and state) their real opinions or concerns about the data."
Relkin said plaintiffs lawyers believe the drug causes Type 2 diabetes through two mechanisms: stimulating appetite and significant weight gain, and by raising levels of blood sugar and cholesterol.
AIDS Drugs Make Patients Older, Faster
T-cells from the immune systems of HIV-positives had characteristics of advanced aging by 25 years - in other words, these people were older than their calendar age. All of the ‘positive’ trial participants are on a multiple-drug “cocktail” of FDA Black Box label drugs, meaning any of the drugs that they’re taking can and have caused death, or permanent injury, including organ damage and failure.
* “HIV-infected subjects (median 56 years) with good immune reconstitution and viral suppression had immune changes comparable to older (median 88 years) HIV-negative subjects.”
The researchers don’t count this as a factor - they simply don’t consider drug toxicity in people given the AIDS diagnosis.
Video: Liam Scheff on AIDS Drug Experiments in NYC Orphans
Liam Scheff talks about his long investigation into orphans used in NIH drug trials in New York City. Subtitles in Spanish.
Flu Vaccine Causes HIV Positivity
A case–control study of 101 blood donors who had been vaccinated against influenza and 191 matched controls showed that recent inoculation with any brand of influenza vaccine was significantly associated with a false positive screening assay for HIV antibodies. Guidelines of both Johns Hopkins and the New York State Department of Health list influenza vaccination as a known cause of indeterminate results on Western blotting for HIV antibodies.
Given the escalating international awareness of various influenza strains, it is very important to remind patients and clinicians that influenza vaccination may cause cross-reactivity with HIV antibody assays.
UK Government Hands Drug Industry Control of Childhood Vaccination
UK press reports today show UK’s New Labour Government appears to have placed control of UK vaccination programmes from 1 April 2009 for all effects and purposes into the hands of the drug industry and introduced what is potentially a compulsory vaccination law without Parliamentary debate under The Health Protection (Vaccination) Regulations 2009.
'No proof' of bee killer theory
For five years, increasing numbers of unexplained bee deaths have been reported worldwide, with US commercial beekeepers suffering the most. The term Colony Collapse Disorder was coined to describe the illness. But many experts now believe that the term is misleading and there is no single, new ailment killing the bees.
This interesting BBC article on Colony Collapse Disorder shows scientists are still in the dark as to the cause. My comment, sent to the BBC (I hope they publish it):
I agree that the loss of large numbers of bees is with all probability a multifactoral event.
Claude Bernard once said with regard to human illness that "the microbe is nothing, the terrain is all". Pasteur, on his deathbed, expressed his agreement, but medicine had already gone the route of emphasising the single factor, the microbe.
We now see the same in Colony Collapse Disorder. "The terrain is all, the single cause - be it mite or poison - is nothing"...
What weakens the bees' defenses sufficiently for them to succumb? A multitude of factors, one of which is conspicuously absent from most serious discussion: Electromagnetic interference by our communication technologies, which have grown explosively in the same time frame as CCD got to be a serious problem.
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The only thing that remains constant in this universe is change. Health supreme's newsgrabs are no exception - I am starting to publish more often but less regularly.
Instead of every Sunday as I have been doing for some time now, I may now be posting more unpredictably ... whenever I feel I have a sufficient number of stories and news. So subscribe by RSS or by email or check back more often to see the latest post...
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More information out there...
There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.
You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.
Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.
The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.
For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.
A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:
http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/
The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition
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