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Routine Early Clamping of the Umbilical Cord Harms Newborns—In hospitals, one of the first procedures when a new child enters the world is to clamp the umbilical cord. It is, in fact, simply a routine procedure done without thinking. Apparently, no thought has ever been given to whether it's beneficial. Sadly, several studies have shown that it harms newborns. |
Eat Eggs From Sick Mistreated Hens, Expect to Get Sick—Factory-produced eggs are sick eggs. The recent US outbreak of salmonella, with a belated recall of more than half a billion eggs, should surprise no one. Salmonella-laced eggs are commonplace in supermarkets. It isn't that there's a new outbreak, but that the number of salmonella cases has increased. |
Eli Lilly Drug Failure Highlights Fatal Flaw in Modern Medicine—Eli Lilly has stopped the trial of a drug intended for Alzheimer's patients because it made their condition worse, not to mention causing skin cancer. How did Lilly push such a drug through both first and second stage trials? Obviously, something significant is being missed by modern medicine's approach. |
FDA Bans Stem Cell Therapy That Saved UK Boy's Life & Man's Leg—In the US, the FDA bans a treatment that saved a little boy's life and a man's leg in the UK. The FDA is protecting Big Pharma from the competition of autologous stem cell therapy, no matter what the cost to individual lives. |
Would You Like a Statin With That Burger?—It's Friday the 13th—must be Fast Food Statins Day! This story is presented under the 'You Can't Make This Stuff Up' category. |
Asthma UK Pushes Dangerous Drug Sold by 'Corporate Partner'—Asthma UK complains that Nice has not approved the drug Xolair, generically called omalizumab, for use in children under age twelve. It is exceptionally expensive, noted for its dangers, and carries an FDA label warning that it has not been shown to be safe or effective in children under age twelve. Just who is Asthma UK really trying to help? |
Recall of Supplement Containing Seville Orange Shows Absurdity of FDA's Claims—The FDA has made Solo Slim sound like a sinister product, using the very real dangers of sibutramine, the drug, to force its withdrawal from the market. The fact, though, is that the natural ingredient is not the same thing as the drug. Genuine concern for the public's health has nothing to do with banning a product for including Seville oranges. |
Heart Attacks Increase With Use of Calcium Supplements—In a finding that should come as no surprise, the British Medical Journal reports that taking calcium supplements results in heart attacks. A supplement that doctors routinely tell women to take to prevent osteoporosis is implicated in heart disease. What's a woman to do? |
The UK Refuses to Drop Homeopathy—In a decision that reaffirms the individual's right to choose, the United Kingdom's Department of Health has slapped down the Science and Technology Committee's demand to abandon homeopathy. Rather than report on it honestly, news media are simply allowing anti-homeopathy forces free rein to give their opinions. |
Medical Journal Wants to Limit Right of Women to Home Births—Mainstream medicine continues to press for total control over your body with The Lancet's editorial stating that women of high-risk pregnancies do not have the right to choose home birth. They are using a deeply flawed study to support their interest in forcing their medicine, along with their fees, on us. |
Quackbusters Are Busted!—Amidst the morass of fallacious attacks by mainstream medicine on honest alternative approaches to health, now and then there's a glitter of good news. It's a breath of fresh air to announce that the self-styled Quackbusters, headed by a self-styled psychiatrist who failed his exam and was never accepted into the profession, has fallen to one of its targeted victims. |
Dengue Fever, BP's Gulf Gusher, the CIA, and Army Germ Warfare—The CIA & Army conducted germ warfare experiments in in central Florida in the 1950s. they were conducted in low-income areas. They released mosquitoes carrying dengue fever. People died, and people are infected and reinfected to this day. Science fiction? No—it's fact. Fengue fever can't be distinguished from symptoms of BP's Gulf Gusher. |
Vaccine Patch Pitched as Safe: Don't Believe It!—Vaccine patches, the next great vaccination delivery technology, is already being pushed as safe. A journal with the oxymoron name, Nature Medicine, has published a study that claims delivering vaccinations through skin patches with tiny plastic needles is both effective and safe. The safety claim is both premature and demonstrably untrue. |
Fraud Found in GSK's Avandia Trial Reveals FDA's Lack of Oversight—If even a poorly designed trial can't demonstrate that your drug is safe, then hiding data is the next-best trick for getting approval. When the FDA doesn't check the data in trials, such methods work. Both of those tricks worked for GSK's Avandia study in 2007. Fortunately, a researcher decided to look more closely in advance of the drug's review next week. |
Docs Want Censorship of Study Showing Cancer Risk from Heart Drug—When questioned about the recent study documenting increased rates of cancer in people taking the popular blood pressure ARB (angiotensin-receptor blockiers), many leading doctors responded with expletives. They're particularly horrified that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has the gall to review ARBs for the increased risk. |
Major Cancer Charity to Admit It Was Wrong About Suntanning!—Hold onto your hat! Cancer Research UK is about to change its advice on suntanning! After more than 20 years of warning people to avoid the sun's rays as deadly and to coat themselves in toxic sunscreens, the premier cancer charity will soon start advising people that they should catch some rays. |
The Attack on Home Births and Midwives Is Gearing Up—A recent medical journal study claims that, while women do better when they deliver babies at home, mortality in newborns is three times greater. However, the conclusion completely misrepresents the data. The study actually found that the infant death rate for home births was the same when a qualified midwife was present. |
Doctor Faked Research on Drug That Killed Thousands: Gets Only Six Months—Scott Reuben, the doctor who faked research on Celebrex and Vioxx, which killed tens of thousands of people, has been sentenced to a mere six months in prison. The judge was easy on him because his attorney claimed that he'd suffered from an 'undiagnosed bipolar disorder'. The real criminal, though, is modern medicine. |
GMO Salmon Near FDA Approval—Public's Input Not Wanted—As the FDA nears approval for the first genetically engineered salmon, the public's views on the issue are not wanted. These genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be the first animals approved for food, but the FDA is treating them like veterinary drugs, so the approval process is not open to the public and none of the documentation is available for inspection. |
Major JAMA Study Shows Statins Do Not Prevent Heart Disease—Statins, the drug that Big Pharma has convinced leading doctors to push on nearly everyone, have finally been subjected to the study that should have been done before being approved for sale. JAMA reports that a large metastudy has shown that statins do not reduce death rates in people without established heart disease. |
Leading Doctor Drugs Babies in the Womb to Prevent Lesbianism and Her Concept of 'Abnormal' Genitalia—Dr. Maria New is a highly honored endocrinologist, within her field considered one of the very best. She routinely treats fetuses in the womb with a potent drug, known to carry severe risks, for the purpose of preventing a condition that she considers abnormal, though it doesn't cause any defect in function or discomfort. |
High Lead Levels Found in 85% of "Healthy" Foods Marketed to Children—Food products marketed to children have been found to have illegal levels of lead. A full 85% were found to have lead that exceeds federal limits for drinking water. The California-based Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) had 150 food products tested by an Environmental Protection Agency-certified lab. |
U.S. Doesn't Control BP's Gulf Gusher Cleanup: Here's Why.—Surely you must wonder why the US is so hamstrung in dealing with BP's Gulf Gusher, a slow-motion wreck of the Gulf of Mexico coast. The US government is helpless to even keep tabs on what's happening. The reason is in a political system that has handed over control to an economic system. We must rely on news media outside the country to bring us the truth. |
In Food Label Wars, Both Sides Hide the Facts—In the EU, a battle has been waged between the forces of evil, Agribusiness, against the forces of evil, government agencies. Both sides want to control what goes on food labels. Agribusiness won, and it's being called a defeat for consumers. The truth, though, is that consumers lose no matter which side wins. Neither wants to tell the public what's really in the foods bought in stores. |
Most Doctors Still Think It's Okay to Take Gifts From Big Pharma—A study soon to be published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Archives of Surgery (JAMA) documents that most physicians still take gifts from pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. Medical researchers at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine surveyed a wide range of physicians practicing in medical centers associated with the school. |
Doc Mutilates Little Girls' Genitals: Major Journal Publishes It As Research!—Dr. Poppas of Cornell believes he has the right to decide that girls as young as 4 months have a clitoris that's too big and needs to be trimmed to a more normal size—and then he cuts off the excess. In third world nations, we call that genital mutilation. In the US, the doctor gets to publish it in a major medical journal. |
Effexor Causes Massive Jawbone Loss in Periodontal Disease—In pure science, an experiment is neither successful nor a failure. Even if the results are the opposite of what the researchers expected or hope for, information is gained. Sadly, in the era of Big Pharma, scientists are expected to produce predetermined results. Occasionally, though, they tell the truth anyway. |
High Blood Pressure Meds Result in Lung Cancer—Lung cancer rates increase in the millions of people taking commonly prescribed drugs for high blood pressure. In a study reported yesterday, ARBs were shown to lead to 1.11% more pulmonary cancer. These drugs are prescribed to millions as a primary method of attempting to lower blood pressure, so these drugs could be causing thousands of cases of lung cancer. |
The FDA Says You Have No Right to Freedom of Food—The FDA has stated that you have no inherent right to health. You thought you had the right to choose what you eat? The FDA says you don't. They claim that there is no fundamental right to choose your food or freedom to contract for it. Responding to a lawsuit, the FDA clearly states that you do not have the right to freedom of choice in your diet. |
Quest for Health in Drugs Finds 'Unintended' Side Effects That Kill—Let's say that strong recommendations are being given by the medical system to drug most people on reaching a certain age. Then, let's say your company produces software to analyze the risk of developing medical conditions. You want to make money from your product, so you do a study showing it can predict who is most likely to suffer from the drug's side effects. |
Study Finds Vaccine Triggers Infant Seizures, But Concludes It's Okay—The discordance of pro-vaccine research has reached a new pinnacle of hypocrisy in a study that says seizures are triggered in babies by the pertussis vaccine, but it's no reason to "withhold" it from them. Flaws make the results highly questionable. But that's minor next to the implication that these babies benefit from a seizure-causing vaccine. |
Fathers Suffer Postnatal Depression? Or Another Target for Drugs?—In the mass move to medicalize every facet of life, a medical school has gone in search of evidence that new fathers suffer from depression. Can anyone be surprised that they found it? Or that the recommended course of action is to drive these men into treatment? |
Study Shows Cancer Linked to Mobile Phones, But Authors Spin the Results—Recent media reports falsely claim that the Interphone study shows no increase in cancer from mobile phone use. They're merely reporting what the authors of the study claimed, without much critical thinking about the results. Had they looked into it, they might have realized that the conclusion is a slippery misrepresentation of the actual results. |
Doc Who Harms No One Is Punished, But Doc Who Killed Can Practice.—In typical hubristic fashion, the UK's GMC has stripped Dr. Sarah Myhill of many of the functions required to care for her patients, while allowing doctors who have killed patients with sloppiness, lies, and egregious errors to continue in practice. She harmed no one, and no such accusation was made. Not a single patient has complained. |
Max Kane Risks Prison for Refusing to Tell Who Sells and Who Buys Raw Milk—Max Kane has been charged with nothing. There is no case being prosecuted against him or anyone else for anything, not even for selling or buying raw milk. Yet, he has been ordered by Wisconsin to inform on his friends. They want him to name people who sell or buy raw milk. He has refused, and for that, he's been under threat of prison. |
FDA Persecutes Raw Milk Dairies: Raids Amish Farm—The FDA is using strong arm tactics on family farms that do their best to produce genuinely healthy milk for customers who care about their own family's health. They have raided an Amish dairy farm with the accusation, "We have credible evidence that you are involved in interstate commerce." There's no accusation that the raw milk they produce is unsafe. |
Homeopathic Treatment Helps Heal Haitians' Emotional Traumas (video)—Billions have been given to charities for Haitian earthquake victims with so little benefit. Without fanfare, homeopaths have been spending their own money to go there and help. The Amma Resonance Hearing Foundation is doing wonders treating emotional trauma on a shoestring budget using homeopathic preparations. (video) |
Botox Not Only Paralyzes Muscles, It Paralyzes Emotions—A study shows that emotions are dulled when the muscles used to express them are prevented from functioning. As a result, botox not only paralyzes muscles, it also paralyzes emotions. Media reports that it harms relationships miss the real issue. Botox prevents emotions from coming into existence. |
FDA to Control Salt Intake, Not Aspartame or High Fructose Corn Syrup—The FDA plans to control intake of salt, a natural and necessary food. Meanwhile, known killers like aspartame and HFCS are left free to continue their destruction of health. The usual incestuous techniques have led to the latest ploy to hand over our food supply to Agribusiness, and the marketing campaign is in full swing. |
DOJ Punishes Big Pharma for Bribing Foreign Doctors, Ignores Corruption Here—Pharmaceutical exec Robert John Dougall has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for paying £4.5M to Greek doctors. As Director of Marketing at DePuy, now part of megacorp Johnson & Johnson, he bribed Greek surgeons to buy their products. It's a start, but why is the Department of Justice focusing on foreign doctors? |
USDA Trashes Organic: Pasture Not Required for Cows' Last 4 Months—The rules for the USDA Organic label for beef are already watered down. Now, though, they're allowing feedlot conditions for their last four months—about one-fifth of their lives. You can help reverse this by contacting the president and USDA. I'll tell you how, including links. |
Merck and GSK Fan Fear of Cancer & Warts in Men to Sell HPV Vaccines—Apparently not satisfied with pumping their deadly HPV vaccines into girls, Merck and GSK have turned their sights onto men. While running pseudo-science trials, they're drumming up fears of a range of cancers and warts. It appears that their goal is to convince doctors that everyone should get a jab of Gardasil or Cervarix. |
Evidence of MRSA in Nation's Food Supply—You know that drug-resistant disease is getting out of hand when mainstream media features it on a report and clearly blames factory farming's over the top use of antibiotics. Katie Couric reports on what's happening in America's factory farms and how it's creating an epidemic of drug-resistant bacteria. [Video 7:37] |
Scientist Works on GM Viruses for Vaccines, Gets Sick, Sues, Wins $1.37 Million—Becky McClain is a scientist who worked for Pfizer to engineer viruses for vaccines. She was accidentally infected by a GM form of a virus similar to HIV. She is completely paralyzed intermittently, so she spoke out about concerns for lack of safety at work. She was fired. She sued and won $1.37 million for wrongful termination. |
Raw Milk Source Shut Down, But There's Been No Bad Milk—In what looks more and more like a concerted FDA plan to shut off raw milk supplies, a Michigan raw milk dairy is being forced to shut down. Their supplier is based a short distance away, but it's across a state boundary. That state, Indiana, allows the sale of raw milk, but the FDA's pressure has caused it to stop shipping to Michigan. |
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Raw Milk Disease Outbreak In Perspective: Tempest in an FDA Teapot—Perhaps you've heard of the claimed raw milk campylobacteria disease outbreak in Michigan recently. It's been hyped to the world by the FDA. However, if you look carefully at the wording, you'll see only that it's 'linked' to raw milk. It's nothing but a tempest in the FDA's teapot. |
Court Rules Patents on Genes Are Illegal: Products of Nature, Not Invention—Reversing a frightening trend granting patents on living creatures and their genes, a US Federal Judge issued a ruling that may overturn patents on life forms. Myriad Genetics' claim that isolating DNA transforms and makes it patentable was turned down with the statement that it's only been a "lawyer's trick" that's allowed it to happen before. |
Improving Food Quality of One Meal Improves Student Scores 3-8 Percent—What children eat directly affects how they do in school. A two-year study of chef Jamie Oliver's program to bring quality food to the school lunch program produced significant benefits to students, including significant improvements in their test results. |
WHO 'Gambled Away' Public Confidence With Swine Flu Fear Mongering—The Vice Chair of the Council of Europe's Health Committee is preparing a report stating the WHO 'gambled away' public confidence in its swine flu fear mongering. The Guardian reports that he complains that 'the discrepancy between the estimate of the numbers of people who would die from flu and the reality was dramatic'. |
Insomniacs: Beware Newly Approved Recycled Drug With Suicide Risk—After refusing to approve it twice, the FDA has just allowed Silenor, an old antidepressant drug, to be recycled as a treatment for insomnia. The first rejection was for depressing heart rate; the second was for lack of efficacy. Doxepin hydrochloride carries an FDA warning of increased suicide risk when marketed as an antidepressant. |
High Fructose Corn Syrup Associated With Liver Disease—Liver scarring is associated with consumption of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), according to a study at Duke University. The condition, dubbed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is present in about 30% of all American adults. Until recently, it was considered rare. |
Calling Mom Too Stressful? Ad Suggests Taking Seroquel.—Seroquel, a drug with 10,339 lawsuits against it and under serious questioning from many sources, is being advertised with the implication that it's the thing to take if you're stressed out about calling your mother. Oh yes--the more stressful calling her is, the more you should take. |
When Killer Trans Fats Are Ignored, Study Results Are Meaningless—Yet another study purporting to show that saturated fats are bad and polyunsaturated fats are good completely misses the mark. In effect, the study most likely demonstrated only that eating fats partially altered by hydrogenation--polyunsaturated oils--is less harmful than eating fully hydrogenated fats. |
HPV Testing Does Not Help Identify Cancer Risk—In what should be a blow for Gardasil and Cervarix, a study has found that screening for human papilloma virus (HPV) does not predict which women are at risk for cervical cancer. The entire concept behind the falsely named cancer jab is that HPV causes cervical cancer, though that has never been shown. Now, there's evidence that the assumed connection simply does not exist. |
Doctors' Performance Standards Lowered for Giving More Flu Jabs—In the UK, Scottish doctors have been the most effective in pushing their patients into having swine flu vaccines. The swine flu pandemic was a bust and its vaccine has been shown to be ineffective in the elderly. In the face of that, Scotland will reward doctors with high vaccine uptake by letting them skate on standards measuring the quality of their practices. |
Vitamin D Cuts Flu By Half: Double Blind Randomized Tria—A study has documented a 42 percent reduction of influenza in children taking the sunshine supplement, Vitamin D. Nicknamed because we can synthesize it from sun exposure on our skin, Vitamin D has been anecdotally linked to flu prevention on many occasions. This study provides strong evidence of the validity of the observations. |
Modern Medicine Very Profitable: Virgin Buys In—Richard Branson has the Midas Touch. He has now pointed his golden finger at the UK's healthcare system by buying a major holding in a primary healthcare company. Virtually everything he touches turns into profits at the expense of customers, and he's seen a huge opportunity in modern medicine. |
Leading Autism-Vaccine Coverup Researcher Absconds with $2 Million—In the face of the Vaccine Court's recent ruling that there is no connection between autism and vaccines, it now comes out that much of the research cited was done by a researcher who has now vanished with $2 million that was supposed to have been spent on the research. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells the tale. |
Humane Claims of Plan for Huge UK Dairy Factory Farm Don't Add Up—A proposal for England's first American-style factory farmed milk paints a pretty picture of contented cows living in spacious quarters and treated humanely. However, the claims literally don't add up. Nocton Dairies' plans provide minimal space for the cows, crowding them obscenely and feeding an unnatural diet that will make them ill. |
Scientists' Letter Claiming FDA Corruption Is Authentic—In January last year, a letter was sent to the highest levels of United States government by FDA scientists and doctors accusing top FDA officials & attorneys of violating laws, suppressing & altering scientific findings & conclusions, abuse of power & authority, and retaliation against those who've spoken out. The FDA has finally acknowledged that the letter is authentic. |
Study's Life Extension Claim for The Pill Adds Up to Only 4-1/2 Hours—The new study that's currently being hyped in the new media as showing that birth control pills improve life expectancy is one of the most twisted pieces of obfuscation I've ever seen. It is the epitome of junk science and the use of statistics to obfuscate, and it's an example of why you should ask who paid for it. |
Big Pharma Blocks Studies of Long Term ADHD Drug Effects While FDA and EMEA Dither—The FDA and EMEA dither while Big Pharma blocks studies into long term effects of ADHD drugs--unless, of course, they're produced by their own pet (and very highly paid) researchers, such as Joseph Biederman, Timothy Wilens and Thomas Spencer. Hanging in the balance are the health and futures of millions of children. |
Take a Nap: Prevent Heart Disease and Do Better on School Tests—The quickest and easiest way to improve heart health and get smarter doesn't cost a penny. Just take naps. Recent studies document that sleeping during the day improves learning retention as much as 10% and reduces men's mortality from heart disease by as much as 37%. |
Europe Approves Antibiotic Resistant Genetically Modified Potato—BASF has managed to gain European Union (EU) approval for its potato, Amflora, genetically engineered for antibiotic resistance. It's not intended for human use. However, the skins are expected to be used in animal feed—and the meats will not have to be labeled as genetically modified or fed GM organisms. |
Girl Blinded by Gardasil Vaccination—A 16 year old girl was blinded by a Gardasil vaccination. The doctors who wrote the article state that she was healthy prior to the vaccination. They found no explanation other than the Gardasil vaccination, and acknowledged that at least one other vaccine was known to cause the same problem. |
Mass Vaccinations in Haiti—The squalid conditions of refugee camps combined with the oncoming rains threaten Haiti's earthquake victims with diseases common to poor sanitation, lack of safe drinking water, and contaminated food. Cholera, typhus, and dysentery are the best known. So, they're trotting out mass vaccinations for measles, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough. |
Kangaroos Dying of Fluoride Poisoning, But Are Levels Safe For Humans?—Kangaroos are starving and dying from tooth and skeletal deformities caused by fluoride poisoning. In a claim that appears to have been pulled from thin and polluted air, Australia's EPA says that the emissions are safe for humans, though apparently some animals are more sensitive to fluoride. |
Two Mumps Vaccines Don't Work, So Public Officials Push a Third Jab—The outbreak of mumps has been seen mostly in people who've been vaccinated--not just the majority of cases, but the vast majority. The CDC is reporting that 93% who've come down with mumps have had one dose and 85% have had two doses of the MMR vaccine. |
Study Shows Homeopathic Remedies Kill Cancer Cells Without Harming Healthy Cells—A recent study has documented that homeopathic remedies applied to breast cancer cells caused significant cell death, while resulting in no discernible no harm to normal breast cells. The finding cannot be explained by a placebo effect... |
Drug Doesn't Work, You've Failed & Need A Gene Fix: Modern Medicine's View—In a strange twist of logic, scientists have determined Tamoxifen doesn't always work because the patient is at fault. So, the solution is to 'fix' the miscreant gene. In this strange new world of medicine, toxic drugs are normal, someone whose body responds different is abnormal, and the 'abnormal' gene must be fixed. |
Engineering Animals to Feel No Pain So We Feel No Guilt—No one wants to consider that the food on the dinner plate lived a life of suffering. In most cases, though, that's exactly what happens. So, now a proposal is in place to genetically engineer feed animals so they don't feel pain. But who actually benefits? And who is the focus of such a concept? |
Mobile Phones Damage DNA: What should we do about it?—The convenience and fun of mobile phones and other electrical products have us hooked. Who wants to accept the idea that they're dangerous? ...We can't see anything being emitted from them...Imagine, though, sitting in your doctor's office and hearing that you've got brain cancer. The convenience suddenly wouldn't be so appealing. (includes video) |
Government Tells Farmers to Use Poisonous Coal Waste on Food Crops—The misnamed Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) is telling farmers to fertilize with coal waste. It's full of mercury, lead, fluoride, arsenic, and other poisons. The current administration is carrying forward a policy first begun in 2001. |
Heartrate Doubled By Wireless Phone Emissions In Sensitive People—Wireless phones double the heartrate in sensitive people...the subjects were blinded—that is, they were unaware of when phones were turned on or off. The heartbeat rate of one of the 25 people in the study doubled when near a wireless phone that was switched on. The rate dropped back to normal when the phone was turned off. |
Christelle, A Life Devastated By Modern Medicine's Treatments—An energetic and competitive girl in her early teens, Christelle Marini fell while playing tennis. That put her in the clutches of modern medicine. Now, an impish smiling 13-year-old girl has been transformed into a young women in a wheelchair, living in constant pain without hope for anything approaching a normal life. |
Children Being Poisoned By Cadmium in Chinese-made Toys—With utter disregard for the health of children, Chinese manufacturers substituted cadmium, a far more dangerous heavy metal, for lead in children's toys. An investigation by Associated Press (AP) has shown that charm bracelet trinkets and other cute and shimmering jewelry toys for little girls are being sold in major retail outlets across the United States. |
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Medical Journal Ghostwriting Being Questioned on Capitol Hill—After the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that medical journals have routinely been publishing ghostwritten articles, Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, became concerned. He has initiated an investigation by the Senate Finance Committee, on which he is the ranking Republican.
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As Copenhagen Approaches, US Congress Tables Climate Bill, IPCC Chief Doubtful—With the UN's Copenhagen climate change conference just two weeks away, Democratic leaders in the US Senate have tabled discussion until, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, 'some time in the spring.'
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Global Warming Has Accelerated Since Kyoto—Worse Than Worst Predictions—Not even the bleakest predictions from the time of the Kyoto Accord anticipated how bad global warming has gotten in the last 12 years since the agreement. It's not surprising, since carbon dioxide emissions have increased by 31 percent.
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Transcendental Meditation Protects Against Heart Disease—Heart disease death rates were reduced by 47% in patients who practiced transcendental meditation, as compared to those who received education in reducing risk factors.
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Doctor and AstraZeneca Collude to Sell Seroquel Without Regard to Patient Harm—In a shocking demonstration of you-grease-my-palm and I'll-grease-yours, AstraZeneca knowingly paid a for-profit researcher, Dr. Michael Reinstein, nearly half a million dollars because he could bring them profits of half a billion dollars.
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Abuse in Childhood May Cause Early Aging—Childhood abuse not only makes life more difficult, it may also shorten it. As reported by the BBC, a Brown University team found that telomeres become shorter faster in people who reported having been abused as children.
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Elderly Being Killed by Misuse of Antipsychotics—Expert review has documented that 180,000 elderly in care homes are given antipsychotic drugs, that the medication is not needed in 150,000 of them, and that 1,800 deaths are related to this misuse.
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Nuclear Workers Have More Heart Disease, Probably Caused by Low Dose Radiation—The BBC reports that workers in nuclear plants have increased levels of heart disease related to long term low dosage radiation, according to epidemiological studies.
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San Francisco Gives Toxic Waste to Citizens, Calls It Fertilizer—San Francisco is giving toxic waste to its citizens for free. Such a deal! The Center for Food Safety reports that sewage sludge loaded with toxic wastes is being passed off as compost in 'compost giveaway events'.
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