Tag: doctors
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Scant Oversight of Drug Maker in Fatal Meningitis Outbreak
from nytimes.com: [Kentucky] Judge [Eddie C.] Lovelace died in Nashville in September at age 78, one of the first victims in a growing national outbreak of meningitis caused by the very medicine that was supposed to help him. Health officials say they believe it was contaminated with a fungus. The rising toll — 7 dead,…
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Why have Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Children Skyrocketed?
from mercola.com: Most of the atypical antipsychotics were approved in the 1990’s, at which time they were reserved for a very small minority of serious mental illnesses; primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – diseases afflicting an estimated three percent of Americans. More recently, some atypical antipsychotics have also been approved for the treatment of severe…
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Court forces chemo on eight-year-old Minnesota girl despite family’s desire to use alternative medicine
from naturalnews.com: Where once it was rare for courts of law to invade the privacy and purview of parents when it came to raising their children, in today’s America the wall between parental rights and the state’s Leviathan is increasingly being dismantled by activists disguised as public servants. Karen Parisian of Minnetonka, Minn., told a…
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Digestible Microchips Embedded In Drugs
Digestible microchips embedded in drugs may soon tell doctors whether a patient is taking their medications as prescribed. These sensors are the first ingestible devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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War On Health: The FDAs Cult Of Tyranny
from therealfoodchannel.com: In the US, the FDA wants to control everything you put in your body. They walk hand-in-hand with Big Pharma to approve drugs that not only don’t work, but are deadly. They shut down small organic farmers. They threaten produce growers who link to medical sites offering peer-reviewed research on the health benefits…
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What Killed Us, Then and Now
from theatlantic.com: Via The Washington Post’s Sarah Kliff comes this incredible chart from the New England Journal of Medicine comparing the reasons we die now to the way Americans went to their graves a century ago. The chart ranks the top ten causes of death for each year. In addition to the remarkable decline in…
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Why Is GMO Hepatitis B Vaccine Given to Newborn Babies?
In the United States, the Hepatitis B (Hep B) vaccine is scheduled to be given to babies at birth. Since babies do not normally go out and indulge themselves in high risk behavior such as tattooing, body piercing, IV drug use, sharing needles…why give them the shot?
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Pfizer, Merck Under Investigation for Colluding With Obama Admin On Health Care Overhaul
Most Americans have no idea what truly went on behind closed doors during the crafting and illegitimate passing of Obamacare, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Feds Charge More Than 100 Individuals, Including Doctors, In $452 Million Medicare Fraud Sweep
The government-run healthcare programs Medicare and Medicaid are wrought with fraud, a fact that was once again made apparent in the latest string of busts carried out by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). According to Reuters, 107 individuals — many of whom are doctors and nurses — were recently arrested and charged for roughly…
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11/12 binge & purge: coke, milk, maize & limp
US acad. of family physicians lets coke sponsor health advice* kellogg’s claims cocoa crispies can boost your child’s immunity* kraft turns hostile in $16b bid for cadbury* flashback: kraft attempts buyout of cadbury for $16.7b* dean foods pulls bait-and-switch on ‘organic’ silk soymilk* join the organicconsumers.org’s national boycott of ‘organic cheater’ brands* monsanto pulls high…
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tobacco, fluoride, pharma-psychiatry & poor, stupid kids
big food is copying big tobacco’s disinfo tactics top uk dentist says water fluoridation is the answerfrom dr nigel carter: Simple measures can prevent the need for a child’s teeth to be extracted in hospital… As many know, brushing teeth twice a day with fluoride toothpaste, visiting a dentist regularly and avoiding frequent sugary snacks…