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I had no clue then about the scams underpinning Big Medicine and that it was focused on symptom control and profit from disease and death, nor did I know then about Big Agriculture being hell-bent on profits.
1999 was an
important year in the politics of medicine. The events set in motion then have
caused fundamental changes in the way people perceived food, drugs, doctors,
and government, and I reported on many of these changes. I had no clue then about the scams
underpinning Big Medicine and that it was focused on symptom control and profit
from disease and death, nor did I know then about Big Agriculture being
hell-bent on profits - never mind the health of soil, water, and
essential bacteria. I knew nothing about
the abysmal ignorance of our doctors who are super-educated in mostly what
doesn’t
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| Apr 14, 2009 |
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Young has founded the advocacy group Drug Safety Canada. In January 2007 an Ontario judge certified a $100 million class-action lawsuit, initiated by Young, against the drug's maker, Johnson & Johnson and its Canadian subsidiary, Janssen-Ortho In
Oakville MP Terence Young's new book is a bid to spare others the terrible loss of a child April 12, 2009 Comments on this story (17) Megan Ogilvie HEALTH REPORTER On the day his teenage daughter died, Terence Young made a deal with God. It
was simple, straightforward, sworn just hours after her body was
wheeled into a Hamilton morgue: If I expose the truth, You will let me
see her again. Believing that his tall, blue-eyed girl would be
waiting for him somewhere helped Young endure her passing. Cheery,
15-year-old Vanessa had dropped dead in front of him on March 19, 2000.
Young, who
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| Feb 6, 2009 |
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Dear Minister - Why do you consider Raw milk deadly and dangerous?
Organic Pastures Dairy Company, located in Fresno, California produces, “…Grade A, 100% pasture grazed raw milk of super premium quality.”[3] They produce milk, butter, cream, Quephor (kefir), cheese, and colostrum, which are all USDA certified organic raw milk products and have been family owned and operated since 1988. In the year of 2000, they become California’s first raw milk dairy with certified organic pasture land (see references sited 4). They claim that “…To this date, not one of these pathogens have ever been detected by any agency in our raw milk. And tests privately performed at
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| Jan 21, 2009 |
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"GENERATION RX: Drugging the Children *
2) Important documentaries to see - Vancouver - January 24th, 2009From: inge hanle <hanle@shaw.ca> Inge's Added Comment: I strongly recommend that you take in both these shows if you can. Bring you friends and neighbors. They need this information as much as you do.This Expose is long overdue. This is vital information for every citizen, especially the parents of children, and over-medicated adults The stranglehold and deceit of the pharmaceutical industry must be exposed and reversed. i.hEarly-Show:GENERATION RX: Drugging the Children *
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| Jan 19, 2009 |
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What's It Going to Take to Lock Up Drug Company Execs?
What's It Going to Take to Lock Up Drug Company Execs?
By Bruce E. Levine, AlterNetPosted on January 16, 2009, Printed on January 19, 2009 www.alternet.org/story/119912/
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through." - Jonathan Swift
After reading "The Neurontin Legacy -- Marketing through Misinformation and Manipulation" in the January 8, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, one may conclude that (1) America's prisons would be put to better use incarcerating drug company executives instead of pot smokers, and (2)
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| Jan 19, 2009 |
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Recently Senator Charles Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has been looking into financial ties between the pharmaceutical industry and the academic physicians who largely determine the market value of prescription drugs.
Recently Senator Charles Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has been looking into financial ties between the pharmaceutical industry and the academic physicians who largely determine the market value of prescription drugs. He hasn't had to look very hard.
Take the case of Dr. Joseph L. Biederman, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and chief of pediatric psychopharmacology at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital. Thanks largely to him, children as young as two years old are now being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and treated with a cocktail
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| Nov 4, 2008 |
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A major new call from the American Public Health Association came out this last week to '...begin a campaign NOW aimed directly at the general public based on scientific data currently available..' in order to resolve the vitamin D deficiency ep
: Vitamin D Seminar in San Diego
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: John Cannell, MD Date: Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:54 PMSubject: Vitamin D Seminar in San Diego
November 3, 2008Please tell your friends and colleagues about a one day Vitamin D seminar at UCSD in San Diego (6.5 CME credits) on Tuesday, December 2, 2008. The seminar is entirely about the "Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency." A similar conference last April was extraordinary, especially the talk by Professor Robert Heaney. His talk alone is worth the trip to San Diego. This one will have added topics (cardiovascular
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| Oct 24, 2008 |
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Prescription drug injuries and deaths reach record levels
Prescription drug injuries and deaths reach record levels
A watchdog group reports that 4,825 deaths and nearly 21,000 injuries occurred in the first three months of 2008. The drugs heparin and varenicline are cited as the most dangerous.
By Thomas H. Maugh II October 23, 2008 The number of deaths and serious injuries associated with prescription drug use rose to record levels in the first quarter of this year, with 4,825 deaths and nearly 21,000 injuries, a watchdog group said Wednesday.Those numbers represent a nearly threefold increase in deaths from the previous quarter and a 38% increase
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| Aug 20, 2008 |
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Drugmakers Merck, Wyeth and Bayer Healthcare withheld important information from the FDA regarding the safety of certain drugs, costing tens of thousands of lives,
United States Food & Drug Administration Daily News Bulletin Vol. 5, No. 163Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008 NEJM Files Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Preemption Case Drugmakers Merck, Wyeth and Bayer Healthcare withheld important information from the FDA regarding the safety of certain drugs, costing tens of thousands of lives, according to 10 former and current editors and authors of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). "The drug companies have withheld key information from the FDA and ardently negotiated against stricter label warnings — all the while continuing to market their unsafe drugs
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| Aug 18, 2008 |
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Where is the Naturopathic Establishment headed?
Another Potpourri of Midsummer Alt Med- and CAM-Related News© By Peter Barry Chowka Late Summer CAM and Alt Med Conferences: What's Up At the Grassroots
(August 15, 2008) Three upcoming CAM (complementary alternative medicine) and alternative medicine conferences illustrate the current status of, and some new directions in, the field. And for the discerning observer, they should also suggest some problematic issues and concerns with the current and future state of natural healing in the United States. From August 13-16, 2008, the national association of licensed and licensable naturopaths
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| Aug 15, 2008 |
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The draft policy, that CPL only learned of late yesterday, would appear to severely limit the freedom of Ontario physicians to practice according to their conscientious/religious beliefs.
Canadian Physicians for Life PO Box 1289Richmond ON K0A 2Z0ph/fax: 613-728-5433www.physiciansforlife.ca For Immediate Release
August 15, 2008
Proposed policy could severely limit freedom of Ontario physicians to practice according to conscience
(Ottawa) - In a letter today to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the president of Canadian Physicians for Life, Dr. Will Johnston, expressed concern over a draft policy relating to freedom of conscience and the lack of sufficient notice given by CPSO to all interested stakeholders that a consultation process, which officially
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Washington, June 24, 2008 – Washington's largest lobby, the pharmaceutical industry, racked up another banner year on Capitol Hill in 2007, backed by a record $168 million lobbying effort, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis
A Record Year for the Pharmaceutical Lobby in '07 Washington's largest lobby racks up another banner year on Capitol Hill
By M. Asif IsmailData analysis by Helena Bengtsson
Washington, June 24, 2008 – Washington's largest lobby, the pharmaceutical industry, racked up another banner year on Capitol Hill in 2007, backed by a record $168 million lobbying effort, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of federal lobbying data. Among the industry's successes: getting two controversial laws extended and thwarting congressional efforts to restrict media ads for prescription
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| Jul 11, 2008 |
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This book identifies the tragic aspects of a medical system that in its short history of about eighty years, has managed to kill tens of millions of victims!
Did you know? The Pharmaceutical Industry went from the #3 killer in North America to the #1 killer for the past 3 years now - yes that means your GP may now suddenly be the most dangerous person you know – There’s a much needed update to this landmark facts and statistics book – and that update is finally out!
This book identifies the tragic aspects of a medical system that in its short history of about eighty years, has managed to kill tens of millions of victims!
The stories behind this book, and its authors, are amazing… the statistics are straight from the AMA (who’s president is
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| Apr 27, 2008 |
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A nightmarish story of two week old twins of Dennis Quaid and Kimberley Buffington, getting overdosed by a 1000 times overdose of blood thinner
www.prlog.org/ 10066765-congress-and-supreme-court-listen-to-what- dennis-quaid-has-to-say-about-big-pharma-abuses.html
U.S. Congress and Supreme Court: Listen to what Dennis Quaid has to say about Big Pharma's Abuses!
by Stephen Fox, Managing Editor Santa Fe Sun News
A nightmarish story of two week old twins of Dennis Quaid and Kimberley Buffington, getting overdosed by a 1000 times overdose of blood thinner
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| Apr 16, 2008 |
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The Political Takeover of American Medicine Is Almost Complete
The Political Takeover of American Medicine Is Almost Complete
© By Peter Barry Chowka
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)
(April 15, 2008) One hundred and fifty years after the door was first opened a half a world away, politics is now poised to finally and completely take over and consume the practice of medicine in the United States. The ramifications for personal freedom, privacy, and choice, particularly for anyone interested in employing medical alternatives, are profound, even if they are little recognized in the CAM (complementary alternative medicine) community.
The year 1848 is
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| Apr 13, 2008 |
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The side effects of prescription medication can be horrific. Is it really worth taking medication if the cure is worse than the disease?
Warning Bill C-51 is inimical to your Charter of Rights and Freedoms. "Will Tony Clement's Bill C-51 deal with the following? Do pigs fly? If they were vitamins or some other food supplement Tony's enforcers - oh, excuse me, Health Canada regulators - would have had it off the market like yesterday!"~ Croft Woodruff, Burnaby, BCThe Terrifying Side Effects of Prescription Drugs The side effects of prescription medication can be horrific. Is it really worth taking medication if the cure is worse than the disease?
Here 26 side effects that come with many prescription drugs currently on
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Modern medicine acts unethically compared to the natural sciences, due to it knowingly and wilfully marketing immature and high-risk drugs which have shown themselves capable of resulting in harm to or in the deaths of patients.
Herman JD Jeggels MD (Neth) MRCP (UK) FBIH (Hon) DHM (Hon)
Surgery: Postal address:
29 Bosman Street Medical Practitioner P.O. Box 134 Kuils River PR NO: 1522272 Kuils River
7580 South Africa Homoeopath 7579
Tel./Fax: 021 903 0743
Email: practice@jeggels.com
PR NO: 0807605
Research Summary
NASA¡¯s Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) Adjudicating Modern Medicine¡¯s ¡°Scientific Evidence¡± of Therapeutic Effectiveness; Modern Medicine¡¯s Immature, High-Risk and Unverified Evidence by Herman JD Jeggels MD, MRCP (UK), FBIH (Hon), DHM (Hon)
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Modern medicine acts unethically compared to the natural sciences, due to it knowingly and wilfully marketing immature and high-risk drugs which have shown themselves capable of resulting in harm to or in the deaths of patients.
Herman JD Jeggels MD (Neth) MRCP (UK) FBIH (Hon) DHM (Hon)
Surgery: Postal address:
29 Bosman Street Medical Practitioner P.O. Box 134 Kuils River PR NO: 1522272 Kuils River
7580 South Africa Homoeopath 7579
Tel./Fax: 021 903 0743
Email: practice@jeggels.com
PR NO: 0807605
Research Summary
NASA¡¯s Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) Adjudicating Modern Medicine¡¯s ¡°Scientific Evidence¡± of Therapeutic Effectiveness; Modern Medicine¡¯s Immature, High-Risk and Unverified Evidence by Herman JD Jeggels MD, MRCP (UK), FBIH (Hon), DHM (Hon)
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| Feb 3, 2008 |
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Health care in Canada is considered an essential public service. It is a service which costs taxpayers billions of dollars but over which they have little, if any, control. The conventional medical profession was given the power of self-regulation by prov
Freedom of Choice in Health Care ( A Fraser Institute article)Cynthia Ramsay Health care in Canada is considered an essential public service. It is a service which costs taxpayers billions of dollars but over which they have little, if any, control. The conventional medical profession was given the power of self-regulation by provincial governments in the 19th century after much lobbying by the profession. It was granted the power to police itself because only it understood the complex nature of medicine, and therefore only it was capable of ensuring the quality of the service or good being offered,
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| Jan 26, 2008 |
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There is not a doctor in the world today who will inject lead into anyone yet mercury is 100 times more toxic, and when mixed with aluminum and other chemicals and even hormones, mercury can be 1000 times more toxic than lead.
Scrapping the Entire Childhood Immunization Program
This morning I was talking to a professor of chemistry in one of our local universities in Brazil and it made me remember my rock of chemistry, my chemistry mentor, Dr. Boyd Haley, Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky. Chemistry is one of the most basic of sciences and usually we walk on solid ground when we read scientific reports in this field. Medical science, medical officials and medical organization all have something in common, a disdain for the science of chemistry. When they read in plain English that thimerosal
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| Jan 20, 2008 |
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Research suggests that, except among high-risk heart patients, the benefits of statins such as Lipitor are overstated
BUSINESS WEEK
Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?
Research suggests that, except among high-risk heart patients, the benefits of statins such as Lipitor are overstated
Martin Winn's cholesterol level was inching up. Cycling up hills, he felt chest pain that might have been angina. So he and his doctor decided he should be on a cholesterol-lowering medication called a statin. He was in good company. Such drugs are the best-selling medicines in history, used by more than 13 million Americans and an additional 12 million patients around the world, producing $27.8 billion in sales in 2006. Half
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| Jan 19, 2008 |
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Dr. Graveline has provided an excellent start for those looking to reverse damage from these essentially useless drugs.
Given the following array of side effects....
Statins & Lowering Cholesterol A Double Whammy For CHFStatins and Vitamin D Deficiency - Another BlowMuscle Side Effects Of StatinsStatins May Cause Nerve DamageStatins And Our Immune SystemSTATIN DRUGS Side EffectsStatin Drugs & Breast CancerStatin Drugs & Memory Loss
Dr. Graveline has provided an excellent start for those looking to reverse damage from these essentially useless drugs. Sadly, any efforts to curb damage from statins, by vested interests, is not like to be taken too seriously as this will implicate them, but now that the
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| Jan 15, 2008 |
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The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown in the following table is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States.
Recreational Drugs FAR Less Likely to Kill You than Prescribed Drugs! By Christopher Kent, D.C., J.D.
Recreational drugs, including cocaine and heroin, are responsible for an estimated 10,000-20,000 American deaths per year [1,2]. While this represents a serious public health problem, it is a "smokescreen" for America's real drug problem. America's "war on drugs" is directed at the wrong enemy. It is obvious that interdiction, stiff mandatory sentences, and more vigorous enforcement of drug laws have failed. The reason is simple. Cause and effect have been reversed.
The desire to solve
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| Jan 5, 2008 |
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To perpetuate a lie...That is that toxins and toxiods cure disease, is clearly is the reason that "Drug makers spend more on marketing than research: study" like $57 billion +. With figures like that Imagine how much they rack in profits?
Further to Opinion of the Quackwatch site here is more that demonstrates that "attacking, belittling, satirizing, castigating, vilifying, maligning" is the science of the rich and corrupt! To perpetuate a lie...That is that toxins and toxiods cure disease, is clearly is the reason that "Drug makers spend more on marketing than research: study" like $57 billion +. With figures like that Imagine how much they rack in profits?
"The authors say their figure of $57.5 billion US is likely an underestimate, citing other avenues for promotion such as ghostwriting of articles in medical journals by drug
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| Jan 2, 2008 |
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These flawed findings, for the most part, stem not from fraud or formal misconduct, but from more mundane misbehavior: miscalculation, poor study design or self-serving data analysis. "There is an increasing concern that *in modern research, false fi
Dr. Ioannidis on Bad Science
Wall Street JournalSCIENCE JOURNALBy ROBERT LEE HOTZ September 14, 2007
We all make mistakes and, if you believe medical scholar John Ioannidis, scientists make more than their fair share. By his calculations, most published research findings are wrong.
Dr. Ioannidis is an epidemiologist who studies research methods at the University of Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece and Tufts University in Medford, Mass. In a series of influential analytical reports, he has documented how, in thousands of peer-reviewed research papers published every year, there
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| Jan 2, 2008 |
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A federal judge denied the FDA's request to delay turning over documents related to Merck's Vioxx a lawyer requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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FDA Must Turn Over Vioxx Documents, Judge Rules
A federal judge denied the FDA's request to delay turning over documents related to Merck's Vioxx a lawyer requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey Judge Faith Hochberg will appoint a mediator to create a process for determining which documents the agency
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| Jan 1, 2008 |
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Watch Pharmaceutical Drugging of Our Children movie...awakentothetruth.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: SunWolf <sunwolf@verizon.net>Date: Oct 25, 2007 12:27 AM Subject: Watch Pharmaceutical Drugging of Our Children movie...awakentothetruth.com.. Perhaps one of the most powerful revealing videos you have seen in your life !To: SunWolf < sunwolf@verizon.net>
Hello Everyone,
A shocking movie about how our children are being placed on pharmaceuticals without knowing all the dangerous side effects they can cause.
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| Dec 22, 2007 |
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Two years ago, CBC first reported more than a million seniors were being prescribed dangerous drugs, including atypical antipsychotics, which are considered by many experts to be ineffective and even dangerous for elderly patients.
Doctors rely too heavily on drug company data: CMA
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 | 12:42 PM ET CBC News Most of the information doctors receive about prescription drugs comes from the companies making the product, a doctor said Wednesday, pointing to a possible reason doctors continue to prescribe dangerous drugs to seniors.
Dr. John Haggie, a Canadian Medical Association board member who chairs its ad hoc working group on pharmaceutical issues, said government warnings often get lost in the stack of documents physicians routinely receive.
"The average physician is bombarded with
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| Dec 9, 2007 |
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These are legalized deaths meaning not one of these people can be prosecuted because they are following legal protocols.
Dear IMVA,
I am sorry but I forgot to add the following information to this mornings post.
The American Cancer Society indicates 559,650 deaths from cancers in the United States in their 2007 Surveillance Research.[i] The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is the only formal association of clinical oncologists in the United States, and comprises about 25,000 oncology practitioners, representing all oncology disciplines (medical, radiologic and surgical oncology) and subspecialties (including nursing, research and teaching), but only 4,239 members of the American Society of Clinical
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| Dec 2, 2007 |
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What have American taxpayers gotten for the $20 billion per year (and rising) government spending on HIV/AIDS?
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 11:28 AM
Subject: Commentary of the Day: AIDS: The Questions They Won't Ask
AIDS: The Questions They Won’t Ask
By Robert Knight
AIDS: The Questions They Won’t AskBy Robert KnightFriday, November 30, 2007
www.Townhall.com
Send an email to Robert Knight
As another World AIDS Day dawns this morning, prepare for the usual media blitz of stories designed to promote more spending on failed approaches to HIV/AIDS, and more bashing of the Bush Administration despite increases in spending by the billions each year. Here are some of the questions
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| Dec 2, 2007 |
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The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released yesterday mortality rates for 85 large Canadian acute care hospitals and 42 health regions in every province but Quebec, where they don't collect the same data.
Health care experts say the figures will force medical officials to examine their practices and improve patient care
Nov 30, 2007 04:30 AM Robert Cribb Tanya Talaga Toronto star Staff reporters
Scarborough General Hospital has the highest rate of deaths in the Toronto area – and the third highest in Canada – according to a watershed report that makes hospital death rates public for the first time.
The hospital with the lowest rate of deaths in the GTA is the University Health Network, which includes Princess Margaret, Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospitals. The Canadian Institute for
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| Nov 21, 2007 |
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Not just Vioxx -- recently found to cause kidney problems on top of the heart attacks for which it was pulled -- but its seven deadly sisters named by the FDA's Dr. David Graham before Congress in 2004: Crestor, Meridia, Serevent, Lotronex, Arava, Ac
Did Global TV ever report on this scandal? Not! But they'll malign vitamin use without any solid evidence of harm.
Drug Warning Labels Should Include FDA Ties to Big Pharma By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNetPosted on August 28, 2007, Printed on August 28, 2007 www.alternet.org/story/60973/
They're just dropping like Chinese imports -- prescription drugs that turn out to be deadly after FDA approval.
Not just Vioxx -- recently found to cause kidney problems on top of the heart attacks for which it was pulled -- but its seven deadly sisters named by the FDA's Dr. David Graham before
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Psychiatric Drugs: Chemical Warfare on Humans
Psychiatric Drugs: Chemical Warfare on Humans
An Interview with Robert Whitaker The following is a Street Spirit interview with Robert Whitaker, author of Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill. It is reprinted here with permission from the Street Spirit in Oakland, California. Terry Messman, Editor of Street Spirit, conducts the interview. Investigative reporter Robert Whitaker, author of the groundbreaking book Mad In America, is now pursuing a fascinating line of research into how the mammoth psychiatric drug industry is endangering the
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| Feb 9, 2005 |
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Psycho Feds Target Children
Psycho Feds Target ChildrenEvery parent in America should be made aware of a presidential initiative called the “New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.” This commission issued a report last year calling for the mandatory mental health screening of American schoolchildren, meaning millions of kids will be forced to undergo psychiatric screening whether their parents consent or not. At issue is the fundamental right of parents to decide what medical treatment is appropriate for their children. Forced mental health screening simply has no place in a free or decent society. The government does not
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