MERCK'S GARDASIL VACCINE NOT PROVEN SAFE FOR LITTLE GIRLS

..."This is not just about teenagers having sex, it is also about whether Gardasil has been proven safe and effective for little girls."Merck says that this vaccine, at $360 a series, will not have data on vaccination of little boys until 2008. Of course adding to the already heavy overlay of harmful vaccines will do little but raise money for Merck in the meantime. The Feds are also boosting profits by tying the expense into the national program for recommended vaccines.And don't fail to overlook the glamourous capaign of stars and starlets travelling around the country to help you make a bracelet through for an alleged educational organization funded by Merck - www.maketheconnection.org/A more insidious drug company strategy involves directly influencing so-called consumer organizations....

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Food Police in action on false facts

Standing Up To Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Medicine and Big GovernmentDr. Eric Topol, a Cleveland cardiologist, one of the earliest critics of Vioxx, has learned the hard way that being outspoken and having integrity can carry a heavy price when speaking out.In 2004, Dr. Topol published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association that first raised concerns that Vioxx, a painkiller, could cause cardiovascular problems. During one of the class action lawsuits against Merck, the maker of Vioxx, Dr. Topol was called to testify. He reportedly accused Merck of scientific misconduct by misrepresenting its own laboratory findings about the drug's safety.Less than a week after this testimony, Dr. Topol was fired as chief academic official of a medical college in Cleveland. The reason given...

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One More Time, with feeling

As they see it, at the CDC, about 500 people each year die in the US from flesh-eating bacteria. This comes as a comment following the death of a young University of Tulsa football player. To me, it seems as if they think this is par for the course. Since these 'experts' tell us that antibiotics no longer are effective, are they throwing their hands in the air, with hopelessness?I suppose this hopelessness is that no one yet has figured out that there just might be some effective treatment if they by-passed the money-engine that otherwise refer to as a pharmaceutical company.As an idealist, with a clear understanding that money, drugs and insurance drive the health care industry today, I still hold out hope for something better.To borrow from one of my favorite book titles, "small is beautiful:...

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It's the Worms

When my youngest child was little she ate things like handfuls of sand on the beach at the shore and budding tulip flower heads in her grandmother's yard. She made mudpies because I relished that thought from childhood days when I was dressed in hand-smocked percale dresses with bow-tie sashes in the back, being admonished if I were to get dirty before going off to Sunday dinner in the Ladie's Dining Room at the Union League or the country club. We used antibiotics only when really necessary and our pediatrician was also wise enough to help us avoid unnecessary vaccinations. My children also had the real thing like chicken pox and measles, just like I did. Yes, we were taught that having these normal childhood dis-eases helped the immune system fulfill its purpose. Now what do we hear?...

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Another healthy drug for women: Osteoporosis from breast cancer treatment

more than just osteoporosis -Further down in this post you will find this paragraph:"Oncologist Julie Gralow, M.D., of the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle said that women should also consider other ways to improve bone strength, "such as exercise and use of bisphosphonates."So what's this about 'bisphosphonates'? While Fosamax is a fluoride based drug I ad vise against on the basis that is makes bones hard and brittle, not strong and flexible, while supporessing your thyroid, it just so happens that drugs like Actonel -from Proctor & Gamble pharmaceuticals- are made from by-products of TIDE, other wise known as bisphosphonates. These drugs can lead to what is called ONJ or osteonecrosis of the jaw. Some call this "bone death" as a literal translation...

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