tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79934357567821307982024-03-05T16:02:24.140-08:00Informed ParentingDanielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comBlogger446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-54439392301936511572014-09-15T04:59:00.000-07:002014-09-15T04:59:13.922-07:00No Child Left Unmedicated: the Dumbing Down of America (and Canada)Do you remember when "childhood" was..... childhood? Do you remember playing with toys, running through the neighborhood with your friends, climbing trees, using your imagination to create wonderful worlds to play in, laughing and singing and telling silly rhymes and jokes? <br />
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Children are noisy, creative, imaginative, energetic, fun loving, little people. THAT IS CHILDHOOD. <br />
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ADHD? Children = fun, "hyper"= energetic, "attention deficit" = is the fact that childrens minds are mobile, creative, imaginative, active. <br />
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No Child Left Unmedicated</h1>
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The pharmaceutical industry has completely taken over the treatment of medical and psychiatric treat,emt. Everything, and I am mean everything is geared towards getting every American on medication and keeping them on medication for the rest of their lives. There is no more vulnerable population, to this medical tyranny, than our children.</div>
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Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (lol)</h2>
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This is a remarkably ridiculous name for an even more ludicrous diagnosis. The main characteristics of SLT are vaguely described but include some combination of daydreaming, lethargy and slow mental processing, you know, like we do when we watch television.</div>
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The advocates of this diagnosis contend that SCT afflicts about <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;">two million children</strong>. And that great pharmaceutical whore, Eli Lilly, is waiting in the wings preparing to medicate the developing and highly vulnerable brains of these two million children with the latest in dangerous and mind-destroying psychotropic medications which will leave the user with a brain damaged future and a medical treatment history which will render many of these children with an uninsurable medical insurance future.</div>
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The Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology has sold its professional soul and its professional ethics to Big Pharma as it is seriously promoting this voodoo form of diagnostics. The latest issue of their publication donates a record 136 pages to the topic of SLT. And where do we find children with SLT? Probably standing next to the adults who have Restless Leg Syndrome.</div>
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-Edition IV & V</h2>
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DSM is the Bible of mental illnesses. The book serves a training guide for graduate and the PhD students as well as serving as a professional guide for treatment intervention amongst mental health practitioners.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;">By the time a child is 21 years of age, under DSM -IV guidelines, 80% of all young adults qualify to be diagnosed as mentally ill and, as such, are subject to being medicated.</strong></div>
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The newest version of DSM has made this problem far worse. Normal temper tantrums have been turned into a diagnosable and pharmacologically treatable illness called ‘Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder”. Normal adolescent rebellion is now being labeled as “Oppositional Defiant Disorder”. Normal childhood restlessness is now diagnosed as “ADHD” in children as early as<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> two years of age</strong>. Childhood Autism and childhood Bipolar Disorder are pharmaceutical goldmines and have increased forty fold in the last 20 years</div>
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The ADHD Scam</h2>
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More than 10,000 American toddlers 2 or 3 years old are being medicated for<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">attention deficit hyperactivity disorder</a></span> outside established pediatric guidelines and professional medical practices, according to data recently presented by the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/centers_for_disease_control_and_prevention/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #290fd4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Centers for Disease Control and Preventio</span>n</a>.</div>
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According to the CDC, 11% of the country’s children are diagnosed with ADHD. This is ludicrous and is just not possible. These children have ADHD according to whom? The answer to this question consists of two parts. First, Big Pharma is using its influence to “push” the diagnostic criteria in the direction of many more positive diagnoses. More diagnoses means more profit-making pill pushing. Second, there is no illness, with these kinds of unsustainable rates of diagnosis that could impact the population to this degree. If there really were an 11% rate of autism in this country, we would be forced to change what is considered to be normal behavior since most mental illness models are loosely based upon a bell curve distribution. Therefore, just based on the surface evidence, these diagnostic rates cannot justified.</div>
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If these medications are dangerous for children, we would not know because very few scientific studies have examined the use of ADHD stimulant medications in young children. A widely referenced 2006 <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2006/preschoolers-with-adhd-improve-with-low-doses-of-medication.shtml" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">study</a></span> found that the ADHD medication, methylphenidate, could “somewhat” mitigate ADHD like symptoms in preschoolers. However, the study’s conclusions were based on researched derived from insufficiently sized researched groups. Only about a dozen 3-year-olds were included in the study, and there were no 2-year-olds, yet we continue to medicate these young vulnerable minds. Most researchers on that study, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, have significant financial ties to pharmaceutical companies that made ADHD medications.</div>
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A multitude of studies indicates that children who are prescribed psychotropic drugs are much more likely to become drug addicts as adults.</div>
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Parents Are the First Line of Defense</h2>
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In the U.S. alone, nearly 9 million children are currently being prescribed psychiatric drugs—more than 1 million are under the age of five. Click image for complete breakdown</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">About ‘ADHD’ & Child Mental Disorders:</strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Virtually anyone at any given time can meet the criteria for bipolar disorder or ADHD. Anyone. And the problem is everyone diagnosed with even one of these ‘illnesses’ triggers the pill dispenser.” <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">— Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, Psychiatrist</em></strong></div>
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Parents are quite simply not being given accurate information about psychiatric labels (mental disorders) or the drugs being prescribed to ‘treat’ their children. In the U.S. alone, 10 million children are currently being prescribed psychiatric drugs—<a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/children-on-psychiatric-drugs/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">more than 1 million are under the age of five (source: IMS health).</a> <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">:</i></div>
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These are the actual figures taken from IMS (to see breakdown on what<a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/children-on-psychiatric-drugs/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">drugs these children were prescribed click here.</a></div>
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Children on psychiatric drugs in the United States</div>
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This is fact: There are no medical tests in existence that can prove ADHD or any other mental disorder these children are being diagnosed and drugged for is a physical abnormality, brain dysfunction, chemical imbalance or genetic abnormality. Period. Even the National Institute of Health Consensus (NIH) issued a statement admitting, “We do not have an independent, valid test for ADHD, and <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">there is no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction</strong>.”......</div>
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This is not opinion. This is documented fact by international drug regulatory agencies. Parents are quite simply not given the documented facts about the psychiatric drugs prescribed for their children, yet it is their right to have full information about any drugs being prescribed their child. <a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/stimulantsideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ADHD drugs</span></a>, <span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/antidepressantsideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Antidepressants</span></a>, </span><a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/antipsychoticsideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Antipsychotic</span>s</a>and <span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/antianxietysideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anti-Anxiety Drugs</span></a></span> given to children, have been documented by hundreds of drug regulatory agencies to have severe and life-threatening side effects. Children are commonly prescribed drugs such as <a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/stimulantsideeffects/ritalinsideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ritalin</span></a>, <span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/stimulantsideeffects/adderallsideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adderall</span></a>,<a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/stimulantsideeffects/concertasideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Concerta</span></a>, <a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/antidepressantsideeffects/paxilsideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paxil</span></a>, <a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/antidepressantsideeffects/prozacsideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prozac</span></a>, <a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychdrugdangers/medwatch_psych_drug_adverse_reactions.php?g=1&advanced=false&dn=dn%3ACelexa&arg=&arl=&aru=&mf=&advanced=0&search_generic=Celexa&link=true" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Celexa</span></a>, <a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/antidepressantsideeffects/zoloftsideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zoloft</a></span>, <a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/antidepressantsideeffects/luvoxsideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Luvox</span></a>, <a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/antipsychoticsideeffects/risperdalsideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Risperdal</a>, <a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/antipsychoticsideeffects/seroquelsideeffects/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seroquel</span></a> and parents are not given any warning on the known dangers of these drugs. It is for this reason that CCHR created a simple, easy to understand <span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychdrugdangers/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">search engine on psychiatric drugs</span></a></span> which provides documented side effects, drug warnings, studies and adverse reaction reports filed with the FDA in a simplified format.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ABOUT PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS</strong></span></div>
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The child drugging epidemic that has resulted in infants, toddlers, foster children, and a total of 20 million children on psychiatric drugs rests on one fraudulent premise; that mental disorders are biological “diseases” therefore justifying the administration of mind-altering drugs. The falsity of this premise is easily established by the fact that there is not one medical or scientific test that can prove any child has a mental disorder. Not one. Behaviors are not<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> diseases</em> and drugs are not<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">medication. </em>This isn’t to say that children don’t have emotional or behavioral problems, it is saying that without evidence of disease—a physical disease—children are simply being drugged to change their behavior. <a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-disorders/psychiatristsphysicians-on-lack-of-any-medicalscientific-tests/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Psychiatrists know this—they <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">admit</em> this</span></a>, their own literature admits as much. But they like to keep these facts to themselves. <span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #0066bb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-disorders/" style="border: 0px; color: #007bdb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For more information on psychiatric diagnosis, click here.</a></span></span></div>
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-19646321118743136012014-09-13T04:50:00.001-07:002014-09-13T04:50:59.046-07:00Independent Lab ‘Confirms Viral DNA in Merck Vaccine’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em>by</em> <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/author/christina/" rel="author" style="color: #004ab8; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts by Christina Sarich">Christina Sarich</a><br /><em>September 6th, 2014</em><br />Updated 09/06/2014 at 10:25 pm</div>
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Independent Lab Confirms Viral DNA in Merck VaccineMerck can say that Gardasil contains ‘no viral DNA’ all they want, but Dr. Sin Hang Lee had reported to the FDA just over two years ago that the vaccine contains fragments of DNA that shouldn’t be in something we give young women – so why is Gardasil still on the market?</div>
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After conducting extensive research, Dr. Lee found that in 100% of lab samples tested, fragments of HPV-11, HPV-16, and HPV-18 L1 DNA firmly attached to Merck’s proprietary aluminum adjuvant.</div>
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Even though SaneVax Inc reported their findings to the FDA, the controversial vaccine used to treat cervical cancer is still being sold, and the FDA states that ‘these fragments pose no health risk.’ Once again, the FDA has ignored science which proves that a drug created by a big pharmaceutical company is less than safe.</div>
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Dr. Lee also found that the HPV DNA fragments were not only bound to Merck’s proprietary aluminum adjuvant, but they had also adopted a non-B conformation, thereby creating a novel (new) chemical compound of unknown toxicity.</div>
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Furthermore, Non-B DNA conformations are known through Dr. Lee’s research to be associated with genetic abnormalities, as well as mutations which cause 70 serious diseases in human beings. Among them:</div>
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The FDA clearly should have investigated these claims by now, and at last put a temporary moratorium on Gardasil. But instead, the organization ignores the obvious possibility that Gardasil, as many have suspected, cause infertility problems and possibly even forms of cancer -the very disease that Gardasil is supposed to protect women against.</div>
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Instead of researching the possibility that the HPV vaccine was harming women, government officials and HPV vaccine supporters have been eager to discredit Dr. Lee’s research.</div>
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Fortunately, some industrious and intelligent people have come to Dr. Lee’s aid. Helen Petousis-Harris PhD, the Director of Immunisation Research and Vaccinology Immunisation Advisory Centre at The University of Auckland, gave a a public hearing on HPV vaccine safety in February 2014, in which she outlined the tactics of these agencies (through her own criticism) to discredit scientists that offer opposing facts to the Big Pharma propaganda line.</div>
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She argued that:</div>
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Dr. Lee’s tests were over-sensitive. (Interesting – if findings go a deeper level than the cursory three-week toxicity trials, they are considered aberrant).</div>
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No one else has replicated Dr. Lee’s findings. This is likely untrue, and what is more probable is that no one has been able to bring similar findings to the surface..</div>
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But, both of these ‘concerns’ were put to rest via data presented by Laurent Bélec at the 9th International Congress on Autoimmunity on March 26-30, 2014 in Nice, France. They published their findings in a paper titled, “Confirmation of the Creation of a Novel Molecule in Gardasil.”</div>
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“. . .Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection causes cervical cancer, a significant portion of anal, genital and oropharyngeal cancers, genital warts and recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. In June 2006, a prophylactic HPV vaccine (Gardasil®; Merck, NJ, USA) was licensed in the USA, with subsequent approval granted in the European Union. Gardasil® is a quadrivalent HPV protein-based vaccine containing genotype-specific L1 capsid proteins of HPV-16, HPV-18, HPV-6 and HPV-11 in the form of virus-like particles as the active ingredient, which are produced by a DNA recombinant technology in yeast.</div>
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Recently Lee SH showed that Gardasil® contained fragments of HPV-11 or HPV-18 DNA, evidenced by nested PCR, of unknown significance [J Inorg Biochem. 2012 Dec;117:85-92]. We herein looked by optimized single PCR in different batches of Gardasil® from France for HPV L1 DNA using MY09/MY11 degenerate and nondegenerate primers, for HPV E2 and E6 DNA genes, and for contaminating Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA.</div>
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All amplified amplicons were sequenced and resulting FASTA sequences were analyzed by Genotyping software from NCBI. In-house quantitative single PCR using as external calibrator serial dilutions of HPV-16 DNA extracted from CaSki cell line allowed estimating the load of residual HPV DNA fragments in vaccine ampoules.</div>
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Preliminary data showed the presence of contaminating HPV L1 DNA in all tested different batches of Gardasil® vaccine from France. Our observations confirm independently and extend the previous observations by Lee SH, without using conflicting nested PCR detection possibly subjected to contamination. Persistence in muscle tissue of residual HPV DNA</div>
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Not only has another independent laboratory confirmed the findings of Dr. Lee in every Gardasil sample tested from France, this lab used a different and less ‘sensitive’ methodology to arrive at the same conclusion regarding Gardasil recombinant (genetically engineered) HPV DNA fragment contamination.</div>
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L. Belec1, H. Péré1, C. Fayard1.</div>
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1Microbiologie, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.”</div>
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Dr. Lee and Prof. Bélec and the SaneVax team indicate the need for further investigation for vaccine safety. Without even this minimum standard for vaccines, why should we trust the makers of the drugs or the agencies which allow for their distribution at all?</div>
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-24304479367827248272014-04-07T23:54:00.000-07:002014-04-07T23:54:26.071-07:00Targeting Breasts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br /><br />What a Phenomenal article!!! A huge thank you to talk2momz for tying this all together so beautifully!<br /><br />We BE all that we need. And when we focus on just BEing ourselves- to just BE YOU.... then you can DO all that you are and want to BE. Whether your focus is on a small part of this grand story, or on the larger picture as a whole, Just BE you, and you will BE the change you wish to see in the World.<br /><br />Love D<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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I remember my grandmother’s breasts: Grandma Ida, sitting in
the big chair by the window, holding my newborn, firstborn son. He was
sleeping in her arms, and her arms were resting on breasts that seemed
to reach even below her waist. Grandma didn’t want me to come and take
my sleeping son, and put him in a bassinet… she loved babies, holding
babies. Who had the heart to go and take him away? Not me.<br />
Grandma nursed nine children and kept them all alive in the early
days of the 20th century. A Norwegian immigrant, she and her family had
migrated to the U.S. Midwest: prairie country. They lived near the
Missouri River with their first shelter being a home constructed of sod,
dug out of a hillside. One cannot imagine how harsh it was, and
difficult to keep nine children alive and growing, but they did it.<span id="more-1113"></span><br />
Looking at photos it’s obvious those big breasts were strapped down
and tucked in. Far away into the future was the thought of putting them
into a bra, protruding them into cone shapes, or uplifting them and
displaying the cleavage as a ‘don’t touch’ invitation. Grandpa
apparently enjoyed Grandma’s voluptuous softness at least nine times,
and the babies got the full load of nurture and intimacy.<br />
Fast forward 100 years to silicone implants, see-through clothing,
breast titillation everywhere, and breast cancer. Somewhere along the
way we heard complaints about the objectification of the woman’s body,
and then the man’s body… but who really understood what that was all
about. Most of us agreed to it, got into it, and worried that we weren’t
‘good enough’ in the boobs department. I doubt that Grandma would have
been able to comprehend such a thought.<br />
Now let’s pull back our lens and look at the earth – our feminine,
rich, nurturing, life-giving mother. We’re all ashamed of what’s going
on with her. Many of us say RAPE! She’s being raped and trashed – her
forests leveled, her hills cut down, her crust penetrated. We see an
unquenchable thirst to break open the earth and extract her treasures.
And what does she do to cope with the exploitation and the toxic burden?
She begins to quake, and her surface and oceans begin to die.<br />
It has been shown that permaculture can bring the dying parts of the
earth back to life and feed us all. It has been shown that the earth has
her own restorative process with regard to forests and water and air…
if allowed to accomplish it. It has been shown that certain of her
plants can clean and heal her and us… and remember… we ARE of her. It
has been shown that the elimination of poverty is key to humans
naturally controlling population.<br />
It has also been shown that we are inventive and creative with regard
to recovery. So we are not lost from a future heaven on earth, as many
of us are awakening to our condition. The feminine aspect of divinity is
returning, and ‘She’ in all of us may lead us to the root of this
insanity and give us inspiration to envision in a new direction.<br />
In our current condition, which we are told is an ‘advanced’
civilization, the earth’s ability to nurture is being destroyed, and so
is our human ability. One in eight women today have been diagnosed with
breast cancer, and I’m one in the eight, so this search for the root is
meaningful to me.<br />
In my own case, I do believe that too much nurture, along with
psychological stress and ‘running on empty’ for several years, invited
cancer cells to get aggressive in the breast. We can’t go back and
change circumstances, and to be quite honest, I did get something from
it: that ‘something’ is a stronger connection to the divine, a decision
to live, and a willingness to say and do what I will, i.e. if I don’t
say what I feel now, and do what I can now, then will I ever?<br />
We all know about the savage treatment for breast cancer that our
medical culture approves of and is willing to finance… cutting out of
the breast tissue, killing of cancerous and non-cancerous cells,
replacement with silicone implants, and then hope and pray. It seems
that as long as the shape of the breast is still there, whether our
tissue is able to remember the babies or not, or our skin able to feel
the touch of a lover or not… it’s okay. It’s so okay that even women
without breast cancer are doing it, because a movie star did it.<br />
Some women go for the alternative treatments, which men and women of
conscience are bringing onto the scene through activism, studies,
research and at great personal effort and cost. Nature is gaining
ground, and I can see it even in the awareness of MDs who are entrenched
in the cancer industry. Nature’s healing power will be shown to be
superior eventually… but until all women, including those from the
lowest economic bracket, can choose and fund an alternative to the
well-funded system, it’s no win as yet.<br />
We’ve covered a good deal of ground on the subject of breasts, but we
haven’t talked about the denser, darker realms where the root of our
disconnect must lie. These realms consume and control energy,
manifesting in violence, rape, slavery, death and sexual abuse of even
the most innocent. Can we discuss this without casting at least a
sideways glance into the denser realms? I think we have to go there.<br />
Deprive is the opposite of nurture. I believe that the densest realms
are constructed of fear. Great is the fear of being deprived of life…
and greater still, dying without knowing Self. It’s a cold, cold place,
filled with those insane perversions into which the desire for more
‘physical/emotional sensation’ descends. It’s a grab for more heat… more
energy. Human beings have tried to get past fear of death for
millennia, and death as ‘sacrifice’ is evidence enough of that.<br />
Breasts are our first promise of life. They are the message that yes,
child, you will live, your body will live, and I have everything you
need, right here, for you to live… just drink. That invitation to live
is also the earth’s message and all of nature’s message: nature has
everything you need, right here, for you live. Just receive it, share it
and tend to its renewal.<br />
Knowing Self: perhaps now is the time, for some of us at least, to
experience fearless living – life in the knowledge that energy never
ends, and ‘nurture never ends’.<br />
There is a great change occurring in our consciousness… a gradual
realization that as consciousness/energy/information, we are far more
vast than we can explore… and yet a tiny fraction of the Source
information. As a part of Source, and thus eternal, we enter a
metaphysical spirituality.<br />
Our physical bodies of course go through death, as is the pattern of
the natural world. But the I that observes the I… it is the real, true
Self. The observer is not the body or the brain or the emotions; it is
the Higher Self experiencing the physical plane… experiencing all that
the physical plane has to offer, including the dense realms.<br />
What is the opposite of fear? Some might say courage, but I would say
trust. As we grow in trust that we are both the doer and the observer,
the joy of life is easier to access, as is the energy of love’s
divinity… there always, for all. We can become fearless in that trust as
we collectively encounter this time of great change… this global brush
with death.<br />
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-43724981655055580772014-04-04T01:15:00.000-07:002014-04-04T01:15:29.971-07:0040 CHILDREN PARALYZED AFTER NEW MENINGITIS VACCINE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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MINIMUM OF 40 CHILDREN PARALYZED AFTER NEW MENINGITIS VACCINE</h1>
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On December 20, 2012, a vaccination tragedy hit the small village of
Gouro, located in northern Chad, Africa. According to the newspaper La
Voix, out of five hundred children who received the new meningitis
vaccine MenAfriVac, at least 40 of them between the ages of 7 and 18
have become paralyzed. Those children also suffered hallucinations and
convulsions. Since this report, the true extent of this tragedy is
coming to light, as parents of these vaccinated children have reported
yet more injuries. The authorities in the area are shaken, as citizens
set fire to a sanitary administration vehicle in a demonstration of
their frustration and anger at the government’s negligence.[1]<br />
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“We wish that our children would get their health back,” shared the parent of a sick child.<br />
<strong>THE MENAFRIVAC VACCINE</strong><br />
MenAfriVac is a new vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India
Limited. According to The Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP), it is the
first vaccine to gain approval to travel outside the cold chain, meaning
that the vaccine can be transported without refrigeration or ice packs
for up to four days:<br />
“The meningitis A vaccine known as MenAfriVac®, created to meet the
needs of Africa’s meningitis belt, can now be kept in a controlled
temperature chain (CTC) at temperatures of up to 40°C for up to four
days, a decision that could help increase campaign efficiency and
coverage and save funds normally spent maintaining the challenging cold
chain during the “last mile” of vaccine delivery.” [2]<br />
The data on the MenAfriVac vaccine is further backed by the World
Health Organization’s website [3] and the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation website. [4]<br />
So, why does this information differ vastly from the information
given on the manufacturer’s website? Serum Institute of India Ltd.
stated under the section marked STORAGE:<br />
“MenAfriVac should be stored and transported between 2-8ºC. Protect
from light. The diluent should be stored at 25°C. It is recommended to
protect the reconstituted vaccine from direct sunlight. Do not exceed
the expiry date stated on the external packaging.” [5]<br />
<strong>THE STORY FROM INSIDE AFRICA</strong><br />
Mr. M., the cousin of two of the vaccine-injured children, who
currently remain critically ill and hospitalized, explained that many of
the children reacted within 24 hours of receiving the vaccine. He said
that at first the children vomited and complained of headaches, before
falling to the floor with uncontrollable convulsions while bent over
with saliva coming from their mouths.<br />
He shared that on December 26, 2012, the Minister of Health and the
Minister of Social Security visited Gouro, bringing with them two
Members of Parliament. He said that after some discussion, they decided
to evacuate approximately 50 paralyzed children to a hospital over three
hundred miles away in N’Djamena, the capital city of Chad.<br />
He added that the government responded to the tragedy by paying the
parents money in a desperate bid to silence them, further stating that
many of the parents are traumatized and confused.<br />
As reported in La Voix, according to a member of the medical staff,
as well as a comment from Dr. Daugla Oumagoum Moto, the director of the
Center of International Health Support (CSSI), the reactions that these
children have suffered are not typical of this type of vaccine against
meningitis, which they say are normally fever, vomiting, and headaches,
not the adverse reactions experienced by the hospitalized children.<br />
<strong>A HEARTFELT PLEA FOR HELP</strong><br />
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<strong>Continue reading <a href="http://www.fhfn.org/minimum-of-40-children-paralyzed-after-new-meningitis-vaccine-2/" target="_blank">HERE</a> </strong><br />
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-72799539615654070102014-03-30T01:56:00.001-07:002014-03-30T01:56:40.356-07:00Vaccine-Induced Tissue Scurvy Globally Misdiagnosed as Child Abuse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Vaccine-Induced Tissue Scurvy Globally Misdiagnosed as Child Abuse</h3>
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 <br /><br />By Christina England<br /><br />The father of the child in our published photo [found here] was jailed for life for child abuse. Many of you looking at the terrible injuries on this small child will immediately assume, as did the doctors who examined him, that he was viciously attacked and it was right to jail his father.<br /><br />However, what if I told you that it was later proven that this child had in fact been suffering from Kawasaki disease, otherwise known as tissue scurvy, and that his father was innocent?<br /><br />Well, that is exactly what happened. Due to the wonderful work of Dr. Michael Innis and a team of experts brought in by the family to help, he is well and happy and back home with his family after his father was released from jail as an innocent man.<br /><br />What Research Tells Us About Tissue Scurvy<br /><br />Studies have revealed that parents and caregivers worldwide are being falsely accused of child abuse when children develop the autoimmune disease, tissue scurvy, after vaccination.<br /><br />In a recent paper by Dr. Michael Innis, he stated that:<br /><br /> “Some doctors are unaware of the pathophysiological processes of autoimmunity, haemostasis and osteogenesis and are misdiagnosing vaccine induced tissue scurvy, absence of vitamin C within the cell, as non-accidental injury.”<br /><br />His paper, Autoimmune Tissue Scurvy Misdiagnosed as Child Abuse, outlined three cases of children suffering from symptoms mimicking those of shaken baby syndrome (SBS) whose parents were subsequently accused of child abuse.<br /><br />However, it was later discovered that all three parents were innocent and far from being abused, their children had been suffering from the autoimmune disease known as tissue scurvy.<br /><br />Dr. Innis wrote:<br /><br /> “Tissue scurvy, unlike the “seafarer scurvy” of yesteryear, is a condition in which vitamin C is abundant in the blood but is unable to enter the cell because of a lack of insulin which is required to transfer the vitamin C into the cell.”<br /><br />He stated that:<br /><br /> “The many faces of tissue scurvy in childhood include sudden infant death syndrome, alleged non-accidental injury, shaken baby syndrome, abusive head trauma, inflicted brain injury, Reye’s syndrome, Kawasaki disease, anaphylaxis and diabetes type I. <br /><br /> All have one feature in common – hyperglycemia, the signature of insulin deficiency resulting from vaccines, and other forms of antigenic stress which damage the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans resulting in hypoinsulinemia and tissue scurvy.” [1]<br /><br />Dr. Innis firmly believes that doctors are misdiagnosing vaccine-induced tissue scurvy (an absence of vitamin C within the cell) as a non-accidental injury.<br /><br />In his impressive paper, published last year by the Science Publishing Group, he wrote:<br /><br /> “In all the cases in which appropriate histories and tests were done there was evidence that the doctors either misinterpreted the laboratory evidence or they were unaware of the significance of abnormal tests suggesting tissue scurvy as the cause.”<br /><br />The father of this child was accused of abuse and put in jail.<br /><br />A Second Paper By Dr. Innis Reveals Similar Findings<br /><br />In a second paper on the subject, Dr. Michael Innis stated that it is postulated that Kawasaki disease is tissue scurvy, a disease often found in children under the age five. Children suffering from the condition usually present with a fever, redness of the eyes, blotchy red skin lesions, changes in the mouth and cracked lips, swelling of the hands and feet and lymph node enlargement in the neck.<br /><br />Describing the case featured in our lead photo in detail, Dr. Innis stated:<br /><br /> “A child presenting with the signs and symptoms of Kawasaki disease was diagnosed as suffering from non-accidental injuries. Investigations were carried out for evidence of insulin deficiency and liver dysfunction. <br /><br /> It was found that there was evidence of hyperglycemia, implying insulin deficiency and the liver function tests were abnormal.”<br /><br />He continued by stating that:<br /><br /> “Kawasaki disease is an autoimmune disorder following antigenic stimulation in a genetically susceptible child which causes insulin deficiency and failure of the cellular uptake of vitamin C, tissue scurvy, and can be mistaken for child abuse. Vaccines are a proven cause of hyperglycemia in children and may be a cause of Kawasaki disease.”<br /><br />Throughout his description of the case, he demonstrated how doctors missed vital signs, preferring to jump to the conclusion that the child had been severely abused by the carer, instead of investigating the truth.<br /><br />In many ways, it is easy to see why this occurred, as the photos accompanying the report are graphic, and to an untrained eye they would immediately raise suspicion. However, the professionals examining the child in question were all ‘highly qualified,’ and should have carried out a full battery of tests before jumping to the conclusion that the child had been abused.<br /><br />Showing the blood test results in detail, Dr. Innis explained:<br /><br /> “The alacrity with which the admitting doctor declared “trauma level I” colored subsequent clinical and investigative procedures. The possibility of Kawasaki disease was never raised and the ANCA and AECA tests which are sometimes positive in this type of vasculitis were never done. However the presence of hyperglycemia is clear evidence of insulin deficiency provoking the onset of tissue scurvy. The coronary vessels and myocardium should have been thoroughly investigated, as they are a major cause of death in Kawasaki disease.” [2]<br /><br />Another Specialist’s Perspective on Tissue Scurvy<br /><br />Dr. Innis is not the only professional who has linked Kawasaki disease to vaccinations. In 2000, psychologist Lisa Blakemore-Brown wrote Reweaving the Autistic Tapestry, a book on autism and interweaving disorders.<br /><br />One of the chapters centered on a little girl she had renamed Lorelei. Lorelei had reacted extremely badly to the pertussis vaccination and this adverse reaction had been fully documented by the National Health Service (NHS) in the child’s hospital notes. Lorelei was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and Kawasaki disease.<br /><br />In 2001, Ms. Blakemore-Brown highlighted the case in a rapid response on the British Medical Journal’s website, in response to an article titled A Finnish Study Confirms Safety of MMR. [3] Amazingly, her response was published with a footnote stating that the editor had checked her facts and that the parents of the child had given their permission for the piece to be published.<br /><br />Ms. Blakemore-Brown wrote:<br /><br /> “In one of my cases of very obvious and indisputable reaction to pertussis vaccine the child in question has been found to have Kawasaki disease, her own immune system attacking itself. She presents as Asperger. There is no autism in the family but the baby had allergies prior to the vaccine. It is scientific examination of cases like this which will enable us to ultimately put measures in place to reassure the public.” [3]<br /><br />The First Links Discovered As Far Back As 1962<br /><br />The late Dr. Archie Kalokerinos was one of the first professionals to link vaccinations to scurvy. He first noticed there was a problem while he was working with Aborigine children in Australia in 1962.<br /><br />While there, he noticed that there was an extremely high death rate among children recently vaccinated. After rejecting the usual explanations, his research led him to the conclusion that the infants were suffering from a severe lack of vitamin C, or scurvy.<br /><br />Dr. Kalokerinos went on to speak about his experiences worldwide and included his research in many books and papers on the subject. However, when he mentioned his fears to the government, instead of investigating the problem as he had expected, he was met with extreme hostility.<br /><br />In an interview documented in the International Vaccine Newsletter – June 1995, he stated:<br /><br /> “At first it was just a simple clinical observation. I observed that many infants, after they received routine vaccines like tetanus, diptheria, polio, whooping cough or whatever, became ill. Some became extremely ill, and in fact some died. It was an observation, it was not a theory. So my first reaction was to look at the reasons why this happened. Of course I found it was more likely to happen in infants who were ill at the time of receiving a vaccine, or infants who had been ill recently, or infants who were incubating an infection. Of course in the early stages of incubation there is no way whatsoever that anyone can detect the disease. They turn up later on. Furthermore, some of the reactions to the vaccines were not those that were listed in the standard literature. They were very strange reactions indeed.<br /><br /> A third observation was that with some of these reactions which normally resulted in death, I found that I could reverse them by giving large amounts of vitamin C intramuscularly or intravenously.”<br /><br />Extremely concerned by his observations, he tried to alert the government to what was happening. However, what happened next shocked him. He explained:<br /><br /> “One would have expected, of course, that the authorities would take an interest in these observations that resulted in a dramatic drop in the death rate of infants in the area under my control, a very dramatic drop. But instead of taking an interest their reaction was one of extreme hostility. This forced me to look into the question of vaccination further, and the further I looked into it, the more shocked I became. I found that the whole vaccine business was indeed a gigantic hoax. Most doctors are convinced that they are useful, but if you look at the proper statistics and study the instance of these diseases you will realize that this is not so.” [4]<br /><br />Strong words, I am sure you will agree, especially as he concluded the interview by stating that:<br /><br /> “My final conclusion after forty years or more in this business is that the unofficial policy of the World Health Organization and the unofficial policy of Save the Children Fund and almost all those organizations is one of murder and genocide. <br /><br /> They want to make it appear as if they are saving these kids, but in actual fact they don’t. I am talking of those at the very top. Beneath that level is another level of doctors and health workers, like myself, who don’t really understand what they are doing.”<br /><br />Like Dr. Innis, over the years his conclusions have led him to believe that the trend of parents being falsely accused of shaken baby syndrome is linked to scurvy, and in his final book titled Shaken Baby Syndrome: An Abusive Diagnosis, he wrote:<br /><br /> “After studying more than 50 SBS cases, I have yet to find one where a detailed analysis of the complete individual or family history, or a proper evaluation of all the necessary coagulation/bleeding factors was undertaken. Often, a diagnosis of trauma due to shaking is made at an early stage and any further investigation is considered unnecessary. <br /><br /> It has been known for many years that retinal hemorrhages, subdural hemorrhages and hemorrhages elsewhere can occur in cases of scurvy.” [5]<br /><br />Throughout his book, he identified vaccination as the main cause of scurvy in young children today.<br />Conclusion<br /><br />In trying to help falsely accused parents worldwide, I am currently aware of at least seven falsely accused parents whose children became ill after they received multiple vaccinations. In four of these cases, tests revealed that, far from being abused, the children had been suffering from the autoimmune disease tissue scurvy.<br /><br />Why are governments around the world burying their heads in the sand and refusing point-blank to investigate this atrocity? INNOCENT parents are being locked up on a daily basis, accused of the most horrendous crimes, and it seems as if no one actually cares.<br /><br />The evidence speaks for itself: not only are vaccinations harming our children, but that harm is being covered up by blaming innocent parents of abuse.<br /><br />Full permission was gained in advance for the use of the photos found here.<br /><br />I would like to extend my gratitude to the wonderful and continuing work of Dr. Michael Innis, without whom many innocent parents would be still be in jail today.<br /><br /><br />Go to the original article for excellent links and research:<br />
<a href="http://www.naturalblaze.com/2014/03/vaccine-induced-tissue-scurvy-globally.html#sthash.TcXfGLnQ.dpuf" target="_blank"> http://www.naturalblaze.com/2014/03/vaccine-induced-tissue-scurvy-globally.html#sthash.TcXfGLnQ.dpuf</a><br />
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-87258669369502720802014-03-09T09:15:00.000-07:002014-03-09T09:15:14.878-07:00Harvard Scientists: Link between Fluoride and ADHD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
More and more information and transparency is leaking out. Like a giant dam riddled with cracks, the pressure is building from within to push down the walls of deception. <br /><br />When you combine the damage of Fluoride and Vaccines, and toss in a side of infant formula dosed with MSG, BPA, pesticides, and rocket fuel.... well, is it any wonder that we have entire generations of children being treated for ADD, ADHA, Autism, OCD, Bipolar syndrome, and obesity, just to mention a few of the major problems that our children (and ourselves!) are facing?<br />
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by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) found that various
chemicals that many children are exposed to are having a direct effect
on the creation of disorders labelled under the name ADHD as well as
other mental disorders. One of the chemicals said to be having an effect
is fluoride, or variations of fluoride. Governments have been
performing artificial fluoridation for a number of years regardless of
the <a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/?s=fluoride" target="_blank">lack of effectiveness</a> it has in preventing tooth decay.<br /></div>
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The research began in a study published
in 2006 which initially looked at the effects of various industrial
chemicals on neuro-development.[1] The research continued with an
analysis of more industrial chemicals including fluoride. 27 additional
studies, including one that linked fluoride to the lowering of IQ in
children, clearly illustrated the fact that fluoride is detrimental to
brain development and can lead to autism spectrum disorders and other
mental issues. The issue is being coined “a silent epidemic” and most
health authorities continue to turn a blind eye to the issue.<br /></div>
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The two main researchers involved in the
study, Philippe Grandjean from HSPH and Philip Landrigan, both agree
that the reason for the increase in incidences of chemical-related
neuro-developmental disorders is due to the increasing number of
untested chemicals that are being approved without proper testing. The
public is also not fully being told of the dangers which is causing many
to perform independent research to find out the true effects. The issue
is not just in water fluoridation, but also in the <a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/?s=vaccine" target="_blank">vaccination of our children. </a></div>
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“Since 2006, the number of chemicals known to damage the
human brain more generally, but that are not regulated to protect
children’s health, had increased from 202 to 214,” writes Julia Medew
for The Sydney Morning Herald. “The pair said this could be the tip of
the iceberg because the vast majority of the more than 80,000 industrial
chemicals widely used in the United States have never been tested for
their toxic effects on the developing fetus or child.”</blockquote>
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The fact is, fluoride is a known
developmental neurotoxin and practices of water fluoridation have long
been proven to be ineffective. If individuals choose to use fluoridated
tooth paste or choose fluoride treatments at their dental office, that
is acceptable but two things should happen:<br /></div>
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1. People should be taught about the harmful effects of fluoride and the damage it can cause to your teeth and your body.<br /></div>
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2. Water fluoridation should be stopped
everywhere immediately as it is nothing more than a legal way for
chemical companies to get rid of toxic waste while profiting.<br /></div>
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Fluoride accumulates in the body over
time, so even though the amounts being ingested might be small each
time, it builds up over years and can cause serious health
issues. Research has found that fluoride affects normal endocrine
function, causes kidney disease, bone weakness, dental fluorosis,
cancer, lowering of IQ, calcification of the pineal gland, arthritis,
immune deficiencies, skeletal fluorosis and much more.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“The problem is
international in scope, and the solution must therefore also be
international,” stated Grandjean in a press release, calling for
improved regulatory standards for common chemicals. “We have the methods
in place to test industrial chemicals for harmful effects on children’s
brain development — now is the time to make that testing mandatory.”</span></blockquote>
<br /><a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/03/05/harvard-research-finds-link-between-fluoridated-water-adhd-mental-disorders/" target="_blank">Click HERE</a> for original articles and sources<br />
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-57569155309805115892014-03-04T03:47:00.000-08:002014-03-04T03:47:05.924-08:00False Science + Paid Propaganda= Modern Medicine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We've watched this happen over and over again. The twisting of data to suit whomever or whichever corporation is funding the study. The blatantly false information that the media will put out when promoting an agenda that is paid for by certain lobbyist groups or government agencies. We've watched the media pick apart an "independent" study and publish only those facts that support their blatantly biased opinion. We've seen over and over again, the various government agencies creating recommendations and legislation based on "studies" that were created by paid corporations and groups of scientists who are funded to do these studies by the self same corporations that are pushing their own agenda or product. <br /><br />Remember the HUGE publicity propaganda campaign about 6-7 years ago against Co-Sleeping? The media went wild, using this "study" to push their anti sleep sharing agenda, with articles everywhere from news papers, on TV and radio, so called "scientific" and "Medical" journals, and even spread to medical professionals..... then a group of about 30 of us got together, got our hands on the so called "study" and thoroughly dissected it, and we discovered that not only was this study fully funded by the union that represents the crib manufacturers of America, but the study was so outrageously flawed, with massive amounts of data missing, that it literally was full of holes big enough to drive a truck through! THIS is the corruption that IS running the medical machine.<br /><br /><br />Do you still believe that your government is actually blameless for the atrocities that are being committed on it's citizens? There are only two responses to this in my opinion. Either:<br /><br />a) The governments of the world are manned by trained monkeys that have literally no ability to read, think, or reason.<br />
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<br />or<br /><br />b) The governments of the world are manned by scam artists and thieves who are completely controlled by their corporate sponsors.<br />
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<br />This isn't just about a few corrupt individuals making money off selling
thalidomide to pregnant women, and convincing parents that 10 year old
girls need a vaccines to protect them from a virus that is sexually
transmitted. This information impacts the entire Health Industry- from
the very top of the food chain, to the very bottom: meaning YOU and
YOUR family.<br />
<br />I've posted several articles in the past couple of weeks that further
show just how corrupt and twisted these medical associations, the
pharmaceutical companies, AND the governments and their agencies ARE. <br /><br />
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<a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/03/new-hepatitis-c-drug-only-1000-per-pill.html" target="_blank">New hepatitis C drug- only $1,000 per PILL!!!!</a></h3>
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<a href="http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2014/03/agents-and-trolls-and-shills-oh-my.html" target="_blank">Agents and Trolls and Shills, Oh My!!!</a></h3>
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<a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/cdc-caught-hiding-data-showing-mercury.html" target="_blank">CDC Caught Hiding Data Showing Mercury in Vaccines Linked to Autism</a></h3>
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<a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/mysterious-polio-like-illnesspolio-in.html" target="_blank">Mysterious polio-like illness...Polio in a New Dress</a></h3>
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<a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/new-definition-of-autism-duck-is-still.html" target="_blank">New Definition of Autism: a duck is still a duck</a></h3>
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<a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/cancer-drugs-just-for-western-patients.html" target="_blank">Cancer drugs just for "western patients who can afford them"- Bayer CEO</a></h3>
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<a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/monsantos-roundup-causes-gluten.html" target="_blank">Monsanto’s Roundup causes “gluten intolerance”</a></h3>
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<a href="http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2014/02/aluminum-neurotoxin-from-hell.html" target="_blank">Aluminum: Neurotoxin from Hell</a></h3>
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also in the news in the last few days:<br /></h3>
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<a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/health/462607/Health-chief-slams-statins-Millions-face-terrible-side-effects-as-prescription-escalates?fb_action_ids=10152257528912456&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=[1396356420631215]&action_type_map=[%22og.likes%22]&action_ref_map=" target="_blank">Health chief slams statins: Millions face terrible side effects as prescription escalates</a></h3>
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<a href="http://rt.com/usa/new-painkiller-deadly-dangerous-260/" target="_blank">Doctors warn new FDA-approved painkiller is deadly dangerous</a></h3>
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<a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/301085" target="_blank">Supreme Court rules Drug Companies exempt from Lawsuits</a></h3>
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False Science: How Paid Propaganda Masquerades as Scientific Progress</h1>
<br /><a href="http://wakeup-world.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/money-science.jpg"><img alt="money-science" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-38991" height="199" src="http://wakeup-world.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/money-science-300x199.jpg" width="300" /></a>3rd March 2014<br />
By Marco Torres<br />
Guest Writer for <a href="http://wakeup-world.com/2014/03/03/false-science-how-paid-propaganda-masquerades-as-scientific-progress/">Wake Up World</a><br />
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<strong>The origin of true science is in
the desire to know causes irrespective of an objective for material
reward. The origin of false science is in the desire to accept false
causes and fabricate false conclusions to achieve an objective that is
only related to material reward.</strong></div>
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Today, the pursuit of truth in modern
scientific query is marred by greed, profit and a concept of truth built
on the assumption of an unexamined good. While pharmaceutical drug
approvals, genetically modified foods and various other controversial
technologies may appear to be based on “science”, corporate interests
and profits often interfere with the true meaning of what science
represents to both academics and the public.</div>
<h1 style="text-align: left;">
When Science Is No Longer Science</h1>
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Science is built on skepticism. The
results of any particular study mean nothing unless proven through
continual repetition of the study’s methodology. The importance of being
able to replicate results is something instilled in every elementary
school science student, and yet as we enter adulthood we often tend to
take with us a great deal of faith in any professions of scientific
knowledge.</div>
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The primary methodology of science is to
prise apart reality into its component parts in order to better
understand how the whole functions. Cartesian logic began with the
separation of mind and matter and the scientific method depends upon the
separation of the observer from the observed. The absolute separation
between mind and matter has now been shown to be entirely fictitious the
importance of objectivity within the scientific method remains
undiminished.</div>
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The 20th century made it clear to
everyone that science is in a very dangerous state. Corporations who
have sought the scientific method to establish credibility for their
products and services have prostituted science and segregated its
capacity as a whole. This is largely because of the splitting up of the
disciplines and their disconnection from the ethical demands of a
growing population and an ever more complex, relational society.</div>
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The threat to all of us lies in
corporate greed forcing both the internal divisions of science and the
related inability of scientists to respond to the needs of worldwide
human relationships. This inability includes inadequate responses to the
needs of those individuals and groups who govern us.</div>
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The most glaring problem is the
seemingly unbridgeable gap between the needs for ethically based
knowledge by politicians and the piecemeal and mostly inadequate
assistance that divided scientific corporations are able to put on the
table. Some of the scientific disciplines are overused while others are
grossly underused, ignored, or even rejected as irrelevant.</div>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
Mainstream Medicine Uses Fraudulent Data to Sell the Medical Model</h2>
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For example there is little real science
to be found in the common practice of mainstream medicine. Rather, what
passes for “science” today is a collection of myths, half-truths,
dishonest data, fraudulent reporting and inappropriate correlations
passed off as causation. Correlational studies can NOT prove causation,
yet the end result of most scientific studies in mainstream medicine
make a causal claim without any proof and then pass those suggestions to
the public to sell the medical model to the public.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Advertisers and product manufacturers
have certainly used this inherent cognitive bias towards trusting
“scientific facts” in order to market products which they claim have a
scientific basis in their effectiveness. The same is of course true
within ideologies and politics. While many choose to focus on the large
scandals such as the drug research fraud, countless fraudulent
scientific claims are made every day in advertising, often with no
repercussions.</div>
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A <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/12/012712_British-Medical-Journal-Reveals-That-Academics-Admit-Data-Falsification.shtml" target="_blank">survey of 2700 doctors</a>
and scientists found one in seven (13%) had, “witnessed colleagues
intentionally altering or fabricating data during their research or for
the purposes of publication”. Those are only the doctors that <em>admitted</em>
the findings. Critics suggest the actual percentage may be higher than
30%. That manipulation included, “inappropriately adjusting, excluding,
altering, or fabricating data”.</div>
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More and more evidence is suggesting
that medical journals are increasingly having to retract reports due to
fabricated, erroneous or misleading data from Doctors and Scientists.
Fraud has clearly been on the rise in Drug studies for decades and is
now the norm in the pharmaceutical industry.</div>
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Donald M. Epstein, author of Healing
Myths, says that even if the dangers of a drug or medical procedure were
to be included in a respected medical journal, often the “religious”
belief that doctors, and even patients, have in conventional medicine
overrides their decision-making process.</div>
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People believe that if a drug is
FDA-approved and on the market, it must be okay. If a drug proves fatal
to 10 or even 10,000 patients, doctors will still staunchly defend it,
claiming the benefits outweigh the risks. Epstein’s feelings are that
anyone with a little common sense should be enraged by the fact that the
entire industry is operating with self-imposed blinders — from the
pharmaceutical companies that hawk unsafe drugs to the medical journals
that publish doctored clinical studies and misleading ads.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The editors of the <em> New England Journal of Medicine</em>
added another chapter to this story when disgraced Norwegian researcher
Dr. Jon Sudbo, was made to formally retract reports on oral cancer his
team published in the journal in 2001 and 2004. By his own admission,
much of Sudbo’s published data was fabricated. A report from an
investigative commission formed by Sudbo’s former employers, the
Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center and the University of
Oslo, confirmed the fraud. The <em>NEJM</em> editors based their retraction largely on the report’s findings.</div>
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On average, one out of every three
highly cited studies published in influential medical journals is either
refuted or seriously weakened by subsequent research.</div>
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A common theme in most journals is their
tendency to publish “positive” findings (where a therapy was proven to
be effective) over “negative” ones (where a therapy’s effectiveness was
cast in doubt).</div>
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A <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/14/022314_PhD-Scientist-Biochemist-Reveals-Hidden-CDC-Documents-Thimerosal-Vaccines-Increase-Neurologic-Disorders.shtml" target="_blank">vaccine industry watchdog recently obtained hidden CDC documents</a>
that show statistically significant risks of autism associated with the
vaccine preservative, something the CDC denied even when confronted
with their own data. This has allowed the CDC to continue promoting drug
therapy and vaccination programs programs promoted by Physicians, many
of who rely on the information from the CDC to inform the public on
risks and benefits.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The vaccine industry has always known
that governments and public health would never be convinced of the
effectiveness of vaccinations without some statistical evidence from
academia. Without some proof on how vaccines and antivirals could
benefit a population, how could they ever be marketed on a global scale?
They couldn’t!</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
That’s where the biostatisticians come
in. Under the guise of disease prevention and pandemic preparedness,
these so-called “experts” have <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/09/120209_biostatisticians_pandemic_promoters_for_vaccine_manufacturers.shtml" target="_blank">carefully concocted a wide range of simulated statistical analyses</a> in a systematic effort to promote global pandemic models and their counter measure — mass vaccination and antiviral programs.</div>
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A <a href="http://wakeup-world.com/2013/10/03/irrefutable-evidence-shows-vaccines-had-no-health-benefit-or-impact-on-prevention-of-infectious-disease/" target="_blank">summary review of data on neurological adverse events and the historical role of vaccination</a> in
the natural course of infectious disease in Switzerland and Germany,
supports data from other regions with evidence that vaccines had no
impact on disease prevention efforts from the early-mid to late 20th
century. The data contradicts widespread misinformation campaigns by
mainstream medicine which claim that vaccination led to immunization and
a subsequent decline in infectious disease.</div>
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GMOs – Absolutely No Safety Testing to Promote Profits</h2>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Many consumers in the US mistakenly
believe that the FDA approves genetically modified organisms in foods
through rigorous, in-depth, long-term studies. In reality, the agency
has absolutely no safety testing requirements. Instead the agency relies
on research from companies like Monsanto, research that is meticulously
designed to avoid finding problems.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Former pro-GMO scientists are <a href="http://wakeup-world.com/2012/07/02/genetic-engineers-publish-damning-evidence-based-report-about-gmo-food/" target="_blank">now speaking out on the real dangers of genetically engineered food</a>.
A growing body of scientific research – done mostly in Europe, Russia,
and other countries – showing that diets containing engineered corn or
soya cause serious health problems in laboratory mice and rats.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The FDA and food industry claims that
GMO foods are safe, properly tested, and necessary to feed a hungry
world, claims that are now being found unsubstantiated by hundreds of
experts. GMOs are one of the most dangerous and radical changes to our
food supply. These largely unregulated ingredients found in 60-70% of
the foods, are now being exposed and well worth the effort to avoid.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Several nations such as <a href="http://wakeup-world.com/2012/11/21/monsanto-in-mexico-stop-gmo-corn-now/" target="_blank">Mexico</a>, <a href="http://wakeup-world.com/2012/05/18/gmo-alert-startling-new-research/" target="_blank">Italy</a>, <a href="http://wakeup-world.com/2013/10/02/total-gmo-ban-to-be-considered-by-russia-within-weeks/" target="_blank">Russia</a>, <a href="http://wakeup-world.com/2012/03/25/polands-monsanto-action-lays-1000s-of-dead-bees-on-government-steps/" target="_blank">Poland</a> and several others are banning GMOs after conducting their own research while refuting the biased conclusions by Monsanto.</div>
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Continue Reading Article <a href="http://wakeup-world.com/2014/03/03/false-science-how-paid-propaganda-masquerades-as-scientific-progress/" target="_blank">HERE</a> </div>
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-83183340395078427742014-03-03T15:47:00.000-08:002014-03-03T15:47:32.547-08:00New hepatitis C drug- only $1,000 per PILL!!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is how the article starts:<br /><br />
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<i>"John C. Martin, the chief executive officer of Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD),
has become a billionaire on the prospects of a powerful new hepatitis C
drug that’s attracting scrutiny from payers and activists over its <u>
$1,000 per pill price tag.</u> </i></blockquote>
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<i>Gilead’s drug, Sovaldi,
was approved in December, and is among the first of a new wave of
hepatitis C treatments that can cure the liver disease faster and more
reliably than previous drugs. Sovaldi, which <u>costs $84,000 for a 12-week
course of treatment,</u> is expected to produce <u>$4.2 billion in revenue
this year,</u> rising to $8.1 billion in 2015, according to the average
estimate of 13 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg."</i></blockquote>
I mean...... I'm not even sure what to say. Granted that this article is from Bloomberg, which is a financially focused sites, but the very fact that they are APPLAUDING this, is so beyond appalling that I'm physically restraining my self from breaking into my exmilitary linguistical experimental vocabulary. It's bad.<br /><br />Of course you have to love the transparency that is coming out in the media on these subjects. Just a couple of weeks ago Bayer CEO told reporters that their cancer drugs are only for Western patients that can "afford them". <br /><br /><i>*thud*</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-03/gilead-ceo-becomes-billionaire-on-84-000-hepatitis-drug.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-03/gilead-ceo-becomes-billionaire-on-84-000-hepatitis-drug.html</a><br />
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Gilead CEO Becomes Billionaire on $84,000 Hepatitis Drug</h1>
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march 3, 2014<br /></div>
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John C. Martin, the chief executive officer of <a class="web_ticker" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/GILD:US" title="Get Quote">Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD)</a>,
has become a billionaire on the prospects of a powerful new hepatitis C
drug that’s attracting scrutiny from payers and activists over its
$1,000 per pill price tag. </div>
Gilead’s drug, <a href="http://www.sovaldi.com/" rel="external" title="Open Web Site">Sovaldi</a>,
was approved in December, and is among the first of a new wave of
hepatitis C treatments that can cure the liver disease faster and more
reliably than previous drugs. Sovaldi, which costs $84,000 for a 12-week
course of treatment, is expected to produce $4.2 billion in revenue
this year, rising to $8.1 billion in 2015, according to the average
estimate of 13 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. <br />
“This is a huge change in the approach to hepatitis C treatment,” <a href="http://www.tbh.org/healthcare-services/meet-medical-staff" rel="external" title="Open Web Site">Leonard Berkowitz</a>,
chief of infectious diseases at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, said by
phone. Sovaldi and other drugs like it are producing “spectacular
improvements” in cure rates with minimal toxicity, he said. <br />
Martin,
who joined Gilead in 1990 and became CEO six years later, helped the
company become the world’s largest maker of HIV medicines by developing
drug combinations that are easy to use for patients, including a
medicine called Atripla that combines three HIV-suppressing drugs and a
pill with four anti-HIV drugs called Stribild. <br />
<figure class="hide_caption image_focus inline toggle_caption"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/photo/gilead-sciences-ceo-john-c-martin-/-i_QhelkQR_NY.html" rel="#img_i_QhelkQR_NY" target="_blank">
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John C. Martin, chairman and chief executive officer of Gilead Sciences Inc.
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</figure> Gilead, based in <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/foster-city/">Foster City</a>, <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/california/">California</a>, is competing with <a class="web_ticker" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/ABBV:US" title="Get Quote">AbbVie Inc., (ABBV)</a> Johnson & Johnson, <a class="web_ticker" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/BMY:US" title="Get Quote">Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY)</a>
and others to develop similar combinations for hepatitis C, a virus
that infects 3.2 million Americans and can lead to liver failure over
time. <br />
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Hidden Billionaire </h2>
Companies are racing to come
up with oral regimens that eliminate the need for interferon, a standard
injected drug that can cause flu-like side-effects. In February, Gilead
applied for U.S. approval for an interferon-free treatment that
combines Sovaldi and another hepatitis C drug. <br />
“Most people
think the combination pill that Gilead has will be the biggest thing
ever in hepatitis C,” said Berkowitz, who treats many HIV-positive
positive patients who are co-infected with HCV. <br />
Martin, 62, has a
net worth of $1.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires
Index. He owns 4.2 million shares of Gilead and 6.4 million vested
options, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission. He’s also sold more than $550 million in Gilead stock since
2002, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. <br />
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Organic Chemistry </h2>
The
number of options and shares are in part attributable to Martin’s long
tenure at the company, most of it as CEO, said Cara Miller, a
spokeswoman for Gilead, in an e-mail. The cost of a 12-week regimen of
Sovaldi along with interferon and another drug “is consistent with and
in many cases actually less” than older treatments that require longer
duration of therapy, she said. <br />
Gilead closed down 1.6 percent to $81.45 in <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/new-york/">New York</a>. <br />
The billionaire, who has a doctorate in organic chemistry from the <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/university-of-chicago/">University of Chicago</a>
and an MBA from Golden Gate University, has spent most of his career
working on antiviral drugs, and has been an active dealmaker, willing to
pay a premium for companies with drugs that show promise. <br />
After
one of its hepatitis C compounds had setbacks in early testing, Gilead
acquired Sovaldi by buying Pharmasset Inc. for almost $11 billion in
2012, at a price that represented an 89 percent premium to Pharmasset’s
price before the deal was announced in November 2011. Gilead stock has
more than quadrupled since then. <br />
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‘Brilliant Transaction’ </h2>
“It was a brilliant transaction,” said <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/geoffrey-porges/">Geoffrey Porges</a>,
an analyst at New York-based Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. “In
antivirals, Gilead has proven itself over and over again to be ahead of
the curve.” <br />
At least half of Gilead’s $127 billion market value
is attributable to expectations for its hepatitis C drugs, according to
Porges. He said the company’s hepatitis C drugs could generate $16
billion in sales in 2016. <br />
Sovaldi has attracted scrutiny over its high price. Pharmacy benefit managers such as <a class="web_ticker" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/ESRX:US" title="Get Quote">Express Scripts Holding Co. (ESRX)</a>
and Catamaran Corp. are discussing how to pit similar drugs against
each other by refusing to pay extra for a drug that is more convenient
to take than another, or by subjecting hepatitis C drugs to more outside
review, <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/bloomberg-news/">Bloomberg News</a> reported in January. <br />
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‘Poster Child’ </h2>
Sovaldi “is the poster child for everything that is wrong with drug prices,” <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/michael-weinstein/">Michael Weinstein</a>, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/los-angeles/">Los Angeles</a>,
said in a phone interview. Sovaldi’s price will mean that some people
won’t get access to the treatment, he said. He has submitted a
shareholder resolution to tie executive compensation at Gilead to the
affordability of its medicines. <br />
While formulary reviews proceed, patients who need Sovaldi can still get it, Miller said. <br />
“Almost
without exception, prescriptions are being approved by commercial
plans,” she said. The company has started a program to provide financial
assistance to patients who need help paying for the drug, she said. <br /><br /></div>
Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-69457677246566502572014-02-28T01:06:00.002-08:002014-02-28T01:06:30.597-08:00New Definition of Autism: a duck is still a duck<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
What do you do when the numbers of people inflicted with a condition or disease become so high that even the most socially numbed people start to raise questions? You redefine the disease of course!!!!<br /><br />THIS is exactly what <a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/mysterious-polio-like-illnesspolio-in.html" target="_blank">was done with Polio in the 1950's</a>. When the numbers are overwhelming and the prescribed medical treatment doesn't work, the Medical Associations need to create the illusion of success so that they can continue on their merry way. So they changed the definition of symptoms of Polio, invented new diseases for the old polio to be called, and then the numbers on paper make it look like there were less cases of Polio, meanwhile there is a huge increase in this other disease over here.<br />
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So now the American Psychiatric
Association's (APA) is going to re diagnose "Autism" and if you watch very carefully, there will be some "new" psychiatric disorders that will suddenly pop up and as if by magic, these new disorders will sound an awful lot like Autism.....<br />
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If it walks like a duck, quakes like a duck, and swims like a duck, then I'm going to call it a duck, even if the local zoo keeper has decided that it's a goose. <br />
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CDC Caught Hiding Data Showing Mercury in Vaccines Linked to Autism </h3>
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The Dangers of Heavy Metals and Aluminum</h3>
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<a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-dangers-of-heavy-metals-and-aluminum.html">http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-dangers-of-heavy-metals-and-aluminum.html</a></div>
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Aluminum: Neurotoxin from Hell </h3>
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Supreme Court rules Drug Companies exempt from Lawsuits</h3>
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The rates of autism have increased approximately 1000% since
the 1980s. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) describes the cluster of
neurodevelopmental disorders as defined by American Psychiatric
Association's (APA) <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders" target="_blank">Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</a></em>.
Officially, there are now 1 in 88 children in the United States who
have ASD. Boys are almost five times more likely to be autistic than
girls -- with 1 in 54 boys now identified. To curb the rates at which
children will be identified with the illness in the future, new
guidelines issued by the APA will reduce by almost one third the
total number of those diagnosed, according to new research from
Columbia University School of Nursing published in the <em>Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders</em>.<br />
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The guidelines, released in May 2013 and the first major
update to psychiatric diagnosis criteria in almost two decades, may
leave thousands of developmentally delayed children each year without
the ASD diagnosis they need to qualify for social services, medical
benefits and educational support.<br />
A team led by Kristine M. Kulage, MA, MPH, director of
the Office of Scholarship and Research Development at Columbia
Nursing, conducted a systematic literature review and meta-analysis to
determine the effect of changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the APA's classification tool for
psychiatric conditions, on diagnosis of individuals with ASD. <br />
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Due to the need for adequate returns on costly
advertising campaigns, the DSM has been strongly criticized for
medicalize "normal human experiences." Intermittent explosive disorder,
oppositional defiant disorder, mathematics disorder are arguably some
of the stranger diagnoses floating around in
the medical literature. And although
ridiculous to any sane person, many medical
professionals say that these disorders are
legitimate conditions that often warrant treatment on behalf of Big
Pharma's effort to control diagnoses. <br />
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<strong>New Guideline Decreases ASD by 31 Percent<br />
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The study found a statistically significant decrease in
ASD diagnosis of 31 percent using the new manual, DSM-5, compared
with the number of cases of ASD that would have been identified under
the previous version of the manual, DSM-IV-TR.<br />
"This study raises a concern that a medical provider
diagnosing a child under the new guidelines won't find the child to be
on the autism spectrum, when the same child under the old criteria
might have been diagnosed with ASD," says Kulage.<br />
The old manual, DSM-IV-TR, included three distinct
subgroups under the broad definition of ASD: autistic disorder (AD),
Asperger's disorder, and pervasive development disorder-not otherwise
specified (PDD-NOS). The revised manual, DSM-5, eliminates these
subgroups, instead establishing a more limited range of criteria for a
diagnosis of ASD that is designed to encompass individuals who
previously would have fallen into one of the subgroups. The DSM-5 also
added a new category called social communication disorder (SCD) to
diagnose individuals who have verbal and nonverbal communication
impairments but lack other attributes associated with autism. Some
individuals diagnosed with PDD-NOS under the old manual would be
identified as individuals with SCD under DSM-5, according to the APA.<br />
Under DSM-5, there was a statistically significant
decrease in AD diagnosis of 22 percent, compared with the fourth
edition of the manual, the meta-analysis found. There was also a
statistically significant decrease of 70 percent in diagnosis of
PDD-NOS. While diagnosis of Asperger's also declined under DSM-5, the
reduction was not statistically significant. In addition, the study
found that some individuals who no longer met the criteria for an ASD
diagnosis under DSM-5 would also fail to meet the criteria for SCD.<br />
"We are potentially going to lose diagnosis and
treatment for some of the most vulnerable kids who have developmental
delays," says Kulage. "In many instances, children require a diagnosis
of ASD to receive medical benefits, educational support and social
services."<br />
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A vaccine industry watchdog has recently obtained CDC documents that show statistically<a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/14/022314_PhD-Scientist-Biochemist-Reveals-Hidden-CDC-Documents-Thimerosal-Vaccines-Increase-Neurologic-Disorders.shtml" target="_blank"> significant risks of autism associated with the vaccine preservative thimerosal</a>,
something the CDC denies even when confronted with their own data.
Ironically the first-ever vaccine created by University of Guelph
researchers <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/13/042513_You-Knew-It-Was-Coming-First-Vaccine-Announced-For-Autism.shtml" target="_blank">to control autistic symptoms</a> was announced last year.<br />
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Continue Reading Original Article <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/14/022614_New-Autism-Definition-Will-Decrease-Diagnosis-By-One-Third.shtml" target="_blank">HERE </a><br />
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-54203604981906692402014-02-25T12:32:00.001-08:002014-02-25T12:32:55.280-08:00CDC Caught Hiding Data Showing Mercury in Vaccines Linked to Autism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I LOVE Synchronicities!!!!<br />
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I have been really focused for the last three days on Vaccine related information - especially yesterday while putting together the article on Polio Vaccines. And then this comes falling into my lap. HA!!! Awesome!<br />
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In yesterdays article I didn't not even really get into the huge amount of dangers associated with the polio vaccine and it's ingredients, BUT.... the truth about Mercury AND Aluminum in Vaccines is one that people need to hear. Big Pharma, the media, the medical associations and the governments have hidden these truths from the populations for decades. None of this information is "new" or unknown. <br /><br />
<br />More reading on Dangers of Vaccines:<br /><br />http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/mysterious-polio-like-illnesspolio-in.html<br />
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http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-dangers-of-heavy-metals-and-aluminum.html<br />
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http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/monsantos-roundup-causes-gluten.html<br />
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In a press release issued this week, one
that so far no mainstream media sources have bothered to report, it was
announced that Dr. Brian Hooker had finally received documents from the
CDC through a Freedom of Information Act that revealed the CDC had
access to data linking Thimerosal in vaccines to autism, non-organic
sleep disorders, and speech disorders.</div>
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Two members of Congress helped Dr. Hooker
draft his letter to the CDC, after having spent nearly 10 years
submitting over 100 Freedom of Information Acts to no avail.</div>
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This information, so far, has been completely blacked out of the mainstream media.</div>
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This information is very damaging to the
CDC, which has stated for years that there are no studies linking the
mercury of Thimerosal in vaccines to autism. You can watch for yourself
in the video below the most recent testimony given by the CDC in the
November 2012 Congressional Hearing on Autism, where they claim there
are no studies linking Thimerosal to autism. Thimerosal is still used
today in the flu shot that is administered to pregnant women and
infants.</div>
Watch more video highlights of this <a href="http://healthimpactnews.com/2012/video-highlights-from-first-congressional-hearing-on-autism-in-10-years/" target="_blank">Congressional hearing on Autism here</a>. Outside of C-SPAN, it was mostly ignored in the mainstream media back in November of 2012.<br />
The mainstream media’s official position regarding vaccines and
autism has been that it has been “proven that there is no link”, and Dr.
Andrew Wakefield is used as the standard scapegoat being presented as a
“disgraced doctor” who supposedly got caught fabricating his study. Of
course, Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s study has been <a href="http://healthimpactnews.com/2013/new-published-study-verifies-andrew-wakefields-research-on-autism-again/" target="_blank">replicated in at least 28 other studies</a>,
and no case has ever been won against Dr. Wakefield in a court of law.
Litigation is still pending, and one of the doctors who was a co-author
in the study has been completely <a href="http://healthimpactnews.com/2012/british-court-throws-out-conviction-of-autismvaccine-md-andrew-wakefields-co-author-completely-exonerated/" target="_blank">exonerated</a> in the U.K.<br />
Yet, the man who supposedly conducted studies for the CDC proving
that vaccines do not cause autism, is a wanted criminal for stealing
millions of dollars from the CDC, and is still on the run from the law.
But that story is seldom, if ever, reported in the mainstream media.
(See: <a href="http://healthimpactnews.com/2013/cdc-vaccine-link-to-autism-scandal-the-wrong-man-was-condemned/">CDC Vaccine Link to Autism Scandal: The Wrong Man was Condemned</a>)<br />
To understand the autism-vaccine debate one must look outside of the
heavily Big Pharma funded mainstream media, such as this report by Emmy
Award winning journalist <a href="http://benswann.com/ben-swann-bio/" target="_blank">Ben Swann</a>:<br />
The <a href="http://canaryparty.net/index.php/the-news/129-the-canary-partys-new-viral-video-do-vaccines-cause-autism" target="_blank">Canary Party</a> has also produced an excellent video, narrated by Rob Schnieder:<br />
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Vaccine Industry Watchdog Obtains CDC Documents That Show
Statistically Significant Risks of Autism Associated with Vaccine
Preservative Thimerosal</h2>
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Biochemist Brian Hooker, scientific advisor to A Shot of Truth, reveals CDC knew of risks for over a decade.</h5>
by <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/ASOT/Thimerosal/prweb11598819.htm" target="_blank">A Shot of Truth</a><br />
<a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/ASOT/Thimerosal/prweb11598819.htm" target="_blank">PRWeb</a><br />
For nearly ten years, Brian Hooker has been requesting documents that
are kept under tight wraps by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). His more than 100 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
requests have resulted in copious evidence that the vaccine preservative
<a href="http://www.ashotoftruth.org/history?page=3" rel="nofollow" title="Thimerosal Timeline">Thimerosal,</a>
which is still used in the flu shot that is administered to pregnant
women and infants, can cause autism and other neurodevelopmental
disorders.<br />
Dr. Hooker, a PhD scientist, worked with two members of Congress to
craft the letter to the CDC that recently resulted in his obtaining
long-awaited data from the CDC, the significance of which is historic.
According to Hooker, the data on over 400,000 infants born between 1991
and 1997, which was analyzed by CDC epidemiologist Thomas Verstraeten,
MD, “proves unequivocally that in 2000, CDC officials were informed
internally of the very high risk of autism, non-organic sleep disorder
and speech disorder associated with Thimerosal exposure.”<br />
When the results of the Verstraeten study were first reported outside
the CDC in 2005, there was no evidence that anyone but Dr. Verstraeten
within the CDC had known of the very high 7.6-fold elevated relative
risk of autism from exposure to Thimerosal during infancy. But now,
clear evidence exists. A newly-acquired <a href="http://www.ashotoftruth.org/sites/default/files/exhibit_22_-_verstraeten_et_al_1999_abstract_risks_of_autism.pdf" rel="nofollow">abstract</a>
from 1999 titled, “Increased risk of developmental neurologic
impairment after high exposure to Thimerosal containing vaccine in first
month of life” required the approval of top CDC officials prior to its
presentation at the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) conference.
Thimerosal, which is 50% mercury by weight, was used in most childhood
vaccines and in the RhoGAM® shot for pregnant women prior to the early
2000s.<br />
The CDC maintains there is “no relationship between
Thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism rates in children,” even
though the data from the CDC’s own Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)
database shows a very high risk. There are a number of public records to
back this up, including this <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2003-05-21/pdf/CREC-2003-05-21-pt1-PgE1011-3.pdf" rel="nofollow">Congressional Record from May 1, 2003</a>.
The CDC’s refusal to acknowledge thimerosal’s risks is exemplified by a
leaked statement from Dr. Marie McCormick, chair of the
CDC/NIH-sponsored Immunization Safety Review at IOM. Regarding
vaccination, she said in 2001, “…we are not ever going to come down that
it [autism] is a true side effect….” Also of note, the former director
of the CDC, which purchases $4 billion worth of vaccines annually, is
now president of Merck’s vaccine division.<br />
Dr. Hooker’s fervent hope for the future: “We must ensure that this
and other evidence of CDC malfeasance are presented to Congress and the
public as quickly as possible. Time is of the essence. Children’s
futures are at stake.” A divide within the autism community has led to
some activists demanding that compensation to those with vaccine-injury
claims be the top priority before Congress. Dr. Hooker maintains that
prevention, “protecting our most precious resource – children’s minds,”
must come first. “Our elected officials must be informed about
government corruption that keeps doctors and patients in the dark about
vaccine risks.”<br />
Referring to an organization that has seen its share of controversy
this past year, Dr. Hooker remarked, “It is unfortunate that SafeMinds
issued a press release on my information, is accepting credit for my
work and has not supported a worldwide ban on Thimerosal.”<br />
Brian Hooker, PhD, PE, has 15 years experience in the field of
bioengineering and is an associate professor at Simpson University where
he specializes in biology and chemistry. His over 50 science and
engineering papers have been published in internationally recognized,
peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Hooker has a son, aged 16, who developed
normally but then regressed into autism after receiving
Thimerosal-containing vaccines.<br />
Dr. Brian Hooker’s investigative research is sponsored by the Focus Autism Foundation.<br />
The Focus Autism Foundation is dedicated to providing information to
the public that exposes the cause or causes of the autism epidemic and
the rise of chronic illnesses – focusing specifically on the role of
vaccinations. To learn more, visit <a href="http://focusautisminc.org/" rel="nofollow" title="Focus Autism">focusautisminc.org</a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.ashotoftruth.org/" rel="nofollow" title="A Shot of Truth">A Shot of Truth</a> is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and educational website sponsored by Focus Autism.<br />
AutismOne is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides
education and supports advocacy efforts for children and families
touched by an autism diagnosis. To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.autismone.org/" rel="nofollow" title="Autism One">autismone.org</a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/ASOT/Thimerosal/prweb11598819.htm" target="_blank">Read the Full Press Release Here</a>.<br /><br /><br />Please <a href="http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/cdc-caught-hiding-data-showing-mercury-in-vaccines-linked-to-autism/" target="_blank">Click HERE </a>to go to the original article to watch the videos</div>
Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-77679433410220928512014-02-24T08:01:00.000-08:002014-02-24T08:01:01.984-08:00Mysterious polio-like illness...Polio in a New Dress<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This headline on CNN this morning literally made my jaw drop so hard I thought I'd dislocated it.<br /><br />
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Mysterious polio-like illness found in 5 California children</h1>
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By <strong>Ralph Ellis</strong>, CNN</div>
February 24, 2014 -- Updated 0945 GMT<br /><br />The lies that have been hammered into the public about the Polio vaccine for almost 70 years have been pushed so thoroughly that they've created a world wide population of people who are incapable of even <i>Considering</i> the idea that the Polio Vaccine didn't save the world. <br /><br />With the exception of the current mass drugging of North Americans with anti depressants and anti psychotics, there has never ever been a more successful campaign to brainwash the public with medical mythology than the Polio Vaccine.<br />
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Now, there are those of you reading these harsh words above who are about to close this article down and refused to read any further. To those who are still reading and seething inside about this crazy
"conspiracy theorist" who's spreading lies about the glorious Polio
Vaccine, I would ask your patience- Before you slam your lap top shut,
please take a moment to consider all of the information below. <br /><br />We have been conditioned by our own conditioned parents, family, friends, society in general and through one of the most successful media campaigns in the history of the world, that to even <i>Question </i>the validity of the Polio Vaccine victory in "eradicating Polio from the face of the earth" is almost on the same level as treason. We have a medical society so steeped in misdirection and lies that most of their own doctors have bought the polio story hook, line and sinker. To be truthful, it isn't all their fault. When Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to "fund" medical schools and write medical journal articles based on their own products, you cannot possibly expect unbiased opinions. This would be like allowing a tobacco lobbyist to write research papers on lung cancer.<br />
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I am going to show you where Polio has disappeared to and I am going to start by giving you information about some very well known diseases. Please read them carefully.<br />
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Although polio can cause paralysis and death, the vast majority of
people who are infected with the poliovirus don't become sick and are
never aware they've been infected with polio. <br />
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Nonparalytic polio</h3>
Some people who develop symptoms from the poliovirus contract
nonparalytic polio — a type of polio that doesn't lead to paralysis
(abortive polio). This usually causes the same mild, flu-like signs and
symptoms typical of other viral illnesses. <br />
Signs and symptoms, which generally last one to 10 days, include: <br />
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<li>Fever </li>
<li>Sore throat </li>
<li>Headache </li>
<li>Vomiting </li>
<li>Fatigue </li>
<li>Back pain or stiffness </li>
<li>Neck pain or stiffness </li>
<li>Pain or stiffness in the arms or legs </li>
<li>Muscle spasms or tenderness </li>
<li>Meningitis </li>
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Paralytic polio</h3>
In rare cases, poliovirus infection leads to paralytic polio, the
most serious form of the disease. Paralytic polio has several types,
based on the part of your body that's affected — your spinal cord
(spinal polio), your brainstem (bulbar polio) or both (bulbospinal
polio). <br />
Initial signs and symptoms of paralytic polio, such as fever and
headache, often mimic those of nonparalytic polio. Within a week,
however, signs and symptoms specific to paralytic polio appear,
including: <br />
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<li>Loss of reflexes </li>
<li>Severe muscle aches or spasms </li>
<li>Loose and floppy limbs (flaccid paralysis), often worse on one side of the body </li>
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The onset of paralysis may be sudden. <br />
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Post-polio syndrome</h3>
Post-polio syndrome is a cluster of disabling signs and symptoms that
affect some people for decades — an average of 25 to 35 years — after
they had polio. Common signs and symptoms include: <br />
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<li>Progressive muscle or joint weakness and pain </li>
<li>General fatigue and exhaustion after minimal activity </li>
<li>Muscle atrophy </li>
<li>Breathing or swallowing problems </li>
<li>Sleep-related breathing disorders, such as sleep apnea </li>
<li>Decreased tolerance of cold temperatures </li>
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Also known as Accute Flaccid Paralysis</h4>
<br />
<h2 class="title">
Flaccid Paralysis</h2>
Flaccid paralysis is a condition characterized by extreme weakness of muscles and loss of muscle tone.<br />
<h2>
Symptoms</h2>
Acute paralysis in limbs that are flaccid (floppy or limp) are
associated with this condition. Signs and symptoms depends on what is
causing the AFP:<br />
<ul>
<li>Progression of paralysis</li>
<li>Fever onset</li>
<li>Diminished muslce tone</li>
<li>Sensory loss, cramps, or tingling of palms and soles of the feet</li>
<li>Bladder dysfunction</li>
<li>Respiratory insufficiency</li>
</ul>
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<a href="http://www.brainandspinalcord.org/causes-spinal-cord-injury/inflammation-spinal-cord-injury/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.brainandspinalcord.org/causes-spinal-cord-injury/inflammation-spinal-cord-injury/index.html </a><br />
<h2 class="title">
Transverse Myelitis Inflammation</h2>
Inflammation of the spinal cord can cause a neurological
disorder called transverse myelitis (TM). “Transverse�? describes where
the inflammation occurs—across the width of one segment of the spinal
cord—while “myelitis�? refers to the inflammation of the spinal cord
itself.<br />
When the spinal cord becomes inflamed, myelin, and insulating
material that covers nerve cell fibers, is destroyed. This causes scars,
which disrupt communication between the nerves in the spinal cord and
the rest of the body.<br />
<h2>
Symptoms of TM</h2>
The main symptom of TM is loss of spinal cord function over a period
of several hours to several weeks. TM may begin with relatively minor
back pain, progress to muscle weakness and odd feelings in the toes and
feet, and can rapidly become more severe, eventually resulting in
paralysis.<br />
<h2>
Causes of TM</h2>
While no one is sure what causes TM, there are many hypotheses. Possible causes include:<br />
<ul>
<li>Viral infections, often due to the viruses that cause Chicken Pox and Shingles</li>
<li>Viral infections due to herpes simplex, Epstein-Barr, influenza, HIV, hepatits A, or rubella</li>
<li>Bacterial skin infections</li>
<li>Middle ear infections</li>
<li>Bacterial pneumonia</li>
<li>Abnormal immune reactions</li>
<li>Poor blood flow through the blood vessels in the spinal cord</li>
<li>A complication from syphilis, measles, Lyme disease, and some vaccinations</li>
</ul>
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<br /><a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/meningitis/basics/symptoms/con-20019713">http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/meningitis/basics/symptoms/con-20019713</a><br />
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<h3 style="text-align: left;">
meningitis </h3>
<div class="by">
<h2>
Symptoms</h2>
<a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/about-this-site/welcome">By Mayo Clinic Staff</a></div>
<div class="auto">
</div>
It's easy to mistake the early signs and symptoms of meningitis for
the flu (influenza). Meningitis signs and symptoms may develop over
several hours or over one or two days. <br />
The signs and symptoms that may occur in anyone older than age of 2 include: <br />
<ul>
<li>Sudden high fever</li>
<li>Severe headache that isn't easily confused with other types of headache</li>
<li>Stiff neck</li>
<li>Vomiting or nausea with headache</li>
<li>Confusion or difficulty concentrating</li>
<li>Seizures</li>
<li>Sleepiness or difficulty waking up</li>
<li>Sensitivity to light</li>
<li>Lack of interest in drinking and eating</li>
<li>Skin rash in some cases, such as in meningococcal meningitis</li>
</ul>
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<a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/guillain-barre-syndrome/basics/symptoms/con-20025832">http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/guillain-barre-syndrome/basics/symptoms/con-20025832</a><br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
Guillain-Barre syndrome</h3>
<div class="by">
<h2>
Symptoms</h2>
<a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/about-this-site/welcome">By Mayo Clinic Staff</a></div>
<div class="auto">
</div>
Guillain-Barre syndrome often begins with tingling and weakness
starting in your feet and legs and spreading to your upper body and
arms. These symptoms may begin — often not causing much notice — in your
fingers and toes. In some people, symptoms begin in the arms or even
the face. As the disorder progresses, muscle weakness can evolve into
paralysis.<br />
Signs and symptoms of Guillain-Barre syndrome may include: <br />
<ul>
<li>Prickling, "pins and needles" sensations in your fingers, toes or both</li>
<li>Weakness or tingling sensations in your legs that spread to your upper body</li>
<li>Unsteady walking or inability to walk</li>
<li>Difficulty with eye movement, facial movement, speaking, chewing or swallowing</li>
<li>Severe pain in your lower back</li>
<li>Difficulty with bladder control or intestinal functions</li>
<li>Rapid heart rate</li>
<li>Low or high blood pressure</li>
<li>Difficulty breathing</li>
</ul>
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<br />
<a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chronic-fatigue-syndrome/basics/symptoms/con-20022009" target="_blank"> http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chronic-fatigue-syndrome/basics/symptoms/con-20022009</a><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
Chronic fatigue syndrome</h3>
<div class="by">
<h2>
Symptoms</h2>
<a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/about-this-site/welcome">By Mayo Clinic Staff</a></div>
<div class="auto">
</div>
Chronic fatigue syndrome has eight official symptoms, plus the central symptom that gives the condition its name: <br />
<ul>
<li>Fatigue </li>
<li>Loss of memory or concentration </li>
<li>Sore throat </li>
<li>Enlarged lymph nodes in your neck or armpits </li>
<li>Unexplained muscle pain </li>
<li>Pain that moves from one joint to another without swelling or redness </li>
<li>Headache of a new type, pattern or severity </li>
<li>Unrefreshing sleep </li>
<li>Extreme exhaustion lasting more than 24 hours after physical or mental exercise </li>
</ul>
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<a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/coxsackievirus/expert-answers/FAQ-20058531">http://www.mayoclinic.org/coxsackievirus/expert-answers/FAQ-20058531</a><br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
Coxsackie virus </h3>
<br />
Most coxsackievirus infections aren't serious. They typically cause only mild signs and symptoms, such as:
<br />
<ul>
<li>Fever</li>
<li>Rash</li>
<li>Sore throat</li>
<li>Joint pain</li>
<li>Headache</li>
</ul>
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<br />
<br />
Every single one of these diseases listed above is Polio. As the charts (below) clearly show, the incidences of Polio had already radically dropped BEFORE the vaccine was introduced. Then, in an effort to support the spending of $45 million dollars on Polio vaccine research, The medical associations responsible for looking after the health of you and your children, re-defined the symptoms of Polio and created "new" diseases or changed the official symptoms of known diseases to account for the polio symptoms that were still showing up in a population that had already been vaccinated for polio.<br />
<br />
<br />
<i>"Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, it is lurking behind a
redefinition and new diagnostic names like viral or aseptic meningitis.......According to
one of the 1997 issues of the MMWR, there are some 30,000 to 50,000 cases of viral
meningitis per year in the United States alone. That's where all those 30,000 -
50,000 cases of polio disappeared after the introduction of mass vaccination"---<a href="http://www.whale.to/vaccines/scheibner8.html">Viera Scheibner </a></i><br /><br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7993435756782130798" name="POLIO DEFINITION FRAUD:"><strong>POLIO DEFINITION FRAUD:</strong></a><br />
Statistics on polio were manipulated. One such way was to redefine the disease,
renaming it "<a href="http://www.whale.to/Vaccine/meningitis.html">viral or aseptic meningitis</a>"
or "cocksackie virus". In one US county, for example, in July 1955 there were
273 cases of polio reported for 50 cases of asceptic meningitis, compared to 5 cases of
polio in 1966 and 256 cases of aseptic meningitis. These new diagnostic guideline's were
issued by the CDC. If you object to polio vaccination, and you get polio--it is usually
called "polio." If you have been vaccinated and you get "polio", it is
called meningitis(2).<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.whale.to/vaccines/echo.html">Coxsackievirus and echoviruses</a> can cause paralytic syndromes
that are clinically indistinguishable from paralytic poliomyelitis. (John H. Menkes,
Textbook Of Child Neurology, 5th ed., page 420) <a href="http://www3.bcity.com/harpub/">http://www3.bcity.com/harpub/</a>
<br /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">"Dr. Thomas Francis did not mention in his key evaluation of
the 1954 Salk field trials that those who contracted polio after their first innoculation
and before their second inoculation were placed in the "not-inoculated" list.' (<a href="http://www.whale.to/v/bayly.html">Maurice B. Bayly</a>, The Story Of The Salk Anti-poliomyelitis
Vaccine, 1956). </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">...</span>"Official data shows that large scale vaccination has failed to obtain any
significant improvement of the diseases against which they were supposed to provide
protection"---Dr Sabin, developer of Polio vaccine.<br /><br />
Health officials convinced the Chinese to rename the bulk of their polio to Guillaine
Barre Syndrome (GBS). A study found that the new disorder<a href="http://www.whale.to/vaccines/chinese.html"> (Chinese
Paralytic syndrome)</a> and the GBS was really polio (41). After mass vaccination in 1971,
reports of polio went down but GBS increased about 10 fold.<br /><br />
"In the WHO polio vaccine eradication in the Americas, there were 930 cases of
paralytic disease—all called polio. Five years later, at the end of the campaign,
roughly 2000 cases of paralytic disease occurred—but only 6 of them were called polio
(41). The rate of paralytic disease doubled, but the disease definition changed so
drastically that hardly any of it was called polio any more."—Greg Beattie<br /><br />
"They started vaccinating in 1985 (in the Americas). Within 4 months they had 350
cases…They caused a substantial, huge outbreak of polio but they started
‘discarding’ most of the cases (put as <a href="http://www.whale.to/vaccines/afp.html">flaccid paralysis</a>)."—Viera
Scheibner (42).</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.whale.to/vaccines/polio.html#POLIO%20DEFINITION%20FRAUD:" target="_blank"> http://www.whale.to/vaccines/polio.html#POLIO%20DEFINITION%20FRAUD:</a><br />
<br /><br /><img border="0" height="392" src="http://www.whale.to/v/afppolio78u.jpg" width="640" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.whale.to/v/polio_and_lemmings.html" target="_blank"> http://www.whale.to/v/polio_and_lemmings.html</a></span><br />
<table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="3" id="hiding" style="width: 60%px;"><tbody>
<tr><th colspan="4"><a href="http://www.whale.to/vaccine/polio1.html">hiding polio, wonderful quotes:<br /> http://www.whale.to/vaccine/polio1.html</a></th></tr>
<tr><th colspan="4">
Hiding Polio: After vaccination 'polio' became 'meningitis'</th></tr>
<tr><th>Year</th><th>Polio</th><th>Meningitis</th><th>Total</th></tr>
<tr><td>July 1955</td><td>273</td><td>50</td><td>323</td></tr>
<tr><td>July 1961</td><td>65</td><td>161</td><td>226</td></tr>
<tr><td>July 1963</td><td>31</td><td>151</td><td>182</td></tr>
<tr><td>Sep. 1966</td><td>5</td><td>256</td><td>261</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="4">The above often quoted figures are credited to the Los Angeles
County [USA] Health Index:
Morbidity and Mortality, Reportable Diseases
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><img height="196" src="http://www.vaclib.org/sites/debate/images/polio.gif" width="300" /></span><br />
<br /><br /><img border="0" height="236" src="http://www.whale.to/a/scheibnerhidingpolio.jpg" width="658" /><br /><br /><br />CNN and the main stream media are now breaking the news story that there are 5 children in California with "Polio-like" symptoms. <br />
<br />
I would ask you to keep your eyes open: A "New" Disease is about to be "discovered", though in reality it is Polio with a snazzy new dress. Guaranteed.<br />
<br />
<br />Please read the links below for much more information on Polio and the Polio Vaccine<br /><br /><br />
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<u>Further Information about the Polio Vaccine</u></h4>
<br /><br />
<div class="asset-name entry-title" id="page-title" style="text-align: left;">
Smoke, Mirrors, and the “Disappearance” Of Polio- Dr. Suzanne Humphries, MD</div>
<a href="http://www.laleva.org/eng/2011/11/smoke_mirrors_and_the_disappearance_of_polio.html">http://www.laleva.org/eng/2011/11/smoke_mirrors_and_the_disappearance_of_polio.html</a><br />
<br /><br />
<div class="posttitle" style="text-align: left;">
Bill Gates’ Polio Vaccine Program Caused 47,500 Cases of Paralysis Death </div>
<a href="http://nsnbc.me/2013/05/08/bill-gates-polio-vaccine-program-caused-47500-cases-of-paralysis-death/">http://nsnbc.me/2013/05/08/bill-gates-polio-vaccine-program-caused-47500-cases-of-paralysis-death/</a><br />
<br /><br />
Polio and lemmings- Hilary Butler<br />
<a href="http://www.whale.to/v/polio_and_lemmings.html">http://www.whale.to/v/polio_and_lemmings.html</a><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Polio in the United States<br />
<a href="http://harpub.tk/pol_all.htm">http://harpub.tk/pol_all.htm</a><br />
<br /><br />Chronic Fatigue: A polio by another name<br /> <a href="http://www.sonic.net/melissk/polio1.html">http://www.sonic.net/melissk/polio1.html</a>
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<br />
<br /><br />
<div class="ArticleHeadline" style="text-align: left;">
Merck vaccine scientist Dr. Maurice Hilleman admitted presence of SV40, AIDS and cancer viruses in vaccines</div>
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<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice_Hilleman_SV40.html##ixzz2uFcmQirl" style="color: #003399;">http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice_Hilleman_SV40.html##ixzz2uFcmQirl</a></div>
<br /><br />Merck vaccine scientist admits presence of SV40 and AIDS in vaccines - Dr. Maurice Hilleman- VIDEO<br /><a href="http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=13EAAF22CDA367BB3C2F94D2CD90EF7B">http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=13EAAF22CDA367BB3C2F94D2CD90EF7B</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Dr. Maurice Hilleman of Merck (aka Big Pharma), openly talks about how they introduced the AIDs virus and cancers into the bodies of men women and children while inoculating them to prevent polio.</span></span></span><br /><a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2011/09/vaccines-making-you-far-sicker-than-you.html">http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2011/09/vaccines-making-you-far-sicker-than-you.html</a><br /><br /><br /><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/24/health/mystery-illness-in-california/index.html?hpt=hp_t3">http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/24/health/mystery-illness-in-california/index.html?hpt=hp_t3</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<h1>
Mysterious polio-like illness found in 5 California children</h1>
<div class="cnn_stryathrtmp">
<div class="cnnByline">
By <strong>Ralph Ellis</strong>, CNN</div>
<div class="cnn_strytmstmp">
February 24, 2014 -- Updated 0945 GMT (1745 HKT)</div>
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<div class="cnn_strylctcntr">
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<strong>STORY HIGHLIGHTS</strong></div>
<ul class="cnn_bulletbin cnnStryHghLght">
<li>Polio can cause sudden paralysis </li>
<li>Thanks to a vaccine, polio was wiped out in the U.S.</li>
<li>Researchers don't know what caused the symptoms</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cnn_strylftcntnt adtag15090">
</div>
<strong>(CNN)</strong> -- A mysterious polio-like illness has been found in five children in California, researchers said.<br />
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2">
The discovery is alarming
because polio, a contagious disease that sometimes caused paralysis,
was wiped out in the United States in 1950s after a vaccine was created.
All five children had polio vaccinations.</div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3">
The new cases, the
researchers say, point to the possibility that an "infection polio-like"
syndrome could be emerging in California.</div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4">
Dr. Keith Van Haren of
Stanford University and his co-author, Dr. Emanuelle Waubant with the
University of California-San Francisco, released a case report on their
findings Sunday. They will present the report at the American Academy of
Neurology meeting in April.</div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5">
"Although polio virus has
been eradicated from most of the globe, other viruses can also injure
the spine, leading to a polio-like syndrome," he said in a statement.</div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6">
Outbreaks of polio have occurred in Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan.</div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7">
Van Haren and Waubant
said the five children showed polio-like symptoms: sudden paralysis in
one or more limbs that became most severe within two days of onset.</div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8">
Three children had a
respiratory illness before the other symptoms began, they said. After
treatment, the symptoms didn't improve and the children still had poor
limb function after six months.</div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9">
Two children tested
positive for enterovirus-68, a rare virus previously associated with
polio-like symptoms, they said. No cause was identified in the remaining
three children.</div>
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-5382918247432569352014-02-22T03:43:00.000-08:002014-02-22T03:43:55.050-08:00Time to STAND UP to the Food Industry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It IS Time to Stand Up. <br />
<br />
The world around us is standing up and saying "No More", in numbers that have never ever been seen before. While the Main Stream Media tries to hide what is going on world wide, the truth is getting out faster and faster as the "alternative" media has now become the leaders in bringing news to the people. <br />
<br />
CHANGE comes from and through the people. If you think you can sit back and that someone "official" will look after you and your family, then you are vastly misguided.<br />
<br />
No One Is Coming To Save You.<br />
<br />
If you want CHANGE then you must be the CHANGE you wish to SEE. Does that mean you have to go out and protest? That you have to burn cars and throw rotten eggs and scream and yell? NO it doesn't. But it DOES mean that you need to take some responsibility for those changes that you want to happen. It DOES mean that you need to be involved- in whatever way resonates with you- to CREATE CHANGE.<br /><br />Ask yourself this: If I am not willing to stand up for my family's health and welfare, then who will?<br />
<br />
I'm not asking you to get involved in "fighting" everything, or even most things.... but the time is NOW to PICK SOMETHING and GET INVOLVED.<br />
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Even the Main Stream Media is starting to talk about the horrific health of the average population in North America and in Western Europe. The Alternative Media has been over flowing with facts and studies and information about the toxins in our food supply, our water, our air, and in our medications. <br /><br />Two days ago I posted an article <a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-food-industry-makes-shift-stand-up.html" target="_blank">"The Food Industry Makes a Shift: STAND UP!" </a><br />
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It was based on a skype post that a good friend of mine made. He's decided to up the ante. <br /><br /><br />It IS Time NOW to GET UP and DO Something to Create CHANGE.<br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br />
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: medium;">AMERICA AND THE WORLD YOUR HELP IS NEEDED TO STAND UP AND MAKE THE CALLS.</span><br />
</span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: medium;">WE HAVE REACHED A TURNING POINT OF NO RETURN. IT IS TIME
TO PUT THE FOOD INDUSTRY ON NOTICE THAT WE WILL NO LONGER BUY THEIR
CHEMICALLY LACED POISION FOOD PRODUCTS THEY ARE SELLING US ANY LONGER.
IT IS UP TO US TO TAKE A STAND. IT IS INCUMBENT ON THEM TO PROVIDE US
WITH SAFE HEALTH FOOD FREE OF CHEMICALS, LIKE GMO'S, MSG, FLOURIDE,
PROPYLENE GLYCOL, SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE, AZODICARBONMIDE, ASPARTAME,
HIGH FRUTOSE CORN SYRUP, THESE ARE JUST A FEW. THE FOOD INDUSTRY IS
LACED WITH CHEMICALS THEY PUTTING IN OUR FOOD. IT IS TIME TO CLEAN UP
THIS MESS. WE THE PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH. EFFECTIVE YESTERDAY WE PUT THE
FAST FOOD INDUSTRY ON NOTICE AND TOLD THEM THEY WE DEMAND THEY CLEAN UP
THEIR FOOD OR WE WILL PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS. WE WILL NO LONG BUY
THEIR CONTAMINATED FOOD PRODUCTS. YESTERDAY AND TODAY WE LAUCHED ON
FACEBOOK, TWITTER, MYSPACE, AND SKYPE AGAINST THE FAST FOOD INDUSTRY
AND MAJOR FOOD CHAINS. BELOW IS A LIST OF STORES WITH PHONE NUMBERS.
PLEASE CALL THEM AND VOICE YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT YOUR FOOD IN A CALM COOL
AND COLLECTED MANNER WITH OUT YELLING AT THEM.</span><br />
<br />
The Great Turning: </span>
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/interesting--other/the-great-turning.html" target="_blank">http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/interesting--other/the-great-turning.html</a><br />
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Hot Pockets recalled for Containing ‘Diseased and Unsound Animals’<br /><a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/02/hot-pockets-recalled-for-containing-diseased-and-unsound-animals-2902050.html" target="_blank">http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/02/hot-pockets-recalled-for-containing-diseased-and-unsound-animals-2902050.html</a><br />
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RUBBER BEING USED IN FAST FOODS, MCDONALDS, WENDY'S ETC <br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554742/Chemical-used-shoe-rubber-ditched-Subway-week-McDonalds-Burger-King-Wendy-s-popular-store-bought-products.html#ixzz2spcasYET" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554742/Chemical-used-shoe-rubber-ditched-Subway-week-McDonalds-Burger-King-Wendy-s-popular-store-bought-products.html#ixzz2spcasYET</a><br />
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Subway Removing Harmful Bread Additive Due to Blogger Petition Pressure<br /><a href="http://naturalsociety.com/subway-removing-harmful-bread-additive-due-blogger-petition-pressure/" target="_blank">http://naturalsociety.com/subway-removing-harmful-bread-additive-due-blogger-petition-pressure/</a><br />
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Subway Announces the End of ‘Shoe Rubber’ Chemical in Bread… But It’s Still Not Healthy!<br /><a href="http://www.thealternativedaily.com/subway-announces-end-shoe-rubber-chemical-bread-still-healthy/" target="_blank">http://www.thealternativedaily.com/subway-announces-end-shoe-rubber-chemical-bread-still-healthy/</a><br />
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10 other companies that use the same Subway yoga mat chemical in their buns<br /><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/043977_azodicarbonamide_yoga_mat_chemical_restaurant_bread.html" target="_blank">http://www.naturalnews.com/043977_azodicarbonamide_yoga_mat_chemical_restaurant_bread.html</a><br />
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The Food Industry Makes a Shift: STAND UP! <br /><a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-food-industry-makes-shift-stand-up.html" target="_blank">http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-food-industry-makes-shift-stand-up.html</a><br />
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Subway 1-800-888-4848 or 1-230-877-4281<br />Winn Dixie 1-904-783-5000<br />Publix 1-352-245-4115<br />Kroger 1-513-762-4000<br />Costco 1-800-955-2292<br />Sams Club 1-888-746-7726<br />K-mart 1-847-286-2500<br />Walmart 1-479-273-4000<br />Golden Corral 1-919-781-9310<br />Albertsons 1-208-395-6200<br />Safeway 1-877-724-3929 <br />Target 1-612-304-6073<br />Supervalue 1-952-828-4000<br />Food Lion 1-704-633-8250<br />McDonald's 1-800-244-6227<br />Chick-fil-A 1-404-765-8000<br />Wendys 1-614-764-3100<br />dunkin donuts 1-800-859-5339 <br />Arbys
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-27416388358066835022014-02-22T03:11:00.000-08:002014-02-22T03:11:38.825-08:00Monsanto’s Roundup causes “gluten intolerance”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When there is a sudden surge in "allergies" in a population, it's time to analyze the changes in that populations diet and environment and the contaminants that are effecting change in both.<br />
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We've seen a massive rise in peanut allergies in North America in the past 15 years. What caused it? Could it be the peanut oil being used in a multitude of vaccine adjuvants?<br />
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<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/039192_peanut_oil_vaccines_allergies.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/039192_peanut_oil_vaccines_allergies.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/allergies/vaccines-and-the-peanut-allergy-epidemic/">http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/allergies/vaccines-and-the-peanut-allergy-epidemic/</a><br />
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<a href="http://vactruth.com/2010/07/15/non-disclosed-hyper-allergenic-vaccine-adjuvant/">http://vactruth.com/2010/07/15/non-disclosed-hyper-allergenic-vaccine-adjuvant/</a><br />
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And the other "Allergy" that has seemingly overtaken the general population in the past 10 years is "Gluten intolerance" ....<br />
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Low and behold! A Study that directly ties the use of Monsanto's herbicide Round Up- a highly toxic product used just about everywhere in Canada and the US- to Gluten Intolerance and Celiac's Disease.<br />
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<br />Isn't it time that people start standing up and saying "No More!" ?<br /><br /><br />
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<a href="http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/study-monsantos-roundup-causes-gluten-intolerance/">http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/study-monsantos-roundup-causes-gluten-intolerance/</a><br />
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Study: Monsanto’s Roundup causes “gluten intolerance”</h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Study: Monsanto’s Roundup causes “gluten intolerance”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">by Jon Rappoport</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">February 21, 2014</span><br />
<span style="color: navy;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.nomorefakenews.com/"><span style="font-size: medium;">www.nomorefakenews.com</span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">A recent study proposes that gluten
intolerance and celiac disease are on the rise as a result of
glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">The National Library of Medicine
states that celiac disease “damages the lining of the small intestine
and prevents it from absorbing parts of food that are important for
staying healthy. The damage is due to a reaction to eating gluten, which
is found in wheat, barley, rye, and possibly oats.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">The study authors, Anthony Samsel and
Stephanie Seneff, have a different view. They point out that this rise
in celiac disease parallels the increase in the use of Roundup, and the
effects of glyphosate are those listed for celiac disease.</span><br />
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“<span style="font-size: medium;">Celiac disease, and, more generally,
gluten intolerance, is a growing problem worldwide, but especially in
North America and Europe, where an estimated 5% of the population now
suffers from it. </span><br />
“<span style="font-size: medium;">Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, skin rashes, macrocytic anemia and depression. </span><br />
“<span style="font-size: medium;">It is a multifactorial disease
associated with numerous nutritional deficiencies as well as
reproductive issues and increased risk to thyroid disease, kidney
failure, and cancer. </span><br />
“<span style="font-size: medium;">Here, we propose that glyphosate, the
active ingredient in the herbicide, Roundup®, is the most important
causal factor in this epidemic. </span><br />
“<span style="font-size: medium;">Fish exposed to glyphosate develop
digestive problems that are reminiscent of celiac disease. Celiac
disease is associated with imbalances in gut bacteria that can be fully
explained by the known effects of glyphosate on gut bacteria. </span><br />
“<span style="font-size: medium;">Characteristics of celiac disease
point to impairment in many cytochrome P450 enzymes, which are involved
with detoxifying environmental toxins, activating vitamin D3,
catabolizing vitamin A, and maintaining bile acid production and sulfate
supplies to the gut. </span><br />
“<span style="font-size: medium;">Glyphosate is known to inhibit
cytochrome P450 enzymes. Deficiencies in iron, cobalt, molybdenum,
copper, and other rare metals associated with celiac disease can be
attributed to glyphosate’s strong ability to chelate these elements. </span><br />
“<span style="font-size: medium;">Deficiencies in tryptophan, tyrosine,
methionine, and selenomethionine associated with celiac disease match
glyphosate’s known depletion of these amino acids. </span><br />
“<span style="font-size: medium;">Celiac disease patients have an
increased risk to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which has also been implicated
in glyphosate exposure. </span><br />
“<span style="font-size: medium;">Reproductive issues associated with
celiac disease, such as infertility, miscarriages, and birth defects,
can also be explained by glyphosate. </span><br />
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“<span style="font-size: medium;">Glyphosate residues in wheat and
other crops are likely increasing recently due to the growing practice
of crop desiccation [drying] just prior to the harvest. We argue that
the practice of “ripening” sugar cane with glyphosate may explain the
recent surge in kidney failure among agricultural workers in Central
America. We conclude with a plea to governments to reconsider policies
regarding the safety of glyphosate residues in foods.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">This study could change the way gluten
intolerance and celiac disease are understood, and it adds to the
growing body of evidence against Monsanto’s Roundup and those GMO crops
which require Roundup as the herbicide of choice.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Jon Rappoport</span><br />
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-65048058832740305122014-02-20T00:22:00.000-08:002014-02-20T00:22:23.980-08:00The Food Industry Makes a Shift: STAND UP!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is where "Participation" and Action are needed BY the people!<br /><br />If you want to see these chemicals removed from the store shelves, then it's up to US to tell the stores we spend our money at that we want them removed! Same with the individual companies that are manufacturing/preparing these food products.</div>
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Change comes when people speak out and say "If you want my business and my money, then you need to change, or we will go elsewhere." The time for sitting around and moaning about how horrible it is that all these foods we eat are full of crap, is over. It's time to DO something about it.</div>
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I will give you a prime example of people DOing to create change:<br /><br /><br />This is a post from a very good friend of mine in his Alternative Health room on skype:<br /><br /></div>
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10 other companies that use the same Subway yoga mat chemical in their buns</h4>
<br /><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/043977_azodicarbonamide_yoga_mat_chemical_restaurant_bread.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/043977_azodicarbonamide_yoga_mat_chemical_restaurant_bread.html</a><br /><br />Who will make the calls to stand up for your Health Freedom??? Its up to you I can't do this by myself. I have just called all of these companies and put them on notice, that we are no longer going to buy their poisoned food products, I let them know that the consumer is fed up and we will be launching a World wide campaign on Facebook, twitter, Myspace, google+, ect, They will either clean up their food or go out of business cause no one will buy it. I could tell they were very concerned. I'm not going to worry about stupid people, they will fix themselves. Who's going to stand up for our Health, our children's health if we don't, Also its time to put these damn School Cafeteria's on notice, speaking of cafeteria's The Golden Colon needs a wake up call too!!!<br /><br />Winn Dixie 1-904-783-5000<br />Publix 1-352-245-4115<br />Kroger 1-513-762-4000<br />Costco 1-800-955-2292<br />Sams Club 1-888-746-7726<br />K-mart 1-847-286-2500<br />Walmart 1-479-273-4000<br />Golden Corral 1-919-781-9310<br />Albertsons 1-208-395-6200<br />Safeway 1-877-724-3929 <br />Target 1-612-304-6073<br />Supervalue 1-952-828-4000<br />Food Lion 1-704-633-8250<br />McDonald's 1800 244-6227<br />Chick-fil-A 1-404-765-8000<br />Wendys 1-614-764-3100<br />dunkin donuts 1-800-859-5339 <br />Arbys 1-800-599-2729 <br />Hardee's Carl Jr. 1-877-799-7827<br /><br />Lets call these companies and let them know how we feel and that we aren't going to buy their poision food anymore.<br /> (angry) I am mad as Hell and I ain't taking it anymore!!!</blockquote>
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<br />This post is from a man who spends close to 15 hours a day monitoring sites, informing people through the various 20 or more skype rooms that he runs and about 20 other skype rooms that he participates in. He has led campaigns against many many companies and been involved in demanding changes in the food, health, drug and even pet food industries. His campaigns have led to companies being forced to re-lable products AND removing products from shelves.<br /><br />Basically it comes down to this: IF you want to SEE changes happen, then we need to stand up and MAKE them happen. Exercise your right to freedom of speech and freedom to take your money else where!<br /><br /><br /></div>
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From artificial to natural, the food industry makes a major shift</h1>
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</header><strong><br />Extracts from algae, rosemary and monk fruit could soon
replace synthetic ingredients and food additives such as Blue No. 1, BHT
and aspartame that label-conscious grocery shoppers are increasingly
shunning. <br /></strong><br />
Research is enabling this shift from artificial colors, sweeteners
and preservatives to naturally derived ones, and could soon yield many
more natural options, reports Chemical & Engineering News, the
weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society.<br /><br />
Melody M. Bomgardner, senior editor at C&EN, notes that the trend
has built momentum as concern over negative health effects of
artificial ingredients and additives grows. Recent studies have
suggested a link between some artificial colorings and hyperactivity in
children.<br /><br />
Others have suggested that certain synthetic preservatives may cause
cancer in rodents. These results are sinking into the consumer psyche.<br /><br />
By 2013, almost a quarter of U.S. consumers reported that they read
food labels to check for artificial colors and flavors. That's 15
percent more than the year before. In Europe, regulations spurred a
faster changeover and have largely driven the dramatic shift in global
sales toward natural colors. In the $1.5 billion market, growth of the
latter has overtaken synthetics, which have plateaued.<br /><br />
Now many food manufacturers are turning to colors derived from foods,
such as turmeric; to new fermentation routes for natural yellows, reds
and purple dyes; and to rosemary and monk fruit as a preservative and
sweetener, respectively, the article states.<br /><br />
Natural green and blue food colorings are harder to come by, but
researchers are finding sources for these as well. Last summer, M&Ms
candy maker Mars got the OK from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
to color their blue treats with an extract from blue-green algae.
Scientists are also investigating new natural ways to preserve meat,
produce vanilla and sweeten foods without the calories.<br /><br /><a href="http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/02/13/from-artificial-to-natural-the-food-industry-makes-a-major-shift/">http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/02/13/from-artificial-to-natural-the-food-industry-makes-a-major-shift/</a></div>
Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-37525067538224925272014-02-16T14:19:00.000-08:002014-02-16T14:19:56.319-08:00Scientists unlock the secret of embryo implantation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We know much about how embryos develop, but one key stage –
implantation – has remained a mystery. Now, scientists from Cambridge
have discovered a way to study and film this 'black box' of development.
Their results – which will lead to the rewriting of biology text books
worldwide – are published in the journal Cell.<br />
Embryo development in mammals occurs in two phases. During the first
phase, pre-implantation, the embryo is a small, free-floating ball of
cells called a blastocyst. In the second, post-implantation, phase the
blastocyst embeds itself in the mother's uterus.<br />
While blastocysts can be grown and studied outside the body, the same
has not been true from implantation. And because embryos are so closely
connected to their mothers, implantation has also been difficult to
study in the womb.<br />
According to study author Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz of the
University of Cambridge: "We know a lot about pre-implantation, but what
happens after implantation – and particularly the moment of
implantation – is an enigma."<br />
Scientists are interested in studying implantation because the embryo undergoes huge changes in such a short space of time.<br />
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The
mouse embryo's own stem cells organize themselves into a rosette-like
arrangement as a pre-requisite for laying the foundations for the body
when the embryo would implant into the uterus. Image credit: Magdalena
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"During these two days, it goes from a relatively simple ball to a
much larger, more complex cup-like structure, but exactly how that
happens was a mystery – a black box of development. That is why we
needed to develop a method that would allow us to culture and study
embryos during implantation," she explained.<br />
Working with mouse cells, Professor Zernicka-Goetz and her colleague
Dr Ivan Bedzhov succeeded in creating the right conditions outside the
womb to study the implantation process.<br />
To be able to support development, they created a system comprising a
gel and medium that, as well as having the right chemical and
biological properties, was of similar elasticity to uterine tissue.
Crucially, this gel was transparent to optical light, allowing then to
film the embryo during implantation.<br />
This new method revealed that on its way from ball to cup, the
blastocyst becomes a 'rosette' of wedge-shaped cells, a structure never
before seen by scientists.<br />
"It's a beautiful structure. This rosette is what a mouse looks like
on the 4th day of its life, and most likely what we look like on the 7th
day of ours, and it's fascinating how beautiful we are then, and how
these small cells organise so perfectly to allow us to develop."<br />
As well as answering a fundamental question in developmental biology,
the new method will allow scientists to study embryo growth and
development at implantation for the first time, which could help improve
the success of IVF, and extend our knowledge of stem cells, which could
advance their use in regenerative medicine.<br />
The findings also mean developmental biology text books will need
rewriting. "The text books make an educated guess of what happened
during this part of development, but we now know that what I learned and
what I teach my students about this was totally wrong," said Professor
Zernicka-Goetz.<br />
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<a href="http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/02/15/rewriting-the-text-books-scientists-crack-open-black-box-of-development/">http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/02/15/rewriting-the-text-books-scientists-crack-open-black-box-of-development/</a></div>
Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-79919086531637840622014-02-16T04:07:00.000-08:002014-02-16T04:07:04.374-08:00Cancer drugs just for "western patients who can afford them"- Bayer CEO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Further to points #12 and #19 in <a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/19-statistics-about-drugging-of-america.html" target="_blank">the article I put out yesterday</a>: <br />
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<strong>#12</strong> According to <a href="http://www.alternet.org/11-major-drug-companies-raked-85-billion-last-year-and-left-many-die-who-couldnt-buy-their-pricey" target="_blank" title="Alternet">Alternet</a>,
“11 of the 12 new-to-market drugs approved by the Food and Drug
Administration were priced above $100,000 per-patient per-year” in 2012.<br />
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<strong>#19</strong> It turns out that dealing drugs is <strong>extremely</strong> profitable. The 11 largest pharmaceutical companies combined to rake in <a href="http://www.alternet.org/11-major-drug-companies-raked-85-billion-last-year-and-left-many-die-who-couldnt-buy-their-pricey" target="_blank" title="approximately $85,000,000,000">approximately $85,000,000,000</a> in profits in 2012. <br />
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..... I think that many readers will find this little look at transparency from within Big Pharma very Illuminating<br />
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We didn't make this medicine for Indians… we made it for western
patients who can afford it': Pharmaceutical chief tries to stop India
replicating its cancer treatment </h1>
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<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><b>Indian firm granted government licence to produce copy of a Bayer drug</b></span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Nexavar</span><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"> is used for the treatment of kidney, liver and thyroid
cancers </span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">A patient would
pay £58,000 for a year's course of the Bayer version</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">However the cost of the Natco version would be around £1,700</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Bayer CEO Marijn Dekkers made comments during a panel discussion</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">He has previously described India's patent laws as 'essentially theft' </span></b></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The CEO of phamaceutical giant
Bayer has sparked fury after announcing one of the firm's drugs was for
'western patients who can afford it'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Marijn
Dekkers made the inflammatory comments after the Indian company Natco
Pharma Ltd. were granted a government licence to produce a copy of
Bayer’s cancer drug Nexavar which they will sell for 97 per cent less
than the original product.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Under
Indian law the government grants compulsory licenses to domestic firms
to produce copies of drugs if the original isn’t available locally at a
reasonable price, regardless of whether they are under patent.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Deekers, who has previously
described India's patent laws as 'essentially theft', said: 'We did not
develop this medicine for Indians. We developed it for western patients
who can afford it.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Nexavar,
which is also known as Sorafenib, has been approved for the treatment
of kidney cancer, advanced liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), and
thyroid cancers that are resistant to radioactive iodine treatment.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Currently
a kidney cancer patient would pay $96,000 (£58,000) for a year's course
of the Bayer-made drug. However the cost of the Natco version would be
around $2,800 (£1,700).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Deekers later posted a comment on a <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2013/12/05/does-pharma-only-develop-drugs-for-those-who-can-pay/" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Forbes</a> magazine blog claiming he regretted the way the comment was received.</span><br />
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framework of a panel discussion at the recent FT Pharma conference has
come across in a different way as it was meant by myself. </span><br />
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remain firm that there is no excuse for any country to weaken the
intellectual property rights. Without new medicines people in developing
countries – as well as those in the more prosperous countries –
ultimately will all suffer.' </span><br />
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Manica Balasegaram, the Executive Director, Médecins Sans Frontières
Access Campaign, which is trying to increase the availability of cancer
drugs in developing countries said Mr Dekker's comments summed up
'everything that is wrong with the multinational pharmaceutical
industry.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She added: 'Bayer
is effectively admitting that the drugs they develop are deliberately
going to be rationed to the wealthiest patients. This is a side-effect
of the way drugs are developed today. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Pharmaceutical
companies are singularly focused on profit and so aggressively push for
patents and high drug prices. Diseases that don’t promise a profit are
neglected, and patients who can’t afford to pay are cut out of the
picture. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Drug companies claim to care about global health needs, but their track record says otherwise.'</span><br />
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Add to this, the Fluoride in the water supply and even in some brands of bottled water (did you know that fluorides are <a href="http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2012/10/20/natural-news-mike-adams-prozac-94-fluoride-nazis-favorate-drug/" target="_blank">the main ingredient in Prozac</a>?). <br /><br />Add to this the drugging of children for the almost impossible to diagnose "ADD" "ADHD" etc... that even the doctors can't agree on what the symptoms are or what the treatment should be. <br />
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<br />Add to this the VAST amount of vaccines that are pumped into our infants and children and adults and senior citizens.<br /><br />Add to this the unbelievable amount of antibiotics that are given for every single sniffle, slight cough, toe pain, itchy elbows or any other common complaint.<br /><br />Add to this the massive quantities of pseudo hormone treatments that are prescribed for birth control, menopause, long menstrual cycles, short menstrual cycles, no menstrual cycles, acne, hot flashes, low libido, high libido, small boobs, small penises...<br /><br />Add to this erection medications that 1 in 4 men in the US have used<br />
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Add to this the multitude of pain killers and narcotics that are prescribed<br /><br />Add to this the amount of over the counter cough and cold medications (that don't work) that are bought yearly<br /> <br />
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.... Now mix them all together in a giant bowl and suck it back with your morning glass of OJ. Is it any wonder that there is an unintentional drug overdose death in the United
States <span style="background-color: lime;"><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/70-million-americans-taking-mind-altering-drugs/">every 19 minutes</a></span>.<br /><br />Did you know that Big Pharma's main 11 companies made $85 BILLION dollars in 2012 alone?<br />
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American people are the most drugged people in the history of the
planet. Illegal drugs get most of the headlines, but the truth is that
the number of Americans that are addicted to legal drugs is far greater
than the number of Americans that are addicted to illegal drugs. As you
will see below, close to <strong>70 percent</strong> of all Americans
are currently on at least one prescription drug. In addition, there are
60 million Americans that “abuse alcohol” and 22 million Americans that
use illegal drugs. What that means is that almost everyone that you
meet is going to be on <strong>something</strong>. That sounds
absolutely crazy but it is true. We are literally being drugged out of
our minds. In fact, as you will read about below, there are <strong>70 million</strong>
Americans that are taking “mind-altering drugs” right now. If it seems
like most people cannot think clearly these days, it is because they
can’t. We love our legal drugs and it is getting worse with each
passing year. And considering the fact that big corporations are making
tens of billions of dollars peddling their drugs to the rest of us,
don’t expect things to change any time soon. The following are 19
statistics about the drugging of America that are almost too crazy to
believe…<br />
<strong>#1</strong> An astounding <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/70-million-americans-taking-mind-altering-drugs/">70 million Americans</a> are taking legal mind-altering drugs right now.<br />
<strong>#2</strong> According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, doctors wrote <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/70-million-americans-taking-mind-altering-drugs/">more than 250 million prescriptions</a> for antidepressants during 2010.<br />
<strong>#3</strong> According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2013-rst/7543.html" target="_blank" title="70 percent">70 percent</a> of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug. An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on <strong>at least five</strong> prescription drugs.<br />
<strong>#4</strong> Americans spent <a href="http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/8/" target="_blank" title="more than 280 billion dollars">more than 280 billion dollars</a> on prescription drugs during 2013.<br />
<strong>#5</strong> According to the CDC, approximately <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db42.htm" target="_blank" title="9 out of every 10">9 out of every 10</a> Americans that are at least 60 years old say that they have taken at least one prescription drug within the last month.<br />
<strong>#6</strong> There are <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/70-million-americans-taking-mind-altering-drugs/">60 million Americans</a> that “abuse alcohol”.<br />
<strong>#7</strong> According to the Department of Health and Human Services, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/70-million-americans-taking-mind-altering-drugs/">22 million Americans</a> use illegal drugs.<br />
<strong>#8</strong> Incredibly, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/70-million-americans-taking-mind-altering-drugs/">more than 11 percent</a>
of all Americans that are 12 years of age or older admit that they have
driven home under the influence of alcohol at least once during the
past year.<br />
<strong>#9</strong> According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, there is an unintentional drug overdose death in the United
States <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/70-million-americans-taking-mind-altering-drugs/">every 19 minutes</a>.<br />
<strong>#10</strong> In the United States today, prescription painkillers kill more Americans <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/037299_prescription_painkillers_heroin_fatalities.html" target="_blank" title="than heroin and cocaine combined">than heroin and cocaine combined</a>.<br />
<strong>#11</strong> According to the CDC, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-galland-md/why-medication-can-be-dan_b_643690.html" target="_blank" title="approximately three quarters of a million people a year">approximately three quarters of a million people a year</a> are rushed to emergency rooms in the United States because of adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs.<br />
<strong>#12</strong> According to <a href="http://www.alternet.org/11-major-drug-companies-raked-85-billion-last-year-and-left-many-die-who-couldnt-buy-their-pricey" target="_blank" title="Alternet">Alternet</a>,
“11 of the 12 new-to-market drugs approved by the Food and Drug
Administration were priced above $100,000 per-patient per-year” in 2012.<br />
<strong>#13</strong> The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-medicated-americans" target="_blank" title="is higher">is higher</a> than in any other country in the world.<br />
<strong>#14</strong> Many of these antidepressants contain warnings
that “suicidal thoughts” are one of the side effects that should be
expected. The suicide rate for Americans between the ages of 35 and 64
rose <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/health/suicide-rate-rises-sharply-in-us.html?_r=1&" target="_blank" title="by close to 30 percent">by close to 30 percent</a>
between 1999 and 2010. The number of Americans that are killed by
suicide now exceeds the number of Americans that die as a result of car
accidents every year.<br />
<strong>#15</strong> In 2010, the average teen in the United States was taking <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/03/maybe-we-should-blame-teenagers-for-our-health-spending-problems/" target="_blank" title="1.2 central nervous system drugs">1.2 central nervous system drugs</a>. Those are the kinds of drugs which treat conditions such as ADHD and depression.<br />
<strong>#16</strong> Children in the United States are <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/depressing-facts-about-healthcare-system-2011-6#american-kids-are-three-times-as-likely-to-be-prescribed-antidepressants-than-kids-in-europe-9" target="_blank" title="three times more likely">three times more likely</a> to be prescribed antidepressants as children in Europe are.<br />
<strong>#17</strong> A shocking Government Accountability Office report discovered that <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/study-shows-foster-children-high-rates-prescription-psychiatric/story?id=15058380#.Ttf6hlZmlH3" target="_blank" title="approximately one-third">approximately one-third</a> of all foster children in the United States are on at least one psychiatric drug.<br />
<strong>#18</strong> A survey conducted for the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that more than <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/prescription-drug-abuse/DS01079/METHOD=print&DSECTION=all" target="_blank" title="15 percent">15 percent</a> of all U.S. high school seniors abuse prescription drugs.<br />
<strong>#19</strong> It turns out that dealing drugs is <strong>extremely</strong> profitable. The 11 largest pharmaceutical companies combined to rake in <a href="http://www.alternet.org/11-major-drug-companies-raked-85-billion-last-year-and-left-many-die-who-couldnt-buy-their-pricey" target="_blank" title="approximately $85,000,000,000">approximately $85,000,000,000</a> in profits in 2012.<br />
In America today, doctors are trained that there are just two
potential solutions to any problem. Either you prescribe a pill or you
cut someone open. Surgery and drugs are pretty much the only
alternatives they offer us.<br />
And an endless barrage of television commercials have trained all of us to think that there is a “pill for every problem”.<br />
Are you in pain?<br />
Just take a pill.<br />
Are you feeling blue?<br />
Just take a pill.<br />
Do you need a spark in your marriage?<br />
Just take a pill.<br />
And most Americans assume that all of these pills are perfectly safe.<br />
After all, the government would never approve something that wasn’t safe, right?<br />
Sadly, what most Americans don’t realize is that there is a revolving
door between big pharmaceutical corporations and the government
agencies that supposedly “regulate” them. Many of those that are now in
charge of our “safety” have spent their entire careers peddling legal
drugs to all of us.<br />
We have become a nation of drugged out zombies, and it is all
perfectly legal. The funny thing is that many of these “legal drugs”
have just slightly different formulations from their “illegal”
counterparts.<br />
If more Americans understood what they were actually taking, would that cause them to stop?<br />
Perhaps some would, but for the most part Americans are totally in love with their drugs and giving them up would not be easy.<br />
Just ask anyone that has tried.<br />
So what do you think about the drugging of America?<br />
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-60999009327525993702014-02-11T08:15:00.000-08:002014-02-11T08:15:07.113-08:00Chairwoman of UK's biggest developer advocates mothers should have 6 year breakHere is an article that should go viral. Not just because it recognizes the necessity of mothers to MOTHER their children, but because it reflects the true VALUE of women who are working in so many industries.<br />
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<br />The only FTSE 100 woman chairman has urged employers
to allow women to take up to six years off to focus on raising their
families. She says retaining the best staff is cheaper than training new
recruits.<br />
“<em>Employers have to learn to accommodate you through the
mid-life piece</em>,” Dame Alison Carnwath, the chairwoman of the
Land Securities property group said in an interview with the
Financial Times.
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“<em>If you want to spend, say, six years having children and
getting them off to school before you come back and do full-time
work, [companies] have to look upon it as not wanting to lose
somebody.</em>”
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The businesswoman says that “<em>It’s much better to keep people
in the fold</em>,” both from the economics and from the
“<em>continuity of culture</em>”. She is confident that
professional HR departments will be able to find <em>“measurable
economic benefits”</em> in such a loyal approach.
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The suggestion didn't get much support from the leader of the UK
Independence Party Nigel Farage.
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"<em>If a woman has a client base and has a child and takes two
or three years off work, she is worth far less to the employer
when she comes back than when she goes away because her client
base cannot be stuck rigidly to her</em>."
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<br />Dame Alison, who has no children herself, blames financial
companies, particularly banks, for being “<em>very bad</em>” at
promoting women.
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<br />She is proud of changing the gender balance at Land Securities,
where about a third of board members are women.
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<br />Ms Carnwarth received a damehood in the New Year Honors list for
being an advocate of women’s advancement in business.
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<br />There are four FTSE 100 companies which have women as chief
executives - Royal Mail, easyJet, Imperial Tobacco and Burberry,
but only until Angela Ahrendts moves from the clothing company to
Apple. However the balance will be soon restored, as Liv Garfield
is set to head water company Severn Trent.
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<br />Last month the proportion of women on the boards of FTSE100
companies reached 20 percent. The UK government wants it to be 25
percent by the end of 2015.
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<br />Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-19708152650238278002014-02-07T01:52:00.001-08:002014-02-07T01:52:56.942-08:00Shorter Labors Do NOT equal "better"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In labour, shorter doesn't necessarily equate to better OR easier! <br /><br />Besides the usual interventions that are pushed on labouring mothers by the medical system to rush things along, which are most of the time completely unnecessary and cause more problems and a cascade of further medical interventions, the very real fact is that rushing birth is not helping the mother or the baby (except in the rare cases of true medical emergencies).<br /><br />I have written (and experienced) about all these supposedly necessary medical interventions that are pushed on mostly unknowing mothers. I will not rehash all the reasons that these interventions are dangerous and unneeded in 99% of labours.<br /><br />I want to focus on the actual topic of "fast and slow", normal and unnormal, better and worse.<br /><br />I, like many other mothers out there, have been green with envy when hearing that this friend or that one had a 3 hour labour... "oh you're sooooo lucky!!" <br /><br />But the truth is that most of the women that I've spoken with who had super fast labours were even more traumatized by their birthing experience than many mothers I know who've laboured for 18 hours. Why? Because the suddenness and going from 0 to 100km/hr so fast did not give them the time they needed- physically, emotionally or energetically- to find their center or that balance point that can flow WITH the labour, instead of being slammed by the tidal waves of contraction on top of contraction. <br /><br />Faster does NOT equal better.<br /><br />As for what is perceived to be "normal" in labour, yet again we run into the wall of unrealistic expectations and the medical machine that wants to process all labouring women with a cookie cutter. What is normal for one woman and one birth is not necessarily normal for another woman or even another birth! I have one friend who's first baby was born after 10 hours of labour, 3 hours of stalled labour IN transition, then 4 hours of pushing. Her next child was almost born in the car on the way to the hospital!! Both labours were perfectly "normal" and yet if she had of had midwives, she would of been forced into an unnecessary Cesarean Section with her first child and probably into an elective C/Section with her second because,.... you know, she obviously wasn't capable of birthing naturally. lol<br />
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This is the very same in all aspects of pregnancy, labour, birth, and the beautiful babies that are born. When you try to compare and create a paradigm of "normal" or "not normal", instantaneously you are setting an unrealistic president. <br /><br />I love that the studies are now proving that these cookie cutter labours are not working. Now it's up to all of us to make sure that this information gets out- not just to the public, but to the hospitals and doctors AND midwives as well! <br /><br />It only by challenging the accepted "norm" that we can CHANGE it. <br />
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Epidural <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/anesthesiaandanesthetics/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about anesthesia and anesthetics.">anesthesia</a> lengthens the second stage of labor, the one in which women push. But <a href="http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/toc/publishahead" title="The new study in Obstetrics and Gynecology. ">a study published on Wednesday</a>
has found that epidurals are associated with an even longer duration in
the second stage than is generally recognized, suggesting that some
women may be subject to unnecessary interventions by doctors who wrongly
fear labor has become prolonged.</div>
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The
finding indicates that “clinicians might need to wait later before
intervening with oxytocin, forceps, vacuum or a cesarean,” said Dr. S.
Katherine Laughon, an investigator at the National Institutes of Health
who was not involved in the study, which was published in Obstetrics and
Gynecology. Still, she added, “clinicians and women need to balance
benefits of vaginal delivery with potential increases in risk for mom
and baby.”</div>
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<a href="http://www.ohsu.edu/som/obgyn/programs/ACOG%20Practice%20Bulletin%2049%20Dec%202003.pdf" title="Current A.C.O.G. guidelines.">Current guidelines by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists</a>,
or ACOG, define an abnormally long second stage as more than three
hours for women who received an epidural and are giving birth for the
first time, and more than two hours for first births without an
epidural.</div>
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The
new study suggests a normal second stage can take as long as 5.6 hours
for women who get epidurals during their first births, and as long as
3.3 hours for those who do not get epidurals.</div>
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For
women who have given birth previously, the group’s guidelines define an
unusually long second stage as two hours with an epidural, one hour
without. The new study found that the second stage for these women can
be as long as 4.25 hours and 1.35 hours, respectively.</div>
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“This
paper is very important, and ACOG needs to update its 2003 guidelines,”
said Dr. Robert L. Barbieri, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at
Brigham and Women’s in Boston, who was not involved in the new study. He
added, “I will change my practice and feel more comfortable going to
five and a half hours with a first birth after an epidural with
reassuring fetal monitoring.”</div>
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Researchers at the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_california/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the University of California.">University of California, San Francisco</a>,
analyzed the records of 42,268 women who delivered vaginally without
problems between 1976 and 2008. Roughly half had epidurals.</div>
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The
investigators compared the average length of the second stage of labor
among women who had epidurals with that among women who did not. They
also compared the upper limits of duration for both groups.</div>
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Thirty-one
percent of first births and 19 percent of subsequent labors would have
been classified as abnormally long by the current ACOG definition, the
researchers found.</div>
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“It’s
time to re-examine what normal and abnormal is, and revise our
guidelines based on modern obstetric population,” said Dr. Yvonne W.
Cheng, the lead author of the study and an associate professor of
obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, San
Francisco.</div>
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The
research is part of a growing body of evidence suggesting that a normal
second stage of labor is now longer than it was decades ago. In 2010, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660040/" title="A 2010 study whose lead author is Dr. Jun Zhang. ">a study of more than 62,000 women</a> found it was as long as 3.6 hours for first-time mothers after an epidural, and 2.8 hours for women who did not get one.</div>
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<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23090537" title="A 2012 summary of a joint meeting convene to prevent first cesareans. ">A 2012 summary of a joint meeting of ACOG and the National Institutes of Health</a>
concluded that adequate time for each labor stage “appears to be longer
than traditionally estimated.” For the second stage, it is closer to
four hours for first-time mothers who had epidurals, and three hours for
those who did not.</div>
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But this latest study is the first to suggest such an extended second stage may be ordinary.</div>
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“One
of the messages of this study is, sit on your hands a little longer,
don’t rush into an instrumental vaginal delivery or a cesarean, because
really everything could be fine,” said Dr. Barbara Leighton, a professor
of anesthesiology at Washington University in St. Louis School of
Medicine, who has researched the effects of epidurals on labor.</div>
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But
while Dr. Leighton supports revising ACOG recommendations, she believes
that the current study did not prove that longer labor is caused by
epidural anesthesia. Women who request anesthesia may be predisposed to
longer labor for other reasons, she said.</div>
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Dr.
Jeffrey Ecker, the chairman of the committee on obstetrics practice for
ACOG, said today’s clinicians are “increasingly recognizing there can
be healthy outcomes and vaginal deliveries of healthy babies when the
second stage extends beyond how it’s traditionally been defined.”</div>
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He
added, “Often what’s best and most appropriate — and most difficult —
during labor is patience.” He would not say whether a revision of
guidelines is in the works.</div>
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Patience
during labor is not risk-free. The new study found that babies are more
likely to have birth trauma, such as a bruise on the head or a clavicle
<a class="meta-classifier" href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/injury/broken-bone/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Broken bone.">fracture</a>,
after longer second-stage labor. But these infants did not have lower
scores on tests designed to measure physical health in newborns, nor did
they experience more admissions to intensive care.</div>
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The
risks of significant perineal lacerations and postpartum hemorrhage
were higher in women who experienced prolonged second-stage labor, both
by ACOG’s definition and by the upper limits of the study’s definition
of normal.</div>
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While
Dr. Laughon applauded the large number of participants in the study,
she cautioned that “they are saying we should wait longer, but we still
don’t know if that’s safe.”</div>
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A
lot has changed since the 1950s, when labor progression norms were
established. Back then, more babies were delivered by forceps and
continuous fetal monitoring was not used.</div>
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“We
are doing less interventions to facilitate a shorter second stage, and
we’re letting the power of the uterus and a mother’s pushing determine
the length of the second stage,” Dr. Barbieri said.</div>
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make parenting easier, and I'm sure you can find a couple that will help
both you and your kids smile a bit more. Trust me when I say that
sacrificing a pool noodle is worth not dealing with any more slamming
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Trace your kids' feet so they don't have to come shoe-shopping with you.</h2>
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Use a shoe caddy to hold snacks and activities during long car rides.</h2>
<img alt="kid17" class="rm-hammy post-image image_fit100" height="450" src="http://zeqps2k4t563atbs730zvzq12aw.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/kid17.jpg" width="360" /></article><article class="list-post"><h2>
Give them temporary tattoos in case they get lost during an outing.</h2>
<img alt="kid16" class="rm-hammy post-image image_fit100" height="318" src="http://zeqps2k4t563atbs730zvzq12aw.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/kid16.jpg" width="586" /><span class="image_source"><a class="source" href="http://www.tottoos.org/"> Source: Available at tottoos.org.</a></span></article><article class="list-post"><h2>
Old lotion bottles can be used as faucet extenders until the little tykes aren't so little anymore.</h2>
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A butterfly clip is a cute way to make sure spaghetti straps stop falling down.</h2>
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A cut pool noodle will prevent little fingers from getting slammed in doors.</h2>
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If you make chores into more of a game, kids will be more willing to help out around the house.</h2>
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A cupcake holder around a popsicle stick will keep little hands a bit less sticky on hot days.</h2>
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Use an old DVD case to store paper and colored pencils for an on-the-road easel.</h2>
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If they fall out of bed at night, create a barrier by putting a pool noodle under a fitted sheet.</h2>
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Use a laundry basket to keep bath toys from floating away.</h2>
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Convince them to do chores by offering things that they rely on rather than an extra reward that they could do without.</h2>
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-62271170782023575832014-02-03T14:36:00.002-08:002014-02-03T14:36:52.259-08:00ABC Australia Exposes Cholesterol-lowering Statin Drug Scam and Pharmaceutical Criminal Activity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I know this isn't one of my regular topics of discussion, but this is a vitally important piece of information to get out to people. <br />
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We have been lied to for years and years about "bad cholesterol" and sold horrific drugs to supposedly combat it.... drugs that are literally killing people. Please spread this article around!<br /><br />and bravo to ABC Australia for actually covering this story, instead of sweeping it under the carpet as most main stream media have done.<br />
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Health Impact News Editor Comments:<br />
ABC News in Australia has done an incredible investigative report on
cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, daring to expose organized crime in
the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S. This is an area where no
mainstream media outlet in the USA dares to go, due to the influence of
the pharmaceutical industry.<br />
In this excellent investigative documentary, cardiologists are
interviewed to reveal the fraud of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs,
and the criminal activity that has allowed this class of drug to become
the best-selling class of drugs all-time.<br />
After ABC Australia aired <a href="http://healthimpactnews.com/2013/saturated-fat-and-cholesterol-myth-exposed-in-mainstream-media-in-australia/">Part 1</a>, <a href="http://healthimpactnews.com/2013/saturated-fat-and-cholesterol-myth-exposed-in-mainstream-media-in-australia/">The Heart of the Matter</a>,
Australia’s top medicine safety expert, Emily Banks, urged ABC not to
air the follow-up, because it might encourage people to go off their
anti-cholesterol statin drugs. “If people stop using their statins . . .
it’s very likely that it will result in death,” she said.<br />
But those scare tactics and attempts at censorship failed, and below
is Part 2 as it was aired in Australia, and is now available for the
world to watch via the ABC TV Catalyst YouTube channel. Some of the top
cardiologists in the U.S. have stated that there is not one single study
showing that people who take statins will actually live longer. This
fraud is now coming out into the open.<br />
If you or someone you know are prescribed a cholesterol-lowering
statin drug, you would do well to invest 30 minutes of your time to
watch this investigative report. You are not likely to learn this
information from your doctor, and it could literally change your life.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Continue reading and to view the video <a href="http://healthimpactnews.com/2013/abc-australia-exposes-cholesterol-lowering-statin-drug-scam-and-pharmaceutical-criminal-activity/" target="_blank">HERE </a></span></div>
Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-59201321435832148452014-02-02T09:15:00.000-08:002014-02-02T09:15:11.213-08:00Skin to Skin: even after cesarean sections<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Skin to Skin contact for newborns is so important for healthy bonding, infant heart rate respiration and temperature regulation, breastfeeding and just good ol' fashion feel good vibes. It is amazing to see hospitals and doctors finally waking up to this basic fact of birth. Babies and mothers NEED each other.<br /><br /><a href="http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2010/12/human-incubator.html" target="_blank">"Kangaroo Care" is saving babies </a>lives in third world countries AND at home in modern hospitals. I read an article a long while ago that said that gestation is 18 months long: the first 9 months are internally, the second 9 months is externally. Skin to skin contact during the last 9 months is just as important as the "skin to skin" contact internally for the first 9 months. <br /><br /><br />
<a href="http://touchbroward.org/cape-coral-hospital-triplets-skin-to-skin/">http://touchbroward.org/cape-coral-hospital-triplets-skin-to-skin/</a><br />
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Cape Coral Hospital First In Nation To Put Triplets Skin to Skin After C-section</h1>
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May 2013, Cape Coral Hospital was the first hospital in the U.S. to
provide a Gentle Cesarean with immediate “skin to skin” contact
following a birth of triplets. Three healthy babies were born and were
immediately placed skin-to-skin with their mother and allowed to bond
and feed while the surgery was being completed. Due to this
intervention the mother not only exclusively breastfed in the hospital
but continued to breast-feed the triplets once they returned home.<br />
<img alt="skin to skin triplets" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4571" height="500" src="http://touchbroward.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/skin-to-skin-triplets-375x500.jpg" width="375" />Cape Coral Hospital has been working very hard on the <a href="http://www.flbreastfeeding.org/hospital.htm" target="_blank" title="Florida Quest for Quality Maternity Care Award">Florida Quest for Quality Maternity Care Award</a>
and has earned Three Stars. With this process, the hospital has
focused heavily on improving birth processes and enabling “skin to skin”
contact after every birth, including cesarean births. They call their
new cesarean birth process the “Gentle Cesarean.”<br />
“Skin to skin” refers to the practice of placing the baby and mother
together, skin to skin (with the baby naked, not wrapped in a blanket)
immediately after birth, as well as afterwards. The practice of skin to
skin contact for newborns and their mothers has been studied extensively
and documented to have many benefits. According to the <a href="http://www.nbci.ca/index.php?option=com_content&id=82:the-importance-of-skin-to-skin-contact-&Itemid=17" target="_blank" title="Benefits of Skin to Skin contact for newborns">International Breastfeeding Centre</a>, these benefits include:<br />
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<li>The baby is happier</li>
<li>Baby’s temperature is more stable and more normal</li>
<li>Baby’s breathing rates are more stable and more normal</li>
<li>If placed skin to skin immediately after birth, it allows the baby
to be colonized by the same bacteria as the mother improving the baby’s
immune system.</li>
<li>It also increases breastfeeding success, another extremely important practice for the baby’s health!</li>
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<a href="http://ffabc.org/" target="_blank" title="The Foundation For A Breastfeeding Culture">The Foundation For A Breastfeeding Culture</a> (a
TOUCH Partner) has been working closely with this hospital through the
Florida Quest For Quality Maternity Care. The Foundation For
Breastfeeding Culture has worked directly with the staff to help support
them to move through the process of Baby Friendly’s Ten Steps to
Successful Breastfeeding.<br />
Congratulations to this beautiful family for their three healthy
babies! We’re also very excited to see hospitals and medical staff that
are so committed to providing the best care for newborns, mothers and
families.<br />
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Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-32938627810589430932014-02-01T05:00:00.000-08:002014-02-01T05:00:23.022-08:00The Human Microbiome: Understanding "good" & "bad" bacteria<h2 class="entry-title">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> One of the most cohe<span style="font-size: small;">rant and well define<span style="font-size: small;">d and articulate articles that I've <span style="font-size: small;">read in a long long time. Every single point that is made here is vitally important<span style="font-size: small;">,</span> not only during pregnancy and birth<span style="font-size: small;"> of your <span style="font-size: small;">chi<span style="font-size: small;">ld, but through out li<span style="font-size: small;">fe in general. <br /><br /><br />Understanding good and bad bacteria, <span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">"anti" bacterials, "anti" biotics, and <span style="font-size: small;">the </span>where when and how that they interact WI<span style="font-size: small;">TH your body- both inside AND out- is<span style="font-size: small;"> a</span> <span style="font-size: small;">fundamental basis of taking charge of your hea<span style="font-size: small;">lth.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="http://midwifethinking.com/2014/01/15/the-human-microbiome-considerations-for-pregnancy-birth-and-early-mothering/" rel="bookmark" title="9:50 am"><span class="entry-date">January 15, 2014</span></a> <span class="by-author"><span class="sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://midwifethinking.com/author/midwifethinking/" rel="author" title="View all posts by midwifethinking">midwifethinking</a></span> </span> </div>
<em>This post was co-authored by Jessie Johnson-Cash and based on her presentation at the USC Midwifery Education Day.</em><br />
The human microbiome is rather fashionable in the world of science at the moment. The <a href="http://www.hmpdacc.org/" target="_blank">NIH Human Microbiome Project</a> has
been set up to explore correlations between the microbiome and human
health and disease. To date the human microbiome as been associated
with, amongst other things obesity, cancer, mental health disorders,
asthma, and autism. In this post I am not going to provide a
comprehensive literature review – this has already been done, and the
key reviews underpinning this discussion are: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23332725" target="_blank">Matamoros et al. (2012)</a> ‘development of intestinal microbiota in infants and its impact on health’and <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3463493/" target="_blank">Collado et al. (2012)</a>
‘microbial ecology and host-microbiota interactions during early life
stages’. Instead I am going to focus on what this means for pregnancy,
birth, mothering and midwifery.<br />
<strong>What is the human microbiome?</strong><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>Considerations for mothers and midwives</strong></span><br />
The following are not research based recommendations – the research
is yet to be done. They are more considerations/questions arising from
the developing knowledge around the human microbiome. There are quite a
few health practitioners writing about gut health currently – one of my
favourites is <a href="http://chriskresser.com/about" target="_blank">Chris Kresser</a> because he includes references if you want to read the source of his information.<br />
<em>Pre-conception and Pregnancy</em><br />
The commonly accepted belief that the the baby inside the uterus is
sterile (whilst membranes are intact) is now being challenged. It seems
that maternal gut microbiota may be able to translocate to the
baby/placenta via the blood stream (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0923250808000028" target="_blank">Jiménez et al. 2008</a>; <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23332725" target="_blank">Metamoros et al. 2013</a>; <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.usc.edu.au:2048/pubmed/24390916" target="_blank">Prince et al. 2014</a>; <a href="http://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/339182" target="_blank">Rautava et al. 2013</a>; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/science/human-microbiome-may-be-seeded-before-birth.html?_r=2&" target="_blank">Zimmer 2013</a>). Women’s gut microbiota change during pregnancy and this impacts on metabolism (<a href="http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S009286741200829X" target="_blank">Koren et al. 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.usc.edu.au:2048/pubmed/24390916" target="_blank">Prince et al. 2014</a>).
So ideally women need to head into pregnancy with a healthy microbiome
and then maintain it. Unfortunately our modern lifestyle is not very
microbiome friendly, and many of us have dysbiosis (an imbalance in gut
bacteria). Dysbiosis and too much of the ‘wrong’ bacteria has been
linked to premature rupture of membranes and premature birth (<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0083338" target="_blank">Fortner et al. 2014</a>; <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.usc.edu.au:2048/pubmed/24390921" target="_blank">Mysorekar & Cao 2014</a>; <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.usc.edu.au:2048/pubmed/24390916" target="_blank">Prince et al. 2014</a>).<br />
Suggestions:<br />
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<li>You are what you eat… and you are the microbiota that you feed. Eat foods that nurture your microbiome: <a href="http://chriskresser.com/9-steps-to-perfect-health-1-dont-eat-toxins" target="_blank">don’t eat toxins</a>; eat fermentable fibres – starchy vegetables such as sweet potatos – they are microbiota food; eat <a href="http://www.wellandgoodnyc.com/2013/08/09/7-fermented-foods-you-should-be-eating/#7-fermented-foods-you-should-be-eating-1" target="_blank">fermented foods</a> – kefir, sauerkraut etc. – they provide probiotics. Dietary probiotic foods may also assist with balancing vaginal microbiota (<a href="http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/14767058.2011.614654" target="_blank">Hantoushzadeh et al. 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/339182" target="_blank">Rautava et al. 2013</a>).</li>
<li>If your gut is damaged <a href="http://chriskresser.com/9-steps-to-perfect-health-5-heal-your-gut" target="_blank">heal it</a> and restore the balance of microbiota. This may involve taking probiotics.</li>
<li>Minimise stress. Stress messes with your gut microbiota – <a href="http://chriskresser.com/how-stress-wreaks-havoc-on-your-gut" target="_blank">Chris Kresser explains how</a> - and mother’s may <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131111140421.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed" target="_blank">pass on the effects of stress to their baby via bacteria</a> (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21040780" target="_blank">Bailey et al. 2011</a>). Perhaps antenatal care should involve reassuring words and a relaxing massage rather than constant <a href="http://midwifethinking.com/2010/11/14/testing-testing/" target="_blank" title="Testing, Testing…">clinical testing</a> and discussions about risk?</li>
<li>Avoid <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/16/fda-antibacterial-soap/4038907/" target="_blank">antimicrobial skin products</a> (eg. handwashes), and house cleaning products – you can watch a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APZkHebGdAI" target="_blank">youtube</a> explaining the FDAs concerns about such products.</li>
<li>Avoid unnecessary pharmaceutical drugs (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043661812001661" target="_blank">Bengmark 2012</a>) especially antibiotics (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22463795" target="_blank">Cotter et al. 2012</a>). See Chris Kresser for more details re. <a href="http://chriskresser.com/the-high-price-of-antibiotic-use-can-our-guts-ever-fully-recover">antibiotics</a> and <a href="http://chriskresser.com/what-to-do-if-you-need-to-take-antibiotics?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thehealthyskeptic+%28Chris+Kresser%29" target="_blank">what to do if you need to take them</a>.</li>
<li>Stop smoking (<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0059260" target="_blank">Biedermann et al. 2013</a>).</li>
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<em><br /></em>Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-90407869390805735712014-02-01T03:22:00.000-08:002014-02-01T03:22:05.342-08:00The Dangers of Heavy Metals and AluminumThe following are two important articles about Heavy metals and Aluminum and their effects on health and brain function. Important points and vital information in the vaccine debate and for looking at your over-all health in our daily lives.<br /><br />Many people have no idea of just how much contact we have daily with heavy metals and aluminum. The effects on our health and well being have a huge impact on our lives. <br /><br /><br /><br />
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Mike Adams explains why heavy metals are so dangerous to human health: lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury </h1>
Take the time to <strong>watch it, share it</strong> and bookmark for
future reference. You already know there are a lot of things wrong on
this planet and you know health issues are a big part of the problem...
Mike connects the dots here.<br />
The video covers the toxicity of:<br />
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<li><a href="http://labs.naturalnews.com/Heavy-Metals-Aluminum.html">Aluminum</a> -
toxic to brain. Although naturally present at lower levels in most
foods, in high concentration or in non-food form, Aluminum is linked to
Alzheimer's and dementia.</li>
<li><a href="http://labs.naturalnews.com/Heavy-Metals-Arsenic.html">Arsenic</a> - causes DNA damage and cancer. Considered extremely toxic by the EPA, Arsenic is linked to cancer when found in well water.</li>
<li><a href="http://labs.naturalnews.com/Heavy-Metals-Cadmium.html">Cadmium</a> - kidney damage, hardening of the arteries. A highly toxic heavy metal that causes severe kidney damage and skin disorders.</li>
<li><a href="http://labs.naturalnews.com/Heavy-Metals-Copper.html">Copper</a> -
can make you crazy. Exposure to this heavy metal is cumulative, and it
accumulates in brain tissue, causing schizophrenia and mental insanity.</li>
<li><a href="http://labs.naturalnews.com/Heavy-Metals-Lead.html">Lead</a>
- Known to cause lowered IQs and other cognitive disorders, lead has
become a common pollutant in many foods, including organic foods and
superfoods. Lead is extremely difficult to remove from the body's
tissues once absorbed, and the number of edible substances that can
protect against lead is quite small. Removal of lead from the diet will
frequently result in a heightened increase in IQ, memory and improved
moods.</li>
<li><a href="http://labs.naturalnews.com/Heavy-Metals-Mercury.html">Mercury</a>
- A potent neurotoxin, mercury has the highest toxicity of any heavy
metal on a gram-per-gram basis. Mercury is known to cause permanent
neurological damage, kidney damage, infertility and birth defects. It
doesn't stay in blood for long, preferring to make its way into organs
and tissues where it adheres to cell membranes and interferes with
healthy cellular function.</li>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">You'll learn many astonishing facts
about where toxic heavy metals come from, which organs they tend to
target, and even how heavy metals can cause personality changes in
humans.</span><br />
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It's true: Copper toxicity can lead to mental instability and
insanity, while cadmium toxicity can lead to an aggressive, "bullying"
personality with frequent outbursts of anger.<br />
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"To help readers avoid heavy metals in their foods, we've begun posting food research results at <a href="http://labs.naturalnews.com/">Labs.NaturalNews.com</a>,
where hundreds of different foods, superfoods and nutritional products
are in the process of being posted with their heavy metals composition
analysis." (More results are being posted each week...)<br />
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Using this information, consumers can greatly reduce their intake of
toxic heavy metals, thereby protecting their bodies from cumulative
heavy metals toxicity.<br />
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<a href="http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/01/30/mike-adams-explains-why-heavy-metals-are-so-dangerous-to-human-health-lead-cadmium-arsenic-and-mercury/" target="_blank">Continue reading HERE and to watch the video</a></h3>
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Aluminum induces neurotoxicity by altering mitochondria of brain cells</h1>
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Aluminum's role in causing neurotoxicity and contributing to a number
of degenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, has been
widely discussed and is supported by a number of studies, though the
exact mechanism remains inconclusive.<br />
Now, scientists have reached a better understanding of its role in
killing brain cells by studying the effects of aluminum on mitochondria
inside neurons, which are responsible for several critical maintenance
roles, including the production of ATP by metabolizing oxygen, as well
as regulating the inner cell membrane during neurotransmission.<br />
The life and death of the neuron is largely in the hands of
mitochondria, and mitochondrial dysfunction is now thought to be hugely
responsible for dead brain cells and neurotoxicity - through both
necrosis and apoptosis. Dysfunction in neuronal mitochondria compromises
cell integrity - in part through the creation of free radicals - and
contributes directly to aging and the rise of degenerative diseases and
metabolic issues.<br />
Chinese researchers affiliated with the Institute of Occupational
Medicine at Tongji Medical College investigated how aluminum induces
alterations in the mitochondrial structure, disrupting its important
functions and leading to neurotoxicity.<br />
Their study examined the neural cells of rats that were exposed to
aluminum, probing the ultrastructure of the mitochondria under an
electron microscope. Their results suggested that aluminum may impair
the mitochondria's membranes and cristae (folds in the inner membrane) -
both vital to aerobic cellular respiration, where mitochondria use
oxygen to generate the vast quantities of ATP needed for neuronal
function and neurotransmission. It also suppresses enzyme activity in
mitochondria.<br />
A 2008 study was conducted by the Postgraduate Institute of Medical
Education and Research in India to research the effects of chronic
lower-dose exposure to aluminum administered intragastrically - in the
rats' stomachs - over the course of 12 weeks. DNA damage via oxidation
was observed, as well as disruptions to the cell cycle of neurons,
inviting cell death due to improper mitochondria action.<br />
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Aluminum in hygiene products, food and vaccines causes neurological damage</h2>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>All this has huge repercussions for
exposure to aluminum in humans, as both its deliberate use and presence
as a contaminant is pervasive and widespread in modern society.</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/01/31/aluminum-induces-neurotoxicity-by-altering-mitochondria-of-brain-cells/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Continue reading HERE</span></span></span></a></h3>
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<br /><br /><br />Danielle Arnold-McKennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00606657569365450105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993435756782130798.post-47347940580834889272014-01-28T12:17:00.001-08:002014-01-28T12:17:51.748-08:00Is Medicine Killing You?Well worth the 18 minute coffee or tea break to watch this video!<br />
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Lissa Rankin, MD is a physician and New York Times bestselling author of
"Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself", and
the founder of Dr. Lissa Rankin's Whole Health Medicine Institute
training program for physicians and other health care providers. She was
featured on the public television special Heal Yourself: Mind Over
Medicine, and will soon appear in a documentary film about her work.
Dr. Rankin is on a grassroots mission to heal healthcare by repairing
the doctor-patient relationship, while empowering both patients and
health care providers to marry the best of Western medicine with
mind-body approaches scientifically proven to activate the body's
natural self-repair mechanisms. </blockquote>
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