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Latest Articles: Health
Court says thimerosal did not cause autism
Post Date: 2010-03-12 21:36:03 by Dakmar
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WASHINGTON — The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection. While expressing sympathy for the parents involved in the emotionally charged cases, the court concluded they had failed to show a connection between the mercury-containing preservative and autism. "Such families must cope every day with tremendous challenges in caring for their autistic children, and all are deserving of sympathy and admiration," special master George Hastings Jr. wrote. But, he added, Congress designed the victim compensation program only for families whose injuries or deaths ...
French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment
Post Date: 2010-03-12 00:21:57 by Lysander_Spooner
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French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment. Henry Samuel in Paris Published: 7:00AM GMT 11 Mar 2010 An American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted. For decades it ...
U.S. herpes rates remain high - CDC. Black women at 48%
Post Date: 2010-03-11 10:35:13 by PSUSA
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By JoAnne Allen WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday. Black women had the highest rate of infection at 48 percent and women were nearly twice likely as men to be infected, according to an analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 21 percent of women were infected with genital herpes, compared to only 11.5 percent of men, while 39 percent of blacks were infected compared to about 12 percent for whites, the CDC said. There is no cure for genital herpes, or herpes simplex ...
'Drowning in Alzheimer's': Minorities struggle with dementia
Post Date: 2010-03-09 09:58:18 by Ferret
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Francisca Terrazas of El Paso, Texas, has Alzheimer's disease and is the subject of her daughter's blog. (CNN) -- Francisca Terrazas could not be left alone. She burned her foot pouring boiling water over an ant hill in her driveway. She would wander for hours searching for aluminum cans. The effects of Alzheimer's disease had taken hold. Minorities such as Terrazas are at greater risk for the degenerative disease, according to an Alzheimer's Association report released Tuesday. It found that African-Americans are about two times more likely and Hispanics are about 1.5 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. The reasons why minorities ...
"Caulk" Butt Enhancements Hospitalize 6
Post Date: 2010-03-09 09:02:34 by PSUSA
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(CBS/AP) Six women in New Jersey are recovering after they received buttocks-enhancement injections containing silicone used to caulk bathtubs. State health officials say the women, from Essex County, apparently underwent cosmetic procedures from unlicensed providers. Investigators have not determined if the cases are related. No arrests have been made. Instead of medical-grade silicone, the women received a diluted version of nonmedical-grade silicone. "The same stuff you use to put caulk around the bathtub," said Steven M. Marcus, executive and medical director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System, according to The Star-Ledger. State epidemiologist ...
Sex not specified: Australia leads the way with legal document
Post Date: 2010-03-08 17:12:54 by Jethro Tull
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EXCLUSIVE: 8 March 2010: The NSW government in Australia has issued what is believed to be the world’s first ‘Sex Not Specified’ Recognised Details Certificate in place of a birth certificate, writes Katrina Fox. Norrie, a member of Sex and Gender Education (SAGE), a lobby group campaigning for the rights of all sex and gender diverse people has been issued with what is understood to be the world’s first ‘Sex Not Specified’ Recognised Details Certificate in place of a birth certificate. This means that Norrie (also known as norrie mAy-Welby) – a resident of Sydney, NSW – is legally recognised as neither male nor female according to the Australian ...
Obama Wields Goldman Sachs Study of Insurers in Health Fight
Post Date: 2010-03-08 16:25:13 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Obama Wields Analysis of Insurers in Health Battle By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN Published: March 6, 2010 WASHINGTON — To bolster the case for a far-reaching overhaul of the health care system, the Obama administration is seizing on a new analysis by Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank, recommending that investors buy shares in two big insurance companies, the UnitedHealth Group and Cigna, because insurance rates are up sharply and competition is down. White House officials on Saturday said that the Goldman Sachs analysis would be a “centerpiece” of their closing argument in the push for major health care legislation. The president and Democratic Congressional leaders ...
Vitamin D 'triggers and arms' the immune system
Post Date: 2010-03-08 15:40:46 by Horse
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The so-called sunshine vitamin, which can be obtained from food or manufactured by human skin exposed to the sun, plays a key role in boosting the immune system, researchers believe. In particular it triggers and arms the body's T cells, the cells in the body that seek out and destroy any invading bacteria and viruses. Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defences and that without sufficient intake of the vitamin, the killer cells of the immune system – T cells – will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the body. For T cells to detect and kill foreign pathogens such as clumps ...
Gene linked to hair loss brings cure for baldness nearer
Post Date: 2010-03-08 13:30:30 by christine
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A cure for baldness has come a step closer after scientists identified a gene that is connected to hair loss. The breakthrough should help scientists develop new treatments as well as help pinpoint early in life which men are likely to lose their hair. The Sox21 gene has in the past been shown to be linked to the formation of nerve cells, but the new study is the first to indicate its function in ensuring hair retention. Researchers made the finding during experiments on mice which, like humans, carry the gene. The scientists blocked the activity of the gene in mice and found that the rodents started losing hair on their heads about 15 days after birth and became completely naked a ...
Cardiovascular Conditions / The Danger of Hydrogenated or Partially Hydrogenated Fats
Post Date: 2010-03-07 02:33:49 by Horse
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This article is from the North Carolina Chiropractic Journal and was written by Walter H. Schmitt, Jr, D.I.B.A.K, D.A.B.C.N. With all the confusion about fats, this helps set the record straight. If you are eating HYDROGENATED OR PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED FATS OR OIL you are asking for trouble! If the label contains the words hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated, do not let your family eat it. If the label contains the words hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated, do not let your friends eat it. If the label contains the words hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated, get it out of your family's kitchen. Read labels and avoid these substances like they are poisons ... which they are. ...
Miracle Mineral Protects Your Brain
Post Date: 2010-03-06 22:15:01 by christine
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Numerous studies have found that a common mineral heals the brain by stimulating the growth of new brain cells and protecting brain cells from every known neurotoxin. It has been shown to reduce the incidence of violent crime, homicide, suicide, and drug addiction, while preventing the brain shrinkage and memory loss that otherwise occurs naturally with age, as well as helping people with alcoholism, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, cluster headaches and traumatic brain injury. Although occurring naturally in tomatoes article published in the journal Addiction showed that kids with a family history of alcoholism are more likely to crave sweets, suffer ...
Pentagon shooter was SJSU engineering student, troubled with drug problem
Post Date: 2010-03-05 14:26:31 by Lysander_Spooner
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Pentagon shooter was SJSU engineering student, troubled with drug problem By Lisa Fernandez lfernandez@mercurynews.com Posted: 03/05/2010 08:16:48 AM PST Updated: 03/05/2010 10:57:57 AM PST Click photo to enlarge This undated handout provided by the FBI shows John Patrick Bedell. Bedell who was killed... (FBI)«1234»The 36-year-old gunman who shot two Pentagon police officers before he was fatally wounded was one of the best circuit design students at San Jose State University, but also a troubled man with a serious drug problem, the Mercury News has learned. John Patrick Bedell's family filed a missing person's report on him with the San Benito County Sheriff's ...
Fallujah birth defects blamed on US weapons
Post Date: 2010-03-05 06:45:28 by Ada
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Fallujah birth defects blamed on US weaponsIraqi doctors reportedly warn women not to have children; Doctors pressured not to 'embarrass the United States': claim Birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah have soared in recent years, with doctors saying advanced US weaponry such as white phosphorous and depleted uranium shells may have caused a "massive, unprecedented number" of congenital health problems. A BBC investigative report has found that the incidence of birth defects in Fallujah has reached a rate 13 times higher than that found in Europe. One doctor at a US-built hospital in the city says the number of birth defects has spiked from one or two per month ...
FDA after another alternative healer
Post Date: 2010-03-05 05:57:53 by Tatarewicz
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Editor Mike Adams of Natural News is mobilizing support for alternative healer Greg Caton whom the FDA is trying to jail again for selling a herbal salve to combat skin cancer. Caton is under arrest after being extradited from Ecuador. Support letters from Adams and astronaut Brian O'Leary at LINK. Click for Full Text!
Modern Day Flintstones
Post Date: 2010-03-04 06:29:17 by Ada
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A Stone Age Subculture Takes Shape in the US A modern-day Stone Age subculture is developing in the United States, where wannabe cavemen mimic their distant ancestors. They eat lots of meat, bathe in icy water and run around barefoot. Some researchers say people led healthier lives in pre-historic times. John Durant greets the hunter-gatherers of New York once a month in his apartment on the Upper East Side. They eat homemade beef jerky, huddle around the hearth and swap recipes for carpaccio with vegetables or roasted wild boar. Often enough, the host will deliberately skip a few meals the next day. After all, didn't his earliest ancestors starve a little between hunts? Instead of ...
Gardasil Primer: Doctors & vaccine injured families speak out!
Post Date: 2010-03-03 15:10:46 by Horse
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Censorship and Show Trials on Vaccines and AIDS
Post Date: 2010-03-03 13:49:40 by HighLairEon
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Censorship and Show Trials on Vaccines and AIDS by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD Two tenets of today’s health care are that a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS and vaccines are effective and safe. Investigators who have the temerity to question this official dogma see their work blocked from publication, grant requests rejected, and in one signal case can even find themselves being subjected to a Soviet-style show trial. Andrew Wakefield (b. 1957) recently underwent such a trial in the UK held by its General Medical Council (GMC) Fitness to Practice Panel. Along with two other well-respected gastroenterologists, he was subjected to the longest, most expensive trial in that ...
Alternative treatment for PTSD
Post Date: 2010-03-03 01:54:10 by Tatarewicz
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Rat studies show that HDAC inhibitor drugs used in Alzheimers and Huntington patients may help those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which currently affects at least one out of every eight veterans. PTSD is an anxiety disorder that can occur after a person has experienced an intensely stressful event, ranging from physical abuse to natural disasters. Symptoms include guilt, detachment, irritability, difficulty in concentrating and reliving the stressful event repeatedly. Researchers at the University of Texas and UCLA have identified in rats genes responsive to stress and are exploring their relationship to a part of the brain which can no longer normalize new fear and ...
Fast-food burgers, fried chicken, and Chinese food linked to type 2 diabetes in new study
Post Date: 2010-03-02 18:35:34 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Fast-food burgers, fried chicken, and Chinese food linked to type 2 diabetes in new study Frank L. of Sacramento, a business professional in his mid-40's, weighed 350 lbs at 5' 11" in height, and had type 2 diabetes that came on when he was 36. Almost every day he'd take lunch at fast-food restaurants, thinking his steady diet of fast-food type Chinese food was healthy for him. After all, it was mostly vegetarian and seafood he ate. He'd order up a double portion of chow mein, which consisted mostly of fried noodles in a sauce rich in corn starch, fats, and salt with a few pieces of fried onions, cabbage, and celery. Also see the UC Davis article, "Take three ...
Why do Danes have smaller nuts than Finns?
Post Date: 2010-03-02 15:03:52 by Prefrontal Vortex
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The Little Princes of DenmarkWhy do Danes have smaller nuts than Finns—are toxins to blame? By Florence Williams Posted Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010, at 9:41 AM ET It's a source of parental pride when baby Buster needs the size "large" penis ring for his circumcision. Mother and father see their child's life unfold effortlessly: He will be flushed with testosterone, well-hung, and yet (somehow) sensitive to the needs of others—a caring leader of great integrity. But what happens when he comes out with a genital malformation? If you're Danish, you compare the goods to those of your Baltic neighbors. Concerned with a recent increase in male genital birth ...
The Man Who Found a Cure for Cancer - in 1934 [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-03-01 20:07:21 by FormerLurker
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Rense.comRoyal Raymond RifeJeff Rense 10-9-00 Imagine, for a moment, that you have spent more than two decades in painfully laborious research-- that you have discovered an incredibly simple, electronic approach to curing literally every disease on the planet caused by viruses and bacteria . Indeed, it is a discovery that would end the pain and suffering of countless millions and change life on Earth forever. Certainly, the medical world would rush to embrace you with every imaginable accolade and financial reward imaginable. You would think so, wouldnt you? Unfortunately, arguably the greatest medical genius in all recorded history suffered a fate literally the opposite ...
BPA May Raise Risk of Asthma in Kids
Post Date: 2010-03-01 07:41:06 by Critter
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Mouse study shows exposure during pregnancy might increase chances of condition By Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter SUNDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Mouse pups whose mothers were exposed to a common but controversial chemical developed allergic asthma, new research has found. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical commonly found in polycarbonate plastic bottles and the aluminum lining of food and beverage cans. Production of the chemical started about 40 years ago, a timing that scientists note coincides with increasing asthma rates. Various U.S. health agencies recently pledged $30 million toward short- and long-term research aimed at clarifying the health effects of BPA. It has caused ...
Marie Osmond's Son Commits Suicide
Post Date: 2010-02-28 07:46:27 by noone222
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Marie Osmond's teenaged son, Michael Blosil, has killed himself by leaping to his death around 9 p.m. Friday in Los Angeles, reports Entertainment Tonight, which quotes Marie's brother, Donny Osmond, as saying, "Please pray for my sister and her family." Through her rep, Marie Osmond released a statement Saturday. It says, “My family and I are devastated and in deep shock by the tragic loss of our dear Michael and ask that everyone respect our privacy during this difficult time.” According to ET, Michael left a note explaining he intended to end his life after a lengthy battle with severe depression that left him, he said, feeling as if he had no friends and ...
Unnecessary surgery exposed! Why 60% of all surgeries are medically unjustified and how surgeons exploit patients to generate profits
Post Date: 2010-02-28 00:58:09 by Horse
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Every year millions of Americans go under the knife, but many of them are enduring great pain and shelling out thousands of dollars for surgeries they don't really need. In fact, the only people who seem to really benefit from these unnecessary medical procedures are the medical professionals who stand to make exorbitant amounts of money from performing them. An estimated 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed each year, writes Gary Null, PhD., in Death by Medicine. Rather than reverse the problems they purport to fix, these unwarranted procedures can often lead to greater health problems and even death. A 1995 report by Milliman & Robertson, Inc. ...
Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-02-27 13:22:37 by Ferret Mike
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The notion that liberals are smarter than conservatives is familiar to anyone who has spent time on a college campus. The College Democrats are said to be ugly, smug and intellectual; the College Republicans, pretty, belligerent and dumb. There's enough truth in both stereotypes that the vast majority of college students opt not to join either club. But are liberals actually smarter? A libertarian (and, as such, nonpartisan) researcher, Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Political Science, has just written a paper that is set to be published in March by the journal Social Psychology Quarterly. The paper investigates not only whether conservatives are dumber than ...
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