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Title: Diet Supplement Causes Nearly 100 Hepatitis Cases
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/diet-suppleme ... hepatitis-cases-215935222.html
Published: Apr 3, 2014
Author: Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer
Post Date: 2014-04-03 03:56:58 by Tatarewicz
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Views: 91
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Diet Supplement Causes Nearly 100 Hepatitis Cases LiveScience.com By By Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer 9 hours ago A popular diet supplement has caused an outbreak of severe liver disease, sickening nearly 100 people in 16 states since it was first reported in Hawaii last year, according to a new paper. The publication calls for a better system to remove dangerous supplements from the market. As of February, OxyElite Pro, a dietary supplement manufactured by USPLabs that claims to help people burn fat, has been linked to 97 cases of hepatitis, including 47 people who were hospitalized, three who needed liver transplantations and one person who died, according to the paper, which was authored by Dr. Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a general internist at Cambridge Health Alliance. Poster Comment: [DEFAULT_USERNAME] Commenter 1 4 The victims of these supplements can thank Utah Sen. Orin Hatch for his decades long fight against regulating the supplements industry. Mr. Hatch, who credits a daily regimen of nutritional supplements for his vigor at 77, has spent his career in Washington helping the $25-billion-a-year industry thrive. He was the chief author of a federal law enacted 17 years ago that allows companies to make general health claims about their products, but exempts them from federal reviews of their safety or effectiveness before they go to market. During the Obama administration, Mr. Hatch has repeatedly intervened with his colleagues in Congress and federal regulators in Washington to fight proposed rules that industry officials consider objectionable. Mr. Hatch has been rewarded with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions, political loyalty and corporate sponsorship of his favorite causes back home. His family and friends have benefited, too, from links to the supplement industry. His son Scott Hatch, is a longtime industry lobbyist in Washington, as are at least five of the senator’s former aides. Mr. Hatch’s grandson and son-in-law increase revenue at their chiropractic clinic near here by selling herbal and nutritional treatments, including $35 “thyroid dysfunction” injections and a weight-loss product, “Slim and Sassy Metabolic Blend.” And Mr. Hatch’s former law partner owns Pharmics, a small nutritional supplement company in Salt Lake City. [Judy] 1 2 Prescription medications are at least as dangerous as supplements. Just listen to any commercial about a drug, they are very careful to give a long list of side effects. But the FDA still allows them to be on the market. 40 years later I am still suffering from a side effect of a prescription drug I was given. I am doing much better with supplements, herbal and homeopathic remedies. GMP-Good Manufacturing Practices are the guidelines for safe and efficatious supplements. But submitting products for evaluation is voluntary. Look for GMP on all your supplements. Ingredients have been well tested, safely manufactured. But Remember NOTHING is safe for EVERYBODY. Use common sense, begin a new regimen slowly--say half a dose to start, and know yourself. Check with you physician-though they often don't know. You can find all kinds of safety information on line. Educate yourself, but be prepared to take responsibility for y 1 2 First off the word 'suspect' is used for this, not proof, this is old news too, the citrus fruit this ingredient comes from has been in use for thousands of years, so I would be looking at what may have contaminated the batches of that/those products a lot closer. Don't touch my supplements. People, if your going to try to improve your health status for any reason, please have the brains to thoroughly check out what your putting in your face or on your body. [Kate] 2 8 Why is Tylenol still on the shelves and Aspirin as well. OTC drugs, prescription drugs cause thousands of problems and deaths every year, but they are still sold. Warnings only come after a number of deaths. There are far more dangerous OTC drugs that are still being sold than dangerous herbs. Most herbs are safe. The main ones that cause trouble are the weight loss herbs which are usually not taken as directed. The weight loss herbs and weight loss prescriptions are both taken in greater dosages than on the label. They also combine them with huge amounts of caffeine as well. Combine them and you do have problems. If the herb company put drugs in their product, put the company owners in jail. Give them fines.There are laws already to deal with that. Most herb companies are on the up and up with their products. From Dr. Mercola's article: Acetaminophen, sold under the brand name Tylenol, among others, may be among the most dangerous medicines on the market. I'm sure this comes as a surprise to most of you, as virtually every single household keeps a bottle on hand for the occasional ache and pain, and doesn't think twice about taking it. Not thinking, it turns out, could cost you dearly... Acetaminophen overdose is actually the leading cause for calls to Poison Control Centers across the US—more than 100,000 instances per year—and, each year, is responsible for:1 More than 56,000 emergency room visits 2,600 hospitalizations An estimated 458 deaths due to acute liver failure Look up Aspirin...and see the deaths and ER visits associated with that OTC drug. There is a huge bias against herbs......the FDA is in bed with the drug companies. Mary 0 6 After reading some comments there seems to be confusion about hepatitis. Hepatitis just means an inflammation of the liver. Hepatitis does not necessarily mean it was caused by a virus. Some hepatitis -such as Hep A, B, C are caused by a virus. It would not make sense this was caused by a virus, the supplement apparently irritated or damaged the liver and caused it become inflamed.
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Hepatitis, death, transplants.......a small price to pay to shed two pounds! It's comforting to know that there is a pill for everything. " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
Damn straight there is! :)
#2. To: abraxas (#1)
It's comforting to know that there is a pill for everything.
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
And -- http:// www.naturalnews.com/044494_superbug_infections_hospitals_modern_plague.html "On any given day, 1 in 25 hospital patients has at least one healthcare- associated infection," reports the CDC newsroom.(1) "The CDC's 2011 survey of 183 hospitals showed that an estimated 648,000 patients nationwide suffered 721,000 infections, and 75,000 of them died," reports the Washington Post.(2) If you do the math, that comes out to 205 deaths per day, on average, in U.S. hospitals. Keep in mind that if terrorists were killing 205 Americans per day, every news network in the country would cover the story 24/7. If airplane crashes were killing 205 Americans per day, it would be headline news everywhere, and if vitamins were killing even just 1 person a day, the entire government would be calling to "ban all vitamins!" But when hospital superbug infections result in the deaths of 205 Americans per day, it is simply another statistic and not treated as a national emergency. Somehow, the annual death of 75,000 Americans is considered "business as usual" in a sick-care system that virtually everyone considers a disastrous failure. A hospital is one of the most dangerous places you can go in America They'll probably use this to ban all supplements.
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