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UK: Flu Jab Gave 6 Year Old Narcolepsy - He Slept for 19 Hours a Day

Claire Bates
Mail Online
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:59 UTC
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Josh, 6, at home during a narcolepsy attack with his mother Caroline. His school now has an area where he can nap
Our son 'was like he was a puppet whose strings had been cut'

GlaxoSmithKline deny a 'causal link' between narcolepsy and Pandemrix

The parents of a schoolboy who was struck down with narcolepsy after receiving a flu vaccine, said the Government should have carried out more tests before issuing the drug.

Josh Hadfield, 6, lost muscle control and started sleeping for up to 19 hours every day just three weeks after getting the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix.

He would fall asleep up to every five minutes - even when he was walking, eating and swimming - and suffer sudden bouts of cataplexy (loss of muscle tone) when he laughed.

Now nearly two years later his mother Caroline, 41, said he was still suffering from the after effects of the controversial jab.

Comment: As the side effects of vaccines increase, it's becoming harder to hide the fact that vaccines are causing the diseases they are professed to prevent, and are actually creating additional diseases.

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Florida, US: Woman Gets Kidney After Posting Craigslist Ad


NBC News
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:30 UTC
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Miami - A woman is recovering in a Miami hospital after receiving a new kidney after posting a plea for help on Craigslist.

Selina Hodge posted a plea online in July asking for someone to donate a kidney. The 28-year-old then turned to Craigslist.

She told WPTV she "didn't know where else to turn."

Hodge received more than 800 responses from all over the world from her Craigslist ad. One came from 23-year-old Stephanie Grant, who lived just a few miles away from Hodge in Palm Beach Gardens.

The two drove together to the University of Miami Medical Center Campus several times to complete the evaluations. After months of waiting, the women underwent transplant surgery Tuesday.

The women's families tell the TV station that both patients are doing fine after surgery.
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Attention

Are You Eating, Drinking & Breathing Monsanto's New Agent Orange?

Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:37 UTC
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New Study: Monsanto's Herbicide May Be Poisoning The World's Drinking Water

In a groundbreaking study published in the Annals of Bioanalytical Chemistry last month, researchers found that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide "Roundup," is flowing freely into the groundwater in areas where it is being applied. The researchers found that 41% of the 140 groundwater samples taken from Catalonia Spain, had levels beyond the limit of quantification - indicating that, despite manufacturer's claims, it does not break down rapidly in the environment, and is accumulating there in concerning quantities.

Why Is Groundwater Contamination An Important Finding?

Groundwater is water located beneath the ground surface, that supplies aquifers, wells and springs. If a chemical like glyphosate is mobile enough to get into the groundwater and is intrinsically resistant to being biodegraded (after all, it is being used to kill/degrade living things - not the other way around), significant environmental exposures to humans using the water are inevitable.

Keep in mind that glyphosate is considered by the EPA as a Class III toxic substance, fatal to an adult at 30 grams, and has been linked to over 20 adverse health effects in the peer-reviewed, biomedical literature.

This groundwater contamination study adds to another highly concerning finding from March, published in the journal of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, where researchers found the chemical in 60-100% of all air and rain samples tested, indicating that glyphosate pollution and exposure is now omnipresent in the US. When simply breathing makes you susceptible to glyphosate exposure, we know we are dealing with a problem of unprecedented scale.
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Designer Drugs Fry Brain Like Ecstasy

Jennifer Welsh
Live Science
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:35 UTC
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Some "designer drugs" may be in a legal gray area, but their actions on the brain are similar to those of illegal drugs and could be just as dangerous, new research suggests.

"It's important to know what the drugs are doing in the brain so we can learn about long-term adverse effects, but it can also help to develop strategies for remediation of symptoms of overdose," study researcher Michael Baumann, of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told LiveScience. "It's important that each of these designer drugs is examined carefully, because each one of them has unique pharmacology," and therefore unique effects.

The researchers studied two popular designer drugs, mephedrone and methylone, analogs of cathinone, a drug found in the plant Catha edulis. The drugs entered the drug scene in the 2000s with innocuous names like "bath salts" or "plant food." These drugs originally fell into a legal gray area because they weren't specifically regulated on a federal level, but in October 2011 they were temporarily classified as illegal, schedule one drugs.
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New Underhanded Tactics from Pharma: Is It Greed, or an Act of Desperation?


Alliance for Natural Health
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:35 UTC
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It wasn't enough that they raised the price of this critical drug from $10 to $1,500 per dose. Now they are going after pharmacists and hitting pregnant low-income women the hardest.

KV Pharmaceutical Company is trying a new approach to corner the market for their drug Makena, which helps prevent premature births. They are "raising concerns" about the quality of 17P (17-Hydroxyprogesterone), a hormone that forms the active ingredient in the drug that has been used for many years by compounding pharmacies to make a low-cost version of the pregnancy medicine. The FDA has now agreed to investigate.

You may recall from our earlier article that KV took a compounded drug costing $10 per dose, patented 17P, got it approved by the FDA under the Orphan Drug Act, and immediately raised the price to $1,500/dose (or as much as $30,000 over the course of a pregnancy). When the media picked up this story, KV Pharmaceutical eventually lowered its price from $1,500 to $690 per dose - but that's still an absurd price when the compounded version only costs $10.
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Stillbirth Mysteries Revealed in New Studies

Rachael Rettner
MyHealthNewsDaily
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:55 UTC
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Half of all stillbirths result from pregnancy complications, such as a woman going into labor too soon, or abnormalities of the placenta, a new analysis of the causes of stillbirths finds.

On the other hand, a woman's characteristics at the start of her pregnancy, such as her weight, blood sugar levels and smoking habits, did not account for much of her stillbirth risk.

The extent of the risk also differed by ethnic group, the researchers said.

"Stillbirth is more common than people realize, affecting one out of every 160 pregnancies in the United States," said study researcher Dr. Robert Silver, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Still more work is needed to understand why stillbirths happen, the researchers said. More autopsies as well as additional studies of early pregnancy may help pin down its causes, the researchers said.
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The Hidden Epidemic Destroying Your Gut Flora

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:05 UTC

Dr. Don Huber is an expert in an area of science that relates to the toxicity of genetically engineered (GE) foods.

(Alternative terms for GE foods include genetically modified (GM), or "GMO" for genetically modified organism.)

His specific areas of training include soil-borne diseases, microbial ecology, and host-parasite relationships.

Dr. Huber also taught plant pathology, soil microbiology, and micro-ecological interactions as they relate to plant disease as a staff Professor at Purdue University for 35 years.
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Beaker

Transgenic Cotton Offers No Advantage

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders
Institute of Science in Society
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:08 UTC
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The use of transgenic cotton does not provide increased returns to the farmer. This is the conclusion of a 4-year study reported in Agronomy Journal by researchers at the University of Georgia and the US Department of Agriculture1.

It is a pity that the researchers have not included organically managed cotton in their study, because it is clearly a much better option. Persistent and massive crop failures of transgenic cotton have contributed substantially to the worsening epidemic of suicides among farmers in India, where a timely return to organic cotton growing is saving lives, and turning despair into hope2-4 (Organic Cotton Beats Bt Cotton in India, SiS 27; Message from Andra Predesh:Return to organic cotton & avoid the Bt cotton trap, SiS 29; Stem Farmers' Suicides with Organic Farming, SiS 32).
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Flashback GM food banned in Monsanto canteen


Independent.co.uk
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:22 UTC
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Monsanto, the biggest promoter of genetically modified food, was hoist with its own petar when it was disclosed that it has a staff canteen in which GM produce is banned.

The firm running the canteen at Monsanto's pharmaceuticals factory at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, serves only GM-free meals, Friends of the Earth said. In a notice in the canteen, Sutcliffe Catering, owned by the Granada Group, said it had taken the decision "to remove, as far as practicable, GM soya and maize from all food products served in our restaurant. We have taken the above steps to ensure that you, the customer, can feel confident in the food we serve."
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Under The Foreign Knife

Isaac Davison
New Zealand Herald
Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:55 UTC
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Expensive dental and cosmetic surgery here is creating a burgeoning industry overseas. Isaac Davison finds while a nip and tuck is cheaper offshore, experts say it might also be riskier.

Consumer champion Kevin Milne thinks New Zealanders should plead poverty if they cannot afford their exorbitant dental bills.

The tongue-in-cheek advice from the former Fair Go host was offered as a last-ditch option for a mother struggling to pay a $5000 bill.

But it highlighted a problem that is sending New Zealanders halfway across the world for dental care instead of down to the local clinic.
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