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Toxic chemotherapy drugs are now being prescribed for multiple diseases

Yelena Sukhoterina
AltHealthWorks
Thu, 26 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
chemotherapy
Pop-singer Selena Gomez has recently revealed that she underwent chemotherapy treatment not for cancer but lupus, which immediately opened up more information on current mainstream treatment options - chemotherapy is not only used for cancer anymore. Chemo drugs are now also prescribed for a row of illnesses, especially autoimmune diseases.

"That's what my break was really about," she told Billboard Magazine. "I could've had a stroke." Gomez said she underwent the treatment but did not specify whether she took chemo drugs or actual chemotherapy. According to one top lupus doctor, chemo drugs are now being used for the disease, believe it or not.

"Chemo kills cells that are rapidly dividing. What you are hoping is you hit the right dose of chemo to kill the problem and spare the cells you need to live," told Dr. Joan T. Merrill, medical director of the Lupus Foundation of America, to the Daily News.

Merill said the list of illnesses that chemo can be used for are: lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, polymyositis, vasculitis, Crohn's disease, psoriatic arthritis, and sceleroderma.

Comment: Not only are chemotherapy drugs ineffective in combating cancer, they facilitate its growth. Most chemotherapy patients either die or are plagued with illness within 10-15 years after treatment. It destroys their immune system, increases neuro-cognitive decline, disrupts endocrine functioning and causes organ and metabolic toxicities. Considering these well-known facts, it is not difficult to conclude that the profitability of these drugs is behind the increase in off-label uses.

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Serving its biotech masters: FDA won't require GMO labeling

Julie Fidler
Natural Society
Fri, 27 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
GMO labeling
The federal government has decided that Americans don't need to know what's in their food. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said recently that it would not require labeling of genetically modified plants that have been approved for sale.
"The agency is not aware of any valid scientific information showing that foods derived from genetically engineered plants, as a class of foods, differ from other foods in any meaningful way. GE (genetically engineered) foods don't present greater safety concerns than foods developed by traditional plant breeding," the agency said.

"However, if a food derived from a genetically engineered plant is materially different from its traditional counterpart, the labeling of that food must disclose such differences," the FDA said.
That would mean, for example, that canola oil genetically engineered to contain more lauric acid must be labeled "lauric canola oil." Most Americans would have no idea what that means.

Comment: The continued attempts of the FDA and biotech industry to force their frankenfoods on the population is simply fueling consumer backlash against the industry. Some grocery chains are finally listening to their customers and are rejecting the new GMO salmon.

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A web of influence: Why the United States leaves deadly chemicals on the market

Valerie Brown & Elizabeth Grossman
independentsciencenews.org
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 19:13 UTC
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Scientists are trained to express themselves rationally. They avoid personal attacks when they disagree. But some scientific arguments become so polarized that tempers fray. There may even be shouting.

Such is the current state of affairs between two camps of scientists: health effects researchers and regulatory toxicologists. Both groups study the effects of chemical exposures in humans. Both groups have publicly used terms like "irrelevant," "arbitrary," "unfounded" and "contrary to all accumulated physiological understanding" to describe the other's work. Privately, the language becomes even harsher, with phrases such as "a pseudoscience," "a religion" and "rigged."

The rift centers around the best way to measure the health effects of chemical exposures. The regulatory toxicologists typically rely on computer simulations called "physiologically based pharmacokinetic" (PBPK) modeling. The health effects researchers—endocrinologists, developmental biologists and epidemiologists, among others—draw their conclusions from direct observations of how chemicals actually affect living things.

Comment: What are we doing to ourselves? 84,000 chemicals, and only 1% have been tested
Americans are exposed to a toxic soup of more than 80,000 different chemicals, but we have no idea what the impact of those chemicals is on our bodies — or those of our children," said Sen. Udall. "Current law has failed to protect Americans from dangerous carcinogens like asbestos, and Congress can't afford to stand on the sidelines any longer."

Sen. Vitter noted that "chemicals are used to produce 96 percent of all manufactured goods consumers rely on every day."


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41 young children die from mystery disease in Papua, Indonesia

Nethy Dharma Sombat
The Jakarta Post
Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:27 UTC
Map of Papua, Indonesia.

Map showing the province of Papua, Indonesia.
A large number of children, many below the age of seven, have died of an unexplained disease in Mbuwa district, Nduga regency, Papua, following the start of the rainy season in early November.

A medical team consisting of health workers from Nduga, Wamena and Jayawijaya regencies arrived at the location but have yet to ascertain the cause of the deaths.

"As many as 41 children have died, as of today. They present with a slight illness at first but die shortly after these initial signs. The medical team from Nduga Health Office, assisted by the Wamena Health Office may have returned home, but the cause of these deaths remains uncertain," said Mbuwa district chief Erias Gwijangge, during a call to The Jakarta Post on Monday.

Erias said Nduga and surrounding areas had experienced drought and were exposed to haze from forest fires. Rain only fell in the past month. When the rain began, a number of livestock, such as pigs and poultry, also died abruptly.


Comment: See also: Toxic haze threatens millions in southeast Asia, as Indonesia's wildfires continue


"Many of the children died prior to the livestock but there was no report of child fatalities, only in the last three days," said Erias.

When contacted by the Post, Wamena City community health clinic analysis member Yan Hubi, who joined the trip to Mbuwa district, said his clinic analyzed blood samples of the children to find out if the children had been infected by malaria, but all were negative.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and their "vaccine empire are under fire".


India Opines
Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:50 UTC
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The connection is that in 2002, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) acquired shares in Merck and the charge is that the BMGF along with an organisation called GAVI (a vaccine alliance funded by BMGF) are pushing a vaccine agenda in India and other places in the world in collusion with health authorities who are recommending the use of vaccines without proper testing; actions amounting to vaccine fraud.It has long been an ugly truth that Indian lives are cheaper compared with their western counterparts. Poorer sections of Indian communities are routinely used as human guinea pigs, subject to testing by pharmaceutical companies - testing that could be illegal or expensive or impossible in western nations; testing that is most often done without informed consent and at times by employing coercion, concealment and other underhand tactics.

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The Health & Wellness Show: Frankenfoods: GMOs in our Foodchain


Sott.net
Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:00 UTC
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The latest news on the Genetically Modified foods front is the FDA approval of the GMO salmon in the US, or "Frankenfish", as it's not-so-affectionately termed. This marks the first genetically modified animal food to be approved for entry into our foodchain, and its approval in other countries is anticipated to follow, despite widespread public outcry.

Today on the SOTT Talk Radio Network's Health and Wellness Show, we'll be reopening the topic of GMOs and exploring the implication of genetically modified animal foods entering our foodchain. Is there any hope in avoiding these frankenfoods? Join us as we explore this topic and more.

Running Time: 01:36:00

Download: MP3

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Syringe

Vaccinated Norwegians contracted mumps during "outbreak"


vaxxter.com
Sun, 08 Nov 2015 23:02 UTC
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Roughly 80 Norwegian college students have reportedly contracted mumps. Of the 80, many reportedly were previously vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, which, by all logical and reasonable accounts, should have protected them. However, Norwegian health officials are making excuses over the matter.

According to OutBreakNewsToday.
Several of those who are now sick with mumps are Norwegian students who have previously received two doses of MMR vaccine is recommended.

It is possible to get sick with mumps even if you have been fully vaccinated against the disease, confirming Margrethe Greve-Isdahl, chief physician at the Department of vaccine, Public Health (FHI).

Comment: Mumps vaccine proves ineffective:
A provocative new study titled, "Epidemic of complicated mumps in previously vaccinated young adults in the South-West of France," reveals that the MMR vaccine, despite generating high rates of presumably protective IgG antibodies against mumps, does not always translate into real-world immunity against infection as we have repeatedly been told. To the contrary, the study details cases where, despite the detection of high levels of antibodies against the mumps virus, patients contracted a malignant form of mumps that only rarely follows from natural, community acquired infection.

Vaccine Failure Is Well Established In the Scientific Literature

While counter-intuitive to those who uncritically accept the official marketing copy of the vaccine industry and their cheerleaders within government and the mainstream media, the research community and general public is beginning to appreciate how prevalent and well-documented vaccine failure really is, especially in the case of measles, hepatitis B,chickenpox,pertussis (whooping cough), HIV, polio, HPV, and influenza vaccines that do not work as advertised.


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Bug

Deadly 'kissing bug' reported in 28 U.S. states, spreading parasite linked to Chagas disease

Nicole Lyn Pesce
NY Daily News
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:58 UTC
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© Charles Hedgecock/AP
Here's another reason to stay in New York this holiday season — the "kissing bug" has now spread to 28 states.

Texas is the latest to report an outbreak of infections from the Latin American triatomine bug after the pest had been spotted in other southern and western states, including Georgia, Alabama and California, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The creepy crawler resembling a cockroach gets its colorful nickname because it likes to bite around the lips and eyes of people when they are asleep. More than half of the bugs carry a parasite that can cause Chagas disease in humans, dogs and other mammals.

The good news? To actually pass on the disease, the bug not only needs to bite you, but then defecate into the gash. If left untreated, up to 30% of bite victims will develop chronic conditions such as difficulty breathing, heart and intestinal complications, and, in extreme cases, death.

There have been eight million cases in Latin America and South America because of poorly constructed rural homes, according to the CDC.

To prevent an outbreak, the CDC recommends:
Sealing cracks and gaps around windows, walls, roofs, and doors.

Removing wood, brush, and rock piles near your house.

Comment: Living in a toxic world: Iodine to the rescue

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Who's saying no to GMO Salmon?

Lorraine Chow
EcoWatch
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:56 UTC
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) controversial approval of AquaBounty's genetically modified (GMO) salmon has garnered further backlash from national grocery stores and restaurant chains.

Costco, the second largest retailer in the world with 487 stores and one of the largest retailers of salmon and seafood in the U.S., has made a firm commitment not to sell GMO salmon.
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Stimulant drugs for ADHD may worsen inattention by impairing sleep

Kathryn Doyle
Reuters
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:05 UTC
adhd in children
Taking stimulant medications may decrease quantity and quality of sleep for kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to an analysis of existing studies.

"Some researchers note that stimulants may improve sleep, because they reduce bedtime-resistant behaviors," said lead author Katherine M. Kidwell, a psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Nebraska.

"However, our study shows that stimulant medications impair sleep in children," Kidwell told Reuters Health by email.

Her team reviewed nine studies of children or teens with ADHD who were randomly assigned to receive stimulant medication or not. All of the studies used objective measures of sleep.

The results of the individual studies sometimes contradicted each other, but in general, kids on stimulant medications took longer to fall asleep than others, and that time lengthened as the number of doses per day increased.

Comment: Some doctors argue that the ADHD is an extremely questionable "disorder", and possibly a fraud intended to justify starting children on a life of drug addiction. Studies have shown that often diet may play a large part in creating the behaviors that are being labeled as ADHD and that in some cases, ADHD may be an allergic or hypersensitive disorder that gets triggered due to use of artificial colors in food.

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