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Medical malpractice case testimony by vaccine whistleblower is being blocked by the CDC

World Mercury Project
Ecowatch
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:28 UTC
CDC autism
Thomas Frieden, the director of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), has blocked CDC whistleblower, Dr. William Thompson, from testifying on scientific fraud and destruction of evidence by senior CDC officials in critical vaccine safety studies regarding the causative relationship between childhood vaccines and autism.

Attorneys Bryan Smith and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of Morgan & Morgan, have been seeking to have Dr. Thompson testify in a medical malpractice case to explain how the CDC committed scientific fraud in a series of studies, which found no link between vaccines and autism.

In denying the request, Dr. Frieden said, "Dr. William Thompson's deposition testimony would not substantially promote the objectives of CDC or HHS [Health and Human Services]."

Dr. Thompson, a 19-year veteran at the CDC and former senior vaccine safety scientist at the agency's Immunology Safety Office, is the co-author of four key studies that the CDC widely touts to exonerate the MMR vaccine and vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, from being linked to autism. Thompson is currently employed at the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention.
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Health

How to reverse heart disease

Dr. Jeffrey Dach, MD
GreenMedInfo
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:49 UTC
The AHA (American Heart Association) has denied for years that Coronary Calcium Scoring is a valid marker for heart disease risk. Well guess what? They have recanted, and finally admitted the coronary calcium score reliably predicts heart attack risk.(1)
Heart Disease
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UCLA cardiologist, Dr. Matt Budoff, a long-time champion of the Coronary Calcium Scan, and author of the AHA paper says:
"The total amount of coronary calcium (Agatston score) predicts coronary disease events beyond standard risk factors."(1)
Dr. Detrano, in a recent article in NEJM (New England of Medicine), says:
"The coronary calcium score is a strong predictor of incident coronary heart disease and provides predictive information beyond that provided by standard risk factors". (31)
The Coronary Calcium Score is a precise quantitative tool for measuring and tracking heart disease risk, and is more valuable and accurate than other traditional markers, such as total cholesterol, which is practically worthless as a predictor of heart disease risk.
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Snakes in Suits

This is why they protest: Pipeline owned by people behind DAPL just spilled 55,000 gallons of gasoline into pristine river

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 22 Oct 2016 17:16 UTC
Susquehanna River
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On Friday, a broken pipeline in Pennsyvlvania dumped 55,000 gallons of gasoline into the Susquehanna River.

Charlotte Katzenmoyer, director of public works for Lancaster said in a statement that it is unclear whether or not the local drinking water supplies have been contaminated.

"With the amount that spilled, we certainly could see some impact on our intake along the Susquehanna River, We'll continue to monitor it," Katzenmoyer said.

Randy Gockley, director of the Lancaster Emergency Management Agency added that, "Certainly it's something to be concerned about. We don't know yet the speed it will travel down the river."

"I'm sure they're dealing with high velocity water flows because of the flooding. My gut tells me it will take a few days to reach us, but I can't say that for sure. This far downstream, it's hard to know," he said.
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Health

Are menopausal symptoms all in your genes?

Sara G. Miller
Live Science
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:19 UTC
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The reason one woman gets hot flashes while another woman stays cool and comfortable through menopause may come down to differences between their genes, a new study finds.

Researchers have identified several genetic variations that increase the likelihood that a woman will experience hot flashes and night sweats during or after menopause, the study said.

More than 70 percent of women experience hot flashes and night sweats, according to the study, published today (Oct. 19) in the journal Menopause.

"If we can better identify what genetic variants are associated with hot flashes, this could lead to novel treatments to relieve them," Dr. Carolyn Crandall, a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the lead author of the study, said in a statement.

Comment: Forget often promised but never delivered gene-based treatments. Take matters into your own hands.

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Health

Researchers find pain can be transferred socially

Andy Coghlan
Prevent Disease
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:54 UTC
pain
Are other people making you feel their pain? That's one possible upshot of experiments that seem to show sensitivity to pain can be transferred socially, at least in mice.

If the same is true for people, it may help explain conditions such as fibromyalgia, where people feel pain in the absence of an obvious medical cause.

"We've shown for the first time that you don't need an injury or inflammation to develop a pain state," says team leader Andrey Ryabinin from Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon. "Pain can develop simply because of social cues."

Ryabinin and his colleagues discovered the phenomenon in mice isolated from direct physical contact with other mice made to feel pain. The team found that the "bystander" mice became as hypersensitive to pain as the mice that were actually subjected to it. All the mice were in the same room, but the cages were at least 1 to 2 metres apart, and the animals couldn't see each other.

Comment: More on empathic pain:

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Popcorn

Lots of food producers profited from the demonization of fat

Nina Teicholz
Los Angeles Times
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:42 UTC
crisco
© Tony Dejak / Associated Press
Consumption of vegetable oils, which were invented in the early 1900s, exploded during the 20th century. Above, a shopper walks past an aisle featuring Crisco products in a grocery store in Cleveland, Ohio in 2007.
The recent revelation that Harvard scientists were paid off to downplay sugar's harms in the 1960s shows how the food industry shockingly manipulated nutrition science for decades. Yet the news media has given the sugar industry too much credit. The real story about how sugar got a pass — while dietary fat and cholesterol were blamed for heart disease — reveals that other industries played a role, as did, surprisingly, many of the country's leading scientists.


Comment: For more information, see Sugar industry paid Harvard researchers to bury link between sugar and heart disease and instead blame it on fat in 1960s studies


According to an article published Sept. 12 by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, the sugar industry formulated a game plan in the mid-1950s to capitalize upon an idea gaining traction "among leading nutritionists" that dietary fat and cholesterol cause heart disease. There are only three macronutrients: fat, protein and carbohydrates. Sugar executives recognized that if Americans could be persuaded to adopt a low-fat diet, they would invariably eat more carbs. Think cereal instead of eggs for breakfast, or cookies rather than cheese as a snack. Predicting that some 20% of calories would shift towards carbohydrates — a windfall to all the "carbohydrate industries" — sugar executives paid Harvard scientists to water down a 1967 review of sugar's potential harms and instead pin the blame for heart disease on fat and cholesterol.

Commentators in the past two weeks have seen this as proof that "Big Sugar" is the equivalent of "Big Tobacco," undermining good science to cover up the evils of a dangerous product. Yes, sugar executives used similar tactics, but the results were hardly so clear-cut.

Comment: It is good to see the Sugar Industry exposed, but inflammatory vegetable oils are still sold in the market as "heart healthy" when the complete opposite is the truth.

See also:

Nina Teicholz: The Big Fat Surprise! (Video)

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The Health & Wellness Show: Connecting the Dots: Smart drugs in a dumb world


Sott.net
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:00 UTC
smart drugs
Stressed out college students everywhere are turning to Big Pharma in hopes of making the grade and using apps that claim to make then smarter. Maybe they should go for a hike instead? On this episode of the Health and Wellness Show we'll be connecting the dots in recent health news. How important is 8 glasses a day, how can you increase your emotional agility and -- in what may be disturbing news for all the bone broth lovers out there -- what is the glycine-glyphosate connection? And for all the clown haters out there, this show may give you talking points to justify your hate.

Join us as we discuss these topics and more. And, as always, stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment where the topic will be how to treat hot spots, or moist dermatitis in dogs.

Running Time: 01:33:26

Download: MP3

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Syringe

Aussie nurses disseminating info questioning vaccine safety or efficacy may face prosecution


RT
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:01 UTC
vaccine
© Andres Stapff / Reuters
Nurses and midwives who chose to promote anti-vaccination on social media or in person could face prosecution, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia has warned, urging members of the public to report those who spread "misleading and deceptive" materials.

"With no exceptions we expect all registered nurses, enrolled nurses and midwives to use the best available evidence in making practice decisions.This includes providing information to the public about public health issues," Chair of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Dr. Lynette Cusack said in a statement.


Comment: The best available evidence is quite clear, vaccines are dangerous to your health:

The NMBA has called on Australians to report nurses or midwives promoting anti-vaccination - 'anti-vaxxers', as they're known colloquially.

"The board will consider whether the nurse or midwife has breached their professional obligations and will treat these matters seriously," the statement said. "Any published anti-vaccination material and/or advice which is false, misleading or deceptive which is being distributed by a registered nurse, enrolled nurse or midwife (including via social media) may also constitute a summary offence under the National Law and could result in prosecution by AHPRA [Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.]


Comment: In other words, promoting or disseminating any information that questions the safety or efficacy of forced vaccinations is going to be met with prosecution.


Comment: If vaccines were as safe and effective as governments and medical professionals say, then they wouldn't have to resort to medical fascism to force them on everyone. The fact that they've resorted to violent coercion to get people to vaccinate themselves and their children speaks volumes.

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Brain

Regular exercise may safeguard against memory loss

Hannah Nicols
Medical News Today
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 08:34 UTC
seniors jogging
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Regular exercise may help ward off memory decline in people with vascular cognitive impairment.
More than 16 million people in the United States live with cognitive impairment. The underlying cause of vascular cognitive impairment, in particular, is caused by problems with blood supply to the brain. Scientists may have found a solution to prevent memory decline in people with this condition, in the form of regular exercise.

Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is the second leading cause of dementia - after Alzheimer's disease - accounting for around 10 percent of cases. People with VCI experience deterioration in mental abilities, such as memory, thinking, problem-solving, and language.

VCI develops as a result of reduced blood flow to the brain that damages and eventually kills brain cells. The death of brain cells causes problems with cognition - memory, thinking, and reasoning.

Blood flow can diminish due to narrowing and blockage of small blood vessels deep in the brain, through a major stroke, or many mini strokes. In many of these cases, these difficulties are linked to underlying health conditions, including high blood pressure and diabetes, and lifestyle choices such as smoking and being overweight.

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Wine

Schizophrenia risk increased with alcohol, drug abuse

Tim Newman
Medical News Today
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:02 UTC
smoking marijuana
© unknown
The relationship between drug abuse and schizophrenia is complex.
The question of whether drug abuse increases the risk of developing schizophrenia and other mental illnesses has been a hotly debated topic for decades. New research from Denmark that includes data from more than 3 million individuals takes an in-depth look at the conundrum.

There has been a wealth of research on the impact that alcohol, cannabis, and other drugs might have on the risk of developing schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.

However, it is a difficult area to study, and previous research has been controversial and often contradictory.

As one example, many earlier studies could not take into account co-abuse; in other words, people who abuse a number of compounds.

Dr. Stine Mai Nielsen and Prof. Merete Nordentoft, from Copenhagen University Hospital, Mental Health Center in Denmark, recently embarked on one of the largest studies of its type.

Their findings, presented at this year's International Early Psychosis Association (IEPA) meeting in Milan, Italy, add another piece to the puzzle.

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