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Researchers claim diseases like asthma and Alzheimer's will be 'weeded out' of the population in a few thousand years


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 19:11 UTC
asthma inhaler
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Chronic illnesses such as asthma and Alzheimer's disease are seemingly being wiped out from human genes thanks to natural selection, as part of human evolution.

According to a ground-breaking study, gene variations associated with asthma, Alzheimer's and high cholesterol have noticeably declined in just two generations. Scientists say this effectively proves that Darwinian evolution not only exists, but is still taking place.


Comment: Genes are not destiny and can be turned off and on depending on diet and environmental exposure to toxins.


The findings, which follow an analysis of the genetic blueprints of 150,000 Britons and 60,000 Americans carried out by researchers from Columbia and Cambridge University, suggest the diseases could be "weeded out" of the human species in a few thousand years.

"It's a subtle signal, but we find genetic evidence that natural selection is happening in modern human populations," said Joseph Pickrell, an evolutionary geneticist at Columbia University and one of the study's authors, the Telegraph reported.

Comment: Too bad this set of researchers won't be around to see if their predictions come true. For a contrast see: Alzheimer's cases to triple by 2050: study

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Researchers create mutated Zika virus to treat aggressive form of brain cancer


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:26 UTC
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© Mike Segar / Reuters
Medical researchers in the US have weaponized a mutated form of the Zika virus in the hopes of defeating a common, tenacious and highly aggressive form of brain cancer with some highly promising initial results.

"We showed that Zika virus can kill the kind of glioblastoma [brain cancer] cells that tend to be resistant to current treatments and lead to death," said Michael S. Diamond, Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine and the study's co-senior author.

Glioblastoma is the most common form of brain cancer and is both highly lethal and highly resistant to surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy treatments, with a median survival rate of less than two years following diagnosis. Its self-regenerating cells that spread out from the initial site of the tumor are what make it so hard to kill.
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The vaccine culture war takes aim with class and race profiling

Barbara Loe Fisher
mercola.com
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
vaccine war
The Vaccine Culture War is heating up.1 Ground zero is America, Europe and other economically developed countries, where the pharmaceutical industrial complex is raising an iron fist to protect multibillion-dollar profits by disempowering the people.2,3,4,5,6,7,8

In America, professors and doctors in academia and government are profiling parents by class and race to shame and discredit those challenging vaccine orthodoxy. Elite members of the highest paid professions in our society are using academic journals and mainstream media to openly preach fear, hate, prejudice and discrimination against people who disagree with them about vaccination.

Law Professor: Mothers of Unvaccinated Children Are Criminals

"When it comes to vaccines, rich parents get away with child neglect," the headline in The Washington Post proclaimed on May 10, 2017. The OpEd was written by Linda C. Fentiman, a Pace University law professor promoting criminal prosecution of mothers whose children are not vaccinated.9

She alleged that state legislatures are accommodating "wealthy" mothers by allowing exemptions in vaccine laws, while poor pregnant women have "faced charges of criminal child abuse" and imprisonment for "failing to deliver adequate nutrition or delivering drugs via their breast milk."

Comment: And there is much else besides which show how the Vaxxers are pushing their unsafe agenda - globally:

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Antidepressant use, especially in children, continues to rise

Alex Pietrowski
Waking Times
Mon, 04 Sep 2017 13:39 UTC
prozac
Mental health in America is in decline, and while there is no one-size-fits-all reason for this, doctors and psychiatrists do offer a one-size-fits-all solution: antidepressants. The number of people who have taken antidepressants has soared some 65% in just the last 15 years, and the numbers continue to rise.

A new survey from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers insight into how this usage breaks down in our society. The most recent data reveals the following conclusions:
According to the latest statistics,9,10,11,12 use of antidepressants in the U.S. rose by 65 percent between 1999 and 2014. As of 2014:

- Nearly 1 in 8 Americans (13 percent) over the age of 12 reported being on antidepressant medication

- 1 in 6 women (16.5 percent) reported antidepressant use compared to 1 in 11 men (9 percent)

- About one-quarter of those who had taken an antidepressant in the past month reported being on them for 10 years or more

- Caucasians were more than three times more likely to use antidepressants than Blacks, Hispanics or Asians (16.5 percent compared to 5.6 percent, 5 percent and 3.3 percent respectively)

In Scotland, researchers also warn that antidepressant use among children under the age of 12 has risen dramatically.13 Between 2009 and 2016, use in this age group quadrupled. Use among children under 18 doubled in the same time frame. [Source]

Comment: The first line of defense against depression low carb, high fat diet:

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Big Pharma's fraudulent ads

Catherine J. Frompovich
Activist Post
Sat, 02 Sep 2017 13:45 UTC
money vaccines
Big Pharma and the medical profession are taking a lot of 'heat' for the opioid epidemic, and rightfully so! Opioids were unashamedly marketed to doctors who, trustingly, wrote prescription after prescription for them only to find those drugs land where they should not have: on the addiction market!

Probably nothing makes a drug 'work' better than effective propaganda and advertising. In 2016, Big Pharma collectively spent $5.2 BILLION on advertising drugs[1] so healthcare consumers, in many instances, could ask and/or even recommend a certain drug prescription from their doctor, i.e., "prescription du jour"!

Creative ads lead and inspire consumers to think they are being informed correctly, ethically and factually about the pharmaceuticals that often are overhyped. However, that is not the case all the time. Below are some examples of "Fraudulent Marketing" as cited in the Harvard Law & Policy Review:

Comment: See also:

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'Achoo' prepared? Early flu bug hits Australia and Europe, the US may be next


Sputnik
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 15:59 UTC
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Australia is experiencing its worse flu outbreak sparking fears it could be repeated in Europe, the United States and Canada. A total of 52 deaths associated with influenza have already been reported in many states compared with 27 fatalities this time last year.

Similarly the number of flu-related hospitalizations have almost doubled, presently standing at nearly 1450 versus 719 last year. Medics have also warned the winter spike in flu-like symptoms has occurred earlier than usual across the country, according to the latest data.

Now health services in the US, Northern America and across Europe are bracing themselves for an identical scenario.

"In general, we get in our season what the southern hemisphere got in the season immediately proceeding us. An intelligent guess, therefore, is that the north will probably have a bad flu season. With influenza, it is never 100 percent. There is nothing really unusual about this year except that it's a high year in Australia, which is what you see every once in a while," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the United States' National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said.

Dr. Fauci stressed that the "only thing that you can predict about influenza is that it's going to be unpredictable."
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Health

Top 5 reasons never to use Splenda

Sayer Ji
Green Med Info
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:31 UTC
spenda
Splenda is marketed as a no-calorie, no-guilt sugar substitute. Blood sugar stable, it "passes right through" the body, so it's safe for diabetics AND you won't gain weight! Are these claims masking the ugly truth about this chemical imposter? As mounting research shows, when it comes to our diet, there is no free lunch.

Splenda's Spurious Claims

The allure is plain to see: a sweetener made from sugar, that tastes like sugar, but has zero calories. If the marketing is to be believed, this product is better than the real thing. It's everything we love, with all of the evils removed.

When it comes to product marketing, beware the free lunch. Despite claims by the manufacturers that Splenda use is part of a healthy lifestyle, research is piling up that tells a very different story.

From the myth-busting studies linking Splenda to diabetes and weight-gain to sobering research showing increased risks of cancer, and more, our sucralose research portal reveals 22 different signs of trouble associated with this artificial sweetener.

Before we dive into the top reasons to avoid Splenda, let's separate fact from fiction regarding exactly what this false promise really is.
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Australian MD: I've seen cases of vaccine injury for 40 years'

Jon Rappoport
Natural Blaze
Mon, 04 Sep 2017 20:07 UTC
vaccine gun
Australian doctor exposes vaccine damage, stands up to government/media attacks

Here is what he wrote

In Australia, the noose is tightening around parents' and children's necks.

There is already a policy in place that denies certain government benefits to families who don't vaccinate their kids. Now, there is legislation that would deny unvaccinated children enrollment in daycare and kindergarten.

But a grassroots rebellion is underway.

Australian MD John Piesse has stepped out of the shadows and reported his findings and research on vaccine damage. The government is investigating him. They may strip his license. The press is attacking him mercilessly.

He isn't backing down.

His stance is certainly heroic, but remember that every doctor takes an oath to do no harm to his patients. Without question, there are many other doctors who know the truth, first-hand, about what vaccines really do. But they stay silent.

Some of these doctors don't vaccinate their own children...but they continue to inject toxic chemicals and viruses into their young patients. That is a crime and betrayal of the first order.
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Scientists work on blood test for PTSD, genetic changes found in traumatized soldiers

Sarah Knapton
The Telegraph
Mon, 04 Sep 2017 00:01 UTC
PTSD war

Around one in three people who suffer a highly traumatic event will go on to develop PTSD
Post traumatic stress disorder could soon be diagnosed with simple blood test after scientists found crucial genetic changes in soldiers suffering from trauma after serving in Afghanistan. PTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by stressful or frightening events which can cause flashbacks, nightmares, depression, sleep problems and guilt.

Until now it could only be diagnosed through self-reported symptoms, which many victims, particularly servicemen, were reluctant to disclose.

But scientists at the University of Maastricht discovered crucial differences in the microRNA molecules of soldiers who had served time in Afghanistan.
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Health

The surprising link between vision loss and Alzheimer's disease

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Mon, 04 Sep 2017 00:20 UTC
vision problems
Alzheimer's disease, a severe form of dementia, affects an estimated 5.2 million Americans;1 200,000 of which are under the age of 65. According to recent data, Alzheimer's disease kills more than half a million Americans per year,2 making Alzheimer's the third leading killer in the U.S., right behind heart disease and cancer.

Since there's no conventional cure, it's really important to take prevention seriously. There are also few if any successful medical treatments available once Alzheimer's sets in. For example, memantine (sold under the brand name Namenda) is approved for moderate to severe cases of Alzheimer's, but doctors also prescribe it off-label for mild cases. Unfortunately, the drug has been found to be practically useless for mild to moderate Alzheimer's.3

Other go-to drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's include cholinesterase inhibitor drugs such as Aricept, Exelon and Reminyl. These too may do more harm than good as they provoke slower heart rates, significantly increasing your chances of getting a permanent pacemaker. They also raise your risk of hip fracture.

Comment: More prevention and treatment strategies:

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