Health & Wellness

As insulin drug prices skyrocket, Bernie Sanders calls for investigation into BigPharma price-fixing

RT
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 17:02 UTC

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has requested the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission open investigations into "potential coordination" by drug-makers Eli Lilly, Sanofi, and Novo Nordisk in raising insulin prices.

In a letter sent Thursday to US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FTC chair Edith Ramirez, Sanders and Elijah Cummings — the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee — offered evidence that the three companies "who make different versions of insulin have continuously raised prices on this life-saving medication" even though the patent on insulin expired decades ago, and that "price increases have reportedly mirrored one another precisely."

Insulin is used to treat diabetes, a set of diseases that has quadrupled across the world in the last 35 years, according to the World Health Organization. Nearly 30 million Americans live with with diabetes, and many need insulin to survive. Diabetes costs in the US reached $322 billion in 2012, the letter claimed.

Comment: The pharmaceutical cartel is one of the most egregious examples of corporate psychopathy. Being forced to pay fines for routinely breaking the law is no deterrent, as this predatory mafia-like industry just considers this as a normal cost of doing business.

FDA a little too cozy with drug companies

Alexandra Sifferlin
TIME
Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:18 UTC

A new report look at the "revolving door" between the FDA and drug companies

People who work at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as medical reviewers are responsible for parsing the risks and benefits of a particular drug before it gets the agency's approval. But a new report from two researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University, published in the journal The BMJ, suggests many of these medical reviewers go on to work for the drug companies they oversaw while working for the government.

Critics have called out this revolving door between the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry, and the study's authors wanted to see how the numbers matched up to that claim. They looked at the FDA's list of haematology-oncology drug approvals from 2006 to 2010 and scanned all medical reviews from 2001 to 2010 in the agency's database, then looked up the subsequent jobs of the people who worked as medical reviewers for those drug approvals.

The researchers found that among 55 people who worked as haematology-oncology medical reviewers from 2001 to 2010, 27 continued in their roles at the FDA, two people worked at the FDA but held other appointments, and 15 left the FDA to work with or consult for the biopharmaceutical industry. The jobs of the rest of the people could not be determined.

Comment: Federal laws and FDA ethics should rule over issues like avoiding real and apparent conflicts of interest. This is only in theory, the actual reality speaks otherwise:

SOTT Exclusive: Corruption of medical science - Least adequate person appointed as head of the FDA

Conflicts of interest are leading to countless deaths.

Scientific paper that was retracted, now republished, reveals the dangers of the HPV vaccine

Christina Sarich
The Mind Unleashed
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:05 UTC

Recently a 43-page document produced by the Indian Parliament accused the U.S. organization, PATH, funded partially by the Bill and Melinda Gates' foundation, of committing illegal and improper activities in support of the development of the HPV vaccine in India. Later, Gardasil and other HPV vaccine victims sued Merck, the manufacturer of those vaccines, for causing permanent disabilities. Though the dangers of these vaccines, sold under the auspices of protecting women from cervical cancer, are now more openly talked about, the industry did its best at covering up the possible dangers which makers knowingly swept under the rug. A newly published scientific document reveals some of these startling dangers, as never before, and calls into question the true intent behind these 'medicines.'

It isn't as if other scientist have not been ringing the alarm bells. Dr. Sin Hang Lee, MD, Director, Milford Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, recently submitted an official, open-letter complaint to the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Margaret Chan, alleging gross misconduct, malfeasance and what potentially amounts to criminal behavior to deceive the public regarding the safety of HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix.

Comment: The HPV vaccine should scare the living daylights out of everyone! It is one of the greatest medical scandals of all time!

Gamma linolenic acid: Most overlooked fat to reduce inflammation

Sarah
The Healthy Home Economist
Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:05 UTC

Most people today, health buffs or not, are deficient in gamma linolenic acid, a critical omega-6 fat that is frequently overlooked particularly by those seeking to lose weight and reduce inflammation.

While other healthy lipids such as weight loss boosting coconut oil and muscle building conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) get all the headlines and attention, gamma linolenic acid (GLA) gets little to no kudos and yet is just as vitally important!

Even more ironic is that a hallmark of the Western Diet is excessive consumption of omega-6 polyunsaturated fats usually in the form of processed foods cooked or fried in cheap, rancid and frequently genetically modified (GMO) vegetable oils. Even when the sources of these omega-6 fats are whole foods, however, moderate to severe deficiencies of gamma linolenic acid persist even among the seemingly healthy.

Medical errors and the fall of the Hippocratic Oath

Eldon Dahl
Prevent Disease
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 16:49 UTC

The Hippocratic Oath is one of the oldest binding documents in history. While the classical oath calls for "the opposite" of pleasure and fame for those who transgress the oath, fewer than half of oaths taken today insist the taker be held accountable for keeping the pledge. Some doctors see oath-taking as little more than a pro-forma ritual with little value beyond that of upholding tradition, but how far have modern Physicians come from the Hippocratic Oath as it was intended to protect patients in doing no harm?

CTV recently reported that 1 in 18 experienced a potentially preventable injury while hospitalized. Of those, 1 in 5 experienced multiple harmful events during their stay. Kelly Kliewer was one of those affected. In 2004, she went in for carpal tunnel surgery. Once in surgery, though, the anesthesiologist gave her a paralytic instead of an anesthetic. According to Kliewer, "I stopped breathing, it paralyzed all my organs, went into respiratory distress and had to get put on a ventilator." She is still seeing a psychologist for PTSD from the ordeal.

The state of American children's health? Chronic illness

Focus for Health
The Vaccine Reaction
Sat, 29 Oct 2016 16:05 UTC

© The vaccine reaction
Chronic illnesses are also responsible for 7 in 10 American deaths—twice as many deaths as all infectious/communicable diseases, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, combined—and they account for 78 cents of every health care dollar spent.

A nation is only as healthy as its children. - Harry Truman (1946)

Approximately 27 percent of U.S. children live with chronic health conditions that can affect their daily lives and normal activities. These maladies often contribute greatly to school absenteeism and require continual medical attention.

Many studies suggest chronic health problems, along with learning and developmental disorders, appear to be on the rise. These rising childhood illnesses include, but are not limited to:

Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADHD)
Arthritis
Asthma
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Auto-immune disorders
Developmental/Learning Disorders
Cancer
Cardiovascular problems
Cerebral Palsy
Cystic fibrosis
Diabetes
Epilepsy
Food allergies
Obesity
Respiratory allergies
Sickle cell anemia
Spina bifida

The Health & Wellness Show: Public schools: Where creativity, freedom and critical thinking go to die

Sott.net
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 14:00 UTC

Most experts would agree that the public schooling system -- at least in the US -- is in dire straits. High dropout rates, failing test scores and pupil apathy and truancy are frequently blamed on lack of funding or poorly trained and unmotivated teachers. What if this isn't the case? What if the very existence of compulsory education is the problem? The founders of the public schooling system did not set out to create highly skilled, creative and competent individuals. They set out to create obedient workers who won't question their plight. Seen in this light, the public school system is a great success.

Join us on this episode of The Health and Wellness Show as we explore the topic of public education, its history and detriments as well as alternatives to keep your child and yourself -- if you're a product of the public school system -- from becoming a brainwashed zombie.

Stay tuned, as always, for Zoya's Pet Health segment where the topic will be natural sedatives for travelling pets.

Referenced links:
The Underground History of American Education - John Taylor Gatto
The Ultimate History Lesson - Interview with John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto's personal website
Teacher slams French education in suicide note
'Why Don't Students Like School?' Well, Duhhhh...
The ugly truth about the American school system

Running Time: 01:46:49

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CDC won't allow its own whistleblower to testify in vaccine-damage case

Jon Rappoport
John Rappoport Blog
Wed, 02 Nov 2016 01:14 UTC

Here are the bones of the story. For the first time in 30 years, a vaccine-damage case has gone before a court judge. Lawyers for a 16-year-old autistic boy are suing a medical clinic for administering vaccines that brought about the autism. The CDC, of course, denies any connection between vaccines and autism. But one of its own long-time researchers, William Thompson, has publicly confessed to fraud in that area. Thompson states that he and his colleagues concealed research data that would have shown the MMR vaccine and mercury-laden vaccines do cause autism. The lawyers for the 16-year-old boy want to bring in Thompson to testify about what he knows. The CDC has said NO. The head of the CDC, Thomas Frieden, states, "Dr. William Thompson's deposition testimony would not substantially promote the objectives of CDC or HHS [the Department of Health and Human Services]."

Well, he's right, because the CDC is the PR arm of the vaccine industry. The CDC is a major purchaser of vaccines for the US federal government. If this boy won his case, other cases would follow. The potential monetary exposure in judgments? A trillion dollars or more.

Comment: See also:

Could mast cell activation disorder be the root cause of your histamine intolerance?

Chris Kresser
ChrisKresser.com
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC

Do you have trouble with histamine? Have you struggled to get a diagnosis? In Mast Cell Activation Disorder (MCAD), part of the innate immune system becomes hyperactive, releasing histamine and other chemicals that affect every organ system in the body. Read on to learn more about MCAD, and how you can address the root cause.

Histamine intolerance has become a popular term in the natural health community. Characterized by symptoms that appear to worsen with the intake of foods that are high in histamine or that stimulate the release of histamine, histamine intolerance is not really a diagnosis as much as it is a description of symptoms.

Most clinicians, including myself, now believe that Mast Cell Activation Disorder is a more accurate description of what patients with so-called "histamine intolerance" are suffering from. There are a number of factors that can contribute to, or cause, histamine intolerance, including excess histamine production, diamine oxidase (DAO) enzyme deficiency, HMNT mutation, and poor methylation in the liver; however, my experience has been that MCAD is responsible for a large number of cases of histamine intolerance. This article will serve as an introduction to MCAD - what it is, what causes it, and how to treat it.

Comment: For more information on histamine intolerance, see:

When psychiatric medications cause psychiatric symptoms

Akansha Vaswani
Mad in America
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:29 UTC

Dr. Yolanda Lucidre, a psychiatrist from Australia, recently published a paper about the iatrogenic effects of psychiatric drugs. Iatrogenic effects refer to those negative consequences which result directly from the provision of medical care. She highlights how these effects have been rising, and have led to increased numbers of disability claims, health care costs, and deaths, and how they are connected to the increase in the diagnosis of mental illness.

The research on iatrogenic effects has implications for patient safety, the provision of a genuine informed consent process and patients' legal rights. Lucire also documents how the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries and regulatory agencies which are meant to protect the public interest have been complicit in the pushing of a dangerous pro-drug agenda in New Zealand and Australia.

Youth suicide, she reports, began to rise in the 1980s in Australia as stimulant medication began to be prescribed, and this trend continued as antidepressants were prescribed to young people, who in previous generations may have been identified as going through normal developmental transitions.

Comment: In a nutshell, people are being drugged into insanity. For more information, check out:

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Health & Wellness

As insulin drug prices skyrocket, Bernie Sanders calls for investigation into BigPharma price-fixing

FDA a little too cozy with drug companies

Scientific paper that was retracted, now republished, reveals the dangers of the HPV vaccine

Gamma linolenic acid: Most overlooked fat to reduce inflammation

Medical errors and the fall of the Hippocratic Oath

The state of American children's health? Chronic illness

The Health & Wellness Show: Public schools: Where creativity, freedom and critical thinking go to die

CDC won't allow its own whistleblower to testify in vaccine-damage case

Could mast cell activation disorder be the root cause of your histamine intolerance?

When psychiatric medications cause psychiatric symptoms

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