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Thyroid support group calls for resignation of French health minister over disastrous medication reformulation


The Connexion
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:53 UTC
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Tens of thousands of complaints have been made following the release of the new drug formula.
A medical support group for thyroid patients in France has called for the stepping down of health minister Agnès Buzyn, the declaration of a national health crisis, and the removal of the new formula of thyroid drug Levothyrox.

The Association Française des Malades de la Thyroïde (AFMT) made the statement after receiving the results back for its own independent analytical study into the new drug, which it says shows anomalies in composition.

The new formula of Levothyrox, the primary treatment for people suffering from underactive thyroid problems and cancers, was released in February 2017 by manufacturing laboratory Merck.

It was supported by national agency l'Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament (ANSM), who had asked Merck to reformulate the drug to be "more stable" than its predecessor.

Soon after, reports began to emerge that the new drug was not working, with up to half a million patients reporting the return of negative symptoms and even of thyroid cancers that had previously been kept in check by the old drug formula.

At one point, the AFMT said it was receiving over 1,000 complaints per day.
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The South African Usutu virus has made its way to Europe


The Connexion
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:44 UTC
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So far, one case of Usutu virus, which attacks the nervous system, has been confirmed in humans.
A mosquito-borne virus that was discovered in South Africa in 1959 and that can spread to humans who have been bitten has arrived in southwest France, health experts have said.

The Usutu virus, which attacks the nervous system, was first identified among animals in the Occitanie in 2015.

It is carried by the most common variety of mosquito in France - the Culex.

Comment: Forensic pathology: Tracing the origin of the Usutu Virus

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Deadly brain-eating amoeba hits Louisiana water supply


RT
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:17 UTC
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A brain-eating amoeba has been detected in the Louisiana water system - the third time the potentially deadly organism has been found in the same district since 2015.

Naegleria fowleri, a parasite which causes fatal brain swelling and tissue destruction, was identified in Terrebonne water. All freshwater sources in the parish have been affected, including drinking water, water in the bayous and pools, and water used for showers and baths.

The fatality rate for those infected by the parasite is over 97 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Officials from Consolidated Waterworks say the water is "perfectly safe to drink" - it's just not safe to get up your nose. Infection occurs when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose and travels to the brain where it destroys tissue.
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First human case of plague in Idaho since 1992 confirmed in child

Michael Katz
Idaho Statesman
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 03:26 UTC
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A child in Elmore County was confirmed to be infected with the plague this week, according to the Central District Health Department, marking the first human diagnosis in Idaho since 1992.

The child is recovering after receiving antibiotics.

Cases of plague in Idaho were diagnosed in squirrels as recently as 2016, though none have been found in southern Ada County or Elmore County this year. It is unknown whether the child was exposed to the disease in Idaho or during a recent trip to Oregon.

Comment: See also:

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5 Fake sources of health science information - and how they could lead to your harm

Paul A. Philips
Waking Times
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
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Through a lack of education many continue to be deceived into believing the corporate/banker sponsored fake science. The spin is made by paid off crooked scientific establishments, phony front men and tightly controlled mainstream media outlets for the ulterior motives, control and profit.

Those people not understanding this may consequentially suffer. A lack of education or understanding the fake science could lead to much harm through making a number of bad choices. Further, it will take double the efforts to re-educate: Deconstruct the misinformation, lies and propaganda related to the fake science in order to benefit from learning the real scientific knowledge.

To protect your physical, mental, health and well-being, here are 5 fake science sources and how they could lead to your harm if not carefully discerned:

1. Crooked Research Establishments

To understand how crooked scientific establishments work you have to realize that they are uncompromisingly tied into not just corporate moneyed interests, but also scientific and political agendas. Thus, essentially, through filtering, the science follows a narrow academic approach. -To get some idea of the background behind this narrow approach consider, for example, how Big Pharma stops its competitors and monopolizes the health industry.
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Got the Gout? How to remove uric acid crystals from your joints


Collective Evolution
Sun, 10 Jun 2018 19:05 UTC
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A quick look at the average western diet presents an obvious truth when it comes to the state of wellness in the west; for the most part, we are eating ourselves sick.

Interestingly, how we combat the reality of our sick state is often disconnected from the reasons why we got sick in the first place; our diets. What if doctors prescribed dietary changes first before even looking at medication, especially if it's not needed? What if food was seen as a mechanism to prevent illness? I believe there is a growing body of people looking at our diets in this manner, but for the most part we're blind to the fact that our diet is likely one of the biggest contributors to why we are sick.

Of course emotions and our state of being is another huge factor, but let's start here for now.

A recent study found that a diet rich in acidic foods increases uric acid levels in the body, leading to conditions such as gout (form of arthritis), joint pain, and uric acid crystallization.

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Disease-mongering: How drug companies sell treatments by inventing diseases

Michael Walsh
Yahoo.com
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 19:17 UTC
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The pharmaceutical industry's image has been significantly damaged in recent years as the public discovered the role its aggressive marketing played in fueling the opioid epidemic. But the American people are still largely in the dark about what may be pharma's most effective tactic for pushing drugs - marketing diseases.

There's a substantial body of medical literature dating back to the early '90s about the practice known as "disease mongering." Pharmaceutical companies regularly pathologize everyday experiences, convince doctors that they are serious problems, tell a hypochondriacal public it needs help and offers the cure: a new drug. Against the onslaught of billions of dollars in marketing campaigns each year, however, researchers' warnings about these tactics have gone largely unheeded.

Comment: For a more in depth look at disease mongering and Big Pharma fear tactics read the following articles by Martha Rosenberg:

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The power of the placebo effect explained

Arjun Walia
Collective Evolution
Thu, 07 Jun 2018 18:37 UTC
placebo
Did you know that we can change our biology simply by what we believe to be true? The placebo effect is defined as the measurable, observable, or felt improvement in health or behaviour not attributable to a medication or invasive treatment that has been administered. It suggests that one can treat various ailments by using the mind to heal.

For example, if two people have a head ache and one takes tylenol while the other is given a pill that contains nothing (sugar), both could report that the pill was successful and the headache is gone. The difference is, the one that was given the pill which contained nothing still believed that they were given a tylenol that would alleviate their headache. In doing so, their headache was cured because of what they believed to be true. This has happened on numerous occasions, many studies have shown that the placebo effect is real and highly effective.

Comment: Placebos, nocebos, and the symptoms of healing

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - The ongoing Thimerosal travesty needs to end

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Weston Price Foundation
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:56 UTC
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Thimerosal is the infamous mercury-containing preservative in use, to this day, in some vaccines and also in dozens of other pharmaceutical products approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).1-3 Public health agencies, government regulators and medical trade groups have repeatedly declared thimerosal to be safe,4,5 but the published peer-reviewed science argues that nothing could be further from the truth. For anyone who bothers to investigate thimerosal's appalling record, there is a vast, still accumulating and compelling body of research that contradicts the public health establishment's deceptive safety claims.

Thimerosal is almost 50 percent ethylmercury by weight. Ethylmercury is an organic mercury compound with toxicity mechanisms similar to methylmercury6 (the hazardous type of mercury in seafood). The danger posed by both types of mercury was evident in earlier eras when fungicides containing either ethyl- or methylmercury poisoned farmers, sometimes on a large scale, from the 1950s through the 1970s.7,8 Of the two compounds, the ethylmercury in vaccines is far more toxic to and persistent in the brain, where it has a propensity to accumulate as inorganic mercury,9,10 with an estimated half-life of as long as twenty-seven years.11

Comment: Show me the research: RFK Jr offers $100K to anyone who can prove the safety of thimerosal in vaccines

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American toddlers are eating more sugar than the maximum amount recommended for adults


Quartz
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:41 UTC
Burger king sugar
We've long known that processed sugar is bad for kids. And yet new data presented this week (June 10) at the American Society for Nutrition's annual meeting show that American infants are consuming excessive amounts of added sugar in their diets, much more than the amounts currently recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA) and other medical organizations.
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