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Shocking: 1 in 13 American children are on psychiatric drugs

L.J. Devon
Natural News
Sun, 04 May 2014 16:45 UTC
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An increasing number of children in America are being labeled, diagnosed and branded

Unique personalities are being scolded and molded by drugs to adapt childhood behavior into societal norms. Children have become like sculptures, motionless, lifeless, as psychiatric drugs chisel away at their natural state of well-being.



Living under a controlled paradigm designed by Drug Companies

The emotional and behavioral differences among children are yoked into compliance, to conformity. A child's struggles aren't listened to, aren't understood. Their differences, behavior and problems are stamped into their mind as if they are a mental illness. Psychiatric drugs are driven down the throats of young people, as pharmaceutical companies expand their controlling influence.
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Drugged up: Avoiding the topic of childhood trauma in psychiatry

Bob Johnson
iai news
Sun, 04 May 2014 06:02 UTC
Psychiatry is over-reliant on chemical cures. It's time to look at the facts, not the fallacies.

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Prescriptions for anti-psychotic drugs handed out like candy.
If ever there were a case for an outside body to let the light in, then it's here, today, in psychiatry. If today's psychiatry is working, why are claims for mental disability going up? Why is there accumulating evidence that sufferers do better OFF the medication than on? Why is not more attention paid to the solid Swedish epidemiological evidence that 'anti-psychotic' drugs increase the risk of dementia up to 20-fold? All that known drug-induced brain damage has to show up somewhere.Why is increased suicide listed in the side-effects of the 'anti-depressants'? And worst of all, why are so many drugs being given compulsorily, overriding the patient's sensibly withheld consent - the iniquitous Community Treatment Orders (CTOs)? Even this has been shown not to work.
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Why Ebola isn't just Africa's problem

Utibe Effiong
Detroit Free Press
Sat, 03 May 2014 02:57 UTC
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Health workers teach people about the Ebola virus and how to prevent infection in Conakry, Guinea, in March.
A Canadian man returning from Liberia recently alarmed health officials with fears that he might have the Ebola virus. Although in good health when he traveled, the man was admitted to the intensive-care unit in Saskatchewan with classic symptoms of the disease.

That health scare, and others in recent weeks, were a wake-up call to those who saw the outbreaks as an "African problem." They remind us that people - and their infections - are not bound by borders. To those who claim we can't afford foreign aid, I respond that we can't afford to think of health threats as "foreign" and "domestic."

Ebola is a deadly viral infection that many people first learned about through novels like "The Hot Zone" and the film "Contagion," which featured the specter of a deadly uncontrollable outbreak wreaking global havoc.

As a physician from Nigeria now researching infectious diseases at the University of Michigan, I'm not surprised by the Canadian scare - which turned out to be a false alarm. If anything, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
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Why real salt is so important

Beverly Meyer
Primal Docs
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 02:22 UTC
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One of the diet rules we all "know" is that salt is bad for us. So why is real salt so important? Can it be a key to health recovery?

Salt was one of the earliest trade items and helped establish trade routes and villages all over the world. It was often used as money.

Salt was traditionally used to preserve food. It's value was in allowing meats and vegetables to be salted and stored for later consumption, a huge advantage over having to hunt and gather fresh food all the time. Neanderthals mined salt, as well as ancient Chinese.

Real salt is the dried mineral residue from clean ocean waters. There are deep salt deposits on most continents where oceans dried up eons ago and left huge salt deposits behind. There are also natural salt springs that come out of the earth, and the water is collected and evaporated. Both salt mines and salt springs were important in establishing trade centers.

The way to collect fresh "new" salt is to evaporate ocean water from a clean area of the ocean. Sea water is collected in everything from clay pans to vast wooden deck enclosures, where it is repeatedly turned and left to dry by the heat of the sun.
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First MERS virus case confirmed in the U.S.

Mike Stobbe
Associated Press
Fri, 02 May 2014 17:03 UTC
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Health officials on Friday confirmed the first case of an American infected with a mysterious Middle East virus. The man fell ill after arriving in the U.S. last week from Saudi Arabia where he was a health care worker.

The man is hospitalized in stable condition in northwest Indiana with Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is investigating the case along with Indiana health officials.

The virus is not highly contagious and this case "represents a very low risk to the broader, general public," Dr. Anne Schuchat told reporters during a CDC briefing.

The federal agency plans to track down passengers he may have been in close contact with during his travels; it was not clear how many people may have been exposed to the virus.
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What's going on? UK has one of the highest death rates for children in western Europe

Rhonda Stewart
The Lancet
Fri, 02 May 2014 15:38 UTC
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The UK has one of the highest rates of death for children under five in western Europe, according to new research published in The Lancet.

The findings come from a new study coordinated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Their figures provide a comprehensive new analysis of global progress towards reducing child mortality.

Although, by international standards, the UK has very low rates of deaths in children, the figures show that within western Europe, the UK has a higher rate of deaths in children than nearly every other country in the region. The mortality rate in the UK for children under five is 4.9 deaths per 1000 births, more than double that in Iceland (2.4 per 1000 births), the country with the lowest mortality rates. 3800 children under five died in the UK in 2013, the highest absolute number of deaths in the region.

In addition to calculating overall mortality rates for children under five, the researchers also analysed mortality rates for subdivided age categories. The UK was shown to have the worst outcomes compared with nearly every other western European nation for early neonatal deaths (death between 0 and 6 days), post-neonatal deaths (death between 29 and 364 days), and the worst outcomes of any country for childhood deaths (death between 1 and 4 years).
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Canadian milestone: First healthcare worker fired for refusing flu vaccine

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:06 UTC
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While Ukraine, the NBA, and Cliven Bundy dominated the headlines in North America, the Canadian press reported on a major milestone that was quietly reached - the first firing of a Canadian healthcare worker for refusing a vaccine, and the public shaming effort that comes with the "option" of wearing a face mask which took place in December.

Although the few reports surrounding the firing were published only days ago, the Boundary Hospital employee from British Columbia, Canada, Arnold Hoekstra, was fired in December of 2013. His case was only announced by the Health Ministry on Wednesday in order to "wrap up the flu season."

Hoekstra, who is 49, held a permanent part-time position at the hospital as an adult day program worker. However, when he was instructed to submit to a flu vaccination, he refused to be injected with the toxic cocktail of chemicals and viruses that have been demonstrated to cause a number of adverse health effects in both children and adults. Short of agreeing to be injected with a vaccine that has been shown to be ineffective at preventing the flu (at best), Hoekstra's only other option was to wear a face mask at all times while at work.
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UK has second-worst child mortality rate in Western Europe, study finds

Charlie Cooper
The Independent, UK
Fri, 02 May 2014 12:41 UTC
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Leading doctors and midwives accuse Government of 'failing to protect' British children.

The UK has the second-worst child mortality rate in Western Europe, a major new study has revealed, as leading doctors and midwives accuse the Government of "failing to protect" British children during the financial crisis.

In findings which were described as "shocking" by children's charities, and which caused surprise among the researchers themselves, the UK ranked behind much poorer countries such as Cyprus and Greece and for prevention of mortality in under-fives.

The under-five mortality rate for the UK was 4.9 deaths for every 1,000 births. Only Malta, a country which ranks well behind the UK in terms of wealth, performed worse in the Western European region.

The UK mortality rate was more than twice as high as the best-performing country, Iceland, and 25 per cent higher than the Western European average.

The findings come from one of the most comprehensive international studies of child mortality to date, co-ordinated by the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, and published in The Lancet medical journal today.

Dr Christopher Murray, the study's senior author said that he and fellow researchers had been "surprised" at such high mortality rates in a country which has spearheaded public health advances over the years.
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MERS deaths over 100 in Saudi Arabia


aljazeera.com
Sun, 27 Apr 2014 05:31 UTC
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The number of recorded infections of the MERS coronavirus in the kingdom has risen 339
Riyadh announces eight new deaths from coronavirus, bringing total fatalities since its discovery in 2012 to 102.

Saudi Arabia has announced eight new deaths from the MERS coronavirus, taking the kingdom's death toll from the disease since it was discovered in 2012 to 102.

The Saudi health ministry reported that a nine-month-old infant had died on Sunday, raising this month's fatalities to 39.

The ministry said the number of recorded infections had risen to 339, with 143 cases announced since the start of April, representing a 73 percent jump in total infections.

Among the latest infections were four medical staff at a single hospital in Tabuk in the country's northwest.

Panic over the spread of the virus among medical staff in the western city of Jeddah led to the temporary closure of a main hospital's emergency room.
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Newly arrived virus gains foothold in Caribbean

David McFadden
Associated Press
Thu, 01 May 2014 03:55 UTC
A recently arrived mosquito-borne virus that causes an abrupt onset of high fever and intense joint pain is rapidly gaining a foothold in many spots of the Caribbean, health experts said Thursday.
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In this undated file photo provided byt he USDA, an aedes aegypti mosquito is shown on human skin. Health officials in the Dominican Republic said this Tuesday April 29, 1014, that the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus has spread widely since making its first appearance in the country. According to the Centers for Disease Control the chikungunya virus is most often spread to people by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. These are the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue virus. They bite mostly during the daytime.
There are currently more than 4,000 confirmed cases of the fast-spreading chikungunya virus in the Caribbean, most of them in the French Caribbean islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe and St. Martin. Another 31,000 suspected cases have been reported across the region of scattered islands.

The often painful illness most commonly found in Asia and Africa was first detected in December in tiny St. Martin. It was the first time that local transmission of chikungunya had been reported in the Americas. Since then, it has spread to nearly a dozen other islands and French Guiana, an overseas department of France on the north shoulder of South America.

It is rarely fatal and most chikungunya patients rebound within a week, but some people experience joint pain for months to years. There is no vaccine and it is spread by the pervasive Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue fever, a similar but often more serious illness with a deadly hemorrhagic form.
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