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New Details Emerge in CT Scan Radiation Overdose Scandal


NewsInferno
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:44 UTC
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Radiation overdoses resulting from botched CT brain perfusion scans that occurred at hospitals across the country were larger and more widespread than previously known, according to a New York Times investigation. The Times' investigation also raises new questions about the role CT scan machine manufacturers may have played in the overdoses.

We've been covering the CT scan overdose scandal since it was first reported by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) last year. According to alerts issued by the agency in October and December 2009, machines involved in the botched CT scans, made by General Electric and Toshiba, had been wrongly calibrated and subjected patients who underwent brain perfusion scans following a stroke to excessive doses of radiation.

According to the FDA, at least 269 patients at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles were injured in this way. Another 37 received radiation overdoses at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, while 65 more at Alabama's Huntsville Hospital underwent botched CT scans. At the time, the FDA was also investigating 10 incidents at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in California.
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9 Steps to Heal Autoimmune Disease

Dr. Mark Hyman
Huffington Post
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:54 UTC
Inflammation is "hot" topic in medicine. It appears connected to almost every known chronic disease - from heart disease to cancer, diabetes to obesity, autism to dementia, and even depression. Other inflammatory diseases such as allergies, asthma, arthritis, and autoimmune disease are increasing at dramatic rates. As physicians we are trained to shut off inflammation with aspirin, anti-inflammatory medication such as Advil or Motrin, steroids and increasingly more powerful immune suppressing medication with serious side effects. But we are not trained to find and treat the underlying causes of inflammation in chronic disease. Hidden allergens, infections, environmental toxins, an inflammatory diet, and stress are the real causes of these inflammatory conditions.

Autoimmune diseases, specifically, now affect 24 million people and include rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, thyroid disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and more. These are often addressed by powerful immune suppressing medication and not by addressing the cause. That's like taking a lot of aspirin while you are standing on a tack. The treatment is not more aspirin or a strong immune suppressant, but removing the tack.

Comment: For more information about the Ultra Simple Diet read the forum thread here.

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Arrow Up

UK: Huge Rise in 11-Year-Old Girls on the Pill

Graeme Paton
The Telegraph
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:54 UTC
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Over 1,000 girls in the first year of secondary school have been given prescriptions for the contraception pills.
The number of 11 and 12-year-old girls prescribed the pill by a family doctor has soared five-fold in the past decade, according to figures.

More than 1,000 girls in the first year of secondary school have been given prescriptions for the pill, according to figures from GPs, while a further 200 have long-term inject-able or implanted contraceptive devices.

The disclosure prompted warnings that Britain was "facilitating the sexualisation of young people at an every younger age".

It follows the publication of guidance by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence that sex education should be introduced from the age of five.

Trevor Stammers, chairman of the Christian Medical Fellowship and a GP in south London, told The Sunday Times: "If sex education is introduced in primary schools in the way being proposed, we will see many more 11-year-old girls seeking contraception without pointing out the risks.... We are going to make matters worse."
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Philip Morris Inc. Sent Marlboro Cigarettes Tainted with Pigs Blood and Nuclear Matter To Iran


Salem-News.com
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:43 UTC
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The Iranian Tobacco Company is being urged to adopt better supervisory measures regarding the distribution of cigarettes in the country.

An Iranian official says some of the most popular cigarette brands are contaminated with nuclear substances when smuggled into the country.

"Some of the most famous cigarette brands worldwide including Marlboro, which accounts for the bulk of smuggled cigarettes [into the Islamic Republic] are tainted with [hazardous] nuclear materials," Mehr News Agency quoted Mohammad-Reza Madani from the Society for Fighting Smoking as saying on Friday.

"The largest tobacco companies in the world use various tricks in order to keep their markets and increase their sales," Madani added.

He went on to add that the company responsible for the production of the tainted cigarettes is the "Philip Morris International, which is led by Zionists (Israelis)," and sells Marlboro outside the US.
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Attention

FDA Warns Consumers of Serious Harm from Drinking Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS)


PR Newswire
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:34 UTC
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NOT a miracle, NOT a mineral and definitely NOT the solution
Product contains industrial strength bleach

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to take Miracle Mineral Solution, an oral liquid solution also known as "Miracle Mineral Supplement" or "MMS." The product, when used as directed, produces an industrial bleach that can cause serious harm to health.

The FDA has received several reports of health injuries from consumers using this product, including severe nausea, vomiting, and life-threatening low blood pressure from dehydration.

Consumers who have MMS should stop using it immediately and throw it away.

MMS is distributed on Internet sites and online auctions by multiple independent distributors. Although the products share the MMS name, the look of the labeling may vary.

The product instructs consumers to mix the 28 percent sodium chlorite solution with an acid such as citrus juice. This mixture produces chlorine dioxide, a potent bleach used for stripping textiles and industrial water treatment. High oral doses of this bleach, such as those recommended in the labeling, can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and symptoms of severe dehydration.

Comment: To learn more about MMS and the background of the snake-oil salesman peddling this dangerous substance, check out the following SOTT.net articles:

Another Fraud Of Alternative Medicine: M.M.S.

Snake Oil Humbles Nexus Conference

Down the Rabbit Hole - The Assassination of JFK, Bishop Jim Humble And The Nexus Conference

You can also read our exposé on this substance, MMS: Miracle or Trojan Horse?, by getting your copy of Issue #10 of Dot Connector Magazine today!

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Arrow Up

3,000 Professionals Petition to Remove Fluoride from Drinking Water


environmentalgraffiti.com
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:00 UTC
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According to the Fluoride Action Network, as of July 2010, more than 3,000 professionals from around the globe have banded together in an attempt to end the fluoridation of drinking water. Why? Since the petition first began circulating in 2007 - to the chagrin of dentists everywhere - evidence continues to mount that sodium fluoride isn't something to smile about. In fact, it could actually be one of the biggest health risks of our time. And it's not just the aptly named Fluoride Action Network that thinks so. Sources such as Natural News, Prevention Magazine and even the Wall Street Journal have all questioned the merits of fluoridation of drinking water.

So why is Fluoride still being added to our water? The story begins as many stories do when well-meaning folks try to mimic something in nature and it goes horribly wrong. Way back when, people recognized the positive effects of calcium fluoride in drinking water and wanted to replicate it. Thus, Grand Rapids, MI, began adding sodium fluoride - a less expensive version of calcium fluoride - to its water supply in 1945. The key difference being that calcium fluoride is naturally occurring and sodium fluoride is not. Not to mention that sodium fluoride is a synthetic waste product of the nuclear industry and often contaminated with lead, aluminum and cadmium.

Comment: For a more in depth look at the issue of Fluoride read the following articles carried on SOTT:

Fluoride: Worse than We Thought
The Price of Too Much Fluoride
The Consequences of Using Fluoride
Video: Parents Warned Against Fluoride In Water
'Second Thoughts about Fluoride,' Reports Scientific American
Information on fluoride isn't really new - A recap on the poisoning of the public
Mercury and Fluoride - The Dumbing Down Of A Population

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Red Flag

Canadian Medical Journal: Energy Drinks Pose Serious Health Risk to Kids

Carly Weeks
Globe and Mail
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:36 UTC
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Samm Robbins, 14, enjoys the occasional energy drink but sees it taking hold of people her age who become far to reliant on the beverage's buzz.
Federal minister of health needs to be 'awakened' to danger of sky-high caffeine levels

A critical editorial published by Canada's leading medical journal is the latest move a mounting effort to convince the federal government to crack down on the sale of caffeinated energy drinks to minors.

Energy drinks that contain high amounts of caffeine - some more than five times the amount in a can of cola, or nearly double the amount in a cup of brewed coffee - can pose serious health risks to children and adolescents and require stronger warning labels, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal's editorial.
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Attention

The Dangers of Genetically Engineered Milk

Samuel S. Epstein, MD
Huffington Post
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:45 UTC
As reported in the June 25 New York Times article on "Genetically Altered Salmon," genetically altered foods "must be labeled - if they are different in their nutritional or natural properties or other characteristics." Genetically engineered milk is very different than natural milk, and clearly qualifies for FDA's explicit mandatory labeling.

This warning is also responsive to a June 21 announcement by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) that "he would introduce three bills to comprehensively regulate all genetically engineered products and foods," and require that all such foods should be explicitly labeled.

Congressman Kucinich's concerns are well-based. These were detailed in a May 11, 2007 "Imminent Health Hazard" Citizens Petition submitted to Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs, by Samuel Epstein, M.D., Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition and four other leading scientific experts: Ronnie Cummins, Executive Director, Organic Consumers Association; John Kinsman, President, Family Farm Defenders; Arpad Pusztai, PhD, FRSE; and Jeffrey M. Smith, Executive Director, Institute for Responsible Technology.
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Bulb

Stress of an enriched environment might curb cancer growth


Eurekalert!
Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:14 UTC
Effect linked to a brain-fat-hormone pathway

Living in an environment rich with physical, mental and social stimulation - a setting that causes mild stress - might by itself curb cancer growth, according to a new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.

The animal study, published in the July 9 issue of the journal Cell, also shows how this effect happens and that it might have therapeutic use.

The researchers discovered that an enriched environment activates a nervous-system pathway by which the brain talks to fat tissue. That pathway, called the hypothalamic-sympathoneural-adipocyte (HSA) axis tells fat cells to stop releasing a hormone called leptin into the bloodstream. Leptin normally helps restrain appetite, but this study discovered that it also accelerates cancer growth.
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Health

Calcium Supplements May Raise Risk of Heart Attack

Tan Ee Lyn
Reuters
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20 UTC
Calcium supplements, which many people consume hoping to ward off osteoporosis, may increase the risk of heart attack by as much as 30 percent, researchers reported Friday.

These tiny tablets which carry concentrated doses of calcium were also associated with higher incidences of stroke and death, but they were not statistically significant.

The researchers advised people consuming calcium supplements to seek advice from their doctors, take more calcium-rich foods and try other interventions like exercise, not smoking and keeping a healthy weight to prevent osteoporosis.

"People regard calcium supplements as natural but they are really not natural at all," Ian Reid, professor of medicine at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, said in a telephone interview.

Comment: See this article for more information about calcium:

Calcium Alone is Not Enough for Healthy Bones

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