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A single dose of SSRI antidepressant can alter brain architecture in hours

Geoffrey Mohan
LA Times
Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:05 UTC
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A single dose of SSRI antidepressants such as Fluoxetine, shown here, can change the brain's functional connectivity within three hours, a new study found.
A single dose of a popular class of psychiatric drug used to treat depression can alter the brain's architecture within hours, even though most patients usually don't report improvement for weeks, a new study suggests.

More than 1 in 10 adults in the U.S. use these drugs, which adjust the availability of a chemical transmitter in the brain, serotonin, by blocking the way it is reabsorbed. The so-called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, or SSRIs, include Prozac, Lexapro, Celexa, Paxil and Zoloft.

Comment: It is disturbing to discover that a single dose of these drugs can alter the brain, considering the vast independent research studies that have shown that these drugs can provoke suicidal thoughts, violent behavior and can be extremely dangerous to one's health. What is worse, they are useless considering that they have about the same efficacy as placebos, and in many cases are less effective than exercise and meditation in treating depression.

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In vaccines we trust?

Suzanne Humphries, MD
vaccinationcouncil.org
Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:49 UTC
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Millionaire vaccine inventor and mandatory vaccine advocate Paul Offit recently released a short VIDEO for doctors on medscape. Here is a transcript of the speech. Please read it before moving along. It is only one page long. This statement that outlines Offit's personal belief system could be a prelude to the legal removal of all philosophical and religious vaccine exemptions in the United States of America. This is something that Offit has been working toward for years, and the likely end-purpose of his series of books.

Paul Offit believes that exempting your child from vaccination is morally reprehensible. He considers himself an authority on autism, all infectious diseases, morality, history, every religious system, and infant immunology. You may also recognize Dr Offit as the one who says that all vaccines are perfectly safe and infants can tolerate theoretically 10,000 of them at once:
    "A more practical way to determine the diversity of the immune response would be to estimate the number of vaccines to which a child could respond at one time.... each infant would have the theoretical capacity to respond to about 10, 000 vaccines at any one time." [1]

Comment: Dr. Humphries makes some important points in the article above. Depending on what side of the argument one supports, to vaccinate or not. The right for parents to choose, based on research and data, is a hotly debated topic these days. The pro vaccination camp is working overtime to sway the debate, the following is an example:

Saying no to vaccines appears on The Daily Show
Weston A. Price Chapter leader and popular blogger Sarah Pope of Healthy Home Economist has left people on both sides of the vaccine issue in awe after her appearance onThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Her segment is actually with Samantha Bee, and her pro-vaccine opponent is the ubiquitous propagandist Dr. Paul Offit. Four-and-a-half hours of interview were carefully chiseled into a few minutes of carefully selected phrases.

It took guts for Sarah to agree to share why she doesn't vaccinate. While there was a risk in being edited, national viewers were finally exposed to someone stating that "herd immunity" through vaccination is a myth. There was a clear bent against people who don't vaccinate, but in the end both sides were ridiculed.
Men like Dr. Offit have an agenda, financial or otherwise, and really lack any sort of moral character, ironic he would accuse parents, who disagree with his views as morally reprehensible.
Paul Offit believes that exempting your child from vaccination is morally reprehensible
The choice to not vaccinate is morally reprehensible Why?! Because corporate medicine and it's 'experts' are some how more knowledgable about what is best for other people's children? Families with legitimate concerns should cower to physicians and experts and allow them to over-ride their parental philosophical and religious rights based on corrupted, profit based science?

Many would say that it is morally reprehensible for a doctor (millionaire vaccine inventor) to support and encourage vaccinations while dismissing important facts, and questions regarding vaccine safety. As the author shares, Dr.Offit has tremendous influence in the debate:
The status accorded to him by the pharmaceutical and medical fields permits him to influence the opinions and practice of lower rung physicians regarding vaccine exemptions. Unfortunately, even doctors will simply believe the "expert"[2] without bothering to go and check their own medical literature, to see if the self-proclaimed expertise has a solid scientific foundation. Research shows that when people listen to the expert, the part of their brains that is capable of independent thought goes to sleep.[3]

The vaccination debate is getting more attention because daily, uncomfortable and disturbing truths are coming to light, and those capable of 'independent thought' are not going to sleep!

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Possible 6,800 new Ebola cases this month


ScienceDaily
Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:44 UTC
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New research predicts new Ebola cases could reach 6,800 in West Africa by the end of the month if new control measures are not enacted.
New research published today in the online journal PLoS Outbreaks predicts new Ebola cases could reach 6,800 in West Africa by the end of the month if new control measures are not enacted.

Arizona State University and Harvard University researchers also discovered through modelling analysis that the rate of rise in cases significantly increased in August in Liberia and Guinea, around the time that a mass quarantine was put in place, indicating that the mass quarantine efforts may have made the outbreak worse than it would have been otherwise. Deteriorating living and hygiene conditions in some of the quarantined areas sparked riots last month. Sierra Leone began a three day country-wide quarantine today, where all citizens have been asked to stay at home, said Sherry Towers, research professor for the ASU Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modelling Sciences Center (MCMSC).

"There may be other reasons for the worsening of the outbreak spread, including the possibility that the virus has become more transmissible, but it's also possible that the quarantine control efforts actually made the outbreak spread more quickly by crowding people together in unsanitary conditions," Towers said.

The study, "Temporal variations in the effective reproduction number of the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak," is authored by Towers, Oscar Patterson-Lomba of the Harvard School of Public Health and Carlos Castillo-Chavez, ASU Regent's professor and MCMSC executive director.

Comment: For more additional information see:

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Texas hospital potentially exposed over 700 infants to TB


RT
Sat, 20 Sep 2014 02:52 UTC
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At least 700 infants may have been exposed to tuberculosis in the nursery area of a Texas hospital. The babies were put at risk of catching the contagious disease by a member of staff who was infected, health officials said.

Forty hospital employees were also put at risk of catching the disease. City Department of Public Health officials told AP that the exposure happened between September 2013 and August 2014 at Providence Memorial Hospital in El Paso.

The bacteria that causes TB can lie undetected for months or years before it eventually causes a breakout of the illness. It is contracted through germs spread by the coughs or sneezes of an infected person.
"This is an incredibly large exposure investigation, and it involves infants, so it is particularly sensitive," Carrie Williams, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, said on Friday. "Babies are more likely than older children and adults to develop life-threatening forms of TB."
Employment and medical records had to be examined to determine all of those who were put at risk.
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The extreme idiocy of sending troops to fight Ebola

Felix
HomelandSurvival.us
Sat, 20 Sep 2014 02:36 UTC
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"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it" Once again it looks like Washington has forgotten the past. They are about to send 3000 troops to Africa to help contain the Ebola outbreak. There should be some serious red flags in this mission. The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 was a global disaster killing between 20-50 million people. The spread in the United States started with soldiers returning from WWI. While Ebola is different from influenza in the way it spreads it is just as deadly if not more so.

The 3000 troops are being sent directly to the hot zone to coordinate relief efforts. They plan on building 17 additional treatment centers and recruit and train medical personnel to staff them. They'll be providing logistics, engineering and other non-medical support. The military has said that troops will not have direct exposure to patients infected with the virus.

U.S. troops will receive protective gear and specialized training to avoid contracting Ebola. "We're going to train. We're going to equip them the best we can. You can never eliminate risk in a military operation. You deal with it. ... and the men and women who sign up and serve in the military understand that when they do," Kirby said. "And I can tell you that should any of our troops fall ill, we're going to do everything we can to make them better, and to get them back to the treatment that they need."

Comment: More on preparation for Ebola:
Are you prepping your diet?
Vitamin C - A cure for Ebola
Scientists stumble across the obvious treatment for Ebola: tobacco

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Enterovirus D68 spreading rapidly: Boston Children's Hospital reports 150 possible cases


CBS Boston
Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:26 UTC
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States with confirmed cases of Enterovirus D68.

More than 150 children are being treated for possible cases of Enterovirus at Boston Children's Hospital, officials said Friday.

Doctors said they are seeing a sharp increase in the number of children with respiratory problems, and several with suspected cases of the virus are on life support. There are about 12 children in critical care and about 24 in intermediate care, doctors said.

The ages of the patients range from 2 years old to 10 years old, according to officials. The number of children being treated is about three times higher than what the hospital is used to seeing at this time of year.

Massachusetts General Hospital and Baystate Medical Center in Springfield reported suspected cases of Enterovirus earlier in the week. Lab samples are being sent to the Centers for Disease Control to confirm if the cases are Enterovirus D68.

Comment: See also:
Unidentified respiratory virus hit more than 1000 children across 10 US states, likely to spread across country

Respiratory ailment: Hundreds of Midwest kids hospitalized

Rare respiratory virus: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center sets patient record

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The Lancet Neurology Journal: Number of chemicals known to be toxic to children's brains has doubled in the last 7 years

Dave Mihalovic
Prevent Disease
Fri, 19 Sep 2014 01:13 UTC
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Neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and other cognitive impairments, affect millions of children worldwide, and some diagnoses seem to be increasing in frequency. The review published in The Lancet Neurology journal, says the news is so troubling they are calling for a worldwide overhaul of the regulatory process in order to protect children's brains.

"We know from clinical information on poisoned adult patients that these chemicals can enter the brain through the blood brain barrier and cause neurological symptoms," said Dr. Philippe Grandjean.

"When this happens in children or during pregnancy, those chemicals are extremely toxic, because we now know that the developing brain is a uniquely vulnerable organ. Also, the effects are permanent."
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New Study Finds: Fracking literally makes people sick

Anastasia Pantsios
Ecowatch
Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:53 UTC
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A new study provided more ammunition for what public health experts and environmental activists have been saying since fracking became widespread in the last half decade: chemicals used in the natural gas drilling process can be hazardous to health.

The study "Proximity to Natural Gas Wells and Reported Health Status: Results of a Household Survey in Washington County, Pennsylvania," published yesterday in Environmental Health Perspectives, found that people who live near fracking sites have more health problems than those who don't.

The Yale-based research team that produced the study looked at families in southwestern Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale region who use ground-fed water wells. Surveying 492 individuals in 180 households, researchers found a significantly greater number of skin and respiratory problems among those who lived within one kilometer of a natural gas well than those who lived two kilometers away.

Comment: Fracking: Choosing gas or clean water:

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Big Pharma alert: 10,000 American toddlers now taking amphetamine based ADHD drugs

Cassius Methyl
The Daily Sheeple
Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:24 UTC
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You never thought you would find yourself living in a society where 2 or 3 year-olds were legally high on amphetamines every day, did you? In a far beyond sick release of information, it has been revealed that toddlers can be prescribed amphetamines including, Ritalin, Adderall, and 'ADHD medications' legally. There is no rule against it, and apparently some people do not have the moral depth to understand the consequences of giving amphetamines to a mind in a stage of development that early.

About 10,000 toddlers are now known to be on amphetamines/Ritalin/other ADHD drugs. It's almost unbelievable, I know.

Comment: To learn more about The Over-Prescribing of Psychoactive Drugs to Children: A Scourge of Our Times read the following articles:

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Plastic microbeads found in Crest toothpaste can trap bacteria leading to periodontal disease


Opposing Views
Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:00 UTC
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A Phoenix dental hygienist spoke out after she kept finding strange blue dots lodged in between the teeth and gums of her patients.

Trish Walraven asked around and found other dental health professionals were seeing the same issues.

"We thought it was a cleaning product or something that people were chewing," Walraven said.

It turned out to be a common plastic called polyethylene. It's used to make bulletproof vests, garbage containers, grocery bags, and even knee replacements, WLOX reported. It's also used in microbeads that can now be found in Crest toothpaste.

"Pretty much everyone was saying that they were using some form of Crest toothpaste," she told WLOX.

According to dentist Dr. Justin Phillip microbeads shouldn't be anywhere near your mouth.

Comment: Plastic microbeads, which are typically less than a millimetre wide and are too small to be filtered by sewage-treatment plants, are able to carry deadly toxins into the animals that ingest them. Studies have shown that persistent organic pollutants, among them fat-soluble chemicals such as DDT and PCBs, stick to polyethylene microbeads, where they can become super-concentrated.

Tiny plastic timebomb - the pollutants in our cosmetics
Get Plastic Out Of Your Diet

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