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Fluoroquinolones are among the most dangerous drugs on the market and should be avoided unless your life depends on it. Despite their dangers, they're the most commonly prescribed class of antibiotics in the United States... In 2010, Bayer's top two fluoroquinolones (Cipro and Avalox) brought in $1 billion in sales.
That same year, Johnson & Johnson sold $1.3 billion-worth of its drug, Levaquin. All antibiotics carry a risk of side effects, but fluoroquinolones are in a class by themselves when it comes to potential health risks.
No other antibiotic carries as high a potential to cause serious, permanent injuries and even death, as the fluoroquinolones do. Despite their higher than normal risks, doctors frequently prescribe them as a first line of treatment even for mild infections. Always ask your doctor if there is a safer alternative.
And, adding insult to injury, most victims claim they were never warned that there are dire adverse effects associated with these antibiotics. I strongly advise you to educate yourself about the risks of fluoroquinolones, and refuse any prescription for these drugs unless absolutely necessary.
© Global Panorama/Flickr, CC BY-SA Better antimicrobial stewardship could curb infection rates.
Clostridium difficile is the most common bacterium contributing to health care-associated infections. It can colonize the gut and result in an intestinal disease called Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). CDI infection rates are going up, and the increase is tied to overuse of commonly used antibiotics.
CDI causes mild diarrhea or more serious symptoms like abdominal pain and fever. In the most severe forms, CDI can result in severe inflammation of the intestines or even death. Approximately 9% of patients hospitalized with CDI die, compared to 2% for all other inpatients. Patients with CDI are often hospitalized at least one week, resulting in a mean cost per hospital stay of US$24,400.
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In 1976, the great critic of 20th-century society, Ivan Illich, wrote:
"Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals."The medical cartel is the answer to the question: what do you with the population of Earth once they are living under a globalist oligarchy?
It's all about managing lives, from womb to grave, and no institution serves that management better than Medicine.
First of all, you have a system that dispenses toxic drugs in an endless stream, killing in the US alone, by conservative estimate, 100,000 people per year. On top of that, medical drugs cause anywhere from two to four millions severe adverse effects annually.
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One Italian study wondered if the age at which gluten is introduced into the diet could affect a person's likelihood of developing the autoimmune disease - so they kept gluten away from newborns for a year. To the shock of the researchers, delaying exposure to gluten didn't make a difference in the long run. In some cases it delayed the onset of the disease, but it didn't stop people from developing the disease, for which there is no cure.
The second study, of almost 1,000 children, introduced small amounts of gluten into the diets of breastfeeding infants to see if that fostered a gluten tolerance later on in those who were genetically predisposed to celiac disease. No such luck for them, either. Though both studies were excellently designed and executed, says Joseph A. Murray, MD, professor of medicine and gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, each was "a spectacular failure."
Comment: For more information on gluten, the grain that damages the human brain, and the rise in gluten intolerance read the following articles:
- A gluten for punishment: The whole grain assault on health
- Gluten: What You Don't Know Might Kill You
- Wheat contains not one, but 23K potentially harmful proteins
- The Dark Side of Wheat - New Perspectives on Celiac Disease and Wheat Intolerance
- Opening Pandora's Bread Box: The Critical Role of Wheat Lectin in Human Disease
- Book Review: Gluten Toxicity - The Mysterious Symptoms of Celiac Disease, Dermatitis Herpetiformis, and Non-Celiac Gluten Intolerance
- Just because someone doesn't have coeliac disease, doesn't mean they don't have a problem with gluten
Promoting influenza vaccines is one of the most visible and aggressive public health policies in the United States, says Doshi of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Drug companies and public officials press for widespread vaccination each fall, offering vaccinations in drugstores and supermarkets. The results have been phenomenal. Only 20 years ago, 32 million doses of influenza vaccine were available in the United States on an annual basis. Today, the total has skyrocketed to 135 million doses.
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The latest study by the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has shown that erratic working patterns lead to significantly reduced brain function, with a decade of antisocial shift work prematurely aging the brain by over six years.
Shift working has already been proven to be responsible for poor physical health, contributing to conditions such as cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and ulcers.
The team from the universities of Swansea and Toulouse studied 3,200 employed and retired workers over a period of 10 years.
Speaking to the BBC, Dr Philip Tucker, a member of the Swansea research team, said there was a "substantial" decrease in brain function.
He added: "It is likely that when [people on shifts are] trying to undertake complex cognitive tasks, they might make more mistakes and slip-ups, maybe one in 100 makes a mistake with a very large consequence, but it's hard to say how big a difference it would make in day-to-day life."
© FacebookParalyzed: Marysue is almost completely nonverbal and can hardly move, remaining mainly in her bed or wheelchair
According to Carla Grivna, her daughter Marysue was living a perfectly healthy and happy life until last year.
'She (used to) love school, she was running, playing, singing in the church choir,' Grivna told WTSP.
Last November, Grivna took Marysue for her seasonal flu shot. She was healthy for the next couple of days, playing freeze tag with friends a few days before Thanksgiving.
The next day, Grivna found her daughter paralyzed in her bed, able to open her eyes but unable to move her body or speak.
Grivna and her husband called an ambulance, and at the hospital received a sobering diagnosis - Marysue had a rare infection of the brain called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM.
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Authored by Arizona State University researcher Punam Ohri-Vachaspati and her colleagues, the study is the first to examine the use of child-directed marketing on the interior and exterior of fast food restaurants and its relationship to demographics. It adds to a substantial body of literature on the effects of various marketing efforts on fast food consumption and their relationship to health outcomes in children.
In the United States, fast food is the second largest source of total energy in the diets of children and adolescents. It provides 13 percent of total calories consumed by 2- to 18-year-olds. Every day, almost a third of children aged 2 to 11 years and more than 40 percent of 12- to 19-year-olds consume food and drinks from fast food restaurants.
Comment: Additional examples of the prevalence of large corporations (think Big Food/ Big Ag) targeting children regardless the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative:
- Babies Learn To Like Junk Food In The Womb
- Imprinted: Kids' brains "branded" with fast-food logos
- Study Shows Fast Food Companies Aggressively Market to Kids, Minorities
- Food manufacturers target children on internet after regulator's TV advertising clampdown
- Companies Exploiting Socially-Networked Children to Push Junk Food Like Drug Dealers
- McDonald's CEO called out by 9-year-old Hannah Robertson for selling junk food to kids
- We're Not Buying It: Stop Junk Food Marketing to Kids
When winter time rolls around we start hearing the term "flu season." As a result, we are offered the flu vaccine as a means to protect ourselves from the flu. I was just reading a public health flyer the other day that stated the best way to protect yourself from the flu is to take the vaccine. It seemed odd that the whole public health flyer seemed focused on making sure people knew the flu vaccine was a must have. I could understand that, if the death stats were actually accurate.
Comment: Pain, profit and politics continue this flu season:
- SOTT Special Report: The Flu Threat
- Flu deaths in U.S. rise past epidemic levels, CDC says
- Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine's Dirty Little Secret Exposed
- Flu vaccination is most certainly not a 'no-brainer'
- Flu shot increased risk of infection, made recipients sicker, study determines
Cholera (KOL-er-a) is an illness that results from infection of the large intestine by Vibrio cholerae bacteria. It can cause watery (and deadly) diarrhea, vomiting, circulatory collapse, and shock - to such an extent that people die from it. There hasn't been a major outbreak of cholera in the US.. since 1910, but worldwide it still affects millions of people.
Now, PaxVax is looking to Australian government officials to conduct a clinical trial of a genetically modified live bacterial vaccine against cholera.
The Australian Government Department of Health, Office of the Gene Technology Regulator, has received an application for a license from PaxVax to release their modified cholera bacteria on the population via vaccines. Say what?
Comment: Should we expect to see an explosion of cholera cases in the West?
Comment: One in seven patients can no longer be helped by antibiotics because they are increasingly ineffective after being prescribed too frequently. Doctors hand out prescriptions for ailments such as viruses, coughs and colds, for which antibiotics are ineffective, resulting in bacteria evolving into "superbugs" that are resistant to treatments that used to kill them.
Overmedicated: Antibiotics 'fail 15%' of patients due to superbugs and 'reckless' prescription
Ditch big pharma's antibiotics