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Magic Wand

Are Diabetes and Insulin Resistance Really Reversable?

Mark Hyman, M.D.
Huffington Post
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:13 UTC
Diabetes is not reversible and controlling your blood sugar with drugs or insulin will protect you from organ damage and death.

That is what the medical profession would have you believe, but medication and insulin can actually increase your risk getting a heart attack or dying.

The diabetes epidemic is accelerating along with the obesity epidemic, and what you are not hearing about is another way to treat it.

Type 2 diabetes, or what was once called adult onset diabetes, is increasing worldwide and now affects nearly 100 million people -- and over 20 million Americans.
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Syringe

Profits, Not Science, Motivate Vaccine Mandates

Kristine M. Severyn, Ph.D.
Well Being Journal
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:24 UTC
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a group of individuals hand-picked by members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recommends which vaccines are administered to American children. Working mainly in secret, ACIP members frequently have financial links to vaccine manufacturers. Dependent on federal CDC funding, administrators of state vaccination programs follow CDC directives by influencing state legislators to mandate new vaccines. Federal vaccine funds can be denied to states that do not "vigorously enforce" mandatory vaccination laws.
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Bomb

Mental illness Tidal Wave Swamps New Orleans

Audrey Hudson
Washington Times
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:31 UTC
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A mental health crisis that has swamped this city's care facilities as surely as Hurricane Katrina's flood waters washed over the Lower 9th Ward is about to become even worse, care providers say.

New Orleans already is struggling with fewer than half of the inpatient beds for the mentally ill that it had before the 2005 hurricane - even as suicide rates and the number of people with mental health problems have doubled.

That shortage is about to become even more acute with the scheduled closing Sept. 1 of the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital (NOAH), the city's only public hospital still providing inpatient services for the mentally ill.

The closure, designed to trim $14 million from the state's 2010 budget, will leave New Orleans with 133 beds for mental health inpatient care and will make the city jail - with 60 of those beds - the city's largest psychiatric ward.
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Bandaid

Downplaying! Cancer Found in Young 9/11 Rescuers

David B. Caruso
Associated Press
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:43 UTC
Researchers say a small number of young law enforcement officers who participated in the World Trade Center rescue and cleanup operation have developed an immune system cancer.

The numbers are tiny, and experts don't know whether there is any link between the illnesses and toxins released during the disaster.
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Health

Breastfeeding lowers breast cancer risk

Danny Rose
News.com.au
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:50 UTC
Women with a family history of breast cancer should be "strongly encouraged" to breastfeed, an expert said today, after research shows it can cut the cancer risk.

US-based researchers reviewed the cases of more than 60,000 women who gave birth and who also took part in a major health survey from 1997 to 2005. Just over 600 cases of premenopausal breast cancer were detected in the group of women, with the illness hitting them at an average age of 46.2 years.

When the women had someone in their close family with breast cancer, they were found to have a lower risk of developing the disease if they had ever breastfed than if they had never breastfed.
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Pills

Don't give kids Tamiflu: doctors

Emma Alberici
ABC News
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:37 UTC
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© Tim Wimborne / Reuters
A new study released overnight in Britain warns against giving antiviral drugs like Tamiflu and Relenza to children under the age of 12. A team of researchers writing in the British Medical Journal found that the drugs may be doing more harm than good.

The British Health Department website says: "Whilst there is doubt about how swine flu affects children, we believe that a safety-first approach of offering antivirals to everyone remains the most sensible and responsible way forward".
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Info

Autistic impressions

Laura Schocker
BBC UK
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:10 UTC
'Adam' the movie
© BBC'Adam' - a new film that portrays autism
Hollywood movies rarely deal with disability - except for autism, when characters are typically shown as having special intelligence. Why do we like to think everyone with autism is especially gifted?

In one evening, he memorised every name and number from A to G in the phone book. While waiting for a meal in a restaurant, he committed the entire tableside jukebox to memory.

A dropped box of toothpicks? One glance and he is certain that 246 have spilt on the floor.

Other films since this 1988 release have depicted similar areas of brilliance that are sometimes associated with autism, known as savant qualities.
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Pills

Antidepressants once seen as miracle drugs: now risks are becoming evident

Sarah Boseley
The Guardian
Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:37 UTC
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Since the horror of the Thalidomide scandal in the 1960s, pharmaceutical companies and medicines regulators have been acutely aware of the dangers drugs may pose to the unborn child.

Establishing what the effect of a drug may be on a foetus, however, is no simple task. Companies must rely on animal studies in the early stages of research and hope that the drug will behave in humans in the same way. Trials on pregnant women are rarely carried out, for obvious reasons.

Depression and anxiety became big business for the pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s as doctors became better at diagnosing the problems, exposing a population of over-achieving, highly-stressed, worried-well.
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Black Cat

Freaky Sleep Paralysis: Being Awake in Your Nightmares

Alexis Madrigal
Wired Science
Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:59 UTC
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© John Henry FuseliThe Nightmare
You wake up, but you can't move a muscle. Lying in bed, you're totally conscious, and you realize that strange things are happening. There's a crushing weight on your chest that's humanoid. And it's evil.

You've awakened into the dream world.

This is not the conceit for a new horror movie starring a ragged middle-aged Freddie Prinze Jr., it's a standard description of the experience of a real medical condition: sleep paralysis. It's a strange phenomenon that seems to happen to about half the population at least once.
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Attention

Lettuce Recall Expanded


NewsInferno
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:32 UTC
Tanimura & Antle, Inc. of Salinas, California is expanding the geographic scope of its voluntary recall of bulk and wrapped romaine head lettuce, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just announced. The recall was implemented over concerns of Salmonella contamination.
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