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Sheeple

Flashback Sheffield, UK: Fluoride is added to children's milk in 42 primary schools

Jeni Harvey
Yorkshire Post
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:21 UTC
A new strategy with the focus of preventing dental problems among children is be introduced in Sheffield. Dentists in the city, who are currently paid according to how much treatment they carry out, will be asked to sign a new contract that will encourage them to carry out more preventive work.

The changes are part of NHS Sheffield's Dental Health Com missioning Strategy, which outlines how services should be run up to 2011. Key changes will come into force in March next year, when the current three-year dental contract comes to end.

The director of dental public health for Sheffield, John Green, said the current dental contract was very "activity focused."
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Propaganda

Gene may have role in lung cancer but smoking gets the blame!

Laura Ungar
courier-journal.com
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:57 UTC
A large international study suggests that some people's genes make them more susceptible to lung cancer, which kills Kentuckians at the highest rate in the nation.

The research, published online last week in the respected journal Nature Genetics, came out of the largest genetic study of lung cancer ever conducted. It involved a team from 18 countries, including the United States, and was organized in part by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France.

Comment: Though the study proved that a certain gene makes people more susceptible to lung cancer, doctors continue the fear-mongering preaching against smoking. With the number of poisons in the air we breath constantly, it is also curious that smoking gets solely the blame, when in fact it can be beneficial for some people.

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Heart - Black

Shaking a crying baby can cause brain damage


Earth times
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:43 UTC
Cologne, Germany - A crying baby should never be shaken as this can cause severe brain damage or even death, Germany's professional association for paediatricians said in Cologne. Parents should first leave the room or count to 10 and take a deep breath before acting hastily and doing something they later bitterly regret, the association advises. A paediatrician could recommend a nearby outpatient clinic that can make the interaction with a difficult infant easier.

Comment: We are speechless... What kind of parent shakes their crying infant?!

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Health

Malaysia: Health ministry keeping a tab on Chikungunya virus


The Star Online
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:48 UTC
Malacca: Some 516 people had come down with the Chikungunya virus beginning this year till Oct 18.

State Women's Affairs, Family Development and Health committee chairman Norpipah Abdol said that the virus was detected only in June where infections peaked before tapering off by early Oct.

Of the total, she said that 226 cases were detected in Melaka Tengah, 63 in Alor Gajah and 272 in Jasin.
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Syringe

Intervention: America, You are a Nation of Drug Addicts

Matt Kjeldsen
OpEdNews.com
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:05 UTC
How can passengers on a ship heading toward an iceberg, sit happily on their deck chairs? Why would anyone believe that McCain is conservative and that Obama is liberal? After being lied to and abused again and again, why would any American believe a single thing that the government and its corporate media tells them? Why are Americans so gullible?

Answer: The American population is drugged. Some are acutely aware of the drugging, while others are oblivious. However, as a group, we are close to comatose.
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Footprints

Tango your way to better health

Jill Barker
Canwest News
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:00 UTC
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© Allen McInnis/Montreal GazetteNorma Di Maulo, 61, and Cam Cornier improve their balance, posture and co-ordination by taking tango lessons.
Looks like 82-year-old Cloris Leachman, a favourite cast member of this season's Dancing with the Stars, is on to something.

According to a study led by Patricia McKinley of McGill University's school of physical and occupational therapy, dance is beneficial for seniors.

McKinley's research focused on Argentine tango, a style born in Buenos Aires and known for its long, deliberate steps, outstretched arms and close contact between partners.

"I started doing tango myself after (age) 50, and I realized that the exercises I did in learning tango would be perfect for seniors who need to improve balance," said McKinley.

Anxious to test her theory, McKinley recruited 30 people between the ages of 62 and 91 who took either a tango class or went walking twice a week for 10 weeks. At the end of Week 10, the tango group outperformed the walking group in all measures of balance, posture, motor co-ordination and cognition.
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Health

Aspirin Doesn't Guard Diabetics Against Heart Disease

Amanda Gardner
HealthDay News
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:58 UTC
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Two large studies released Sunday cast doubt on the cardiac benefits of either low-dose aspirin or vitamin supplements.

First, Japanese researchers found that low-dose aspirin did not reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in people with type 2 diabetes.

Second, Harvard researchers concluded that neither vitamin E nor vitamin C reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events in a group of low-risk, middle-aged male physicians.

People with diabetes are at a much higher risk for cardiovascular events, and the American Diabetes Association recommends the use of aspirin as a primary prevention measure. However, there is scant evidence to support the recommendations, said researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan.
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Health

Researchers create 'miniature brain' from stem cells


ABC News
Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:18 UTC
Researchers in Japan say they have created functioning human brain tissue from stem cells for the first time.

They say it should be possible to use the tissue to test brain therapies and drugs.

One of the researchers Yoshiki Sasai from the Riken Research Centre of Kobe says scientists also hope to be able to replace damaged parts of human brains in the future.

"This is made from human stem cells called ES cells and we culture them in special conditions for about 50 days and then they grow into a two-millimetre small mushroom type of structure," he said.
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Health

Child brain tumour breakthrough


The Press Association
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:05 UTC
A breakthrough by scientists could help cure deadly child brain tumours, a new study has claimed.

Researchers have for the first time pinpointed a rearrangement of DNA present in around two-thirds of all cases of the most common brain tumours in five to 19 year olds.

Described as a "significant discovery", the research published in Cancer Research - the journal of the American Association of Cancer Research - could provide leads for creating better treatments and make diagnosis of the disease more accurate.

Professor Peter Collins, who led the research at Cambridge University, said: "If we can diagnose exactly which type of brain tumour a child has as early as possible, the tumour is more likely to be treated successfully. We also hope the findings will mean it is possible to create therapies in the future that block the activity of the fusion gene and halt the growth of tumour cells."
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Attention

Biogen Says Brain Illness Found in Tysabri Patient

Elizabeth Lopatto
Bloomberg
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:27 UTC
Biogen Idec Inc. said a patient taking its multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain illness, the third case reported since July.

The report sent shares down as much as $6.94, or 17 percent, to $35 in extending trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The patient was diagnosed with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or PML, after 14 Tysabri infusions, Biogen of Cambridge, Massachusetts said today in a regulatory filing.

Biogen and its marketing partner, Irish drugmaker Elan Corp., said in August they were revising Tysabri's prescribing information to show the rare brain infection may occur in patients taking the drug as a sole treatment. Two cases of Tysabri patients with PML, which has no cure, were reported on July 31, the first since the drug was reintroduced in the U.S. in 2006. The companies pulled Tysabri from the market in February 2005 after three patients, two of whom died, contracted the illness.

Comment: It is alarming to note that even though this drug has caused brain illnesses and even death, it remains available for use by the FDA.

But when alternative medicine even mentions the use of vitamin/mineral supplements, whole foods, and herbs and spices to help people with health issues, they are threatened, harassed, attacked and ruined by the FDA. The same people who are allowing, and even encouraging, death by medicine.

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