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Cancer business: Advertising by U.S. cancer centers has tripled in past decade


Science Daily
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
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Cancer centers promoting their services dramatically increased their advertising spending from 2005 to 2014, with the bulk of the spending by for-profit organizations, according to the results of a study.

Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health reported that 890 cancer centers spent $173 million for advertising in 2014, and just 20 centers accounted for 86 percent of the spending.

One company, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a for-profit firm with a national network of five hospitals, spent $101.7 million, 59 percent of the total. In contrast, 25 of the nation's 60 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers spent no money on advertising, and of those that did, half spent less than $4,000, the authors said.

Of the 20 centers that accounted for the bulk of spending, five were for-profit institutions, 17 were Commission on Cancer-accredited and nine were NCI-designated centers.

Comment: The business of cancer is enriching the medical/pharma cartel while it causes untold suffering and financial hardship in those caught in the net of 'cancer care'.

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Ambulance

Thanks Big Pharma for the Mitochondrial "collateral damage"

Dr. Gary G. Kohls
Global Research
Fri, 06 May 2016 14:20 UTC
Mitochondrial “collateral damage”
"Mitochondrial damage is now understood to play a role in a wide range of seemingly unrelated disorders such as schizophrenia, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Recently it has become known that iatrogenic (physician or treatment-caused) mitochondrial damage explains many adverse reactions from medications." - John Neustadt, MD and Steven Pieczenik, MD
"All classes of psychotropic drugs have been documented to damage mitochondria, as have statin medications, analgesics such as acetaminophen, and many others." - John Neustadt, MD and Steven Pieczenik, MD
Several years ago I attended a conference that was sponsored by the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (UMDF), an organization which seems to be a combination patient advocacy group and a funding organization for mitochondrial researchers.

The conference centered entirely upon the rare congenital/inherited forms of mitochondrial disorders that are first diagnosed in infancy and which comprise about 10 - 15 % of cases of known mitochondrial disorders.

Comment: Additional mechanisms underlying mitochondrial damage:

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Black Magic

Americans swindled (again!) over GMO labeling laws - the DARK Act is back

Carolanne Wright
wakeup-world.com
Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:18 UTC
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"This is not a labeling bill; it is a non-labeling bill. We are appalled that our elected officials would support keeping Americans in the dark about what is in our food and even more appalled that they would do it on behalf of Big Chemical and food corporations." ~ Center for Food Safety
In yet another attack on transparency and food safety, biotech giant Monsanto has won an unexpected bipartisan victory in Congress with a "test vote" on a bill dubbed Deny Americans the Right to Know Act, or DARK Act. On June 29th, 'representatives' in the U.S. Senate announced a deal had been reached regarding federal GMO labeling requirements. Introduced by Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), both Senators were paid handsomely by agribusiness to push the pro- GMO agenda in Congress — $2,808,111 and $1,565,978 respectively. Incredibly, it wasn't just politicians that sold out the American public, a laundry list of organic brands owned by large corporations have embraced this latest version of the DARK Act as well, which will nullify state GMO labeling laws — including hard won legislation in Vermont.
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Syringe

Children in 7th grade will be forcibly injected with HPV vaccine if they wish to remain in public school


Natural News
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:48 UTC
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In a highly controversial, unprecedented motion, members of the Allegheny County Health Department in Pittsburgh, PA, have publicly revealed that they're considering administering a countywide mandate to require all 7th grade girls and boys to receive the HPV vaccine before receiving admittance into school for the 2017 - 18 school year. Since the news broke last week, natural health advocates and anti-vaccine activists have been in an outrage, condemning the corporate Big Pharma-funded mandate.

The HPV vaccine is readily available to the public; that, coupled with the fact that the Human papilloma virus is transmitted exclusively through sexual activity, makes the necessity of administering a vaccine with such controversial side effects to grade school children absurd.

If passed, the mandate would make Allegheny County the only county in the state to have different vaccine regulations to the rest of Pennsylvania. While the mandate would only affect school children attending schools within Allegheny County, many fear that if the mandate is a success, other U.S. counties and states could easily follow suit.

The plot thickens, as Health Impact News reported that medical professionals who spoke in favor of administering the HPV vaccine at a recent meeting organized by the Allegheny County Health Department, had "conflicts of interest related to vaccine manufacturers that they failed to disclose."

The problem doesn't only lie in the fact that county officials are attempting to forcibly administer Big Pharma vaccines to the public, but that they're attempting to administer arguably the most controversial of all vaccines to children.

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Bandaid

Positive side to 'bad' habits: Thumb sucking and nail biting linked to lower risk of allergies

Agata Blaszczak-Boxe
LiveScience
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 05:56 UTC
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Young children who suck their thumbs or bite their nails may be less likely to develop allergies later in childhood, according to a new study that spanned three decades.

Although the results do not suggest that kids should take up these habits, they do suggest that the habits may help protect against allergies into adulthood, the researchers said.

"Many parents discourage these habits, and we do not have enough evidence to [advise they] change this," said Dr. Robert Hancox, an associate professor of respiratory epidemiology at the University of Otago in New Zealand. "We certainly don't recommend encouraging nail-biting or thumb-sucking, but perhaps if a child has one of these habits and [it] is difficult [for them] to stop, there is some consolation in the knowledge that it might reduce their risk of allergies."

In the study, the researchers pulled data from an ongoing study of more than 1,000 children born in New Zealand in 1972 or 1973. The children's parents were asked about their kids' thumb-sucking and nail-biting habits four times: when the kids were 5, 7, 9 and 11 years old. Researchers also tested the children for allergies using a skin-prick test when they were 13, and then followed up with the kids again when they were 32.

It turned out that 38 percent of the children who had sucked their thumbs or bit their nails had at least one allergy, whereas among kids who did not have these habits, 49 percent had at least one allergy.

Comment: The Hygiene Hypothesis - Can being too clean harm your health?

The immune system learns how to fight illness and disease by being exposed to it; it then builds defenses. When we don't allow our immune systems to have any exposure to these micro-organisms, it doesn't know how to fight them—leaving us vulnerable.

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Giant blindness-causing plant is spreading across North America and Canada

Patrick J Kiger
Seeker
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:00 UTC
Hogweed
Hogweed can grow to between 8 and 20 feet and appears set to conquer ecosystems across North America.

State environmental authorities in Wisconsin are the latest to warn of the dangers of a giant invasive plant whose toxic sap can cause temporary blindness and severe burns and blisters in people unlucky enough to come in contact with it.

But they're not the only ones worried about giant hogweed (scientific name Heracleum mantegazzianum), a plant from central Asia that misguided horticulturists imported to New York state back in 1917, possibly because of the beauty of its umbrella-shaped white flowers. Since then, it's spread across the United States from Maine to Washington state, and across Canada as well.

Comment: See also: The special intelligence of plants
  • Plants communicate using an internet of fungus, "wood wide web"


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Green Light

Big Pharma terrified: Pill sales plummet as medicinal marijuana is legalized

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Thu, 07 Jul 2016 16:32 UTC
legal pot
© thefreethoughtproject.comBig Pharma Shaking in Their Boots as 80% of Cannabis Users Give Up Prescriptions Pills for Pot
For decades the pharmaceutical industry has poured millions into the pockets of corrupt politicians as they lobbied to keep cannabis illegal. A new study from the University of Georgia shows exactly why all that money was spent. Legal marijuana destroys big pharma's profits.

The study examined the costs of Medicare's prescription drug benefit program in 2013, a year when only 17 states and the District of Columbia had legalized medicinal marijuana. They found that legal pot contributed to a savings of $165.2 million in prescription costs. Researchers at the University of Georgia used those number to determine a savings in the hundreds of millions if all states would legalize medical cannabis.
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Health

Does dirty electricity and EMF smog cause Type 3 diabetes?

Catherine Frompovich
Activist Post
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:54 UTC
type 3 diabetes
Diabetes, according to former FDA toxicologist Dr Dana Flavin, MD, PhD, has increased 700 percent over the years! As of 2014, the CDC stated that 9.3 percent of the U.S. population had diabetes: 21 million diagnosed and 8.1 million undiagnosed. [1]

Diabetes usually is diagnosed as Type 1 or Type 2 but, according to Dr Magda Havas, PhD, there is a third type of diabetes that needs to become mainstreamed information. It results from exposure to electromagnetic frequencies. Dr Havas ought to know what she's talking about since she works at the Centre for Health Studies and Environmental & Resource Studies, Trent University, Petersborough, ON, Canada. [2]

In this 7 minute video Dr Havas explains the three types of diabetes:

Comment: Check out these episodes of The Health and Wellness Show for more on EMF and dirty electricity:

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Dreamsicle

Get the lowdown on high fructose corn syrup

Catherine J. Frompovich
Activist Post
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:01 UTC
high fructose corn syrup
High fructose corn sugar (HFCS) has taken on another name—a façade of sorts—to legitimize its ubiquitous presence in most processed foods. If you haven't seen HFCS recently on food labels, did you recognize its alter ego—"corn sugar"?

The Corn Refiners Association and food processors wanted another term for HFCS which, basically, equated with "not healthful" or "contributes to certain unhealthy conditions," thus we now have HFCS appearing as corn sugar, but still delivering the same adverse nutrition aspects that prompted the name change.

Dr Dana Flavin, MD, PhD, former FDA official and toxicologist, has expertise in HFCS, which she says is "too sweet to eat." Furthermore, that 45 percent of HFCS or corn sugar is tainted with mercury (Hg)! That's according to a peer-reviewed study published in Environment Health Magazine. HFCS came on the market in the 1970s. Until then, food processors used sucrose as sweeteners. Since then, HFCS has been used by soft drink makers and other food processors without abandon. It's more economical to use corn sugar than other natural sugars in making things taste sweet.

Comment: High fructose corn syrup is evil, unnatural and should be avoided at all costs.

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Latest glyphosate study shows it can damage uterus and promote the development of uterine cancer

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 19:26 UTC
glyphosate
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One of the most difficult aspects of demonstrating the possible risks of GMOs and their paired chemical herbicides such as Monsanto Roundup containing glyphosate is that the GMO chemical companies make it virtually impossible for serious, unbiased scientists to test possible dangers. An uncharacteristically huge resistance inside the member countries of the EU among the population and various NGOs has three times forced a postponement of EU Commission decision to renew the EU license for glyphosate. In 2015 an agency of the World Health Organization labeled glyphosate a "probable carcinogen. Now a team of scientists has published their peer-review findings discovering serious damage to the uterus of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world's most-used weed-killer. Other alarming signs of high glyphosate toxicity also to humans are being documented as well.

In an article published in the current issue of the international scientific journal, Toxicology, researchers injected a group of newborn rats with a commercial dosage of glyphosate-based herbicide (GBH) and a control group with a saline solution to compare. Astonishingly, it was the first test in the 42 years since Monsanto first brought glyphosate to market as the main component of its most popular weed-killer, Roundup, that tested effects on uterine development of glyphosate-based herbicide exposure. The results are hair-raising and ought to have been featured on the front page of every major world press.

Among the findings of the researchers was that GBH-exposed uteri showed morphological changes when they are exposed for only 7 days after birth. Further, GBH treatment also altered the expression of proteins involved in uterine organo-genetic differentiation. i For the layperson, morphological change in an embryo in a uterus is pretty major, to put it mildly. It means a change in form of the embryo, say a born rat with three ears or grossly deformed head. Altered expression of organo-genetic differentiation means that the GBH diet also affected the very organs of the embryo.


Comment: One little piggy had birth defects: Is Monsanto's Roundup to blame?

Glyphosate is a known teratogen, meaning "monster-maker." Studies conducted on rats and rabbits since the 1980s have shown an astonishing spectrum of birth defects associated with glyphosate, including absent kidneys, missing lobes of the lungs, enlarged hearts, ventricular septal defects (holes in the heart), extra ribs, and deformed and absent bones of the skull, spine, ribs, sternum and limbs.


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