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14-year-old Arizona student dies suddenly from mystery flu-like illness

Lindsay Reiser
CBS5
Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:21 UTC
Chase White
© CBSChase White
Chase White was a freshman at Desert Vista High School in Ahwahtukee. He was involved in football, student council and was a camp counselor. He died suddenly on Friday after battling flu-like symptoms since January.

"From the age of 8 years old, he planned his whole career out, what college he wanted to go to, where he wanted to live," said Antone White, Chase White's father.

Chase White's parents told us he started feeling nauseous and fatigued about three months ago. He missed nearly two weeks of school in the first academic quarter. Doctors tested his blood and urine, but nobody knew what was going on.

"He had flu-like symptoms. nausea, lethargic, no energy, occasionally he'd be throwing up, occasionally he'd have a fever," Chase White's mother, Carolynn White, said.

Then, last week, it got worse.

Chase White's parents said they went to check on him Friday morning and found him unresponsive. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced brain dead. Now, his family is planning his memorial service, still without answers as to what happened to their son.

"We've seen doctors, taken blood tests; we've seen several doctors over and over and they could not find anything," Antone White said.

Antone White said they should get autopsy results back within two weeks to two months. They said they are touched at the outpouring of support.

"That's what's getting us through this, it's just a blessing to see how Chase affected so many different people's lives," Antone White said.
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Researchers link air pollution to premature births


RT
Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:43 UTC
pollution
© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
In a first of its kind analysis, the New York University School of Medicine has linked 16,000 premature births to air pollution, resulting in costs overrunning $4 billion a year for medical treatment.

Researchers noted that air pollution is known to increase toxic chemicals in the blood and cause immune system stress, which can weaken the placenta surrounding the fetus and lead to premature birth. There are over 3.9 million live births in the contiguous US states every year, and of those, 11.4 percent are born premature. Pregnancy normally last about 40 weeks while premature babies are born before 37 weeks.

"Air pollution comes with a tremendous cost, not only in terms of human life, but also in terms of the associated economic burden to society," said lead study author Dr. Leonardo Trasande, an environmental health researcher at New York University School of Medicine in New York City, in a released statement. The study was published online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
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Wine

Study Finds Monsanto's Glyphosate in 100% of California Wines Tested — Even the Organic Ones

Matt Argoist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 04:59 UTC
California wines
Biochemical giant Monsanto has found itself under increased scrutiny after the World Health Organization recently announced that glyphosate is likely carcinogenic to humans.

Also, in the US, California recently labelled Monsanto's Roundup — as known to cause cancer. Under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm are required to be listed and published by the state.

The slew of studies showing the adverse health effects of Roundup on laboratory animals as well as humans are overwhelmingly ominous which makes news of the chemical being found in high quantities in beer that much more worrisome.


Comment: Now it's also being found in California wines, read on:

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Intestinal bacteria's influence on the brain can decrease the severity of stroke


Science Daily
Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
immune cells gut bacteria
© Corinne BenakisImmune cells (green) assemble in the outer coverings of a mouse's brain, called the meninges, protecting it from a stroke's full force. Gut bacteria modified the immune' cells behavior to elicit that protective response.
Certain types of bacteria in the gut can leverage the immune system to decrease the severity of stroke, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine. This finding can help mitigate stroke -- which is the second leading cause of death worldwide.

In the study, published March 28 in Nature Medicine, mice received a combination of antibiotics. Two weeks later, the researcher team -- which included collaborators at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center -- induced the most common type of stroke, called ischemic stroke, in which an obstructed blood vessel prevents blood from reaching the brain. Mice treated with antibiotics experienced a stroke that was about 60 percent smaller than rodents that did not receive the medication. The microbial environment in the gut directed the immune cells there to protect the brain, the investigators said, shielding it from the stroke's full force.

"Our experiment shows a new relationship between the brain and the intestine," said Dr. Josef Anrather, the Finbar and Marianne Kenny Research Scholar in Neurology and an associate professor of neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine. "The intestinal microbiota shape stroke outcome, which will impact how the medical community views stroke and defines stroke risk."

Comment:

How your microbiome controls your health

Your body is a complex ecosystem made up of more than 100 trillion microbes that must be properly balanced and cared for if you are to be healthy. The human microbiome varies from person to person based on factors such as diet, health history, geographic location, and even ancestry. Illness results when our microbiomes become imbalanced as the organisms perform a multitude of functions in key biological systems, from supplying critical vitamins to fighting pathogens, modulating weight and metabolism. This army of organisms makes up 70 percent of your immune system, talking directly to your body's natural killer T-cells so that they discern friendly bacteria from dangerous invaders. Your microbiome also helps control how your genes express themselves. So by optimizing your native flora, you are actually controlling your genes.

Heart disease is a gut-immune-hormone disease

The root of disease almost always begins in the gastrointestinal tract, with problems compounding in the immune and endocrine (hormone) systems, which in turn stress the heart. Undetected viruses and other antigens can prey on the cardiovascular system as well.

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HMO hitmen profit off of heroin addiction

Irwin Ozborne
Waking Times
Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:18 UTC
heroin cooking
"Susie is dead."

I still remember the text message on that fateful morning.

"Susie is a 24-years-old, hard-working, good-looking girl without an enemy in the world. She is the type of person who naturally connects to everyone and genuinely cares about others. How could she be dead?

"She died from a heroin overdose."

I heard these words and it literally floored me. We hear the figurative expression of being brought to your knees - well this is where it comes from. It literally occurs when you cannot physically stand and the pain and anguish is so unbearable that you involuntarily sink closer to the earth.

Who does heroin? That was my instinctive reaction.
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Kellog's and ConAgra join the GMO labeling brigade

Derrick Broze
Activist Post
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 16:05 UTC
Food giants ConAgra Foods and Kellogg's have announced that they will begin voluntarily labeling their products which contain Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).
GMO tomato
ConAgra and Kellogg's will soon begin labeling their food products which contain Genetically Modified or Engineered Organisms. The announcement comes in response to Vermont's recently passed GMO labeling law, which goes into effect in July 2016. In a statement provided to Agri-Pulse, Kellogg North America President Paul Norman said some of the company's products would be labeled "Produced with Genetic Engineering" as soon as mid-April. Norman said the labels will appear nationwide "because a special label for Vermont would be costly for us and our consumers."

"We stand behind the health and safety of all of our products, including those with genetically modified ingredients, and believe consumers should be informed as to what's in their food,"ConAgra Foods said in a statement. ConAgra agreed with Kellogg, stating that state-by-state labels would be costly and complicated. The company also called on Congress to pass a "national solution as quickly as possible."

Comment: It's fishy that all of these companies, after pushing so hard against GMO labeling, are all of a sudden caving in? What caused the change of heart and is there more to this than meets the eye?

'Big Food' companies plan to label GMOs - but is there more to the story?

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How healthcare was transformed to 'sick care' focused on vaccines and drugs

Michelle Goldstein
Natural Blaze
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
drug money, pharma drugs
Our health care system is now based on a pharmaceutical model of care with a strong emphasis on vaccinations. In the 1800s, homeopathic and nutritional health care approaches successfully treated many people who suffered during disease epidemics. Orthodox medical treatments were dangerous and comparatively less successful in treating patients.

Great divides existed between orthodox and homeopathic physicians. The attempt to suppress homeopathic medicine was accelerated in 1910 with the Flexner Report, influenced by the funding by John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. In effect, healthcare in the US was bought out and successful homeopathic physicians disallowed from further practice. This important change led to safe, inexpensive treatments being forced to the fringe of mainstream medicine, a practice which remains in effect today.

Understanding healthcare's past can assist in better comprehending the obstacles and difficulties faced in today's very slanted pharmaceutical and vaccine-based model of healthcare.

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Health

The hidden epidemic of traumatic brain injuries

Amanda Marie Cardinale
PsychCentral
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
traumatic brain injury
"Right after the hit I was in the back of the ambulance feeling really good, letting go of all my problems... the world seemed so far away," Keith explains of his near-death experience.

"I could hear the EMT screaming — he said he thought he lost me — but it sounded like I was in a bubble. The feeling reached an amazing point where if I already had done the things that I wanted with my life, I would have let go."

He points out the injuries on his face, including an eye patch that he wears since his motorcycle crash last summer. An outgoing and successful 30-year-old software engineer, the traumatic brain injury (TBI) from his accident caused brain swelling that left him with cranial nerve damage and other life-altering symptoms. His ambulance experience may have been part of the hallucinations that occur as your brain and body are failing, but Keith looks back at that moment as much more.

"The day before the accident my thoughts were around needing more money, getting a bigger place, getting more girls - things that don't matter. I was in typical young, single guy mode," he says openly.

"It sucks to be in this position, but I'm a better person because of my accident. It made me see that my life can end at any moment and I have more self-respect now." Since then, he has tried to learn more about his TBI following a surprising hospital experience. "I was disappointed by the fact that they couldn't fix me at the hospital. Even though I have a really good doctor, they don't even fully know what's going on in my brain now."

This dramatic tale may seem like something from fiction, but it's actually more common than most realize, especially considering that every twelve seconds a person in America sustains brain damage. You didn't misread — count to twelve and someone, somewhere in the U.S. has experienced a traumatic brain injury.

Comment: Study Links Concussions To Brain Disease

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Health

Essure sterilization device remains on the market despite numerous adverse health effects

Catherine Frompovich
Activist Post
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:34 UTC
essure birth control
One member of the U.S. Congress, Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-8), introduced the "E-Free Act" back in November of 2015 in order to stop the U.S. government from procuring a medical device that has harmed countless numbers of females, and also to remove "Essure," a permanent sterilization device, from the market place. [1]

The device is a nickel-based medical coil, which is designed to be placed inside the fallopian tube to cause scaring. Essure was approved by the U.S. FDA November 4, 2002, but there have been over five thousand complaints filed about the device.

Nickel is a highly allergenic metal that causes adverse health effects, especially in nickel-sensitive individuals. One common allergic response is to nickel-containing jewelry. To place a nickel-base gynecological device within the female body, in this writer's opinion, is totally irresponsible on the part of the device manufacturer and a federal government agency, e.g., the FDA, in approving it for medical use.
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Robert De Niro caves to Big Pharma, censors Wakefield documentary exposing autism-vaccinations link from Tribeca Film Festival


RT
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:35 UTC
Robert De Niro
© Mario Anzuoni / ReutersDe Niro has an autistic child, stating it has given him a personal interest in the film.

Robert De Niro has withdrawn the film "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe" from his Tribeca Film Festival after previously defending its right to be screened.

The Oscar-winning star had an 'awakening' after consulting with scientists, although initially he hoped the film would contribute to a larger discussion on autism, a misunderstood disorder that affects one of his six children.

The controversial documentary by Andrew Wakefield, a British former doctor, claims there is a link between vaccines and autism in children, particularly African-American boys.

His study was originally published in a British medical journal in 1998 before being retracted in 2010 after it was found to contain numerous flaws and was described by the journal as "an elaborate fraud."

Comment: Someone obviously got to De Niro, and it wasn't with facts. That someone (among others perhaps) may have just been the whores in the mainstream media hammering away at De Niro. It seems all one has to do is label someone a conspiracy theorist...
The Los Angeles Times and other main-stream media (MSM) networks has criticized actor and filmmaker Robert DeNiro for allowing the screening of the anti-Vaccine documentary film 'Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Conspiracy' produced and directed by Dr. Andrew Wakefield. The article 'How Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival sold out to anti-vaccine crackpots' criticized DeNiro's decision to air the movie during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City:

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The Los Angeles Times also claimed that Dr. William Thomson's "Conspiracy Theory" has been debunked due to a "2014 survey of scientific studies" showed that the MMR vaccines are "not" associated with the "development of autism" or "autism spectrum disorder":
As my colleague Steven Zeitchik reports, the festival's publicity for this film endorses its conclusion that "vaccines do cause autism" and treats the controversy in pure Hollywood style: "The most vitriolic debate in medical history takes a dramatic turn when senior-scientist-turned-whistleblower Dr. William Thompson of the Centers for Disease Control turns over secret documents, data and internal emails confirming what millions of devastated parents and 'discredited' doctors have long-suspected." You would think it's the second coming of "The China Syndrome." But it's nothing of the kind. Wakefield's work, and the "conspiracy theory" of Thompson, have been thoroughly debunked.

Let's be absolutely plain about this: There is absolutely no evidence of any link between the MMR vaccine and autism. In a 2014 survey of scientific studies covering 1.26 million children, researchers stated bluntly that "vaccinations are not associated with the development of autism or autism spectrum disorder. Furthermore, the components of the vaccines (thimerosal or mercury) or multiple vaccines (MMR) are not associated with the development of autism or autism spectrum disorder." That's just one example of the many studies finding no link. Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative that was used until 1999 in the MMR vaccine
The Los Angeles Times also criticized anchor, journalist and television host Katie Couric's decision to give conspiracy-mongers airtime exposing HPV vaccines and called former model and television host Jenny McCarthy ignorant for linking the MMR vaccine to autism:
That hand-waving in favor of "dialogue" can shield a lot of damaging mischief. It's the same sentiment that was behind Katie Couric's decision to give equally irresponsible conspiracy-mongers about HPV vaccines a platform on her syndicated daytime show in 2013, exposing their science-free viewpoints to millions of viewers. Couric soon acknowledged her misstep, recognizing that children's health and even lives are at stake when parents are encouraged to doubt the efficacy and safety of vaccines. (We're not even talking about starlet Jenny McCarthy, whose claims about the links between the MMR vaccine and autism are merely ignorant.)


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