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Syringe

Best of the Web: Flu Shots put children in the hospital

S. L. Baker
NaturalNews.com
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:23 UTC
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At the 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society recently held in San Diego, researchers presented a study showing that the flu vaccine - widely touted as a "must have" for children with chronic illnesses - isn't effective in preventing influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially ones with asthma. But here's the most damning evidence that flu shots aren't the safe, helpful vaccine the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other government agencies claim: the researchers also found that children who get the flu vaccine are more at risk for hospitalization than their peers who do not get the vaccine.

Scientist Avni Joshi, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, told the meeting, "The concerns that vaccination may be associated with asthma exacerbations have been disproved with multiple studies in the past, but the vaccine's effectiveness has not been well-established. This study was aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of the TIV (trivalent inactivated flu vaccine in children overall, as well as the children with asthma, to prevent influenza-related hospitalization."

Paradoxically, he then presented the results that appeared to show the vaccine did cause health problems serious enough to result in children being admitted to hospitals for care.
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Syringe

Six good reasons to avoid the Flu Shot

Sheryl Walters
NaturalNews.com
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:28 UTC
Every year it is recommended that people get a flu shot to avoid spending time feeling horrendously bad over the winter. Elderly people are especially warned that without a flu shot, their health could be in serious jeopardy. In recent years, this warning has been extended to children, and more recently even teenagers. Yet there is mounting evidence that flu shots do not guarantee a healthy winter, and in fact they cause far more harm than good.

Here are 6 reasons to avoid getting a flu shot.
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Family

Genetics 'not to blame for obese kids'?


American Academy of Pediatrics \ News Limited
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:36 UTC
Children become obese because of the influence of their same-sex parent, not as a result of genetics, a new study by British scientists claims.

Scientists from Peninsula Medical School at the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth say if a young girl has an overweight mother she is more likely to become obese, with the same applying to boys and their fathers.

The findings suggest that it is behavioural rather than genetic factors that have a greater influence in determining whether children become obese.

Comment: Other research does not support this. The Center for Disease Control states on it's website, childhood obesity is a result of many factors and to focus on environmental and behavioral factors alone, while perhaps more easily addressed, is limited to say the least.
Overweight and obesity result from an energy imbalance. This involves eating too many calories and not getting enough physical activity. Body weight is the result of genes, metabolism, behavior, environment, culture, and socioeconomic status. Behavior and environment play a large role causing people to be overweight and obese. These are the greatest areas for prevention and treatment actions.


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Bandaid

Swearing can help ease pain, study finds

Julie Deardorff
Chicago Tribune
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:21 UTC
The next time you hammer your thumb, do what comes naturally: Swear. It won't sound pretty, but colorful expletives may help ease the pain, according to a study in the current issue of NeuroReport, a journal of neuroscience research.

In even the most civilized cultures, people curse out of habit, to let off steam or to shock. Swearing is also a common response to physical pain. But can off-color language actually affect how much an injury hurts?
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Syringe

Planned? Swine flu 'hits airways harder'


BBC News
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:43 UTC
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H1N1 swine flu attacks the respiratory system in a more sustained way than the standard seasonal virus, research in animals shows.

Tests showed swine flu multiplies in greater numbers across the respiratory system, and causes more damage.

And instead of staying in the head like seasonal flu, it penetrates deeper into the respiratory tissues - making it more likely to cause pneumonia.

The University of Wisconsin study appears in the journal Nature.

It also suggests that swine flu may mimic the flu virus which caused the great pandemic of 1918, in which millions died.

The 1918 virus also had a greater ability than standard flu to cause damage to the respiratory system.

Comment: No surprise that H1N1 "may mimic the flu virus which caused the great pandemic of 1918". The Big Pharma pschopaths have been playing with the real thing for years.

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Heart

Full recovery for two hearts girl

Michelle Roberts
BBC News
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:16 UTC
A 16-year-old girl from Wales who made history when, as a baby, she had a donor heart grafted onto her own has made a full recovery.

Doctors say Hannah Clark's own heart is now in perfect working order three-and-a-half years after her "piggy-back" donor heart was removed.

Sir Magdi Yacoub, the pioneering surgeon who performed Hannah's original transplant when she was two, said he was "surprised and delighted".

The Lancet journal tells her story.

The original operation in 1995 saved Hannah's life because she had cardiomyopathy - a condition which made her heart double in size and risk giving out within a year.

The donor heart was able to take over most of the role of pumping blood around Hannah's body, effectively allowing her own beating heart to rest.
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Evil Rays

Food Irradiation is Both Ineffective and Detrimental

Ethan Huff
Natural News
Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:47 UTC
A recent study published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed that cats who were fed a diet of irradiated food developed severe neurological disorders including paralysis, movement disabilities, vision problems, cognitive degeneration, intense pain, loss of feeling, and death. The study revealed that the irradiated food also caused the destruction of myelin, a mixture of proteins and phospholipids that form a protective sheath around nerve fibers in the central nervous system, which includes the brain.
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Family

Children 'should sleep with parents until they're five'

Sian Griffiths
Times Online
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:54 UTC
Margot Sunderland, director of education at the Center for Child Mental Health in London, says the practice, known as "co-sleeping", makes children more likely to grow up as calm, healthy adults.

Sunderland, author of 20 books, outlines her advice in The Science of Parenting, to be published later this month.

She is so sure of the findings in the new book, based on 800 scientific studies, that she is calling for health visitors to be issued with fact sheets to educate parents about co-sleeping.
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Cow

Why So Many Are Sick: The Biggest Killer

headveg
YouTube
Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:56 UTC
Milton Mills MD puts it all together -- how the real enemy of American is not Osama, and how meat can cause behavioral problems in children.
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People

Fattened Up for the Slaughter - Swine Flu Kills the Obese

Jason Gale
Bloomberg News
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:50 UTC
An unexpected characteristic has emerged among many swine flu victims who become severely ill: They are fat.

Doctors tracking the pandemic say they see a pattern in hospital reports from Glasgow to Melbourne and from Santiago to New York. People infected with the bug who have a body mass index greater than 40, deemed morbidly obese, suffer respiratory complications that are harder to treat and can be fatal.
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