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Anthrax Vaccine Scandals Won't Go Away
by Phyllis Schlafly, March 1, 2000

It wasn’t just idle words when Bill Clinton said he “loathed” the military. He has damaged U.S. Armed Services in so many ways that it’s no wonder morale, recruitment and retention levels are at all-time lows. ... Clinton has used the military to indulge in social experimentation to appease the feminists and gays, and in interventionist experimentation to please his globalist friends. He has also ordered medical experimentation through compulsory anthrax vaccination. ... [ MORE ]

Aspartame (“NutraSweet”): A Potent Warning
by Nancy Markle

The artificial sweetener being marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, and Spoonful has now been linked to systemic lupus, grand mal seizures, MS-like symptoms, Alzheimer’s, methanol toxicity, fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting pains, numbness in the legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, and memory loss.  ... [ MORE ]

Cholesterol Drugs Not Effective
by Lyndsey Layton (Washington Post)

A widely prescribed and expensive cholesterol drug is not as effective as niacin, a cheap vitamin, in helping to unclog coronary arteries in people already taking statins, the standard medicines used to lower cholesterol, according to a new study.  [ MORE ]

Deadly Doctors
by Edgar A. Suter, M.D.

A 1990 Harvard Medical Practice study suggests that each year 150,000 people die from the negligence of doctors. Since there are about 300,000 doctors in the United States, that means that approximately one out of every two U.S. doctors negligently kills one patient every year. Over a 30-year career, this could mean that the average doctor would kill 15 patients. Since there are about 200,000,000 guns in the United States, and about 30,000 people die annually from gun assaults, suicides, and accidents combined, each year an American gun has a one in 6,666 chance of killing someone. [ MORE ]

Drugstore Dangers
by Susan Headden et. al.

Too many pharmacists fail to protect consumers against potentially hazardous interactions of prescription drugs. … In 11 states, pharmacists have been granted the limited right to prescribe certain medications — a privilege traditionally reserved for doctors. ... many of the nation's pharmacists ... are failing to protect consumers against dangerous interactions of prescription drugs, an exploding health-care problem that sends hundreds of thousands of Americans to the hospital every year. ... [ MORE ]

Ephedra: Another View
by Jerry McLaughlin, Ph.D.

In view of the sensationalism created by the FDA and the media over the purported side effects, the beneficial effects of ephedra, as an aid to weight loss, are being unjustly ignored. Of the 2,300,000 total deaths recorded in 1997 in the U.S., some 955,021 (42 percent) were attributed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to conditions that typically emanate from obesity (heart disease, hypertension, stroke, and diabetes). According to CDC statistics some 54 percent of the adults in the U.S. are overweight, and the mortality due to obesity is certainly a greater danger than the rare incidences of stroke or heart attacks attributed to temporary consumption of ephedra products. Thus, ephedra products for weight control clearly offer a favorable ratio of benefit to risk, and that ratio is equivalent or superior to anything else that is available to the U.S. consumer as an anorexiant (appetite suppressant). [ MORE ]

Europe Bans Supplements

Despite an overwhelming protest from the people of Europe who demanded their right to natural healthcare, these regulations were passed in secret behind closed doors, in the usual Eurocratic dictatorial fashion. In a nutshell, they will make it illegal, in a couple of years, to sell about two thirds of the current food supplements in our health shops today — supplements which are not only completely non-toxic, but are central to many alternative and complementary therapies.   [ MORE ]

Fluoride: A Caustic Issue

Fluoride, a corrosive chemical more poisonous than lead, is added to more than 60 percent of U.S. water supplies annually. This number is said to be on the increase,  … Sodium fluoride was the kind of fluoride originally added to public water supplies, but this is no longer the case. While it is difficult to fathom why people would willingly add a substance once sold as rat poison to their drinking water, … Most fluoridated water supplies in the U.S. are treated with more caustic kinds of fluoride, such as fluosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride. These compounds are waste products supplied by major corporations of the phosphate fertilizer industry. Anti-fluoride groups believe these corporations save millions of dollars, because it would cost them many times more to dispose of such hazardous materials properly than it does to unleash them on the public. [ MORE ]

Positive Results with Ginkgo

Results of a multicenter study published in the … the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) indicate that Ginkgo biloba extract can be of significant benefit in the treatment of dementia associated with Alzheimer disease and multi-infarct dementia. The authors asserted that the improvement seen in patients with Alzheimer could be equated with “a six-month delay in the progression of the disease.” These results are particularly promising in light of the fact that no satisfactory treatments currently exist for the management of this common and devastating condition. [ MORE ]

Hepatitis B Vaccine
by Jane Orient, M.D.

[The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons] opposes federal mandates for vaccines, on principle, on the grounds that they are:

(1) An unconstitutional expansion of the power of the federal government.

(2) An unconstitutional delegation of power to a public-private partnership.

(3) An unconstitutional and destructive intrusion into the patient-physician and parent-child relationships.

(4) A violation of the Nuremberg Code in that they force individuals to have medical treatment against their will, or to participate in the functional equivalent of a vast experiment without fully informed consent.

(5) A violation of rights to free speech and to the practice of one’s religion (which may require one to keep oaths). AAPS would specifically oppose the campaign for universal immunization against hepatitis B, even if the above did not apply, because the safety of the vaccine is in question. ... [ MORE ]

Hepatitis C

A Congressional panel asked health officials why an estimated one million Americans were never told they were given Hepatitis C-infected blood. The Center for Disease Control says, as a result, 300,000 were infected. [ MORE ]

Preschoolers

As many as 1.5 percent of preschoolers take some form of mood-altering medication, new research shows. Yet many of these drugs aren’t approved for -- and haven't been tested on -- very young children. [ MORE ]

Prescribed Killers
by Nancy Shute (U.S. News & World Report)

Correctly prescribed prescription medications are the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.  [ MORE ]

Stealth Virus

It has been at least four years since the Food and Drug Administration was warned by respected authority that there is significant reason to believe that a large number of American adults and children have been infected, and continue to be infected, by contaminated vaccines derived from infected monkeys used in the production of those vaccines. [ MORE ]

Swine Flu Information

Has your doctor encouraged you to get a flu shot? Perhaps you’ve heard dire predictions of the “worst flu season in years” and want to make sure you’re protected? Well, here’s the rub: Flu shots are neither as safe nor effective as you’ve been lead to believe, and there still has been no H1N1 vaccine developed (as of November 11, 2009). It turns out the government and certain interested parties have worked very hard to convince you the flu vaccine is your best protection against the flu. And that just isn’t true. In fact, most of what you've been told about the vaccine is a myth, carefully designed to put billions of dollars into Big Pharma’s pockets and to terrifying you into accepting a sweeping takeover of the entire health care industry by the Marxist elements of our government. [ MORE ]

Vaccination Waiver

When health care, school, or other government officials tell you that the law requires your children to receive potentially harmful, or even lethal, vaccinations, they are lying to you. Anyone who is in a position to tell you that vaccinations are required, also has in their desk drawer the government’s formal waiver form. They are required by law to lie to you and try everything to coerce you into vaccinating your children; but to allow them to do so is a violation of your civil and religious liberties. This form is even better than the official government form, and sets forth legal reasons for you to refuse to allow your children to be vaccinated. [ MORE ] [ Printable Version ]

Vitamin D and Fracture Risk

Reuters Health

Older women who have a vitamin D deficiency may be at greater risk for fractures compared with their peers. Half of women who suffered a broken hip did not have adequate supply of vitamin D, according to a study in the April 28th issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.  [ MORE ]