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Gaia's News Bits are how you can keep up with the onslaught of news in health and the environment. Gaia Health provides encapsulations of recent news, often not generally known, that you need to know—but it's in small bites. Sources and extra information are always provided so you can verify it for yourself or dig deeper. Gaia Health articles that speak to the issue are also suggested. News Bits are your opportunity to easily keep up with the information you need to know, but without being overwhelmed.

Recent Gaia Bits News Articles:

Strong Biological Activity of Homeopathic Remedy on Arsenic-Poisoned E. Coli Shown in Study—It's time for the naysayers to start looking beyond the ends of their collective noses and stop the collective chant against homeopathy and real science.

Brain Stents Double Risk of Stroke: Proof Evidence-Based Medicine Is a Fraud—When there's no excuse for not knowing and when patients do worse—including death and permanent disability—what should we call it? How can it be considered anything but negligent homicide?

Help Save Heirloom Seeds and Keep Monsanto Out of Your Garden—Monsanto is literally trying to take over agriculture. To this end, they are buying out seed companies. You can help save one that's pledged to organic non-GM seeds.

Monsanto Corn Crop Failures Prove You Can't Fool Mother Nature—Corn crops are falling over dead, succombing to stronger versions of the pests they were designed to resist. They're grown from the seeds of their own destruction.

Mercury in Vaccines Will NOT Be Banned by UN or Treaty—The rumors that mercury will be banned in vaccines and that vaccine promoters are quaking in their boots are wishful thinking. The coming treaty will allow mercury in vaccines. Here's the proof.

Giant Plastic Bag Makers Sue Reusable Bag Company for Telling the Truth about Disposables—More and more, the courts are being used to drive smaller eco-friendly and humane companies out of business. At risk is our access to humane and eco-friendly products.

Latest ConMed Cancer Treatment: Maximum Invasive Surgery Paired with Heated Chemo & No Proof It Works—Isn't modern medicine supposed to be evidence based? Apparently, only when evidence can be drummed up. When it can't be faked, then they just say it works and sell sell SELL it!

Painting by talented artist and homeopath, Gina Tyler

Gut Biota Never Recover from Antibiotic Use: Loss Extends to Future Generations—Evidence shows the mass antibiotics experiment is devastating our children's health. It may be the reason so many struggle for breath and can't assimilate food properly.

Damage in Fukushima after tsunami, radiation warning sign superimposed

No Return to Fukushima Exclusion Zone: Officially Uninhabitable. Radiation Greater Than 29 Hiroshimas, So Far.—The Japanese government will finally admit that radiation is making the area around Fukushima uninhabitable—but it's just one piece of a much more disastrous picture.

Autistic Girl Stolen from Her Father and Forcibly Drugged by the Canadian Government—Since being grabbed, Ayn has been placed on three different antipsychotics. She and her father are just one example of families devastated by this racket.

Small boy with Mohawk hairdo looking tough with caduceus tattoo & microchips on body

Blurring Human-Machine Distinctions: Tattoo-Like Monitors—'The goal is really to blur the distinction between electronics and biological tissues.' This chilling statement is the introduction of a new technology by its lead researcher.

Money passing hands in front of death's head caduceus

Cancer Research of 10 Years Useless: Fraudulent Studies, Says Mayo Clinic—JAMA's editor calls fraudulent medical research a 'scar on the moral body of science'. But it's really just part of an entire system of fraud in medicine.

Beggar holding cardboard sign saying, 'Will sell kidney for tuition.'

'Can't Afford Tuition? Sell an Organ!' Says Scottish Academic—A high-level doctor is advocating that students be 'allowed' to pay for their education by selling their organs.

Fukushima Radiation So High, Geiger Counter Can't Register It!—Fukushima radiation is six times more than the previous high, more than Geiger counters can register. News media and governments cover it up—and radioactive waste to be used as garden soil!

Vaccination Adjuvant Works By Killing Cells: Cause of Autoimmune Disorders?—A new Nature Medicine study may provide insight into why there's so much autoimmune disease today. Have the authors unintentionally pointed to the smoking gun that even vaccinators must acknowledge?

Mobile phone, doctor's hand coming out with pill bottle

Big Pharma Spends $95 Thousand Per Doctor on Marketing Each Year—The amount of spending to market Big Pharma's products comes to about $95,000 per doctor per year in the US alone. Now, they're interacting with docs at the point of writing prescriptions.

Attack of the Killer Seaweed: Nature Strikes Back—Killer seaweed is supplanting normal seaweed in the oceans. Now it's returning to the shores that spawned it, spreading death on land.

Cancer Doubles in Mountaintop Coal Mining Country—Mountaintop coal mining is killing Americans at an unprecedented rate, as documented by ground-breaking study.

FDA to Loosen Conflict of Interest Rules—Says They Interfere with Drug Approvals!—Darn those conflict of interest rules. They slow down drug approvals! Therefore, goes the thinking of the FDA director, the rules must be loosened.

Genetic Modification Wins: Rogue USDA Hands It All to Monsanto—Get ready for Monsanto's poisonous GM plants to be released without any regulation. The USDA is abdicating its role in controlling many of these plants.

Fraudulent Cancer Treatment Pushed by Major University—Even when faced with proof that their system of treatment was based on severely corrupted data, Duke University continued to sell their treatment system.

Reducing Salt Does Not Reduce Heart Disease: Cochrane Study—Salt reduction is currently a third rail of medicine. There is simply too much money to be made on blood pressure drugs, and Big Pharma must not be crossed.

Whooping Cough Epidemic Caused by Virulent New Pertussis Strain—And It's the Result of Vaccine—The CDC and NIH keep pushing the pertussis vaccine, in spite of info it's causing the new whooping cough epidemic that is 10 times more deadly than the old whooping cough.

Whooping Cough Outbreaks in Vaccinated Children Become More and More Frequent—The lesson of these outbreaks is that the modern medical paradigm is deeply flawed. Now it's caught with its knickers down and no decent explanation, since those it claims to have protected are victims.

Cancer test paper, F grade, broken pencil

National Cancer Institute Admits Screening for Ovarian Cancer Is Worse Than Useless—Testing, testing, and more testing—that's the holy grail of the cancer industry. In the case of ovarian cancer, it does more harm than good.

Fetuses Being Drugged in Womb to Prevent Obesity—Researchers are giving drugs to fetuses to see if it keeps them from being born fat. Even if the drug is 'relatively safe', this can only happen in a system that's gone insane.

Fat Man in Tshirt with 'Bariatric Surgery = Fat Chance'

Does Bariatric Surgery Extend Life? Fat Chance! says JAMA Study—The risks of permanent harm from bariatric surgery are significant, and those who are at greatest risk from obesity are the ones with no likelihood of life extension.

FBI Raids Company...for Probiotics!—Call to Action! We must stop the attacks on innocent and healthy businesses. We must stop the attacks on our right to manage our own health!

Exploding Melons Chemical Implicated in Cancer & Neurological Disorders—Though the story of exploding melons in China is funny, the chemical that caused it is implicated in severe diseases and is routinely used in the United States and Australia.

FDA Threatens Dr. Mercola, Gives Order to Stop Thermography—This is a call to action! The FDA is now attacking Mercola for offering thermography—and attacking us by stealing thermography so we can't access it, unless they give it to Big Pharma and Big Med.

Attempt to Blame Organic Crop for E coli Outbreak Fails—Agribusiness has delivered us a new disease, E. coli, and now attempts to place the blame on the innocent: organic farming.

Spinal and Dental Surgery Product Causes Sterility—Not to Mention Cancer and Auto-Immune Effects.—Adverse effects of Medtronic's InFuse bone growth stimulator include sterility, cancer, auto-immune effects, and bone-formation in unwanted locations.

FDA Tries Bizarre and Sloppy Whitewash of Heart Drug that Causes Cancer—The FDA produces an absurd pseudo-study that claims to show no cancer link to common blood pressure drugs, but actually shows strong FDA link to Big Pharma.

Smoking Gun Aimed at Vaccines: CDC Study Shows 1 in 6 Children Developmentally Disabled.—What causes autism? The CDC would have us believe that we just don't know. But, their own study seems to hold a smoking gun aimed directly at vaccines.

Woman in bed with thermometer & spots all over her & bed

Cases of Autism Dwarf Risk from Measles—When the number of children who get measles is compared with the number who get autism, and then you consider the relative degree of harm from each, it becomes obvious that there's an agenda behind the measles fear mongering.

Death's head caduceus over woman with feverish child

Routine Treatment for Shock Kills 3 Out of 100 Children—The routine intravenous administration of fluids to children in shock is killing them. It had never been tested before now—just presumed to be beneficial. How many thousands...millions?...of children have died for that presumption?

Vuvuzela inserted through Olympics logoVuvuzela

Olympics Organizers Want Us to Believe that Blowing Off Steam Is Dangerous to Our Health—Taxpayers' money was given to fund a study on how far football fans' vuvuzela horns spread 'respiratory aerosol' and the Olympics may ban the horns for it.

Disgruntled man questioning taking drugs in his hand

Statin Drugs Provide No Benefit: Study of 4 Million People—Aside from demonstrating that statins provide no benefit to most people, the study also demonstrated that the so-called gold standard, randomized double blinded placebo controlled study, is a farce.

GMO Toxins in Vast Majority of Pregnant Women and Fetuses: Canadian Study—The GMO mass experiment on the public is producing results. The toxic elements can be found in nearly all pregnant women and children.

Independent Analysis of Monsanto's Own GMO Crop Data Shows It Causes Organ Damage—The study provides undeniable proof that Monsanto's GMO Crops carry serious risks to health, & Monsanto has known about it & hidden the information.

GMOs Causing Mass Crop Die Offs, Infertility, and Miscarriages—The USDA and Secretary of State, Tom Vilsack, ignore warnings and evidence of in-process disaster to crops and animals. What about the implications to human life?

Europe's Pharma Regulator Officially Values Commercial Interests Over Patients' Needs—Commercial interests are valued more highly than the health and freedom of the people. The EMEA typifies medical regulatory agencies' attitude towards the people.

Crazy scientist saying, 'So what if he's lost his mind? He also lost weight!'

Scientists to Fix 'Bad' Fat by Suppressing Peptide That Regulates Memory & Learning—Scientists hope to suppress a peptide to help lose weight. So what if it causes memory loss, inability to learn, turns you into a nervous wreck, and damages your heart and blood vessels? At least you'll die thin!

Heart Disease Deaths Four Times Higher With Low Salt Intake: JAMA Study—As Gaia Health has informed you, there is no truth to the claim that high salt intake is unhealthy. In fact, evidence shows the opposite to be true.

Big Pharma Money Casts Shadow Over Herbs

Medicinal Herbs Are Held to a Higher Standard Than Big Pharma's Poisons—Big Pharma's drugs, still wet behind the ears compared to medicinal herbs, are given preference over herbs—in spite of pharmaceuticals' lack of safety and efficacy—while the people's needs, desires, and rights languish.

New Study Reveals That Antibiotics Damage Our Immune System—The study focuses on other fascinating points, but the conclusion is unavoidable: The use of antibiotics must be causing chronic diseases.

Denture Cream Can Cause Neurological Damage—Many, if not most, denture creams have caused neurological damage. Was a peer reviewer of an article exposing it guilty of attempting to prevent its publication? Or is he being smeared?

Half of Meat Is Contaminated with Drug Resistant Bacteria: The Good News—and the Bad—There is good news hidden in the massive drug resistant bacterial contamination of meat. Most of us are not sick from it. However, what the USDA plans to do will destroy our ability to stay healthy.

USDA Meat Testing Plan Will Not Curb Food-Borne Illness—But It Will Curb Local & Organic Meat—This assault on your food choice, made under the guise of food safety, is a demonstration that the underlying mass production paradigm has failed. If you want to maintain your right to health, then you need to send the USDA your opinion.

Nevada Plans to Make Practicing Natural Medicine Without Official Sanction a Felony—The National Health Federation asks us to oppose the Nevada bill that wants to make practicing natural medicine without a license a felony. It's yet another attack on our right to choose how we manage our health.

It's a good thing that they never ask if I'd let a doctor do this to me!

Doctors Push Treatments They Would Not Accept for Themselves: JAMA Study—Doctors are not superhuman. They don't possess super wisdom—and they don't have the right to make decisions for patients, except in emergencies. This JAMA study demonstrates why.

Scientists Use Human Genes in Animals, So Cows Produce Human-Like Milk—Or Do They?—Don't expect to see any human-like milk products on store shelves. That's just a trick of redirection, hoping you won't notice the ethical issue of patenting human genetics.

No EU Agreement on Clone Regs, So Market to Be Flooded with Cloned Meats & Dairy—Not only will cloned meats and dairy products be sold throughout the EU, but there will be no labeling. Agribusiness runs the show—not the EU Parliament.

Smell Is a Quantum Physics Phenomenon: Implications for Homeopathy—Since it now appears likely that the sense of smell is produced at the subatomic level, there is little to interfere with homeopathy's claim to effectiveness.

Nuclear Disaster: Reactor Defect Covered Up. 10,000X Radiation. Core damaged.—Fukushima news grows grimmer and grimmer. The core of one reactor was defective on installation—and it was known. The Japanese government refused to investigate.

Claim that Massive Quakes Are Unknown in Northern Japan Is a Lie—What's worse is how blatant the lie is. Japan has known all along that massive quakes can and do occur in exactly the same location that the great Fukushima quake occurred.

Radiation Symbol over Iris of Eye with Eyelashes Radiating

Lack of Power at Nuclear Plant Highlights Lack of Planning—Massive radiation has been detected 20 miles from plant. WHO admits radiation in food dangerous. Smoke plumes from reactors. Super-duper water sprayer being brought in for cooling. Hot spot TEPCO claims wasn't there

Amazing Satellite Photo of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Damage

CDC Admits: 2008 Smallpox Outbreak in US Caused by Vaccine—You thought that smallpox has been eradiacted? Not so! It still exists, thanks to our vaccination-happy medical system. It's time to stop believing the lies of our so-called health agencies.

Australia's National Flower, Golden Wattle

Australia Plans to Ban Garden Plants As Drugs—Including the National Flower!—In their zealotry to assure that no one gets high from naturally-occurring substances, Australia's National Flower proves to be one of those that could get the gardener many years in prison.

Some English Practitioners Approved to Prescribe Medicinal Herbs—Under the EU's draconian new law, most medicinal herbs will leave store shelves starting 1 May. The English will still be able to get them—if they pay a state-certified practitioner.

UK's Approved Medicinal Herbs—This is the full list of approved medicinal herbs as of 16 February 2011. On May Day this year, these will be the only direct-to-consumer medicinal herbs available in the UK.

Little girl overshadowed by vaccine hypodermic-filled hand

New Science Proves Vaccines Must Affect Brain Development—Exactly what the effects of changing the gut flora via vaccinations does isn't technically known—at least, not to the official pharmaceutically-controlled world of science. However, parents of autistic and ASD children can surely explain it to them.

FDA Approves New Mammogram with 100% Radiation Increase, Only 7% Detection Improvement.—The detection improvement applies only to distinguishing cancerous from noncancerous tumors. Does that mean fewer biopsies? It's just pie-in-the-sky guesses right now.

Dr. Wakefield Supports the Holistic Approach—Wakefield says that the risk to their careers is no excuse for doctors being quiet about harmful treatments & vaccines. Of course, it's also nice to note that he echoes the views of Gaia Health!

Fear Mongering About Sun Causes Up to 40% of UK Children to Suffer from Rickets—We now have a generation of children who suffer from chronic health conditions that were almost unknown in childhood a generation ago: cancer, autism, asthma, allergies, diabetes, obesity, and now rickets.

GM Crops to Enter EU: The People's Will Be Damned!—The fanatical press by Agribusiness to plant GM crops over every square inch of the earth has just moved closer to its goals. The UK and EU have no interest in their citizens' desires.

UK Moves to Cripple Homeopathy & Eliminate non-Allopathic Homeopaths—Homeopaths are to be sidelined as the UK moves to limit availability of homeopathic medicines. This is a call to action to protect access to homeopathy!

CDC Finds Link to Deaths from Drywall, But Says There's No Connection—Now you see it, now you don't: The CDC issues a report that acknowledges a connection between Chineses drywall and deaths, then denies that it exists.

US Using Codex Alimentarius to Force EU to Allow Carcinogenic & Neurogenic Drug in Animal Feed—Ractopamine causes cancer in humans, and misery to the point of death for animals. Yet, Codex Alimentarius is pushing for its worldwide use, and the United States is behind the push.

Girl, sad, lines radiating around her and impinging on her

Children's Leukemia Rate Doubles with 3 X-rays: Average Child Has 7 by Age 18.—The question that needs to be asked is: Just how much cancer is induced by medical radiation? Doubling of leukemia with only 3 x-rays must be the tip of the iceberg.

Common Weed Cures Skin Cancer: Scientific Study—In a typical attempt to co-opt and control nature, scientists study a common weed already known to cure skin cancer and—Golly Gee!—find that it cures skin cancer.

Back view of man with finger crossed behind his back

Wakefield Gives Proof: No Fraud. Brian Deer Lied.—The flummery of Brian Deer and the British Medical Journal in their smear of Dr. Andrew Wakefield's research and character has been demonstrated today to have been without basis—in fact, to be genuine fraud.

Charity Threatened with Libel for Citing Concerns About Intensive Pig Farm—When the profits of Agribusiness are threatened, a little thing like free speech can't be allowed to get in the way.

Toxic Sludge and Nuclear Waste Recalled for Lead Contamination—You can't make this stuff up. Candies with catchy names based on a toxic appeal have been recalled for their toxic ingredients.

Colony Collapse Disorder Is a Myth. Neurotoxic Pesticide Causes Bee Deaths.—The proof that a neurotoxic pesticide causes bee die-offs has existed for two years, but the researcher hasn't been able to get it published.

One germ speaks to another, 'You make me sick.'

Germs on ATMs Are Worse Than Public Toilets. Should You Worry?—You are no more likely to become ill from those ATM germs today, after you've heard about their existence, than you were yesterday, when you were blissfully ignorant of them.

9 Of Top 10 Drugs Linked to Violence Are Among Psychiatry's Favorites—Will this be the study that wakes us up to the vast amount of harm being done by psychiatric drugs? How much of our society's violence is related to them?

If You Pay Cash, DHS Says You Should Be Reported as Suspicious—According to the DHS, paying cash for a hotel room is cause for suspicion. Anyone who does should be reported.

The Railroading Against Wakefield Worsens. Now He's Accused of Fraud.—This video shows Anderson Cooper acting like a hitman as he goes after Andrew Wakefield. He calls him a liar and assumes that everything Brian Deer has said is true.

Skeleton holding sign that says 'Will buy your kidney'

Transplant Surgeons Want Sales of Human Organs—If it helps assure that they can do more surgeries, top transplant surgeons are quite happy to advocate the sale of human organs.

UK Is Testing polypill Heart Med in a Show Trial with Plans to Give It to Everyone Over Age 50.—They really do believe that health comes in drugs! If you're over 50 in the UK, you have been defined as sick and in need of drugs—and they're planning to give 'em to you.

Sign, Danger High Voltage Keep Out of Brains

Science Shows Electroconvulsive Therapy Kills, Provides No Benefit to Patients (Page 2)—The very concept of evidence-based medicine is shown to be nothing more than a very bad joke—one in which the butts of the joke are people at greatest risk, those who have been defined by psychiatry through the magic of the DSM as suffering from nonexistent disorders.

Science Shows Electroconvulsive Therapy Kills, Provides No Benefit to Patients—The American Psychiatric Association's claims of ECT's safety and efficacy are proven false by a new metastudy, and the FDA's plans to deregulate it are shown as pure pandering to the APA.

Neotame, New Neurotoxic Sweetener: FDA Says No Label Needed, Not Even in Organics—A Monsanto-created chemical, Neotame is likely more toxic than Aspartame. The FDA has quietly decided that we don't have the right to know if it's adulterating our food, not even if the food is labeled USDA Organic.

Another Fake Flu Pandemic Is Being Baked—Here it comes again. Another fake flu pandemic. After last year's production bombed, they're at it again. Rush! Rush! Don't wait a moment too long to get your very own flu jab!

Doctor closeup of face with 'Trust me I'm a doctor' badge on surgical hat

Study Proclaiming Dangers of Alternative Medicine Is So Flawed It's Useless—This study is so bad, it's an embarrassment. It's full of unsupported claims and the design is fatally flawed. It's even good for a couple of laughs.

Indian Farmers Come Together to Support Holistic Agriculture—In this Christmas Season, let's look to the farmers of India. They demonstrate the meaning of peace and freedom—and give us this season's hope.

Sexy Models Used by Hospital to Lure Men into Being Donors & Paying for Overpriced Lab Test—Tarted up to look like they'd stepped out of a porn movie, the models teased men into giving swabs, and their insurance companies were charged more than 40 times the going rate.

EPA May Allow Extinction of Bees: Supports Bayer's Profits from Nerve Poison—How will the profiteers explain to their children that the flowers are disappearing because the bees are gone?

Line drawing of pregnant woman, hypodermic in stomach

Fetal Immune System Welcomes Invaders: Explanation for Miscarriages and Asthma?—The fetal immune system has been treated as nothing more than an undeveloped adult one—one that needs to be supplemented with vaccinations. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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FDA Plans to Limit Regulation of Electroconvulsive Therapy—In a time when the FDA is criminalizing raw milk and classifying foods as controllable drugs, they want to limit control of a device whose sole purpose is to cause seizures and brain damage!

WikiLeaks Exposes Pfizer's Corruption—A WikiLeaks embassy cable reveals that Pfizer blackmailed a Nigerian politician to get lawsuits dropped. The suits were for harm to children from a drug trial. Pfizer had not asked for approval to do the trial, nor had they advised the patients it was being done.

Jeans back pocket filled with pharmaceuticals

Will Gay Men Be Forced to Take Drugs for Pseudo AIDS Prevention?—A suspiciously-timed report. Expensive drug. False impression of efficacy. High risk of adverse effects. And it's aimed at all homosexual men.

IOM's Support for Minimal Vitamin D Based on Gaping Flaw—The inherent flaw in the IOM's Vitamin D report is so egregious and dishonest that there's no explanation other than that it's intentional.

No Value in Any Influenza Vaccine: Cochrane Collaboration Study—The Cochrane study documents an almost complete absence of influenza vaccine benefit, severe harm in spite of a lack of reporting on adverse effects, and a disgusting amount of corruption in clinical trials and their publication.

It's Official: Swine Flu Actually Saved Thousands of Lives in the UK—After the massive campaign to scare people into allowing themselves to be subjected to swine flu vaccinations, the truth is finally coming out. The disease itself saved thousands of lives in the UK alone.

Credit Card Info Can Be Stolen As You Walk Down the Street: How to Protect Yourself—Credit cards are often supplied with RFID chips embedded. They make it more convenient, and presumably more secure, to purchase goods. However, they're also more convenient for thieves, who can literally steal your card information while walking by—without even touching you!

Vaccinating Healthcare Workers Doesn't Help Elderly Patients, Says Cochrane Study—The pressure to vaccinate healthcare workers is based on a false premise.

Paxil Fraud Case: Children's Lives Worth Only a Seventh of Financial Fraud—Cash lost was valued at nearly seven times more than the lives of an unknown number of children who killed themselves because of Paxil.

Herbs, banning symbol composed of EU flag and words 'European Union' across the bar

Germany Requires Doctor's Prescription for Common Herbs: EU Plans the Same—Prelude to EU's herbal directive: German man's herbal order stopped by customs. Requires a doctor's prescription!

It's Official: McDonald's Is Helping Define UK's Health Policy—In the UK, obesity has tripled in the last 20 years. Alcohol misuse costs the health service £2.7 and lack of exercise £1.8 billion a year. In response, the government has brought in McDonald's, PepsiCo, Kellogg's, Mars, Diageo (an alcohol consortium), and Unilever to help define food and health policies.

EU Declares Peppermint a Controllable Herb—In its ongoing efforts to make absolutely certain that every aspect of every person's life is controlled in the minutest detail, the European Union is examining every herb to determine whether there's even the slightest hint of a chance it might be either harmful or useful. To this end, peppermint has been classified as a controllable medicinal herb.

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Hospital Death Rate Triples From Just One Hospital-Acquired Infection—Most people are aware of the increase in bacterial infections in hospitals. What hasn't been clear is the effect on mortality. A JAMA study provides stark evidence of how much harm is happening. Canadian research has shown that C. diff infections are tripling in-hospital deaths. That is only one of several hospital-acquired infections...

Aggressive Early Kidney Dialysis Kills Patients—Early dialysis of kidney disease patients is killing them at 3 times the rate of those started later, according to a report to be announced this week in JAMA. The claim to evidence-based medicine is turned on its ears: no study documented benefit with early dialysis. Doctors turned thousands of kidney patients into unwitting guinea pigs.

UK Bans Herbal Tea: Claims It Contains a Drug—The attack on herbs continues with the UK's banning of a herbal tea and its related product sold for slimming. Now that sibutramine has rightly been banned because it's a dangerous drug, the government is banning anything that contains it in a natural compound, even though it hasn't been shown to be dangerous in its natural form.

FDA Bans Hyland's Homeopathic Teething Tablets—The FDA's goal of making the world safe for Big Pharma is made obvious by their attack on a product for which the possibility of harm is so far-fetched that it's laughable: Hyland's Homeopathic Teething Tablets. Well, it would be laughable if it weren't for the fact that an exceptionally safe product that's been used by thousands to ease their children's teething pains is now gone.

US Life Expectancy Slips to 49th in World: Too Much Modern Healthcare?—One of the most shameful statistics of the United States is its ever-slipping mortality rate. Once a shining example of life quality and length, the US has slipped to 49^th in life expectancy. A recent study examined potential reasons for it, and found that most explanations simply don't measure up.

Modern life & Cancer words fade into each other

Cancer Is Man-Made, Not Caused by Genes or Living a Long Life: Study Documents—Forget all that nonsense about the search for the cure for cancer. It will never be found. The search for a cure is nothing but redirection from the reality that cancer is caused by modern life. It isn't in your genes. It isn't ever going to be cured. It's an internal effect of the world we've created—and symbolic of our destruction of the natural world.

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Disordered Study Claims Half of Teens Are Mentally Disordered—While most parents will likely chuckle and humorously agree with a new study claiming that half of teenagers are mentally disordered, what is actually demonstrated is just how disordered modern psychiatry has become.

The People forbid the EU forbidding herbs

EU Petition Demanding Access to Herbs! EU Members of Parliament Don't Care About Health Freedom.—Because our MEPs aren't responding to us individually, we're launching a million signature petition initiative, 'Stop the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive', which insists that Directive 2004/2/EC (THMPC) be stopped.

Enviropig: Genetically Modified Pigs Approved to Benefit Agribusiness—Continuing in lockstep with the desires of Agribusiness, a genetically engineered pig has been approved by Health Canada and is under consideration by the US's FDA. Dubbed Enviropig™ by its developer, the University of Guelph, it's designed to reduce phosphorus output in feces.

Researchers Push Treating Pregnant Women With Antidepressants: Pseudoscience Reaches New Heights in JAMA Report—A metastudy on the effects of depression in pregnant women found what the authors termed only "modest" risks of preterm and low birth weight infants. So, their conclusion is to screen all pregnant women for depression—and treat them with antidepressants.

Baby behind hypodermic being forcibly expressed

Study Shows No Benefit for Babies of Flu-Vaccinated Mothers: JAMA Report—Babies whose mothers were vaccinated suffer from influenza-like illnesses (ILIs) at the same rate as those born to unvaccinated mothers. The JAMA study's conclusion states something quite different, but a close reading shows that the results tell a different story.

More Than 15% of Patients Report Medical Mistakes Each Year: JAMA Journal Report—>>More than 15% of doctors' office visits during a single year result in medical error, according to the Archives of Internal Medicine, a publication of the Journal of the Americal Medical Association (JAMA). Worse, the randomly selected patients indicated that, on average, the mistakes were significant, and some were life-threatening.

New York Times superimposed on pimp's hat

New York Times Pimps for High Fructose Corn Syrup—It's bad enough that the Corn Refiners Association is trying to fool the public by changing the name of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to "corn sugar". But when The New York Times produces an editorial supporting the change, parrots the industry's mendacious claims, and implies that it's beneficial to consumers, then we have a new definition of what it means to be a pimp.

Alzheimer's Slowed By B Vitamins: Junk Science?—Recent reports hail three of the B vitamins as slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Unfortunately, close examination of the study simply doesn't support the claims. It's a prime example of the manipulation...Ultimately, it creates an excuse for classifying vitamins as drugs, making them available only by prescription and from Big Pharma.

Woman with weird makeup & distorted face

Stroke Risk Nearly Doubles with Standard Ibuprofen Dose—NSAID use is closely associated with increased risk of strokes, nearly doubling for ibuprofen doses of more than 200 milligrams. The study, presented at the 2010 Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, documented that even low-dose usage of NSAIDs increased the risk of strokes by 28-86%, depending on the particular drug.

Vaccine Pushed on Infants Causes Drug-Resistant Pneumonia: JAMA Study—A drug-resistant strain of pneumonia is the result of a highly-praised vaccine routinely given to infants three times in their first year of life, according to a study that will be published in JAMA. The timing is particularly interesting, as it comes shortly after the replacement of this vaccine with an updated version, PCV-13—which can only worsen matters.

Osteoporosis Drugs Double Risk of Throat Cancer—Bisphosphonates, the osteoporosis drugs that cause the disease they're supposed to prevent, also double the rate of esophageal cancer. One would have thought that a drug that causes the disease it's supposed to prevent would be enough to stop its routine use, but in the twisted thinking of modern medicine, that doesn't seem to be enough.

Attractive older couple drinking wine outdoors

Older Alcohol Drinkers Live Longer Than Teetotalers—In the past, when a study has documented that alcohol drinking is better for health than abstension, the naysayers have jumped out and said, 'That can't be true. The study failed to account for [enter your favorite rationalization].' So, a recent study set out to find the truth by factoring in all those rationalizations. The results are startling.

Routine Early Clamping of the Umbilical Cord Harms Newborns—In hospitals, one of the first procedures when a new child enters the world is to clamp the umbilical cord. It is, in fact, simply a routine procedure done without thinking. Apparently, no thought has ever been given to whether it's beneficial. Sadly, several studies have shown that it harms newborns.

Eat Eggs From Sick Mistreated Hens, Expect to Get Sick—Factory-produced eggs are sick eggs. The recent US outbreak of salmonella, with a belated recall of more than half a billion eggs, should surprise no one. Salmonella-laced eggs are commonplace in supermarkets. It isn't that there's a new outbreak, but that the number of salmonella cases has increased.

Eli Lilly Drug Failure Highlights Fatal Flaw in Modern Medicine—Eli Lilly has stopped the trial of a drug intended for Alzheimer's patients because it made their condition worse, not to mention causing skin cancer. How did Lilly push such a drug through both first and second stage trials? Obviously, something significant is being missed by modern medicine's approach.

FDA Bans Stem Cell Therapy That Saved UK Boy's Life & Man's Leg—In the US, the FDA bans a treatment that saved a little boy's life and a man's leg in the UK. The FDA is protecting Big Pharma from the competition of autologous stem cell therapy, no matter what the cost to individual lives.

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Would You Like a Statin With That Burger?—It's Friday the 13th—must be Fast Food Statins Day! This story is presented under the 'You Can't Make This Stuff Up' category.

Asthma UK Pushes Dangerous Drug Sold by 'Corporate Partner'—Asthma UK complains that Nice has not approved the drug Xolair, generically called omalizumab, for use in children under age twelve. It is exceptionally expensive, noted for its dangers, and carries an FDA label warning that it has not been shown to be safe or effective in children under age twelve. Just who is Asthma UK really trying to help?

Heart Attacks Increase With Use of Calcium Supplements—In a finding that should come as no surprise, the British Medical Journal reports that taking calcium supplements results in heart attacks. A supplement that doctors routinely tell women to take to prevent osteoporosis is implicated in heart disease. What's a woman to do?

The UK Refuses to Drop Homeopathy—In a decision that reaffirms the individual's right to choose, the United Kingdom's Department of Health has slapped down the Science and Technology Committee's demand to abandon homeopathy. Rather than report on it honestly, news media are simply allowing anti-homeopathy forces free rein to give their opinions.

Medical Journal Wants to Limit Right of Women to Home Births—Mainstream medicine continues to press for total control over your body with The Lancet's editorial stating that women of high-risk pregnancies do not have the right to choose home birth. They are using a deeply flawed study to support their interest in forcing their medicine, along with their fees, on us.

Quackbusters Are Busted!—Amidst the morass of fallacious attacks by mainstream medicine on honest alternative approaches to health, now and then there's a glitter of good news. It's a breath of fresh air to announce that the self-styled Quackbusters, headed by a self-styled psychiatrist who failed his exam and was never accepted into the profession, has fallen to one of its targeted victims.

Dengue Fever, BP's Gulf Gusher, the CIA, and Army Germ Warfare—The CIA & Army conducted germ warfare experiments in in central Florida in the 1950s. they were conducted in low-income areas. They released mosquitoes carrying dengue fever. People died, and people are infected and reinfected to this day. Science fiction? No—it's fact. Fengue fever can't be distinguished from symptoms of BP's Gulf Gusher.

Vaccine Patch Pitched as Safe: Don't Believe It!—Vaccine patches, the next great vaccination delivery technology, is already being pushed as safe. A journal with the oxymoron name, Nature Medicine, has published a study that claims delivering vaccinations through skin patches with tiny plastic needles is both effective and safe. The safety claim is both premature and demonstrably untrue.

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Fraud Found in GSK's Avandia Trial Reveals FDA's Lack of Oversight—If even a poorly designed trial can't demonstrate that your drug is safe, then hiding data is the next-best trick for getting approval. When the FDA doesn't check the data in trials, such methods work. Both of those tricks worked for GSK's Avandia study in 2007. Fortunately, a researcher decided to look more closely in advance of the drug's review next week.

Docs Want Censorship of Study Showing Cancer Risk from Heart Drug—When questioned about the recent study documenting increased rates of cancer in people taking the popular blood pressure ARB (angiotensin-receptor blockiers), many leading doctors responded with expletives. They're particularly horrified that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has the gall to review ARBs for the increased risk.

Major Cancer Charity to Admit It Was Wrong About Suntanning!—Hold onto your hat! Cancer Research UK is about to change its advice on suntanning! After more than 20 years of warning people to avoid the sun's rays as deadly and to coat themselves in toxic sunscreens, the premier cancer charity will soon start advising people that they should catch some rays.

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The Attack on Home Births and Midwives Is Gearing Up—A recent medical journal study claims that, while women do better when they deliver babies at home, mortality in newborns is three times greater. However, the conclusion completely misrepresents the data. The study actually found that the infant death rate for home births was the same when a qualified midwife was present.

Doctor Faked Research on Drug That Killed Thousands: Gets Only Six Months—Scott Reuben, the doctor who faked research on Celebrex and Vioxx, which killed tens of thousands of people, has been sentenced to a mere six months in prison. The judge was easy on him because his attorney claimed that he'd suffered from an 'undiagnosed bipolar disorder'. The real criminal, though, is modern medicine.

GMO Salmon Near FDA Approval—Public's Input Not Wanted—As the FDA nears approval for the first genetically engineered salmon, the public's views on the issue are not wanted. These genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be the first animals approved for food, but the FDA is treating them like veterinary drugs, so the approval process is not open to the public and none of the documentation is available for inspection.

Big Pharma With Fingers Crossed Behind Back

Major JAMA Study Shows Statins Do Not Prevent Heart Disease—Statins, the drug that Big Pharma has convinced leading doctors to push on nearly everyone, have finally been subjected to the study that should have been done before being approved for sale. JAMA reports that a large metastudy has shown that statins do not reduce death rates in people without established heart disease.

Leading Doctor Drugs Babies in the Womb to Prevent Lesbianism and Her Concept of 'Abnormal' Genitalia—Dr. Maria New is a highly honored endocrinologist, within her field considered one of the very best. She routinely treats fetuses in the womb with a potent drug, known to carry severe risks, for the purpose of preventing a condition that she considers abnormal, though it doesn't cause any defect in function or discomfort.

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High Lead Levels Found in 85% of "Healthy" Foods Marketed to Children—Food products marketed to children have been found to have illegal levels of lead. A full 85% were found to have lead that exceeds federal limits for drinking water. The California-based Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) had 150 food products tested by an Environmental Protection Agency-certified lab.

U.S. Doesn't Control BP's Gulf Gusher Cleanup: Here's Why.—Surely you must wonder why the US is so hamstrung in dealing with BP's Gulf Gusher, a slow-motion wreck of the Gulf of Mexico coast. The US government is helpless to even keep tabs on what's happening. The reason is in a political system that has handed over control to an economic system. We must rely on news media outside the country to bring us the truth.

In Food Label Wars, Both Sides Hide the Facts—In the EU, a battle has been waged between the forces of evil, Agribusiness, against the forces of evil, government agencies. Both sides want to control what goes on food labels. Agribusiness won, and it's being called a defeat for consumers. The truth, though, is that consumers lose no matter which side wins. Neither wants to tell the public what's really in the foods bought in stores.

Most Doctors Still Think It's Okay to Take Gifts From Big Pharma—A study soon to be published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Archives of Surgery (JAMA) documents that most physicians still take gifts from pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. Medical researchers at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine surveyed a wide range of physicians practicing in medical centers associated with the school.

Doc Mutilates Little Girls' Genitals: Major Journal Publishes It As Research!—Dr. Poppas of Cornell believes he has the right to decide that girls as young as 4 months have a clitoris that's too big and needs to be trimmed to a more normal size—and then he cuts off the excess. In third world nations, we call that genital mutilation. In the US, the doctor gets to publish it in a major medical journal.

Effexor Causes Massive Jawbone Loss in Periodontal Disease—In pure science, an experiment is neither successful nor a failure. Even if the results are the opposite of what the researchers expected or hope for, information is gained. Sadly, in the era of Big Pharma, scientists are expected to produce predetermined results. Occasionally, though, they tell the truth anyway.

High Blood Pressure Meds Result in Lung Cancer—Lung cancer rates increase in the millions of people taking commonly prescribed drugs for high blood pressure. In a study reported yesterday, ARBs were shown to lead to 1.11% more pulmonary cancer. These drugs are prescribed to millions as a primary method of attempting to lower blood pressure, so these drugs could be causing thousands of cases of lung cancer.

The FDA Says You Have No Right to Freedom of Food—The FDA has stated that you have no inherent right to health. You thought you had the right to choose what you eat? The FDA says you don't. They claim that there is no fundamental right to choose your food or freedom to contract for it. Responding to a lawsuit, the FDA clearly states that you do not have the right to freedom of choice in your diet.

Quest for Health in Drugs Finds 'Unintended' Side Effects That Kill—Let's say that strong recommendations are being given by the medical system to drug most people on reaching a certain age. Then, let's say your company produces software to analyze the risk of developing medical conditions. You want to make money from your product, so you do a study showing it can predict who is most likely to suffer from the drug's side effects.

Study Finds Vaccine Triggers Infant Seizures, But Concludes It's Okay—The discordance of pro-vaccine research has reached a new pinnacle of hypocrisy in a study that says seizures are triggered in babies by the pertussis vaccine, but it's no reason to "withhold" it from them. Flaws make the results highly questionable. But that's minor next to the implication that these babies benefit from a seizure-causing vaccine.

Fathers Suffer Postnatal Depression? Or Another Target for Drugs?—In the mass move to medicalize every facet of life, a medical school has gone in search of evidence that new fathers suffer from depression. Can anyone be surprised that they found it? Or that the recommended course of action is to drive these men into treatment?

Study Shows Cancer Linked to Mobile Phones, But Authors Spin the Results—Recent media reports falsely claim that the Interphone study shows no increase in cancer from mobile phone use. They're merely reporting what the authors of the study claimed, without much critical thinking about the results. Had they looked into it, they might have realized that the conclusion is a slippery misrepresentation of the actual results.

Doc Who Harms No One Is Punished, But Doc Who Killed Can Practice.—In typical hubristic fashion, the UK's GMC has stripped Dr. Sarah Myhill of many of the functions required to care for her patients, while allowing doctors who have killed patients with sloppiness, lies, and egregious errors to continue in practice. She harmed no one, and no such accusation was made. Not a single patient has complained.

Max Kane Risks Prison for Refusing to Tell Who Sells and Who Buys Raw Milk—Max Kane has been charged with nothing. There is no case being prosecuted against him or anyone else for anything, not even for selling or buying raw milk. Yet, he has been ordered by Wisconsin to inform on his friends. They want him to name people who sell or buy raw milk. He has refused, and for that, he's been under threat of prison.

FDA Persecutes Raw Milk Dairies: Raids Amish Farm—The FDA is using strong arm tactics on family farms that do their best to produce genuinely healthy milk for customers who care about their own family's health. They have raided an Amish dairy farm with the accusation, "We have credible evidence that you are involved in interstate commerce." There's no accusation that the raw milk they produce is unsafe.

Homeopathic Treatment Helps Heal Haitians' Emotional Traumas (video)—Billions have been given to charities for Haitian earthquake victims with so little benefit. Without fanfare, homeopaths have been spending their own money to go there and help. The Amma Resonance Hearing Foundation is doing wonders treating emotional trauma on a shoestring budget using homeopathic preparations. (video)

Botox Not Only Paralyzes Muscles, It Paralyzes Emotions—A study shows that emotions are dulled when the muscles used to express them are prevented from functioning. As a result, botox not only paralyzes muscles, it also paralyzes emotions. Media reports that it harms relationships miss the real issue. Botox prevents emotions from coming into existence.

FDA to Control Salt Intake, Not Aspartame or High Fructose Corn Syrup—The FDA plans to control intake of salt, a natural and necessary food. Meanwhile, known killers like aspartame and HFCS are left free to continue their destruction of health. The usual incestuous techniques have led to the latest ploy to hand over our food supply to Agribusiness, and the marketing campaign is in full swing.

DOJ Punishes Big Pharma for Bribing Foreign Doctors, Ignores Corruption Here—Pharmaceutical exec Robert John Dougall has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for paying £4.5M to Greek doctors. As Director of Marketing at DePuy, now part of megacorp Johnson & Johnson, he bribed Greek surgeons to buy their products. It's a start, but why is the Department of Justice focusing on foreign doctors?

USDA Trashes Organic: Pasture Not Required for Cows' Last 4 Months—The rules for the USDA Organic label for beef are already watered down. Now, though, they're allowing feedlot conditions for their last four months—about one-fifth of their lives. You can help reverse this by contacting the president and USDA. I'll tell you how, including links.

Merck and GSK Fan Fear of Cancer & Warts in Men to Sell HPV Vaccines—Apparently not satisfied with pumping their deadly HPV vaccines into girls, Merck and GSK have turned their sights onto men. While running pseudo-science trials, they're drumming up fears of a range of cancers and warts. It appears that their goal is to convince doctors that everyone should get a jab of Gardasil or Cervarix.

Evidence of MRSA in Nation's Food Supply—You know that drug-resistant disease is getting out of hand when mainstream media features it on a report and clearly blames factory farming's over the top use of antibiotics. Katie Couric reports on what's happening in America's factory farms and how it's creating an epidemic of drug-resistant bacteria. [Video 7:37]

Scientist Works on GM Viruses for Vaccines, Gets Sick, Sues, Wins $1.37 Million—Becky McClain is a scientist who worked for Pfizer to engineer viruses for vaccines. She was accidentally infected by a GM form of a virus similar to HIV. She is completely paralyzed intermittently, so she spoke out about concerns for lack of safety at work. She was fired. She sued and won $1.37 million for wrongful termination.

Raw Milk Source Shut Down, But There's Been No Bad Milk—In what looks more and more like a concerted FDA plan to shut off raw milk supplies, a Michigan raw milk dairy is being forced to shut down. Their supplier is based a short distance away, but it's across a state boundary. That state, Indiana, allows the sale of raw milk, but the FDA's pressure has caused it to stop shipping to Michigan.

Raw Milk Disease Outbreak In Perspective: Tempest in an FDA Teapot—Perhaps you've heard of the claimed raw milk campylobacteria disease outbreak in Michigan recently. It's been hyped to the world by the FDA. However, if you look carefully at the wording, you'll see only that it's 'linked' to raw milk. It's nothing but a tempest in the FDA's teapot.

Court Rules Patents on Genes Are Illegal: Products of Nature, Not Invention—Reversing a frightening trend granting patents on living creatures and their genes, a US Federal Judge issued a ruling that may overturn patents on life forms. Myriad Genetics' claim that isolating DNA transforms and makes it patentable was turned down with the statement that it's only been a "lawyer's trick" that's allowed it to happen before.

Improving Food Quality of One Meal Improves Student Scores 3-8 Percent—What children eat directly affects how they do in school. A two-year study of chef Jamie Oliver's program to bring quality food to the school lunch program produced significant benefits to students, including significant improvements in their test results.

WHO 'Gambled Away' Public Confidence With Swine Flu Fear Mongering—The Vice Chair of the Council of Europe's Health Committee is preparing a report stating the WHO 'gambled away' public confidence in its swine flu fear mongering. The Guardian reports that he complains that 'the discrepancy between the estimate of the numbers of people who would die from flu and the reality was dramatic'.

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Insomniacs: Beware Newly Approved Recycled Drug With Suicide Risk—After refusing to approve it twice, the FDA has just allowed Silenor, an old antidepressant drug, to be recycled as a treatment for insomnia. The first rejection was for depressing heart rate; the second was for lack of efficacy. Doxepin hydrochloride carries an FDA warning of increased suicide risk when marketed as an antidepressant.

High Fructose Corn Syrup Associated With Liver Disease—Liver scarring is associated with consumption of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), according to a study at Duke University. The condition, dubbed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is present in about 30% of all American adults. Until recently, it was considered rare.

Calling Mom Too Stressful? Ad Suggests Taking Seroquel.—Seroquel, a drug with 10,339 lawsuits against it and under serious questioning from many sources, is being advertised with the implication that it's the thing to take if you're stressed out about calling your mother. Oh yes--the more stressful calling her is, the more you should take.

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When Killer Trans Fats Are Ignored, Study Results Are Meaningless—Yet another study purporting to show that saturated fats are bad and polyunsaturated fats are good completely misses the mark. In effect, the study most likely demonstrated only that eating fats partially altered by hydrogenation--polyunsaturated oils--is less harmful than eating fully hydrogenated fats.

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HPV Testing Does Not Help Identify Cancer Risk—In what should be a blow for Gardasil and Cervarix, a study has found that screening for human papilloma virus (HPV) does not predict which women are at risk for cervical cancer. The entire concept behind the falsely named cancer jab is that HPV causes cervical cancer, though that has never been shown. Now, there's evidence that the assumed connection simply does not exist.

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Doctors' Performance Standards Lowered for Giving More Flu Jabs—In the UK, Scottish doctors have been the most effective in pushing their patients into having swine flu vaccines. The swine flu pandemic was a bust and its vaccine has been shown to be ineffective in the elderly. In the face of that, Scotland will reward doctors with high vaccine uptake by letting them skate on standards measuring the quality of their practices.

Vitamin D Cuts Flu By Half: Double Blind Randomized Tria—A study has documented a 42 percent reduction of influenza in children taking the sunshine supplement, Vitamin D. Nicknamed because we can synthesize it from sun exposure on our skin, Vitamin D has been anecdotally linked to flu prevention on many occasions. This study provides strong evidence of the validity of the observations.

Modern Medicine Very Profitable: Virgin Buys In—Richard Branson has the Midas Touch. He has now pointed his golden finger at the UK's healthcare system by buying a major holding in a primary healthcare company. Virtually everything he touches turns into profits at the expense of customers, and he's seen a huge opportunity in modern medicine.

Leading Autism-Vaccine Coverup Researcher Absconds with $2 Million—In the face of the Vaccine Court's recent ruling that there is no connection between autism and vaccines, it now comes out that much of the research cited was done by a researcher who has now vanished with $2 million that was supposed to have been spent on the research. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells the tale.

Humane Claims of Plan for Huge UK Dairy Factory Farm Don't Add Up—A proposal for England's first American-style factory farmed milk paints a pretty picture of contented cows living in spacious quarters and treated humanely. However, the claims literally don't add up. Nocton Dairies' plans provide minimal space for the cows, crowding them obscenely and feeding an unnatural diet that will make them ill.

Pig Pharma mother pig suckling FDA baby pigs

Scientists' Letter Claiming FDA Corruption Is Authentic—In January last year, a letter was sent to the highest levels of United States government by FDA scientists and doctors accusing top FDA officials & attorneys of violating laws, suppressing & altering scientific findings & conclusions, abuse of power & authority, and retaliation against those who've spoken out. The FDA has finally acknowledged that the letter is authentic.

Study's Life Extension Claim for The Pill Adds Up to Only 4-1/2 Hours—The new study that's currently being hyped in the new media as showing that birth control pills improve life expectancy is one of the most twisted pieces of obfuscation I've ever seen. It is the epitome of junk science and the use of statistics to obfuscate, and it's an example of why you should ask who paid for it.

Big Pharma Blocks Studies of Long Term ADHD Drug Effects While FDA and EMEA Dither—The FDA and EMEA dither while Big Pharma blocks studies into long term effects of ADHD drugs--unless, of course, they're produced by their own pet (and very highly paid) researchers, such as Joseph Biederman, Timothy Wilens and Thomas Spencer. Hanging in the balance are the health and futures of millions of children.

Take a Nap: Prevent Heart Disease and Do Better on School Tests—The quickest and easiest way to improve heart health and get smarter doesn't cost a penny. Just take naps. Recent studies document that sleeping during the day improves learning retention as much as 10% and reduces men's mortality from heart disease by as much as 37%.

Genetically-modified Amflora potatoes by BASF

Europe Approves Antibiotic Resistant Genetically Modified Potato—BASF has managed to gain European Union (EU) approval for its potato, Amflora, genetically engineered for antibiotic resistance. It's not intended for human use. However, the skins are expected to be used in animal feed—and the meats will not have to be labeled as genetically modified or fed GM organisms.

Girl Blinded by Gardasil Vaccination—A 16 year old girl was blinded by a Gardasil vaccination. The doctors who wrote the article state that she was healthy prior to the vaccination. They found no explanation other than the Gardasil vaccination, and acknowledged that at least one other vaccine was known to cause the same problem.

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Mass Vaccinations in Haiti—The squalid conditions of refugee camps combined with the oncoming rains threaten Haiti's earthquake victims with diseases common to poor sanitation, lack of safe drinking water, and contaminated food. Cholera, typhus, and dysentery are the best known. So, they're trotting out mass vaccinations for measles, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough.

Kangaroos Dying of Fluoride Poisoning, But Are Levels Safe For Humans?—Kangaroos are starving and dying from tooth and skeletal deformities caused by fluoride poisoning. In a claim that appears to have been pulled from thin and polluted air, Australia's EPA says that the emissions are safe for humans, though apparently some animals are more sensitive to fluoride.

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Two Mumps Vaccines Don't Work, So Public Officials Push a Third Jab—The outbreak of mumps has been seen mostly in people who've been vaccinated--not just the majority of cases, but the vast majority. The CDC is reporting that 93% who've come down with mumps have had one dose and 85% have had two doses of the MMR vaccine.

Study Shows Homeopathic Remedies Kill Cancer Cells Without Harming Healthy Cells—A recent study has documented that homeopathic remedies applied to breast cancer cells caused significant cell death, while resulting in no discernible no harm to normal breast cells. The finding cannot be explained by a placebo effect...

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Drug Doesn't Work, You've Failed & Need A Gene Fix: Modern Medicine's View—In a strange twist of logic, scientists have determined Tamoxifen doesn't always work because the patient is at fault. So, the solution is to 'fix' the miscreant gene. In this strange new world of medicine, toxic drugs are normal, someone whose body responds different is abnormal, and the 'abnormal' gene must be fixed.

Engineering Animals to Feel No Pain So We Feel No Guilt—No one wants to consider that the food on the dinner plate lived a life of suffering. In most cases, though, that's exactly what happens. So, now a proposal is in place to genetically engineer feed animals so they don't feel pain. But who actually benefits? And who is the focus of such a concept?

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Mobile Phones Damage DNA: What should we do about it?—The convenience and fun of mobile phones and other electrical products have us hooked. Who wants to accept the idea that they're dangerous? ...We can't see anything being emitted from them...Imagine, though, sitting in your doctor's office and hearing that you've got brain cancer. The convenience suddenly wouldn't be so appealing. (includes video)

Government Tells Farmers to Use Poisonous Coal Waste on Food Crops—The misnamed Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) is telling farmers to fertilize with coal waste. It's full of mercury, lead, fluoride, arsenic, and other poisons. The current administration is carrying forward a policy first begun in 2001.

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Heartrate Doubled By Wireless Phone Emissions In Sensitive People—Wireless phones double the heartrate in sensitive people...the subjects were blinded—that is, they were unaware of when phones were turned on or off. The heartbeat rate of one of the 25 people in the study doubled when near a wireless phone that was switched on. The rate dropped back to normal when the phone was turned off.

Christelle, A Life Devastated By Modern Medicine's Treatments—An energetic and competitive girl in her early teens, Christelle Marini fell while playing tennis. That put her in the clutches of modern medicine. Now, an impish smiling 13-year-old girl has been transformed into a young women in a wheelchair, living in constant pain without hope for anything approaching a normal life.

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Children Being Poisoned By Cadmium in Chinese-made Toys—With utter disregard for the health of children, Chinese manufacturers substituted cadmium, a far more dangerous heavy metal, for lead in children's toys. An investigation by Associated Press (AP) has shown that charm bracelet trinkets and other cute and shimmering jewelry toys for little girls are being sold in major retail outlets across the United States.

25 November 2009

Jellyfish Swarm, Creating Havoc in Fishing, Power Plants, and Desalination Plants—Scientists believe that jellyfish have been exanding from their previous ranges because of global warming and increasingly polluted waters. Swarming jellyfish are devastating sea fishing and sea farming industries.

Study Shows That Vitamin D Lowers Cardiovascular Disease Rates 77 Percent—A study presented at the American Heart Association's 2009 Scientific Sessions reports that Vitamin D significantly lowers death rates from cardiovascular disease. Of 27,000 people over age 50 with very low levels of Vitamin D are 77% more likely to die of heart disease and 78% more likely to die of strokes.

24 November 2009

Stork Craft Drop-sided Crib Recall After Deaths Reported—In the largest recall of its type in history, Canada and the US joined forces to recall as many as 2.1 million cribs manufactured by the Canadian firm Stork Craft. They are all of the drop-side design, in which one side can be quickly detached to drop down for quick access.

New Technology Uses Algae to Provide Power and Cleanse the Air of Excess Carbon Dioxide—Good Idea or Hype?—Could humble pond scum be the key to solving both the energy crisis and climate change? Scientists at Ohio University think it's possible. They've developed a technology using algae that they believe is a sustainable solution.

Man in Coma for 23 Years Heard Every Word Said Around Him—He had been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state for 23 years, but Ron Houben was aware of everything said around him, though he couldn't do anything to let people know.

Toxic Chinese Drywall Corrodes Pipes and Wires in American Homes—A link between Chinese-manufactured drywall and corrosion of pipes and wires in new American homes supports claims from thousands of homeowners, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

23 November 2009

Medical Journal Ghostwriting Being Questioned on Capitol Hill—After the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that medical journals have routinely been publishing ghostwritten articles, Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, became concerned. He has initiated an investigation by the Senate Finance Committee, on which he is the ranking Republican.

As Copenhagen Approaches, US Congress Tables Climate Bill, IPCC Chief Doubtful—With the UN's Copenhagen climate change conference just two weeks away, Democratic leaders in the US Senate have tabled discussion until, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, 'some time in the spring.'

Global Warming Has Accelerated Since Kyoto—Worse Than Worst Predictions—Not even the bleakest predictions from the time of the Kyoto Accord anticipated how bad global warming has gotten in the last 12 years since the agreement. It's not surprising, since carbon dioxide emissions have increased by 31 percent.

Transcendental Meditation Protects Against Heart Disease—Heart disease death rates were reduced by 47% in patients who practiced transcendental meditation, as compared to those who received education in reducing risk factors.

22 November 2009

Antarctica Measurably Shrinking from Ice Melt—Scientists have found that Antarctica's ice sheet has melted significantly since 2006. Losing an estimated 190 billion tons of ice a year, it's feared that the southern ice sheet may soon melt faster than Greenland's, with major implications in rising sea levels.

Drug Resistant Swine Flu Found in Both US and UK at Same Time—On the same day, the BBC and the Associated Press (AP) reported Tamiflu-resistant cases of swine flu in their countries. In the US, it's four North Carolina patients at Duke University Medical Center. In the UK, it's five patients at University Hospital in Wales.

Heavy Metals Damage DNA Without Crossing Cell Membrane—The journal Nature Nanotechnology reports that metal nanoparticles can affect cellular DNA without crossing the cell membrane. This may have significant implications for people concerned with heavy metal damage, such as mercury in autism.

Research: Pesticides Damage DNA. Agribusiness Still Claims No Link to Cancer—Farmers in the Punjab region have suffered from DNA damage that can lead to cancer as a result of pesticides, according to scientists from Patiala University located there.

21 November 2009

Doctor and AstraZeneca Collude to Sell Seroquel Without Regard to Patient Harm—In a shocking demonstration of you-grease-my-palm and I'll-grease-yours, AstraZeneca knowingly paid a for-profit researcher, Dr. Michael Reinstein, nearly half a million dollars because he could bring them profits of half a billion dollars.

Abuse in Childhood May Cause Early Aging—Childhood abuse not only makes life more difficult, it may also shorten it. As reported by the BBC, a Brown University team found that telomeres become shorter faster in people who reported having been abused as children.

Elderly Being Killed by Misuse of Antipsychotics—Expert review has documented that 180,000 elderly in care homes are given antipsychotic drugs, that the medication is not needed in 150,000 of them, and that 1,800 deaths are related to this misuse.

Nuclear Workers Have More Heart Disease, Probably Caused by Low Dose Radiation—The BBC reports that workers in nuclear plants have increased levels of heart disease related to long term low dosage radiation, according to epidemiological studies.

San Francisco Gives Toxic Waste to Citizens, Calls It Fertilizer—San Francisco is giving toxic waste to its citizens for free. Such a deal! The Center for Food Safety reports that sewage sludge loaded with toxic wastes is being passed off as compost in 'compost giveaway events'.