Some medical information that affects our children

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Update on Mercury in Vaccines

 

Waters & Kraus, the lead law firm in a consortium of law

suits concerning thimerosol (mercury preservative) in

vaccines and consequent neurological damage resulting in

autism, just released its most recent bombshell Eli

Lilly, as early as the 1930's, was apparently aware of

the harmful nature of thimerosal in vaccines.

 

In an earlier press release Waters & Kraus also revealed

that the CDC withheld critical evidence to the Institute

of Medicine, instead supplying inconclusive information

which contributed to the IOM's (lack of) conclusions

regarding thimerosal in vaccines. These facts have only

been obtained as a result of the judicial discovery

process and would not be known now were it not for

pending lawsuits.

 

In an earlier lawsuit, private letters were obtained

documenting significant contributions made by vaccine

manufacturers to the American Academy of Pediatrics

(AAP). This issue of conflict of interest between the

AAP and vaccine manufacturers would probably still be

unknown were it not for a lawsuit.

 

The cigarette companies played dumb and blind until

lawsuits forced them to tell the truth. It would seem

that the vaccine manufacturers have much in common with

the cigarette companies if they, too, are not

voluntarily revealing all they know.

 

If so, given the fact that vaccines, unlike cigarettes,

are recommended, even mandated - and because parents

have been convinced of their safety, they do not object

to the recommendations and mandates concerning their

use - the situation is all that more deplorable.

 

What Else Do The Vaccine Manufacturers Know?

 

When will the medical profession, and in particular

pediatricians, stop being complicit partners in this

growing familial and societal nightmare? When will

doctors start listening to the parents of vaccine-

injured children and stop patronizing them and

dismissing their concerns?

 

When will they begin to honor the right of parents to

determine what is best for their children? When will

they return to the precept of the Hippocratic Oath

to "first do no harm"?

 

Since they can no longer be sued by patients for vaccine

damage (only the government can go after doctors, and

then only if a government vaccine-damage award has been

made on the basis of medical negligence), why the

resistance to acknowledging and reporting vaccine-

associated reactions?

 

When will pediatricians begin to act as advocates for

all their patients, including the vaccine-injured and

those who choose not to vaccinate?

 

How much evidence do we, the public, need before we

begin to object to what is happening to our children?

When will we realize that until we stop automatically

believing everything we are told, we, too, are

responsible for the wrongs being done to our children?

 

When will we all begin to see how conflict of interest

compromises everything that is allegedly "known" about

vaccine safety?

 

When when will we begin to demand both our rights and

the truth?

 

Sandy Mintz

 

DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

 

If you know someone who may have suffered a vaccine

injury, please have them place a call to either Melissa

Miles at (214) 357-6244 for media inquiries, or Victoria

Gibson at (800) 226-9880 for client inquiries. They may

also call the firms listed below for more information

about class action lawsuits against the vaccine

manufacturers.

 

It seems that one of the most effective strategies for

ending this nightmare of autism caused by mercury and

vaccines will be through legal actions. The drug

companies need to be held responsible for selling

products that may be causing damage.

 

The vaccine litigation wars are just beginning in the

U.S. Numerous contaminated vaccine suits against

manufacturers are already in progress in the UK.

 

If you are not yet aware of the connection between

autism, mercury and vaccines, please read Dr. O'Shea's

excellent review.

 

By age two, American children have received 237

micrograms of mercury through vaccines alone, which far

exceeds current EPA "safe" levels of .1 mcg/kg. per day.

That's one-tenth of a microgram, not one microgram.

 

Not all vaccines have mercury. It is put in as a

preservative in the multi-use vials. So if, for whatever

reason, you chose to give you child an immunization,

please ask the doctor for the SINGLE use vial.

 

I would suggest watching him or the nurse actually

drawing it up out of the vial and then actually asking

for the vial to confirm that it is the single dose vial.

 

It is this mercury, and other vaccine side effects, that

have contributed to the enormous rise in autism that has

been experienced, not only in the US, but all over the

world.

 

Day of birth: hepatitis B-12 mcg mercury:

 

 

 

30 x safe level

 

 

 

 

At 4 months: DTaP and HiB on same day - 50 mcg mercury:

 

 

60 x safe level

 

 

At 6 months: Hep B, Polio - 62.5 mcg mercury:

 

 

78 x safe level

 

 

At 15 months the child receives another 50 mcg:

 

 

41 x safe level

 

 

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Lawsuit Filed for Mercury in Vaccines Causing Autism

Mercury is Still in Vaccines

Mercury in Hepatitis B Vaccines

 

 

 

 

 

Pharmaceutical Spending Continues Steady Increase

 

By Ceci Connolly

 

For the fourth straight year, prescription drug spending

rose more than 17 percent in 2001, driven in large

measure by a few heavily advertised, high-priced

medications, a nonpartisan study released yesterday

found.

 

Sales of prescription medication at retail stores and

through mail-order companies totaled $175.2 billion last

year, an increase of $27 billion over 2000, according to

the National Institute for Health Care Management. The

institute is a private, nonprofit research organization

led by physicians, insurance executives and policymakers

from both parties.

 

Overall, pharmaceutical costs continue to be the fastest-

rising component of health care expenditures, accounting

for about 10 percent of spending. Although price

increases were part of the reason for the jump, the

researchers found that drug use and advertising were

also prime factors. In short, more doctors are writing

more prescriptions for the most expensive, heavily

marketed drugs.

 

While the trend was criticized by some consumer

advocates and politicians, pharmaceutical makers and

some economists said today's blockbuster drugs save not

only lives, but also dollars.

 

"Although we talk about how fast drug costs are going

up, this is helping to reduce the rate of growth of

other medical costs," said Frank Lichtenberg, an

economist at Columbia University's business school.

 

In a number of studies, Lichtenberg has found that

modern medications help people live longer, with a

better quality of life, so they spend less time in

hospitals and more time contributing to society.

 

"Ultimately, they provide tremendous benefits to

society," he said.

 

Nevertheless, he said there is plenty of waste in the

pharmaceutical industry and "ridiculous" decisions by

doctors and patients about which medication to use when.

Take the people who insist upon eating fatty foods late

at night and never exercise, he said.

 

"They don't want to lose weight or change their diet or

take Tums. They're pummeled by advertising, so they go

to the doctor demanding" a prescription medication such

as Prilosec or Prevacid, he said. "That's a waste."

 

Frank Clemente, director of Public Citizen's Congress

Watch, said few doubt the value of the latest medical

advances, but he believes it appears the industry is

price-gouging.

 

"The prices are greatly in excess of what they need to

have research and development dollars," he said. On

average over the past decade, the pharmaceutical

industry has been the most profitable by far, he said,

reporting profits about three times the size of other

Fortune 500 industries.

 

With so much money at stake, both sides have invested

heavily in shaping public opinion.

 

The National Institute for Health Care Management, the

author of the report, receives funding from the federal

government and insurers. Researchers such as Lichtenberg

and Vermeulen said they are subsidized by drug

manufacturers.

 

Last year, about three dozen drugs were responsible for

half the total increase in expenditures, according to

yesterday's study.

 

Americans consumed record quantities of well-known drugs

such as Prozac, Lipitor and Prilosec to treat

depression, high cholesterol and heartburn,

respectively.

 

Antidepressants remain the top-selling therapeutic

class, with $12.5 billion in retail sales.

 

The average price for a prescription rose 10 percent,

from $45.27 to $49.84, the study found. The average

price among the 50 best-selling drugs was $71.56.

 

In many categories, two or three medications dominated

the market. Nearly 75 percent of the prescriptions

written to treat heartburn were for Prilosec or

Prevacid, for instance.

 

Washington Post March 29, 2002; Page A09

 

DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

 

It is a sad but not unexpected tragedy that our drug use

is being extended to children. Americans had more than 3

billion prescriptions filled last year.

 

On the average that is one prescription for every man

woman and children in the US every single month.

 

Like the late Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois was

fond of saying when he was referring to the Defense

Department budget, a billion dollars here, a billion

dollars there and before you know it you are talking

real money.

Retail pharmacies filled 3 billion prescriptions in 2000.

 

Well we are talking a lot more than a few billion

dollars. How about something like a nearly 200 billion

dollars for drugs spent last year.

 

The sad tragedy is that we are spending all of this

money on disease management focused on drugs and our

return on this investment is profoundly poor.

 

Clearly there is something seriously wrong here.

 

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