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WHAT DOCTORS DON’T TELL YOU - E-NEWS BROADCAST No.29 - 03 Apr 03

 

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VACCINATIONS: The State versus mothers, part 496

 

Vaccinating your child is not compulsory in the UK—but the State likes to force

the arm of recalcitrant parents whenever it has the chance.

 

Cases we’ve reported in past issues of What Doctors Don’t Tell You haven’t made

for easy reading. Doctors, aided by a police escort, have forced their way into

homes, and given a vaccination to the child while restraining the mother, while,

in one case we championed and raised funds for a legal challenge, the parents

were forced into a special care home until they saw the sense of vaccination.

 

Now we’ve been alerted about another distressing case, and it’s one that needs

your immediate help and support.

 

It concerns a British student midwife who is separated from her husband, and

father of her child. She decided not to vaccinate the child, but her estranged

husband took her to court over her ban on vaccinations, even though she was

awarded full custody.

 

Nobody at the time could believe that the husband, who is not British, could

possibly win his case, considering she has full custody, that her ex-husband is

not British, and that this country does not mandate vaccines.

 

The draft judgment was passed in the last couple of days, giving the mother

three months to take her child to a pediatric registrar to update all vaccines

recommended by the UK government, at a set schedule. If you think this is bad,

read on, it gets worse. The case was pooled; another family, involving a

12-year-old girl, received the same verdict.

 

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS COUNTRY? Two mothers who refused to allow the

injection of various poisons which could possibly result in severe side effects,

such as severe diarrhea, encephalitis, anorexia,anaphylaxis, arthritis, febrile

convulsions, seizures,Guillain-Barré-Syndrome, encephalopathy, SSPE, or death

(all these according to package inserts from vaccine manufacturers), are refused

by a family court to execute their duties as responsible adults and loving,

caring mothers.

 

The Court will not accept expert witnesses who reside outside the UK if an

appeal takes place. If you are resident in the UK and an expert in this field,

or can give legal advice, please urgently contact

justice. And if you are a resident in the UK, then

please write to your MP, to Tony Blair, to the House of Lords, to voice your

concerns over the way these two mothers are treated by our justice system.

 

 

 

NEW DRUGS FOR OLD: When to say ‘no’ to your GP

 

Zealous readers of our book Secrets of the Drugs Industry (we’ll be asking

questions at the end) will know to be very wary if your GP suddenly prescribes

for you a different drug. Chances are that it’s a new, untested drug, and you

may even have been unwittingly conscripted into a drug trial.

 

One such case came to light the other day. Dr Robert Macindoe Adams, who

practised in Hertfordshire, enrolled 12 of his patients into drug trials without

their consent, and even overstated the symptoms of two of them to make them

eligible for the trial.

 

One patient became suspicious after she was enrolled in a trial of the calcium

channel blocker lercanidipine. She expressed concern about the sudden change of

prescription, and the numerous times that Adams was taking blood samples. In

his response, Adams failed to mention that she was taking the new drug.

 

Adams was suspended for 12 months by a panel hearing of the General Medical

Council, although his counsel says he is no longer practising.

 

Interestingly, nothing was mentioned about the financial sums involved in

recruiting ‘volunteers’ to new drug trials, but it’s been estimated at around

£3,000 per person.

 

Dr Adams’s recruitment campaign was modest compared with some doctors who carry

on this iniquitous practice without ever being found out. Perhaps their

patients never read Secrets of the Drugs Industry.

 

(Source: British Medical Journal, 2003; 326: 304).

 

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A SCARE THAT TAKES THE BISCUIT: Now snacks don’t cause cancer

 

You may remember last year’s health scare number 3,267 which found a link

between snack foods such as chips, biscuits and crisps and cancer.

 

These snack foods have high levels of acrylamide, a suspected carcinogen that

forms during the baking process. Acrylamide was recognized as a carcinogen in

1994 following animal studies.

 

Once the discovery was made, American researchers immediately came out with the

estimate of 3,000 new cases of cancer a year being caused by these snack foods.

The snacks were especially blamed for causing cancer of the large bowel, bladder

and kidney.

 

Now Swedish researchers have turned these findings on their head. They compared

the diets of 987 patients with cancers of the large bowel, bladder and kidney

with those of 538 healthy people——and they could find no association at all with

these snack foods.

 

So can you get out the biscuit tin in celebration? Well, these foods are pretty

bad for you, anyway, but perhaps cancer is one thing they don’t cause after all.

 

(Source: British Journal of Cancer, 2003; 88: 84-9).

 

 

 

SLINGS AND ARROWS: Mother was right after all (or: Mother 1, Doctor 0)

 

More and more young mothers are replacing the conventional pram or pushchair for

the baby sling. There’s plenty of evidence to show that the close, tactile

connection between mother and baby is healthy and beneficial (probably for both

parties).

 

But the practice has had doctors worried. They are concerned that babies are

not able to breathe properly, especially if he is facing towards the mother, and

it may be particularly dangerous if the baby was premature.

 

So, ignoring the instincts of the mothers, doctors decided to test if the baby

was in danger. They monitored the health and well-being of 24 pre-term and 12

term babies while in a sling and in a pram.

 

Not surprisingly, they could find no difference at all, except that babies in a

pram were missing out on the closeness and comfort of the mother.

 

(Source: Pediatrics, 2002; 110: 879-83).

 

 

 

READERS’ CORNER

 

Methotrexate: Our previous Enews broadcast mentioned the dangers of using

methotrexate, an anti-cancer agent, for treating rheumatoid arthritis. One of

the problems was the peculiar dosage: up to 30mg once a week. Some elderly

patients were taking the dosage once a day.

 

One reader, a retired pharmacist, adds to the confusion by pointing out that

methotrexate is available only as a 2.5mg and 10mg tablet. And it gets

curiouser and curiouser. The dosage recommended in the British Formulary is

from 7.5mg to 20mg a week for arthritis treatment.

 

Is this one more example of a miscommunication between drug manufacturers and

doctors with the patient, yet again, at the sharp end? We feel we should be

told.

 

 

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