FDA sees 'fraud' in Cancer treatments - NewsGrabs 22 June 2008

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FDA sees 'fraud' in Cancer treatments - NewsGrabs 22 June 2008

_http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/06/22/fda_sees_fraud_in_cancer_trea

tments_newsgrabs_22_june_2008.htm_

(http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/06/22/fda_sees_fraud_in_cancer_treatm\

ents_newsgrabs_22_june_2008.htm)

 

_FDA warns about fraudulent cancer treatments_

(http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-06-17-fda-cancer-fraud_N.htm?csp=34)

The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on teas, supplements,

creams and other products that falsely claim to cure, treat or prevent cancer

even though they are not agency-approved drugs. All are available for sale on

the Internet.

" FDA is very concerned that consumers will purchase these products on the

Internet and use them instead of products that have been proven safe and

effective, " said Michael Levy, director of the agency's new drugs and labeling

compliance division.

Just wondering - can anyone name some of those " safe and effective " cancer

treatments? Chemotherapy? Radiation?

Gotta be kidding!

The FDA's crackdown shows how little trust the public has in the toxins

advocated by " orthodox " medicine to cure cancer and other ills. They are

looking

around for alternatives, so the FDA steps in - once more - to protect the

business of pharmaceutical disease management.

 

_125 Cancer 'Cures' That the FDA Calls Fake_

(http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/cancer/2008/06/18/125-cancer-cures-tha\

t-the-fda-calls-fake.html?msg=

1)

This article is especially interesting for the comments people left. It

seems many are waking up to the fact that pharmaceutical officialdom is leading

them down the garden path...

 

_Irish health group welcomes 'no' to Lisbon treaty_

(http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ng.asp?n=85929-iahs-food-supplement-functi\

onal-foods-traditional-

herbal-medicinal-products-di)

Ireland's rejection of the European Union Lisbon Treaty has strengthened the

resolve of the country's independent health store retailers as well as food

supplement manufacturers and wholesalers in their campaign against EU

regulations.

" The overall message to Europe is to back off and that can only help our

cause. This adds to the considerable unease that industry and consumers have

been registering in regard to some of the laws that have been written. This

would have been a significant factor in deciding the vote because our industry's

concerns would have added to the mainstream concerns and doubts. "

 

_Lack of vitamin D rampant in infants, teens_ (http://www.usatoday.com/news/h

ealth/2008-06-16-vitamin-d-main_N.htm?csp=34)

" Vitamin D deficiency is much more of a health problem than anyone

realized, " says Catherine Gordon, director of the bone health program at

Children's

Hospital Boston. In the June issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent

Medicine, Gordon and her colleagues found that 40% of infants and toddlers

tested below average for vitamin D.

" Vitamin D deficiency was twice as common in teens as we assumed it would

be, " she says.

 

_Adults still risk vitamin D deficiency_

(http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-06-16-vitamin-d-side_N.htm?csp=34)

Vitamin D also may play a role in preventing diabetes and hypertension,

according to the National Institutes of Health. A study in last week's Archives

of Internal Medicine found that men 40 to 75 with below-normal vitamin D

levels had a higher risk of heart attack.

 

_Study links vitamin D to colon cancer survival_

(http://www.physorg.com/news133063946.html)

The results showed that individuals with the vitamin D levels in the highest

quartile were 48 percent less likely to die (from any cause, including colon

cancer) than those with the lowest vitamin D measurements.

" Our data suggest that higher prediagnosis plasma levels of [vitamin D]

after a diagnosis of colorectal cancer may significantly improve overall

survival, " the authors wrote. " Future trials should examine the role of vitamin

D

supplementation in patients with colorectal cancer. "

 

_Study indicates grape seed extract may reduce cognitive decline associated

with Alzheimer's disease_ (http://www.physorg.com/news132942600.html)

Lead study author Giulio Pasinetti, MD, PhD, of Mount Sinai School of

Medicine and colleagues found that the grape seed extract prevents amyloid beta

accumulation in cells, suggesting that it may block the formation of plaques.

In

Alzheimer's disease, amyloid beta accumulates to form toxic plaques that

disrupt normal brain function.

The researchers tested a grape seed polyphenolic extract product sold as

MegaNatural-AZ, made by Polyphenolics, which in part supported the study.

Polyphenolic compounds are antioxidants naturally found in wine, tea,

chocolate,

and some fruits and vegetables.

 

_Flawed St. John's Wort Study on ADHD Failed to Use Active Form of Herbal

Extract_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/023430.html)

Recently a study purporting to discredit the time-honored use of the St.

Johns Wort herb for pediatric use for kids labeled ADHD was published in the

Journal of the American Medical Association. This paper was heavily influenced

by Harvard's Dr. Joseph Biederman. Dr. Biederman made headlines and a New York

Times editorial in the past few days because he and his colleagues failed to

disclose more than $3,200,000 in drug company money in violation of the

universities disclosure policy.

 

_Placebo supplement spawns opposition_

(http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=85975)

The sugar pill, marketed by Efficacy Brands, was introduced on the US market

in March this year, and is currently being sold at $6 for a bottle of 50.

The product is called Obecalp - or 'placebo' spelt backwards.

" This is not a lawfully marketed product, and it shouldn't be on the shelves

at all, " said Daniel Fabricant, PhD, science and regulatory affairs vice

president at the Washington DC-based Natural Products Association (NPA).

I wonder what the big deal is here. Is big pharma's placebo a sacred object

of worship that no one may touch? Are they perhaps afraid someone is going to

look into how THEY _formulate their placebos_

(http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/07/25/prescribing_a_placebo.htm) ?

 

_Bacteria in Pork Showing Resistance to Antibiotics_

(http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_13029.cfm)

Scientists are beginning to detect antibiotic-resistant bacteria in pork,

pigs and some veterinarians, raising the issue of whether these so-called

superbugs might find a new route to infect farmworkers or even people who eat

pork.

 

_Will Internet Addiction enter into Manual of Mental Disorders?_

(http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-06/st_wtf)

Like other addicts, users reportedly experience cravings (for better

software, faster machines), withdrawal (logging off may cause irritability), a

loss

of sense of time (wee-hour fixes), and negative social repercussions (it's so

much easier to date an avatar). Sound familiar?

 

_Harvard Conflicts of Interest and the 'bipolar epidemic'_

(http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2008/06/follow-upharvard-conflicts-of-interest.html)

The astounding 'bipolar' epidemic among America's children has no

scientific-epidemiological explanation. It is generated by

financially-compromised

child psychiatrists who " diagnose " normal, but irritable children whose

behavior

may be disruptive. Such children are misdiagnosed as having a severe,

chronic, disabling condition--the current diagnosis du jour is bipolar. This

" diagnosis " condemns a child to be exposed to the most toxic drugs

(antipsychotics

and anticonvulsants) whose documented severe adverse effects pose

life-threatening risks for children and adults.

 

_Doctor Advised Neurontin Warning But Was Ignored_

(http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/06/doctor-advised-neurontin-warning-but-was-ignor\

ed/)

Trimble described what he said was a “plausible biological pathway†that

could lead from the compound gabapentin, or Neurontin, to suicidal behavior,

hostility, and aggression, the paper writes He said that in 1995 and 1996, he

was hired to write two confidential reports, because the drugmaker “was

concerned about psychosis in relation to their drug,†according to the

Journal.

Trimble testified he was unable to find a link to psychosis, but noted effects

of depression and aggression.

Lawyers for Pfizer argued the evidence linking the drug to suicidal side

effects wasn’t scientifically sound...

 

_U.S. Ranks Dead Last Among 19 Nations in Preventive Medicine_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/z023429.html)

Researchers tracked how many preventable deaths took place in 19 developed

nations between 2002 and 2003. A preventable death was defined as one that

would not have occurred if the patient had access to timely and effective

health

care.

The United States ranked dead last, with 109.7 preventable deaths for every

100,000 people. France came in first, with 64.8, followed by Japan and

Australia, with 71.2 and 71.3, respectively.

 

_WESTERN MEDICINE FAILS TIM RUSSERT_

(http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron60.htm)

The shocking death of Tim Russert last Friday has left an entire nation

wondering what happened. He was a model patient, doing everything his doctors

asked. All major media have run articles trying to explain the nuances and

difficulties in treating coronary artery disease. These articles find little

fault

in Russert’s care, trying to create the idea that his heart attack was just

too hard to predict and that all that could have been done for him was done.

I beg to differ. His death represents the failure of standard medical care to

produce a positive result – an occurrence that is all too common in today’s

world.

 

_UK: Call to regulate 'unorthodox therapy'_

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7456490.stm)

But the experts, led by Professor Mike Pittilo, the vice chancellor of

Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University, said unregulated treatments were putting

patients at risk. They said acupuncture had been known to cause kidney damage

when the needles were inserted too deeply, while herbal medicines had been

found

contaminated with steroids.

It is absolutely amazing to see the professor's passionate concern for our

safety. He is suggesting to regulate " unorthodox " therapies that are orders of

magnitude safer than " orthodox " medicine. Talk about the pot calling the

kettle black.

Better clean up orthodox medicine, which is where the _deaths are occurring_

(http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/10/29/medical_system_is_leading_cau

se_of_death_and_injury_in_us.htm) .

 

_100s of UK herbals face ban as registration deadline looms_

(http://www.ahf-au.org/170608/uk.herbals.ban.htm)

The British Herbal Medicines Association (BHMA) has urged companies to begin

the registration process or allow products to face market extinction come

the April 2011 deadline.

Some member states have registered no products so far, with others still to

transpose the THMPD into their national legislatures. A BHMA spokesperson

told NutraIngredients that 35 applications " was a remarkably small number "

despite the MHRA being as " helpful as it possibly could " . He said he did not

know

of any registrations that had been granted in other member states which he

described as " an extraordinary situation " .

This herbal medicines directive is a perfect example of how laws are made in

the EU without knowledge of and without regard to the actual market

situation. The registration procedure is financially out of reach of most

producers

of herbal supplements.

Some countries - Italy is one of them - are including herbs in the

supplements category, but apparently the UK is planning to just say " too bad -

you

didn't register your herbs, now they can't be sold any more " . A situation

typical for the bureaucratic way of making laws that protect pharmaceutical

industry turf without asking what the people want.

 

_HRT Is OK says International Menopause Society - who are funded by Wyeth

Pharmaceuticals, Bayer, Schering Pharma and Novo Nordisk Femcare!_

(http://www.ahf-au.org/040608/hrt.ok.htm)

 

HRT or _Hormone Replacement Therapy_

(http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/03/08/is_hormone_replacement_therapy_\

dead.htm) has been found to be

associated with increased incidence of cancer and heart attacks, and was

largely

abandoned after some large studies found those increased risks.

The International Menopause Society, with funding from some pharmaceutical

manufacturers, spins the warnings saying " it's not so bad " .

 

_Britain's children victims of the chemical cosh_

(http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/britai\

ns-child-victims-of-the-c

hemical-cosh-847455.html)

The number of powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to England's children

has risen by more than half in four years, government figures have revealed.

GPs in England are handing out prescriptions for anti-psychotic drugs for

children as young as seven at the rate of 250 a day...

 

_UK: Doctors 'ignoring drugs warning'_

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/7457132.stm)

" Evidence reviewed by the Committee on Safety of Medicines indicates an

increased risk of stroke which particularly applies when these drugs are used

by

elderly people with dementia, " the CSM said. It added: " The Committee has

advised that risperidone or olanzapine should not be used for the treatment of

behavioural symptoms of dementia. "

 

_Paxil And Placebo Suicides_

(http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/06/washout-or-whiteout-paxil-and-placebo-suicides\

/)

Grassley cited a report prepared by Joseph Glenmullen, a Harvard psychiatry

professor, for litigation in federal court in California over Paxil side

effects. The report was unsealed earlier this year, but was missing some pages.

Last week, those pages became available and include a section that describes

in some detail how Glaxo allegedly manipulated so-called placebo suicides.

 

_Exposed: Harvard Shrink Gets Rich Labeling Kids Bipolar_

(http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/88333/)

What Dick Cheney is to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, psychiatrist Joseph

Biederman is to the explosion of psychiatric medications in American children.

Recently, Biederman was nailed by congressional investigators and the New York

Times for overestimating just how greedy an elite shrink is entitled to be.

Beyond a peek into the corruption of psychiatry at its highest levels, the

scandal is an opportunity to reconsider the Big Pharma financed view of why

kids

become disruptive and destructive.

 

_Should doctors be 'selling' drugs for the pharmaceutical industry?_

(http://www.physorg.com/news133147266.html)

Drug companies will pay influential doctors up to $400 an hour to act as key

opinion leaders, and some doctors earn more than $25 000 a year in advisory

fees. Kimberly Elliot, a former award-winning drug company sales

representative interviewed by Moynihan, reveals that drug companies desperately

need key

opinion leaders in order for doctors to believe what they are saying and

prescribe their products, because drug representatives are often not believed.

Essentially, she says, key opinion leaders are just salespeople.

So how independent are these doctors who have long term financial

arrangements with drug companies?

 

_Perverse Corruption as Doctors are Paid to Sell Drugs_

(http://www.wellnessresources.com/freedom/articles/perverse_corruption_as_doctor\

s_are_paid_to_sell_

drugs/)

The British Medical Journal is helping everyone understand just how deep the

rabbit hole goes. Key doctors are paid big money to promote and sell drugs.

An interview with a superstar drug rep reveals exactly how Big Pharma

recruits and trains key doctors, and then pays them to make presentations about

the

company’s drugs with information and slides prepared by the company – and

never do the doctors disclose the financial relationship. Just unbelievable.

 

_UK: Drug warning for PMT sufferers_

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_7413000/7413543.stm)

(PMT - Premenstrual Tension)

The National Association for Premenstrual Syndrome (NAPS) says more and more

women are contacting them because they reckon they've wrongly been

prescribed anti-depressants including Prozac and Seroxat.

The charity is worried potentially thousands more are being misdiagnosed as

having clinical depression, when their symptoms are actually linked to their

periods and don't last all month.

 

_Unexplained Troop Deaths, Something Very Wrong With PTSD Treatments_

(http://www.furiousseasons.com/archives/2008/06/unexplained_troop_deaths_somethi\

ng_ve

ry_wrong_with_ptsd_treatments.html)

" Military doctors prescribed Paxil, Klonopin and Seroquel for Johnson, the

same combination taken by veterans Andrew White, 23, of Cross Lanes; Eric

Layne, 29, of Kanawha City; and Nicholas Endicott of Logan County. All were in

apparently good physical health when they died in their sleep. "

 

_23 people die and 123 are hospitalised after being given flu vaccine_

(http://www.ahf-au.org/140608/flu.vaccine.htm)

23 people have died from heart attacks, blood infections and pneumonia after

having routine flu jabs

There are now calls for further research to identify whether some people

could be put in danger by having the jab. Ms Primarolo insisted the flu vaccine

was safe and added: ‘The balance of benefits to risks remains overwhelmingly

positive.’

Quite a death toll for a vaccine that is administered against an illness

that does not normally result in death but at the most in a few days in bed.

Wonder when Ms Primarolo last examined that balance she says is " overwhelmingly

positive " .

Unfortunately, government personnel's interests are heavily conflicted. On

the one hand they are charged to maintain vaccination levels at as close to

100 % as possible, on the other they are the ones to determine the risk-benefit

balance.

 

_Forced Vaccination - Stand Up! Be Counted_

(http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2008/06/forced-vaccination.html)

But Vaccines are big business in America. Americans buy and are required to

use more vaccines than citizens in any other nation in the world. The market

for pediatric vaccines is predicted to quadruple by the year 2016 to more

than $16 billion.

Vaccines are the only commercial products marketed and sold for profit that

are not subject to product liability laws.

Serious vaccine reactions include brain damage and even death. More vaccines

may not make our children healthier.

 

_AIDS: De COCK AND BULL stuff and nonsense_

(http://hivskeptic.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/more-de-cock-and-bull-stuff-and-nons\

ense/)

Someone like De Cock who collaborated in authorship of this review article

would, I suggest, find unbidden doubts making themselves felt about the whole

business of HIV/AIDS epidemics; albeit those doubts might express themselves

only in dreams—or nightmares.

Expressing such doubts in the light of day, and from within the World Health

Organization, is tantamount to treason. No surprise, then, that WHO and

UNAIDS quickly issued a joint “correctionâ€...

 

_VIRTUAL HIV/AIDS RESEARCH AND TREATMENT_

(http://hivskeptic.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/virtual-hivaids-research-and-treatme\

nt/)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now likes to fill its reports

with “Estimates†instead of with actual reported counts—the 2005

Surveillance Report, for example, has 7 tables of estimated cases of HIV/AIDS

and AIDS;

one of estimated deaths of people with AIDS; and for “Persons Living with

HIV/AIDS, AIDS, or HIV Infection (Not AIDS)†there are 6 tables, 2 maps, and

3

figures of estimated data. All these estimates, of course, are outputs of

computer models whose inputs include unsubstantiated assumptions plus —

surely? —

some counts of actually reported cases.

 

_Orasure's Oral AIDS Test Has Too Many False Positives_

(http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124 & sid=aorUpxTeRFPg & refer=home)

The rate of false positives from the OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV 1/2 rose as

high as 1.1 percent over the past eight months, or more than five times the

level claimed in the kit's labeling, city health officials said. While the

test meets U.S. standards and remains on the market, New York's sexually

transmitted disease clinics stopped using it to screen saliva...

Aids tests are unworkable - see _ " No Gold Standard for HIV Testing " _

(http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/01/13/aids_no_gold_standard_for_hiv_t\

esting

..htm)

 

_14 die of cancer in seven years living next to phone mast with highest

radiation levels in UK_

(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1027699/14-die-cancer-seven-years-liv\

ing-phone-mast-highest-radiation-levels-UK.html?ITO=1490)

 

Fourteen people living within a mile of a mobile phone mast that emits one

of the highest levels of radiation in the country have died of cancer. Four of

the deaths have been in a cul-de-sac yards from the site. A further 20

residents have developed tumours in the last seven years, although they have

survived.

 

_UK: SUICIDES ‘LINKED TO PHONE MASTS’_

(http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/49330/Suicides-linked-to-phone-masts)

Dr Coghill said last night there was strong circumstantial evidence that the

masts may have triggered depression in those from Bridgend who took their

lives. “There is a body of research that has over the years pointed to the

fact

that exposure to mobile radiation can lead to depression. There is evidence

of higher suicide rates where people live near any electrical equipment that

gives off radio or electrical waves.â€

 

_2 Billion may suffer from Mobile Cancer by 2020: Australian Health Research

Institute_

(http://www.dailyindia.com/show/251813.php/2-Billion-may-suffer-from-Mobile-Canc\

er-by-2020:-Australian-Health-Research-Institute-)

The studies and survey conducted by Australian Health Research Institute

indicates that due to billions of times more in volume electromagnetic radiation

emitted by billions of mobile phones, internet, intranet and wireless

communication data transmission will make almost one-third of world population

(about two billions) patient of ear, eye and brain cancer beside other major

body

disorders like heart ailments, impotency, migraine, epilepsy.

 

_Indian Govt to service providers: Warn mobile users!_

(http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1475631)

Warning people about harmful effects of radiation from mobile phones, the

Indian government has asked cell phone service providers and makers to avoid

promotional advertisements showing vulnerable segments like children and

pregnant women using cell phones.

The electromagnetic waves emitted from mobile phones can seriously damage

the tissues of the users' brain, according to recent guidelines issued by the

Ministry of Telecommunication.

 

_CELL PHONE HAZARDS - THE EVIDENCE IS IN_

(http://www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/The_Evidence_Is_In.html)

The evidence is in - and it is overwhelming. Even at typical low power, cell

phones and wireless technology cause severe biological disturbances in human

cells. In August 2007, 26 medical and public health experts their

Bioinitiative Report - available online - reviewing all the literature on the

effects

of electromagnetic radiation

- - -

More information out there...

There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information

exist and are active.

You can to the Zeus Newsletter _here_

(http://www.internetwebdezines.com/Zeus/_entry.htm) . Appears twice

monthly. If you would like to

see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the

_archives_ (http://www.zeusinfoservice.com/archive.htm) .

Dr Mercola's _health blog_ (http://v.mercola.com/) and Mike Adams' _Natural

News_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/) have great health information.

The _Alternative Medicine _

(http://health./) is a place

where you can discuss and exchange

information on what is happening in the world of natural health.

For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and

other radio emitting devices, check out the _emfrefugee group_

(http://health.emfrefugee/) on .

If you are interested in a different take on the news that isn't health

centered but is certainly fun, check out _Robin Good TV News_

(http://www.robingood.tv/rgtvnews/) .

A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the

stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:

_http://therealnews.com/_ (http://therealnews.com/)

_http://www.whatreallyhappened.com_ (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/)

_http://www.commondreams.org_ (http://www.commondreams.org/)

_http://www.globalresearch.ca/_ (http://www.globalresearch.ca/)

_http://rawstory.com/_ (http://rawstory.com/)

_http://www.truthout.org/_ (http://www.truthout.org/)

.... and remember:

The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition

 

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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Sunday June 22 2008