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Big Pharma’s sketchy drug marketing practices cost Canadians $15B in overspending

January 18, 2017 by Vicki Batts Leave a Comment

Just when you thought the wasting of hard-earned dollars couldn’t get any worse, recent reports reveal that the Canadians have wasted a staggering $15 billion in just five years on overpriced drugs. At least part of the immense waste is thought to be due to questionable pharmaceutical sales tactics.

The gross overspending was revealed thanks to some extensive research and a hidden camera investigation led by The Fifth Estate. Express Scripts Canada, a health benefits company, helped to conduct research which shows that between 2011 and 2015, employer-funded private insurance plans across the country wasted more than $3 billion per year. How did this happen? Companies were covering the cost of expensive drugs that have cheaper options, and were paying for extraneous dispensing fees. (RELATED: See more examples of rigged pricing and fraud across society at Rigged.news)

In total, about 20 percent of the nation’s $81 billion spent on medication during that time could have been eliminated.

John Herbert, director of strategy, product development and clinical services for Express Scripts Canada, says, “It’s quite a staggering number.” The Ontario-based company helps the private insurance industry eliminate wasteful spending.

“It’s key for Canadians to know this because they can save themselves as well as their employer money by choosing to take advantage of those lower-cost, clinically effective medications,” Herbert added.

In the case of type 2 diabetes medications, doctors prescribe more expensive drugs without first trying more affordable alternatives, 30 percent of the time. In Canada, spending on diabetes drugs is the fastest-growing realm of medication spending according to IMS Health, a healthcare data company.

The Diabetes Association of Canada even suggests that care providers first prescribe generic Metformin to their diabetic patients before trying anything else. This prescription is extremely affordable, equating to just $65 per year. The organization states that more expensive alternatives, which can add up to $3,000 per year, should only be used if the Metformin generic fails to work.

Is this actually what physicians do when they are prescribing the medication? Of course not. The research conducted by Express Scripts Canada uncovered the harsh truth: $100 million was wasted over the course of 2015, thanks to disregard for the guidelines. That is a huge sum of money to waste in just a single year.

The experts do note that sometimes there may be a medical reason for skipping over the generic Metformin, but they also note that that doesn’t explain away all that wasted money.

Sheryl Spithoff, a family doctor from Toronto, commented, “My guess is that drug promotion is very influential in terms of doctors not following the guidelines. It’s incredible. It’s a lot of money that could be used for other things in the health-care system.”

Behind the waste

Poor prescribing practices top the list of reasons for healthcare overspending, according to experts. As is the case in the U.S., many Canadian doctors tend to rely on the pharmaceutical companies to teach them about new drugs, uses and side effects. Of course, any reasonable person would say that is probably not the best practice.

Companies will always favor their own products.

During their hidden camera investigation, The Fifth Estate planted a doctor at the annual Family Medicine Forum in Vancouver. They found that at every booth the doctor visited, they were greeted with questionable marketing tactics — ranging from not disclosing side effects unless prompted, to even promoting the product for off-label uses.

You can see why the pharmaceutical industry shouldn’t be responsible for physician education. (Learn more about the waste and fraud of the pharmaceutical industry at Medicine.news)

It’s not just Canada that’s overspending

A report released in 2012 by the U.S. Institute of Medicine revealed that we are also overspending on healthcare. The agency estimated that in 2009 alone, the United States wasted a shocking $750 billion on inefficient spending and care. A graph in the report suggests that excess services and treatments accounted for $210 billion of the waste.

Other reports have shown that Americans pay more for medications than people do in any other country in the world.

Clearly, there is a huge issue with overspending in the healthcare industry. And if Canada is any kind of example, the pharmaceutical industry plays a significant role in it — as do healthcare providers through their complacency.

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CBC.ca

DrugWatch.com

KHN.org

Student athletes becoming drug addicts after doctors prescribe opioids for their injuries

December 14, 2016 by JD Heyes Leave a Comment

Playing sports at any age can lead to injuries, and that is especially true of football, basketball and even baseball. When adult athletes get injured, they are often prescribed opioid pain killers to get them by – often with devastating effects.

But what about when student athletes suffer injuries? It turns out that many of them, too, are prescribed habit-forming opioids, forming an addiction that can turn out to be worse (and far more lasting) than the original injury.

As the Today show reported on its website, John Haskell, as a high school football player, was used to physical contact. However, being diagnosed with his fourth concussion became a real game-changer for him; his doctor prescribed a very powerful painkiller for his throbbing headaches.

“He looked in my ears, checked my hearing, checked my eyes. And the next thing I know, I’m at CVS getting Vicodin,” the teenager told the show’s correspondents in an interview.

Addict at 15

Just 15 years old at the time, Haskell became a member of a different club: Student athletes who become addicted to dangerous opioids, sometimes moving on to even more dangerous street drugs, after they get hurt playing a sport.

Over the course of time, the youngster developed an addiction to pain pills, and then heroin – which was less expensive. Now at 18 years old, he’s sober and is doing very well. But health experts say his experience ought to be a warning both to parents and the medical industry, as well as for other injured players.

“As a parent, you need to take a more advocating role and ask your provider why are they going this route?” said Dr. Harold Shinitzky, a sports psychologist. “Why is it automatically an opioid or a painkiller?”

Interestingly, as reported by Health Day, a study released in July found that teen athletes are less likely to abuse prescription opioids than are kids who are not involved in school sports and don’t exercise.

That finding doesn’t appear to jibe with the understanding held by many in the mainstream medical community who have been concerned about the rising instances of opioid addiction among teen athletes. Dr. Wilson Compton, deputy director of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, said he was “surprised” by that finding.

“A key risk (for teenage athletes) is a desire to please and for acceptance,” he said, as Health Day reported. “But this study shows overall rates (of use) are declining.”

Anecdotal evidence that some teens become addicts

University of Michigan researchers, for that particular study, analyzed data from nearly 192,000 students in the 8^th and 10^th grades who took part in a federally funded study from 1997 to 2014. Over those years, doctors handed out many more opioid prescriptions for children and teenagers, while non-medical use of opioids also increased sharply. At about the same time, deaths from overdoses involving opioids like Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet and heroin almost quadrupled in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The study’s results suggest that participation in organized team sports may actually serve as a bulwark against opioid abuse and addiction, according to study co-author Philip Veliz, with the university’s Institute for Social Research.

The website noted that the study’s findings “run counter” to other research that has been conducted and published in recent years.

Veliz also suggested that there is anecdotal evidence that prescribing opioids to teenagers following a sports injury could lead some of them to become heroin addicts (as evidenced by what happened to Haskell – again, because it is easier and cheaper for them to obtain).

But, he added, there have been no large-scale studies that have measured whether abuse of recommended painkillers is in turn leading to an “epidemic” of heroin use among high school athletes.

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Today.com

Consumer.HealthDay.com

PharmaDeathClock.com

Depression pills are increasing mental health problems, suicides

December 13, 2016 by Robert Jonathan Leave a Comment

Virtually everyone gets bummed out or down in the dumps from time to time, or maybe even for long periods of time for those diagnosed as clinically depressed, but are pharmaceutical pills the answer?

About 41 million Americans reportedly take at least one antidepressant drug.

On both sides of the Atlantic, medical doctors seemingly doing the bidding of Big Pharma continue to hand out antidepressant prescriptions like Halloween candy despite side effects that can exacerbate a patient’s condition, including but not limited to, suicidal thoughts.

Tragically, sometimes these thoughts transform into actions.

Think about the contradiction: A pharmaceutical drug meant to alleviate depression apparently causes a person to consider taking his or her own life as a side effect. Does that meet the standard of common sense?

According to psychiatry professor David Healy, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, antidepressants induce about 4,000 additional suicides each year in the U.S. and in Europe, including about 250 in the U.K.

He also separately maintains that 25 percent of those on SSRIs are more anxious rather than less.

Some of the perpetrators of barbaric mass shootings incidents have also been said to be linked to SSRIs.

Writing in the U.K. Daily Mail last week, author Katinka Blackford Newman, who is leading an effort to publicize and archive the dangerous side effects of antidepressant drugs in Britain, recalled that a successful lawyer on an antidepressant/antipsychotic cocktail for stress threw himself under a train.

In another case, a recently unemployed woman prescribed antidepressants, whose daughter described her as a “zombie” while on the drugs, disappeared after talking about killing herself. In yet another tragedy, a 15-year-old boy who was prescribed antidepressants and who described himself as “brain fried” in a letter he left behind, “calmly” walked in front of a train after being discharged from a U.K. hospital.

Newman also contends that many patients can take these antidepressant drugs without adverse consequences.

She revealed that she developed an anxiety condition from drug toxicity known as akathisia, the inability to sit still, after being prescribed drugs for stress. Antidepressants also caused her to consider suicide by train after experiencing “anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity or physical/inner restlessness.”

About a month or so after going off the drugs while under medical supervision, Newman was able to resume her normal life.

“I had an instinct the drugs were making me ill and told doctors this on many occasions. They told me I didn’t understand my condition, which they insisted was depression. The refusal to listen to patients’ concerns about what the drugs are doing to them happens too frequently,” she writes.

Newman called attention to a study published by researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Centre suggesting that SSRIs “doubled the occurrence of events that can lead to suicide and violence” based on data derived from 612 healthy volunteers.

“The report provoked a row because it listed the following as events leading to suicide: agitation, nightmares, feeling jittery, nervousness, anxiety, restlessness, tremor, depression, abnormal dreams, abnormal thinking — all symptoms identified by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration as precursors to suicide.”

In a development that could make many Natural News readers depressed, however, the global market for SSRIs is projected to exceed $13 billion by 2018.

Instead of a one-size-fits-all regimen of what appears to be toxic pharmaceutical interventions, alternative therapies and lifestyle choices may provide part of the answer to depression.

While treatment specifics are and should be a private matter between healthcare professional and patent, the medical establishment and the population it seeks to serve should explore a full range of options for depression.

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Cchrint.org

NaturalNews.com

DailyMail.com

Collusion: DEA bans plant medicines, then Big Pharma patents them for profits

December 12, 2016 by Vicki Batts Leave a Comment

Is the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) really looking out for anyone’s best interests with their latest stand on natural, medicinal plants like cannabis and kratom? Most would tend to disagree with them, just on principle. But a deeper look into the matter reveals that their intent may be far more sinister than they want us to believe.

While the DEA consistently maintains that these plants work against the greater good, there are clearly a lot of questions about the agency’s integrity – especially when Big Pharma is involved.

Marijuana and THC – a well-known cannabinoid compound – are both illegal. And yet, as The Free Thought Project pointed out back in September, Big Pharma companies mass-produce and sell synthetic THC formulations, such as Marinol. Marinol is the brand name for dronabinol – the new name that the Big Pharma executives give to THC after it’s been synthesized in a lab. Marinol’s own website notes that THC is a naturally occurring compound found in cannabis. However, as Paul Armentano – the senior policy analyst for the marijuana legislation reform group NORML – notes, Marinol lacks many of the natural therapeutic compounds that are present in the cannabis plant. And because Marinol’s sole active ingredient is synthetic THC, and it’s taken orally, the psychoactive effects tend to be much stronger (and even problematic for some) compared to traditional cannabis. CBD, another beneficial compound, tends to help counteract the psychoactive effects of THC, and without it, you’re in for a whole different kind of ride.

Regardless of how one feels about Marinol and the fact that it offers only limited relief to patients in comparison to the plant it’s modeled after, it is exceedingly hypocritical of the FDA to approve of it while the DEA continues to prosecute marijuana to the fullest extent. It’s not just being blind to the facts or refusing to believe a plant could be medicinal; its outright sabotage at this point. The federal government has literally allowed Big Pharma to create medicine derived from the plant, and then made the plant itself illegal. It is simply mind-boggling how they can rationalize and justify such despicable behavior.

The DEA’s recent statement on kratom underlines the extreme lengths to which they will go to continue to assert that they are in the right, even if only to themselves. The agency filed a notice of intent declaring that they would “temporarily schedule the opioids mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, which are the main active constituents of the plant kratom, into schedule I pursuant to the temporary scheduling provisions of the Controlled Substances Act.” The notice then explained, “This action is based on a finding by the Administrator that the placement of these opioids into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act is necessary to avoid an imminent hazard to the public safety.”

As is typical of bureaucratic agencies, the notice of intent continued in a similar fashion with its convoluted explanation.

And, of course, three synthetic opioids have been synthesized from the kratom plant, namely MGM-9, MGM-15 and MGM-16. Unsurprisingly, these three synthetics were developed from the kratom alkaloids, Mitragynine and 7-Hydroxymitragynine – you know, the ones named by the DEA as an “imminent hazard to public safety.”

If these compounds are so dangerous, why on earth would Big Pharma be synthesizing them to make medicine? It just doesn’t seem to add up, but the federal agency continues to go along with their story of supposed danger to society, hoping we’ll all fall for it. It really tells you all you need to know about the DEA and their relationship with Big Pharma though, doesn’t it?

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AnonHQ.com

TheFreeThoughtProject.com

NORML.org

Will President Trump dismantle dangerous vaccine mandates that harm children across America?

December 9, 2016 by Robert Jonathan Leave a Comment

When it comes to vaccine mandates, it remains to be seen if President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to make America great again also includes making America healthy again. In short, will he use the power of his office to try to protect heath freedom by reining in mandatory inoculations?

If so, it will require some serious swamp draining. The entire institutionalized regulatory establishment in the form of The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its and international and state counterparts are aggressive proponents of mandatory vaccination, including a no-exception policy for families.

Abolishing vaccine mandates could be on the Trump agenda. As far as health-related reforms, however, the repeal and replace of Obamacare (otherwise known as the profoundly misnamed Affordable Care Act) is expected to be one of the first orders of business for Trump and the Congress. That will require some heavy lifting.

If you dislike your vaccine, do you have to keep it?

Even raising the possibility of the toxic side effects, and/or merely having an open mind about vaccines, has prompted outrage (faux or otherwise) from the media and its approved array of experts, perhaps because of the all advertising money it rakes in from Big Pharma. According to the media echo chamber, no scientific evidence exists that vaccines, for example, cause autism.

You may recall during the September 16, 2015, nationally televised GOP presidential debate that CNN tried to push Trump into the full-on anti-vaxxer camp. Citing the example of an employee whose vaccinated newborn wound up with autism, Trump mentioned that doses should be administered over a two- or three-year period rather than all at once.

To the horror of the conventional-wisdom-obsessed media (the same folks who assured the U.S. and the world that Hillary Clinton was a lock to win the presidency), then-candidates Ben Carson and Rand Paul, both of whom are medical doctors, agreed with Trump on the same national stage that vaccinations should be given incrementally.

Even Green Party candidate Jill Stein of recount fame, an MD herself, had to backpedal furiously in August after seemingly equivocating on vaccine safety.

Democrat Hillary Clinton, the recipient of more campaign donations from drug companies than any other candidate in the 2016 election cycle, is an advocate of mandatory vaccinations.

Over the years, Trump’s Twitter feed raised questions about how vaccinations are administered by the medical community. “I’m not against vaccinations for your children, I’m against them in 1 massive dose. Spread them out over a period of time & autism will drop!” he tweeted in September 2014.

A 1905 U.S. Supreme Court case, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, established the legal precedent for mandatory vaccinations, when a Cambridge clergyman unsuccessfully objected to a law that required him to get a second smallpox vaccination after a bad reaction the first time around. Reasonable health regulations generally fall under the so-called police power of the government, in which courts tend to give substantial deference. “It is within the police power of a State to enact a compulsory vaccination law, and it is for the legislature, and not for the courts, to determine…The matured opinions of medical men everywhere, and the experience of mankind, as all must know, negative the suggestion that it is not possible in any case to determine whether vaccination is safe,” the majority opinion declared.

Because of the untimely death of Justice Scalia, one vacancy exists on the Supreme Court, which is split 4-4 (roughly) between conservatives and liberals. It will be interesting to see if Trump nominates a health freedom supporter from among the 21 potential picks that he released during the campaign and thereby perhaps revisit the 100-plus year old ruling.

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NVIC.org

Supreme.Justia.com

Drugs for your dogs? Big Pharma just won FDA approval for canine anxiety meds

December 5, 2016 by Mary Wilder Leave a Comment

You have to hand it to them, the pharmaceutical industry just doesn’t stop trying to force people to purchase their chemicals, but now they’re even trying to convince you to purchase pharma drugs for your dogs! The insanity never ends when it comes to these people because they have the backing of the United States federal government to help them out.

Despite evidence to the contrary, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to push the belief that everything they approve is completely healthy, while simulatenously trying to tell everyone that marijuana is some sort of life-threatening drug that will kill you quicker than crystal meth. If that doesn’t instantly disqualify an organization from appearing legitimate, I don’t know what does.

But you can’t ignore the truth of the situation, which is that there is an unfortunate amount of people out there that will definitely purchase the canine anxiety medication that Big Pharma is currently producing. Yes, you read that correctly: canine anxiety medication.

A new product named Sileo (dexmedetomidine oromucosal) claims to help cure a dog’s noise anxiety whenever it is rubbed all over its gums. Nicole Lynn Pesce of New York Daily News reports, “Each Sileo syringe costs about $25, and one syringe can contain several doses, depending on the size of the dog. The FDA said the drug can be used up to five times during an anxiety-provoking event when used as directed. It should take effect within 30 to 60 minutes. Possible side effects can include vomiting and drowsiness.”

Of course there are negative “side effects.” Everything that the pharmaceutical industry creates in a lab has negative side effects, yet so many have yet to catch on to the fact that there is something wrong with that. Why do we continue to reject safe, natural alternatives to these lab drugs when it has been shown time and time again that they are significantly healthier for all of us.

Do not make your pet consume this gel. Do not consume the products that pharmaceutical companies are manufacturing for human consumption. Our entire nation needs to start taking its health more seriously and that starts with cutting this garbage out of our diets. We have already taken back our country from the global elite — now is the time to take back our bodies from these prescription drugs. This should be our next battle. It’s time to actively start fighting back against Big Pharma.

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NYDailyNews.com

WREG.com

Fox6Now.com

ADHD: A false paradigm projected onto the minds of parents and children

August 16, 2016 by D. Samuelson Leave a Comment

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of those catch-all diagnoses; even for toddlers who would rather play in the sunshine than sit transfixed by a video screen. According to the CDC, “About two million of the 6.4 million children were diagnosed as young children aged two — five years. About 75% of young children with ADHD received medicine as treatment.” It’s astonishing and tragic that these developing brains are bombarded with drugs and the resulting side effects for the rest of their lives. Parents are under enormous pressure from teachers, administrations, physicians and big pharma to get that disruptive child on a pill. But what if this diagnosis that sells millions of prescriptions for Ritalin or Adderall or Wellbutrin, or any of the myriad of toxic combinations, is just a false paradigm?

Natural News reports, “ADHD, first coined by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in 1980 as “attention-deficit disorder,” has since then skyrocketed. In 2003, 7.8% of children were labeled with ADHD, and by 2011, that number spiked to 11%.

This false paradigm is now being planted in the minds of one in every nine children. Two-thirds of the diagnoses are in boys. . .The more a child takes these drugs, the more they will develop a tolerance to them, which can lead to a dangerous addiction spiral.”

Even the CDC now says that family therapy is preferred over medications. But a book by neurologist Dr. Richard Saul, titled ADHD Does Not Exist: The Truth About Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder, goes even further, says Natural News: “In his own words, “Not a single individual — not even the person who finds it close to impossible to pay attention or sit still — is afflicted by the disorder called ADHD as we define it today.”

Think twice before your children swallow their pills.

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Science.NaturalNews.com

Cdc.gov

NaturalNews.com

Flu deaths keep mounting in people vaccinated against the flu

August 15, 2016 by D. Samuelson Leave a Comment

A death from the flu shot might appear on your local media, like it did in 2015, for Katherine McQuestion, a 26-year-old healthcare worker from Wisconsin.

Of course, the media makes sure an uneducated stooge from the health department gets on TV to say, well, yes, that’s just an aberration that the person died. But it’s not.

The flu vaccine is the most dangerous vaccine in the U.S.

Health Impact News reports, “Once every 3 months the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines meets and the DOJ issues a report of cases settled for vaccine injuries and deaths . . from 8/16/15 to 11/15/15 there were 150 cases adjudicated . . .63 of the 84 cases were for injuries and deaths from the flu vaccine, making the flu vaccine the most dangerous vaccine in the U.S., harming and killing more people than all the other vaccines put together.”

The people that are dying were healthy, happy people before the flu shot.

Natural News writes, “Chad Rattray, a 37-year-old . . . from Spokane, Washington . . . followed the advice of health authorities in getting a flu shot. Instead, he fell deathly ill. [Then, he] died from the flu.

“. . . Five -year-old Kiera Driscoll . . . died from cardiac arrest due to influenza A. Kiera had recently gotten a flu shot as well, and after developing a severe cough and fever was rushed to a clinic and given steroids and put on a nebulizer. . . Kiera died of the very same flu strain for which she was vaccinated.

“. . .Fourteen-year-old Amber Grey, like the others, is reported to have been in optimal health prior to the jab. Like Kiera, Amber tested positive for influenza A. Prior to her death, the same strain was found in the flu vaccine. She suffered a severe bacterial infection and pneumonia in the days prior to her passing.”

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YouTube.com

HealthImpactNews.com

NaturalNews.com

Science.NaturalNews.com

Whistleblower: CDC buried data showing vaccines increase the risk of autism by 340%

August 3, 2016 by D. Samuelson Leave a Comment

Two years ago, Natural News began to report on an unknown whistleblower who had been employed as a scientist in the immunization safety office of the Center for Disease Control (CDC). This whistleblower was repentant for his involvement in a CDC study, which he says originally indicated an increased autism risk, specifically for young American American boys who received Merck’s M-M-R®II (MMR) vaccine. It was this increased risk, the whistleblower said, that had been deliberately withheld from the research results.

Before the whistleblower’s name become public, he spent hours in conversation with Dr. Brian Hooker, a biochemical engineer and father of an autistic child. After these conversations/confessions were recorded, Dr. Hooker retrieved copies of the De Stefano CDC Study through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Hooker reevaluated the data with input from whistleblower. The reevaluated research did show the MMR/ increased risk of autism and Dr. Hooker’s findings were published on BioMed Central. This created quite a stir as he reported a “3.4-fold increase in autism rates” when the MMR vaccine is injected into the arms of African American boys before they are 3 years of age. Approximately one week later, BioMed Central retracted the article for an undisclosed “conflict of interest.”

This whistle blower is well known today. His name is Dr. William Thompson. It’s his testimony that is a central driving force in the documentary VAXXED: From Cover Up to Catastrophe, directed by co-whistle blower Dr. Andrew Wakefield.

Independent reporter Sheryl Attkisson has written that Dr. William Thompson also shared his testimony with Florida Congressman Lee A Posey. Here’s how Thompson described how the CDC rids itself of inconvenient facts:

” . . .we scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study . . . brought a big garbage can into the meeting room . . . reviewed the hardcopy documents we thought we should discard . . . put them in a huge garbage can.”

Ms. Attkinsson also felt that the Congressman Posey wouldn’t do anything because, “the powerful pharmaceutical industry reach deeply into Congress . . .” She was right. Back in 2008, Attkinsson did a story for CBS about the money behind vaccines and the American Academy of Pediatrics, which took millions from pharmaceutical giants and vaccine makers Wyeth, Merck and Sanofi Aventis. Is there any reason to think that has changed in the past eight years?

There are also other twists and turns. Globe News Wire reported earlier in 2016 that Dr. William Thompson – who is still working with the CDC – is going to ” publish a reworking of data from a controversial study first published in 2004.” Does that mean he’s changed his mind? Dr. Brian Hooker, who first broke Thompson’s story in 2014, has some ideas, as reported by Age of Autism. It might be about the grant money the CDC recently gave to Thompson, and the fact that the CDC is “not there to tell the truth, but to manipulate the public.”

To this day, there has been a firestorm of controversy. Accusations of fraud and deception on both sides. The name calling is dividing sides too. “Anti vaccine” or “Anti Vaxer” are the new catch phrases for some who merely question pharmaceutical research funded by a government who is funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Seems reasonable to question that. But not in an emerging scientific dictatorships. The vaccine divide is a touchstone in a much larger debate. In the meantime, build your immune system and drink clean water.

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NaturalNews.com

Science.NaturalNews.com

NCBI.NLM.NIH.gov

TranslationalNeurodegeneration.BioMedCentral.com

Cancer industry: Chemotherapy and radiation treatments are our moneymaking machines

August 1, 2016 by Tara Paras Leave a Comment

Studies show that one in five new cancer cases in the United States involve someone who has had the disease before. Moreover, research has further shown that second cancers, which do not include recurrent cancers, but are completely new types of cancer, have increased 300 percent since the 1970s. First-time cancers have also spiked, increasing 70 percent in the same time frame.

In response to this spike in cancer occurrences, the world of Western medicine has feigned ignorance, claiming that the real reason behind the rising global cancer epidemic remains elusive.

While genetics could be a factor, other influences, such as the food you eat, the water you drink, the air you breathe, the vaccines you inject and even the kind of medical treatment you receive could all contribute to cancer risk. Furthermore, emerging research continues to show that pesticides, heavy metals and hormone mimickers such as BPA and BPS, as well as other environmental contaminants, greatly influence the risk of developing cancer.

Are Big Pharma-induced cancer treatments causing more cancer?

A document by the American Cancer Society (ACS) titled “Second Cancers in Adults” admits that second cancers may be caused by cancer treatment.

“Radiation therapy was recognized as a potential cause of cancer many years ago,” according to the ACS, which also admits that most types of leukemia, including acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), can all be caused by radiation.

Most cancers caused by radiation therapy develop within just a few years of being irradiated, with the disease peaking at five to nine years following exposure. Similarly, chemotherapy drugs have also been linked to different kinds of second cancers, with the most common being myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and AML; ALL has also been linked to these cancer drugs.

Aside from radiation and chemotherapy, other causes include toxins present in tobacco smoke and high levels of industrial-type chemicals such as benzene, synthetic fibers, rubber lubricants, resins, dyes, detergents, drugs and pesticides.

About 13,000 people are diagnosed with MDS each year. Nearly another 20,000 people are diagnosed annually with AML,while approximately 6,000 people are diagnosed with ALL.

This means that at least 40,000 cancer occurrences may be directly attributed to so-called cancer cures. Given that the cancer industry wants nothing more than to generate more funds for their lucrative business, no well-informed individual would want to go through such potentially fatal treatments. Would you?

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