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Zyrtec-Do not take this drug or give it to your child
Zyrtec scored 2.3 out of possible 5 on http://www.askapatient.com
Here is just one of the thousands of messages from people like yourself who have been fooled into taking these medications.
Beware!
"In my opinion, this is VERY bad medicine for young children. Like many readers this was the only place that I found to confirm my thoughts about this medicine. The drug companies would loose lots of money if the truth were told. Once I stopped giving my son this stuff he returned to his normal happy self. For a while I thought he was possesed. I feel like a bad parent having given him this stuff for as long as I did. Don't make the same mistake........"
http://www.askapatient.com/rateyourmedicine.htm
search for your drugs here
Please pass the word about this web site http://www.askapatient.com. Our friendly news channels are not doing their job and protecting us! Zyrtec scored 2.3 out of possible 5 on http://www.askapatient.com ... more -
US now ranks 53rd in World Press Freedom Index - a sad time for Democracy
"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823. ME "The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. Th... more
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Young offender's diet maybe a factor in violent behavior
One young offender had been sentenced by the British courts on 13 occasions for stealing trucks in the early hours of the morning.
Bernard Gesch recorded the boy's daily diet as follows:
Breakfast: nothing (asleep)
Mid morning: nothing (asleep)
Lunchtime: 4 or 5 cups of coffee with milk and 2½ heaped teaspoons of sugar
Mid afternoon: 3 or 4 cups of coffee with milk and 2½ heaped sugars
Tea: chips, egg, ketchup, 2 slices of white bread, 5 cups of tea or coffee with milk and sugar
Evening: 5 cups of tea or coffee with milk and sugar, 20 cigarettes, £2 worth of sweets, cakes and if money available 3 or 4 pints of beer. One young offender had been sentenced by the British courts on 13 occasions for stealing trucks in the early hours of the morning. ... more -
Merck, if you are reading this....you're going down.
"After several years of taking Fosomax, my aunt (who was otherwise quite healthy, comes from great genetic stock) is dying from myelodysplastic syndrome - when your bone marrow stops doing its job... I know in my heart it was caused by Fosomax. Fosomax targets the bones and there are no long term studies regarding prolonged use of Fosomax and its impact on blood marrow. She's been on it for many years but otherwise healthy. Merck, if you are reading this....you're going down."
This is just one quote from askapatient.com including thousands of people like you who are begging you not to take some of these dangerous drugs.
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Hallelujah
I have finally made progress with my own family. They have finally started reading the site http://www.askapatient.com and are taking themselves off Fosamax and some of the other drugs
I beg you to study the site carefully and consider doing the same.
Below is the email sent to them. Maybe this will help your friends and family if you send it to them.
cg
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Please to every one of you.
I BEG YOU to go to this site and save your health and possibly your lives.
Don't LISTEN TO DOCTORS.
Here is the link with the Fosamax reviews:
http://www.askapatient.com/viewrating.asp?drug=20560&am...
Go to this site and put in the name of your drug and you will see thousands of other people like yourselves who are begging you not to go on many of these bad drugs.
http://www.askapatient.com
You can search by the name of the drug or by category
This is the last time I will preach. It is up to you to help yourselves.
Love C
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PBS Dr. David Graham shows how FDA managers tried to silence him for indicating Vi...
Remember this horrifying story?
According to the link below it it hasn't changed.
Where is our outrage?
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FDA and Drug Approval Overview
Vioxx was one of the most widely used prescription drugs in the world and, for many, it may have been a killer. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to guarantee the safety of the medicines we take, but some say it may have disregarded warnings from its own scientists about this looming public health disaster. NOW's BAD MEDICINE explores the drug approval process and talks with FDA whistleblower, Dr. David Graham, who reveals how his FDA managers tried to silence him and quash evidence that indicated Vioxx was unsafe.
Approval Process
The drug approval process overseen by the FDA has been subject to complaints from many sides. In the 1990s it was criticized for being too slow ? keeping potentially life-saving drugs off the market and adding to development costs. The most recent controversies come from another perspective, questioning whether the process is too quick and relies too much on information from the pharmaceutical industry.
Approving prescriptions drugs is the job of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). The process begins when a manufacturer has tested a new drug on animals and concluded three phases of testing on humans. The results from this process forms the basis of a "new drug application" (NDA), which the company submits to the CDER.
The NDA is then reviewed by CDER scientists who evaluate both the efficacy and safety of the drug and its risk/benefit ratio. The CDER reviewers may request more information from the developer and seek additional opinions from outside experts. CDER also checks the label information and investigates the manufacturing plant. The CDER director completes a final review and decides if the drug is ready for market. View an interactive graph of the process from CDER.
Some of the criticism Dr. Graham has leveled at the FDA process relates to what happens after a drug is approved. The FDA is also charged with monitoring drug safety of drugs on the market. The FDA tracks "adverse events" or negative "side effects" of drugs through the Office of Drug Safety, also a part of CDER. An adverse effect is a reaction which "results in death, disability, hospitalization, is life-threatening, causes a congenital anomaly, or requires treatment to prevent permanent damage."
Doctors and other healthcare personnel usually report these occurrences to the drug companies which are in turn required to notify the FDA of any serious incidents within 15 days of the original report. If a drug is new, the company must forward all reports quarterly for three years. After that time, all reports are filed annually. In addition, the FDA maintains a system of voluntary reports called MedWatch. Here, consumers and health care workers can submit reports which are then sent on to staff for evaluation.
In his November 2004 testimony before Congress, Dr. Graham suggested that the FDA is reluctant to admit that there are problems with drugs it has already approved. The FDA responded to Dr. Graham's testimony with a public rebuttal. In December 2004, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (JAMA) echoed some of Graham's criticism, publishing a series of papers which question the relationship of drug companies to the approval process. According to THE ECONOMIST, the makers of some of the drugs mentioned by Dr. Graham are feeling a financial effect. AstraZeneca's share price fell by 10%. Shares in GlaxoSmithKline fell by 6%. And as for Merck, the maker of Vioxx, traders have made a $40 billion reduction in the company's value. (Read Dr. Graham's testimony and the JAMA articles.)
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At HDDW we believe that Huntington's disease is treatable
There is exciting news in American Health care today! http://hddrugworks.org/index.php?option=com_content&...
At HDDW we believe that Huntington's disease is treatable. And in this section we provide information on prescription drugs, nutritional supplements, healthy lifestyle, and alternative therapies that can be used now by HD patients. All of the listed treatments require direction and supervision by your own doctor. We encourage you to seek out these treatments.
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PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD.
MOST PEOPLE AND DOCTORS DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS ADVANCE...MANY FAMILIES ARE SUFFERING WITHOUT THIS SIMPLE CHEAP TREATMENT WITHOUT DRUGS OR SERIOUS SIDE EFFECTS...
ALSO THERE SEEMS TO BE INFO ABOUT ALS AND PARKINSON THAT I HAVEN'T LOOKED AT CLOSELY YET.
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FDA review Tamiflu's brain effects in more than 1,800 children Rumsfeld's $5 -$25...
A Food and Drug Administration panel on Tuesday will review reports of abnormal behavior and other brain effects in more than 1,800 children who had taken the flu medicine Tamiflu since its approval in 1999, including 55 in the USA.
Twenty-two of the U.S. reports were considered "serious," with symptoms such as convulsions, delirium or delusions, says Terry Hurley, spokesman for drugmaker Roche Laboratories.
None of the U.S. cases resulted in death. But in Japan, Hurley says, five deaths have been reported in children under 16 as a result of neurological or psychiatric problems. "Four were fatal falls, and one was encephalitis in a patient with leukemia," he says.
In addition, in people ages 17 to 21, there were two deaths in Japan, one a "fatal accident with abnormal behavior," Hurley says, and the second as a result of encephalopathy, a brain infection. Seven adult deaths attributed to neuropsychiatric problems also have been reported in Japan. A Food and Drug Administration panel on Tuesday will review reports of abnormal behavior and other brain effects in more than 1,800 ch... more -
Integrated health promises to reduce rising health costs in the nation
The world of alternative medicine--meditation, yoga, acupuncture and a host of related therapies--will celebrate a coming-of-age moment on Nov. 30. In Durham, N.C., Christy Mack and her husband John Mack, chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley, will officially open the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine. They personally financed the center with $10 million from the C.J. Mack Foundation.
The center represents an acknowledgment of sorts by the established medical community of the potential, yet highly controversial, benefits of these alternative therapies. The Duke Center will be open to anyone from across the globe, not just members of the Duke community. Cottages will be built in the woods nearby as living facilities for out-of-town visitors.
The idea for the Duke Center was the result of a collaboration between Dr. Ralph Synderman, former head of the Duke Medical Center, Dr. Tracey Gaudet, a Duke physician, and Christy Mack, who prefers the term "integrative medicine" over alternative medicine. The daughter of a Greensboro, N.C., doctor, she is heavily involved in the movement to blend treatments aimed at helping the mind and spirit with the use of conventional medicine like drugs and surgery. She believes that the former are just as essential to health as antibiotics and surgery or technological breakthroughs.
"The practice of medicine should be focused with an emphasis on the interconnectedness of mind, body, spirit and community," says Mack, who herself is a trained practitioner of Reiki, an ancient Eastern massage technique that she claims transmits energy to the patient.
To further the cause, Mack and a group of like-minded philanthropists five years ago formed a nonprofit organization, the Bravewell Collaborative.
Bravewell is not some flaky New Age group. Among its 29 members are Earl Bakken, founder of Medtronic (nyse: MDT - news - people ), the pacemaker company; Bruce Dayton, the former CEO of the Dayton Hudson retail store chain; and Bill Sarnoff, nephew of RCA founder David Sarnoff.
"We want Bravewell to be a catalyst for change, and we think we are reaching the tipping point," says Mack, who won't be satisfied until the medical establishment accepts her point of view as an integral part of their profession.
Her husband John Mack, a Wall Street titan, who himself is chairman of the board of trustees of New York Presbyterian Hospital, says he has been "moved by the passion and dedication of Christy's doctors to improving people's health by treating the whole person, not just the disease" by means of drugs and surgery. He has seen first-hand how one of his leading bankers came back from a debilitating illness by "taking up meditation seriously," Mack says, "even in the taxicab coming to work." The Macks, along with other Bravewell members, also raised money for the PBS special this year, "The New Medicine," which featured the use of hypnosis and guided imagery as techniques to reduce pain and help ill people lead active lives. The special won the Freddie Award for Health and Science Media in the area of health and wellness. The world of alternative medicine--meditation, yoga, acupuncture and a host of related therapies--will celebrate a coming-of-age momen... more
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