Category Archives: In the Money

Greed does not heal – it kills.

‘Scandal?’ The FDA’s Just Doing Its Job

It’s gradually emerged in recent months that the Food and Drug Administration not only spied on its employees, but did so on a massive scale — collecting tens of thousands of employee emails to one another, as well as to journalists, members of Congress and congressional staff workers. The FDA also intercepted draft statements to the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates complaints of whistleblower harassment and reprisal. This monitoring, authorized by the agency’s chief counsel, was clearly a deliberate policy of the highest levels of FDA leadership.

So what problem was all the surveillance directed against? Embezzling? Sexual harassment? No. The FDA was out to punish whistleblowers for talking out of school about dangerous radiation levels in medical imaging devices approved by FDA for mammograms and colonoscopies.

That’s right. FDA leadership was out to prevent employees from talking to members of Congress — which the civics books tell us safeguards the public safety and welfare by, among other things, creating regulatory agencies like the FDA — about the very kinds of concerns the FDA was allegedly created to address. Continue reading →

U.S. warns workers on cancer-causing mineral erionite

Federal health officials are calling for protective measures at job sites where workers may be exposed to erionite, a cancer-causing mineral similar to asbestos that is found in rock and soil in at least a dozen western states.

An advisory published Tuesday by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommended a series of steps to prevent employee exposure to eronite fibers at sites such as gravel quarries and road projects. The NIOSH alert noted that erionite was responsible for “remarkably high” rates of mesothelioma, a lethal form of cancer that devastated several Turkish villages where erionite was concentrated in rock and soil. Continue reading →

Emord: RECENT PROOF FDA IS CONTROLLED BY BIG PHARMA

If you harbored romantic notions that an Obama FDA would be less controlled by the pharmaceutical industry than a Bush FDA, think again. The case of Avandia proves once again that FDA will sacrifice the health of the American people to defend the economic interests of its favored regulatees, the big drug companies.

In an April 2, 1999 internal memo to his superiors FDA medical reviewer Dr. Robert I. Misbin objected to FDA approval of the GlaxoSmithKline Type 2 diabetes drug Avandia. He expressed concerns “about deleterious long term effects on the heart” from the drug. Continue reading →

GAO: The Influenza Pandemic

March 24, 2009 – Once again, in our endeavor to make you THINK for yourself – we bring you a complete US Government document. This was first published by the Government Accountability Office, and ostensibly dealt with the issue of National Planning and Preparedness Efforts. Dated? Yes – but you tell us – just what has changed? Why are so many people ill and dying? Why such an increase in Autism and other diseases? (commentary updated, July 20, 2018) Click on the link below and follow through to the complete report (pdf)…

INFLUENZA PANDEMIC: Sustaining Focus on the Nation’s Planning and Preparedness Efforts

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SARTRE: Latrogenic Diseased Health

“Medicine by quacks and medical gangsters in control of the American Medical Association, this organization has become one of the most vicious rackets in the country.” – Charles Lyman Loffler

“I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.” – Richard M. Nixon

The overriding theme from the DemocRAT clones running against the Fearless Leader, wants to charm you into accepting their formula for eradicating all your ailments. Much of the next presidential campaign will discuss, compare and knock each plan, while the central issue remains silent. Is the condition of national health enhanced with the centralization of mandated medicine?

If you are one among the majority that view government as a benefactor, you will be looking for the most you can get out of the system. Continue reading →

Big Brother: Coming Soon to a Health Store Near You!

One more step toward…

Forget terrorism for a minute, because right now it’s time to activate the level orange bureaucracy alert…

Last year, I wrote in Real Health about our government’s attempt to wrap their greedy tentacles around the supplement industry with a bill before Congress ironically monikered the “Dietary Supplement Fairness Act.” To refresh your memory (or bring you up to speed if you weren’t one of my readers back then), this bill ostensibly provided tax-based subsidization for vitamin and nutrient supplements – “nutraceuticals” by their nomenclature. Sounds good, right? Continue reading →

Ellison: What Is The FDA’s Mission Statement?

People want to trust that their so-called elected government is doing the right thing when it passes regulations to enhance public safety. When the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906 a new watchdog agency, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), was born. It would be many years before we as a nation had such luxuries as refrigeration, sanitary food processing standards, and good manufacturing processes (GMP), so in many respects, this law was necessary. So, what exactly does the FDA do? Continue reading →

Ellison: Skeletons in the FDA’s Closet

It is time that the actions of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) speak for themselves and Americans began to question their own absorbent use and blind-loyalty to FDA approved drugs. If not, you too may become a FDA statistic. The FDA’s financial ties to “big-pharma” have caused millions of preventable deaths over the last 30 years.

In 1996-97 the FDA approved a drug known as Posicor (a chemical called mibefradil dihydrochloride) for the treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension). Prior to approval, the data from the congestive heart failure trials presented at a FDA Advisory Committee meeting on Posicor showed that more patients treated with Posicor died than those taking a placebo!  Continue reading →

O’Shea: The Doors of Perception

Why Americans will believe almost anything…

Aldous Huxley’s inspired 1956 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe described by every mystic and space captain in recorded history.

Whether by hallucination or epiphany, Huxley sought to remove all controls, all filters, all cultural conditioning from his perceptions and to confront Nature or the World or Reality first-hand – in its unpasteurized, unedited, unretouched, infinite rawness. Continue reading →

Rank has its Obligations, Doesn’t It?

Surely at one time or another, you have heard the expression, “Noblesse Oblige,” usually bandied about by some liberal as justification for yet another entitlement program. The meaning of the phrase has been bastardized by the Kennedy clan to read, “To whom much is given, much is expected,” which is taken from the Gospel of Luke. Translated from the French, “Noblesse Oblige,” is closer to “Rank has its obligations.” Perhaps there is no real difference. Continue reading →

Morris Fishbein, AMA Enemy of American Health

~ Forewords ~
In order to bring an enigma into clear focus it has been suggested to ‘follow the money trail’. Also a monopoly cannot exist without the aid [license] of the police power of the state. The stranglehold this [AMA] private corporation [1897] guild has had on medical practice in America since Rockefeller interests launched control of medical education in U.S. [1898] is nothing less than a criminal conspiracy of the greatest magnitude. Does the phrase “Public-Private Partnership” ring a bell? What an unholy alliance the AMA, FDA, Drug Corps., and the state have become! A class action Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act [RICO] lawsuit certainly seems ripe. Many thanks to Bob Wallace for connecting more of the dots. ~ David Layton; Wilson, sui juris Continue reading →

Lynne: Redbook magazine ‘bending the truth’?

Article misrepresents research linking abortion, breast cancer

A women’s group has accused Redbook of misrepresenting research that associates breast cancer with induced abortion and the birth-control pill. The article, “Seven cancer facts you need to know now,” published in the September 2001 issue, denies the existence of an abortion-breast cancer link, calling it a “persistent rumor.”

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer seeks from Redbook an immediate and prominent retraction of the article. Continue reading →

Increase in Wrong Surgeries

CHICAGO — A hospital regulatory agency is warning of an alarming increase in incidents in which doctors operated on the wrong body part or the wrong patient.

Wednesday’s alert from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations follows a similar message from the group in 1998, when it reported on 15 “wrong-site” cases. Since then, 136 have been reported to the commission — 108 in the past two years and 11 in the past month alone. Continue reading →

Salaman-Gordon: Stop medical experimentation on our children!

The year was 1961, a time of great darkness in conventional adult psychiatry (the darkness of ignorance is only now just beginning to lift). This is a true story.

Julie was not quite two years old when her father became concerned about her behavior. She fought with her little brother, wasn’t quite getting the right potty training, and openly defied her parents. Normal behavior under most standards, considering her age. However, for a psychiatrist trained in the use of drugs, not child behavior, it was enough to prescribe a heavy tranquilizer with dangerous side effects. Continue reading →

Study: Docs Not Candid With Patient

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – When dying patients ask their doctors “How long do I have?” they are likely to get an overly optimistic answer or none at all, according to a study.

Less than 40 percent of doctors surveyed for a study published in a recent issue of Annals of Internal Medicine said they would give a candid survival estimate to terminally ill cancer patients.

The doctors said they would give either no estimate or one that is different from what they believed was correct, according to the study, conducted by two doctors at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Continue reading →