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Movie Review: I am Legend, Will Smith and the Dangers of Playing God with Food and Medicine

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In this drug trial, which tested an experimental arthritis drug on volunteer patients, things went terribly wrong: After being injected with the anti-inflammatory drug TGN1412, patients began tearing their shirts off, screaming that their heads were going to explode. One patient's head swelled to triple its normal size, and patients were passing out, vomiting, or screaming in sheer terror. Within minutes after the injections, patients were suffering from severe breathing attacks, convulsions and excruciating pain. As reported in The Sun, a U.K.

Health Roundup: TB lawsuits, lycopene bashing and Veggie Booty for infants (satire)

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Branding patients like cattle, American style! The American Medical Association has publicly announced its support for the microchipping of patients using tiny RFID transmitters injected under the skin. An AMA spokesperson explained, "The technology will allow us to keep better track of who we've killed," and emphasized that so many patients are now killed by AMA-supported medical procedures that it's becoming difficult to keep the bodies organized. "Thanks to technology, we will soon be able to track patients regardless of whether they've alive or dead," said the spokesperson.

Patients should demand full lifetime refunds on Vioxx, COX-2 inhibitors and other drugs

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By the same rules of ethics and honesty, shouldn't patients who do not get the desired benefits from the procedure get a complete and full refund? Sure they should! But in practice this never happens. In fact, surgical procedures and prescription drugs are essentially sold to patients on a "use at your own risk" basis. The reason why modern medicine isn't guaranteed, by the way, is because if it were, the claims of non-performance would bankrupt pharmaceutical companies and surgical centers. That's because the vast majority of western medicine simply does not work as promised.

Bariatric surgery kills 5 percent of patients: Weight loss surgery takes deadly toll

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Avoid dangerous surgeries to obtain ideal health People are intentionally misinformed about health by the medical industry, drug companies and the FDA, all of which want to limit the treatment of disease to drugs, surgery, chemotherapy and other conventional therapies. If patients just had access to good information, they'd make better choices, and far fewer patients would undergo gastric bypass surgery in the first place. Of course, that's exactly what the surgeons in this country don't want to happen.

Patients should demand full lifetime refunds on Vioxx, COX-2 inhibitors and other drugs

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Even if they do not work, the patients must still pay for them and when those procedures fail to produce the promised result, the patients are never owed refunds. When was the last time a drug company pulled a prescription drug off the market and the FDA forced them to refund all the customers who bought it? Do you see people getting their money back for all the Vioxx they purchased over the last few years? Of course not. I find this to be a curious double standard.

Gunpoint medicine: Why conventional medicine must use intimidation to control patients (opinion)

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Think about it: Conventional medicine is so harmful, so dangerous and so downright scary in its abuse of patients with toxic chemicals, radical surgeries and cancer-causing radiation treatments that the pushers of this outdated Western medical philosophy actually have to enlist men carrying firearms to convince some patients not to explore alternatives. Most people are easily fooled into conventional treatments by drug ads, junk science and disease mongering. But for the rest, there's always Gunpoint Medicine. Coming soon: Pharmaceutical ammo What's next for conventional medicine?

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients

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The target audiences for the three-year campaign included specialists, general practitioners, pharmacists, nurses, and, importantly, patients as well. Echoing the PR firm Cohn & Wolfe's strategy of "cultivating the market," this proposal talked about the "pre-launch" period being important to "establish the market" for the sponsor's drug. Most valuable to this process were the senior medical specialists referred to in the document as "Key Opinion Leaders"—or thought-leaders—who would be recruited to help "shape" the opinions of their colleagues and other doctors.

Gunpoint medicine: Why conventional medicine must use intimidation to control patients (opinion)

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Think of the possibilities: Automatic weapons for medicating crowds, sniper rifles for long distance "treatment" of patients, and pharmaceutical mortar shells for medicating entire neighborhoods! It's good for America, too, since it would boost the revenues for defense contractors and drug companies at the same time. It's all about creating jobs, right? No matter who has to be harmed in the process... You're right: It's ridiculous Now, if you think all this crazy talk sounds utterly ridiculous, you're absolutely right.
Prozac-coated bullets would make cops' jobs much easier: After you shoot patients, they actually feel better and are far less likely to sue! Statin-drug ammo would improve the patient's blood profile to make up for the blood lost after being shot. Ritalin-dipped hollow points would help people focus better after they've been shot, and to prevent being distracted by the pain of severe internal hemorrhaging. Beta blocker bullets would reduce the blood pressure of shooting victims, thereby reducing blood loss and saving lives!
Washington State just happens to choose the most lucrative and politically influential system of medicine to push onto patients at gunpoint: Western medicine, a system of medicine based almost entirely on profiteering, monopoly control, corruption, bribery, disease mongering, false claims and truly bad science. King County calls this mother a criminal, but who are the real criminals in this case? If I broke into your house and stole your baby because I had decided that the "Mike system" of medicine was the best system for your child, I would be arrested for serious crimes like kidnapping.

The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children

Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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The DSM's diagnostic criteria for ADHD look like the creation of somebody who observed a group of normal children in school and tried to figure out a mechanism for making a disease out of the more irritating, yet normal, behaviors children exhibit, with an eye toward creating as many patients as possible. Testifying at the NIH Consensus Conference Dr. William Carey, a top pediatric researcher and writer on the subject of temperament in children, said, "...What is now most often described as ADHD in the United States appears to be a set of normal behavior variations...

Disease sniffer device could provide non-invasive early disease detection by "sniffing" patients

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You don't need a doctor to tell someone that. patients don't need doctors to get sunshine, and doctors don't like to support anything that takes them out of the equation. To get an idea of this, imagine a hand-held disease-sniffing device already existed, and it could be purchased for a couple hundred dollars. Individuals could buy their own devices and scan themselves or their family members to see if they might have cancer or other diseases. This would be a great idea for public health, but the idea horrifies the promoters of conventional medicine.

The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children

Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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Or was a deliberately deceitful strategy hatched to create patients and drug consumers where none should have existed? The earliest precursor of ADHD came in the early 1900s when children who were unusually active, impulsive, or rebellious, might be diagnosed as having minimal brain damage, a term coined by Dr. George Still. The idea was that since brain damage can cause changes in behavior these children may have suffered some kind of assault on their brains.
An FDA web site advisory explains: "Of 12 total cases, five occurred in patients with underlying structural heart defects 226 (abnormal arteries or valves, abnormally thickened walls, etc.), all conditions that increase the risk for sudden death. Several of the remaining cases presented problems of interpretation, including a family history of ventricular tachycardia (rapid heart rate), association of death with heat exhaustion, dehydration and near-drowning, very rigorous exercise, fatty liver, heart attack, and type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Tyranny in the USA: The true history of FDA raids on healers, vitamin shops and supplement companies

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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He was treating patients with injectable high-dose B vitamins -- a safe, natural treatment -- and in doing so was actually helping patients heal. The armed agents smashed down the door, rushed into the clinic like a SWAT team with guns drawn, terrorizing the patients and shouting at them to put their hands in the air. Over the next fourteen hours, agents rifled through Dr. Wright's clinic, seizing patient records, computers, vitamin supplies, and various natural therapy products. The FDA illegally held on to confiscated items, including the computers needed to run his clinic, for three years.

The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children

Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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Because the point here is to create patients, not understand human beings. A good clinician evaluating a child will, of course, take environment into account. But the exploding numbers of children receiving almost instant diagnoses of depression tells us that there are not nearly enough good clinicians around. Diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder, Single Episode A. The person experiences a single major depressive episode: 1.

Gunpoint medicine: Why conventional medicine must use intimidation to control patients (opinion)

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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That way, patients are already in the hospital when they get shot! (Think of the savings in ambulance fees alone...) Law enforcement skills can be taught in medical school, right alongside classes in drug dealing.

The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children

Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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Claiming time efficiency, these psychiatrists deigned to look into the nature of their patients' problems or to credit them with intelligence or humanity. What was important was to identify the chemical imbalance, prescribe the balancer, a pill, then use the DSM codes to bill for services. I have often pointed out to my psychiatrist colleagues who are given to waxing biologic that they do not do general physical examinations, or neurological examinations, or laboratory, x-ray, or scanning diagnostics.

Disease sniffer device could provide non-invasive early disease detection by "sniffing" patients

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Some people are very good at this, especially health practitioners who spend a lot of time around patients in acupuncture clinics, massage therapy clinics or naturopath clinics. Many of these health practitioners have developed a keen sense of smell that allows them to detect the gases emitted by a cancer patient. How does this work? First of all, the skin actually does emit gas. A human being's skin breathes. The skin is the largest organ on your body, and it must breathe in order for you to live. In doing so, it emits gases that are circulating in the blood supply.

Why Doctors are Idiots: 150 Years of Disatrous Advice on Children's Health (satire)

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The same survey also revealed that a majority of doctors would send their patients to get expensive imaging work done at an imaging facility in which they held a financial interest, but only 24 percent of doctors said they would reveal that conflict of interest to patients. Result: Yet more incompetent, dishonest doctors continue to scam customers and harm patients.

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients

Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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He argues that the way the official guidelines are colonizing whole new groups of healthy patients should be something of a clarion call that society needs to heed. And for him, the guidelines on blood pressure are an example of a much bigger problem, where the idea of "normal" is being more and more narrowly defined, so that "more and more people slip from the category of healthy into unhealthy."38 For Kendrick the words of Bob Rangno ring a lot truer than a lot of the religious orthodoxy: "... it's better to have high blood pressure than no blood pressure at all.
Health advocate Wendy Armstrong agrees with Bassett that too many healthy people are being labeled as patients, but rejects as a "modern urban myth" the argument that consumers are to blame for the rising use of drugs and tests of dubious value.
The head of a multidisciplinary team of public health scientists and medical doctors based at the University of Newcastle in Australia, Henry is appalled by the attempt to turn so many healthy women into patients. He believes the use of figures like 44 million promote fear rather than understanding and positive action. When people define osteoporosis as a "disease" that needs to be treated, rather than seeing fractures primarily as a public health problem that might benefit from changes in lifestyle and diet, says Henry bluntly, "that is disease-mongering.
While GSK officers would claim the drug was "highly" effective, FDA staff would point out that only a small number of patients would benefit from it, and that many women taking the drug would receive no benefit at all yet were putting themselves at grave risk.31 What also emerged from the transcripts was the way GSK officials and patient groups portrayed the condition known as irritable bowel syndrome. In a now familiar pattern, the highest estimates of how many people suffer the condition were quoted, and the condition was described in its most severe form.

Health Roundup: TB lawsuits, lycopene bashing and Veggie Booty for infants (satire)

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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The American Medical Association has publicly announced its support for the microchipping of patients using tiny RFID transmitters injected under the skin. An AMA spokesperson explained, "The technology will allow us to keep better track of who we've killed," and emphasized that so many patients are now killed by AMA-supported medical procedures that it's becoming difficult to keep the bodies organized. "Thanks to technology, we will soon be able to track patients regardless of whether they've alive or dead," said the spokesperson.

Tyranny in the USA: The true history of FDA raids on healers, vitamin shops and supplement companies

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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He was treating patients with injectable high-dose B vitamins -- a safe, natural treatment -- and in doing so was actually helping patients heal. The armed agents smashed down the door, rushed into the clinic like a SWAT team with guns drawn, terrorizing the patients and shouting at them to put their hands in the air. Over the next fourteen hours, agents rifled through Dr. Wright's clinic, seizing patient records, computers, vitamin supplies, and various natural therapy products. The FDA illegally held on to confiscated items, including the computers needed to run his clinic, for three years.

Gunpoint medicine: Why conventional medicine must use intimidation to control patients (opinion)

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Why help patients when you can simply arrest them? The founding motto of medicine, "First do no harm" has now become, "First, cuff 'em!" Conventional medicine treatments are now so horrifying to many people that they will, on instinct alone, grab their children and flee the hospitals. Police sirens won't be far behind, of course, since the State now feels it has the right to push certain types of medical treatment over all others. Out of all the systems of medicine available in the world -- Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, Homeopathic medicine, herbal medicine, nutritional medicine, etc.

Bariatric surgery kills 5 percent of patients: Weight loss surgery takes deadly toll

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Getting back to the marketing of bariatric surgery, this procedure is frequently marketed to people using fraudulent means, because the real risks are never really communicated to patients. The difficulty of undergoing this procedure and recovering from it is never quite fully explained. Healthy alternatives to bariatric surgery All this makes you wonder what kind of person would undergo bariatric surgery. Obviously, they feel like they've run out of options. Maybe they have tried all kinds of diets, but they're still eating enormous amounts of food.

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