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FDA Investigates ADHD drugs
"A
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel is
recommending that a black box warning be placed on
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications.
These types of drugs have been linked to cases of sudden
death and other serious health problems. A black box warning
is the FDA's strongest type of warning.
Niall's
comment:
If your school is trying to put
your child on ADHD medication do your own research. What the
pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know is the rate
of death associated with the drug.
Restaurant Toilet Bowl Water Cleaner
Than Soft Drinks
Those ice-cold drinks from
favorite fast food restaurants may not seem as refreshing
after a seventh-grader's science project reveals what may
lurk inside the cup. Benito Middle School student Jasmine
Roberts examined the amount of bacteria in ice served at
fast food restaurants. The 12-year-old compared the ice used
in the drinks with the water from toilet bowls in the same
restaurants. Jasmine said she found the results startling.
"I thought there might be a little bacteria in the ice, but
I never expected it to be this much," she said. "And I never
thought the toilet water would be cleaner." Her discovery:
Seventy percent of the time, the ice had more bacteria than
the toilet water.
Niall's
comment: That's only the bacteria count. The soft drinks
contain a whole lot more sugar!
F.D.A. Delayed Vioxx Study
A federal
drug-safety reviewer contends that an effort to publish his
study demonstrating the dangers of Vioxx was delayed and
demeaned by top officials at the Food and Drug
Administration
Niall asks:
Why motivation did the FDA have for delaying this study?
 Merck
Should Have Pulled Vioxx in 2000 -Study
BERNE (Reuters)
- U.S. drugs giant Merck & Co Inc. should have pulled its
Vioxx painkiller from the market four years ago, because
data showing it raised the risk of heart attacks has existed
since 2000, Swiss scientists said on Friday.
Niall's
comment: Just another one of the many examples where profits
come before health.
More
Evidence Linking Antidepressants With Suicide
22 studies
showed that children given antidepressants were nearly twice
as likely to become suicidal.
Niall's
comment: When alternative practitioners warned against this
link 10 years ago they were dismissed and reassured that the
antidepressants had full F.D.A. approval. Doesn't look like
F.D.A. approval can always be trusted.
Kerry Calls for Canadian Drug Imports
John Kerry urged
President Bush on Wednesday to allow seniors in the United
States to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada.
Niall's
comment: The media are debating the wrong issues. Regular
readers of this website will already know that
medication is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S.
The availability of more medication at lower prices is a
band-aid rather than a lasting solution. Health
and wellness, with independence from dangerous drugs is what
may work. But it means less $$ for big pharma.
Prozac 'found in drinking
water'
Traces of the
anti- depressant Prozac can be found in the nation's drinking
water, it has been revealed.
Niall's
comment: In case you need any more convincing not to drink tap
water.
 Pfizer
Convicted of Illegal Marketing Ploy
"This illegal and fraudulent
promotion scheme corrupted the information process relied upon by doctors in
their medical decision-making, thereby putting patients at risk," said United
States attorney Michael Sullivan
Niall's
comment: To say that some drug companies conspire to raise
sales is no longer theory, it's now looks more like fact.
Lead in Candy
Kids candy
from Mars Inc. contains lead, but the Health
Department can't recall it because of a technicality.
Niall's
comment: If you're concerned about the lead in kids candy, you may want
to know about your breakfast cereal which is "fortified" with iron.
Download this video from Dr. Thomas Levy to see how the iron in your
cereal may not be as healthy as the manufacturers would like you to
believe: Iron
in Breakfast Cereals Video
Blundering hospitals 'kill 40,000
a year' (UK)
"One
in ten patients admitted to NHS hospitals will fall victim to medical errors,
which have now become Britain’s fourth-biggest killer,"
according to Nicola
Woolcock and Mark Henderson in the Sunday Times
Niall's
comment: I've included this to show that the US is not the
only Western country where conventional medicine is one of the leading killers.
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