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Post by Master Kim on Oct 22, 2014 1:31:15 GMT -5
DrugsThe marketing of drugs and other pharmaceutical products in the U.S. is controlled by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which empowers the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research to require extensive toxicity testing on animals before a new drug is deemed “safe” for marketing. In order to satisfy FDA data requirements, thousands of rats, mice, rabbits, dogs, and primates are killed in “preclinical” laboratory poisoning experiments to assess the safety of new drugs (including all ingredients and even minor differences in formulation). Commonly required animal tests include the following: Acute (short-term) toxicity: 7 to 20 rats + dogs or primates Subchronic (14 to 180 days) toxicity: rats + dogs or primates Chronic (lifetime) toxicity: 120 rats + 32 dogs or primates Cancer-causing effects: 400 rats + 400 mice Toxicity to reproductive systems Segment I (reproductive toxicity in 2 generations): 2,500 rats Segment II (birth defects): 900 rabbits + 1,300 rats Segment III (peri- and postnatal effects): rats Absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and pharmacological interactions of active ingredients Specialty studies Genetic toxicity: 80 hamsters/mice x 2 to 5 separate studies Immune system toxicity: 32 rats Skin/eye/mucosal irritation: 3 rabbits per test... U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - www.peta.orgAnimal TestingTo this point, the search for a new drug has been confined to a laboratory test tube. Next, scientists have to test those compounds that have shown at least some desired effects in living animals. In animal testing, drug companies make every effort to use as few animals as possible and to ensure their humane and proper care. Two or more species are typically tested because a drug may affect one differently from another. Such tests show whether a potential drug has toxic side effects and what its safety is at different doses. The results point the way for human testing and, much later, product labeling. So far, research has aimed at discovering what a drug does to the body. Now, it must also find out what the body does to the drug. So, in animal testing, scientists measure how much of a drug is absorbed into the blood, how it is broken down chemically in the body, the toxicity of its breakdown products (metabolites), and how quickly the drug and its metabolites are excreted from the body. Sometimes, such tests find a metabolite that is more effective than the drug originally picked for development..... The Beginnings: Laboratory and Animal Studies - www.fda.gov
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Post by Master Kim on Oct 24, 2014 16:29:47 GMT -5
10 Things About The U.S. News Media That They Do Not Want You To KnowDo you trust the news media? Do you believe that the information that they are giving you is true and accurate? If you answered yes to either of those questions, that places you in a steadily shrinking minority. Yes, on average Americans watch approximately 153 hours of television a month, but for their news they are increasingly turning to alternative sources of information such as this website. Big news channels such as CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are losing hordes of viewers, and they are desperately searching for answers. Things have gotten so bad at CNN that they have been forced to lay off hundreds of workers. The mainstream media is slowly dying, but they will never admit it. They are still convinced that they can find some way to turn this around and regain the trust of the American people. But it simply is not going to happen. The following are 10 things about the U.S. news media that they do not want you to know..... 10 Things About The U.S. News Media That They Do Not Want You To Know - investmentwatchblog.com/10-things-about-the-u-s-news-media-that-they-do-not-want-you-to-know/
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Post by Master Kim on Oct 31, 2014 17:01:31 GMT -5
Doctors learn to push back, gently, against anti-vaccination movementThe doctors shifted nervously in their seats as the sharp-tongued questioner scanned the room. Dr. Paul Offit, a University of Pennsylvania pediatrician and the nation's most outspoken childhood vaccine proponent, had come to the UCLA lecture hall to subject several dozen physicians to a faux parental grilling. He wanted to give them the kind of pushback doctors have come to expect in affluent parts of Los Angeles and California, where increasing numbers of parents are refusing to inoculate their kids against contagious, even life-threatening diseases for fear of complications. For many of the pediatricians in the audience, taking a hard line on the immunization schedule can mean potentially alienating well-intentioned, if misinformed, parents. Vaccinations Dr. Lisa Stern, background, took part in coaching in talking about vaccinations with parents like Rachel Gipson, who brought her twins in for a checkup at Tenth Street Pediatrics. (Rick Loomis) If Offit, a rock star in his field, could give these doctors more factual ammunition — and a little practice on their delivery — could they help convince resistant parents that science is simply not on their side? The salt-and-pepper-haired Offit slipped straight into character and zeroed in on one young doctor..... Doctors learn to push back, gently, against anti-vaccination movement - www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-pediatricians-vaccines-20141031-story.html#page=1
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Post by Master Kim on Nov 14, 2014 23:03:26 GMT -5
FDA Targets Essentials Oils: Sees EOs as Threat to New Ebola Drugs?The FDA issued warning letters this week to the two largest distributors of essentials oils in the United Sates, Young Living and dōTERRA. The FDA is claiming that their products are being marketed as unapproved drugs. The companies have to remove all health claims and take corrective actions, or face very serious legal action, which can include armed federal marshals coming to their warehouses and seizing all of their inventory. This is of course not the first time that the FDA has gone after companies selling natural products, products that could never be patented, for making health claims about those products. They have a history of issuing warning letters against the producers and marketers of such things as walnuts, cranberries, elderberry juice, coconut oil, and many more. The FDA requires that companies selling natural products and making health claims get their permission first, by going through a lengthy and costly drug approval process. What is interesting about the FDA targeting these two distributors of essential oils is that they are network-based marketing companies with independent distributors marketing the products on their own websites or out of their homes. This situation presents some unique challenges for both the FDA in seeking compliance, as well as the companies, who will most certainly want to comply. The FDA is taking the position that these independent distributors are “paid consultants,” and that therefore the parent companies have direct control over how they market their products..... FDA Targets Essentials Oils: Sees EOs as Threat to New Ebola Drugs? - healthimpactnews.com/2014/fda-targets-essentials-oils-see-eos-as-threat-to-new-ebola-drugs/
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Post by Master Kim on Nov 19, 2014 14:36:19 GMT -5
Radiation Crimes of EternityIf I could pray for something it would be to pray that I am wrong about the conclusions in this essay. That Fukushima never happened; that the recent EPA data from their Beta radiation detection stations is wrong, or radiation is not bad for our health and will not kill or hurt anyone, as many seem to believe. After all the nuclear industry is safe even though accidents do happen regularly. All the nuclear waste that is piling up at every nuclear reactor that they never discovered what to do with is going to eventually kill off most of life on our planet but who cares since we have managed a faster way (Fukushima) to do ourselves in. Many believe that low levels of radiation are actually good for your health and they use that belief to lighten the load of the nuclear industry, which is proving to be a formidable death machine. The conclusions in this essay are devastating to our sense of humanity. Yesterday’s article told us to expect a whole range of radiation illnesses from the increasing radiation levels in North America. It exposed a great cruelty perpetuated on at least 300 million people. Seventy years ago the Nazis lined men, women and children up and herded them into gas chambers to expose them to poisonous gas to kill them en mass. These past months the American government purposely let their citizens be exposed to levels of radiation which promises slow poisoning. Though there was no way to make the radiation disappear precautions and warnings could have been given. Someone made a decision to keep the public in the dark so parents could not keep their kids indoors and take other precautions to minimize exposure. It is shattering to meditate on what is happening. Without shame or fear of reprisal, the government and media have ganged up on the public to deceive them and forced them to expose their children to imminent danger that could, in part, have been avoided. They were scaring the wits out of everyone with Ebola when radiation was the real threat. They have been scaring the public with global warming (United Nations now says never existed) when severe cold and extended winter is here with us instead. It is not warming nor Ebola that is threatening the world but cold and massive amounts of radiation that is striking hard at the young and old and everyone in between..... Radiation Crimes of Eternity - drsircus.com/medicine/radiation-crimes-of-eternity
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Post by Master Kim on Nov 19, 2014 14:39:47 GMT -5
Expect Whole Range of Sicknesses from Fukushima RadiationIt is time to wake up and start crying in our hearts, about what is happening to the children because of Fukushima. About what is happening and will happen for the rest of their lives, which will be dramatically shortened and certainly sickened. Radiation levels have recently increased significantly in the United States to the point where the whole country might consider itself a potential hot zone. Beta graphs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show a sharp increase in air radiation levels across the country. The results reveal that numerous government radiation stations showed beta radiation activity at four-month highs many multiples above background levels of dangerous radiation particles. It is apparent that even when the sirens should be blaring not a word is said in the mainstream press or anywhere else except by EnviroReporter. Dangerously sharp increases in beta radiation detected by the operable EPA beta monitors showed surges in the Pacific Northwest, Southwest, Middle West, South and along the Eastern Seaboard. Major metropolitan centers as well as more rural regional sites showed a strong upward trend. Beta radiation has more inherent power than alpha, so it can penetrate more (alpha particles cannot penetrate paper, whereas beta particles can move through a few centimeters of wood). A beta particle is about 8,000 times smaller than an alpha particle — and that is what also makes them more dangerous. Their small size and high energy allows them to penetrate. Beta and gamma radiation are the most dangerous sources because they can penetrate the skin and damage the cells inside. If radioactive material enters food or water supplies or is dispersed into the air, people can inhale or ingest beta particle emitters unknowingly. Internal exposure to beta particles causes much more severe symptoms than external exposure..... Expect Whole Range of Sicknesses from Fukushima Radiation - drsircus.com/medicine/expect-whole-range-sicknesses-fukushima-radiation
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Post by Master Kim on Nov 19, 2014 19:26:37 GMT -5
We're not Roundup Ready. It's time for A New Resistance!40 years ago, a chemical was born. It's in our food, water, air, soil, blood, urine and breast milk. Glyphosate. It is the key ingredient in "Roundup," a broad-spectrum weed killer developed by Monsanto. It has become the number one selling herbicide worldwide, due to the increase in the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Crops, which are genetically engineered to withstand multiple applications of the weed killer during the growth cycle. It is also used in residential gardens and neighborhood parks around the world. For 20 + years Monsanto has claimed that this proprietary weed killer is safe. But a host of recent studies have linked Roundup and glyphosate to an alarming number of diseases threatening animal and human health; including obesity, infertility, cancer, celiac disease, gluten intolerance, irritable bowel syndrome, autism and Alzheimer’s Disease. Also, we now understand that it is inside our bodies. More importantly, it is entering the bodies of our newborn children through breast milk. In July 2013, despite countless letters and documents submitted in protest, the Environmental Protection Agency raised the maximum allowable residues of glyphosate in our food (most likely to accommodate the levels already routinely detected) - up to 30 times higher. Now officials are attempting to raise the allowable chemical residue of glyphosate in many important food crops that we eat everyday, including vegetables such as carrots, sweet potatoes, flax and sunflower seeds. The current allowable levels are already many times higher than has been shown to destroy the gut bacteria of chickens… so what is it doing to us? It is time to investigate glyphosate’s impact on human health and the environment. It's time to stop raising the residue limits for a chemical that has potentially harmful effects on our health. It's time to stop the use of glyphosate altogether, unless and until peer-reviewed independent studies of glyphosate prove its use to be unquestionably safe..... We're not Roundup Ready. It's time for A New Resistance! -
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Post by Master Kim on Nov 19, 2014 19:32:03 GMT -5
How Medical Care Is Being Corrupted - By PAMELA HARTZBAND and JEROME GROOPMANNOV. 18, 2014 - New York Times WHEN we are patients, we want our doctors to make recommendations that are in our best interests as individuals. As physicians, we strive to do the same for our patients. But financial forces largely hidden from the public are beginning to corrupt care and undermine the bond of trust between doctors and patients. Insurers, hospital networks and regulatory groups have put in place both rewards and punishments that can powerfully influence your doctor’s decisions. Contracts for medical care that incorporate “pay for performance” direct physicians to meet strict metrics for testing and treatment. These metrics are population-based and generic, and do not take into account the individual characteristics and preferences of the patient or differing expert opinions on optimal practice. For example, doctors are rewarded for keeping their patients’ cholesterol and blood pressure below certain target levels. For some patients, this is good medicine, but for others the benefits may not outweigh the risks. Treatment with drugs such as statins can cause significant side effects, including muscle pain and increased risk of diabetes. Blood-pressure therapy to meet an imposed target may lead to increased falls and fractures in older patients. Physicians who meet their designated targets are not only rewarded with a bonus from the insurer but are also given high ratings on insurer websites. Physicians who deviate from such metrics are financially penalized through lower payments and are publicly shamed, listed on insurer websites in a lower tier. Further, their patients may be required to pay higher co-payments..... How Medical Care Is Being Corrupted - www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/opinion/how-medical-care-is-being-corrupted.html?ref=opinion&_r=1
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Post by Master Kim on Nov 19, 2014 19:42:08 GMT -5
EPA's Next Target -- American Dentists Who Are Mercury PollutersThose silver mercury fillings whose vapors readily pass through cell membranes, across your blood-brain barrier, and into your central nervous system? The damage doesn't stop there. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently cited studies showing that approximately half of the mercury in the environment is there due to dental offices' amalgam (i.e. silver filling) waste. In fact, dental clinics are the main source of mercury discharges to public water treatment centers, according to the EPA, which estimates there are about 160,000 dentists in the US who use or remove amalgam and virtually all of them discharge their wastewater to water treatment centers. In all, dentists discharge about 4.4 tons of mercury a year to such centers. The problem, of course, is that the mercury then settles into sewer systems or the biosolids and sewage sludge that are generated during water treatment. What happens to the sludge? Some of it ends up in landfills, while other portions are incinerated (thereby polluting the air) or applied as agricultural fertilizer (polluting your food), or seep into waterways (polluting fish and wildlife). Unfortunately, mercury is persistent and bioaccumulative once it reaches the environment. And when it is exposed to certain microorganisms in water, it can change into highly toxic methylmercury - the type that now contaminates most seafood. Most Americans don't realize that there is a simple solution that could drastically cut down on the environmental pollution caused by mercury waste, if only dentists would choose to use it. EPA Proposes Rule Requiring Dentists to Use Amalgam Separators..... EPA's Next Target -- American Dentists Who Are Mercury Polluters - www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_31181.cfm
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Post by Master Kim on Dec 1, 2014 14:12:53 GMT -5
Dr. Russell Blaylock Warns: Don’t Get the Flu Shot — It Promotes Alzheimer’sThe government is ratcheting up its efforts to convince Americans to get flu shots. “You can’t walk into a pharmacy without seeing lines, and the government is now telling preachers to tell their congregations to get flu shots,” says Dr. Russell Blaylock, renowned neurosurgeon and editor of the Blaylock Wellness Report. “I’ve never seen anything like it. The incidence of flu across the United States is extremely low — there are virtually no outbreaks — and not a single child has died. Yet, the flu vaccine is being pushed as if it’s the greatest health advance ever discovered. “The vaccine is completely worthless, and the government knows it,” says Dr. Blaylock. “There are three reasons the government tells the elderly why they should get flu shots: secondary pneumonia, hospitalization, and death. Yet a study by the Cochrane group studied hundreds of thousands of people and found it offered zero protection for those three things in the general community. It offered people in nursing homes some immunity against the flu — at best one-third — but that was only if they picked the right vaccine.” Dr. Russell Blaylock Warns: Don’t Get the Flu Shot — It Promotes Alzheimer's - healthimpactnews.com/2011/dr-russell-blaylock-warns-dont-get-the-flu-shot-it-promotes-alzheimers/
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Post by Master Kim on Dec 1, 2014 14:31:37 GMT -5
Tucked into Oregon state law is an unusual and outdated provision about health care workers that is anti-prevention, anti-patient and pro-flu. It doesn't have a place in Oregon anymore - not when the state is trying to take better care of the sick and elderly. Oregon law encourages flu shots among health care workers, and it requires hospitals and other health care employers to provide flu shots and other preventive immunization to workers at no cost. But the law also says: "A worker shall not be required as a condition of work to be immunized under this section, unless such immunization is otherwise required by federal or state law, rule or regulation." In other words, hospitals and nursing homes can't require flu shots as a condition of employment. They can promote them, and they can take precautionary steps when workers refuse them - such as moving them away from the weakest and sickest patients - but they can't require them in the name of patient safety. This provision may have seemed harmless enough when it became law in 1989, but not anymore..... Oregon's odd anti-vaccine law - www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/01/oregons_odd_anti-vaccine_law.html
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Post by Master Kim on Dec 4, 2014 18:14:26 GMT -5
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Post by Master Kim on Dec 4, 2014 22:24:44 GMT -5
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Post by Master Kim on Dec 13, 2014 13:16:39 GMT -5
Psychopaths Rule Our World – Medicine, Politics and War - drsircus.com/world-news/psychopaths-rule-our-world-medicine-politics-and-war The incidence of psychopathy among CEOs is about 4 percent, four times what it is in the population at large. According to Wikipedia, the DSM IV-TR gives the prevalence of psychopathy as 3% in males and 1% in females. Many forensic psychologists, psychiatrists and criminologists use the terms sociopathy and psychopathy interchangeably. Leading experts disagree on whether there are meaningful differences between the two conditions. Certainly there are meaningful differences from one psycho and sociopath to another. In the United States congress the percentage is higher. In fact, in reading Dr. Ron Paul’s most recent essay Reckless Congress Declares War on Russia—all but ten congressmen voted for the measure. Any good psychologist would conclude that there are 425 psychopaths in the House of Representatives and only 10 normal people who care about children and everyone else.....
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Post by Master Kim on Dec 13, 2014 13:28:05 GMT -5
Narcotic Maker Guilty of Deceit Over Marketing ABINGDON, Va., May 10 — The company that makes the painkiller OxyContin and three of its current and former executives pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court here to criminal charges that it had misled doctors and patients when it claimed the drug was less likely to be abused than traditional narcotics. The company, Purdue Pharma, agreed to pay $600 million in fines and other payments to resolve the criminal charge of “misbranding” the product, one of the largest amounts ever paid by a drug company in such a case. The three executives, including its president and its top lawyer, also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of misbranding the drug. Together, they agreed to pay $34.5 million in fines. The guilty plea — by Purdue Frederick, an affiliate of Purdue Pharma — is the latest of a number of cases brought by the Justice Department against pharmaceutical makers that accuse them of misbranding, a broad statute that makes it a crime to put false or misleading information about a drug on its label or in ads, or to promote it for unapproved use. Another company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, pleaded guilty Thursday to making false statements to the government involving its anti-clotting medicine Plavix. [Page C3.] The Purdue plea underscores the growing pressure on the drug industry over its marketing. On Wednesday, the Senate passed a bill to give the Food and Drug Administration power to oversee drug advertising and labels, and to restrict the distribution of risky medicines..... Narcotic Maker Guilty of Deceit Over Marketing - www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/business/11drug.html
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Post by Master Kim on Dec 13, 2014 13:31:53 GMT -5
How Medical Studies Can Mislead Us and How This Doctor is Making a ChangeWhat do you need to know about a certain drug or therapy in order to decide whether you want to use it? You want to know how effective it is. It turns out, however, that the measure of effectiveness is often presented in a very misleading way that prohibits doctors and patients from taking the best decisions, and also costs our health care systems millions of dollars invested in ineffective treatments. Here’s how it happens. Let’s say, for example, that Drug A is tested in order to determine whether it reduces the risk of death after a heart attack. In Group A, people take the drug and 8% of them die after the heart attack. In Group B, people don't take the drug and 10% die after the heart attack. Therefore, the drug reduced death by 2% - from 10% to 8%. 2 out of 100 people are saved using the drug. 90 people survive regardless of whether they take the drug or not. 8 people die regardless of whether they take the drug or not. In other words, 98% of people are practically unaffected by the drug. There is, however, another way to describe what happened, without technically lying. If we only focus on the 10% of people who died and make them our sample, it would mean that the 2% reduction in death is actually a 20% relative reduction in risk. So, a pharmaceutical company, for example, could easily say that Drug A provides "20% reduction in death." This number is wildly misleading, simply because neither the patient, nor the doctor can ever know before the beginning of a treatment which group the patient would be in – the one that will be affected by the drug, the one that will survive regardless of the drug, or the one that will not survive regardless of the drug. Enter Dr. David Newman, an Emergency Physician and Director of Clinical Research at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, a major in the U.S. Army Reserves, a professor at Columbia University, and the author of Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets from the House of Medicine — What Doctors Don't Know, Don't Tell You, and How Truth Can Repair the Patient-Doctor Breach. Dr. Newman believes that a proper health care system would deliver three things: access, quality and efficiency. He also believes that medical information should be available to everybody in a usable and understandable way, because this is what will enable "science to talk to society". Together with his team, he has developed a simple information tool, called the NNT, that allows doctors and researchers to communicate more clearly to patients and the general public, the effectiveness of different treatments..... How Medical Studies Can Mislead Us and How This Doctor is Making a Change - bigthink.com/design-for-good/how-medical-studies-can-mislead-us-and-how-this-doctor-is-making-a-change
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Post by Master Kim on Dec 13, 2014 19:53:01 GMT -5
Robyn O'Brien at TEDxAustin 2011
The US has the highest rates of cancer of any country on the planet"
"The business model, as an analyst, made perfect sense"
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Post by Master Kim on Dec 21, 2014 23:59:53 GMT -5
"Truth That Lasts" - Must Watch Video by Dr. David H. Newman - TEDxColumbiaEngineering - 11/29/11
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Post by Master Kim on Dec 22, 2014 18:37:33 GMT -5
Why Calcium is Bad for You When You Have Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
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Post by Master Kim on Jan 5, 2015 9:19:11 GMT -5
Conventional Medical Care Kills More People Than Heart Disease or Cancer - articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/02/11/leading-causes-of-death-cost-for-us-economy.aspxThe latest data on the leading causes of death in the United States has been released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report, which is based on 2010 data, lists the 10 leading causes of death as follows: 1.Diseases of the heart 2.Cancer 3.Chronic lower respiratory diseases 4.Cerebrovascular diseases (stroke) 5.Accidents (unintentional injuries) 6.Alzheimer's disease 7.Diabetes mellitus 8.Nephritis, nephritic syndrome and nephrosis (kidney disease) 9.Influenza and pneumonia 10.Intentional self-harm (suicide) In an analysis, 24/7 Wall St. determined that the costs to the economy for these top 10 causes, including not only direct medical care but also the indirect loss of productivity, amounts to a whopping $1.1 trillion! However, there is one leading cause of death that was left off of this list, and when that is factored in the costs to the economy, and the death toll itself, is actually even higher. The CDC Left Conventional Medical Care Off of Their Death List -- It Should be #1Over a decade ago, Professor Bruce Pomerance of the University of Toronto concluded that properly prescribed and correctly taken pharmaceutical drugs were the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. More recently, an article authored in two parts by Gary Null, PhD, Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, Martin Feldman, MD, Debora Rasio, MD, and Dorothy Smith, PhD, describes in excruciating detail how the modern conventional American medical system has bumbled its way into becoming the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. From medical errors to adverse drug reactions to unnecessary procedures, heart disease, cancer deaths and infant mortality, the authors took statistics straight from the most respected medical and scientific journals and investigative reports by the Institutes of Medicine (IOM), and showed that on the whole, American medicine caused more harm than good. In 2010 (the same year from which the CDC data came), years after the original article was written, an analysis in the New England Journal of Medicineii piqued my interest – as the researchers found that, despite efforts to improve patient safety in the past few years, the health care system hasn't changed much at all. Instead, 18 percent of patients were harmed by medical care (some repeatedly) and over 63 percent of the injuries could have been prevented. In nearly 2.5 percent of these cases, the problems caused or contributed to a person's death. In another 3 percent, patients suffered from permanent injury, while over 8 percent experienced life-threatening issues, such as severe bleeding during surgery. In all there were over 25 injuries per 100 admissions! In my update to the original Death by Medicine article, you can get an idea of just how deadly the conventional medical care system actually is: •In a June 2010 report in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, study authors said that in looking over records that spanned from 1976 to 2006 (the most recent year available) they found that, of 62 million death certificates, almost a quarter-million deaths were coded as having occurred in a hospital setting due to medication errors. •An estimated 450,000 preventable medication-related adverse events occur in the U.S. every year. •The costs of adverse drug reactionsiv to society are more than $136 billion annually -- greater than the total cost of cardiovascular or diabetic care. •Adverse drug reactions cause injuries or death in 1 of 5 hospital patients. •The reason there are so many adverse drug events in the U.S. is because so many drugs are used and prescribed – and many patients receive multiple prescriptions at varying strengths, some of which may counteract each other or cause more severe reactions when combined. How Many Deaths by Medicine are Disguised as Other Causes?Another issue is just how many "accidents" or "suicides" are actually the result of accidental drug overdoses. Prescription drugs are now killing far more people than illegal drugs, and while most major causes of preventable deaths are declining, those from prescription drug use are increasing -- and this is according to the CDC's own data. In 2009, there were nearly 4.6 million drug-related visits to U.S. emergency rooms nationwide, with more than half due to adverse reactions to prescription medications – most of which were being taken exactly as prescribed. Further, between 2001 and 2008, there was a 36 percent increase in hospital admissions, and a 28 percent increase in emergency room visits, among children 5 and younger who had accidentally ingested medication. ER visits for ingestion of prescription opioid painkillers, such as Oxycodone, increased 101 percent! So it is unclear how many deaths from accidental drug overdose are classified as accidents or suicides. The 9th and 11th Top Killers Might Also be Linked to Medical CareThe 11th leading cause of death according to the CDC is septicemia (sometimes called blood poisoning), which is bacteria in your bloodstream that is often caused by an infection in your body -- an infection that is often acquired in the hospital! A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicinex showed that sepsis and pneumonia caused by hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 patients and ramped up health care costs by over $8 billion in 2006. The study also found that 20 percent of people who developed sepsis died; 11 percent of those who developed pneumonia died. Pneumonia is the 9th leading cause of death, and in some cases may again be related to the high risk of acquiring an infection should you enter the hospital. A different study in 2006 showed that "central-line-associated" bloodstream infections caused by catheters placed directly into veins resulted in a $26,839 loss for each patient that came down with this type of hospital-acquired infection. This same study estimated that 2 million people come down with hospital-acquired infections of any type in every year, and that approximately 100,000 die from those infections. Despite their high death toll, hospital-acquired infections make no appearance in the CDC's report. Most of the Leading Causes of Death are PreventableMost chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, are largely preventable with simple lifestyle changes. Even infectious diseases like the flu can often be warded off by a healthy way of life. Imagine the lowered death toll, not to mention costs to the economy, if more people decided to take control of their health … heart disease and cancer alone accounted for 47 percent of deaths in the United States in 2010, and there are many strategies you can implement to lower your risk of these diseases … and most of the leading causes of death in the United States. The added bonus to this is that the healthier you are, the less you will need to rely on conventional medical care, which is a leading cause of death. So what does a "healthy lifestyle" entail?.....
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Post by Master Kim on Jan 21, 2015 22:07:05 GMT -5
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Post by Master Kim on Jan 21, 2015 22:18:12 GMT -5
49 DOSES OF 14 VACCINES BEFORE AGE 6? 69 DOSES OF 16 VACCINES BY AGE 18? VACCINE INGREDIENTS: Different vaccines contain different ingredients including lab altered live or inactivated viruses and bacteria, chemicals, metals, proteins, antibiotics and human, animal and insect DNA and RNA. Poster: 49-Doses-PosterB.pdf (533.48 KB) Learn more at NVIC.org. National Vaccine Information Center | 21525 Ridgetop Circle, Suite 100 | Sterling, Virginia 20166 Before you take the risk, find out what it is.
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Post by Master Kim on Jan 21, 2015 22:38:32 GMT -5
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Post by Master Kim on Jan 28, 2015 17:45:27 GMT -5
The CDC's own research has found that the long denied vaccine-SIDS link is real. - www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/cdcs-own-data-vaccine-infant-death-linkIf you believe the official pronouncements of top governmental health agencies like the CDC and FDA, all the vaccines in the present day schedule are a priori safe and effective. Not only are you told that they can't harm you, but that not taking them can kill you. Parents are under even more pressure. They are told that refraining from vaccinating their infants or children will greatly increase their risk of dying or being disabled. Worse, they are increasingly labeled as 'crazy' and 'irresponsible' anti-vaccine zealots who are putting the lives of others in danger. But what happens when the actual evidence from the scientific and clinical literature produced by these very agencies contradicts their own vaccine policies? This is exactly what has happened with the publication of a new study in the Journal of Pediatrics titled ,"Adverse Events following Haemophilus influenzae Type b Vaccines in the Vaccine Adverse Event ReportingSystem, 1990-2013," wherein CDC and FDA researchers identify 749 deaths linked to the administration of the Hib vaccine, 51% of which were sudden infant death linked to the administration of Hib vaccine. The CDC has boldly denied that there is any evidence supporting a causal link between vaccines and infant death, despite the fact that their own webpage on the topic acknowledges that "From 2 to 4 months old, babies begin their primary course of vaccinations. This is also the peak age for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)." Written off as coincidence, the CDC suggests that stomach sleeping is the primary modifiable risk factor. Because SIDS is the 3rd leading cause of death in infants, and because the U.S. has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the developed world, one would think that more progress would have been made toward understanding its causes. Perhaps, as explored in this past article, the signal of harm is being ignored. Neglect and suppression of available data has recently been exposed with the confession of a top CDC vaccine scientist who was compelled to covered up data revealing an autism-MMR link in African-American boys. In the new study, the CDC and FDA researchers themselves acknowledge "the scarcity" of postlicensure safety data on HiB vaccines in today's vaccination schedule. They evaluated reports involving the currently licensed Hib vaccines received from January 1, 1990, through December 1, 2013 available on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Presently, the CDC recommends 4 doses of the HiB vaccine at the following ages: 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 12 months through 15 months. The HiB vaccine is described on the CDC website as "very safe" and "effective" at preventing HiB disease, which it states can be deadly. They list "most common side effects as usually mild and last 2 or 3 days," including "redness, swelling, and warmth where the child got the shot" and "fever". Nowhere is there listed death or disability as a possible side effect. In stark contrast to these statements the study uncovered the following highly concerning results:.....
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Post by Master Kim on Jan 30, 2015 11:16:16 GMT -5
Merck’s Former Doctor Predicts Gardasil To Become The Greatest Medical Scandal Of All Time - www.collective-evolution.com/2015/01/25/mercks-former-doctor-predicts-gardasil-to-become-the-greatest-medical-scandal-of-all-time/“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine” – (source) Marica Angell. She is a physician and author, along with being the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine – regarded as one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. Since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Merck & Co.’s Gardasil vaccine in 2006, it has been surrounded by tremendous amounts of information, controversy and misinformation. This controversy has garnered much attention as people become more aware of the importance of paying attention to what goes into their bodies. It’s imperative that one examines a large body of evidence before believing what is seen on TV or stated on a radio advertisement, and people are slowly starting to wake up to this fact. “It is a vaccine that’s been highly marketed, the benefits are over-hyped, and the dangers are underestimated.” – (Taken from the ONE MORE GIRL DOCUMENTARY) – Dr. Chris Shaw, Professor at the University of British Columbia, in the department of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, and Visual Sciences. Gardasil, also known as the Human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, is given as a series of three shots over 6 months to protect against HPV infection and its associated health problems. Two vaccines (Cervarix and Gardasil) are said to protect against cervical cancers in women. Gardasil is also said to protect against genital warts and cancers of the anus, vagina and vulva. Both vaccines are available for females, while only Gardasil is available for males. The Centers For Disease Control (CDC) claims that the HPV vaccine offers the best protection to girls and boys who receive all three vaccine doses and have time to develop an immune response before being sexually active. This is why it is recommended for children who have reached the age of 11 or 12. There is a long list of educated people speaking out about this vaccine. This time around, it’s Dr. Bernard Dalbergue, a former pharmaceutical industry physician with Gardasil manufacturer Merck who has started to raise his voice against the HPV vaccine, along with the pharmaceutical industry as a whole. He joins a long list of experts from within the industry who have slammed the rampant manipulation and control of clinical research done by the pharmaceutical industry. This quote is taken from an interview that happened in April of 2014, from an issue of the French magazine Principes de Santé (Health Principles): “The full extent of the Gardasil scandal needs to be assessed: everyone knew when this vaccine was released on the American market that it would prove to be worthless. Diane Harper, a major opinion leader in the United States, was one of the first to blow the whistle, pointing out the fraud and scam of it all.I predict that Gardasil will become the greatest medical scandal of all time because at some point in time, the evidence will add up to prove that this vaccine, technical and scientific feat that it may be, has absolutely no effect on cervical cancer and that all the very many adverse effects which destroy lives and even kill, serve no other purpose than to generate profit for the manufacturers. Gardasil is useless and costs a fortune! In addition, decision-makers at all levels are aware of it! Cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, paralysis of the lower limbs, vaccine-induced MS and vaccine-induced encephalitis can be found, whatever the vaccine.” (source) – Dr. Bernard Dalbergue Dr. Dalbergue has also recently released a book titled “Omerta dans les labos pharmaceutiques: Confessions d’un medicine,” which goes into more detail about corruption in the medical/pharmaceutical industry. He also recently made an appearance on a popular radio show in France, you can watch here. Althought it’s in French, it’s nice to put a face to the name so that you can see he is real. Scandal, misinformation, and data manipulation have become part and parcel of clinical research and pharmaceutical drug development. It is important that we realize this as fact and not hearsay; apart from whistle-blowers, there are numerous documents that illustrate this reality. One of the best examples (out of many) comes from Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD, from the Neural Dynamics Research Group in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of British Columbia. In 2011 she obtained documents which reveal that vaccine manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and health authorities have known about the multiple dangers associated with vaccines but have chosen to withhold them from the public. The documents were obtained from the UK Department of Health (DH) and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), who advise the Secretaries of State for Health in the UK about diseases preventable through immunizations. You can read those documents here.....
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Post by Master Kim on Jan 30, 2015 11:21:26 GMT -5
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption - www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jan/15/drug-companies-doctorsa-story-of-corruption/?report=readerRecently Senator Charles Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has been looking into financial ties between the pharmaceutical industry and the academic physicians who largely determine the market value of prescription drugs. He hasn’t had to look very hard. Take the case of Dr. Joseph L. Biederman, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and chief of pediatric psychopharmacology at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital. Thanks largely to him, children as young as two years old are now being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and treated with a cocktail of powerful drugs, many of which were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for that purpose and none of which were approved for children below ten years of age. Legally, physicians may use drugs that have already been approved for a particular purpose for any other purpose they choose, but such use should be based on good published scientific evidence. That seems not to be the case here. Biederman’s own studies of the drugs he advocates to treat childhood bipolar disorder were, as The New York Times summarized the opinions of its expert sources, “so small and loosely designed that they were largely inconclusive.”1 In June, Senator Grassley revealed that drug companies, including those that make drugs he advocates for childhood bipolar disorder, had paid Biederman $1.6 million in consulting and speaking fees between 2000 and 2007. Two of his colleagues received similar amounts. After the revelation, the president of the Massachusetts General Hospital and the chairman of its physician organization sent a letter to the hospital’s physicians expressing not shock over the enormity of the conflicts of interest, but sympathy for the beneficiaries: “We know this is an incredibly painful time for these doctors and their families, and our hearts go out to them.” Or consider Dr. Alan F. Schatzberg, chair of Stanford’s psychiatry department and president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association. Senator Grassley found that Schatzberg controlled more than $6 million worth of stock in Corcept Therapeutics, a company he cofounded that is testing mifepristone—the abortion drug otherwise known as RU-486—as a treatment for psychotic depression. At the same time, Schatzberg was the principal investigator on a National Institute of Mental Health grant that included research on mifepristone for this use and he was coauthor of three papers on the subject. In a statement released in late June, Stanford professed to see nothing amiss in this arrangement, although a month later, the university’s counsel announced that it was temporarily replacing Schatzberg as principal investigator “to eliminate any misunderstanding.”.....
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Post by Master Kim on Feb 3, 2015 23:01:40 GMT -5
ZERO U.S. Measles Deaths in 10 Years, but Over 100 Measles Vaccine Deaths Reported - vaccineimpact.com/2015/zero-u-s-measles-deaths-in-10-years-but-over-100-measles-vaccine-deaths-reported/With the measles and measles vaccine debate reaching a near frenzy on the Internet, it is always nice to throw some cold hard facts on the firestorm currently raging in the measles debate. So here are some easily verifiable facts regarding deaths associated with measles in the United States for the past 10 years, and deaths associated with measles vaccines during the same 10 year period. First, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keeps a weekly tally of disease outbreaks, including deaths. According to a statement made by Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in an Associated Press story picked up by Fox News on April 25, 2014: There have been no measles deaths reported in the U.S. since 2003.The weekly CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) since that date have not revealed any measles deaths either. And while health authorities are blaming measles outbreaks in recent years on unvaccinated children, when you mention the fact that nobody is dying from measles in the U.S., they are quick to turn around and claim vaccines have eliminated measles deaths (even though they cannot eliminate the disease itself apparently.) Besides the obvious contradiction in reasoning with such a claim, the historical evidence just does not support it either: Brian Shilhavy Health Impact News EditorWith the measles and measles vaccine debate reaching a near frenzy on the Internet, it is always nice to throw some cold hard facts on the firestorm currently raging in the measles debate. So here are some easily verifiable facts regarding deaths associated with measles in the United States for the past 10 years, and deaths associated with measles vaccines during the same 10 year period. First, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keeps a weekly tally of disease outbreaks, including deaths. According to a statement made by Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in an Associated Press story picked up by Fox News on April 25, 2014: There have been no measles deaths reported in the U.S. since 2003 The weekly CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) since that date have not revealed any measles deaths either. And while health authorities are blaming measles outbreaks in recent years on unvaccinated children, when you mention the fact that nobody is dying from measles in the U.S., they are quick to turn around and claim vaccines have eliminated measles deaths (even though they cannot eliminate the disease itself apparently.) Besides the obvious contradiction in reasoning with such a claim, the historical evidence just does not support it either: Image from healthsentinel.com – Click image to enlarge. Death by Measles Vaccines What about deaths associated with the measles vaccine during the same time period? The U.S. Government keeps a database of reports called The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The database is available to the public, and there is a search portal the public can use at Medalerts.org. We ran a search for a ten year period for deaths reported with measles vaccines, including a few that are no longer in production. The search result contained 108 deaths over this period, associated with four different measles vaccines sold in the United States during the past 10 years.....
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Post by Master Kim on Feb 7, 2015 22:53:55 GMT -5
CDC Director of Immunization Safety Admits Bias and Withholding Data Linking Measles Vaccine to Autism - healthimpactnews.com/2015/obama-grants-immunity-to-cdc-whistleblower-on-measles-vaccine-link-to-autism/While most of the mainstream media was ignoring this story, independent journalist and former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson called Dr. Frank DeStefano, the CDC Director of Immunization Safety, who was a co-author with Dr. William Thompson in the 2004 CDC study on the MMR vaccine, and asked him some questions about the concealed data Dr. Thompson had revealed. She recorded her phone call and posted it on her website here. Attkisson asked the CDC director why the excluded data linking the measles vaccine to autism in African American boys would not be important enough to investigate further, since it contained such a higher rate of autism. Dr. DeStefano’s reply was very typical of the bias that currently exists among CDC scientists when it comes to autism: you know, autism, as you probably are aware, is a condition that really probably has its start while the child is still in the womb. And, you now, it doesn’t, some of the behaviors and such don’t come apparent, become apparent until maybe the child is one, two, three years old.In other words, they believe autism is completely due to genetic factors, and not environmental factors. Of course, this theory of the genetic cause of autism lends itself to billions of dollars in drug research, even though it contradicts both scientific evidence, as well as the experience of many tens of thousands of parents who saw their completely normal child rapidly digress shortly after receiving vaccines. Even the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out damages to children with autism as a result of vaccines, including the measles MMR vaccine. Obama Has Granted Whistleblower Immunity – What’s Next? Now, many months later after all of this information was revealed, Patrick Howley of the Daily Caller has picked up the story, and revealed that Dr. Thompson actually obtained whistleblower status from the Obama administration “months ago.” So what’s next?.....
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Post by Master Kim on Mar 25, 2015 18:49:38 GMT -5
Shocking Methods Used by the FDA Puts Your Safety at Risk!
Published on Mar 25, 2015
Gwen Olsen is a former pharmaceutical sales rep. She saw the many conflicts of interest first hand between the FDA and pharmaceutical companies. Here she discusses the problems and how big pharma can get drugs approved without proper testing and safety procedures, drugs you may be taking!
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Post by Master Kim on Apr 4, 2015 17:46:00 GMT -5
Guatemalans deliberately infected with STDs sue Johns Hopkins University for $1bn - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/02/johns-hopkins-lawsuit-deliberate-std-infections-guatemalaLawsuit with 800 plaintiffs seeks damages for individuals, spouses and children of people deliberately infected with STDs through US government programme Nearly 800 plaintiffs have launched a billion-dollar lawsuit against Johns Hopkins University over its alleged role in the deliberate infection of hundreds of vulnerable Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis and gonorrhoea, during a medical experiment programme in the 1940s and 1950s. The lawsuit, which also names the philanthropic Rockefeller Foundation, alleges that both institutions helped “design, support, encourage and finance” the experiments by employing scientists and physicians involved in the tests, which were designed to ascertain if penicillin could prevent the diseases. Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine held “substantial influence” over the commissioning of the research program by dominating panels that approved federal funding for the research, the suit claims. The lawsuit asserts that a researcher paid by the Rockefeller Foundation was assigned to the experiments, which he travelled to inspect on at least six occasions. The suit also claims that predecessor companies of the pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb supplied penicillin for use in the experiments, which they knew to be both secretive and non-consensual. The experiments, which occurred between 1945 and 1956, were kept secret until they were discovered in 2010 by a college professor, Susan Reverby. The programme published no findings and did not inform Guatemalans who were infected of the consequences of their participation, nor did it provide them with follow up medical care or inform them of ways to prevent the infections spreading, the lawsuit states. Orphans, prisoners and mental health patients were deliberately infected in the experiments. The plaintiffs case quotes the correspondence from one of the programme’s lead researchers who tells another doctor that if it were discovered by “some goody organization” that the programme was testing people who were mentally ill it would “raise a lot of smoke”. The manager continues: “I see no reason to say where the work was done and the type of volunteer.” Baltimore-based attorney for the plaintiffs Paul Bekman told the Guardian that of the 774 claimants, about 60 were direct survivors of the programme. Many have died as a result of deliberate infection and others had passed on disease to family members and partners. “The people who are responsible [for carrying out the research] now are long dead,” said Bekman “But the records are there, and we have detailed documentation that supports the allegations in our complaint.” Marta Orellana was a nine-year-old orphan when she was included in the experiments. In an interview with the Guardian in 2011 she recalled being forcibly examined by light-complexioned foreigners and a Guatemalan doctor in the orphanage infirmary. “They never told me what they were doing, never gave me a chance to say no,” Orellana said “I’ve lived almost my whole life without knowing the truth. May God forgive them.” Included within the legal claim are graphic descriptions of some of the methods used by the researchers to infect their subjects: During the experiments the following occurred: 1. Prostitutes were infected with venereal disease and then provided for sex to subjects for intentional transmission of the disease; 2. Subjects were inoculated by injection of syphilis spirochaetes into the spinal fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord, under the skin, and on mucous membranes; 3. An emulsion containing syphilis or gonorrhoea was spread under the foreskin of the penis in male subjects; 4. The penis of male subjects was scraped and scarified and then coated with the emulsion containing syphilis or gonorrhea; 5. A woman from the psychiatric hospital was injected with syphilis, developed skin lesions and wasting, and then had gonorrhoeal pus from a male subject injected into both of her eyes and; 6. Children were subjected to blood studies to check for the presence of venereal disease. The then secretary of state Hillary Clinton apologised for the programme in 2010 after a presidential bioethics commission investigation found the experiments “involved unconscionable basic violations of ethics”. A federal lawsuit for damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act failed in 2012 after a judge determined the US government cannot be held liable for actions outside the United States. Bekman told the Guardian he believed the new lawsuit stood a greater chance of success as it was lodged in the state court of Maryland and against private entities. Both Johns Hopkins University and the Rockefeller Foundation have vigorously denied any involvement in the experiments. A spokeswoman for Johns Hopkins School of Medicine said the institute expressed “profound sympathy” for the victims of the experiments and their families, but added: “Johns Hopkins did not initiate, pay for, direct of conduct the study in Guatemala. No nonprofit university or hospital has ever been held liable for a study conducted by the US government.” The university stated it would “vigorously defend” the lawsuit. The Rockefeller Foundation issued a detailed response to the claim online, which it described as seeking to “improperly to assign ‘guilt by association’ in the absence of compensation from the United States federal government”. The statement continued: “In the absence of a connection to the Rockefeller Foundation, the lawsuit attempts to connect the Foundation to the experiments through misleading characterizations of relationships between the Foundation and individuals who were in some way associated with the experiments.” A spokeswoman for Bristol-Myers Squibb declined to comment.
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