Monday, June 05, 2006

Anti-Psychotic Drug Use in Children Soars

Anti-psychotic drug use in children has never been proven safe or effective, yet doctors and psychiatrists hand out billions of dollars worth of these schizophrenic medications to children with moderate behavior issues, even though they contain a warning that no person under 18 should use them.  This is a melt down of the medical system.  All credibility is lost when our children are poisoned in the name of profit. 

When the Rolling Stones sang about “Mother’s Little Helper” it was something mother took.  Now, parents are no where to be found and “Mother’s Little Helper” is given to the kids!  This is a crime against children, pushed by Big Pharma and paid for mostly with your tax dollars.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-05-01-adult-antipsychotics-kids_x.htm

http://health.msn.com/centers/mentalhealth/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100136919

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Doctors Fess Up – A Glimmer of Truth

Time Magazine recently ran a cover story on a doctor’s greatest fear – becoming a patient!  What a sad commentary on a hospital health care system that needlessly kills over 100,000 Americans per year from ineptitude and toxic drug use.  I guess the old saying “what goes around comes around” is quite true.  At least as a patient entering a hospital, one thinks they are going to get good care.  Imagine knowing you have a serious health problem and now you are going to check yourself into a potential death trap. 

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1186553,00.html

A variety of websites can help you check up on the quality of care provided by hospitals in your area.  It’s nice to know before you go.

http://healthgrades.com/
http://www.leapfroggroup.org/
http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/

Friday, June 02, 2006

Fraudulent Scientific Studies

So often we hear how drugs are backed by solid science.  The peer review system for drug company sponsored research is now in complete disgrace.  Journals are afraid to offend some authors and penalize others for telling the truth or refuse to print important research.  When drugs are involved, these journals have turned into the promotional departments of Big Pharma – and they know it!  The New England Journal of Medicine made $697,000 selling over 900,000 reprints of a flawed Vioxx study they published, while 55,000 Americans died.  The reprints were purchased mostly by Merck to use as drug promotion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/health/02docs.html?ex=1150862400&en=4dffed193c4a324f&ei=5070

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114765430315252591.html

Thursday, June 01, 2006

The Beginning

Fresh back from the Book Expo America in Washington, D.C., I decided to start a blog.  It was a hectic month getting my book, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America, ready for its international unveiling.  As I autographed copies and spoke to the multitudes of people passing by, I was amazed by the number of people who simply cannot stand the FDA.  I was encouraged by so many people not in the health field who were truly excited to see a book exposing how the FDA is actually undermining health.

Yet, as the ink dried on the first printing of the book, the hard-to-believe stories keep coming in.  Since I can’t revise the book every two weeks, I’m taking up blogging as a way to keep everyone up to date. 

Health options in America and the basic rights of American citizens under the US constitution are under serious attack.  Profit and greed trump health.  The “sickness industry” itself has become a cancer.