Friday, June 30, 2006

A Strange Hundreth Birthday

Today, the FDA celebrates its hundreth birthday.  Harvey W. Wiley, M.D., is the man responsible for giving birth to the FDA.  Interestingly, he was trying to create a true organic food supply for the American population.  If he were alive today he would be appauled by the massive adulteration in our food supply.  In my article, FDA Celebrates a Hundred Years of Pretense, I explain how the organization that was supposed to protect our food supply has been hijacked by the very groups it was supposed to regulate - to the extreme detriment of health for Americans.

Friday, June 16, 2006

The FDA Undermines Citizen’s Rights

The FDA has been working on new drug labels that are suppose to make it easier for patients and doctors to understand how a drug works, its side effects, and how to take it – hopefully this would cut down on some of these unnecessary deaths. 

What the FDA really has in mind is speeding new and dangerous drugs into the market, so that drug companies do not have to spend such a long time testing drugs for safety.  Instead, these new and powerful biotechnology drugs will be clinically tested on the American public.  In order for this campaign to be successful (from a drug company point of view), patients can’t be allowed to sue drug companies if they are injured.  The FDA, acting with the best of intentions on behalf of drug companies, snuck a disclaimer on the new drug labels that are to be released in July of 2006.  This disclaimer prevents any person who takes the drug from filing a lawsuit in state court. 

This is concrete proof that the FDA has little interest in protecting the public and places a very high priority on protecting drug companies, and is even willing to set policy that undermines a citizen’s rights and supersedes established state law. 

http://health.msn.com/healthnews/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100137162

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

ADHD Medications Send Thousands of Children to the Hospital Each Year

It is amazing how the spin doctors who prescribe narcotic speed medication to children continue to defend it as safe and effective.  We have known for a while that at least 25 cardiovascular deaths have been caused by these drugs.  Now we find that over 3,000 people go the emergency room with extreme side effects, mostly cardiovascular.  Yet, the FDA refuses to place a black box warning on these medications, even though an advisory panel voted to do so.  The FDA acts more like a poorly run news reporting organization than a regulatory agency.  They are unable to regulate the drug industry due to the simple fact they are now owned by Big Pharma.

http://www.fdanews.com/dailies/drugdaily/2_361/news/56195-1.html

Friday, June 09, 2006

Big Brother DNA Collection Now Set to Begin

I warned in Fight for Your Health that our federal government plans to have the DNA of every American in its database very soon.  The first large scale project is now set to begin in 2008, backed by 2.7 billion in federal funding.  The National Institutes of Health and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia plan to collect the DNA of 100,000 children and track them for years.  While such projects may sound admirable and could produce useful information, the ultimate goal is to collect every citizen’s DNA and have it in a government database.  Of course, the Department of Homeland Security will have easy access, whether they are supposed to or not. 

Numerous plans to collect DNA are popping up all over the place.  Kaiser Permanente, the big Oakland, Calif., health-maintenance organization, is developing plans to request DNA samples from its two million adult members.

This isn’t a science fiction movie – it’s your health and your rights.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114965083201773495.html

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Nerve Gas Poison Still in Widespread Use on Food

We have the Nazis to thank for developing nerve gas poison from coal tar.  We have the Rockefellers and multi-national agribusiness to thank for putting these poisons all over our food supply, creating a level of ingested toxicity in the American public over the last 50 years that parallels the increase in cancer.  Even when pinned down, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) drags its feet and fails to act, protecting only those who profit from this atrocity.  The EPA was given 10 years to evaluate the poison, and still can’t reach a conclusion.  What a joke.  Poison is poison.  Enough is enough.  We need to clean up our food and clean up our water.  It has been far too long that the poisoning of Americans through their food supply has been tolerated by government stooges.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114852646165862757.html

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.