Archive for the 'Health' Category
Britain: Question a Doctor and Lose Your Child
September 10th, 2009Via: Sunday Times: PARENTS are being threatened with having their children taken into care after questioning doctors’ diagnoses or objecting to their medical care. John Hemming, a Liberal Democrat MP, who campaigns to stop injustices in the family court, said: “Very often care proceedings are used as retaliation by local authorities against ‘uppity’ people who […]
For Your Health, Froot Loops
September 8th, 2009Related: Toxic Sludge is Good For You by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton Via: New York Times: A new food-labeling campaign called Smart Choices, backed by most of the nation’s largest food manufacturers, is “designed to help shoppers easily identify smarter food and beverage choices.” … Eileen T. Kennedy, president of the Smart Choices board […]
Pfizer Directed Doctors to Use Drugs at Eight Times the Recommended Dosage and for Conditions Different to Those for Which They Were Approved
September 4th, 2009Via: BBC: A whistle-blower in the Pfizer healthcare fraud scandal has said he felt he was “swimming upstream” when the firm was illegally promoting drugs. “It’s hard to do what’s right when everyone else around you is following management sales directive,” John Kopchinski told the BBC’s World Today. Mr Kopchinski was awarded $50m (£31m) for […]
H1N1: MAINE DECLARES CIVIL EMERGENCY
September 3rd, 2009Via: Bangor Daily News: Gov. John Baldacci on Tuesday declared a statewide civil emergency because of the H1N1 influenza virus, paving the way for mass immunization of Maine schoolchildren and other residents. The emergency designation protects schools and health care providers against liability claims related to their participation in school-based vaccine clinics this fall for […]
Pfizer Agrees to Pay Largest Healthcare Fraud Penalty in History
September 2nd, 2009Via: BBC: US drugmaker Pfizer has agreed to pay $2.3bn (£1.4bn) in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice. A subsidiary pleaded guilty to misbranding drugs “with the intent to defraud or mislead”. Pfizer illegally promoted four drugs and caused false claims to be submitted to government healthcare programmes […]
French Government Document on Swine Flu Vaccination Program
August 31st, 2009I have no idea how credible the English translation is since I don’t read French at all. However, there are many Cryptogon readers in France so I thought I would post this in case it is useful for any reason. Via: The Flu Case: The document dated August 21st and signed by the French Health […]
ABC News on Swine Flu, “Conspiracy Theorists” and the Military Getting Involved
August 31st, 2009Via: ABC News: What might life be like during the kind of major swine flu pandemic predicted by the White House to hit the U.S. this fall? The worst-case scenarios percolate on the edges of thought: bans on public gatherings, restricting the movement of afflicted individuals, and compelled vaccinations. Conspiracy theorists go farther, suggesting that […]
AUSTRALIA: INSURANCE COMPANIES WON’T COVER DOCTORS WHO GIVE SWINE FLU VACCINE
August 28th, 2009Just stick the Aussie taxpayers with the bill. Via: Sydney Morning Herald: THE Federal Government’s plan to immunise the population against swine flu is in chaos because insurers may not cover doctors who administer the jab. Inadequate testing and the possibility of spreading other infections means there is too high a risk patients will sue, […]
Exposed: The Swine Flu Hoax
August 27th, 2009There’s no link on this because the author, Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D., emailed it to me. — Exposed: The Swine Flu Hoax Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D. The alarm has been sounded. Politicians, pharmaceutical executives and media conglomerates would have us believe that a 1918-style pandemic is a real threat. The 1918 pandemic, however, evolved out of conditions […]
Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off
August 26th, 2009Via: Wired: Some people suspect that a multitasking lifestyle has changed how they think, leaving them easily distracted and unable to concentrate even when separated from computers and phones. Their uneasiness may be justified. In several benchmark tests of focus, college students who routinely juggle many flows of information, bouncing from e-mail to web text […]
