Archive for the 'Health' Category
HEALTH MINISTER OF INDONESIA: U.S. MAY TURN AVIAN FLU INTO BIOWEAPON
February 20th, 2008Now that they know why bird flu isn’t readily transmissible from human to human, how long until a weaponized version is engineered? That’s me being optimistic; assuming that a weaponized form doesn’t exist already. —Why Bird Flu Has Been Kept at Bay It’s one thing for me to sit here, in my tinfoil underwear, writing […]
Largest Meat Recall in U.S. History
February 18th, 2008Which phrase is more bone chilling? Downer cattle, or federal nutrition program? Via: Reuters: A California meatpacker accused of animal cruelty is making the largest U.S. meat recall on record — 143 million lbs, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Sunday. Most of the meat, raw and frozen beef products, probably has already been consumed, […]
22,000 Died Amid Delayed Bayer Drug Recall
February 18th, 2008Via: Reuters: The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, according to a medical researcher interviewed by CBS Television’s 60 Minutes program. The drug Trasylol was withdrawn in November at the request of the […]
Metabolic Syndrome Is Tied to Diet Soda
February 8th, 2008I particularly like the retarded musings of one of the co-authors of the research: “Why is it happening? Is it some kind of chemical in the diet soda, or something about the behavior of diet soda drinkers?” Holy crap. Are we to believe that a professor of epidemiology needs to be told about the links […]
France: Vaccine Companies Face Manslaughter Investigation
February 7th, 2008Via: Reuters: French authorities have opened a formal investigation into two managers from drugs groups GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur over a vaccination campaign in the 1990s, a judicial source said late on Thursday. Judge Marie-Odile Bertella-Geffroy also opened an investigation for manslaughter against Sanofi Pasteur MSD, a joint venture between Sanofi Aventis and Merck, the […]
Out of 19 Industrialized Countries, U.S. Is Dead Last in Healthcare
January 9th, 2008I had to go with the Agence France Presse piece for this news. Via: AFP: France is tops, and the United States dead last, in providing timely and effective healthcare to its citizens, according to a survey Tuesday of preventable deaths in 19 industrialized countries. The study by the Commonwealth Fund and published in the […]
Super-Sized Autopsy Tables Needed For Big Corpses
January 5th, 2008More freedom fries, corn syrup and dead, cooked blood/pus hormone milk. And NutraSweet. Don’t forget that. Via: Local6: The Orange-Osceola Medical Examiner’s Office has a new addition: An autopsy table that can support 1,000 pounds. The standard used to be around 300 pounds. But more medical examiners said they need larger tables to accommodate larger […]
New Zealand: Heritage Apples Have Strong Disease Fighting Properties
December 15th, 2007“Science is largely avoiding this area. So we need to refocus and if science is not doing it, than non scientists need to be doing it.” —Mark Christensen In his spare time, Mark Christensen, an accountant by trade, took it upon himself to enlist the help of cancer researchers to test heritage apple varieties for […]
Implantable Microchip Cancer Report
November 22nd, 2007Via: Anti Chips: CASPIAN’s new report, “Microchip-Induced Tumors in Laboratory Rodents and Dogs: A Review of the Literature 1990-2006,” is a definitive review of research showing a causal link between implanted radio-frequency (RFID) microchip transponders and cancer in laboratory rodents and dogs. It was written in part to correct industry misstatements and misinformation circulating about […]
Facing Jail and Fines, Parents Summoned to Court to Have Children Vaccinated
November 22nd, 2007The part I like is that the parents of 900 students ignored this absurd fascist decree. Via: Baltimore Sun: Scores of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse today to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle. […]
