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Birth brain defect could be prevented with vitamin supplement
Scientists at The University of Manchester and Lancaster University say laboratory tests have shown that administering a combination of vitamins (tetrahydrofolate and folinic acid), dramatically reduces the risk of hydrocephalus.

Dr Miyan explained: “A combination of tetrahydrofolate and folinic acid - both naturally occurring substances - stimulated brain cell growth and had a significant positive effect on brain development in laboratory experiments on rats and reduced the incidence of hydrocephalus.

“In laboratory experiments, the combined folate supplement works at any stage during pregnancy which means that it may be effective even if it is commenced after the diagnosis of hydrocephalus is made at an 18 to 20 week pregnancy scan.

Vitamin D: Another study shows RDAs/RDIs grossly inadequate
The new research concluded that daily supplementation with four times the existing RDI for the under-50s i.e. 20 mcg of vitamin D3, during the winter months, achieved optimal circulating levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations in 80% of participants. The researchers considered that this dose to be adequate to optimize vitamin D status in most young women in Maine.

UK: Call to 'Save Our Supplements'
Miss Anne McIntosh, MP for Vale of York and Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Thirsk and Malton, has called on the Prime Minister to help prevent thousands of vitamin and mineral supplements from being wiped from the shelves of health food stores such as Holland and Barrett in Thirsk.

“Tony Blair noted that the legislation was ‘wholly out of proportion’. I have written to the current Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, urging him personally to intervene by taking up the matter with the President of the European Commission. Action is needed now to block the likely decimation of the specialist supplements market.”

Protecting the Brain: Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Lyme, MS, ALS, Autism, and Depression
It is important to strengthen the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) against cytokine invasion. Cytokines will only cross the BBB in an area that it is weakened. Low levels of vitamin B, a deficiency of certain essential fatty acids, and a viral infection, like a cold or flu can weaken the blood brain barrier. A study published in June 2002, in the scientific journal Differentiation, reported new evidence that mobile phone radiation can also weaken the BBB against harmful substances. Diet and dietary supplements can strengthen the brain’s protective barrier..

US: GAO Report on Dietary Supplements a Major Development
(by Citizens for Health) - We predicted late last year before, during, and after the election that 2009 would begin a time of change and challenge for dietary supplements. It looks like the first shoe has dropped: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) presented a report to Congress last week, titled Dietary Supplements: FDA Should Take Further Action to Improve Oversight and Consumer Understanding.

US: Tell Congress to Improve Food Safety by Stopping Factory Farming
OCA (the Organic Consumers Association) does not support HR 875 in its present form, given the fact that, if the bill's regulations were applied in a one-size-fits-all manner to certified organic and farm-to-consumer operations, it could have a devastating impact on small farmers, especially raw milk producers who are already unfairly targeted by state food-safety regulators.

For Whom the Bell Tolls - The Control of America's Farmers and Farm Lands
HR875 and S425 should explicitly seek to strengthen the natural resource base of the small farmers instead of creating a legal framework for predatory oligopolies to monopolize food production and distribution. In its present form it is a penal bill that has the potential to financially destroy small food producers.

The American people are facing contamination of their food from genetically modified organisms and pesticide. They are eating nutrition-deficient foods. It has been established beyond any doubt that natural foods are nutritious, ensure health and well-being. Yet the two bills fail to address these issues.

My comment: apart from the insane proposal to clamp down with controls on all agriculture just because the corporate controlled industrial agriculture has great potential of poisoning people, I think we should keep something basic in mind about food.

Local production of food should be the rule, not the exception. Export of agricultural products should be the exception, not the rule. This is a statement of principle and I realize that we are very far from it in today's world. We even import foods that CAN be locally produced, and in Europe, which has a jungle of agricultural subsidies, products often get exported and then get re-imported to profit from subsidies both ways. State control (and the state's desire to "support export") are some of the most pernicious forces that distort agriculture and therefore nutrition and health.

Products that are transported for thousands of miles don't get better while they travel, and they accumulate a lot of cost in terms of fuel and transport infrastructure. Products that are produced for export, instead of for local production, are produced with less of an emphasis on quality and more of an emphasis on quantity, as there is no one to complain to the producer, if his tomatos have no taste or his apples and oranges have less and less nutritional content.

Why not just return to local production for local people, and a small trickle of export where really needed? The food would be so much better!

Golden Rice Scandal Unfolds
Phase II clinical trials on children have been conducted with unapproved experimental GM rice enhanced in pro-Vitamin A that has the potential to cause birth defects and developmental abnormalities

More than 30 senior scientists and academics signed an open letter condemning researchers at Tufts University (Boston) in the United States for carrying out clinical trials of genetically modified (GM) ‘Golden Rice’ on children. The scientists claimed that the trials were in breach of the Nuremberg Code of Ethics brought in at the end of the Second World War to prevent any repetition of the experiments conducted by Nazi scientists including many on children.

The ‘Golden Rice’ in the trials (GR2) appears to be an experimental collection of transgenic events still in the laboratory, uncharacterised in terms of basic molecular genetics or biological and biochemical properties, not tested pre-clinically on animals, or subjected to any other safety assessment.

The City that Ended Hunger - By Frances Moore Lappé
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger.

In just a decade Belo Horizonte cut its infant death rate - widely used as evidence of hunger - by more than half, and today these initiatives benefit almost 40 percent of the city's 2.5 million population. One six-month period in 1999 saw infant malnutrition in a sample group reduced by 50 percent. And between 1993 and 2002 Belo Horizonte was the only locality in which consumption of fruits and vegetables went up.

Hyperbaric treatment for autism reports significant clinical improvements
Hyperbaric therapy traditionally involves inhaling up to 100% oxygen at a pressure greater than 1 atmosphere (atm) in a pressurized chamber. In the first randomized, controlled, double-blind multicenter trial, Dan Rossignol and colleagues, from six centers in the USA, studied 62 children, aged 2-7 years, to assess the efficacy of hyperbaric treatment in children with autism.

The study found that children with autism in the treatment group had significant improvements in overall functioning, receptive language, social interaction, eye contact, and sensory/cognitive awareness compared to children in the non-treatment group.

Rossignol wrote "Hyperbaric treatment is a safe treatment modality at 1.3 atm and ... appears to be a promising treatment for children with autism".

Superbugs Kill 90,000 patients a year!
American hospitals are treating sicker patients with more complex, invasive techniques—and helping people live longer. But every year in these same facilities some 90,000 Americans pick up infections that kill them. Hard-to-treat superbugs are an increasing problem as widespread use of antibiotics produces new germs that are drug-resistant—and few new medications are in the pipeline.

Silenced Drug Study Creates An Uproar
Study 15 suffered the same fate as many industry-sponsored trials that yield data drugmakers don't like: It got buried. It took eight years before a taxpayer-funded study rediscovered what Study 15 had found -- and raised serious concerns about an entire new class of expensive drugs.

Study 15 was silenced in 1997, the same year Seroquel was approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat schizophrenia. The drug went on to be prescribed to hundreds of thousands of patients around the world and has earned billions for London-based AstraZeneca International-- including nearly $12 billion in the past three years.

The results of Study 15 were never published or shared with doctors, even as less rigorous studies that came up with positive results for Seroquel were published and used in marketing campaigns aimed at physicians and in television ads aimed at consumers. The results of Study 15 were provided only to the Food and Drug Administration -- and the agency has strenuously maintained that it does not have the authority to place such studies in the public domain.

If the FDA can't tell us about a study that says a drug is dangerous, what are they good for?

Researcher Slams SSRIs, Citing Large Risks And Small Benefits
Joel Kauffman is an emeritus chemistry professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and in an article in the current Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons he does everything but call SSRIs--Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Luvox, Celexa, Lexapro--unsafe at any speed.

"At most, 11%–30% of patients with depression or related conditions who take SSRIs actually benefited beyond the placebo effect on normal doses... Adverse effects, mostly dose-dependent, will appear in up to 75% of patients on normal doses. Of these, studies suggest that suicidality will be observed in an additional 2%–13% of patients on normal doses..."

Kenya, Uganda VCTs turning in thousands of false HIV-positives
When two different tests were administered on all 6,255 subjects, a total of 131 people had “discrepant results” — where one was positive and the other negative.

Using a third confirmatory test, 27 of the subjects were finally confirmed to be carrying the virus, meaning that without such controls and using just one test, 104 people could have been told they were HIV-positive when they were not.

What is AIDS Denialism?
There is no single way of thinking about Aids from a critical point of view. I’m critical of the tests, and drugs, and the severity of the diagnosis; some people are on about causation, some about just the drugs, some about just the general theory (sex). But no one ‘denies’ that a lot of people died in the early and mid 80s, or that many more people died in the early 1990s after the introduction and in the first blush of high-dose AZT monotherapy, and that mortality reduced after the doses were lowered, and the new drugs took AZT’s place.

Malaria Vaccine Trials Raise Concerns over Risks to Infants
These recent trials of malaria vaccines on infants in Africa raise serious concerns over safety, not only of the malaria vaccine being tested, but of vaccines in general administered in large numbers to the young and very young. The malaria vaccine is being tested against a background of multiple vaccines, and furthermore, against vaccines with highly controversial safety record such as the hepatitis B vaccine.

From 1990 to the end of 2002, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), set up by the Centers for Disease Control and Food and Drug Administration in the United States, received reports of 9 520 serious adverse events in children under one year of age after one dose of hepatitis B vaccine, either alone or with other vaccines; among these were 627 deaths. In the same period, there were 38 600 serious adverse events and 753 deaths over all ages for the hepatitis B vaccine. Clearly deaths among infants less than 1 year after hepatitis B vaccination were much higher than those in adults and older children.

In the malaria vaccine trials, serious adverse events of 10 to 20 percent or more and even deaths in both trial and control groups were routinely dismissed as ‘unrelated to vaccination’, and hence did not even enter into the VAERS statistics.

The level of protection offered by the malaria vaccine was at best 65.9 percent in the follow up period of 3 months after the final dose, and there is no evidence it lasted longer than that. This level of efficacy is insignificant when treatment is promptly applied, and certainly not worth the risks of serious adverse events including death.

Yet, all the trials concluded that the vaccine was safe, and “immunogenic in young infants” and warrant a large scale phase III multi-centre trial.

Video: Cellphone Danger - Risks Exposed
Are Cellphones safe? This is the trailer to Cell Phone Wars movie shows just some of the risks. Your health is compromised by EMR ElectroMagnetic Radiation.

Mobile phone antennas: New judgement and ministerial crisis in France (PDF)
According to Next-up News, there are numerous lawsuits against the mobile phone companies in France - 135 is one estimate, but there may be more.

A planned round table on relay antennas, which was supposed to take place on 26 March 2009 with the participation of three ministers (Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister for Health, Chantale Jouanno, Secretary for Ecology and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Secretary for the Development of the Digital Economy), has been postponed at the Prime Minister's request to the end of April. However, in the face of the rejection of mobile phone relay antennas gaining ground among the French public, there will instead be an emergency meeting on 26 March involving some ministers and the mobile phone companies only.

SCEC - Solidarity and Local Complementary Currency in Italy
SCEC is in the form of a discount chit denominated in Euro equivalents (in denominations of 0.50 Euro, 1, 2, 5, 10 and 50 Euro). It is distributed for free and acquires value only when used. Businesses and professionals agree to give a discount to buyers who pay (in part) with SCEC, usually around 20 %.

SCEC is putting first emphasis on actually supporting local production and commerce over imports from far away and world wide commerce by multinationals. The currency makes local exchanges more convenient for people who use the system, as they get a break by virtue of getting substantial discounts on the normal price.

The Liquidity Network - a proposal for non-monetary liquidity
Feasta is making a determined effort to set up a system that allows participants to exchange goods and services with each other without anyone going into debt. Although our system will operate in parallel with the existing money system, it will not be a money system. The units used within our system will be units of measure analogous to kilos or metres. Like these measures, they will have no intrinsic value and will only operate as a counting device to give participants a way of comparing and expressing the value of the goods and services being exchanged and ensuring that some participants do not take more value from the system than they put in. Participants will not own the units in their account at any time.

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The only thing that remains constant in this universe is change. Health supreme's newsgrabs are no exception - I am starting to publish more often but less regularly.

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More information out there...

There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.

You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.

Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.

The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.

For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.

A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:

http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/

The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition

Why big pharma mergers magnify failures
The fact that so many companies are now merging reflects the failure of each company to discover and develop its own replacement pipeline. To maintain growth, a pharmaceutical company must either produce enough new products to replace those that have gone off-patent or acquire rights to distribute drugs created by others. This is clearly not happening on a large enough scale. A small number of patented drugs, each with annual sales of $1 to $5 billion, accounts for most of the profits of the large pharmaceutical companies, and these profits are vanishing as the patents expire. Meanwhile, the number of new drugs approved for sale annually has steadily decreased over the past 15 years.

Today, programs that are thought to have an annual sales potential of less than $1 billion are usually stopped in their tracks. Some companies have abandoned their work in entire areas of medicine, such as antibiotics, because they believe the markets are too small to make a difference to their total sales.

This article provides an interesting look at Pharma's business model.

The product of pharma is money, rather than healthy people. Not even new drugs as such are a product, only new drugs that have blockbuster (more than $1 billion annual sales) potential. The model is creaking at the seams and pharma has become a dog-eat-dog game as evidenced by takeovers and mergers.

Pharma's business model appears to be unsustainable. It seems we should re-invent healthcare with human health in mind, rather than the maximization of pharma's profits.

One in seven US teens is vitamin D deficient
"These are alarming findings. We need to do a better job of educating the public on the importance of vitamin D, and the best ways to get it. To meet minimum nutritional requirements teens would need to consume at least four glasses of fortified milk daily or its dietary equivalent. Other foods rich in vitamin D include salmon, tuna, eggs and fortified cereals. A vitamin supplement containing 400 IU of vitamin D is another alternative..."

... and what about getting a few minutes in the sun each day? Makes lots of vitamin D when its rays hit the skin!

A reader notes that intoxication with lead can also cause vitamin D deficiency: "Lead accumulates in bones and inhibits formation of heme and hemoglobin in erythroid precursor cells. Before this happens, however, lower levels of lead can cause other problems. These are: impaired vitamin D metabolism, decreased nerve conduction rates, and developmental problems for children including: loss of IQ, hearing impairment, delayed growth, and behavior disorders."

Can Parkinson's Disease be Reversed?
Hanne Koplev is a veterinarian who lives in Denmark. She was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease but, unlike many others, she did not give up hope when told that Parkinson's was incurable and destined to get progressively worse...

Mass. doctor accused of faking pain pill data
The hospital said a routine review in May found that some of Reuben's research was not approved by an internal hospital review board. Further investigation found 21 papers published in anesthesiology journals between 1996 and 2008 in which Reuben made up some or all data.

The hospital asked the journals to retract the studies, some of which reported favorable results from painkillers including Pfizer Inc.'s Bextra, Celebrex and Lyrica and Merck & Co. Inc.'s Vioxx. His studies also claimed Wyeth's antidepressant Effexor could be used as a painkiller.

US: State of Massachusetts bans drug firm gifts to doctors
State officials gave final approval yesterday to regulations banning pharmaceutical and medical device companies from providing gifts to physicians, limiting when companies can pay for doctors' meals, and requiring companies to publicly disclose payments to doctors over $50 for certain types of consulting and speaking engagements.

The regulations will take effect July 1, and the first public reporting by companies will be due by July 1, 2010. The information will be posted on the Public Health Department website and will be searchable by company and by healthcare provider.

JAMA Editor In Chief "Upset" At Researcher For Pushing Conflict Disclosure
Catherine DeAngelis, editor-in-chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association and some researchers who failed to report conflicts of interest to the journal on a Lexapro study, have been found calling one other researcher, who brought the unreported conflict to the journal's attention, by phone to chew him out. What's ironic is that DeAngelis has made much hay out of her efforts to eliminate conflicts of interest from medical studies and yet there she was picking up the phone to call Jonathan Leo, an associate professor of neuroanatomy at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, and give him hell when she should have been thanking him for identifying an unreported conflict of interest that got past reviewers and editors at JAMA.

Prostate tests overdiagnose cancer
Most men over 50 have had a blood test that measures prostate specific antigen, or PSA, mostly for routine screening.

There begins the list of problems: Most men who undergo a biopsy for an abnormal PSA test don't turn out to have prostate cancer; high PSAs often signal a benign enlarged prostate. Of those who do have cancer, there's no proof yet that early detection saves lives - as most prostate tumors grow so slowly that had they not been screened, those men would have died of something else without the anxiety.

PSA tests for prostate cancer are notoriously unreliable - just like HIV tests.

Seroquel user wants judge to unseal papers for FDA
A patient who claims the psychiatric drug Seroquel gave him diabetes has asked a judge to unseal maker AstraZeneca's confidential documents about its side effects before U.S. regulators decide whether to approve a version of the drug for millions of new patients.

The documents in question include internal company analyses of safety data on Seroquel that the lawyers believe FDA staff and advisers have never seen.

"We think it's important that they have the benefit of what we have learned," Ellen Relkin, one of Baker's lawyers, told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Wednesday. "What we believe the FDA does not have are internal memos where they analyze the studies (and state) their real opinions or concerns about the data."

Relkin said plaintiffs lawyers believe the drug causes Type 2 diabetes through two mechanisms: stimulating appetite and significant weight gain, and by raising levels of blood sugar and cholesterol.

AIDS Drugs Make Patients Older, Faster
T-cells from the immune systems of HIV-positives had characteristics of advanced aging by 25 years - in other words, these people were older than their calendar age. All of the ‘positive’ trial participants are on a multiple-drug “cocktail” of FDA Black Box label drugs, meaning any of the drugs that they’re taking can and have caused death, or permanent injury, including organ damage and failure.

* “HIV-infected subjects (median 56 years) with good immune reconstitution and viral suppression had immune changes comparable to older (median 88 years) HIV-negative subjects.”

The researchers don’t count this as a factor - they simply don’t consider drug toxicity in people given the AIDS diagnosis.

Video: Liam Scheff on AIDS Drug Experiments in NYC Orphans
Liam Scheff talks about his long investigation into orphans used in NIH drug trials in New York City. Subtitles in Spanish.

Flu Vaccine Causes HIV Positivity
A case–control study of 101 blood donors who had been vaccinated against influenza and 191 matched controls showed that recent inoculation with any brand of influenza vaccine was significantly associated with a false positive screening assay for HIV antibodies. Guidelines of both Johns Hopkins and the New York State Department of Health list influenza vaccination as a known cause of indeterminate results on Western blotting for HIV antibodies.

Given the escalating international awareness of various influenza strains, it is very important to remind patients and clinicians that influenza vaccination may cause cross-reactivity with HIV antibody assays.

UK Government Hands Drug Industry Control of Childhood Vaccination
UK press reports today show UK’s New Labour Government appears to have placed control of UK vaccination programmes from 1 April 2009 for all effects and purposes into the hands of the drug industry and introduced what is potentially a compulsory vaccination law without Parliamentary debate under The Health Protection (Vaccination) Regulations 2009.

'No proof' of bee killer theory
For five years, increasing numbers of unexplained bee deaths have been reported worldwide, with US commercial beekeepers suffering the most. The term Colony Collapse Disorder was coined to describe the illness. But many experts now believe that the term is misleading and there is no single, new ailment killing the bees.

This interesting BBC article on Colony Collapse Disorder shows scientists are still in the dark as to the cause. My comment, sent to the BBC (I hope they publish it):

I agree that the loss of large numbers of bees is with all probability a multifactoral event.

Claude Bernard once said with regard to human illness that "the microbe is nothing, the terrain is all". Pasteur, on his deathbed, expressed his agreement, but medicine had already gone the route of emphasising the single factor, the microbe.

We now see the same in Colony Collapse Disorder. "The terrain is all, the single cause - be it mite or poison - is nothing"...

What weakens the bees' defenses sufficiently for them to succumb? A multitude of factors, one of which is conspicuously absent from most serious discussion: Electromagnetic interference by our communication technologies, which have grown explosively in the same time frame as CCD got to be a serious problem.

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The only thing that remains constant in this universe is change. Health supreme's newsgrabs are no exception - I am starting to publish more often but less regularly.

Instead of every Sunday as I have been doing for some time now, I may now be posting more unpredictably ... whenever I feel I have a sufficient number of stories and news. So subscribe by RSS or by email or check back more often to see the latest post...

- - -

More information out there...

There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.

You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.

Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.

The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.

For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.

A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:

http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/

The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition

Vaccine maker ships Flu vaccine containing Live Avian Flu Virus
‘Accidental’ Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus Virtually Impossible
Czech newspapers are questioning if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed by the American company Baxter were part of a conspiracy to provoke a pandemic.

“The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses,” reports the Canadian Press.

"The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany."

"The contamination incident, which is being investigated by the four European countries, came to light when the subcontractor in the Czech Republic inoculated ferrets with the product and they died. Ferrets shouldn't die from exposure to human H3N2 flu viruses."

The question, whether this was an intentional "contamination" to start a bird flu pandemic is not as far out as one might think. Use of such a "mixed" experimental vaccine in humans could conceivably breed a mutation of H5N1 into a new virus that can be transmitted between humans. It seems the inoculated ferrets could have saved humanity from a pandemic.

Extracts of broccoli and cabbage mixed with those from Brazil nuts used to fight cancer
Compounds from the vegetables mixed with selenium, which is contained in Brazil nuts, have been shown to prevent the skin cancer and work better at attacking tumours than conventional treatment, researchers said.

Laboratory tests suggest that these compounds target tumours more safely and effectively than traditional methods.

Free-range Eggs Contain More Vitamin D
Eggs from free-range hens contain three to six times more vitamin D than typical supermarket eggs, according to a new study conducted by Mother Earth News magazine. Results showed that free-range eggs were richer in vitamin D than the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s nutrient data on commercial eggs, which are produced indoors in factory farms.

“Our test results reveal that the unnatural and inhumane conditions of factory farms are giving us substandard food. Consumers will get more nutritious eggs if they pay a premium for true free-range eggs from birds raised on pasture,” said Cheryl Long, editor in chief of Mother Earth News.

Support for adjunctive vitamin C treatment in cancer
Serious flaws in a recent study, which concluded that high doses of vitamin C reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic drugs in the treatment of cancer, are revealed in the current issue of Alternative and Complementary Therapies, a journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Challem points out two main problems with the study: the oxidized form of vitamin C (dehydroascorbic acid) and not actual vitamin C (ascorbic acid) was used; and in the mouse experiments, the animals were given toxic doses of dehydroascorbic acid, a compound that is not used as a dietary supplement in humans.

High-dose intravenous vitamin C is a common form of alternative and complementary therapy for patients receiving chemotherapeutic drugs and is believed to help bring about tumor cell death. In addition, it may promote postsurgical healing by enhancing collagen formation, and increase tissue resistance to tumor spread.

Over-consumption of sugar linked to aging
There is a clear relationship between aging and calorie intake. For example, mice fed with half the calories they usually eat can live 40 percent longer.

As part of the PLoS Genetics study, Université de Montréal Biochemistry Professor Luis Rokeach and his student Antoine Roux discovered to their surprise that if they removed the gene for a glucose sensor from yeast cells, they lived just as long as those living on a glucose-restricted diet. In short, the fate of these cells doesn't depend on what they eat but what they think they're eating.

Transnational Corporations agitate against farmers markets and community agriculture
The "food safety" bills in Congress were written by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc. All are associated with the opposite of food safety. What is this all about then?

In the simplest terms, organic food and a rebirth of farming were winning. Not in absolute numbers but in a deep and growing shift by the public toward understanding the connection between their food and their health, between good food and true social pleasures, between their own involvement in food and the improvement in their lives in general, between local food and a burgeoning local economy.

GM Eggplant (Brinjal) - India wakes up to safety issues
Eggplant is a food staple in India. Monsanto bridgehead Mahyco is introducing a genetically modified variety, but is meeting stiff resistance over their failure to conduct proper safety studies.

In truth, GM safety has never been properly proven because the biotech multinationals are hiding behind the concept of "substantial equivalence" of GM to the traditional food crops they are meant to replace.

Several long term feeding studies conducted with GM food crops have shown unexpected negative health effects, yet still GM is being pushed to replace perfectly good varieties of grains, fruits and vegetables.

Merck, other Pharma Companies Fund Activist Groups behind EPA Petition to Regulate Silver
A handful of the activist agencies behind the petition to the EPA to regulate nano-silver as a pesticide have received funding from pharmaceutical giant Merck, which profits from patented antibiotics many believe are less effective, less safe and far more expensive than colloidal nano-silver products.

'Biologicals', Wonder Drugs with Problems
Protein drugs produced by genetic engineering cause adverse events including death more frequently than synthetic chemical drugs; yet they are being produced in transgenic crops grown in open fields

Eli Lilly and the Case for a Corporate Death Penalty
If Americans are ever going to revoke the publicly granted charters of reckless, giant corporations -- well within our rights -- we might want to get the ball rolling with Lilly, whose recent actions appalled even the mainstream media. And with Lilly's chums, the Bush family, out of power, now might be the right time.

On January 15, 2009, Lilly pled guilty to charges that it had illegally marketed its blockbuster drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses to children and the elderly, two populations especially vulnerable to its dangerous side effect. Lilly plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and agreed to pay $1.42 billion, which included $615 million to end the criminal investigation and approximately $800 million to settle the civil case...

Supreme Court rules against Wyeth in liability case
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the drugmaker Wyeth on Wednesday, holding that pharmaceutical companies can be held liable for harm from medicines that carry warnings approved by federal regulators.

A Vermont jury had awarded $7 million in legal damages to a guitarist, Diana Levine. Part of her arm had to be amputated after she was improperly injected with the anti-nausea drug Phenergan made by Wyeth as part of treatment for a migraine.

"The question we must decide is whether the FDA's approvals provide Wyeth with a complete defense to Levine's tort claims. We conclude that they do not," Justice John Paul Stevens concluded in the court's majority opinion.

70 Percent More Energy Required to Make Ethanol than Actually is in Ethanol: Cornell
Neither increases in government subsidies to corn-based ethanol fuel nor hikes in the price of petroleum can overcome what one Cornell agricultural scientist calls a fundamental input-yield problem: It takes more energy to make ethanol from grain than the combustion of ethanol produces.

"Abusing our precious croplands to grow corn for an energy-inefficient process that yields low-grade automobile fuel amounts to unsustainable, subsidized food burning," said the Cornell professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Economists say copyright and patent laws are killing innovation; hurting economy
The authors argue that license fees, regulations and patents are now so misused that they drive up the cost of creation and slow down the rate of diffusion of new ideas. Levine explains, "Most patents are not acquired by innovators hoping to protect their innovations from competitors in order to get a short term edge over the rest of the market. Most patents are obtained by large corporations who have built portfolios of patents for defense purposes, to prevent other people from suing them over patent violations."

Boldrin and Levine promote a drastic reform of the patent system in their book. They propose the law should be restored to match the intent of the U.S. Constitution which states: Congress may "promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writing and discoveries."

Three myths about peer review
What’s the future of scientific peer review? The way science is communicated is currently changing rapidly, leading to speculation that the peer review system itself might change. For example, the wildly successful physics preprint arXiv is only very lightly moderated, which has led many people to wonder if the peer review process might perhaps die out, or otherwise change beyond recognition.

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In this universe of matter, energy, space and time, seemingly the only thing that remains constant is change. So health supreme's newsgrabs will not be an exception - I am starting to publish more often but less regularly.

Instead of every Sunday as I have been doing for some time now, I will be posting more unpredictably ... whenever I feel I have a sufficient number of stories and news. So subscribe by RSS or by email or check back more often to see the latest post.

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More information out there...

There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.

You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.

Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.

The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.

For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.

A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:

http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/

The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition

Low levels of vitamin B12 may increase risk for neural tube defects
Children born to women who have low blood levels of vitamin B12 shortly before and after conception may have an increased risk of a neural tube defect, according to an analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health, Trinity College Dublin, and the Health Research Board of Ireland.

Women with the lowest B12 levels had 5 times the risk of having a child with a neural tube defect compared to women with the highest B12 levels.

The view, held by some health department officials, that RDA levels of vitamins are sufficient and should constitute the maximum levels of vitamins allowed in any product, is shown more and more to be a mere article of faith - and a bad one at that. See the ANH comment on this study:More evidence of B12 requirement for women

Many middle-aged and older Americans not getting adequate nutrition
Micronutrients such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and vitamin C play essential roles in maintaining health. As older adults tend to reduce their food intake as they age, there is concern that deficits in these micronutrients lead to medical problems.

An interesting point about potassium, which in the US is limited to a ridiculously low 99 milligrams per tablet: "The study also found that potassium intake was very much below the RDA whether supplements were taken or not. This could point to a need to reformulate supplements to deliver higher potassium doses."

Three positive nutrient studies in one scientific journal!
There are two overwhelming conclusions from these studies:

a) whether you're looking at the B vitamins in the AMD study, the association between calcium intake and cancer or that of vitamin D in reducing upper respiratory tract infections, it was the high doses that delivered the best results.

b) the dosages to which European regulators want to limit us are far below those that delivered the best results in these studies. For example, in the AMD study, the folic acid level was 12.5 times over the European RDA, while that of vitamin B6 was 25 times over and of vitamin B12 1000 times over. And by the way, no adverse effects were reported (are you really surprised.....?!)

Wiki health site aims to provide sound medical information
Currier didn't know much about medicine, but he knew a lot about the Internet. So he has launched Medpedia (www.medpedia.com), a wiki-style health site where the information is written only by those boasting M.D.s or Ph.D.s - instead of just anyone with an opinion and idle time.

"We were quite taken with the idea that this would be a kind of open system," said Dr. Henry Lowe, senior associate dean for information resources and technology at Stanford University School of Medicine. "All the information in Medpedia would be high quality, reliable, up-to-date and obtained by experts - and it would be made available to the world at-large, free and unrestricted."

One word of caution: Medicine is not perfect. The common shortcomings of medical knowledge, which has been gravely slanted by pharmaceutical producers' influence, will of course find their way into this new medical encyclopedia. So all you get is a collection of what's current in consensus medicine.

Petition:Kill the poison, save the Bees!
Agricultural poisons, either sprayed on the fields or produced by genetically modified plants, are suspected of killing of millions of bees. Although I do not think the jury is in yet as to the exact cause, I support the petition to do something. At least let's lessen the toxic load that we know about. Our survival may depend on it! Bees first, humans soon after...

Organic Consumers & Health Freedom Groups Join in Launch of Grassroots Health Revolution Petition
The petition -- which is endorsed by NaturalNews, the Organic Consumers Association, the Life Extension Foundation, the American Association for Health Freedom and other health freedom groups -- calls for an end to FDA and FTC oppression of free speech about dietary supplements. Its ten provisions also call for full income tax deductions on health-enhancing products and services, a halt to the psychiatric drugging of children, the end of mandatory vaccination policies and the legalization of healing practices across the country.

The petition aims to gather 100,000 signatures in 2009, after which it will be distributed to each member of Congress as well as President Obama and his staff.

France Reduces Subsidies to Large Farms to Increase Support for Organics and Small Farms
After 46 years of shovelling farm subsidies to its richer, more polluting farmers, France yesterday took a historic step towards a greener and fairer European agriculture policy.

Paris announced that from next year it would confiscate over 20 per cent of the billions of euros of European taxpayers' money paid to its ranch-like cereals farms and divert the cash to hill farmers, grazing land, shepherds and organic agriculture.

Way to go! There is much too much hypocrisy in the distribution of EU aid to farmers. We are mainly supporting polluting industrial farming which makes money instead of nutritious food.

European Commission unable to end Austrian and Hungarian bans on GM
21 out of 27 European Member States are not willing to see two of their fellow Member States—Austria and Hungary—forced to lift their bans on the cultivation of two transgenic varieties of GM maize, Monsanto's MON810 and Bayer's T25.

This is the fourth time the Commission has been outvoted in their attempt to force Member States to repeal safeguard clauses that allow them, under EU law, to implement a ban on cultivation of GM crops.

Science of the Organism & Sustainable Systems - Implications for Agricultural Policies
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho of the UK Institute for Science in Society calls for a shift away from the obsolete mechanistic science that has helped create the current food, fuel, and financial crisis. The new science of the organism re-establishes our connection with nature and with indigenous knowledge systems worldwide. Europe's agricultural policies must rise to the challenge, to support and promote organic, localised agriculture and food and energy systems that offers the most effective way out of the current crisis, to deliver health, wealth and happiness to the world's nations.

Video:Presentation of the Science Commons
Director Jesse Dylan – the director of the Emmy- award winning Yes We Can Barack Obama campaign video – has teamed up with Science Commons to produce a short video explaining why science is the ultimate remix. It’s a great primer on the special challenges facing scientists in sharing and collaborating, and it’s licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.”

Bio-piracy of Traditional Knowledge
The traditional knowledge, particularly, related to the treatment of various diseases has provided leads for development of biologically active molecules by the technology rich countries. In other words, traditional knowledge is being exploited for bio-prospecting.

Bio-piracy of codified Indian traditional knowledge continues, since, this information exists in regional languages, and there exists a language barrier due to which the patent offices are unable to search this information as prior art, before granting patents. Formulations used for the treatment of human ailments from traditional knowledge are time-tested since they have been in practice for centuries. The reliability of the traditional medicine systems coupled with the absence of such information with patent offices, provides an easy opportunity for interlopers for getting patents on these therapeutic formulations derived from traditional medicine systems.

US Supreme Court Rejects Limits on Drug Lawsuits
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a $6.7 million jury award to a musician who lost her arm because of a botched injection of an anti-nausea medication. The court brushed away a plea for limiting lawsuits against drug makers. In a 6-3 decision, the court rejected Wyeth Pharmaceuticals' claim that federal approval of its Phenergan anti-nausea drug should have shielded the company from lawsuits like the one filed by Diana Levine of Vermont.

Drug maker accused of fraud over illegal marketing of Celexa and Lexapro
In a civil complaint filed by the United States attorney’s office in Boston, federal prosecutors alleged that former top executives at Forest concealed for several years a clinical study that showed that the drugs were not effective in children and might even pose risks to them, including causing some to become suicidal.

From 2001 to 2004, Forest heavily promoted results from another clinical trial it had financed that showed that the drugs were effective, without disclosing the negative study to those researchers, its own medical advisers or its sales representatives, the complaint said.

Is pharmaceutical medicine useless?
From industrial medicine to ecological medicine
The global market for pharmaceuticals in 2007 was estimated at US $712 billion. The BMJ Clinical Evidence website documents that only 13% of medical treatments examined have been demonstrated to have a beneficial effect, and the largest proportion, 47%, are of unknown effectiveness.

Black and gay: Doubly at risk — not from HIV, from HIV/AIDS theory
The fact is — and it’s been clear for many years — that African ancestry brings a probability of testing “HIV-positive” that’s an order of magnitude greater than with non-African ancestry. Black people test “positive” at rates anywhere from 5 times to 100 times more frequently than Caucasians (and Caucasians test “positive” 50% more often than Asians).

Those racial disparities are seen among blood donors, gay men, pregnant women, babies, drug abusers, military personnel — in every social group and in every country and culture. They are OBVIOUSLY not the result of differences in “risky behavior” — even apart from the fact that many actual studies of sexual behavior have found that white Americans are more likely to practice “risky behavior” than are African Americans.

TESTING “HIV-POSITIVE” DOES NOT SIGNIFY INFECTION BY A PATHOGEN.

T-Cells Don't Predict Health
“CD4 cell count monitoring does not accurately identify individuals with virologic failure among patients taking ART,” according to a recent study.

Comment by RTB:TCells fail again and again as surrogate markers; TCells do not correlate with Viral Load (”Virologic Failure”). What’s left? How about paying closest attention to actual health?

A revolution in responsiveness
Want better clothes? Don’t ask the Gap. Want better software? Don’t ask Microsoft. Want better cars? Don’t ask Detroit. Want better music? Don’t ask record labels. Want better healthcare? Don’t ask big pharma. Want to hold on to your money? Don’t ask a banker.

Umair Haque assesses the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and has some good things to say. The reason it’s positive is that Obama has understood that the current crisis is essentially one is reponsiveness.

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In this universe of matter, energy, space and time, seemingly the only thing that remains constant is change. So health supreme's newsgrabs will not be an exception - I am starting to publish more often but less regularly.

Instead of every Sunday as I have been doing for some time now, I will be posting more unpredictably ... whenever I feel I have a sufficient number of stories and news. So subscribe by RSS or by email or check back more often to see the latest post.

- - -

More information out there...

There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.

You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.

Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.

The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.

For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.

A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:

http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/

The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition

In this universe of matter, energy, space and time, the only thing that remains constant is change. So change it's also going to be for my newsgrabs. I am thinking of publishing more often but less regularly. Instead of every Sunday as I have been doing for some time now, I will be posting whenever I feel I have a sufficient number of stories and news ... we'll see how this works out.

Leukemia patients treated with arsenic, vitamin A
HONG KONG - Doctors appear to have safely and successfully treated patients with cancer of the blood and bone marrow with a combination of arsenic and vitamin A, according to a long-term study in China.

In an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the doctors said they prescribed the regimen to 85 patients and monitored them for an average of 70 months.

Of these, 80 patients went into complete remission and the researchers did not find any associated long-term problems in their heart or lungs and there was no development of secondary cancers.

I can't help but think of the anti-cancer properties of apricot kernels and apple seeds. Of course in that case, the FDA comes after you if you sell them, as happened to champion arm wrestler Jason Vale who was railroaded and sent to prison for advocating the use of apricot kernels while medicine is losing its "war on cancer".

Want to live longer? You need this nutrient
Low levels of omega-3 fats linked to cancer, asthma and other diseases
Recent diet trends, from Atkins to South Beach, have put the emphasis on upping our intake of protein or cutting out carbohydrates. Meanwhile, cholesterol, saturated fats, and trans fats have been stigmatized, leading to the belief that waging a total war on fat is the best way to get a slimmer waistline and a longer life. But fats are as crucial to a healthy body as protein is; they end up holstered into the heart, protecting organs, and building the cells of the brain, an organ that is itself 60 percent fat. The key to good health lies not in ruthlessly striking fat from our diets, but in eating the best possible fats for our bodies. And a growing chorus of nutritionists agrees that those fats are omega-3s.

USA: Sign the Health Revolution Petition
Collecting signatures to present to politicians ... "We, the People of these United States of America, hereby call for revolutionary changes in our health care system that encourage health and prosperity instead of disease and corporate profit..."

If you live in the US, check out this petition and give your support ... if you think we need to change the way we encourage people to be healthy.

UK: Southampton fluoridates water over resistance of citizens
It is the first time a health trust in England, rather than water companies, has been allowed to introduce fluoridation under new laws.

The idea has proved controversial with 72% of 10,000 respondents in a public consultation opposing the plan.

ANH comment:UK Public health authority demonstrates lack of democracy in fluoridation decision

Monsanto's Bt Cotton Kills the Soil as Well as Farmers
A recent scientific study carried out by Navdanya, compared the soil of fields where Bt-cotton had been planted for 3 years with adjoining fields with non GMO cotton or other crops. The region covered included Nagpur, Amravati and Wardha of Vidharbha which accounts for highest GMO cotton planting in India, and the highest rate of farmers suicides (4000 per year).

In 3 years, Bt-cotton has reduced the population of Actinomycetes by 17%. Actinomycetes are vital for breaking down cellulose and creating humus. Bacteria were reduced by 14%. The total microbial biomass was reduced by 8.9%.

Schmeiser: GMOs destroy biodiversity
Percy Schmeiser commented: "I've been in Italy before and I've seen the great diversity and varieties of food and fruit and agricultural products that there is in the Country and I hate to see that all these may be destroyed by contamination. GMOs would even destroy the organic farming. If you introduce GMO crops it would no longer be possible to have organic farmers, and this I think is a big concern the agricultural sector must consider".

GM crop secrecy - EU Court says No
The court in Luxembourg ruled on Tuesday that "information relating to the location of the release can in no case be kept confidential".

It said "considerations relating to the protection of public order and other secrets protected by law... cannot constitute reasons capable of restricting access to the information listed by the [EU] directive, including in particular those relating to the location of release".

Environment Ministers to Tackle Mercury Pollution
More than 140 nations agreed to negotiate a legally binding global treaty to phase out the use of deadly mercury, a toxic heavy metal that threatens the health of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

Good to know that the environment will be protected against our spreading the deadly poison around. What I don't understand is how we justify dentists in most countries in the world continuing to put an "amalgam" mixture composed of 50% mercury and then some other metals into our teeth. Talk about rampant medical insanity...

Help ban aspartame in the US
GET YOUR STATE SENATORS TO SPONSOR A BILL TO BAN ASPARTAME
Aspartame is one of the worst toxins in our food supply. Yet it has been on the market for over 20 years, protected by the FDA which is fronting for the multinationals. It's time to take the stuff off the market. Anyway, both Coke and Pepsi already have their new stevia-based sweeteners ready, after having opposed stevia for the last two decades...

The fool on the hill
The Lancet, a widely-respected international medical journal, published an essay sharply critical of the psychiatric industry that reviews two books: "The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment" by Joanna Moncrieff and "Side Effects: a Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial" by Alison Bass.

"The spinning chair. Bloodletting (copious). Removal of possibly infected viscera. Extraction of teeth. Electric shock. Forcible restraint, for days or weeks. Wrapping in cold blankets. Brain damage. Repeated coma. Back-breaking convulsions. Slicing through the brain with an ice pick. Sterilisation. Female genital mutilation.

Since the Enlightenment, all the above have been used to treat the “mad”. Even the most grotesque treatments have often been introduced as humane alternatives to existing options..."

Evidence based medicine?
The phrase evidence-based medicine is often used to point out how much more reliable "modern" medicine is than any alternatives or natural methods of prevention and cure. However it turns out that what is preached isn't practiced.

In his article Clinical Practice Guidelines Draw Fire, Merrill Goozner points out that in heart disease, leading cause of death and number one health issue, the evidence is often conspicuously absent.

Lexapro, Celexa For Kids Scandal Widens, Harvard Prof. Helped Promote Off-Label Use
From 1999 through 2006, one pediatric specialist, Dr. Jeffrey Bostic, Medical Director of the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project at Massachusetts General Hospital, gave more than 350 Forest-sponsored talks and presentations, many of which addressed pediatric use of Celexa and Lexapro....Dr. Bostic became Forest's star spokesman in the promotion of Celexa and Lexapro for pediatric use. As one sales representative wrote, 'Dr. Bostic is the man when it comes to child psych!' Between 2000 and 2006, Forest paid Dr. Bostic over $750,000 in honoraria for his presentations on Celexa and Lexapro."

Lilly Says Jump, FDA Says How High--More on "Intellectual Bias"
The drug plasugrel, an anti-clotting drug supposedly of value in heart attack and stroke, is currently under review by an FDA scientific advisory committee. Dr. Sanjay Kaul, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, had been invited to be a member of the advisory committee, but he was then asked by FDA staff not to make the trip to Bethesda. It was then revealed that Eli Lilly, the drug's manufacturer, had contacted the FDA just before the decision was made, to protest Dr. Kaul's earlier skeptical publications about the drug and his purported "intellectual bias."

HIV - What are you doing to stay healthy?
(from RTB - Reduce the Burden)
RTB wants to know: What are you doing to stay healthy?

Drugs, micronutrients, clean-living, excercise, prayer, socialization, meditation, sex, yoga, writing, talking, reading, walking, thinking, fighting?

Animal vaccines - The Science of Vaccine Damage
"The vaccinated, but not the non-vaccinated, dogs in the Purdue studies developed autoantibodies to many of their own biochemicals, including fibronectin, laminin, DNA, albumin, cytochrome C, cardiolipin and collagen."

"Meanwhile, the study dogs were found good homes, but no long-term follow-up has been conducted. At around the same time, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Vaccine-Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force initiated several studies to find out why 160,000 cats each year in the USA develop terminal cancer at their vaccine injection sites."

"It is also widely acknowledged that vaccines can cause a fast-acting, usually fatal, disease called autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA). Without treatment, and frequently with treatment, individuals can die in agony within a matter of days."

"However, no one warns the pet owners before their animals are subjected to an unnecessary booster, and very few owners are told why after their pets die of AIHA."

What Cooked the World's Economy? - It wasn't your overdue mortgage
"... what we are living through is the worst financial scandal in history. It dwarfs 1929, Ponzi's scheme, Teapot Dome, the South Sea Bubble, tulip bulbs, you name it. Bernie Madoff? He's peanuts."

If you have trouble reading this article - it's long and written by a lawyer - don't despair. The long and the short of it is that it wasn't your mortgage that did the damage. The financial shenanigans that threaten to bring down the world economy were encouraged by a little publicized change in laws in the US that exempted shady financial practices from all control and oversight.

Mortgages were then bundled and "securitized", meaning they were used to justify the issue of further loans needed to speculate or finance takeovers. Those loans were then insured against default, and the insurances were a "product" in themselves. They kicked in any time there was trouble or a default. So the speculators were betting on your mortgage defaulting and they were doing a lot of it, creating a bubble of some 600 trillion Dollars of bad debt. THAT is what's bringing down the economy.

The solution?

"Imagine if a ring of cashiers at a local bank made thousands of bad loans, aware that they could break the bank. They would be prosecuted for fraud and racketeering under the anti-gangster RICO Act. If their counterparties—the debtors—were in on the scam and understood that they didn't have to pay off the loans, they could be charged, too."

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More information out there...

There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.

You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.

Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.

The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.

For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.

A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:

http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/

The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition