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This opens the door to all kinds of scary possibilities.
From ABC News:
In a groundbreaking decision on Monday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a drug with a “digital ingestion tracking system,” which senses when a pill is swallowed and sends the data to a smartphone.
The new drug/device combination product called Abilify MyCite is approved for the treatment of schizophrenia and mood disorders. The Abilify (aripiprazole) tablets come embedded with an Ingestible Event Marker (IEM) sensor, the size of a grain of sand, that sends information to a patch the patient wears. The patch then transmits the data to smartphones and online healthcare portals — which can be accessed by health care professionals and caregivers if the patient approves.
Comment: Aside from the creepy invasion of privacy and other opportunities for abuse with this technology, let’s not forget the dangers of electromagnetic fields and Wi-Fi, especially for young children. Cell phones, for instance, include warnings in the fine print about overexposure. And what are the potential health consequences of ingesting a “digital ingestion tracking system”? Orwellian medicine, coming soon unless we object! By the way, here are the possible side effects of Abilify.
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For some in California, doctors writing medical exemptions from the state’s draconian vaccination law are not being punished swiftly enough.
From the LA Times:
A year ago, California officials appeared to be coming down hard on doctors and parents who were reluctant to vaccinate children…. The medical board was threatening to pull the license of Dr. Robert Sears, a celebrity in the anti-vaccine community….
But so far, no doctors, including Sears, have been punished for writing unnecessary medical exemptions. The crackdown many foresaw never materialized.
Comment: The LA Times article may in part be a reaction to the recent announcement that Dr. Bob Sears, who faces charges of gross negligence from the California medical board, has a hearing scheduled for May 2018. As Richard Jaffee, Dr. Sears’s attorney, notes, perhaps May 2018 isn’t soon or severe enough for the LA Times.
What are the allegations against Dr. Sears? He dared to write a letter recommending that a two-year-old be excused from vaccinations because his mother reported that the child had serious adverse reactions to previous immunizations. We pointed out before that the goal of such persecution is to scare other doctors from writing medical exemptions. Are the LA Times’ reporters qualified medical professionals, equipped with the knowledge of when a medical exemption is necessary? We suspect not, but this is how low the conversation has gone on the issue of vaccination—persecuting a doctor for exercising his judgment.
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This opens the door to all kinds of scary possibilities.
From ABC News:
In a groundbreaking decision on Monday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a drug with a “digital ingestion tracking system,” which senses when a pill is swallowed and sends the data to a smartphone.
The new drug/device combination product called Abilify MyCite is approved for the treatment of schizophrenia and mood disorders. The Abilify (aripiprazole) tablets come embedded with an Ingestible Event Marker (IEM) sensor, the size of a grain of sand, that sends information to a patch the patient wears. The patch then transmits the data to smartphones and online healthcare portals — which can be accessed by health care professionals and caregivers if the patient approves.
Comment: Aside from the creepy invasion of privacy and other opportunities for abuse with this technology, let’s not forget the dangers of electromagnetic fields and Wi-Fi, especially for young children. Cell phones, for instance, include warnings in the fine print about overexposure. And what are the potential health consequences of ingesting a “digital ingestion tracking system”? Orwellian medicine, coming soon unless we object! By the way, here are the possible side effects of Abilify.
For some in California, doctors writing medical exemptions from the state’s draconian vaccination law are not being punished swiftly enough.
From the LA Times:
A year ago, California officials appeared to be coming down hard on doctors and parents who were reluctant to vaccinate children…. The medical board was threatening to pull the license of Dr. Robert Sears, a celebrity in the anti-vaccine community….
But so far, no doctors, including Sears, have been punished for writing unnecessary medical exemptions. The crackdown many foresaw never materialized.
Comment: The LA Times article may in part be a reaction to the recent announcement that Dr. Bob Sears, who faces charges of gross negligence from the California medical board, has a hearing scheduled for May 2018. As Richard Jaffee, Dr. Sears’s attorney, notes, perhaps May 2018 isn’t soon or severe enough for the LA Times.
What are the allegations against Dr. Sears? He dared to write a letter recommending that a two-year-old be excused from vaccinations because his mother reported that the child had serious adverse reactions to previous immunizations. We pointed out before that the goal of such persecution is to scare other doctors from writing medical exemptions. Are the LA Times’ reporters qualified medical professionals, equipped with the knowledge of when a medical exemption is necessary? We suspect not, but this is how low the conversation has gone on the issue of vaccination—persecuting a doctor for exercising his judgment.
Lawmakers may still have a go at changing healthcare—through their tax plan.
From The New York Times:
Senate Republicans have decided to include the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most people have health insurance into the sprawling tax rewrite….
They also… revealed late Tuesday they would set all of their tax cuts for individuals to expire at the end of 2025, to comply with a procedural requirement. Their deep cut in the corporate tax rate would remain permanent….
Repealing the mandate, a longstanding Republican goal, would save hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade….
Comment: The change would save money because although there would be less tax revenue there would also be less subsidy paid. From the beginning, ANH-USA has criticized the Obamacare mandate, since it essentially forces patients interested in natural health to pay twice: once for government insurance that covers a wide array of services they will likely never use, and once out-of-pocket for the integrative health services they desire.
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Lawmakers may still have a go at changing healthcare—through their tax plan.
From The New York Times:
Senate Republicans have decided to include the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most people have health insurance into the sprawling tax rewrite….
They also… revealed late Tuesday they would set all of their tax cuts for individuals to expire at the end of 2025, to comply with a procedural requirement. Their deep cut in the corporate tax rate would remain permanent….
Repealing the mandate, a longstanding Republican goal, would save hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade….
Comment: The change would save money because although there would be less tax revenue there would also be less subsidy paid. From the beginning, ANH-USA has criticized the Obamacare mandate, since it essentially forces patients interested in natural health to pay twice: once for government insurance that covers a wide array of services they will likely never use, and once out-of-pocket for the integrative health services they desire.
More evidence that vaccines don’t necessarily confer immunity.
From The New York Times:
“Mumps outbreaks are on the rise,” said Dr. Janell Routh, a pediatrician who is a medical officer on the mumps team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 6,000 cases of mumps were reported in the United States last year, the highest number in 10 years. Around 2010, total annual cases were down in the hundreds.
Most of the recent cases occurred in outbreaks, including a large one in Arkansas, rather than as a sporadic here-a-case, there-a-case disease. And most of the outbreaks were among people 18 to 22 years old, most of whom had had the requisite two doses of mumps vaccine in childhood. “We are seeing it in a young and highly vaccinated population,” Dr. Routh said.
Comment: The article goes on to say that the immunity from the two-dose MMR vaccine wanes over time, and there can even be sufficient exposure to the virus to overcome the vaccine’s protections. This evidence pokes holes in the argument that unvaccinated kids are the reason for recent measles outbreaks. This was the false rationale on which the State of California removed the right of parents to refuse vaccination – a law that has spurred lawmakers in other states to introduce legislation that similarly restricts vaccine exemptions. In some cases, it even appears that it is vaccinated kids who have spread the disease.
Perhaps health officials should be asking more questions of the vaccine manufacturers and not shaming parents who raise questions about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
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More evidence that vaccines don’t necessarily confer immunity.
From The New York Times:
“Mumps outbreaks are on the rise,” said Dr. Janell Routh, a pediatrician who is a medical officer on the mumps team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 6,000 cases of mumps were reported in the United States last year, the highest number in 10 years. Around 2010, total annual cases were down in the hundreds.
Most of the recent cases occurred in outbreaks, including a large one in Arkansas, rather than as a sporadic here-a-case, there-a-case disease. And most of the outbreaks were among people 18 to 22 years old, most of whom had had the requisite two doses of mumps vaccine in childhood. “We are seeing it in a young and highly vaccinated population,” Dr. Routh said.
Comment: The article goes on to say that the immunity from the two-dose MMR vaccine wanes over time, and there can even be sufficient exposure to the virus to overcome the vaccine’s protections. This evidence pokes holes in the argument that unvaccinated kids are the reason for recent measles outbreaks. This was the false rationale on which the State of California removed the right of parents to refuse vaccination – a law that has spurred lawmakers in other states to introduce legislation that similarly restricts vaccine exemptions. In some cases, it even appears that it is vaccinated kids who have spread the disease.
Perhaps health officials should be asking more questions of the vaccine manufacturers and not shaming parents who raise questions about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
Will justice be done?
From Business Wire:
Chuck and Gena Norris announced today that they have filed a lawsuit against eleven drug companies, including McKesson and Bracco, that they claim are responsible for the gadolinium contrast dye used during the MRIs that nearly cost Gena her life.
The lawsuit alleges that Gena was poisoned by gadolinium and sustained Gadolinium Deposition Disease following routine MRIs. Gena suffered long-term health implications requiring multiple hospitalizations and almost $2 million dollars in out-of-pocket medical expenses.
Comment: Recall that European health authorities recently suspended the use of gadolinium contrasting agents due to health concerns, but the FDA refuses to do anything about it. Patients with impaired kidney function who receive gadolinium contrasting agents are particularly at risk for developing a potentially fatal disease called Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis. A broader range of patients could be affected by gadolinium contrasting agents– at least one study showed that gadolinium can persist in the body, even in the brain.We hope this case can be a catalyst for US health authorities to wake up and follow the EU’s common-sense approach.
Click here to see our previous coverage and take action with the FDA, if you haven’t already.
Will justice be done?
From Business Wire:
Chuck and Gena Norris announced today that they have filed a lawsuit against eleven drug companies, including McKesson and Bracco, that they claim are responsible for the gadolinium contrast dye used during the MRIs that nearly cost Gena her life.
The lawsuit alleges that Gena was poisoned by gadolinium and sustained Gadolinium Deposition Disease following routine MRIs. Gena suffered long-term health implications requiring multiple hospitalizations and almost $2 million dollars in out-of-pocket medical expenses.
Comment: Recall that European health authorities recently suspended the use of gadolinium contrasting agents due to health concerns, but the FDA refuses to do anything about it. Patients with impaired kidney function who receive gadolinium contrasting agents are particularly at risk for developing a potentially fatal disease called Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis. A broader range of patients could be affected by gadolinium contrasting agents– at least one study showed that gadolinium can persist in the body, even in the brain.We hope this case can be a catalyst for US health authorities to wake up and follow the EU’s common-sense approach.
Click here to see our previous coverage and take action with the FDA, if you haven’t already.
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New evidence tells us why flu vaccines are only 43% effective, at best, using the most favorable statistics.
From Scientific American:
Last year’s flu vaccine should have worked well. The strain that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration chose for the seasonal vaccine did indeed closely match the viruses that sickened people. So when its effectiveness proved disappointing, Scott Hensley, a microbiologist at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and his colleagues began to investigate. Flu vaccines are killed or highly weakened viruses that, when injected into the body, alert the immune system to fight the real thing. For 70 years most flu vaccine strains have been grown in fertilized chicken eggs because egg growth incites excellent yield. But it has long been known that the viruses also evolve in these egg hosts. They adopt genetic changes that help them grow in the egg environment. What Hensley and his colleagues found was such changes can cause problems for the end product.
Comment: For years now, we’ve been reporting on the ineffectiveness of flu shots—some of which still contain mercury. (Remember, flu shots are routinely given to pregnant women and infants!) Despite their ineffectiveness, flu shots are still aggressively pushed by the government. Many localities have laws that mandate healthcare and other workers receive flu shots.
Most state legislatures are out of session, but check our Protect Vaccine Choice page to stay up to date on bills in your state that threaten your freedom of choice concerning vaccination.
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New evidence tells us why flu vaccines are only 43% effective, at best, using the most favorable statistics.
From Scientific American:
Last year’s flu vaccine should have worked well. The strain that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration chose for the seasonal vaccine did indeed closely match the viruses that sickened people. So when its effectiveness proved disappointing, Scott Hensley, a microbiologist at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and his colleagues began to investigate. Flu vaccines are killed or highly weakened viruses that, when injected into the body, alert the immune system to fight the real thing. For 70 years most flu vaccine strains have been grown in fertilized chicken eggs because egg growth incites excellent yield. But it has long been known that the viruses also evolve in these egg hosts. They adopt genetic changes that help them grow in the egg environment. What Hensley and his colleagues found was such changes can cause problems for the end product.
Comment: For years now, we’ve been reporting on the ineffectiveness of flu shots—some of which still contain mercury. (Remember, flu shots are routinely given to pregnant women and infants!) Despite their ineffectiveness, flu shots are still aggressively pushed by the government. Many localities have laws that mandate healthcare and other workers receive flu shots.
Most state legislatures are out of session, but check our Protect Vaccine Choice page to stay up to date on bills in your state that threaten your freedom of choice concerning vaccination.
The FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) is holding another meeting, this time to decide the fate of resveratrol and pregnenolone, among other compounded medicines. Action Alert!
For some time now, we’ve been monitoring the FDA’s PCAC as it recommends which substances should be allowed to be compounded. Almost always, PCAC follows the lead of FDA staff in its recommendations.
The track record is appalling. PCAC has voted to ban many important natural medicines from compounding, including curcumin, boswellia, aloe vera, artemisinin, and nettle – all of which have been used safely for decades. Recall, too, that bioidentical hormones such as progesterone, estriol, and testosterone have been nominated for the Demonstrably Difficult to Compound list, meaning that these hormones are also on the chopping block and likely to be eliminated.
If estriol and others cannot be compounded, patients may not be able to obtain the bio-identical form of it in the proper cream base. Hormones like estriol should not be taken as a pill, but pharma companies prefer to make and sell pills. You can also be sure that even if available, the cost of estriol and other hormones will soar. The FDA has been trying for decades to eliminate compounded estriol, which is anti-carcinogenic, unlike the other estrogens which can be pro-carcinogenic depending on individual bio-chemistry. So far, ANH has stopped them from eliminating estriol. With your help, we will do so again.
PCAC’s next meeting will be on November 20-21. Astragalus (an herb used in Chinese medicine for its anti-inflammatory properties), pregnenolone (a precursor hormone with many important functions), and resveratrol (an antioxidant found in grape skins with many health benefits), among others will be reviewed. Pharma is particularly eager to get control of resveratrol, which has so many uses in natural healthcare, and which cannot be accessed in sufficient dosage from diet alone.
The Committee will also make a recommendation on whether liposomal delivery systems (when a vitamin or nutrient is encased in tiny phospholipid structures) or products produced using extrusion are too difficult to compound.
From the beginning, it’s our belief that the goal of this process has been to hamstring and eventually drive out of business traditional compounding pharmacies by eliminating the types of medicines they can produce. The FDA wants traditional pharmacies to register as “outsourcing facilities,” since the agency has virtually total control over their operations and they will likely be owned by Pharma. Few traditional pharmacies have wanted to become this new kind of facility because they know it would end their independence.
We cannot stand idly by as the FDA eliminates traditional compounding. Click the button below to take action.
Action Alert! Send a message to the FDA and PCAC, urging them to maintain access to these safe and beneficial medicines. Please send your message immediately.
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Will doctors and hospitals finally be required to disclose prices? Action Alert!
although an overhaul of Obamacare seems off the table for the time being, a bill has been introduced in the House that includes a much-needed reform.
As we’ve noted previously, there are countless horror stories about patients getting stuck with astronomical hospital bills, including outrageously marked-up band-aids and $1.50 for a single, generic Tylenol tablet. Hospitals can charge vastly different prices, even within the same geographic area. This lack of transparency has helped make America’s hospital system the crony capitalist mess that it is today.
A bill introduced by Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) would require hospitals, physicians, pharmacies, dentists, health insurers, and other entities offering healthcare services to disclose the price for their products and services at the point of purchase and on the Internet. This reform will help drive down costs, since hospitals and other entities that gouge consumers will lose out to those charging a fair price. It’s a basic economic principle.
Maybe something’s in the air, given this op-ed calling for the Trump administration to require nonprofit hospitals to post their prices for care in order to retain their tax-exempt status.
Action Alert! Write to your Representative and ask him or her to support HR 2569, the Transparency in All Health Care Pricing Act of 2017. Please send your message immediately.
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Many in Congress do, according to a letter nearly 80 representatives just sent to the FDA, USDA, and EPA. Action Alert!
The letter, presumably inspired by big corporate donors, calls for the agencies to provide a “consistent, appropriate” approach to the regulation of biotechnology. On the one hand, the FDA has proposed to regulate any animal intentionally altered using gene editing techniques as an animal drug; on the other hand, the USDA has recently proposed to make it easier to bring “low-risk” genetically engineered plants to market.
The letter urges the agencies to adopt frameworks that “foster innovation” and to “remove any unnecessary burdens that would inhibit the use of these innovative solutions.” Translation: kowtow to the biotech industry and green-light their synthetically produced products or Congress will cut your budget.
Following the Congressional letter, the USDA withdrew its proposed regulations. The agency’s decision was influenced by commenters, likely from the biotech industry, who argued that even the relaxed approach outlined in the proposed regulation would hamper innovation.
As we’ve written before, we are in the Wild West of gene editing. Scientists are experimenting with editing the genome of human embryos; gene-silencing sprays are in development that can change the color of flowers; do-it-yourself CRISPR kits are being sold for less than $200. These technologies need to be studied carefully and controlled appropriately, not rubber-stamped.
Action Alert! Write to Congress and tell them that you want gene editing techniques to be carefully scrutinized to protect consumers. Please send your message immediately.
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No parent wants their child to get cancer. And if there was a vaccine that could reduce the risk of certain kinds of cancers with a minimum of risk – most parents would opt for it with open arms.
Unfortunately, the 10-year track record of use of the vaccine, in varying forms, tells us that the claim being made by health authorities that the HPV vaccine is both ‘safe and effective’ is false.
In terms of claimed safety, health authorities are ignoring or seeking to cover-up the scale and severity of the serious and long-term side effects being experienced by adolescent girls. Regarding effectiveness, health authorities are misleading the public by claiming that the vaccine’s ability to raise HPV antibodies over a few years equates to protection from HPV-related cancers, especially cervical cancer, decades down the line. The science tells us that the two are not equivalent.
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The FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) is holding another meeting, this time to decide the fate of resveratrol and pregnenolone, among other compounded medicines. Action Alert!
For some time now, we’ve been monitoring the FDA’s PCAC as it recommends which substances should be allowed to be compounded. Almost always, PCAC follows the lead of FDA staff in its recommendations.
The track record is appalling. PCAC has voted to ban many important natural medicines from compounding, including curcumin, boswellia, aloe vera, artemisinin, and nettle – all of which have been used safely for decades. Recall, too, that bioidentical hormones such as progesterone, estriol, and testosterone have been nominated for the Demonstrably Difficult to Compound list, meaning that these hormones are also on the chopping block and likely to be eliminated.
If estriol and others cannot be compounded, patients may not be able to obtain the bio-identical form of it in the proper cream base. Hormones like estriol should not be taken as a pill, but pharma companies prefer to make and sell pills. You can also be sure that even if available, the cost of estriol and other hormones will soar. The FDA has been trying for decades to eliminate compounded estriol, which is anti-carcinogenic, unlike the other estrogens which can be pro-carcinogenic depending on individual bio-chemistry. So far, ANH has stopped them from eliminating estriol. With your help, we will do so again.
PCAC’s next meeting will be on November 20-21. Astragalus (an herb used in Chinese medicine for its anti-inflammatory properties), pregnenolone (a precursor hormone with many important functions), and resveratrol (an antioxidant found in grape skins with many health benefits), among others will be reviewed. Pharma is particularly eager to get control of resveratrol, which has so many uses in natural healthcare, and which cannot be accessed in sufficient dosage from diet alone.
The Committee will also make a recommendation on whether liposomal delivery systems (when a vitamin or nutrient is encased in tiny phospholipid structures) or products produced using extrusion are too difficult to compound.
From the beginning, it’s our belief that the goal of this process has been to hamstring and eventually drive out of business traditional compounding pharmacies by eliminating the types of medicines they can produce. The FDA wants traditional pharmacies to register as “outsourcing facilities,” since the agency has virtually total control over their operations and they will likely be owned by Pharma. Few traditional pharmacies have wanted to become this new kind of facility because they know it would end their independence.
We cannot stand idly by as the FDA eliminates traditional compounding. Click the button below to take action.
Action Alert! Send a message to the FDA and PCAC, urging them to maintain access to these safe and beneficial medicines. Please send your message immediately.
Will doctors and hospitals finally be required to disclose prices? Action Alert!
although an overhaul of Obamacare seems off the table for the time being, a bill has been introduced in the House that includes a much-needed reform.
As we’ve noted previously, there are countless horror stories about patients getting stuck with astronomical hospital bills, including outrageously marked-up band-aids and $1.50 for a single, generic Tylenol tablet. Hospitals can charge vastly different prices, even within the same geographic area. This lack of transparency has helped make America’s hospital system the crony capitalist mess that it is today.
A bill introduced by Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) would require hospitals, physicians, pharmacies, dentists, health insurers, and other entities offering healthcare services to disclose the price for their products and services at the point of purchase and on the Internet. This reform will help drive down costs, since hospitals and other entities that gouge consumers will lose out to those charging a fair price. It’s a basic economic principle.
Maybe something’s in the air, given this op-ed calling for the Trump administration to require nonprofit hospitals to post their prices for care in order to retain their tax-exempt status.
Action Alert! Write to your Representative and ask him or her to support HR 2569, the Transparency in All Health Care Pricing Act of 2017. Please send your message immediately.
Many in Congress do, according to a letter nearly 80 representatives just sent to the FDA, USDA, and EPA. Action Alert!
The letter, presumably inspired by big corporate donors, calls for the agencies to provide a “consistent, appropriate” approach to the regulation of biotechnology. On the one hand, the FDA has proposed to regulate any animal intentionally altered using gene editing techniques as an animal drug; on the other hand, the USDA has recently proposed to make it easier to bring “low-risk” genetically engineered plants to market.
The letter urges the agencies to adopt frameworks that “foster innovation” and to “remove any unnecessary burdens that would inhibit the use of these innovative solutions.” Translation: kowtow to the biotech industry and green-light their synthetically produced products or Congress will cut your budget.
Following the Congressional letter, the USDA withdrew its proposed regulations. The agency’s decision was influenced by commenters, likely from the biotech industry, who argued that even the relaxed approach outlined in the proposed regulation would hamper innovation.
As we’ve written before, we are in the Wild West of gene editing. Scientists are experimenting with editing the genome of human embryos; gene-silencing sprays are in development that can change the color of flowers; do-it-yourself CRISPR kits are being sold for less than $200. These technologies need to be studied carefully and controlled appropriately, not rubber-stamped.
Action Alert! Write to Congress and tell them that you want gene editing techniques to be carefully scrutinized to protect consumers. Please send your message immediately.
No parent wants their child to get cancer. And if there was a vaccine that could reduce the risk of certain kinds of cancers with a minimum of risk – most parents would opt for it with open arms.
Unfortunately, the 10-year track record of use of the vaccine, in varying forms, tells us that the claim being made by health authorities that the HPV vaccine is both ‘safe and effective’ is false.
In terms of claimed safety, health authorities are ignoring or seeking to cover-up the scale and severity of the serious and long-term side effects being experienced by adolescent girls. Regarding effectiveness, health authorities are misleading the public by claiming that the vaccine’s ability to raise HPV antibodies over a few years equates to protection from HPV-related cancers, especially cervical cancer, decades down the line. The science tells us that the two are not equivalent.
Another potential blockbuster drug has flopped. Despite this, the feds still have natural alternative treatments in the crosshairs.
From Forbes:
Investors poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Axovant and its experimental Alzheimer’s drug, intepirdine. But in the end, the medicine was no different from 99% of medicines tested against the brain-wasting disease since 2002 — it failed.
Comment: This just the latest failure from Big Pharma to develop a viable Alzheimer’s drug. Meanwhile, their friends at the FDA seek to clear natural alternatives like vinpocetine from the market. (And, recall our previous coverage of the promise coconut oil shows in fighting Alzheimer’s.) With synthetic drugs failing to deliver, the trend is to try and turn natural medicine into drugs and have the FDA eliminate the affordable supplement versions from store shelves—see Amarin’s latest effort to ban fish oil imports.
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Another potential blockbuster drug has flopped. Despite this, the feds still have natural alternative treatments in the crosshairs.
From Forbes:
Investors poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Axovant and its experimental Alzheimer’s drug, intepirdine. But in the end, the medicine was no different from 99% of medicines tested against the brain-wasting disease since 2002 — it failed.
Comment: This just the latest failure from Big Pharma to develop a viable Alzheimer’s drug. Meanwhile, their friends at the FDA seek to clear natural alternatives like vinpocetine from the market. (And, recall our previous coverage of the promise coconut oil shows in fighting Alzheimer’s.) With synthetic drugs failing to deliver, the trend is to try and turn natural medicine into drugs and have the FDA eliminate the affordable supplement versions from store shelves—see Amarin’s latest effort to ban fish oil imports.
