What he and colleagues identified was a previously unknown combination of bowel
disease and autism in 12 children. Bowel symptoms are common in autistic
children but had until then been regarded as simply a manifestation of their
behavioral problems.
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Category: Implications
St. Petersburg Times:Seroquel maker wants to seal info from you, “for” you
The skirmish over document disclosure in Orlando is part of a hornet’s nest of
litigation against AstraZeneca, a British company with U.S. headquarters in
Wilmington, Del. More than 15,000 patients have filed over 9,000 personal injury
lawsuits. About 40 percent of these claims have been consolidated for pretrial
motions in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. …
!!!Emergency!!!Special Message from Dr. Cannell Presented by Dr. Kennedy (Vitamin D Council Newsletter)
Apparently, Medicare’s reasoning is not understood in England. A week
ago,
researchers at Oxford discovered the long-sort genetic link
vitamin D has
with multiple …
Battling Monsanto in India
an astounding 125,000 Indian famers—all duped into borrowing money to plant
Monsanto’s genetically engineered Bt cotton seeds and associated chemical
sprays—were so desperately in debt when their harvests failed to perform that
they took their own lives. …
Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals: Genetically Engineered Foods (Institute for Responsible Technology)
It makes a clear case that GMOs are unsafe, particularly for children. Please
pass the link onto as many parents and school personnel as you can …
84 Children Are Killed by Medicine in Nigeria (New York Times)
The children died after taking a medicine called My Pikin Baby Teething Mixture,
a syrup for teething pain, according to Nigeria’s Health Ministry. Health
officials said that a batch of the medicine that went on sale in November
contained diethylene glycol, an industrial solvent and an ingredient in
antifreeze and brake fluid. …
SPECIAL REPORT: Marketing a Phony “Miracle” Drug – (Rolling Stone)
Eli Lilly insists that it has not marketed Zyprexa off-label and that it has
accurately represented the drug’s side effects. But some medical researchers who
have studied the atypical antipsychotics say that, in the final tally, the
drugs, which have already been linked to some deaths, may eventually be
responsible for tens of thousands of cases of diabetes and other potentially
fatal diseases. And despite their early promise for treating schizophrenia, the
drugs have not even performed any better than the crude and imprecise earlier
medications that preceded them. …
The Times-News – Modern mind medicines begin to lose luster
People with mental illness deserve much better treatment than
they have received to date. Although lobotomies and straitjackets are no longer
used, modern medications leave a lot to be desired. …
More Zyprexa Trouble for Lilly as Insurers Want Money Too (BNET Pharma)
The issue at stake is whether insurance companies can claim even though they
were not the targets of Lilly’s fraud: …
Lilly agrees to settle criminal investigation over the psych drug Zyprexa.
As part of the settlement
with the Justice Department, Lilly agreed to plead guilty to one
misdemeanor violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act related to the
off-label promotion of Zyprexa between 1999 and 2001. The guilty plea
says Lilly promoted the drug in elderly people as treatment for
dementia, including Alzheimer’s, although the drug isn’t approved for
such use.
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