11 dead and 3,461 wounded from Merck’s Gardasil HPV Vaccine- January 11, 2008
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Here is a story I found while online at Judcial Watch, a government watchdog group which attempts to keep businesses and the government in check.
Gardasil, the first vaccine of a possible 2 vaccine series, is a 3 series shot designed to protect women from HPV (Human Papilloma Virus), a sexually transmitted virus associated with cervical cancer. As of October 2007, 11 deaths have been attributed to the shot and another 3461 complications associated with it. This vaccine was designed to help prevent cervical cancer, which kills about 5,000 women a year. Merck is the same manufacturer who marketed Vioxx, the arthritis drug found to increase risk of heart attacks.
Gardasil has become controversial in that several states, including Texas, have tried to make the shot mandatory for all young women. This has become a hot topic in many circles since no shots are “mandatory” but only recommended. All school districts have an “opt out” form that parents can fill out if they desire not to have certain vaccines given due to religious/personal reasons.
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Judicial Watch Uncovers New FDA Records Detailing Deaths in 1,824 Adverse Reaction Reports Related to HPV Vaccine
Judicial Watch Sues FDA for Producing “Partial Response” to FOIA Request
10/04/07
(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released new documents obtained from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, detailing 1,824 reports of adverse reactions to the vaccination for human papillomavirus (HPV), Gardasil, including as many as eight deaths related to the vaccine. Judicial Watch had previously obtained 1,637 reports relating to Gardasil on May 15, 2007, bringing the known total to 3,461 adverse reactions including eleven deaths since FDA approval. Among the new information uncovered by Judicial Watch:
- “20-Jun-2007: Information has been received – concerning a 17 year old female who in June 2007 – was vaccinated with a first dose of Gardasil. During the evening of the same day, the patient was found unconscious (lifeless) by the mother. Resuscitation was performed by the emergency physician but was unsuccessful. The patient subsequently died.”
- “12-Jun-2007: Information has been received – concerning a 12 year old female with a history of aortic and mitral valve insufficiency – who on 01-MAR-2007 was vaccinated IM into the left arm with a first does of Gardasil. On 01-MAR-2007 the patient presented to the ED with ventricular tachycardia and died.”
- “28-Aug-2007: Initial and follow-up information has been received from a physician concerning an “otherwise healthy” 13 year old female who was vaccinated with her first and second doses of Gardasil. Subsequently, the patient experienced paralysis from the chest down, lesions of the optic nerve. At the time of the report, the patient had not recovered.”
From May 10 to September 7, 2007, the 1,824 adverse vaccination reactions reported to the FDA via the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) included 347 serious reactions. Of the 77 women who received the vaccine while pregnant, 33 experienced side effects ranging from spontaneous abortion to fetal abnormities. Other serious side effects continue to be reported including, paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures.
“In light of this information, it is disturbing that state and local governments might mandate in any way this vaccine for young girls,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “These adverse reaction reports suggest the vaccine not only causes serious side effects, but might even be fatal.”
Judicial Watch filed its request on August 20, 2007, and received the adverse event reports from the FDA on September, 13 2007. (On October 3, 2007, Judicial Watch filed a new lawsuit against the FDA for its failure to fully respond to Judicial Watch’s FOIA request as required by law.)
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Thousands of Californians sprayed with pesticide by airplanes…. January 11, 2008
Posted by healthandsurvival in Diseases, Drugs, Politics and Medicine, Survival.Tags: chemtrails, danger, Drugs, health, Life, moths, pesticides
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Here is an interesting story…..
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(NewsTarget) Sometimes bad dreams do come true. My bad dream was that the government issued quarantine, and forced everybody to be vaccinated for some fake disease. In my dream, I took my family, and fled to the hills to avoid being vaccinated.
Now, nine months later, this dream has come true. In an emergency, I relinquished my rental contract and moved my pregnant partner and three and a half year old daughter out of Santa Cruz, CA, to avoid being exposed to potentially deadly chemicals.
The chemicals, known by their trade names as Checkmate OLR-F and Checkmate LBAM-F, have been sprayed via state owned airplanes in September and October in Monterey County California. These same aerial chemicals, despite their known health risks, were sprayed on two nights (11-8, 11-9) over the people of Santa Cruz County. The purpose of this spray is to control the mating habits of the light brown apple moth (LBAM). The reason the moth needs to be controlled is due to the possibility of 100 million dollars of damage (Realize that this figure is not a fact, but based on a government guess).
Government’s Pesticide Experiment Program
The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s own doctor acknowledges, in court documents, that aerial application of this chemical has not been tested. Let me repeat this so you understand, chemicals are being sprayed on young children, nursing mother’s, people with asthma, lung problems, heart problems, the elderly, the disabled, the homeless and the chemically sensitive – and this chemical formulation has NEVER been tested on even a piece of dirt, let alone, humans. The newly designed Faroes Statement, the consensus of over 200 scientists, calls for a precautionary approach with respect to exposure of fetuses and children to environmental toxins. The consensus is that exposure of fetuses or children to chemicals can cause increased susceptibility to disease and disability later in life. In addition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has specific directives and codes that state that they should not experiment with pesticides on pregnant women, or infants. It is a fact, since this aerial pesticide has not been proven to control the moth’s mating habits and has not been proven safe to animals or humans, that this is an experiment.
In Monterey, approximately 100,000 residents were exposed to untested chemicals to control the mating habits of less than 750 moths. In Santa Cruz County, over 100,000 residents will be exposed between 11/06/07 – 11/09/07 to untested chemicals to control the mating habits of less than 9,000 moths. This is not a one time application, but will continue monthly beginning again in February, for nine months, and then repeated for up to a total of three years. Again, this program designed to eradicate the moth at best will only control the moth’s mating habits; it will not eliminate the moth. At worst, the program will be ineffective, cost tax payers millions of dollars, and cause permanent disability to residents and their pets. All this harm is over a little moth that has yet to cause even $1 of damage in California…... Read More Here
New Diabetes drugs not better than old diabetes drugs.. just cost more. January 11, 2008
Posted by healthandsurvival in Diseases, Drugs, Obese, medicine.Tags: blood sugar, diabetes, diets, health, Life, medicines
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(NewsTarget) New, expensive diabetes drugs function no better than older versions while carrying more dangerous side effects, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researchers from Tufts University conducted a meta-analysis of 29 prior studies of Byetta (from Eli Lilly and Co. and Amylin Pharmaceuticals) and Januvia (from Merck & Co.). The drugs have become highly popular recently, largely because they do not cause weight gain or low blood sugar like older diabetes drugs do.
The two new drugs act by a mechanism called incretin-based therapy, which targets the hormones that regulate insulin secretion after a meal. Byetta is a synthetic version of a naturally occurring hormone, while Januvia acts by blocking an enzyme that breaks down that hormone.
The Tufts study concluded that the drugs are effective at controlling blood sugar, but not any more so than older, less expensive medications. In addition, because 26 of the 29 studies were less than 8 months long, the researchers warned that the drugs’ long-term health effects are unknown. Even with the short-term studies, the medications are already known to have side effects including infection, nausea and vomiting.
“[The new drugs] are 10 to 12 times more expensive,” said lead researcher Anastassios Pittas. “The question is, are they 10 times better? It’s pretty amazing to me that we have six-month data and a lot of people are willing to jump on this, even though the drugs haven’t proven themselves … and they are very, very expensive.”
While older drugs such as metformin are available for less than 60 cents per pill, Januvia costs approximately $5.50 per pill, and one cartridge of the injectable drug Byetta costs $200.
“It would be premature to fully embrace and use both these classes of medications over older, more established medications for a chronic condition such as diabetes,” Pittas said.
Dead man wheeled down street by friends to cash his check January 11, 2008
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I suppose this article has a little to do about survival and nothing to do about health! This is more a stupid criminal story..
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Even for the once-notorious Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, it may have been a first: Two men were arrested on Tuesday after pushing a corpse, seated in an office chair, along the sidewalk to a check-cashing store to cash the dead man’s Social Security check, the police said.
When Virgilio Cintron, 66, died at his apartment recently, his roommate and a friend saw an opportunity to cash his $355 check, the police said.
They did not go about it the easy way, the police said, choosing a ruse that resembled the plot of “Weekend at Bernie’s,” a film about two young men who prop up their dead employer to pretend that he is alive.
“Hell’s Kitchen has a rich history,” said Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, “but this is one for the books.”
There was no sign of foul play in Cintron’s death, he added.
The roommate, James P. O’Hare, and his friend, David J. Dalaia, both 65 and unemployed, placed Cintron’s body in the chair and wheeled it around the corner Tuesday afternoon, the police said. The men parked the chair with the corpse in front of Pay-O-Matic, a check-cashing business that Cintron had patronized.
They went inside to present the check, but a clerk said Cintron would have to cash it himself, and asked where he was, the police said.
“He is outside,” O’Hare said, indicating the body in the chair, according to Browne.
The two men started to bring the chair inside, but it was too late. Their sidewalk procession had already attracted the stares of passers-by who were startled by the sight of the body flopping from side to side as the two men tried to prop it up, the police said. The late Cintron was dressed in a faded black T-shirt and blue-and-white sneakers. His pants were pulled up part of the way, and his midsection was covered by a jacket, the police said.
While the two men were inside the check-cashing office, a small crowd had gathered around the chair. A police detective eating at a nearby restaurant saw the crowd and notified police.
Police officers and an ambulance arrived as the two men were trying to maneuver the corpse and chair into the check-cashing office.
The two men were taken into custody and questioned. The police said they were considering charging them with check-cashing fraud.
The medical examiner’s office said its preliminary assessment was that Cintron had died of natural causes within the previous 24 hours.
This article appeared on page A – 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle
Quaid Family lashes out at Beverly Hills Hospital January 11, 2008
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Hospital Errors, or Human errors, are unfortunately a common problem. Until human beings in the healthcare profession learn to be perfect, this may continue to be a problem. In the meantime, it is important that hospitals and staff take all possible measures possible to prevent error. Medicine is one of the few professions that requires 100% perfection as 1 small error may result in life threatening complications and ultimately litigation. It is interesting to note that doctors are often accused of having a “God Like Complex”- perhaps this only occurs in physicians who don’t make mistakes….
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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Dennis Quaid and his wife denounced the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center over a “lack of candor” about medical errors they believe caused their newborn twins to receive overdoses of a blood thinner.
The couple said they were particularly upset to learn from a state investigation that their babies were given dosages of heparin that were 2,000 times stronger than what was prescribed.
The report’s findings released Wednesday by the California Department of Public Health conflict with the hospital’s initial report that the children each received one vial containing 10,000 units per milliliter of heparin instead of the common dosage of 10 units per milliliter. The report found that the children actually received two of the vials.
“We find it outrageous and totally unacceptable that we are learning for the first time… exactly what transpired,” the actor and his wife, Kimberly, said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times.
“We were told by upper Cedars-Sinai administration that our children had received only one 10,000 unit dose of heparin when in fact they had received two 10,000 unit doses over an 8-hour period that we now know of. The hospital’s lack of candor has left us with the uneasy feeling that we may never know the whole story,” the statement said.
The hospital has previously issued an apology to the patients’ families and said it has taken steps to provide more training to staff and review all policies and procedures involving high-risk medication.
The state report describes the cases of three, unidentified patients. All recovered, but two needed a drug that reverses the effects of heparin.
The Quaid family’s representatives previously confirmed the newborns’ involvement. The twins, born November 8 to a surrogate mother, were at Cedars-Sinai for treatment of an infection.
The 20-page report said the hospital overdosed three children with heparin, a high-risk medication used to prevent clotting in intravenous tubes, on November 18.
It found that the mishandling of the drug put pediatric patients in “immediate jeopardy,” meaning it has caused, or was likely to cause, “serious injury or death to the patients who received the wrong medication.” The report faulted the hospital for its “deficient practices” in giving the drug.
A call to a hospital spokeswoman early Thursday was not immediately returned.
Cedars-Sinai’s chief medical officer, Michael L. Langberg, said in a statement that the state’s review confirmed the hospital’s own internal findings about the error and that the hospital had cooperated fully with the investigation.
The investigation also found the hospital did not adequately educate staff about the safe use of heparin and that nurses and pharmacy technicians did not check labels on the vials and did not keep adequate records of when it was used.
The lapses began when two pharmacy technicians mistakenly delivered 100 vials of the high-concentration heparin to the pediatric unit.
The Quaids have sued Baxter Healthcare Corp., the Illinois-based makers of heparin, accusing the firm of negligence in packaging different doses of the product in similar vials with blue backgrounds. In February, Baxter Healthcare Corp. sent a letter warning health care workers to carefully read labels on the heparin packages to avoid confusion.
