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TriHealth fires 150 employees in Cincinnati for not getting flu shots

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TriHealth fires 150 employees in Cincinnati for not getting flu shots

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One of Cincinnati’s largest employers fired approximately 150 employees for failing to get a required flu shot.

TriHealth offered all of its 10,800 employees free flu shots. Employees had a month to get the flu shot. The deadline was Nov. 16. Employees who did not get the shot were terminated Wednesday, a company spokesperson said.

Employees […]

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The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism

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The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism

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More than a half century ago, famed writer C.S. Lewis warned about how science (a good thing) could be twisted in order to attack religion, undermine ethics, and limit human freedom. In this documentary “The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism,” leading scholars explore Lewis’s prophetic warnings about the abuse of […]

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4,250% Increase in Fetal Deaths Reported to VAERS After Flu Shot Given to Pregnant Women

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4,250% Increase in Fetal Deaths Reported to VAERS After Flu Shot Given to Pregnant Women

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By Christina England
vactruth.com
Documentation received from the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) states that between 2009 and 2010 the mercury-laden combined flu vaccinations have increased Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting Systems (VAERS) fetal death reports by 4,250 percent in pregnant women. Eileen Dannemann, NCOW’s director, made abundantly clear that despite these figures being known to […]

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30 Years of Breast Screening: 1.3 Million Wrongly Treated

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30 Years of Breast Screening: 1.3 Million Wrongly Treated

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by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com

The breast cancer industry’s holy grail (that mammography is the primary weapon in the war against breast cancer) has been disproved. In fact, mammography appears to have CREATED 1.3 million cases of breast cancer in the U.S. population that were not there.

A disturbing new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine is bringing […]

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Are Registered Dieticians “Practicing Medicine” Without a License?

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Are Registered Dieticians “Practicing Medicine” Without a License?

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by Alliance for Natural Health

If so, it would be ironic, since RD groups are using similar laws to attack and suppress other, often better qualified nutritionists.

The Georgia Board of Examiners of Licensed Dietitians met on February 17. According to the minutes, the meeting included six board members, the executive director for the Georgia Board of […]

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TeenScreen Operations Have Shut Down

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TeenScreen Operations Have Shut Down

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by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection

The following announcement was posted on TeenScreen’s website (November 15, 2012):

“Important Announcement for Schools & Communities: We are sorry to inform you that the TeenScreen National Center will be winding down its program at the end of this year. Accordingly, we will no longer train or register new programs.” […]

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Advair: How Safe Is This Drug?

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Advair: How Safe Is This Drug?

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By John Fauber
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today

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The 2001 product launch of the asthma drug Advair (fluticasone/salmeterol) was a lavish, Las Vegas affair.

Using images of a slot machine to illustrate their message, top GlaxoSmithKline executives took the stage in front of thousands of assembled sales reps. “There are people in this room who are going to make […]

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Texas Medical Board Dismisses Case Against Cancer Doctor Burzynski

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Texas Medical Board Dismisses Case Against Cancer Doctor Burzynski

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by Tim Bolen
Bolen Report

There was a day in Texas when sleaze artist Stephen Barrett could call up the Executive Director of the Texas Medical Board and “arrange” a prosecution of a Texas cutting-edge doctor, even offering his even sleazier “skeptic” companion, Bobbie Baratz, as the do-all, be-all, expert witness against that doctor. Those days are […]

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Largest Health Insurance Company in the US Warns about GMO Dangers

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Largest Health Insurance Company in the US Warns about GMO Dangers

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By: Salem Weekly Editors
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It has come to our attention that Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed healthcare organization in the United States, has advised its members against GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in food.

In its Northwest Fall 2012 newsletter, Kaiser suggested membership limit exposure to genetically modified organisms.

“GMOs have been added to our food supply since […]

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Empirical Data Link Autism Symptoms to Aluminum and Acetaminophen Exposure in Vaccines

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Empirical Data Link Autism Symptoms to Aluminum and Acetaminophen Exposure in Vaccines

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Empirical Data Confirm Autism Symptoms Related to Aluminum and Acetaminophen Exposure
Entropy 2012, 14, 2227-2253; doi:10.3390/e14112227

Stephanie Seneff 1, *, Robert M. Davidson 2 and Jingjing Liu

1 Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; E-Mail: jingl@csail.mit.edu (J.L.)

2 Internal Medicine Group Practice, PhyNet, Inc., Longview, TX 75604, USA;
E-Mail: patrons99@yahoo.com (R.M.D.)

* Author to whom correspondence should […]

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Prescription Drug Addiction Among People in their 50s More than Doubled from 2002 to 2010

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Prescription Drug Addiction Among People in their 50s More than Doubled from 2002 to 2010

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By Dr. Mercola

The picture of a drug addict in your head is probably not one of a grey-haired grandmother or grandfather, a middle-aged professional or a soon-to-be retiree.

But the face of drug addiction in the United States is changing, and a significant number of older adults, particularly those in the baby boomer generation, are […]

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Chicago Psychiatrist Faces Federal Fraud Suit for too many Prescriptions to the Elderly

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Chicago Psychiatrist Faces Federal Fraud Suit for too many Prescriptions to the Elderly

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by Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber
ProPublica

Excerpts:

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois filed a federal fraud lawsuit [1] today against a Chicago psychiatrist profiled by ProPublica [2] and the Chicago Tribune in 2009 for his voluminous prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to nursing home patients.

In a news release [3], the government says that […]

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Cholesterol Lowering Statins Found To Damage Peripheral Nerves

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Cholesterol Lowering Statins Found To Damage Peripheral Nerves

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by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com

Have the nerve-damaging properties of statin drugs now been confirmed? There are over 300 adverse health effects associated with the use of this chemical class of cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins, with myotoxicity (muscle-damaging) and neurotoxicity (nerve-damaging) top on the list. When will the FDA step in and warn the public, as proof […]

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Black and White Toasted Coconut Fudge Recipe With Coconut Oil

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Black and White Toasted Coconut Fudge Recipe With Coconut Oil

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by Sarah Shilhavy
Free Coconut Recipes
You need to make this.
For one thing, it’s pretty. And tasty. They’re delightfully creamy little squares of black and white chocolaty candy topped with toasty golden coconut. It’s all about contrast. Black and white, dark and light, vanilla and chocolate, chewy and crunchy. How can you resist that?
And while you’re at it, […]

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UBC Researchers Advocate HPV Vaccine Scrutiny

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UBC Researchers Advocate HPV Vaccine Scrutiny

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By Dr. Mercola

A new study conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) provides evidence that Gardasil, a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, may cause a type of inflammation in the brain involving brain vessels (cerebral vasculitis) that can lead to death.

As of mid-2012, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has received 119 […]

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Does AARP really speak for the elderly or the AMA for doctors?

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Does AARP really speak for the elderly or the AMA for doctors?

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by Alliance for Natural Health

Does AARP really speak for the elderly? Or the AMA for doctors?

In Washington, AARP (the American Association of Retired Persons) is said to represent the interests of retirees in arguments about medicine. Their endorsement of President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was mentioned reverently during the October 3rd […]

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First Autism Congressional Hearing in 10 Years Scheduled

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First Autism Congressional Hearing in 10 Years Scheduled

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AUTISM HEARING IN CONGRESS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29th AT 2:00 PM
RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING – RM 2154
PARENTS AND ADVOCATES:

PLEASE ATTEND, GET YOUR CONGRESSMAN TO ATTEND AND SPREAD THE WORD. COME TO WASHINGTON. BRING YOUR CHILDREN.

On Thursday, November 29th at 2:00 pm, The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing regarding the federal […]

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Vaccinated Population Contracting and Spreading Disease They were Vaccinated For

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Vaccinated Population Contracting and Spreading Disease They were Vaccinated For

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By Dr. Mercola

Recently published research in the New England Journal of Medicine1 investigated the reasons behind, and potential solutions, for mumps outbreaks reported to the CDC during the past several years. According to the authors, widespread use of the MMR vaccine had reduced the annual incidence of mumps in the US by more than 99 percent […]

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Spanish Health Authorities Call for Moratorium on HPV Vaccines

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Spanish Health Authorities Call for Moratorium on HPV Vaccines

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by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection

Another child casualty of a commercially-driven vaccination policy.

Dr. Lucija Tomjenovic, a post-doctoral biochemist at the University of British Columbia School of Medicine, presented an abstract at the International Conference on Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Trials held in Chicago (October, 2012). The abstract of a detailed scientific paper about to be published by the Open […]

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How the AMA Tried to Destroy the Chiropractic Industry

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How the AMA Tried to Destroy the Chiropractic Industry

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by Dr. Mercola

Did you know that while the United States makes up only five percent of the world’s population, we consume over 50 percent of all the world’s pharmaceutical drugs?

This sobering statistic and much more is revealed in Jeff Hays’ documentary film, Doctored.

The primary focus of the film is on the chiropractic profession and its […]

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