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www.truthwinds.com Four Winds 10 - fourwinds10.com >> Health >> Ama Pharmaceutial And Insurance http://www.truthwinds.com 2010-09-10T14:42:47+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com 20 Signs That The Health Care Industry Has Become All About Making As Much Money As Possible http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1284127926 Once upon a time in America, people became doctors and nurses because they wanted to help people, building hospitals was a labor of love, lawyers didn't chase ambulances, health insurance companies did not openly abuse their customers and greedy pharmaceutical companies did not dominate the entire health care industry. But today all of that has changed. theeconomiccollapseblog.com.. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Hospital Errors Continue to Kill Patients http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1284125764 Hundreds of deaths and serious injuries can be attributed to mix-ups with similar-looking types of medical tubing. Experts and standards groups have long advocated that tubes for different purposes be made so that they are incompatible with each other. However, this has been delayed by resistance from the medical-device industry, as well as an FDA approval process that can discourage safety-related changes. The New York Times reports: “Tubes intended to inflate blood-pressure cuffs have been connected to intravenous lines, leading to deadly air embolisms. Intravenous fluids have been connected to tubes intended to deliver oxygen, leading to suffocation. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com The Big “Secret Price-Gouging Swindle” Drug Companies Will Never Admit… http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1284056357 A bill that would end an underhanded tactic that delays the introduction of generic drugs in the marketplace is pending in the Senate. The tactic, known as “pay for delay,” occurs when a brand-name drug maker pays a significant sum of money to a generic drug maker in exchange for delaying the marketing of the new generic drug. This allows brand-name drug makers to keep earning profits without competition, while the generic drug maker gets a large sum of “easy, risk-free money.” As the New York Times reported: “Both companies profit. The consumer, unfortunately, loses — by paying high, brand-name drug prices instead of lower prices for a generic. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Reconfiguring Biology and Eliminating Freedom http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1284049414 The entrance to the rabbithole is now in your bloodstream. There are over 50 articles here so far, most dealing with the ‘biological program’ of the One Worlder effort to bring humanity under control. I see it as a Descent Into Madness, perpetrated by a class of  schizophrenic sociopathic controllers who’ve invested a hundred years of pseudoscience with the authority to dictate human behavior –to the point where the physical functions of ‘behavior’ are forcibly directed in fulfillment of creating quantitative and predictable outcomes. The question of ‘why’ and ‘to what end’ is answerable only by extending the fragmented outcomes into a unity of purpose, and I’ll leave that up to the philosophers to expound on except to say that Carl Jung has given us a modern psychological model in his expression of the Shadow. Western religious tradition knows it as the Devil. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com A Review of the Evidence for Disparities in Child vs Adult Health Care: A Disparity in Disparities http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1283275054 READ THIS PDF FILE AT http://www.nmanet.org/images /uploads/Publications/OC684_8-10.pdf   Aug. 30,2010 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Breakthrough! Injured pastor given food, water http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1283098541 Endured 9 days without sustenance after feeding tube removal authorized Nine days after his food and water were halted in the hospital where he is being treated, and less than 24 hours after WND highlighted the plight of Pastor Joshua Kulendran Mayandy, he has been fed. A report from Alex Schadenberg, director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, today confirmed the patient who has been hospitalized since a heart attack in May was given sustenance. "After meetings with our legal counsel, several doctors and a lawyer from the Christian Legal Fellowship, a major breakthrough happened today," Schadenberg reported. "The court-appointed Substitute Decision Maker (SDM) has given permission for a nurse, who is a member of the church, to feed Joshua orally. "Today, Joshua was fed orally and I was told it went very well," he reported. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Hospital withholds food, water from Christian pastor http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1282931000 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Lindsay Lohan Poisoned Tops Google Trends, Awareness To Eugenics Agenda Goes Viral http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1282928300 Debunkers cry foul and claim Lohan was not poisoned despite her own doctors admitting the fact The search term “Lindsay Lohan poisoned” topped Google Trends today after Alex Jones launched a viral You Tube video campaign to educate Americans about the dangers of Ritalin-style drugs, vaccines, Bisphenol A, and a toxic cocktail of other ingested and injected substances. Several blogs responded to the search term topping the charts by claiming that Infowars and Alex Jones had pulled off some kind of “hoax” and that Lohan had never been poisoned. Oh really? Lohan’s own doctors at the UCLA rehab facility admitted that she had been misdiagnosed, that she had never had ADHD, and that her reckless and psychotic behavior was solely a side-effect of Adderall abuse. As Robbie Woliver of Psychology Today reports, “When patients take Adderall when they don’t need it, it can have very serious side effects, similar to manic behavior by meth or cocaine users. It also creates sleep disturbances and a whole new vicious cycle occurs when the patient starts self-medicating, including embarking on alcoholism. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com The Alarming Reason Why More Girls are Starting Puberty Early http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1282847688 U.S. girls are entering puberty at a younger age than in the past. More than 10 percent of white 7-year-old girls have breast changes that signal the start of puberty, according to a study conducted in the mid-2000s. This is up from just 5 percent in the early 1990s. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com New study: 85% of Big Pharma's new drugs are "lemons" and pose health risks to users http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1282230040 (NaturalNews) For years, natural health proponents have been sounding the alarm about the dangers of new drugs being pushed on consumers. But is that a one-sided, inaccurate view? Not at all. In fact, new research now shows the problems with Big Pharma's hugely hyped medications are far worse than most people have even dreamed. Independent reviewers found that about 85 percent of new drugs offer few if any new benefits -- but they carry the risk of causing serious harm to users. According to Donald Light, Ph. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com 4 dozen names would launch Obamacare repeal http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1282144781 House plan could undermine entire nationalization program Eight more members of the U.S. House have signed on to a plan that calls for a re-vote on Obamacare, enabling members to repeal the massive nationalization program estimated to cost Americans a trillion dollars or more. The signature total now stands at 170, just four dozen shy of the 218 needed to advance the discharge petition sponsored by U.S. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Antibiotics on the verge of becoming completely useless http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1282060991 NOTE:  The medical profession today is so foolish in their drive to make money, while discarding the ageless and proven natural antibiotics given to us by God.  Creator God Aton of Light has told us that three most important natural antibiotics are the colloids of silver, gold and titanium. The frequencies begin with silver at the low end to titanium, and silver will destroy most harmful microbes including bacteria, viruses and fungus.  Colloidal gold will kill all other harmful microbes on the planet that go beyond the frequency of colloidal silver.  Colloidal titanium is held in reserve to destroy any harmful microbes that the evil scientist could every possibly create. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Johns Hopkins researcher speaks out: arrogance of doctors is killing tens of thousands of patients http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1281972894 (NaturalNews) Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, is a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Although he works right in the heart of mainstream academic and clinical medicine, Dr. Pronovost is taking an unusual and even heroic step and speaking out about medical errors. Tens of thousands of people are dying unnecessarily, he says, and one main reason involves the enormous arrogance of many doctors. In his commentary, published in the July 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Dr. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Swine flu advisers' ties to drug firms: Five WHO experts linked with vaccine producers http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1281809483 A third of the experts advising the World Health Organisation about the swine flu pandemic had ties to drugs firms, it has emerged. Five of the 15 specialists who sat on the emergency committee had received funding from pharmaceutical giants, or were linked to them through their research. The revelation will prompt speculation that the 'pandemic' was wildly overestimated and largely fuelled by the drugs industry who stood to benefit from the panic. Last month it emerged that the Government had squandered more than £1.2 billion tackling swine flu - most of it going towards vaccines following experts' dire predictions that as many as 65,000 Britons would die. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Pharmacists, doctors are the new drug dealers who flood the streets with addictive pills http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1281549221 (NaturalNews) Prescription drug abuse is emerging as the new face of the U.S. drug problem, with unscrupulous pharmacists and doctors taking the place of street pushers or other stereotypical visions of the "drug dealer." Southern Ohio has emerged as a major supplier of illegal prescription drugs, with 74,000-person Scioto County making the Drug Enforcement Agency's list of the 10 top prescription drug trafficking locations in the country. Authorities believe that as many as eight pill mills, where people can easily get prescriptions for painkillers written and filled, may be operating in the tiny county at any one time. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Missouri Votes to Block Obama's Health Insurance Mandate http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1281192543 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a key provision of President Barack Obama's health care law, sending a clear message of discontent to Washington and Democrats less than 100 days before the midterm elections. About 71 percent of Missouri voters backed a ballot measure, Proposition C, that would prohibit the government from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them for not having it. The Missouri law conflicts with a federal requirement that most people have health insurance or face penalties starting in 2014. Tuesday's vote was seen as largely symbolic because federal law generally trumps state law. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Obamacare could actually kill Constitution (with videos) http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1281102879 Virginia AG warns: 'We lose this case, it's the end of federalism' Virginia's attorney general, who recently won a preliminary round over the Obama administration in his state's fight over Obamacare, warns if the federal government can order citizens to purchase health insurance, "they can order you to do anything." If the insurance mandate is upheld, according to Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, it will be the end of the American way of life and government. "An interesting thing for people to think about is, if this is activity that can be regulated under the Commerce Clause [of the U.S. Constitution], then the federal government can reach anything," he said in a recent interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Modern medicine's biggest lie claims lives http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1281102720 If you've had a heart attack or recurring angina, chances are you've either had or been recommended to have an angioplasty. Or, as it's now called, percutaneous coronary intervention. Contrary to popular belief, however, angioplasty does not prevent heart attacks or save lives. Studies show harm Conventional wisdom dictates that angioplasty is best done within 12 hours after a heart attack, but at least a third of patients aren't treated within that time frame. Nevertheless, "late" angioplasty is routinely performed on the assumption it provides benefit. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Harvard Medical School rolls out new rules to stop its faculty from accepting bribes from Big Pharma http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1280932207 (NaturalNews) It is common practice for medical professionals to accept gifts, free travel, meals and other forms of indirect compensation from drug companies and medical device manufacturers for giving speeches that endorse their products. But Harvard Medical School has now made a new rule that prohibits its 11,000 faculty members from engaging in this activity. The school is also requiring that faculty who consult with drug companies, join their boards and work with them in any other ways, report all income over $5,000 publicly. The school is promising to keep a better watch on the relationships that its faculty has with drug and medical device companies as well. "We're anxious to be viewed publicly as doing what's in the best interest of our patients," explained Dr. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Accused murderer receives liver organ transplant while others wait to die http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1280818537 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Return To Nuremberg: Big Pharma Must Answer For Crimes Against Humanity http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1280787602 After World War II, scores of suspected Nazi war criminals were prosecuted by the Allies in the Palace of Justice in the city of Nuremberg, the birth-place of the Nazi Party. The defendants were drawn not just from the military, but also from medical, judicial, administrative, industrial, and other sectors of the German war machine. Among the industrial prisoners charged with crimes against humanity were 24 managers of IG Farben, an organization without whom, according to U.S. Chief Prosecutor General Telford Taylor, the Second World War would not have been possible. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Avandia fraud explained: Why Big Pharma keeps lying about its drugs http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1280124214 (NaturalNews) Sometimes the degree of fraud that takes place in the drug industry is so mind-boggling that it's hard to determine whether drug regulators and the media are paying attention at all. For the past several months, drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been under scrutiny for tampering with clinical trial data for its diabetes drug, Avandia. Reports show that the company lied about Avandia's safety in order to get the drug approved and keep it on the market. But despite numerous pieces of credible evidence and witness testimonies that have all come forward -- all of which reveal GSK's deception -- an FDA advisory panel is still recommending that Avandia remain on the market. Back in February, a Senate Finance Committee report revealed that not only is Avandia dangerous, but GSK knows this and has deliberately tried to hide this crucial information from the public. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Arava (leflunomide): Boxed Warning - Risk of Severe Liver Injury http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1279778786 AUDIENCE: Rheumatology, Family Practice   ISSUE: FDA is adding information on severe liver injury to the Boxed Warning of Arava (leflunomide) a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis - to highlight the risk of severe liver injury in patients using this drug and how this risk may be reduced. FDA previously required a Boxed Warning stating that leflunomide was contraindicated in pregnant women, or women of childbearing potential who were not using reliable contraception.   BACKGROUND: The decision to add information on severe liver injury to the Boxed Warning was based on FDA’s review of adverse event reports which identified 49 cases of severe liver injury, including 14 cases of fatal liver failure, between August 2002 and May 2009. In this review, the greatest risk for liver injury was seen in patients taking other drugs known to cause liver injury, and patients with pre-existing liver disease.   RECOMMENDATIONS: The information on severe liver injury being added to the Boxed Warning states:       * Patients with pre-existing liver disease should not receive leflunomide. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com US scores dead last in global health survey http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1279170567 (NaturalNews) The Commonwealth Fund recently released a report that places the U.S. last among six other developed countries in terms of quality of health care. According to the report, U.S. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Dry Eyes Can Benefit from Sea Buckthorn Oil http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1278737531 Sea buckthorn oil appears to reduce symptoms of dry eye syndrome, according to a new study from the University of Turku in Finland. Researchers stated: "Dry eye is a common condition that can severely impair the quality of life. We aimed to find out whether oral sea buckthorn oil, containing omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids and antioxidants, affects dry eye." Keratoconjunctivitis sicca, or dry eye syndrome, is a condition where the eyes do not make enough tears, or the tears evaporate too quickly. This produces dry eyes and increases the risk of inflammation. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Got Hay Fever? Pine Bark Extract Appears to Help http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1278737436 A new study reports that daily supplements of an extract from the bark of the French maritime pine may ease symptoms of hay fever (allergic rhinitis). Seven weeks of supplementation with the branded pine bark extract Pycnogenol® also reduced the level of non-prescription antihistamine medication use to only 12.5%. Fifty percent of participants in the placebo group required the antihistamines. Hay fever is an allergic reaction to pollen or fungal spores, most commonly grass pollen. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Study Says Resveratrol May Boost Eye Health http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1278737333 he vascular benefits of resveratrol—a compound in red wine, blueberries and peanuts—may extend to reducing the risk of blindness for diabetics and seniors, says a new study. According to findings published in the American Journal of Pathology, resveratrol could reverse the abnormal formation of blood vessels in the retina of mice subjected to a laser treatment. The researchers note that the findings could have potential benefits for both age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy. AMD is a degenerative retinal disease that causes central vision loss and leaves only peripheral vision, and is the leading cause of legal blindness for people over 55 years of age in the Western world, according to AMD Alliance International. According to the National Institutes of Health, between 40 and 45% of Americans diagnosed with diabetes already have some stage of diabetic retinopathy, a major cause of blindness in people with diabetes. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Eating Healthy Food Is Now Considered A Disease! http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1278266153 Eating disorder charities are reporting a rise in the number of people suffering from what they believe is a serious psychological condition characterised by an obsession with healthy eating. The condition, orthorexia nervosa, affects equal numbers of men and women, but sufferers tend to be aged over 30, middle-class and well-educated. The condition was named by a Californian doctor, Steven Bratman, in 1997, and is described as a “fixation on righteous eating”. Until a few years ago, there were so few sufferers that doctors usually included them under the catch-all label of “Ednos” – eating disorders not otherwise recognised. Now, experts say, orthorexics take up such a significant proportion of the Ednos group that they should be treated separately. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com ER doctors: Lawsuit fears lead to overtesting http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1277882165 Fast decisions on life-and-death cases are the bread and butter of hospital emergency rooms. Nowhere do doctors face greater pressures to overtest and overtreat. The fear of missing something weighs heavily on every doctor's mind. But the stakes are highest in the ER, and that fear often leads to extra blood tests and imaging scans for what may be harmless chest pains, run-of-the-mill head bumps, and non-threatening stomachaches. Many ER doctors say the No. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com New doctors linked to unnecessary deaths, especially in July http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1277530089 (NaturalNews) If you plan on going to a teaching hospital for a test or elective procedure, here's a warning that could save your life: Stay away from the hospital in July. The reason? According to a new study headed by Dr. David Phillips and Gwendolyn Barker from the University of California, San Diego, fatal medication errors soar that month -- especially in teaching hospitals. The research team investigated the cause behind the so-called curious "July Effect" that has long been noted to worsen the outcomes of patients being treated in teaching hospitals during the month of July. Phillips and Barker focused on 244,388 U. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com U.S. Hospitals Secretly Promote Black Market Trading of Harvested Organs for Transplants http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1276925647 (NaturalNews) Many hospitals in the United States are tacitly participating in the illegal organ transplant industry by not scrutinizing potential donors too closely, experts worry. The purchase or sale of organs is illegal in most countries, including the United States, but a chronic shortage of organs for transplant has led to a thriving international black market. Typically, poor donors (usually from Third World countries) are paid several thousand dollars for organs that are then resold for upwards of $100,000 to rich recipients, usually from the First World. The arrests of 44 U.S. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Big Pharma lies about statin drugs finally exposed in British Medical Journal http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1276839424 (NaturalNews) To hear Big Pharma tell it, statin drugs are "miracle" medicines that have prevented millions of heart attacks and strokes. But a recent study published in the British Medical Journal tells a completely different story: For every heart attack prevented by the drug, two or more people suffered liver damage, kidney failure, cataracts or extreme muscle weakness as a result of taking the drug. Statin drugs, in other words, harm far more people than they help. Julia Hippisley-Cox and Carol Coupland led the study which examined data from over two million patients, including over 225,000 patients who were new statin drug users. They found that for every 10,000 women being treated with statins, there were only 271 fewer cases of heart disease. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Less Health Care Results in Better Health http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1276838840 (NaturalNews) In recent studies, less health care is often better than more. Much of the debate about the overuse of medical services has focused on cost. There is fear that cutting costs would lead to a reduction in care. But in reality reducing medical care often has the opposite result: it means better medical care. A series of articles published over the past few years document cases of overuse of medical procedures. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com NY hospitals agree to stop flushing pharmaceuticals down the drain and polluting watershed http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1276706647 (NaturalNews) Five health care facilities have signed an agreement with the New York Attorney General's Office to settle charges that they polluted the state's watersheds by dumping pharmaceutical products down sinks and toilets. In 2008, and Associated Press investigation revealed that the drinking water consumed by more than one-sixth of the U.S. population is contaminated with trace (but potentially biologically active) amounts of over-the-counter and prescription drugs. While some of these chemicals enter sewage systems after being excreted by people taking the drugs, many of them were traced back to a common practice in hospitals and other health-care facilities: disposing of unused pharmaceuticals by flushing them down sinks or toilets. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com WHO Issues Warning About Corruption of Pharmaceutical Industry http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1276280863 The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a fact sheet warning about the corruption and unethical practices that are endemic to every step of the pharmaceuticals business. "Corruption in the pharmaceutical sector occurs throughout all stages of the medicine chain, from research and development to dispensing and promotion," the fact sheet reads. The medicine chain refers to each step involved in getting drugs into the hands of patients, including drug creation, regulation, management and consumption. According to WHO data, unethical practices such as bribery, falsification of evidence, and mismanagement of conflicts of interest are "common throughout the medicine chain." The fact sheet also highlights other forms of corruption specific to particular steps in the chain. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com U.S. Medical Science Corrupted By Chlorine Cartel http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1276122354 American cigarettes could pack a more toxic punch than foreign brands, say researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers compared the levels of tobacco-specific nitrosamines -- a main carcinogenic component of tobacco -- in cigarette butts and in smokers from several countries. hese "researchers" have crafted incomplete, misleading and deceptive results. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks from H1N1 vaccine manufacturers http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1276062578 (NaturalNews) A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers. Several key advisors who urged WHO to declare a pandemic received direct financial compensation from the very same vaccine manufacturers who received a windfall of profits from the pandemic announcement. During all this, WHO refused to disclose any conflicts of interests between its top advisors and the drug companies who would financially benefit from its decisions. All the kickbacks, in other words, were swept under the table and kept silent, and WHO somehow didn't think it was important to let the world know that it was receiving policy advice from individuals who stood to make millions of dollars when a pandemic was declared. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Big Pharma blackmails Greece; halts medicine supply over cash demands http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1276016729 (NaturalNews) In the midst of runaway economic problem in Greece, the pharmaceutical industry has decided to blackmail the nation and halt shipments of medicines to Greece until it agrees to pay full price for the drugs. In order to cut costs during its severe debt crisis, Greece had announced it would pay drug companies 25 percent less for their products, but this loss of profit was enough to convince several pharmaceutical companies supplying key drugs to the country to initiate their own medical blockade where they simply refuse to deliver any more medicines. In doing this, Big Pharma shows its true character. When the profits are flowing and the companies are raking in full-price profits, they're you're best friend. But when budgets get tight and everybody is asked to take a cut, Big Pharma betrays your country and its citizens, withholding medicines in a thinly-veiled blackmail attempt to force you to cough up more cash. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com FDA Requires Liver-Injury Warning On 2 Weight-Loss Drugs http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1275627300 WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it is requiring a new warning about liver injury to be placed on the weight-loss drugs Xenical and Alli. Xenical is a prescription weight-loss drug made by Roche Holding AG (RHHBY, ROG.VX) while Alli is an over-the-counter version of the same drug marketed by GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK, GSK. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Normal human problems are turned into medical conditions, spiking healthcare costs http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1275367555 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Study reveals huge overdiagnosis of cancer causing unnecessary treatment and suffering http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1275161951 (NaturalNews) Imagine being told your imaging tests are back and there's bad news. You have cancer. To save your life, your doctor says, you must submit to surgery, chemo, radiation and a host of additional tests and prescription drugs. Of course, there's no guarantee the malignancy will be totally stopped or that the cancer treatment won't cause both immediate and long-term health consequences. Now imagine the same scenario -- only it turns out the tests were misinterpreted and you really didn't have any sort of life-threatening cancer in the first place. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Obamacare hospitals killed: 60, with 200 on life support Reform law 'thins the herd' to line big health-care companies' pockets http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1274380533 Buried in the recently passed health-care reform bill is a new law granting one of the nation's largest corporate lobbyists what it has been targeting for years: Death to its competition, and, consequently, a heavy blow to patient choice. Section 6001 of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is responsible for Obamacare's first casualties: a reported 60 physician-owned hospitals, which had promised to offer an innovative alternative to big, corporate and non-profit facilities, but under the new law are now "virtually destroyed," according to advocates. Another 200-plus doctor-owned hospitals already in existence may soon be put out of business by the health-care reform law. To Molly Sandvig, executive director of Physician Hospitals of America, the move to cut doctor-owned hospitals out of the national health-care system is a foolish blow to both the industry and the patients it serves. "The American people need more access, not less," she said in a statement. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com SENIOR DEATH WARRANTS -- Mine or Yours? http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1273270366 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Face Switch Patient Amazed By Transformation http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1272128843 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com 8 INVENTED DISEASES BIG PHARMA IS BANKING ON http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1271959644 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com THE 10 BIGGEST HEALTH CARE LIES IN AMERICA http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1271877600 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Venezuela: Cuban Doctors Helping the Poor http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1271787251 April 16 will be the seventh anniversary of the Venezuelan government’s health care program, Mission Barrio Adentro, which has used Cuban doctors to bring free health care to millions of the poor.  The mission began as a pilot project in the impoverished Caracas municipality of Libertador at the suggestion of former mayor Freddy Bernal. It was soon extended across the whole country.  It began with 53 Cuban doctors. In Venezuela now there are 29,255 Cuban health specialists of which a little more than one third are doctors. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com HOSPITAL OVERCHARGES http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1271458484 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com U.S. Hospitals Fail to Improve Patient Safety and Injure and Kill Thousands Every Day http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1271183057 Nearly 1 million patient-safety incidents occurred among Medicare patients over the years 2006, 2007, and 2008 -- the figure remained virtually unchanged since last year’s annual study. In all, the incidents were associated with $8.9 billion in costs. Some of the most common and most serious indicators even worsened, including decubitus ulcer (bed sores), iatrogenic pneumothorax (collapsed lung), post-operative hip fracture, post-operative physiologic and metabolic derangements, post-operative pulmonary embolism (potentially fatal blood clots forming in the lungs) or deep vein thrombosis (blood clots in the legs), post-operative sepsis, and transfusion reaction. One in 10 patients -- almost 100,000 people all told -- experiencing a patient-safety incident died as a result. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Vaccines making our animals sick!! http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1271094787 (NaturalNews) Did you ever wonder why such an alarmingly high percentage of Americans are obese, diabetic, depressed and suffering from cancer, heart disease, kidney disorders and skin problems? Now consider the fact that Americans pay more per capita for health care than any other nation in the world. Americans pay the highest prices, by far, for medications, medical imaging scans, blood work, surgeries, chemotherapy and hospital stays. And yet what does America have to show for it? The most universally diseased population in the world -- and a nation on the verge of bankruptcy caused in part by mainstream medicine. But this isn't a slam on America itself: It's an indictment of the mainstream medical system that has been running a monopoly medical racket in America for roughly the last hundred years. Under the system of monopolistic medical practices enforced by the FDA, AMA, FTC and state medical boards, "mainstream medicine" has taken a nation that was once relatively healthy and turned it into a disease dystopia where patients are actually taught that nutrition doesn't work and that they must submit to patented chemicals in order to be "normal" or healthy.