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Researchers Question Wide Use of HPV Vaccines

August 21, 2008 – 1:04 pm
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

FINALLY!
In June of 2006, my writing partner, Leslie Botha, and I, started writing articles cautioning women against the use of Gardasil® for girls and young women. We cited the limited nature of the clinical trials (the number, and ages of women tested) and the length of time from the clinical trials and the FDA [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in Big Pharma Watch, Cancer Research, Cervical Cancer, Children's Health, Exploitive Behavior, FDA Clinical Trials, FDA Failure To Protect, Follow The Money, Gynecology, HPV Infection, HPV Vaccine, Health Advisory, Health Care, My Opinion, Pediatrics, Reproductive Health, Take Action! | Comments (0)

What is the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)?

July 28, 2008 – 8:11 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Inconvenient Women PAY ATTENTION
As Big Phama lobbies “Your” Congressional representatives to “control” the American public’s access to natural, “food-based” supplements it is probably a good thing to review the “LAW” that has been in place since 1994. Recently Congress has shown an alarming propensity to write new law instead of adequately enforcing existing legislation. [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in Big Pharma Watch, FDA (FOIA), My Opinion, Proactive Nutrition, Take Action!, Woman’s Health, Your Body/Your Self | Comments (0)

Big Pharma Threatens To Deprive Individuals of Natural Weight Loss Alternatives

July 25, 2008 – 12:54 pm
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Help Protect Health Freedom Today!
Since when has natural health been a crime?
As if the present war on natural health alternatives wasn’t enough, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSK), is now petitioning the FDA to determine that dietary supplements claiming to promote, assist or otherwise help with any aspect of weight loss are “disease claims,” and thereby [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in Big Pharma Watch, Follow The Money, Questionable Medicine, Your Body/Your Self | Comments (0)

Big Pharma Passes the Buck

May 14, 2008 – 5:42 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Drug manufacturers could be protected from side-effect lawsuits.
 
Synthetic drug treachery has plummeted to a new ethical low with a disturbing development that may grant Big Pharma eternal immunity from consumer lawsuits. This most recent affront to justice involves a birth-control drug with side effects believed to have caused the deaths of 40 women, along [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in Big Pharma Watch, Exploitive Behavior, FDA Conflict of Interest, FDA Failure To Protect, Follow The Money, Take Action! | Comments (0)

Is the HPV Vaccine the Highest and Best Use of Our Resources

September 3, 2006 – 12:51 pm
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Overview: Breast Cancer Research/Treatment vs Merck’s Big Payday
The furor of the FDA’s rapid approval of Merck HPV Vaccine (Gardasil) and the ‘pre/post vaccine approval’ marketing and legislative blitzkrieg by Merck is now turning into jaw-dropping sticker-shock.
The cost of ‘immunizing’ over 21 million sixth-grade girls in the United States today, at $360 for a three-shot series [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Also posted in Big Pharma Watch, Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, HPV Infection | Comments (0)

Health Care Expenditures

September 9, 2005 – 1:48 pm
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

…and Who Pays
The United States continues to spend more on health than any other industrialized country.
Major payers for health care include public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, and private health insurers such as health maintenance organizations and other managed care entities.
In 2003 national health care expenditures in the United States totaled $1.7 trillion, a [...]

By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Comments (0)