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Skip The Drugs…Change Your Food Sources

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) I was doing some research for a fiend whose child had just been “diagnosed” Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) by a school nurse who suggested drug therapy. My first thought was a Kindergarten version of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’…dazed and compliant preschoolers. In the past decade, ADHD, ”Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, [...]

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My Girl Died As ‘Guinea Pig’ For Gardasil®

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

In a previous Inconvenient Woman Blog entry we noted the death of 17 year old Jessica Ericzon, “an all-American teenager,” whose tragic death has been tied to the Merck vaccine Gardasil®. Jefferson County Medical Examiner Samuel Livingstone, reported Jessie’s death to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. Her family started the Jessica Ericzon Memorial [...]

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GARDASIL Vaccine: The Damage Continues Part II

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

More Reports of Coincidental Collateral Damage  Reported by Barbara Loe Fisher The reports of HPV vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths continue to roll in, not only to NVIC but also to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (Search HPV4 at: http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.html) newspapers, and television stations. And the only response that comes from officials at [...]

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CDC Spin on Gardasil and Its Safety

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Quick Links CDC HPV and HPV Disease Information CDC HPV Vaccine Information CDC Vaccine Safety Information HPV Questions and Answers FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research To Report an Adverse Event in VAERS Related Information on Guillain-Barré Syndrome Information from FDA and CDC on Gardasil and its Safety July 22, 2008 Consumers, parents, health care [...]

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Big Pharma Threatens To Deprive Individuals of Natural Weight Loss Alternatives

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 [...]

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Cash Bombs Fall on Canadian Officials as Merck Marketing Blitzkrieg Moves North

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Is the HPV vaccine a victory for women’s health or the triumph of aggressive marketing? Canadian reporters struggle to shed light on a muddled debate that’s as much about business as it is about health. When federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced $300 million in funding for a program to vaccinate girls and young women [...]

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Don’t Let Congress Take Your Vitamins Away!

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

In 1994, Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). The passage of DSHEA witnessed the biggest victory for consumers in the history of Congress. More letters were written to Congress than on any other piece of legislation in the history of our country. The voice of the people spoke louder on dietary [...]

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Big Fat Pharma Liars

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Industry attacks supplements to eliminate weight-loss competition. Big Pharma is at it again, this time teaming up with other anti-supplement cohorts to spearhead a petition that urges the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to implement stringent new limitations on manufacturers of weight-management supplements. Of course, it should come as no surprise that the particular large [...]

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The FDA Fails To Protect Patient Rights

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

The Food and Drug Administration should rethink its rejection of the Declaration of Helsinki. Later this year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will adopt new standards for human clinical trials conducted without its advance sign-off in foreign countries. The rules will govern whether data from such trials can be used in applications to [...]

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Big Pharma Passes the Buck

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, [...]

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