Health Supreme NewsGrabs - 22 August 2006
Health Supreme's News Grabs - alternative health news and other interesting bytes of information...
FDA POISED TO CHANGE THE HEALTH & WELL BEING OF ALL AMERICANS - (for the worse...)
The FDA is now poised to dramatically change the health and well being of all Americans. Unfortunately, they are headed in the wrong direction—straight over a cliff. The FDA is supposed to make sure drugs are safe and effective; they are mandated to protect the public. However, the top two positions at the FDA are now headed by Big Pharma representatives...
Side Effects
This film by Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau documents how medicine went the wrong way by choosing the pharma route. Latest press reports on this blog.
Chemo Complications: Underreported?
Sixteen percent of the breast cancer patients in the study who had chemotherapy experienced serious adverse chemotherapy-related health events that resulted in hospitalization or an emergency visit to the hospital.
A User-Friendly Vaccination Schedule
Vaccination is a controversial subject, and many parents worry about subjecting their children to them. Readers of my article "Mercury on the Mind," about vaccines and dental amalgams, have asked what vaccines I would recommend their children receive. This article addresses that question.
Bioengineered Rice in the US Food Supply
Bayer CropSciences has notified the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture that trace amounts of a bioengineered variety of rice were detected in samples of commercial rice seed, and may have entered the food and feed supply in the United States. The bioengineered variety of rice expresses the phosphinothricin-N-acetyltransferase (PAT) protein which provides tolerance to glufosinate-ammonium herbicide. This rice variety, not intended for commercialization, was not submitted to FDA for evaluation...
The location and extent of the contamination are apparently not known to either the FDA or the Department of Agriculture.
THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR FOOD THAT NOBODY HEARD
Did we just read that our government allows the planting of genetically engineered crops, whose safety is unknown, without a WRITTEN plan for keeping those crops from contaminating anything planted around them, or the entire environment, for that matter? And did Mr. Young just tell us that inspections are done with a phone call?
posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Tuesday August 22 2006
updated on Wednesday December 8 2010URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/08/22/health_supreme_newsgrabs_22_august_2006.htm