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How Many Are Dying in Hospitals? - President Wants To Know
You may not see it on your local news but it comes across global news feeds daily - As many as 98,000 Americans each year are dying in US hospitals. What is often not mentioned is who is behind the news. There are massive opportunities for lawmakers and politicians to find a "solution" to this incre...
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5,000 Deaths Per Year From Hospital Infections in UK
Reuters reported yesterday that hospital infections might be killing 5,000 patients a year in the United Kingdom. The report sheds light on a huge problem occurring in hospitals; infections that develop while patients are in the hospital and then result in death.
According to the report, it is ...
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Drug Sales Up Worldwide Thanks to U.S.
For our Canadian and international readers, this just gives you one more reason to point fingers at those of us in the U.S.
It was reported today that retail pharmaceutical sales were up 10% worldwide for 1999, driven by a rise in drug use in the United States.
To top that off, the fastest...
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Accidental death more likely from an M.D. than a gun owner
(These statistics come from a web site we found and have not been verified for accuracy. The numbers should get you to stop and think and hopefully search for more information.)
Someone read a recent article in the Seattle Washington Post-Intelligencer concerning accidental deaths caused by...
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Move Over Ritalin - Adderall is Twice as Potent
According to recent reports, the controversial drug Ritalin is beginning to be phased out of the marketplace in favor of a powerful blend of amphetamines known as Adderall.
Adderall is reported to be twice as potent as Ritalin (like crack is to cocaine?) and was originally marketed as an obesit...
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A Positive Attitude Equals Better Health
Terence Monmaney of the L.A. Times reports that "research into the topic of optimism finds not only that positive people live longer, but that a sunny outlook can be taught."
Science has largely avoided the subject of optimism during the past century. The topic of optimism was so disreputable "...
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More Rezulin Drug Deaths Despite Warning
he Los Angeles Times reports that Deaths are climbing since the FDA received a warning on the dangers of Rezulin.
Although FDA officials were publicly warned that "every patient taking the diabetes pill Rezulin was at risk of sudden liver failure and no reliable way existed to protect them" b...
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Drugs, Side Effects, and Death
According to new reports, government uncovers too few of the injuries and deaths caused by prescription drug side effects.
Recent studies suggest that an estimated 2 million Americans are hospitalized annually from drug side effects, and 100,000 die.
Interestingly, the FDA does not req...
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Gene Therapy Deaths Hidden
Test Deaths Weren't Reported to NIH
(AP) - Two researchers trying to grow new blood vessels around blocked ones failed to report to the National Institutes of Health that six people died during their gene therapy studies.
Ronald Crystal of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in Manha...
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Clinton Orders Human Experiments
Executive Order 13139 is requiring military personnel to receive experimental vaccines not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Courts-martial are pending.
A day after Republican Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut ended congressional hearings on the controversial decision mandating the ...
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Drug company-sponsored studies less critical than independent studies
CHICAGO (AP) - Studies on the cost-effectiveness of drugs are far more likely to report favorable findings if they are sponsored by the drug companies themselves rather than independent groups, researchers found.
Their study - funded by a pharmaceutical company - appears to confirm long-held...
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Can childhood vaccinations cause devastating illnesses?
Shots in the Dark
October 18th, 1999 - The Los Angeles Times today reported an article on vaccine safety. "Can childhood vaccinations cause devastating illnesses? Researchers haven't confirmed a link, but some concerned parents argue that inoculations are posing a threat to their children." Altho...
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Compensating Vaccine Injuries: Are Reforms Needed?
Summary 9/28 Congressional Hearing on VICP
The U.S Congress Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Human Resources and Drug Policy (the same subcommittee that held the hearing on May 18, 1999) held another hearing on Tuesday, September 28, 1999 at 10:00 AM entitled "Compensating Vaccine Injuries:...
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Health care's deadly secret: Accidents routinely happen
By Andrea Gerlin
The Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital is a typical teaching hospital. It is known for cutting-edge research programs, for training medical students and newly graduated doctors, and for providing advanced medical care.
It is also representative of modern American hospita...
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Drug maker sought sales increase despite evidence
DALLAS (AP) -- Despite growing evidence that a link existed between the diet drugs fen-phen and fatal lung disease and heart damage, a maker of one of the drugs lobbied the government to relax limits on its use, The Dallas Morning News reported Monday.
Internal company memos in 1996 indicated tha...
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