Shaun Jones, 14, died after acne tablet

THE death of a healthy teenage rugby player who died 12 hours after taking medication for acne is the only case of its kind recorded anywhere in the world, an inquest was told yesterday,

The parents of 14-year-old Shaun Jones said they are now considering pursuing a civil case against medical authorities after Cardiff coroner Mary Hassell delivered a narrative verdict into the death of their son. Read More…

The Living Matrix

In this full-length film, The Living Matrix – The Science of Healing — we bring you breakthroughs that will transform your understanding of how to get well and stay well. Now you can get an up-close look at the science of information as medicine. Leading researchers and health practitioners share their discoveries on the “miracle cures” traditional medicine can’t explain. One of Adam’s healings is discussed in this film Read More….

Skeptical about the skeptics

Whenever I really want to be amused, I spend a few minutes reading the latest admonishments and retortments from the extreme skeptics of natural medicine. By “extreme skeptics,” I don’t mean actual critical thinkers who apply genuine open-minded curiosity to the world around them, I mean the pseudoscientific zealots who berate anyone who believes in acupuncture, massage therapy, homeopathy, herbal medicine, sunlight therapy, breath therapy, meditation or any number of other natural healing modalities. They think vitamins are useless, acupuncture isquackery, and that all medical treatment should be limited to drugs, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Read More…

Docs misdiagnose asthma 30 per cent of the time

Up to 30 per cent of Canadians diagnosed with asthma may not actually have the chronic, and sometimes deadly condition, according to the surprising findings of a study appearing Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Read More…

antibiotics disrupt gut for months

A new study reveals that a common antibiotic disrupts normal bacterial levels in the digestive tract of healthy adults for longer than previously thought. Six months later, in fact, some beneficial types of bacteria were still wiped out or remained at levels lower than before the drugs were taken. Read More…

Do MS Societies serve the patient or the drug companies?

When one is stricken with an illness like MS they have very few places to turn for help and guidance. The most obvious source of information is the MS Societies. However it doesn’t take long once you visit their website to see that their main focus is to promote all the toxic drugs available.

The website reads as if it was written by the pharmaceutical industry to push their drugs. Are they really looking out for the MS patient or taking advantage of them? My wife has MS and we attended MS group meetings for years and witnessed friends at those meetings go from having minimal symptoms to in some cases dying. All of these people were taking the drugs recommended on the MS Societies website and non were using alternative treatments. My wife and another lady at these meetings never took MS drugs and they are very functional in society with minimal symptoms. They only used alternative treatments to manage their illness. None of the drugs offered by the drug companies are cures for MS. The side effects are often more serious then the illness that is being treated.

Some of the drugs recommended on their websites are Avonex, Betaseron, Copaxone, Rebif and Tysabri.

Reports of a few of the side effects:

Avonex: Depression, suicidal ideation, and new or worsening other psychiatric disorders

Betaseron: Liver damage; decrease in blood counts; depression

Copaxone: depression, suicide; psychiatric disorders

Rebif: depression, suicide; psychiatric disorders

Tysabri: headaches; depression; stomach pain; muscle pain; tiredness

None of these drugs claim to cure MS. They only claim to reduce the MS attacks but it is a trade off for other more serious symptoms.

There are many alternative modalities that can reduce MS attacks just as effectively and without side effects. Moxibustion; acupuncture, hands on healing, herbal treatments, massage….only to mention a few. The only reference the MS Society has to complementary and alternative therapies is this comment: “There may be risks associated with different types of CAM, including negative interactions with MS therapies.”

When you are doing your own research no matter what your illness you have to know the sponsors of the societies which are supposedly there to help you. In many cases the sponsors are the pharmaceutical industry. Do your own research and you will avoid the serious consequences of being on any of the medications, which in the long term cause more problems than the illness being treated. Take charge of your own research and healing.

The Semmelweis Reflex

On this blog, I often talk about the way the mind works. We are flooded with information all the time, so the mind has to filter through this vast volume of data and choose what to give attention to, then process it into recognizable form. Science tells us the world is quite a different place than what we perceive. What we perceive is a mental construct based on the incoming information, a construct we tune as children until it matches enough with the society in which we function. Conditioning, this is called. Read More…

Stop Bill C-51

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCT DEVELOPERS JOIN THE TORONTO RALLY & MARCH AGAINST BILL C-51  SATURDAY MAY 10 2008 10:30 am in front of Queens Park (South Side)  March begins at 11:00 am THE HARPER GOVERNMENT & BIG PHARMA ARE REMOVING RIGHTFUL ACCESS TO VITAMINS, HERBS, SPICES, DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS & MEDICINAL FOOD. PROTECT OUR RIGHTS TO NATURAL MEDICINE, NATURAL PRODUCTS & DEMOCRATIC FREEDOMS! Read More….

The Next Big Autism Bomb

The Next Big Autism Bomb: Are 1 in 50 Kids Potentially At Risk?
The Next Big Autism Bomb: Are 1 in 50 Kids Potentially At Risk? Posted March 26, 2008 | 09:30 PM (EST) Read More: Autism, Autism Mitochondria, Autism Thimerosal, Autism Vaccine Mercury, Autism Vaccines, Breaking Living News   David Kirby On Tuesday, March 11, a conference call was held between vaccine safety officials at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, several leading experts in vaccine safety research, and executives from America’s Health Insurance Plans, (the HMO trade association) to discuss childhood mitochondrial dysfunction and its potential link to autism and vaccines. It was a sobering event for all concerned, and it could soon become known as the Conference Call heard ’round the world. [full story]

“Quackbuster” operation, a plot

Do not, for even a second, think that the US “Quackbuster” operation, a plot to stop anyone, and everyone, from changing the broken US health care system, is run, or even maintained, by delicensed MD Stephen Barrett out of his 2421 West Greenlea
The Six Components of the 2008 Quackbuster Operation… Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen  Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Do not, for even a second, think that the US “Quackbuster” operation, a plot to stop anyone, and everyone, from changing the broken US health care system, is run, or even maintained, by delicensed MD Stephen Barrett out of his 2421 West Greenleaf Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania address, or his condo at 287 Stoneview, Pittsboro, North Carolina.  It would be foolish to assume that this bitter, nasty, old man, who stumbles through life, tripping from one professional failure to another, is running a cleverly set up plot.  He’s just the “front man.”  The one they want you to focus on.  He’s ill.  He’ll die soon, and someone else will take his place as the frontispiece. So, who really is running it?  And why?  And, how is it being done?  Keep reading, and all will be revealed. [full story]