Bird flu vaccine linked to 18 teenage suicides in Japan

March 1, 2007 
JAPANESE health authorities are investigating a flu medicine that is also available in Australia after a teenager jumped 11 storeys to his death after taking the drug. It was the 18th juvenile fatality linked to Tamiflu in 17 months.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has asked the Japanese importer of Tamiflu, an [...]

Dr. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch Exposed In Court Cases

At trial, under a heated cross-examination by Negrete, Barrett conceded that he was not a Medical Board Certified psychiatrist because he had failed the certification exam.
This was a major revelation since Barrett had provided supposed expert testimony as a psychiatrist and had testified in numerous court cases. Barrett also had said that he was a [...]

Watching the Quackwatch Watchers

Far from being healers in any way, Quackwatch is about ugly Smear Campaigns and SLAPP lawsuits to waste the time, energy, and resources of their many, many targets.
They wage War on every level possible, via Med Boards, meritless lawsuits, smear campaigns, harassing government agencies about those they wish to silence and filling Internet with lies. [...]

Is Wikipedia Infiltrated by Quackbuster Views

The quackbusters can not be allowed to turn Wikipedia into Quackwatch Wikistyle anymore … any help there would be appreciated … please go read what is interesting to you on Wiki … then look at the history and the talk pages … there’s where the fight for the information goes on … it’s one of the front [...]

Plaintiffs Ordered to Payup

GOLDOWITZ, MARK Law Offices of E. Grell
Attn: , Attn: Dillon, Ian P.
2903 Sacramento Street 360 22nd Street
Berkeley, CA 94702- Suite 320
Oakland, CA 94612
Superior Court of California, County of Alameda
Rene C. Davidson Alameda County Courthouse
BARRETT No. C-83302l
Plaintiff/Petitioner(s)
YS.
Application Re: Temporary
Restraining Order & OSC re
Preliminary Injunction Denied
CLARK
Defendant/Respondent(s)
(Abbreviated Title)
IT IS ORDERED that the Application of Plaintiffs for Temporary Restraining [...]

Pregnancy hormone may help multiple sclerosis patients

A pregnancy-related hormone helps rebuild the protective coating around nerve cells in mice, according to
University of
Calgary researchers. The finding offers hope for treatment of multiple sclerosis, a devastating neurodegenerative disease and other neurological disorders in humans. It’s been an long-time observation that women with multiple sclerosis (MS) tend to go into remission when they become [...]

Quackbusters BUSTED!!!!

Courts Seize “Quackbuster” Bank Accounts, Property…
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Bolen Report A few days ago, Christopher Grell, one of the Plaintiffs, and the attorney for the Plaintiffs Stephen Barrett and Terry Polevoy , filed an emergency Ex Parte Motion with the Alameda, California Trial Court in the Barrett v. Clark (Rosenthal) case asking for a Temporary [...]

FDA: Tell patients about risks of ADHD drugs

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced its decision to require manufacturers of medications approved to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to inform patients of possible adverse effects of using all types of ADHD drugs and approaches that can be used to minimize the risks. The drugs of concern include Adderall, Adderall XR, [...]

New benefits found for folic acid

Women who take vitamins containing folic acid before and during pregnancy appear to significantly cut the risk that their infants will develop three common childhood cancers, Canadian researchers say.Folic acid is already known to diminish the chance that a child will be born with spina bifida or other neural tube defects, but it may also [...]

Researchers Look at Prayer and Healing

At the Fairfax Community Church in Virginia, the faithful regularly pray for ailing strangers. Same goes at the Adas Israel synagogue in Washington and the Islamic Center of Maryland in Gaithersburg.
In churches, mosques, ashrams, “healing rooms,” prayer groups and homes nationwide, millions of Americans offer prayers daily to heal themselves, family, friends, co-workers and even [...]