The tendency of a mass vaccination program is to herd people. People are not cattle or sheep. They should not be herded. A mass vaccination program carries a built-in temptation to oversimplify the problem; to exaggerate the benefits; to minimize or completely ignore the hazards; to discourage or silence scholarly, thoughtful and cautious oppo...
A June, 2011 New England Journal Of Medicine article titled "Early-Childhood Membranous Nephropathy Due to Cationic Bovine Serum Albumin"[1] recently caught my attention. Namely, because it admits the plausible association between circulating cationic bovine(cow) serum albumin (BSA, a common vaccine ingredient) and a very difficult-to-treat form ...
An international team of researchers recently confirmed that children who drink fresh milk – unprocessed and unpasteurized – have a better immune response to allergens and are far less likely to develop asthma.
Researchers from Indiana, Switzerland, and Germany ran surveys and tests on Swiss and US children aged 6-12 years and submitted thei...
[Cohain JS. Mars Attack. Midwifery Today 2008:88:24, 66-7. Copyright Midwifery Today. Reprinted with the explicit permission of the author]
Abstract: "Mars Attack" is new term coined to describe unjustified violation of women by care providers at the time of birth, as well as the purposeful abandonment of the peer review system by major obste...
Calcium Supplements Increase Heart Attack Risk by 86 Percent
New research published in the journal Heart has confirmed the findings of two controversial studies on calcium supplementation and heart attack risk published in the British Medical Journal last year, and which found a 24-27% increased risk of heart attack for those who took 500 m...
[Reprinted with the explicit permission of the author, Cohain JS. In-links added by GreenMedInfo.com. The Epidural Trip. Midwifery Today 2010:95:21-4, 65. © 2010 Midwifery Today]
Abstract: Two million American women will take an epidural trip this year during childbirth. In most cases, they'll be ill-informed as to possible side effect...
Abstract: Case controlled studies show no benefit to inducing for postdates. Routinely inducing for postdates is based on 3 uncontrolled, retrospective studies showing 1/1000 less stillbirths while ignoring possible increases in brain damage to newborns as a result of induction. Induction or Elective cesarean for Precious pregnancies is justif...
The CDC announced on June 8th that they are almost at the finish line of global polio eradication. They’ve not had a case of wild polio since January 13, 2011. Whoopee! But they still have plenty of paralysis. In fact they have more and more every year. AND …children with non-polio Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP), the new name for polio, are at...
(Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, June 11, 2012)
by Steve Hickey, PhD, Andrew W. Saul, PhD, and Robert G. Smith, PhD
(OMNS June 11, 2012) There is a global tendency to popularize pharmaceutical industry pseudoscience that harms patients and prevents health. Far from being critical, the media are easily taken in by corporate medicine. Two r...
Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair...
I was young, exceedingly light on Euros and on my first trip to Italy. Despite my financial challenges, I had friends in high places. When you’re traveling 'low end’ that means friends who are locals. In that regard, I was abundant. As the boa...