Public Release: 6-Jul-2015 Fundamental beliefs about atherosclerosis overturned Complications of artery-hardening condition are No. 1 killer worldwide University of Virginia Health System Doctors’ efforts to battle the dangerous atherosclerotic plaques that build up in our arteries and cause heart attacks… Read More ›
Pharmaceutical – Medical Devices
What those guys are doing to make Universal Culling, oh excuse me Health Care a more efficient process….
Link found between autoimmune diseases, medications, and a dangerous heartbeat condition
Public Release: 6-Jul-2015 Screening and counseling recommended to decrease risk of life-threatening arrhythmias SUNY Downstate Medical Center Mohamed Boutjdir, PhD, professor of medicine, cell biology, and physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, has led a study with international… Read More ›
Statins linked to lower aggression in men, but higher in women
“One early hypothesis was that lower levels of cholesterol may reduce brain serotonin. (The connection between low brain serotonin activity and violence has been viewed as one of the most consistent findings in biological psychiatry.) “ Public Release: 1-Jul-2015… Read More ›
How H1N1 and the Pandremix vaccine might cause narcolepsy
Public Release: 1-Jul-2015 Stanford study: Immune response to a flu protein yields new insights into narcolepsy Stanford University Medical Center An international team of researchers has found some of the first solid evidence that narcolepsy may be a so-called “hit-and-run”… Read More ›
Repeated courses of antibiotics may profoundly alter children’s development
Public Release: 30-Jun-2015 New study in mice from NYU Langone Medical Center finds multiple, long-lasting effects after several courses of antibiotics commonly used in children NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine June 30, 2015, NEW… Read More ›
Study: Severe asthma fails to respond to mainstay treatment
Public Release: 29-Jun-2015 University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences PITTSBURGH, June 29, 2015 – The immune response that occurs in patients with severe asthma is markedly different than what occurs in milder forms of the lung condition, according… Read More ›
Flu virus mutated to escape current vaccine design
Public Release: 25-Jun-2015 Wistar scientists pinpoint mutations responsible for ineffective 2014-2015 flu vaccine A phenomenon known as ‘antigenic drift’ has caused mutations to accumulate and prevent antibodies from attaching themselves to the virus The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA–(June 25, 2015)–Viruses like… Read More ›
Study: Whooping cough resurgence due to vaccinated people not knowing they’re infectious?
Public Release: 24-Jun-2015 Santa Fe Institute Pertussis cases in the United States from 1922 through 2012 and in the UK from 1940 through 2013. Shaded regions correspond to the pre-vaccine era, the DTP era, and the DTaP era, respectively. Credit:… Read More ›
Medical marijuana ‘edibles’ mostly mislabeled, study shows
Public Release: 23-Jun-2015 “ Laboratory testing showed 44 products (59 percent) had detectible levels of CBD, but the average ratio of THC to CBD was 36-to-1” Review of small sample of dispensary products suggests buyers at risk of overdosing or… Read More ›
Medication may stop drug and alcohol addiction
Public Release: 23-Jun-2015 University of Texas at Austin Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have successfully stopped cocaine and alcohol addiction in experiments using a drug already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat… Read More ›
Current blood cancer drug prices not justified, MD Anderson study finds
Public Release: 23-Jun-2015 “ Current drug prices could cause extremely large financial burdens, even for the well insured.” University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center The costs associated with cancer drug prices have risen dramatically over the past 15… Read More ›
Cardiac device wearers should keep distance from smartphones
Public Release: 22-Jun-2015 Patients should hold phone to opposite ear and not store phone in pocket over device European Society of Cardiology Milan, Italy, June 22 — Cardiac device wearers should keep a safe distance from smartphones to avoid unwanted… Read More ›
Whistleblowers accuse Merck of withholding info on mumps vaccine
June 11, 2015 | By Eric Sagonowsky If Merck ($MRK) has answers regarding the efficacy of its mumps vaccine, it’s not being forthright, says a letter filed by an attorney representing two former Merck virologists who are now whistleblowers…. Read More ›
Individuals with social phobia have too much serotonin — not too little
Public Release: 17-Jun-2015 Uppsala University Previous studies have led researchers to believe that individuals with social anxiety disorder/ social phobia have too low levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin. A new study carried out at Uppsala University, however, shows that the… Read More ›
Prescription drug benefit doesn’t save money for Medicare
Public Release: 16-Jun-2015 Researchers conclude that Medicare Part D did not save the (Medicare) program any money overall Northeastern University For years, the Medicare prescription drug benefit Part D has been credited with positively impacting national trends in health outcomes… Read More ›
Tetra-GX Part 1: The Idea – Behind the Scenes
Editors Note: ( Ralph Turchiano ) For those unfamiliar, this is a pet project that we have been working on for a few years. There are three more parts that will be following over the next few days. Tetra-GX Part… Read More ›
ABC pressured to withdraw valid study critical of statins
Editors Notes: ( Ralph Turchiano) Two articles are posted here the first one explaining the validity of the study. The second how ABC was pressured to withdraw the episodes in regards to the valid study. Australians cut back on… Read More ›
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs inhibit ovulation after just 10 days
Public Release: 11-Jun-2015 Data suggest short-term use of over-the-counter drugs could negatively impact fertility European League Against Rheumatism Rome, June 11 — The results of a study presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2015) show… Read More ›
Invasive Candida reversed by Common Herb (In Vitro)
Invasive Candida reversed by Common Herb (In Vitro) C. albicans cells exist in different morphological states (yeast, pseudohypha, hypha) and can undergo white-opaque phenotype switching in certain conditions. The ability to convert from yeast or pseudohyphal states to the hyphal… Read More ›
Heart attack risk increases 16-21 percent with use of common antacid
Public Release: 10-Jun-2015 Houston Methodist HOUSTON — ( June 4, 2015 ) – Adults who use proton pump inhibitors are between 16 and 21 percent more likely to experience a heart attack than people who don’t use the commonly prescribed… Read More ›
Surgical anesthesia in young children linked to effects on IQ, brain structure
Public Release: 8-Jun-2015 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center CINCINNATI – Children who received general anesthesia for surgery before age 4 had diminished language comprehension, lower IQ and decreased gray matter density in posterior regions of their brain, according to a… Read More ›
All Guelph students diagnosed with mumps had been vaccinated
CTV KitchenerPublished Wednesday, June 3, 2015 5:56PM EDTLast Updated Wednesday, June 3, 2015 6:34PM EDT All five recent cases of the mumps virus in Guelph involved students who had received their vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella, public health… Read More ›
Patients Get Extreme to Obtain Hepatitis Drug That’s 1% the Cost Outside U.S.
by Shannon Pettypiece Ketaki Gokhale June 1, 2015 — 2:01 PM PDT Joel Roth, 65, of San Rafael, Calif., is a long-suffering Hepatitis C patient who is taking Sovaldi, which costs $1,000 per pill, or $84,000 for a… Read More ›
Common Medications associated with Homicide
The newly published study analysed the pre-crime use of prescription drugs among all persons convicted of a homicide in Finland between 2003 and 2011 “Benzodiazepines can weaken impulse control, and earlier research has found that painkillers affect emotional processing. 1…. Read More ›
Are you taking too much NyQuil? The surprising futility of drug labeling
Public Release: 2-Jun-2015 American Marketing Association Any box or bottle of over-the-counter (OTC) medicine lists its active ingredients prominently on the label. But are consumers using that information to make wise choices about taking two or more OTC drugs at… Read More ›
Prescription drugs associated with an increased risk of committing a Homicide
Anti-depressants were associated with a slightly elevated risk (+31%), Benzodiazepines (drugs used to treat anxiety and insomnia) with a significantly elevated risk (+45%). Opiate painkillers (+92%) Anti-inflammatory painkillers (+206%). In persons under 26 years of age, the highest increase in… Read More ›
Which Cancer drugs cure and which don’t
Public Release: 30-May-2015 ESMO announces scale to stratify magnitude of clinical benefit of anticancer medicines This is the PDF to the full study. Drug Charts are towards the bottom of the study: Cancer Drug Field Study 2015 European Society for… Read More ›
Study shows hypothermia occurs during surgery in around half of patients
Public Release: 29-May-2015 ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology) A study presented at this year’s Euroanaesthesia congress in Berlin (30 May-2 June) shows that hypothermia occurs in around half of patients undergoing surgery, despite national guidelines for its prevention. The study… Read More ›
US military accidentally shipped live Anthrax to nine labs
27 MAY 2015 US officials accidentally sent Anthrax to labs in nine states The US military accidentally sent live Anthrax samples to as many as nine labs across the country. There were no public threats from the mishap, a… Read More ›
Drug treatments to prevent hip fracture are neither viable, cost effective, yet dangerous
Public Release: 26-May-2015 “Pharmacotherapy can achieve at best a marginal reduction in hip fractures at the cost of unnecessary psychological harms, serious medical adverse events Current strategy is inefficient and associated with considerable harms, say experts Professor Teppo Järvinen and… Read More ›
Vaccines that Contain Latex ;CDC PINKBOOK Feb 2015 ;Packaging Exposure
” should not be administered unless the benefit of vaccination outweighs the risk for a potential allergic reaction” Below this line is for search engine access. Latex in Vaccine Packaging “If a person reports a severe (anaphylactic) allergy to latex,… Read More ›
Obese teens’ brains unusually susceptible to food commercials, Dartmouth study finds
Public Release: 21-May-2015 – TV food commercials activated overweight adolescents’ brain region that controls their mouths Dartmouth College IMAGE: The most surprising finding of a new Dartmouth College study was that TV food commercials activated overweight adolescents’ brain region that… Read More ›
Beyond the poppy: A new method of opium production
Public Release: 18-May-2015 Discovery by researchers from Concordia and Berkeley could lead to the synthetic manufacturing of painkillers and other drugs Concordia University Moonshiners and home-brewers have long used yeast to convert sugar into alcohol. New research shows that those… Read More ›
Noted urologist calls attention to implications of flawed prostate specific antigen data in SEER
Public Release: 18-May-2015 Editorial in The Journal of Urology® warns of impact on previous research results Elsevier Health Sciences New York, NY, May 18, 2015 — The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently announced that it had removed all prostate specific… Read More ›
Anemia can lead to a false diagnosis of diabetes
Public Release: 13-May-2015 Anemia distorts regular method of diabetes diagnosis and questions its reliability Diabetologia The use of glycated haemoglobin (sugar-bound haemoglobin, or HbA1c) is now in almost universal use to assist doctors in the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes…. Read More ›
Infant antibiotic use linked to adult diseases
Public Release: 13-May-2015 New study may lead to recommendations for antibiotic usage and a clinical test for measuring gut microbe development in children University of Minnesota IMAGE: This framework shows different evidence-supported ways that antibiotics may disrupt the gut microbiota… Read More ›
Debate: Is the long term use of psychiatric drugs harmful?
Public Release: 12-May-2015 -half a million people aged above 65 years die from the use of psychiatric drugs every year in the Western world The controversial topic will be discussed by leading experts at the Maudsley Debate, King’s College London… Read More ›
Campaign to reduce the harms of too much medicine comes to the UK
Public Release: 12-May-2015 BMJ Patients should be encouraged to ask if tests are really needed Doctors should discuss potential harms of treatment with patients Experts will develop lists of common practices that should be stopped A US initiative to get… Read More ›
The Ultimate Ad for Amphetamine
Editors Note: ( Ralph Turchiano ) The American Chemical Society has always produced some of the best educational videos. This one even though technically well put together, may have some unintended interpretations.
Three universities using $1.55M NIH grant to track vaccine attitudes via Twitter
UGA using NIH grant to track vaccine attitudes with Twitter May 1, 2015 developed to study vaccination attitudes and behaviors through social media could change the way researchers conduct public health surveillance. Researchers from the University of Georgia, George Washington… Read More ›
Statins may increase diabetes risk in healthy people by 87%
Public Release: 7-May-2015 Strong statin-diabetes link seen in large study of Tricare patients Increased diabetes risk for those on cholesterol-lowering drugs Veterans Affairs Research Communications In a database study of nearly 26,000 beneficiaries of Tricare, the military health system,… Read More ›
Popular electric brain stimulation method detrimental to IQ scores
Public Release: 5-May-2015 In a double-blinded, randomized study, UNC researchers found that the IQ scores of people who underwent tDCS brain stimulation improved markedly less than did the IQ scores of people in the placebo group University of North Carolina… Read More ›
Vaccine Contamination with other viruses – Avian Leukosis Virus
Editors note: ( Ralph Tuchiano ) In 1999 studies revealed that the measles vaccine was contaminated with : J Virol. 1999 Jul; 73(7): 5843–5851. PMCID: PMC112645 Evidence of Avian Leukosis Virus Subgroup E and Endogenous Avian Virus in Measles and… Read More ›
California measles outbreak may have just given new meaning to the phrase "scaring up some business."
As California measles cases mounted, so did Merck measles vaccine sales April 30, 2015 | By Amirah Al Idrus California measles outbreak may have just given new meaning to the phrase “scaring up some business.” As news of the… Read More ›
FDA overwhelmingly approves a cancer vaccine that does not work
Amgen wins FDA panel nod for T-Vec in melanoma – Wednesday’s vote came just two days after FDA staff reviewers recommended against accelerated approval for the candidate, citing concerns with the trial method and outcomes, specifically the possibility for investigator… Read More ›
phone with the ultimate macro feature
Public Release: 29-Apr-2015 A New attachment turns a smartphone into a microscope that can image and size DNA molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair The Optical Society IMAGE: The imaging device and user interface are shown, with a… Read More ›
Vaccines with Aluminum shown to cause unexpected side effects
Vaccines with Aluminum shown to cause unexpected side effects**Aluminum in Vaccines, a Bad Mix from FEB 2015**– A study of whooping cough vaccinations in Gothenburg a few years ago showed that almost one per cent of the children developed pruritic… Read More ›
Polygamy increases risk of heart disease by more than 4-fold
Public Release: 28-Apr-2015 Risk and severity of heart disease increases with the number of wives European Society of Cardiology APSC 2015 is being held in Abu Dhabi from 29 April to 2 May in conjunction with the XX World Congress… Read More ›
76% of immune thrombocytopenia purpura cases in children aged 12 to 23 months were attributable to measles-mumps-rubella vaccination.
Pediatrics. 2008 Mar;121(3):e687-92. doi: 10.1542/peds.2007-1578. This vaccine causes 1 case of immune thrombocytopenia purpura per every 40,000 doses. Risk of immune thrombocytopenic purpura after measles-mumps-rubella immunization in children. France EK1, Glanz J, Xu S, Hambidge S, Yamasaki K, Black SB,… Read More ›
Drug prices to treat multiple sclerosis soar 700% , point to larger problem
Public Release: 24-Apr-2015 Oregon State University PORTLAND, Ore. – A new study released today found that drugs used to treat multiple sclerosis have soared in price in the past two decades, in some cases more than 700 percent, even though… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 