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Showing posts with label breast cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breast cancer. Show all posts

Saturday, December 12, 2009

NYT: Menopause, as Brought to You by Drug Companies

DEAD ASS LAST AWARD Pictures, Images and Photos
Mare's urine, you say?

From the article:

PREMPRO is a combination of Premarin, an estrogen drug derived from the urine of pregnant mares and first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1942, with an additional hormone, progestin.

Part of the Premarin saga shows how a drug maker successfully and cannily expanded a franchise whose central ingredient is horse estrogens into a billion-dollar panacea for aging women. Yet several hundred pages of court documents also raise questions about another aspect of Premarin’s trajectory: how Wyeth worked over decades to maintain the image and credibility of its hormone drugs even as the products were repeatedly under siege.

Pfizer representatives say court documents paint an unfair picture of Wyeth’s practices and that plaintiffs’ lawyers have cherry-picked documents for out-of-context comments to sway juries.

Still, the documents offer a snapshot of Wyeth’s efforts. Taken together, they depict a company that over several decades spent tens of millions of dollars on influential physicians, professional medical societies, scientific publications, courses and celebrity ads, inundating doctors and patients with a sea of positive preventive health messages that plaintiffs’ lawyers say deflected users’ attention from cancer concerns.
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Update: a video on hormones and cancer that Big Pharma does not want us to see:

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Movie Trailer: The Idiot Cycle



Official trailer for "The Idiot Cycle" feature length documentary produced by Emmanuelle Schick Garcia and Laila Tahhar. To be released Fall 2009. www.theidiotcycle.com.

From the site:
"It has now been scientifically demonstrated that there is indeed a link between chemical products and the appearance of diseases, such as cancers, infertility, degenerative diseases of the central nervous system and allergies."
CPME - Standing Committee of European Doctors, 2005
"There is little direct evidence of widespread ill health or ecosystem damage by the use of man-made chemicals."
Alan Perroy, Director General of the European Chemical Industry Council, in a 2001 letter to European Members of Parliament.

Once upon a time, a king accumulated most of the gold in his kingdom. His subjects were very poor, without land to grow food. When the subjects began to starve and watch their families perish, they realized they had nothing to lose.

They stormed the castle and found the king in a large room, cowering next to his mounds of gold, begging them not to steal his gold.

The subjects did not take the gold. But they left the room and locked the king inside.

Upon leaving they called out, "now you will be able to see the real worth of your gold."

The king, trapped in the room with no water, air or food, realized the gold was useless.

This story became the impetus for The Idiot Cycle - a film about cancer.

"Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud."
Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in chemistry

Saturday, April 25, 2009

India's "holy spice" reveals its secrets

"Let your food be your medicine" said Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine

"Scientists in Michigan are reporting discovery of the secret behind the fabled healing power of the main ingredient in turmeric — a spice revered in India as "holy powder." Their study on the ingredient, curcumin, appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In the study, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy and colleagues point out that turmeric has been used for centuries in folk medicine to treat wounds, infections, and other health problems. Although modern scientific research on the spice has burgeoned in recent years, scientists until now did not know exactly how curcumin works inside the body.
Using a high-tech instrument termed solid-state NMR spectroscopy, the scientists discovered that molecules of curcumin act like a biochemical disciplinarian. They insert themselves into cell membranes and make the membranes more stable and orderly in a way that increases cells' resistance to infection by disease-causing microbes."

More information: "Determining the Effects of Lipophillic Drugs on Membrane Structure by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy -- the Case of the Antioxidant Curcumin," Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Source: American Chemical Society

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Friday, November 14, 2008

Smoked Out

The New York Times offers us a slideshow of the history of tobacco advertising in America, with babies, dentists, athletes and doctors - even Santa - urging us to smoke. Link

Monday, March 10, 2008

Pharmawater: Drugs in the Drinking Water

pillwave

An interactive feature online
Pharmawater from KALB
The US Government suppressed a major public health report. Apparently top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention thought this was too hot for the public to handle.
Download excerpts from the report

Friday, March 7, 2008

Pharmaceuticals Anonymous Frogs Poster

extra kick frogs3000let
Click on the image to download a free fair-use copy.

Apart from dangers of addiction, dependency, health damage and birth defects which some which some medications present, there are environmental concerns we must address.
Scientific American reports that fish you eat may contain a pharmochemical load sufficient to cause
breast cancer
The very same companies that make medications to treat cancer may be making the chemicals that cause it.
Is Avon's cancer ambassador, Reece Witherspoon, aware of this?