Sunday, May 29, 2005

Canadian database for adverse drug reactions now online Canadians now have a searchable online database where they can easily check on reports of adverse prescription drug reactions. Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh, who announced the launch of the website database, thinks it will help save lives. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1117066884004_38/?hub=Health If Canada can do this, WHY CAN'T THE U.S.? WRITE YOUR CONGRESMAN - NOW  5:42:35 PM    comment [] WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH COQ10? NOTHING. SO WHY DON'T MORE DOCTORS PRESCRIBE IT? HERE'S YOUR ANSWER: Hundreds of scientific studies have been published on CoQ10, including many involving humans. CoQ10 has also been the subject of ten international scientific and medical meetings. Furthermore, the role of CoQ10 in energy production was basis of the 1978 Nobel prize in chemistry, given to Peter Mitchell, Ph.D. Unfortunately, most doctors in the US are not familiar with the published research regarding the potential of CoQ10 because many of the journals they read rarely discuss the benefits of this and many other nutrients. The reason for this is very simple, nutrients cannot be patented so they are of very little interest to pharmaceutical companies and drug manufacturing laboratories and these are the companies that sponsor and publish most of the journals read by doctors. However, traveling around Europe, China, Japan and South America, has shown me that the story is completely different in the rest of the world, where most health-care professionals are treating their patients with heart failure and other conditions by prescribing CoQ10. In fact, CoQ10 is the fifth most commonly prescribed “drug” in Japan. Want to know more: http://www.healthsavers.info/ProdMoreInfo/CoQ10-MoreInfo.htm   5:34:57 PM    comment [] And yet another industry insider blows the whistle on the pharmaceutical industry's lack of ethics. Medical Editor Turns Activist On Drug Trials   http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111707527980343804,00.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace 5:31:56 PM    comment [] This may be the best idea yet to break the lock of the pharmaceutical industry on medical care... No cure, no pay may be new medicine model By Ben Hirschler, European Pharmaceuticals Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Not satisfied with your prescription medicine? Then demand a refund. Unlikely as it may sound, money-back guarantees could be the next big thing in marketing pharmaceuticals, according to some experts. Professor Claus Moldrup of the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Copenhagen, thinks that a system of not paying for a drug unless it works would be good news, not only for patients and healthcare funders, but also manufacturers. http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&;storyID=8629733 5:16:37 PM    comment [] Massive medical fraud exposed: pharmaceutical company paid doctors to prescribe drugs and run sham clinical trials Just when you thought all the bad news was out, here's an 'insider's' report of the true extent of pharmaceutical industry corruption. http://www.newstarget.com/001298.html 5:12:37 PM    comment [] OH NO!!! WHO IS EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN? Why do we ask? These are real answers given by school children. Q: Name the four seasons. A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink. A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists. Q: How is dew formed? A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire. Q: How can you delay milk turning sour? A: Keep it in the cow. Q: What causes the tides in the oceans? A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature hates a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight. Q: What are steroids? A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs. Q: What happens to your body as you age? A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental. Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty? A: He says good-bye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery. Q: Name a major disease associated with cigarettes. A: Premature death. Q: How are the main parts of the body categorized? (e.g., abdomen.) A: The body is consisted into three parts - the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain; the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels, A, E, I, O, and U. Q: What is the fibula? A: A small lie. Q: What does "varicose" mean? A: Nearby. Q: Give the meaning of the term "Caesarean Section" A: The Caesarean Section is a district in Rome. Q: What does the word "benign" mean?' A: Benign is what you will be after you be eight. 5:03:43 PM    comment [] DO AMERICANS TAKE TOO MANY DRUGS? What do YOU think? Pharmaceutical industry makes more money than all U.S. gas stations combined The $250 billion pharmaceutical industry is actually pulling in more money than every gas station in America combined, leading some to wonder if Americans are taking too many drugs. With drugs claiming to treat everything from headaches to PMS to hyperactive children, some people say that Americans are relying too much on pills. The number of prescriptions in the United States has risen a full two-thirds over the last decade. However, the recent concerns about Vioxx and Bextra have raised new concerns about the safety of all these drugs. In fact, about 125,000 people die from drug reactions and mistakes every year, making it the fourth most common cause of death in America. Related articles on this topic are also available on the NewsTarget Network, including: Hypertension caused by chronic dehydration, says doctor; but pharmaceutical industry prescribes drugs that cause further water loss. 4:57:39 PM    comment []

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