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http://debunkbigpharma.blognation.us/blog is my new address. Come and check my site out! It blows the Praxis site out of the water. I'm paying $ 5.00 a month for 1 GB storage and 1 GB of bandwidth per month. The site uses Blogware interface and is keyword searchable and uses OPML folders with RSS subscription for each folder. I've uploaded over 120 articles from the Praxis site and life is good. The biggest suprise is how many hits I've already gotten. The Praxis blog has been in operation since April 28th and had 3652 page views. The Debunk has been up since Jun 21st and already has 1096 page views fom 823 Distinct hosts served. Peace Out! Dan http://debunkbigpharma.blognation.us/blog/index.xml 
AMA Weighs In On Morning After Pill
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The largest U.S. physicians group on Monday objected to some pharmacists' conscience-driven refusal to sell the morning-after pill, and suggested doctors may fill the void by dispensing medications themselves. Any pharmacist who objects on the basis of conscience to filling any prescription must make an "immediate referral to an appropriate alternative dispensing pharmacy without interference," the resolution passed by delegates to the American Medical Association's annual convention said. Some pharmacists have filed lawsuits objecting to requirements that they fill all prescriptions. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich issued such a directive earlier this year specifically about the morning-after pill, called Plan B. Quote Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
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Science and Supplement News: Grapefruit Seed Extract May Heal Ulcers
New research from Poland suggests that grapefruit seed extract may shrink and heal stomach ulcers. Although the studies have been performed only in rats, the findings were reported to physicians who treat ulcers and other stomach disorders during the 2005 Digestive Disease Week conference held in Chicago, Ill. The investigators found that treating the rat ulcers with grapefruit seed extract supplements led to a drop in gastric acid, which at higher levels contributes to ulcer formation by irritating stomach tissue. In addition, the ulcers shrank and blood flow to the sites of ulcers increased, a change that may promote healing. The animals were treated with doses of 10 milligrams per kilogram; their ulcers were completely healed after 16 days of treatment. Grapefruit seed extract has both antibacterial and antioxidant properties that may be responsible for the effects seen in the Polish study.
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HIV/AIDS Pandemic Spreading in Women
Over the past 20 years, HIV and AIDS have sickened more women worldwide than any other life-threatening infection, and it's now affecting American women like never before, researchers in Seattle and Baltimore report in a major new overview of the disease in women. While cases in men increased only 1 percent from 1999 to 2003, estimated AIDS cases in U.S. women increased 15 percent, with younger women and women of color especially hard hit, the scientists wrote in Friday's edition of the journal Science. Newly diagnosed men still far outnumber women each year in the U.S. About 31,600 men were diagnosed in 2003, compared with about 11,500 women. But the researchers emphasize that the disease is expanding in women worldwide. "There is no sign that it's going anywhere but up," said Dr. Julie Overbaugh, a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center expert in HIV transmission and co-author of the report. "I think young women are at high risk because of predisposing [physical] factors and because in some situations they have limited abilities to negotiate the terms of sex with their partners." Quote t r u t h o u t - HIV/AIDS Pandemic Spreading in Women
Polyphenols - Alzheimer's Risk May Be Cut
"This is the first study to try to get at polyphenol exposure," said Amy Borenstein of the University of South Florida College of Public Health. Polyphenols, also known as flavonoids, are substances found in plants that have antioxidant properties. Borenstein said polyphenols generally are found in higher concentrations in juices than in whole fruits and vegetables. Quote Alzheimer's Risk May Be Cut
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New US move to spoil climate accord
The documents obtained by The Observer represent an attempt by the Bush administration to undermine completely the science of climate change and show that the US position has hardened during the G8 negotiations. They also reveal that the White House has withdrawn from a crucial United Nations commitment to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions. The documents show that Washington officials: · Removed all reference to the fact that climate change is a 'serious threat to human health and to ecosystems'; · Deleted any suggestion that global warming has already started; · Expunged any suggestion that human activity was to blame for climate change. Quote The Observer | International | New US move to spoil climate accord
Doctors or Drug Dealers
Title: Doctors or Drug Dealers Excerpt: [The pain is so great that]‘‘Suicide might be an option.'' He nearly reached his breaking point a few weeks ago ... Body: [The pain is so great that]‘‘Suicide might be an option.'' He nearly reached his breaking point a few weeks ago when his prescription for an opioid, or narcotic painkiller, ran out. His doctor, Richard A. Nelson, cannot renew the prescription because the federal Drug Enforcement Administration suspended his privileges to dispense certain drugs.
‘Narcotics have never been shown to heal anything,'' said Dr. Bill Rosen, who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Deaconess Billings Clinic. ‘‘All you are doing is putting a Band-Aid on a wound that will never heal.'' ‘‘Physicians are between a rock and a hard place on this,'' said Dr. Douglas Carr, medical director at Deaconess Hospital in Billings. ‘‘We have been unduly concerned about abuse to the detriment of true need and appropriate use.'' http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2005/06/21/featureshealthfitness/hjjejdhijjfehh.txt Quote The Montana Standard - Butte, Montana USA
FDA Recalls Childrens Tylenol (acetaminophen)
FDA Recalls Children's Tylenol Recall -- Firm Press Release FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company.McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals Announces Nationwide Recall of Children's Tylenol Meltaways - 80 Mg, Children's Tylenol Softchews - 80 Mg and Jr. Tylenol Meltaways - 160 Mg Contact:
Kathy Fallon, 215-273-7818
Bonnie Jacobs, 215-273-8994 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Fort Washington, PA -- June 3, 2005 -- McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals is voluntarily recalling all lots and all flavors of Children's TYLENOL® Meltaways 80 mg packaged in bottles and blisters, Children's TYLENOL®SoftChews 80mg packaged in blisters, and Junior TYLENOL® Meltaways 160mg packaged in blisters. The blister package design, as well as the information on the blister package and on the blister and bottle cartons may be confusing and could lead to improper dosing, including over-dosing. Some Children's TYLENOL® Meltaways 80mg and Children's TYLENOL® SoftChews 80mg are packaged in a blister package designed to be convenient for parents who need dosing flexibility depending on the age or weight of the child. The package design includes blister cavities that contain one tablet while other cavities contain two tablets. Concerns have been raised that labeling on the carton and on the back of the two-tablet cavities may erroneously suggest to the consumer that two tablets provide a total of 80mg of the active ingredient, acetaminophen, when two tablets would actually provide 160mg of acetaminophen. Consumers should know that each tablet of Children's TYLENOL Meltaways and Children's TYLENOL SoftChews contains 80 mg of this active ingredient. Each tablet is imprinted with the number "80" to reflect this amount. Caregivers should be guided by the dosage directions in the "Drug Facts" labeling on the carton for the correct number of individual tablets to be given based on the child's age and weight. From My new blog &referrer=)
Show Me A Drug W/O Side-effects & it Will Be A Sugar Pill
Show Me A Drug W/O Side-effects & it Will Be A Sugar Pill Scariest Drug Side Effects( Forbes Online) The Hippocratic Oath tells doctors: "First do no harm." But the chemists who design drugs have a grim rejoinder. "Show me a drug without side effects," a researcher once said, "and I'll show you a sugar pill."
In reality, any chemical that can help a patient can also do some measure of hurt. Some common side effects, like nausea, dizziness or slight fatigue, are manageable--especially if the end result is pneumonia or tuberculosis, diseases that were once deadly but now can be treated with antibiotics. Other side effects are just downright weird. For example, in some patients the allergy medicine Allegra, made by Sanofi-Aventis (nyse: SNY - news - people ), can cause back pain. http://www.forbes.com/2005/06/21/health-drugs-sideffects-cx_mh_0621feat.html?partner=daily_newsletter Keywords: Vioxx, Tysabri, Zoloft, drugs, Crestor, Avastin, Natrecor, Baycol, Celexa, sideefects, Bextra, Paxil, Lipitor, Viagra, Allegra 
L-FOLIC ACID SUPPLEMENTATION IN HEALTHY POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN: EFFECT ON HOMOCYSTEINE AND GLYCO-LIPID
During a study where hospitalized women took 7.5 mg of Folic acid homocysteine levels dropped, insulin sensitivity improved and carbohydrate metabolism improved as well. The authors decided folic acid can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Quote L-FOLIC ACID SUPPLEMENTATION IN HEALTHY POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN: EFFECT ON HOMOCYSTEINE AND GLYCO-LIPID
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CoQ10/New Parkinson's research could stir up further demand
New Parkinson's/CoQ10 research could stir up further demand 
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To freeze animation, right-hand click on 'Play'. 20/06/2005 - A new study into the ability of coenzyme Q10 to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease is on the starting blocks. If the results of much-cited 2002 research by the same team are reiterated, there may be no let-up in the hot demand for CoQ10, writes Jess Halliday.
In an article reviewing research carried out so far into the effects of CoQ10 on the progressive debilitating disease, published in the July issue of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, (Elsevier, vol 107, pp 120-130), Dr Clifford Shults of the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California in San Diego revealed that a new phase III trial is scheduled to commence this year. In the past three years, demand for CoQ10 has escalated, causing soaring prices and reports of fake products entering the market. Although there is no means of qualifying the connection, the increase in demand is thought to have been triggered by the publication of Shults’ earlier phase II study, published in 2002 in the Archives of Neurology (59, pp 1541-1550) , which showed a “positive trend for coenzyme Q10 to slow progressive disability that occurs in Parkinson’s disease.” Quote New Parkinson's/CoQ10 research could stir up further demand
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