Vaccines - A Clear and Present Danger

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recently conceded the first vaccine-autism case.

This case was filed in the no-fault National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program as part of the Autism Omnibus proceedings in the U.S. Federal Court of Claims.

It was one of the first three cases chosen that alleged Thimerosal in childhood vaccines significantly contributed to a child developing autism.

Clifford Shoemaker, of Shoemaker and Associates of Vienna, Virginia, is the attorney of record in the Hanna Poling v. Secretary of HHS (case: 02-1466V).

Experts filing on behalf of the petitioner, Hanna Poling, included pediatric neurologist, Dr. Andrew Zimmerman of Johns Hopkins University, and Maryland geneticist and epidemiologist, Dr. Mark Geier of the Genetic Centers of America.

This concession shows the dishonesty of the continual media spin coming from public health officials and others who maintain there is no evidence that Thimerosal, or any other part of any vaccine, has ever caused autism or, for that matter, has harmed anyone in any way.

The facts are that the Vaccine Compensation Act has already compensated over 2,000 individuals who proved that they were harmed by vaccines, resulting in settlements of nearly two billion dollars.

Additionally, hundreds of peer-reviewed
scientific/medical articles from some the world's best universities have long implicated Thimerosal in vaccines as a causal factor in neurodevelopmental disorders including autism.

Furthermore, in 2003, the U.S. House of
Representatives' Government Reform Committee, after a 3.5-year investigation, concluded that Thimerosal caused the autism epidemic and that the FDA and health authorities were guilty of "institutional malfeasance" in covering it up.

Evidence supporting the connection between mercury and autism include:

1. Published studies from the US and France showing that urinary porphyrins, a biomarker for body-burden of mercury, are elevated in patients diagnosed with autistic disorders (http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org/ ).

2. A published study by researchers at Harvard University that found twice as much mercury and oxidative stress in the brains of those with an autism diagnosis as found in the brains of those who were normal.

3. A study from the US showing a significant relationship between increasing blood mercury levels and an increased risk of a diagnosis of an autistic disorder.

4. Numerous papers by independent researchers showing a link between increasing mercury exposure from childhood vaccines and the risk of a child developing an autistic disorder.

5. Several papers showing that adding low levels of Thimerosal to certain blood, brain, eye, immune, liver and/or muscle cells poisons their cellular mitochondrial pathways and can induce cell death.

Today, despite being banned in Europe and restricted in 7 U.S. states, Thimerosal-containing flu vaccines are still recommended for routine administration to pregnant women and infants, with little or no warning of the presence of this known poison in these and other vaccines.

An immediate ban and recall of vaccines and other drugs containing mercury, formaldehyde, alcohol, formic acid, Hydrochloric acid and other nuerotoxic compounds used in their production must be instituted immediately to stop the epidemic of developmental disorders, including autism, caused by the unsound use of acidic toxic chemicals in medicine.

Reference:
Sick and Tired - A Second Thought About
Viruses, Vaccines and the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis

Scientists May Have New Way to Fight the Flu

(HealthDay News) -- A new scientific discovery could someday lead to medications to fight the flu as well as a vaccine that would not have to be changed every year because it could target a broad range of flu strains.

"We identified new human antibodies that inactivate influenza, not just bird flu, but any of the seasonal influenza viruses that affect us in the winter," said researcher Dr. Wayne A. Marasco, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

The antibodies recognize a new part of the influenza virus and inactivate the virus by a new mechanism, Marasco said, "so it's really a new target, new mechanism, new human antibodies."

Antibodies can be used as drugs, he noted, adding that drugs derived from antibodies are commonplace in treatment for such cancers as colon, breast and lymphoma.

Drugs developed from the newly identified antibodies could, in combination with other treatments, prevent or treat certain avian and seasonal flu strains and could also lead to the development of a long-lasting flu vaccine, the researchers said.

"These flu antibodies can be developed into fully human antibody drugs that could be used in the clinic," Marasco said. Such drugs would be used in the same way antiviral medications, such as Tamiflu, are used today.

Antivirals generally are given to prevent a virus after exposure or to treat a virus once it develops. This year, however, the commonly circulating H1 strains of the influenza virus are resistant to Tamiflu.

Resistance develops because a drug targets the large head of the flu virus, but the virus is able to quickly mutate, making it resistant to medications and vaccines, Marasco explained. That's why there is a new seasonal flu vaccine every year, he said.

But the newly identified antibodies attack the stem of the virus, which is more resistant to change and "does not change amongst the various influenza viruses," he said.

"These antibodies do not replace the flu vaccine," Marasco said. "But the exciting part is, this gives us a new approach to vaccine development. This is a new area that is highly conserved, and the viruses do not appear to easily undergo change in their genetic code to escape the antibodies directed against them."

If a vaccine could be developed to target this area in the virus, he said, it might offer long-term protection.

The study is published in the Feb. 22 online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.

In their research, Marasco and his colleagues identified 10 monoclonal antibodies that can bind with a protein in flu viruses that is needed to allow the virus to enter other cells. The antibodies effectively blocked the ability of the virus to enter other cells.

In addition, the researchers showed that the antibodies protected mice from getting the N5N1 avian flu, which many scientists believe could cause a worldwide flu pandemic. The last flu pandemic occurred in 1918, killing an estimated 40 million people worldwide and 500,000 in the United States alone.

The new monoclonal antibodies were also effective against the 1918 flu strain, Marasco said. More importantly, they were effective against a number of common seasonal flu strains as well.

The next step is to test the antibodies in ferrets, which are commonly used to test new influenza treatments. Marasco said that drugs using these antibodies could be in human clinical trails as early as 2011.

Peter Palese, chairman of the microbiology department at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and author of an accompanying journal editorial, is cautious about the immediate clinical implications of this finding.

"If you have an antibody that is effective against several viruses, it could be theoretically used as a passive immunization," Palese said. "If one could also make a vaccine, one would have a universal vaccine."

But Palese noted that any drug or vaccine using antibodies would have to be better than what is currently available. "This finding promises that there is a way to develop a universal influenza vaccine," he said.

The antibodies are effective against about half of currently known flu strains, but the approach could be used to find additional antibodies that could work against the others, he said.

Dr. Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine in New York City, also stressed that the effectiveness of the approach needs to be proven in people.

"Passive immunity is not a primary treatment in a pandemic," Siegel said. "Another problem is, we don't know if it works. What works in a test tube doesn't always work in the body. We don't know that these antibodies will actually work."

More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have more on the flu.

More Medicine Less Health

Americans spent more in 2006 on drugs for diabetes and other metabolic disorders than any other class of medications, although psychiatric drugs cost more per prescription.

More than $38 billion was spent on metabolic agents, about 18% of total outpatient drug expenditures reported in 2006 by adult participants in the government's ongoing Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, according to a report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

In all, Americans spent $208.1 billion on outpatient medications that year, the report said.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Chief of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, in San Diego, California, "We have more medicine than any other country yet we have less health. Dibabetes is not a disease but a symptom of over-acidity. The key to reversing Type I and Type II diabetes is to hyperalkalize the blood and tissue. Bottomline it works and we are seeing many children, young adults and adults getting off their insulin and returing to health and energy."

After metabolic drugs, the top-selling categories were:

Cardiovascular agents, $33.1 billion
Central nervous system drugs (including analgesics), $28.2 billion Psychotherapeutic agents, $17.5 billion Hormones, $14.0 billion

But among the drug-buying public, the most common medications were CNS drugs. These were purchased by 45.5% of patients who had a prescription expense.

Metabolic agents were used by a relatively small percentage, 28.9% of those who paid for prescription drugs. Drug classes with higher percentages included hormones (29.7%) and cardiovascular agents (38.9%).

The most expensive agents were psychiatric drugs, averaging $91.54 per prescription, the data showed. Metabolic drugs were next, at $86.90. Cardiovascular drugs were least costly, with an average cost per prescription of $46.54.

The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey involves some 32,000 patients who are interviewed several times over a two-year period.

Data on a variety of health-related parameters are collected, including health status, use of medical services, charges and source of payments, access to care, satisfaction with care, health insurance coverage, income, employment, and demographic information.

The data excluded over-the-counter drugs and prescription drugs administered in a physician's office, hospital, or other healthcare setting.

Metabolic agents include diabetic supplies and equipment as well as actual medications. Insulin is classed as a metabolic agent rather than a hormone.

"All metabolic disorders, which include overweight, hyper-cholesterol, hyper-tension and hyper and hypoglycemia can all be reveresed by restoring health to the bowel and alkalizing the blood and tissues," states Dr. Young.

To learn more about preventing and/or reversing metabolic symptoms, even diabetes read, The pH Miracle for Diabetes and Back to the House of Health II, by Dr. Robert and Shelley Young.

Reference:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Source reference:
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, "The top five therapeutic classes of outpatient prescription drugs ranked by total expense for adults age 18 and older in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population, 2006" Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2009; statistical brief #232.

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The FDA Announces The Recall of Peanut Containing Products

You have probably heard about the FDA recall on peanut products. I have listed peanuts and peanut containing foods as highly acidic. Peanuts and peanut oil are one of my top ten foods to never eat. The oils in peanuts go rancid very quickly which gives rise to biological transformation or the birth of bacteria, yeast and mold. The good news is the FDA is warning people not to eat peanuts or foods that contain peanuts or peanut oil. My advise is to NEVER eat peanuts or any food that contains peanuts or peanut oil if you are trying to maintain the alkaline design of your body for health, energy, vitality and fitness.

The following link takes you to the FDA's announcement and a list of peanut containing foods to avoid.

http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/salmonellatyph/widget.html

The Sugar Acid High Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury

Startling new research has found that the highly acidic, neurological toxin high fructose corn syrup also contains the toxic element mercury, potentially for many years. Nearly one-third of the HFCS-containing grocery products tested in the study were found to contain detectable levels of the neuro-toxin mercury.

Read about the clever denials of the Corn Refiners Association and the attempts by their Chicago P.R. firm to get Natural News to remove their stories about high fructose corn syrup. (outright censorship). Today's shocking story reveals the truth on all this, and it warns you to avoid consuming high fructose corn syrup altogether.

Read it here: http://www.naturalnews.com/025442.html

"High fructose corn syrup is an acidic toxic sugar which compromises the delicate alkaline pH balance of the blood and tissues which may lead to serious sickness and disease. Add the neurological toxin mercury and you have the perfect combination for causing dementia or acidic brain wasting," states Dr. Robert O. Young, Chief of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center.

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Study: High-fructose corn syrup contains mercury

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-01-27corn-syrup_N.htm?csp=


By Robert Preidt, HealthDay

Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.

HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods such as breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups and condiments. On average, Americans consume about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS, but teens and other high consumers can take in 80% more HFCS than average.

"Mercury is toxic in all its forms. Given how much high-fructose corn syrup is consumed by children, it could be a significant additional source of mercury never before considered. We are calling for immediate changes by industry and the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of the food supply," the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Dr. David Wallinga, a co-author of both studies, said in a prepared statement.

In the first study, published in current issue of Environmental Health, researchers found detectable levels of mercury in nine of 20 samples of commercial HFCS.

And in the second study, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a non-profit watchdog group, found that nearly one in three of 55 brand-name foods contained mercury. The chemical was found most commonly in HFCS-containing dairy products, dressings and condiments.

Acid-Base Value and Human Health

One of the basic goals of the body in order to function properly is to maintain the proper balance of acidity and alkalinity (pH) in the blood and other body fluids. If you happened to catch one of the infomercials on TV trying to hawk products to correct acid-base imbalances, you probably found the presentation of the acid-alkaline theory of disease intriguing. Basically the premise is that many diseases including cancer are caused by excess acid accumulation in the body. The information presented on TV was often taken a bit out of context and included ridiculous claims. Nonetheless, there is accumulating evidence that certain disease states like osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, and many others are in fact influenced considerably by the dietary acid-alkaline balance. For example, in osteoporosis may be the result of a chronic intake of acid-forming foods consistently outweighing the intake of alkaline foods leading to the bone being constantly not allowed to give up their alkaline minerals (calcium and magnesium) in order to buffer the excess acid. Read more