Medical nightmare
"When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied." Herophilus
Sunday, February 27, will go down in the annals of history as one of the most significant days of the 21st century. According to articles released by the World Health Organization (WHO), measures agreed upon by 57 participating countries will drastically reduce deaths among their populations through chronic diseases. They will also increase fertility; slow down the process of ageing; increase worker productivity; reduce poverty; eliminate illiteracy and decrease the burden on the health systems of the participating nations.
War on the weed
Once it was agreed that "tobacco is the second major cause of death in the world," the WHO estimated that half of the people who smoke today-650 million-will eventually die from it. Their representatives finally managed to secure the agreement of 57 countries (but not the US or China) to wage war against 'the dreaded weed'. By signing up to their Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), each participating country has agreed to comply with international standards on tobacco price and tax increases, tobacco advertising and sponsorship, labeling, the eradication of illicit trade, measures of protection against second-hand smoke and the counseling of addicts.
The world's diet
But this is only the first step. Since more than one billion adults worldwide are overweight and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese, the WHO has begun to formulate a global strategy on diet, physical activity and health.
In Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis (1988), Robert Proctor illustrated that the Nazis were health fanatics who banned cigarette smoking, promoted vegetarianism and organic gardening, and even promoted animal rights. They were also environmentalists who locked up land from development.
The Nazi government introduced socialized medicine and government-mandated vacations at government spas but they, along with the WHO and the regulators in the respective nations, still refused to confront "the first major cause of death."
Killer medicine
At a time when the health service is the major employer in most socialist-capitalist societies, and will undoubtedly absorb larger and larger amounts of money, it is time to recognize the fact that the first major cause of premature death is 'iatrogenic'.
Iatros means physician in Greek, and -genic means induced by. Combined, of course, they become iatrogenic, meaning physician-induced. Iatrogenic disease is obviously, then, disease which is caused by a physician. Doctors and mainstream medical treatments cause more deaths in the civilized world than all other causes.
According to a 1999 Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die of surgical errors, drug interactions, hospital-borne infections, misdiagnoses, or just plain unspecified medical negligence every year. Since the publication of that report, 22 states adopted laws requiring hospitals to report the most serious of these mistakes, such as amputating the wrong limb. They identified 27 'never' errors, so named because they're so grossly negligent that they're never supposed to happen.
'Never' means?
In 2005, one of these complying states reported that 20 people died as a result of gross negligence in hospitals in the 15-month period between July of 2003 and October of 2004. Only those who died or were damaged as an undeniable result of them were counted and not those who were maimed, infected, crippled or rendered mentally impaired because of medical errors.
An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association in July 2000, written by Dr Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, concluded that over 225,000 deaths each year are attributable to iatrogenic causation, but these do not take into consideration the countless deaths that are the direct result of accepted medication.
The Vioxx effect
The recent fiasco with Cox-2 inhibitors developed by Merck (Vioxx) and Pfizer (Celebrex and Bextra) alleged collusion between the drug industry and the regulators, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US and the European Medicines Agency.
Barely months after being approved in 1999, studies started to show patients taking a high dose of Vioxx were three times more likely to suffer from heart problems than normal. In 2002, the FDA ordered Merck to start putting warning labels on Vioxx bottles.
Millions took Vioxx even after its risks to the heart became apparent. According to the FDA, up to 55,000 patients may have died from heart attacks and strokes induced by it. After a research note called Approve, which showed that the risk of heart attack and stroke doubled in patients who had been taking the drug for at least 18 months, Merck voluntarily stopped sales of Vioxx on September 30, 2004.
In February 2005, after due consideration, the FDA allowed the drug back onto the market.
Bitter taste
This pattern of behavior is reminiscent of the approval of aspartame (Nutrasweet), the artificial sweetener, by the FDA. For 16 years the FDA refused to approve aspartame. In fact, some within the department attempted to have Searle Pharmaceuticals indicted for shoddy testing procedures and manipulation of the data to cover up the brain tumors, seizures, and problems with the central nervous system caused by its product.
Then, in 1977, Searle hired political insider Donald Rumsfeld as CEO. Rumsfeld was quoted as saying that he would "call in all his markers" and that aspartame would be approved. Rumsfeld was on Reagan's transition team when he took office in 1981. Reagan appointed Dr Arthur Hayes Junior as commissioner of the FDA. As one of Hayes' first official acts, he approved aspartame, despite strong disapproval by an FDA board of inquiry comprised of top scientists.
And that's how it happened that the FDA approved a known toxin. Cycles repeat.
Sunday, February 27, will go down in the annals of history as one of the most significant days of the 21st century. According to articles released by the World Health Organization (WHO), measures agreed upon by 57 participating countries will drastically reduce deaths among their populations through chronic diseases. They will also increase fertility; slow down the process of ageing; increase worker productivity; reduce poverty; eliminate illiteracy and decrease the burden on the health systems of the participating nations.
War on the weed
Once it was agreed that "tobacco is the second major cause of death in the world," the WHO estimated that half of the people who smoke today-650 million-will eventually die from it. Their representatives finally managed to secure the agreement of 57 countries (but not the US or China) to wage war against 'the dreaded weed'. By signing up to their Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), each participating country has agreed to comply with international standards on tobacco price and tax increases, tobacco advertising and sponsorship, labeling, the eradication of illicit trade, measures of protection against second-hand smoke and the counseling of addicts.
The world's diet
But this is only the first step. Since more than one billion adults worldwide are overweight and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese, the WHO has begun to formulate a global strategy on diet, physical activity and health.
In Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis (1988), Robert Proctor illustrated that the Nazis were health fanatics who banned cigarette smoking, promoted vegetarianism and organic gardening, and even promoted animal rights. They were also environmentalists who locked up land from development.
The Nazi government introduced socialized medicine and government-mandated vacations at government spas but they, along with the WHO and the regulators in the respective nations, still refused to confront "the first major cause of death."
Killer medicine
At a time when the health service is the major employer in most socialist-capitalist societies, and will undoubtedly absorb larger and larger amounts of money, it is time to recognize the fact that the first major cause of premature death is 'iatrogenic'.
Iatros means physician in Greek, and -genic means induced by. Combined, of course, they become iatrogenic, meaning physician-induced. Iatrogenic disease is obviously, then, disease which is caused by a physician. Doctors and mainstream medical treatments cause more deaths in the civilized world than all other causes.
According to a 1999 Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die of surgical errors, drug interactions, hospital-borne infections, misdiagnoses, or just plain unspecified medical negligence every year. Since the publication of that report, 22 states adopted laws requiring hospitals to report the most serious of these mistakes, such as amputating the wrong limb. They identified 27 'never' errors, so named because they're so grossly negligent that they're never supposed to happen.
'Never' means?
In 2005, one of these complying states reported that 20 people died as a result of gross negligence in hospitals in the 15-month period between July of 2003 and October of 2004. Only those who died or were damaged as an undeniable result of them were counted and not those who were maimed, infected, crippled or rendered mentally impaired because of medical errors.
An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association in July 2000, written by Dr Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, concluded that over 225,000 deaths each year are attributable to iatrogenic causation, but these do not take into consideration the countless deaths that are the direct result of accepted medication.
The Vioxx effect
The recent fiasco with Cox-2 inhibitors developed by Merck (Vioxx) and Pfizer (Celebrex and Bextra) alleged collusion between the drug industry and the regulators, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US and the European Medicines Agency.
Barely months after being approved in 1999, studies started to show patients taking a high dose of Vioxx were three times more likely to suffer from heart problems than normal. In 2002, the FDA ordered Merck to start putting warning labels on Vioxx bottles.
Millions took Vioxx even after its risks to the heart became apparent. According to the FDA, up to 55,000 patients may have died from heart attacks and strokes induced by it. After a research note called Approve, which showed that the risk of heart attack and stroke doubled in patients who had been taking the drug for at least 18 months, Merck voluntarily stopped sales of Vioxx on September 30, 2004.
In February 2005, after due consideration, the FDA allowed the drug back onto the market.
Bitter taste
This pattern of behavior is reminiscent of the approval of aspartame (Nutrasweet), the artificial sweetener, by the FDA. For 16 years the FDA refused to approve aspartame. In fact, some within the department attempted to have Searle Pharmaceuticals indicted for shoddy testing procedures and manipulation of the data to cover up the brain tumors, seizures, and problems with the central nervous system caused by its product.
Then, in 1977, Searle hired political insider Donald Rumsfeld as CEO. Rumsfeld was quoted as saying that he would "call in all his markers" and that aspartame would be approved. Rumsfeld was on Reagan's transition team when he took office in 1981. Reagan appointed Dr Arthur Hayes Junior as commissioner of the FDA. As one of Hayes' first official acts, he approved aspartame, despite strong disapproval by an FDA board of inquiry comprised of top scientists.
And that's how it happened that the FDA approved a known toxin. Cycles repeat.
