NYC Mayor is Calling a Meeting to Force Vaccinate Under 5′s With Two Dangerous Vaccines
Conclusion
Surely, unless the mayor of New York City is a qualified doctor or scientist, he should not be recommending the force-vaccination of children as young as six months, no matter how good his intentions are, especially since the two vaccinations he is recommending are possibly completely incompatible with one another and could possibly lead to multiple child deaths in New York City and across America.
This is absolutely unforgivable, and in my opinion, he should be severely reprimanded for his actions.
I suggest that the public of America join forces and either attend this meeting in person to voice an opinion or s...
Source: vactruth.com - October 21, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Flumist Fluzone force vaccination Mandatory Vaccination Michael Bloomberg Pneumococcal vaccine mandate Source Type: blogs
Little Girl Unable to Attend School Because Judge Denied Vaccine Exemption
The interview conducted below is with attorney Patricia Finn regarding little Mary Check and vaccine exemptions. Before you watch it, I want to share with you an excerpt from Mary’s website. Her mother explains an all too common story.
Mary Check
“After each vaccination, she would have a negative reaction, and at this point, the medical professionals did not know what was wrong with her. On the way home from a vaccination appointment, Mary was crying and nothing would console her. She ended up being completely intoxicated with thrush and intestinal yeast toxins after it had nowhere else to...
Source: vactruth.com - October 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Interviews Jeffry John Aufderheide Top Stories Mary Check Patricia Finn Vaccine Exemption Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update Sattelite — 08-28-2013
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British National Health Service now gives physical therapists and podiatrists the authority to prescribe medications to patients without physician supervision. Good for them.
I still believe that all drugs aside from antibiotics and perhaps narcotics should be over the counter anyway.
Not only the King of Beers, it’s the King of Emergency Department visits. One third of injury visits to Level 1 trauma centers were alcohol related. Personally, I think that number is low. Of the patients who admitted drinking before their injury, 69% were male and 69% were black. Of the...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - August 28, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
Hepatitis B Vaccine Discontinued After Three Newborn Babies Die
Conclusion
Statistics clearly show this vaccine has been ineffective since its inception, and the number of children who have suffered adverse reactions from the hepatitis B vaccines far surpass the number of deaths from this disease in the United States.
The parents of these three Vietnamese babies will mourn the immeasurable loss of their children for the rest of their lives, just like the parents who reported the post-vaccination deaths of nine children in the United States so far this year. They trusted their healthcare providers and their government officials to make sure those vials filled with vaccines were safe.
Pa...
Source: vactruth.com - July 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Missy Fluegge Tags: Missy Fluegge Top Stories autism Hepatitis B vaccine Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
Funny Allergy Quotes, Jokes, Stories and a List of Crazy Reactions.
If you're looking for funny allergy quotes, jokes and stories you've come to the right place. I asked my readers from facebook to provide me with their experiences they've had regarding crazy allergy reactions and they did not let me down. They relayed dozens of incidents they've experienced through the years. Over the years I've discovered several funny allergies myself, including allergies to prednisone, diet products and the color red. Some patients have dozens of allergies. My experience is that most of these allergies are not allergies in the physiological sense. The te...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - July 2, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs
Shock… Do We Know It When We See It?
Illustration by THORARINN LEIFSSON (http://www.totil.com)
Our curious and short human history is littered with betrayals.
We betray each other with alarming regularity – Judas Iscariot, Marcus Brutus, Benedict Arnold and Tokyo Rose are all part of our collective history, and, if not salient, at least provide insightful looks at our relationships.
But, like the portly naked Emperor, we also betray ourselves, based on falsehoods and groupthink, parading with certainty through the town, convinced of our correctness. Medicine can sometimes be like this, with countless examples of teachings, tools, guidelines and texts that d...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 19, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Michelle Johnston Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured Health Podcast Resuscitation SMACC Conference michelle johnston shock smacc2013 Source Type: blogs
Jerome "The Bus" Bettis Promotes Auvi-Q With and Without the Important Safety Information
Celebrity spokespeople seem to be all the rage in pharma marketing circles these days. I wonder, however, how closely the FDA is watching celebrity endorsements such as former NFLer Jerome Jerome “The Bus” Bettis's promotion of Sanofi's talking epinephrine injection, Auvi-Q, which is marketed for the treatment of life-threatening allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) in people who are at risk for or have a history of these reactions.Bettis is not just promoting anaphylaxis awareness on TV shows such as the The Doctors. On TV, Bettis is actively demonstrating how the product works and naming brand names. But h...
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - May 21, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Tags: Celebrity Endorsement Sanofi Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 103
Welcome to the 103rd edition!
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week
The Sono Cave
For those of you that love ultrasound or just learning – The Sono Cave is the ultimate EM blog fo...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 7, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 103
Welcome to the 103rd edition!
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week
The Sono Cave
For those of you that love ultrasound or just learning – The Sono Cave is the ultimate EM blog fo...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 7, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
Lessons Learned from a Medical Mission
Nurses can serve as excellent physician extenders.My mentors in austere medicine warned me that with an interpreter I would be lucky to see 30 patients per day. That concerned me because the local missionaries indicated at our first organizational meeting in the Dominican Republic that we were expecting to see 100 patients per day. On top of that, 100 cards were being handed out at each of the four locations we would be visiting.
As the single physician in the group of 19 team members (seven nurses), these seemed like very high expectations. Working in a setting that uses physician extenders and emergency medicine resid...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - May 2, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Six ways Big Pharma manipulates consumers - Salon
This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
The blockbuster pill profit party is over for Big Pharma. Bestselling pills like Lipitor, Seroquel, Zyprexa, Singular and Concerta have gone off patent and sites which their ads sustained are withering on the vine. WebMD, for example, the voice of Pharma on the Web, with a former Pfizer exec serving as CEO, announced it would cut 250 positions in December.
But don’t worry, Wall Street. Pharma isn’t going to deliver disappointing earnings just because it has little or no new drugs coming online and has failed at the very reason for its existence. Here are six new Pharma ma...
Source: PharmaGossip - April 28, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
FDA Drug Shortages: Fundamental Problem is the Inability for the Market to Observe and Reward Quality
Conclusion
Ultimately, the FDA officials argued that “the fundamental problem with injectible shortages is insufficient market reward for quality (including reliability of production) stemming from the buyers’ inability to observe it.” This in turn gives manufacturers strong incentives to minimize quality system investments, especially when faced with pressures brought about by new production opportunities, aging facilities, and the recent economic downturn. Until new incentives are provided to improve quality, it is uncertain whether generic-injectable makers will adequately address quality issues. (Source: Policy and Medicine)
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Searching for Smaug
“My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail is a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!“
Smaug, the most powerful, the most cunning, and some would even say the greatest, dragon of the Third Age, had a story steeped in mystery. By the time an unexpected journey began, Smaug had not been seen for 150 years, but legend had it that he had laid waste to the Lonely Mountain in Erebor, and was feared as a ruthless killer.
The obvious questions that ensue from this frightening tale are:
Does Smaug really exist, or is he some terrifying myth?
If ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 3, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Michelle Johnston Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Respiratory pneumothorax smaug tension tension pneumo thoracostomy Source Type: blogs
Anaphylaxis Diagnostic Criteria
Anaphylaxis should be considered in the differential diagnosis when any one of the three main criteria list below occurs in a patient:
1. Acute onset of an illness (minutes to hours) with involvement of the skin, mucoasal tissue, or both (e.g., generalized hives, pruritus and or flushing, swollen lips/tongue/uvula and at least one of the following:
a.) respiratory compromise – dyspnea, wheeze-bronchospasm, stridor, reduced peakflow, hypoxemia
b.) reduced blood pressure or associated symptoms of end-organ dysfunction – hypotonia, collapse, syncope, incontinence
2. Two or more of the following that occur rapidly...
Source: Inside Surgery - March 24, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Surgpedia Source Type: blogs
