Drug donations are great, but should Big Pharma be setting the agenda?
Monday 29 April 2013 12.01 BST
Critics fear that giving out free medicines allows pharmaceutical companies to decide which diseases are treated
Vaccine donations might end after a period of time, leaving governments to pick up the bill. Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images
Adam Robert Green for African Arguments, part of the Guardian Africa Network
In the early 2000s, pharmaceutical companies were high on activists' hit lists, prompted by Big Pharma's ill-advised attempt to sue the South African government for patent infringement on HIV drugs; an attempt to deal with the country's epidemic by allowing cheaper, generi...
Source: PharmaGossip - April 30, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
9 Magic Words Prove Vaccines Are Unavoidably Unsafe
Conclusion
If you decide to vaccinate your child, you do so at your own risk.
Your doctor can tell you vaccines are perfectly safe and your child will be “protected”, but the ones who are really “protected” are the doctors and the vaccine companies. What can you do? Take action right now.
Click on this link and download the vaccine ingredients. Then, look at the vaccine schedule and see what is going to be injected into your child.
References
1. www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/postmarketdrugsafety…
2. www.cdc.gov/salmonella/typhimurium-cantaloupe-08-12/index.html
3. www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/CORENetwork...
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An open post to my community.
The following post in no way represents the opinions, policies or strategies of my employer. Nor does it necessarily represent the opinions or feelings of my colleagues.
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The US is currently experiencing quite a bad influenza season.
Healthcare services and drug supplies are being stretched to the limit in the United States as the authorities warn this year’s flu season is severe.
Official figures indicate that influenza is now “widespread” in 41 states, with high numbers of cases reported in New York, where state governor And...
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Epidemiology Virulence Genes and Reservoirs of Enteropathogenic Yersinia species
Epidemiology, Virulence Genes, and Reservoirs of Enteropathogenic Yersinia speciesfrom Riikka Laukkanen-Ninios and Maria Fredriksson-Ahomaa writing in Foodborne and Waterborne Bacterial Pathogens: Epidemiology, Evolution and Molecular Biology:Enteropathogenic yersiniosis is caused due to foodborne infection with Yersinia enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis. Several virulence factors have been identified that are common to these two pathogens even though Y. pseudotuberculosis is genetically more related to Y. pestis, which is typically transmitted by fleas and not through foods. Diarrhoea and abdominal pain are the mos...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - January 8, 2013 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
Epidemiology Pathogenesis and Genetics of Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli Infections
Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Genetics of Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli Infectionsfrom T. Ramamurthy and M. John Albert writing in Foodborne and Waterborne Bacterial Pathogens: Epidemiology, Evolution and Molecular Biology:There are five categories of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) namely enterotoxigenic, enteropathogenic, enterohaemorrhagic, enteroinvasive and enteroaggregative. They have evolved from nonpathogenic commensal strains by acquisition of specific virulence genes through mobile genetic elements. Their pathogenesis differs and they produce distinct clinical syndromes and pathological lesions and have ...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - January 4, 2013 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
Tranexamic Acid (TXA).
Around 25% of severe trauma patients experience acute coagulopathies associated with increased morbidity and mortality rates.
Recently, we have seen an increased understanding of the relationship between trauma and alterations to the coagulation system. A little ironically, this knowledge has been gained largely from battlefield experience including Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tranexamic Acid (TXA) is an antifibrinolytic. That is, it inhibits the activation of plasminogen (and plasmin) thereby preventing the breakdown of existing clots.
One of the negative responses to an acute traumatic event is the muting of the bodies plasmin...
Source: impactEDnurse - January 1, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: the nurses desk: Source Type: blogs
