Vaccine-Injured Child Stolen by the State and Her Caring Mother Accused of Child Abuse
Conclusion For many years, I have been writing about such cases. There are now a growing number of parents who have been falsely accused of harming their vaccine-damaged children. Sadly, this case is yet another example. Loving, caring parents are having their children taken away from them because the majority of health care professionals and social workers are burying their heads in the sand and choosing to ignore the fact that no vaccine or medication is one hundred percent safe. All vaccines have the potential to cause adverse reactions. When you have such groups as the AAPS stating, “And yet, children under the age o...
Source: vactruth.com - November 22, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Child Protective Services (CPS) Hepatitis B vaccine Kathryn Hughes medical kidnapping Michael Belkin seizure Source Type: blogs

Vaccine-Injured Child Kidnapped from Family by Child Protective Services
Vaccine injury and medical kidnapping stories are becoming commonplace. They are often connected. One mother never thought for a second that vaccinating her child would tear her family apart. Rebekah McClain wants parents to learn what her family is almost unbelievably dealing with because they chose to vaccinate. No child deserves to suffer through this pain. This is her true story.   One Family’s Heartbreak “I have a son named Kacer Lee Harris. He was born on December 25, 2013. He is my Christmas miracle. I have been praying for years to have a child on Christmas Day. It’s all I’ve ever wanted. W...
Source: vactruth.com - November 15, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Top Stories medical kidnapping Rebekah McClain Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs

Liver disease profiles
Public Health England (PHE) - These profiles contain data which reveal the geographic variation in mortality of patients with liver disease across the country. Some populations are more affected by liver disease than others. For example, the male mortality rate is 4 times higher in some local authorities compared to others. Similarly, there are large variations in hospital admissions from liver disease. Over 90% of liver disease is due to 3 main preventable and treatable risk factors: alcohol, hepatitis B and C, and obesity. Profile data Press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 20, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Commissioning Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Boy Gets Diagnosed with Autism After 32 Shots
Conclusion: Leaving You with Words from Natalie “As a woman of faith I must speak the truth in love, and sometimes it can come across harsh. Not everyone who sees Autism really understands what Autism is. Yes, our children look normal on the outside and occasionally we can get a great picture of them making eye contact and smiling into the camera, but that is not easily done. When someone says that their child is blessed with Autism, and that God made him/her that way… maybe your child really doesn’t have Autism, just enough symptoms for them to be placed on the spectrum? Autism is not a curse; it is a damage...
Source: vactruth.com - October 2, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Top Stories adverse reactions autism MMR vaccine National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) truth about vaccines VAERS Varicella vaccine Source Type: blogs

Vaccine Injury Stories: the Sacred Cows of the Internet?
When I first started looking into vaccines, I had no idea that an anti-vaccine movement even existed. I came across claims that the vaccines were toxic and dangerous; the diseases, it was claimed, were not. I have some background in science, so I was able to dismiss those claims as inaccurate, but I couldn’t help but be drawn in by tragic, angry and deeply personal stories from parents who claimed their children were harmed by vaccines. I dared not question them, but I still couldn’t understand… If vaccine injuries were occurring on a scale like this, why wasn’t anybody doing anything about  it?  And why wasn’t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 19, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Advocacy Publc Health Source Type: blogs

This Is the Way One Father Told His Pediatrician “No” to Vaccines
What does an informed parent look like? We’ll show you. Below is a letter written by Bob O’kane, a concerned parent, to his pediatrician about vaccines and the danger they pose to his child. This letter is one great example of how to approach your doctor, especially if you have looked into the matter further and are uncomfortable with their stance on the topic. The name of the doctor has been intentionally omitted. Doctor XXX, My wife and I would like to say it was an absolute pleasure to meet you. We thank you for taking the time with us the other day to discuss our beautiful little daughter Rylan. I was wo...
Source: vactruth.com - September 7, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Jeffry John Aufderheide Top Stories Aluminum Adjuvant Informed Parent Vaccine Exemptions Source Type: blogs

Arkansas Payment Improvement Initiative: The First Year
TweetEditor’s note: This post is part of a periodic Health Affairs Blog series, which will run over the next year, looking at payment and delivery reforms in Arkansas and Oregon. The posts will be based on evaluations of these reforms performed with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The authors of this post are part of the team evaluating the Arkansas model. Arkansas payers and providers actively participated in the design of both the episodic payment and patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models the state has recently implemented. We’ve written about each of these components of the multi-payer Arkan...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 25, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: William Golden, Joseph W. Thompson, Michael Motley, Mark Fendrick, Christopher Mathis, and Michael Chernew Tags: All Categories Medicaid Payment Reform States Source Type: blogs

Can Gingko and Turmeric Help Stop Ebola?
Summary There is no known pharmaceutical currently available that specifically treats Ebola disease. One treatment modality that should be considered is the use of herbal medicines, which have both centuries old anecdotal success as well as recent modern biochemical and formal research rationales for their use. Five areas of action that could be addressed by the herbal medicines as it relates to Ebola would be: VP24/immune system evasion GP protein/replicatio; herbal strategies effective against similar hemorrhagic disease beneficial modulation of patient immune and inflammatory response systems prophylactic use for heal...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 1, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease ayurvedic baicalen cathepsin b dengue Ebola gingko herb Quercetin resveratrol rosemary sage st johns work turmeric Source Type: blogs

What’s the Value of a Cancer Cure?
By Cyndy Nayer and Leonard Kish  When CMS approved Solvadi, Gilead’s $84,000 drug for hepatitis C, the stakes were raised in drug price wars.  Two opposing forces, one, a financial push toward lower costs came up against an opposing force of public sentiment. The FDA’s goal of getting 90% of patients moved from costly branded […] (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 21, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: THCB Cirrhosis CMS FDA Hepatitis B Hepatitis C HIV PhRMA Solvadi Value-Based Medicine value-driven pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs

Should Premature Babies Be Included In The One-Size-Fits-All Vaccination Policy?
Conclusion Clearly, the one-size-fits-all vaccination policy does not fit premature babies. How can it be considered lawful or indeed moral to vaccinate premature babies with the same vaccinations that are administered to adults? We can see from the studies undertaken by Dr. Viera Scheibner and her late husband Leif Karlsson that many of the routine vaccinations used on premature babies today can cause them to suffer stress-induced breathing patterns. These studies are irrefutable and have been used worldwide to demonstrate the link between vaccinations and breathing difficulties in young babies. Despite this information, ...
Source: vactruth.com - June 17, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories premature birth truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs

Top stories in health and medicine, May 28, 2014
From MedPage Today: SNRI Equal to Hormones for Hot Flush Tx. A low dose of the antidepressant venlafaxine (Effexor) appeared roughly as good as hormonal therapy to ease hot flushes in menopause. USPSTF Urges HBV Screening for High-Risk People. People at high risk for hepatitis B (HBV) should be screened for the virus, according to a new recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Latent TB Infection Seen Among Foreign Teens. Among teens who underwent tuberculin skin tests in a single U.S. school district, all of the students with positive results reported “non-American nationalities,”...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 28, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: News GI Infectious disease Neurology OB/GYN Source Type: blogs

Curing hepatitis C, but at what cost?
In the contest to get a creative name, few pathogens have done worse than hepatitis C. In the 1970s there were two known viruses that caused hepatitis: liver inflammation. You might have already guessed that these two viruses were called hepatitis A and hepatitis B. It was known at that time that people sometimes developed hepatitis after blood transfusions and that the majority of those patients tested negative for hepatitis A and B. A new pathogen was hypothesized and called non-A, non-B hepatitis. It wasn’t until 1989 until the virus was isolated and named (drum-roll, please) hepatitis C. Continue reading ... Your pa...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 27, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Conditions GI Medications Source Type: blogs

Health and wellbeing boards and hepatitis C
This report which examined whether health and wellbeing boards are tackling hepatitis C found that prioritisation of the condition was low in local strategies. It calls for greater collaboration between local authorities and health services in order to raise awareness, screening and more targeted commissioning. Report Press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 14, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Integrated care Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Some Authoritative Skepticism about the "Triumph" of Sovaldi to Add to Outrage about "Blood Money"
This report just appeared online in JAMA Internal Medicine [Ollendorf DA, Tice JA et al.  The comparative clinical effectiveness and value of simeprevir and sofosbuvir in chronic hepatitis C viral infection.  JAMA Inte Med 2014.  Link here.] The review found again that there were major limitations in the available data, and so much of it was based on a network meta-analysis and simulation studies,The review was limited to patients with genotype 1, 2, and 3 infections, which account for most HCV cases in the United States. At the time of the review, no head-to-head trials of the direct-acting antivira...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: evidence-based medicine Gilead health care prices manipulating clinical research pharmaceuticals Sovaldi Source Type: blogs

Hiv Less Deadly Than Viral Hepatitis In Europe | Medindia
GBD 2010 is the most recent version of a large epidemiological study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and coordinated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. In the EU, in 2010, there were more than 10 times as many deaths due to viral hepatitis as there were HIV-attributable deaths. Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) are estimated to have caused nearly 90,000 deaths that year in the EU (HCV nearly 57,000 deaths, HBV nearly 31,000 deaths), while there were just over 8,000 deaths from HIV/AIDS. Presenting these thought-provoking figures, EASL...
Source: aids-write.org - April 12, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs