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
Smartphone App May Detect Neonatal Jaundice
Engineers and physicians at the University of Washington have developed an app called BiliCam that can detect jaundice in newborns using just a smartphone’s camera and flash plus a color calibration card the size of a business card. Jaundice is a yellowish discoloration of the skin resulting from an excess amount of bilirubin in the blood. Severe jaundice can cause kernicterus and brain damage.
The app is meant to be used by either parents or healthcare providers as a screening tool to help in deciding when a blood test is needed, in the first few days after birth. The app works by placing the calibration card on th...
Source: Medgadget - August 28, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Wouter Stomp Tags: Diagnostics Pediatrics 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
Clinical Trial Prestidigitation - Making Old Data Look Worse So New Data Looks Better
Prestidigitation, also known as sleight of hand or legerdemain, is a form of stage magic which uses dextrous manipulation and misdirection to distract the viewer from seeing it. The example, reported by Bloomberg on 26 February, 2014, is discussed late because the nature of the trick meant it took me a while before I understood how it was done.BackgroundPradaxa, a new anticoagulant, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2010 for use by patients with atrial fibrillation to prevent strokes. We discussed previously the release of documents during litigation that showed how marketers from its manuf...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 18, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Boehringer Ingelheim deception FDA manipulating clinical research Pradaxa Source Type: blogs
Hospital Quality Measures: Value Based Purchasing 2.0 (The Funny Version).
For years, hospital quality measures have been tracked by private and government insurance programs to try and improve the healthcare services received by their beneficiaries. The most recent example is the Value-Based Purchasing Program (VBP) initiative by The Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). How does CMS describe VBP?"Under the Program, CMS will make value-based incentive payments to acute care hospitals, based either on how well the hospitals perform on certain quality measures or how much the hospitals' performance improves on certain quality measures from their performance during a basel...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - March 14, 2014 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 43-year-old man with severe abdominal pain
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 43-year-old man is evaluated in the hospital for severe abdominal pain of 2 days’ duration. He is otherwise healthy except for the recent finding of pancytopenia. Family history is noncontributory. His only medication is a daily multivitamin. Following a physical exam and lab results, what test is most likely to establish the diagnosis?
On physical examination, temperature is 36.2 °C (97.2 °F), blood pressure is 143/69 mm Hg, pulse rate is 86/min, and respiration rate is 12/min. The patient appears jau...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 8, 2014 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Conditions Cancer Specialist Source Type: blogs
Too much IVF ?
Many doctors believe that IVF specialists are now doing too much IVF. A friend, who is a gynecologist, pointed out that he is seeing patients who went to an IVF specialist who advised them to do IVF, who then promptly got pregnant in their bedroom the next month !He felt that we are seeing an epidemic of IVF overtreatment , simply because there are too many IVF clinics around , and each one wants to do as many IVF cycles as possible. It is true that IVF is an effective treatment for infertility , but he was very critical of the fact that specialists are advising IVF left, right and center, even for couples who could get pr...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - February 27, 2014 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
"Can't This be Avoided?" - How Corporate Marketers Manipulated a Clinical Research Report to Avoid "Undermining" Marketing Messages
ConclusionsThis case study, only made possible by the public release of internal corporate documents in the course of litigation, suggests that in retrospect the dissemination of the results of one particular clinical trial were manipulated in a somewhat subtle way so that the data would not contradict a marketing message that now appears rather fictional.In the absence of litigation, and of a judge willing to make public documents that one party to the litigation doubtless wanted to hide, the manipulation of this particular study might never have been apparent. Most clinical research is now sponsored by health care ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 13, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Boehringer Ingelheim deception manipulating clinical research Pradaxa secrecy Source Type: blogs
Anabolic Steroids like Trenbolone
In the last few decades, the focus of a big majority of athletes has shifted towards performance enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids. The fact that these bodybuilding steroids or anabolic androgenic steroids can dramatically improve the level of on-field performance, strength, muscle mass, and endurance means that there is every reason that athletes admire these drugs.
Different athletes make use of different anabolic steroids for a wide range of purposes. While some use steroids to run faster and become more agile than ever, some use these potent drugs to hit harder and stay ahead of the competition, while others us...
Source: Mental Nurse - December 20, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: Iqcguest Tags: Health anabolic steroids performance enhancing drugs Source Type: blogs
Critical Care Compendium update
LITFL’s Critical Care Compendium is a comprehensive collection of pages concisely covering the core topics and controversies of critical care.
Currently there are almost 1,500 entries with more in the works… Some pages are more developed than others, and all the pages are being constantly revised and improved. Links to new references and online resources are added daily, with an emphasis on those that are free and open access (FOAM!).
These pages originated from the FCICM exam study notes created by Dr Jeremy Fernando in 2011, and have been updated, modified and added to since. As such will be particularly us...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 17, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Critical Care Compendium Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured CCC LITFL collection Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 32-year-old woman with progressive jaundice
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 32-year-old woman is evaluated for a 10-day history of malaise, right upper quadrant discomfort, and progressive jaundice. She has had no recent travel outside of the United States, does not drink alcohol, and has no recent ingestions of drugs, including acetaminophen or herbal remedies. Up until this time, she has been healthy. She has a history of type 1 diabetes mellitus for which she takes insulin glargine and insulin detemir. She has no other medical problems.
On physical examination, temperature is 37.5 Â...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 9, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Conditions GI Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
93-year old fashion consultant: my father-in-law
There’s only one grandparent left in our family – my 93-year old father-in-law. A former tailor, with all his wits still about him and a mischievous sense of humor, he’s the go-to guy when our daughters (24 and 27) have fashion questions.
Their mother (that’d be me) is totally utterly useless in these matters. In fact I am regularly directed or chastised by these children. (But that’s another story)
Generations of fashion
I never cease to get a kick out of watching them turn this way and that as Grandpa, examines seams and linings
I didn’t have grandparents growing up, so it’s a new and remarkable and heart-w...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - October 14, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Kathy Kastner Tags: Perspectives Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Gestational Diabetes: What Are the Risks?
By Amy Campbell
People are often taught that there are three types of diabetes: Type 1, Type 2, and gestational. In reality, there are actually many more types, but the simplified explanation is that if you have diabetes, you likely have one of these three.
What is gestational diabetes?
The American Diabetes Association defines gestational diabetes as "diabetes diagnosed during pregnancy that is not clearly overt diabetes." Like pregnancy, gestational diabetes (GDM) is temporary. GDM will resolve in about 90% of women after they've given birth. It's important, though, to distinguish GDM from women with preexisting diabete...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - September 9, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
The Psychology of Environmental Sensitivities
I’m sitting in a small breakfast joint just outside Washington, D.C. with the family, on one of those intense and humid July mornings.
As we dig into our grub, I begin to hear a classical music piece playing in the background. It sounded like impending doom, pounding down on my eardrums. And while I certainly have a propensity for being dramatic at times (could you tell?), this was a full-out battle of sensitivity vs. environment. My mood was instantly altered; I felt as if I was trapped in Les Miserables and was no longer interested in plowing through my omelet. My parents, however, barely gave the café’s musical se...
Source: World of Psychology - August 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Lauren Suval Tags: Brain and Behavior General Personal Psychology Baby Blue Backdrop Blue Walls Caveman Days Classical Music Piece Dental Office Discontentment Eardrums Emotional State Environmental Factors Fluorescent Lighting Frame Of Mind Source Type: blogs
MedlinePlus Health Topic: G6PD Deficiency
MedlinePlus has a new Health Topic page for G6PD Deficiency, a genetic condition which can cause anemia, jaundice and other health problems. The condition affects mainly males of African, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern descent, including 1 in 10 African American males.
Access resources at the Health Topic page: http://1.usa.gov/19YW5KH (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - August 12, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kate Flewelling Tags: Minority Health Concerns National Library of Medicine News Source Type: blogs
