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1. Antipsychotics Pose Ominous Long-Term Health Implications For Children
A study published in the current issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association confirms that children and adolescents who are prescribed second generation neuroleptics are put at high risk of severe harm. In view of these indisputable, confirmatory alarming findings, not only the authors of the study, but the authors of the JAMA editorial, the chief of child psychiatry at the NIMH, and even the chairman of the FDA advisory panel who in June 2009 voted to approve the use of three of the drugs for children--all acknowledge the need to reassess the use of these drugs in children: “These results challenge the widespread use of atypical antipsychotic medications in youth.” The large number of industry-funded publications exalting the benefits of second generation neuroleptics, penned by the pillars of American psychiatry, should be discarded as fraudulent, mostly ghostwritten, industry propaganda. Commercially-crafted reports masquerading as e vidence-based reports have undermined the integrity of the journals that published them and the profession whose practice was guided by them.
Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP/New York Times
2. Meningitis From BioLab Suspected In Boston University Graduate Student
A Boston University graduate student working in a microbiology laboratory at the School of Medicine last week became infected with the same strain of meningitis bacteria he had experimented with a few days earlier, BU officials said Friday. This incidentcame in the midst of a federal approval process for BU’s Biosafety Level-4 laboratory, a facility that would house pathogens far more dangerous than those at a Level-2. Klare Allen, coordinator of the anti-biolab community coalition Stop the Bioterror Lab, said the BSL-2 incident is proof that safety procedures can, do and will fail. “How many more accidents are we going to have to live through before people realize?” she said. “I’m tired of these accidents because one day, it’s going to be hemorrhagic fever and it’s going to be the plague, and we’ll have 24 hours to live.”
L. Finch, The Daily Free Press
Related Links:
* Boston Community Unites To Defend Against Deadly BioTerror Lab
Gabrielle Hernandez, The Tufts Daily
3. Dr David S Bell MD Lecture On ME/CFS And XMRV Virus, NY
Dr David S Bell, MD
Because of the enormous interest generated, I will be giving a talk on the XMRV virus and what is known about its relationship to ME/CFS on Sunday, December 6, 2009. The talk will take place from 2 pm to 5 pm at the Holiday Inn of Batavia NY (8250 Park Road, Batavia, NY, 14020), right next to the NY State Thruway. XMRV DNA was found from 68 of 101 patients (67%), and this was in the Science paper. That leaves 33 patients with CFS who were negative. But on further testing 19 of these 33 are XMRV antibody positive, 30 of these 33 had transmissible virus in the plasma, and 10 of these 33 had protein expression. Overall 99 of the 101 patients show evidence of XMRV infection. I think now is the time for communities to get active again, and I will be happy to present this talk to any community, providing a local group or individual pays airfare and lodging. It might be a good way to get support groups active again.
Dr David S Bell MD, Lyndonville News
Related Links:
* Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Judy A. Mikovits et al, 10.1126/science.1179052, Science Express
* Breakthrough Science For M.E. Millions After Decades Of Chronic Abuse And Neglect
Independent Leader & Steve Connor, Science Editor - The Independent
* Chronic Infections In ME/CFS
Dr Sarah Myhill MB BS, August 2009
4. Thousands Of Innocent Welsh People Still On Police DNA Database
More than 4,300 innocent people have been added to the DNA database by Welsh police forces since a European court ruling that the practice was illegal, according to new figures. The European Court of Human Rights decided that holding the profiles of innocent people indefinitely breached their rights – but the Government is yet to change the rules. According to data released in parliamentary answers, almost one in 10 Welsh residents – 274,272 – have their profile on the DNA database. Jenny Willott, the Liberal Democrat MP for Cardiff Central, said: “It is appalling that the Government has allowed over a million innocent people to be added to the DNA database. The Home Office needs to put an end to this charade by removing all innocent people from the database, once and for all.”
Tomos Livingstone, Western Mail
5. Codex Meeting Begins In Germany Amid Disputes Over Nutrient Reference Values
The US-based National Health Federation (NHF), the World’s oldest international health-freedom organization, yesterday began a week of meetings at the 31st session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) in Dusseldorf, Germany. NHF’s president Scott Tips, said: “The problem is that, unlike a decade ago, WHO and FAO will preselect their ‘expert’ panels and stuff them with a narrow group of experts already predestined to make the very finding that FAO or WHO wants. The result is anything but scientific. Yet, that is exactly the kind of ‘scientific’ data that the WHO representative wants to shove down the throats of every Codex Committee. ‘Garbage in, garbage out’ is a saying they either don’t know or, worse, do know and want to make use of.”
Press Release, National Health Federation
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