Mercola argues California's first year in two decades without a whooping cough death owed little to vaccination, pointing to the disease's natural 4-5 year cycles, pertussis immunity that fades in about three years, bacteria evolving resistance, and parapertussis, which no vaccine covers.
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Is This Fraud Too Big Even For 60 Minutes?
A 60 Minutes segment showed how Duke cancer researcher Anil Potti manipulated data, drawing more than 100 terminally ill patients into a fraudulent trial. Dr. Mercola argues the deeper fraud is Duke's claim that no participant was harmed because all received standard chemotherapy.
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Don't use foreign-made skin creams - FDA
The FDA warned that skin lighteners, anti-aging and acne creams made overseas and sold illegally in the US may contain toxic amounts of mercury, with more than 35 such products found in recent years across at least seven states. One California woman had 100 times the average urinary mercury.
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Why is the FDA Ignoring Its Own Scientists' Warnings About Amalgam?
Dr. Mercola writes that the FDA brushed aside its own advisory panels in 2006, 2009 and 2010 when they urged against mercury amalgam fillings for children and pregnant women, then dropped its promised re-examination. He urges readers to press Congress to intervene.
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Johnson & Johnson recalls Tylenol again
McNeil Consumer Healthcare recalled 574,000 bottles of grape-flavored infants' Tylenol after customers reported the bottle's new flow restrictor could be pushed inside when the syringe went in. The company reported no adverse events; bottles with the restrictor in place remain usable.
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Radiotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma can cause breast cancer
Women given chest wall radiation for Hodgkin lymphoma ran a 25 percent higher risk of later breast cancer over a decade of follow-up. Among women carrying the FGFR2-related variant rs12119648, those treated with radiation plus chemotherapy were 59 percent more likely to develop breast cancer.
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Sleeping pills up risk of death, cancer - study
A BMJ Open study compared more than 10,500 people prescribed sleeping pills with 23,500 matched non-users and found those taking at least eight doses a year were about four times as likely to die. The heaviest users faced 35% higher cancer risk.
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SFU researchers test sugary solution to Alzheimer’s (PR)
Simon Fraser University chemist David Vocadlo and colleagues report in Nature Chemical Biology that their inhibitor Thiamet-G blocks the enzyme O-GlcNAcase from stripping sugar molecules from the protein Tau, slowing neurodegeneration and stabilizing Tau against aggregation.
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How does cannabis affect working memory? (PR)
Inserm researchers report that cannabinoids impair working memory through receptors on glial cells, an effect tied to fewer neural connections in the hippocampus. The findings appeared in Cell on March 2, 2012.
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FDA approves two new pancreatic enzyme products to aid food digestion
FDA approved two more pancrelipase products: Ultresa, a delayed-release capsule for cystic fibrosis patients and others who cannot digest food normally, and Viokace, taken with a proton pump inhibitor by adults. They are the fourth and fifth such products cleared.
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FDA announces safety changes in labeling for some cholesterol-lowering drugs
The FDA announced statin labeling changes, dropping routine periodic liver enzyme monitoring in favor of testing before therapy starts and as clinically indicated, having concluded that serious liver injury from statins is rare and unpredictable.
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FDA Expands Advice on Statin Risks
The FDA says routine liver enzyme monitoring is no longer needed for statin users, and will add label warnings about reported memory loss and confusion, raised blood sugar and type 2 diabetes risk, and lovastatin drug interactions. An FDA official calls the benefit indisputable.
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Could Your Insomnia Drug Be Putting You at Risk of Death?
Researchers writing in the BMJ report a threefold higher hazard of death among users of Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata, Valium, barbiturates and sedative antihistamines, with some deaths tied to a significant rise in new cancers. Subjects had no pre-existing disease.
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"Harmless Procedure" Can Cause Narcolepsy, Muscle Weakness
Mercola reports a Danish study of more than 388,000 people finding the 2009-2010 H1N1 vaccine gave non-significant protection against flu-related hospital admissions, that Europe's pandemic vaccine was followed by narcolepsy cases, and that JAMA tied PFC exposure to weaker vaccine response.
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He Murdered a Friend After Taking This Best-Selling Drug
A Canadian judge ruled that Prozac caused a 15-year-old boy to stab and kill a friend, finding the drug set off a steady deterioration in his behaviour. Mercola adds that half of the top ten drugs linked to violence are antidepressants.
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Should the FDA Give Diet Drug Qnexa Another Chance?
Ahead of the FDA's reconsideration of Qnexa, Martha Rosenberg reviews the diet drug record: Fen Phen withdrawn after at least 120 deaths, Meridia pulled in 2010 over cardiovascular events, and Qnexa's own ingredients, Topamax and phentermine, causing weight loss alongside side effects.
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New Jersey company agrees to halt production of unapproved dental devices - FDA
Accurate Set Inc. of Newark and owner Cornell Adams agreed to a consent decree halting manufacture of dental impression and repair materials until FDA clears them. Inspectors found quality system violations and products that skipped premarket review.
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Breaking cancer news: Insulin therapy ups cancer risk
A University of Maryland dissertation analyzing 230,330 UK patients on antidiabetic therapy found insulin used alone associated with 88 percent higher pancreatic cancer risk, rising to 133 percent alongside oral agents. High HbA1c was tied to a 39 percent increase.
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