Dr. Mehmet Oz took a flu shot on his show along with his studio audience, but told Fox News and CNN that his wife and four children will not get the swine flu vaccine. Mercola uses the contrast to argue against annual flu shots.
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Arkansas ranks near bottom in health care scorecard
The Commonwealth Fund ranked states on 38 health care indicators and placed Arkansas 48th, one spot better than the prior year, helped by improvements in children's care. More than 37 percent of the state's children are overweight and 23 percent of adults smoke.
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Is Eli Lilly Milking Cancer by Promoting AND Treating It?
Jeffrey Smith writes that Eli Lilly paid $300 million in 2008 for Monsanto's bovine growth hormone rbGH, a drug banned in most industrialized countries over concerns that IGF-1 in milk from treated cows raises cancer risk. Breast Cancer Action wants Lilly to withdraw it.
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Olympic bid 2016
Chicago was eliminated in the first round of IOC voting and Rio de Janeiro won the 2016 Summer Games. Bid chairman Pat Ryan pointed to limits on regional presentations and strained USOC-IOC relations; some local sports groups welcomed the loss of park space.
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Do NOT Let Your Child Get Flu Vaccine -- 9 Reasons Why
Mercola lists nine arguments against giving children flu shots, among them the need for two doses, adjuvants such as thimerosal, aluminum and squalene, approval based on mock vaccines, and warnings that heavy use of vaccines and Tamiflu may push flu viruses to mutate.
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American Academy of Pediatrics questions autism data
The American Academy of Pediatrics says the 1-in-91 figure, drawn from a telephone survey of 78,000 parents, is less accurate than the 1-in-150 estimate from the ADDM Network, which checks parent reports against children's medical records.
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Public Ambivalence May Keep Many from Swine Flu Vaccine
A history of influenza runs from Hippocrates through the belief that “bad air” caused it to the 1930s discovery of the virus, then turns to what the writer calls disturbing similarities between swine flu and the 1918 Spanish flu as the first vaccine doses are readied.
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SC Mom dies from swine flu complications after birth
A pregnant South Carolina woman died of swine flu complications shortly after giving birth, and her newborn appears healthy. The piece notes she had received no flu vaccine, counts about 27 such deaths since the outbreak began, and argues the risk is small next to other causes of maternal death.
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Researchers Increase Longevity of Mice Genetically
London researchers blocked production of the protein S6K1 in mice without changing what they ate, extending lifespan by a fifth and heading off age-related illness such as type 2 diabetes. The mice also showed better motor skills, stronger bones and more youthful T-cells.
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Suit Filed by Allergan Could be Precedent Setting
Allergan has sued the FDA over rules barring drug makers from marketing off-label uses to doctors. Botox is approved for five uses in the US but has 21 indications worldwide, and the company argues it should be free to give physicians criteria and dosages for uses it has not sought approval for.
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Concussions and Alzheimer's: The High Cost of Playing in the NFL
Autopsies on six former NFL players found all had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, damage from repeated concussions that has been linked to early-onset Alzheimer's and depression. Boston University's Chris Nowinski says a significant share of pros will develop it, often in their 40s.
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Obesity in Pregnant Women Linked to Certain Heart Defects in Their Babies
A CDC analysis in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found overweight women 18% more likely, and severely obese women 30% more likely, to have babies with congenital heart defects. The overweight mothers also had more smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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Yale Murder Shows Sordid Underbelly of Animal Research
A column arguing that the arrest of lab technician Raymond Clark III over the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le exposes the secrecy of animal research, and questioning what security buys when the threat comes from inside the lab.
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How to Cut Up Your Credit Card the RIGHT Way
Mercola reprints Federal Reserve guidance on picking a credit card: start from how you will use it, then compare annual fees, grace periods and the separate APRs that apply to purchases, cash advances, balance transfers, tiered balances and late payments.
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Bad Economy Boosters Health: Study
A University of Michigan study found US life expectancy rose 6.2 years between 1929 and 1932, from 57.1 to 63.3, across both sexes and racial groups. Deaths fell from every cause examined except suicide, which the lead author ties to changed working conditions.
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Do Damaging Videos Threaten Food Industry? Temple Grandin Speaks Out
Temple Grandin's line that economics alone cannot justify a production practice frames a look at videos of chicks ground up alive and hens left to die, the egg industry's Good Egg damage-control campaign, and industry resistance to a bill curbing routine antibiotics in farm animals.
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10 Solid Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy
Mercola urges readers to join Facebook, then lock it down, and opens a list of privacy guidelines beginning with organizing friends into lists. He describes the site, then at 300 million users, as a way to reach well over ten million people with his message.
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Most parents don't want their kids to receive swine flu vaccine
A University of Michigan poll of 1,678 parents found 40 percent would immunize their children against H1N1, against 54 percent for seasonal flu. Among those refusing, 46 percent were not worried their children would fall ill and 20 percent doubted H1N1 is serious.
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