Posts belonging to Category FDA'

FDA’s screen (not steel) doors

SOURCE  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Talk:Government-industry_revolving_door
Ann Mulkern, “When advocates become regulators,“ Denver Post, May 23, 2004: “President Bush has installed more than 100 top officials who were once lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee.”
Daniel E. Troy, lead counsel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, extended the government’s help in torpedoing certain lawsuits. Among Troy’s targets: [...]

FDA allows banned drug in cattle

Dr. Weeks’ Comment:  One of many government agencies operating on behalf of corporate interests with no accountability to citizens.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/why-has-the-fda-allowed-a-drug-marked-not-safe-for-use-in-humans-to-be-fed-to-livestock-right-before-slaughter.html

Why Has the FDA Allowed a Drug Marked ‘Not Safe for Use in Humans’ to Be Fed to Livestock Right Before Slaughter?
Martha Rosenberg
Alternet
Sunday, February 6th, 2010
While researchers and scientists investigate the cause [...]

Metallic iron “enriches” your cereal – view it and weep!

Dr. Weeks’ Comment:   Bravo to Tom Levy, M.D.  for a simple and shocking demonstration that the FDA is allowing cereal companies to poison us with metallic iron filings!

http://www.tomlevymd.com/video/video.html

The FDA meets the Amish

Dr. Weeks’ Comment:   This is so sad. Tragic also.

FDA Invades Non-Commercial Amish
Farm in PA
In what used to be a free country it seems the FDA even want the Amish to stop drinking raw milk. In a total disregard for his health freedom, agents of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [...]

Why not let the patient/customer decide

More Effort Needed to Crack Down on ‘Secret Remedies’, Expert Argues
ScienceDaily (Dec. 17, 2009) — The medical establishment and politicians must do more to crack down on alternative medicine, argues a senior scientist on the British Medical Journal website.

In 1909 the BMA, BMJ and politicians tried to end the marketing of secret remedies by uncovering [...]

Good FDA action –

Dr. Weeks’ Comment:   To their credit, the FDA is acting reasonably here.  They are moving away from their position supporting  the toxic BPA in plastics – after having uncritically relied upon a chemical industry funded pair of studies.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR2010011504070_pf.html

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Reversing itself, FDA expresses concerns over health risks from BPA
By Lyndsey Layton
Saturday, January [...]

FDA – more shame on them

Dr. Weeks’ Comment:      Wow.…  image the money trail.
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FDA approves Crestor for people who have no health problem to correct
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by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

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(NaturalNews) Big Pharma has been trending this direction for a long time: marketing medicines to people who don’t need them and who have nothing [...]

Mercury politics and the FDA

Dr. Weeks’  Comment:   great clear video – share with your patient.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0RLmb8EULc&NR=1
and see what mercury is doing to your brain…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImCpWzXJ_w&feature=related

This doctor won’t vaccinate his kids

Dr. Weeks’  Comment:  Wow!!   Fox news get big credit for airing this opinion which is critical of the H1N1 vaccine.
This doctor  Ken Holtor , an expert on infectious diseases, states the following:
“The H1 N1 virus is losing its virulence and should be treated no differently than a seasonal flu.”
“I have more concern about [...]

Mandatory flu shots hit resistance.

Dr. Weeks Comment:   this Washington Post article is dated.. last September, but the issues are topical.

Mandatory Flu Shots Hit Resistance
Many Health-Care Workers Required to Get Vaccines

Mandatory H1N1 Vaccinations

What’s at Issue?
An increasing number of doctors, nurses and other health-care workers for the first time are being required to get flu shots, in part because of concerns [...]