2011 July

Now a new report from Johns Hopkins here in Baltimore finds that in many cases patients are much better off not even
getting that first CT scan.

If the numbers for the past decade continue their rate of trending upward, 2011 will become the first year that the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting Service (AERS) will record more than 100,000 deaths linked to patent drug use. This may also be the first year AERS will record more than half a million serious patient outcomes.

You see, in India, drug companies can’t advertise their products direct to consumers like they do in the U.S. So Abbott can’t come right out and make an obvious pitch for their sleep-aid Zolfresh (which is chemically identical to Ambien).

They’re growing the burger from scratch, using a few thousand stem cells extracted from cattle. That’s right — it’s man-made meat. And by mid-century, when you put on your jetpack and fly to your local supermarket, you may have a choice to make: Meat from real animals, or meat created in a lab.

Cherries contain antioxidants and other anti-inflammatory components. The scientific evidence behind that statement is irrefutable. But when owners of cherry orchards made those claims and backed them up with links to the evidence, the FDA ruled that the claims “cause your products to be drugs.”