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Misty L. Trepke
http://www.searching-alternatives.com

Medical Armageddon

Given that
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Conventional Medicine is Far Riskier Than Supplements the following
figures and issues are simply ignored by the regulators, who seem to
have all the resources in the world, in time and money, to go after
essentially safe and efficacious health products while ignoring the
real health issues.

It is clear, with so much data on death and injury from supposed
safety tested drugs, surgeries and devices, that the regulatory
framework is more about protecting the vested interests then the
constituents.

Surely, with such a dismal track record why are the regulators
needed in the first place? Is this not like trusting the fox to look
after the interests of chickens? In my view less the bureaucracy,
the better. This at least will take away the free lunch from the
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medical Mafia, who cleverly a have made us to do their dirty work
with our own tax money...

Chris Gupta
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/11/18/medical_armageddon.h
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Recently a New York Times editorial mused about testosterone
replacement therapy stating, "One wonders whether 'another' medical
debacle is in the making." Medical debacles are common occurrences
these days, so common that every ten days, in the United States
alone, the same number of people die from the effects of
prescription drugs as were killed in the September 11th World Trade
Center attack.? Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins
School of Hygiene and Public Health reported in the Journal of the
American Medical Association that 250,000 people in the US were
dying each year from errors in medication, unnecessary surgery,
infections caught in hospitals, and 106,000 per year from non-error,
negative effects of drugs.

Research compiled by Gary Null, Ph.D., Carol Dean, M.D., and Martin
Feldman, M.D., place the numbers significantly higher. In a paper
called

Death By Medicine, published by the Nutrition Institute of American,
according to a "definitive review and close reading of medical peer-
review journals, and government health statistics," over 780,000
Americans die each year as a direct result of conventional medical
procedures and/or medications. This compares to the approximately
700,000 Americans who die each year due to heart disease, and the
approximately 550,000 who die due to cancer.

At the same time the 8 biggest pharmaceutical manufacturers in the
USA increased revenues by 20% in 3Q 2003. This was the largest
growth in any quarter since at least 1999. Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-
Myers Squibb, Abbott Labs, J&J, Wyeth, Eli Lilly and Schering-Plough
achieved total sales of $42.5 billion. As sales go up death goes up.

A senior marketing executive at Parke-Davis, which manufactures the
seizure medication gabapentin (Neurontin) was quoted during a
teleconference as saying to medical liaisons (drug detail
personnel) "Neurontin for pain, Neurontin for monotherapy, Neurontin
for everything. I don't want to hear that safety crap either." It
just so happens that the FDA does not approve Neurontin for any of
these purposes yet the company's employees have the receptive ears
of medical doctors who are prescribing the drug for unapproved uses.
Through the creation of concocted uses for gabapentin Parke-Davis'
turned the drug into a "blockbuster." A blockbuster is the Wall
Street description for any drug that sold $1 billion per year or
more. In 2000, the company reported that gabapentin had earned $1.3
billion. As much as 78 percent of these sales were for uses without
evidence that gabapentin was safe and effective. In 2001 a market
research firm estimated that gabapentin sales totaled $1.7 billion .

This is just one story of many such stories. People are dying in
great numbers. Perhaps it was the physical structure of the World
Trade Center that made it so important, not the people who died
inside. If we take 106,000 per year from non-error, negative effects
of drugs in the states as a 'conservative' base line and project
that onto the world population it would not be far fetched to assume
more than a half million people a year are dying from 'safe'
medication. If we look at overall medically induced death rates, at
the number of people who die each year as a direct result
of conventional medical procedures and/or medications we are looking
in the order of between three to five to even ten million deaths a
year. And each year the numbers are getting worse.

Medical News Editorial
http://www.worldpsychology.net

See also:

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system is leading cause of death and injury in US

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/