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Forever Damaged From An Untested 8-in-1 Vaccine, Help Needed As Jodie ’s Legal Battle Continues
Conclusion We don’t know how many other children were given this experimental vaccine, but Jodie Marchant is the only one known to have survived this and her family is the only family in the world to hold the records proving this vaccine corruption has gone on. In recent times, due to immense pressure regarding informed consent not being provided often enough to parents by doctors, the Supreme Court Montgomery ruling was passed. This ruling will help change the way doctors provide informed consent and should help families receive compensation for their child’s vaccine injury. This ruling might also help the Marchants w...
Source: vactruth.com - October 28, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Case Reports on Vaccine Injury Human Top Stories truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs

Scum of the earth award
May I have the envelope please? And the winner is:John Kapoor. Actually I was originally going to give it tothis schtickdreck, Rhode Island physician (now defrocked) Jerrold Rosenberg. Rosenberg took $188,000 from Kapoor ' s company to prescribe an opioid formulation containing fentanyl. It is only approved for what ' s called " breakthrough " cancer pain, which means pain that can ' t be controlled by more conventional opioid formulations. Since the patients didn ' t actually have cancer, Rosenberg also had to defraud their insurance companies. The story doesn ' t say whether any of his patients became opioid addicts, or ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 26, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

The Use and Abuse of " Reciprocity " in Trade Policy
One of the big demands of the Trump administration is that trade, and trade agreements, must be “reciprocal.” Their concerns about reciprocity are misplaced, and miss the point about why we open our markets in the first place. Sure it’s great when other countries also open their markets, but there is more to be gained from unilateral opening than no liberalization at all. Frédéric Bast iat explained this peculiar desire for reciprocity inEconomic Sophisms, wherehe wrote:There are people (a small number, it is true, but there are some) who are beginning to understand that obstacles are no less obstacles for being ar...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 23, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester, Inu Manak Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 9th 2017
In this study, we investigated the Hippo pathway, which is known from my lab's previous studies to prevent adult heart muscle cell proliferation and regeneration. When patients are in heart failure there is an increase in the activity of the Hippo pathway. This led us to think that if we could turn Hippo off, then we might be able to induce improvement in heart function." "We designed a mouse model to mimic the human condition of advanced heart failure. Once we reproduced a severe stage of injury in the mouse heart, we inhibited the Hippo pathway. After six weeks we observed that the injured hearts had recovered the...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 8, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Senate Passes a Pentagon Budget, but a BCA Trainwreck Looms
By a vote of 89-8, the Senate yesterdaypassed a $700 billion defense budget. That isn ’t particularly newsworthy. AstheNew York Times reported, “The vote marked the 56th consecutive year that Congress has passed the defense policy bill—a point of personal pride for Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee.”The important story is that Sen. McCain et al. have no plan for actually raising the necessary funds, either through more taxes, cuts elsewhere, or more debt. Previous budget fights played by the rules —compromising to abide by the bipartisan Budget Control Act ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 19, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs

A Safer Way To Legalize Marijuana
Eight US states, the District of Columbia, and the country of Uruguay have recently legalized the recreational use of marijuana, with Canada and more US states poised to do the same. The new laws include limits on youth access, operation of motor vehicles when using, and high-volume purchases or possession. However, none of the laws consider which kinds of marijuana products should and should not be legally sold. While we take no position on the overall desirability of marijuana legalization, we propose here that policy makers in favor of it consider only permitting the sale of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) extracts intended ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 8, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Rebecca Haffajee, Alex C. Liber and Kenneth E. Warner Tags: Featured Public Health drug policy legalization of marijuana Source Type: blogs

Should Value Frameworks Take A ‘ Societal Perspective ’ ?
Editor’s note: One of the authors of this post, Peter Neumann, will be discussing issues related to the post at a Health Affairs September 13 event, “Understanding The Value of Innovations In Medicine.” In 1996, the U.S. Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine recommended that analysts conducting cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) should perform a reference case analysis, following a set of standard methodological practices to improve comparability and quality. They further recommended that such analyses assume a societal perspective, reflecting the perspective of a decision maker allocating resourc...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 6, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Peter J. Neumann and Sachin Kamal-Bahl Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Innovation Quality 2nd Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine Source Type: blogs

The EpiPen Whistleblower Saga Comes to a Close
Last week, Mylan Inc. and Mylan Specialty L.P. (hereinafter “Mylan”) reached an agreement with the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to pay $465 million to resolve claims that they violated the False Claims Act (“FCA”). Mylan knowingly misclassified EpiPen as a generic drug, attempting to avoid paying rebates that were owed to Medicaid. The settlement resolves the government’s allegations that Mylan, by erroneously reporting EpiPen as a generic drug to Medicaid despite the absence of any therapeutically equivalent drugs, was able to demand massive price increases in the private market while avoidin...
Source: Policy and Medicine - August 31, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

To Combat ‘Information Blocking,’ Look To HIPAA
Back in 2009, when the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act became law, US taxpayers committed $300 million to seed nationwide health information exchange. Taxpayers also agreed to pay what turned out to be $35 billion in incentive payments for physicians and hospitals to adopt and “meaningfully use” electronic health records (EHRs). In implementing the meaningful-use program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) required eligible providers and hospitals to attest to certain activities, including engaging in health information exchange and providing their patients ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 24, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Lucia C. Savage Tags: Health IT 21st Century Cures electronic health records HIPAA information blocking medical data privacy Source Type: blogs

Making Smoking Cessation Work For People With Mental Illnesses And Other Vulnerable Populations
The prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults is now at a modern low of 15 percent, and youth rates are also down for high school seniors, with only 3.4 percent smoking daily. Yet this is not a time to become complacent and move on to other public health problems. As many as 40 million people still smoke, and half of them will die prematurely as a result. Furthermore, smoking rates remain high among the most vulnerable populations, such as people with mental illnesses or substance use disorders, necessitating policies and strategies targeted specifically at them, as well as support for tobacco control at the federal, st...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 23, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Steven Schroeder Tags: Featured Health Equity Population Health Public Health Behavioral Health Mental Illness smoking cessation Substance Use Disorders vulnerable populations Source Type: blogs

The ‘Tanning Tax’ Is A Public Health Success Story
Among the lesser known provisions in the now-rejected Republican House and Senate health care bills was a plan to eliminate an excise tax on tanning bed use. Tanning first became fashionable when Coco Chanel popularized the practice in the 1920s, making lounging outside in the sun a symbol of leisure, relaxation, and health. In the late 1970s, pioneering businesses began to offer ultraviolet (UV) radiation beds as a shortcut to fashionable tanned skin; by the 1990s, indoor UV tanning services were ubiquitous staples of the American beauty industry. Despite its popularity, research has shown that exposure to UV radiation is...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 15, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Elisabeth Ryan Tags: Costs and Spending Public Health tanning tax Source Type: blogs

Conversations about cannabis for chronic pain
The debate about cannabis and derivatives for persistent pain continues to grow in New Zealand, and elsewhere in the world. Many people I’ve treated and who are living with persistent pain say they like to use cannabis (in a variety of forms) to help with pain intensity and sleep, adding their voices to those wanting “medicinal” cannabis to be approved. In the few patients I’ve worked with who have managed to obtain a cannabis product (in NZ it has to be legally prescribed and will generally be in the form of Sativex or similar) the effect doesn’t seem as profound as the real thing (whether sm...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - August 6, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Therapeutic approaches Research Pain conditions Coping strategies Science in practice Health healthcare biopsychosocial pain management Source Type: blogs

Doctors Do Know Best. Exhibit A: The Charlie Gard Case.
By SAURABH JHA, MD For American conservatives, Britain’s NHS is an antiquated Orwellian dystopia. For Brits, even those who don’t love the NHS, American conservatives are better suited to spaghetti westerns, such as Fistful of Dollars, than reality. The twain is unlikely to meet after the recent press surrounding Charlie Gard the infant, now deceased, with a rare, fatal mitochondrial disorder in which mitochondrial DNA is depleted – mitochondrial depletion disorder (MDD). In this condition, the cells lose their power supply and tissues, notably in the brain, die progressively and rapidly. The courts forbade Charlie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: OP-ED Patients Source Type: blogs

The Skinny On The Senate ACA Debate, Day Three
Editor’s note: This post is part of ongoing Health Affairs Blog coverage by Tim Jost of the Senate debate over repealing and replacing—or maybe just repealing, or maybe just minimally repealing, or maybe retaining—the Affordable Care Act. See Tim’s earlier post and updates for more coverage. Update: Medicare-for-All And Abortion At about 2:30, the Senate voted on an amendment put forward by Senator Daines (R MT) incorporating the House Medicare-for-All bill. His intent was to embarrass and perhaps divide the Democrats by forcing them to vote on a proposal that some of them embrace, but some do not. In fact,...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 27, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Costs and Spending Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage 1332 waivers Congressional Budget Office employer mandate individual mandate medical device tax skinny ACA repeal Source Type: blogs