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Teild
Teild Member Posts: 58
edited June 2014 in Complementary and Holistic Medicine and Treatment

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31190909/

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  • FloridaLady
    FloridaLady Member Posts: 2,155
    edited June 2009

    No surpise here!   Did you really think the goverment would admit that alternative would work and cut thousands of FDA, pharm and doctors out of making billions a year.  Please do the research the 100's billion spent each year on research very toxic drugs that do more harm than good to the American public.  No country does prescription drugs like America's.  Read the facts and the money behind it.

    http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=2009&indexType=i

    Number one highest in the country first!

    Pharm/Health products!!!!  66,998,525

    Insurance  41,440,798

    Hospitals/Nursing Homes  22,880,972

    Health Professionals  17.533.381

    Health Services/HMO's  17,443.397

    Total 166,297,073  I just want to know why?  And we wonder about the cost of health care in America.  And you can't tell me this $$$ don't have power to control millions of jobs and our lives with this kind of input. 

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  • FloridaLady
    FloridaLady Member Posts: 2,155
    edited June 2009

    Another reminder that less than 10% of the billions spent ever make it to the market. 

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  • FloridaLady
    FloridaLady Member Posts: 2,155
    edited June 2009

    Another reminder that less than 10% of the billions spent ever make it to the market. 

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  • Yazmin
    Yazmin Member Posts: 840
    edited June 2009

    As usual, I totally agree with you, FloridaLady. But I also think that we have reached the turning point where, thanks to tools like the internet, it is becoming harder and harder for them to keep on spreading the wrong information.

    There is an increase in the ranks of those seeking alternatives. And if I believe the last National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund conference, which I attended, there seems to be a shift in thinking: away from blindly condoning toxic, brutal "treatment," and some newfound curiosity towards Alternatives. For example, I NEVER expected to see the day when I would read an article about new findings on the toxic effects of TAMOXIFEN:

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081211141838.htm. And yet:

    "Tens of thousands of women in this country are prescribed tamoxifen for either treatment or prevention of breast cancer, and while it has shown remarkable success, it does not work for a substantial number of patients," says the study's lead investigator, John Hawse, Ph.D. "These findings increase our understanding of tamoxifen and, we hope, could pave the way for improved therapies."

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