Medical Industrial Complex

I don't trust either the pharmaceutical companies or the supplement companies to put my welfare over their finances.

These new regs will apply to "popular cheap synthetic vitamins" made by "Big Pharma" exactly as they apply to supplments.  These vitamins are supplements.  The new law applies to them.  And remember, something thats been sold for decades, such as a vitamin C or St. John's Wort, or whatever, will not be affected because it isn't a "new ingredient."  The new law only applies to substances that were never approved as safe.  Why anyone would be opposed to regulating supplements for safety, i don't understand, but maybe thats why Big Herb is lying about what these regs will do and claiming that the government is taking away people's supplements.

The government regulates toasters for safety and that hasn't translated into toasters being "taken down."  This is big business, the supplement industry, trying to stir up people with conspiracy theories in order to preserve their profits. 

BALD FROM CHEMO

"Are you still bald after chemo? Are you hiding under a baseball cap long after your hair was supposed to grow back? Are your doctors perplexed? If so, you may be one of a growing number of people around the world who have experienced persistent chemo-induced alopecia, or hair loss.

According to Sanofi-Aventis, manufacturer of the chemotherapy drug Taxotere-used to treat breast, lung, gastric, head and neck and prostate cancer-3% of patients administered the drug could experience long-term alopecia. This figure could rise to as high as 6.3% when given in combination with the drugs Adriamycin (doxorubicin) and Cyclophosphamide, according to a study by the Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers in Colorado.

"Such an emotionally devastating long-term toxicity from this combination must be taken into account when deciding on adjuvant chemotherapy programs in women who likely will be cured of their breast cancer," the study concludes.

Despite this recommendation, patients-are not being informed of this potentially disfiguring side effect."

http://aheadofourtime.org/

Three years of growth after chemotherapy

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/24_MeetingAbstracts/3174?eaf

Bald Women Lash Out At Sanofi-Aventis & Taxotere By Ed Silverman // March 8th, 2010 For every action, there is a reaction. In this case, a group of women are angry the Taxotere breast cancer med has not only left them permanently bald and looking sick long after they were treated for the disease, but the warning was insufficient. Calling themselves taxotears, several have formed a group - A Head of Our Time - to demand more patient education.‘A Head of Our Time is a world-wide organization of "baldies" who have banded together to share emotional support, compare medical research and educate our health care providers. If you are tired of the stares and the dismissive suggestions to "wear a wig", you will find understanding and, indeed, empowerment among us,' according to their web site."

Ang, if you are squimmish looking at the pictures, maybe you should go to another thread.  This is about Big Pharma and chemo and this is where it belongs.

Edited to add.  Penguin cold caps are not recommended in our neck of the woods

Luan, I've lost count of how many times you have told people to go on other threads. (Maybe such a comment belongs on a "Comments and Questions" thread?  )

Lots of censoring here. First, Apple gets scolded for posting about flaxseed, then Patzee tells us to stay on topic, and then after a mega detour into Taxotere baldness, someone who responds directly gets told to take their comments elsewhere.

So what is this thread really about?

Perhaps it's just Friday....

(((((((((((((Athena)))))))))))  and more giggles....

"A medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed against a West Virginia doctor and hospitals for giving chemotherapy to a man who did not actually have cancer"

http://www.aboutlawsuits.com/topics/chemotherapy/

And I think we can all agree that people who do not have cancer should not be given chemotherapy as if they do.  (Not sure what the point of that post was).

I think we can all agree that labels shouldn't be switched.

So, where's Leia? She started the thread. Did she appoint you all the thread police in her absence? What does "doing what comes naturally" have to do with Medical Industrial Complex? Patzee, I thought your thread would be about doing what comes naturally. It seems to have turned into a c&p fest on steroids. No one comes on there demanding you to stay on topic. What happened to free speech?

I think we can all agree that drugs should not be packaged with the wrong dose.

"Common Hospital Infections

Approximately 1 million people in the United States develop a hospital infection every year. Hospital infections are typically related to a medical procedure or treatment that the patient is undergoing in a hospital. While dealing with one medical condition, a patient may then have to deal with a new infection.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that approximately 36% of hospital infections are preventable, if medical personnel follow strict guidelines on hygiene and maintain a clear, sterile environment.

The most common hospital infections include: 

• urinary tract infections (UTIs);
• surgical site infections; and
• pneumonia (associated with ventilator use). 

The source of hospital infections can be found in unclean catheters and tubes, through which bacteria can travel freely.

The Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology reports that 24% of patients who have a catheter inserted will develop a hospital infection. Approximately 5.2% of these infections will enter the bloodstream, and 4% to 20% of the infections will result in death. 

One of the leading causes of a hospital infection is unsanitary hospital conditions"

http://www.accidentlawillinois.com/blog/common-hospital-infections.cfm

And WTF does hospital infections have to do with anything?  What are you doing????