35,000 citizens recently rallied on Okinawa opposing US military bases
There is much talk about whether the Okinawan delegation to DC will be successful in changing US policy.
Tag Archives: Health
“FDA remove Sufentanil (Dsuvia) as you did Palladone in 2005! It’s dangerous!”
Janet Woodcock, MD is current FDA Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Maybe she can advise under her watch — during an opioid epidemic in the U.S., why she does not question the dangers of Sufentanil (Dsuvia) being released on the American people.
Marianne Skolek Perez, Investigative Reporter
(MYRTLE BEACH) In early 2005, I exposed Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, for marketing a dangerous opioid called Palladone. In July 2005, Palladone was removed from the market following an FDA request because of “safety concerns” An FDA news release stated that “serious and potentially fatal adverse reactions could occur when Palladone (hydromorphone hydrochloride) extended release capsules were taken together with alcohol.” (See news release below).
The “Dumbing Down” of America in the Prescription Opioid Epidemic!
Why “International Overdose Awareness Day” is dangerous and a deflection on attacking the epidemic from the root of the crisis — at the top! The top is the FDA and the flooding of our country with dangerous prescription opioids!
Marianne Skolek-Perez Global News Centre
(MYRTLE BEACH) Social media is alive with the promotion of “International Overdose Awareness Day” on August 31 and a march in Washington, DC as well as events taking place throughout the U.S. and Canada.
(Circumcision) Inflicting Pain Just After Birth May Have Long-Term Effects on Your Newborn
Global News Centre
Submitted by Ace Knight
“We must alert the medical community to the psychological hazards of early pain and call for the removal of all man-made pain surrounding birth.”
—Dr. David B. Chamberlain, psychologist and co-founder of the Association of Pre-and Perinatal Psychology and Health
FDA fails to protect children from dangerous drugs
FDA allows drug manufacturers to expand their market into the lives of children.
Marianne Skolek-Perez Global News Centre
(MYRTLE BEACH) On September 15 and 16, I attended an FDA meeting to discuss the appropriate development plans for establishing the safety and efficacy of prescription opioid analgesics for pediatric patients. On September 15, the day was filled with physicians giving their “expert” opinions on neonatals and newborns being given opioids for pain — after all they feel the pain of “needle sticks”. One expert said the discussion was like “elephants in a room”. I describe it as “egos in a room” and there were many of them.
FDA approves a dangerous opioid based on “cheap party” study! Disturbing and true!
esofosbuvir.com
The drug was altered in various ways, and the participants were asked whether they liked the drug and would use it again. Most said they would not.
Marianne Skolek-Perez Global News Centre
(MYRTLE BEACH) FDA advisory committee strikes again and recommended approval of Vantrela ER (Teva Pharmaceuticals), a new hydrocodone bitartrate extended-release tablet with abuse-deterrent capabilities. As the U.S. is fighting a devastating epidemic of prescription opioid/heroin addictions and deaths, the FDA approves yet another opioid. Maybe someone should ask the FDA “how many opioids does it take to devastate every state in the country?” The US is #1 in the world in opioid use followed closely by Canada.
Lynn R. Webster, MD - aka “Dr. Death” subject of investigative TV program
Lynn Webster MD
One of the quotes in the Aljazeera America TV piece delivered by Webster to a now deceased patient’s family was “A chronic pain sufferer could not become an addict.”
Marianne Skolek Global News Centre
(MYRTLE BEACH) On Monday, August 31 at 10 pm ET and 7 pm PT Aljazeera America Television will be broadcasting a program entitled “Fault Lines - How a Utah Woman Got Hooked on Painkillers.” Here is a link to a preview of that show - http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/fault-lines/2015/8/how-did-a-utah-woman-get-hooked-on-painkillers.html
The program focuses on a woman who was a patient of Lynn R. Webster, MD, head of Life Tree Pain Clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Webster’s pain clinic had been raided by the D.E.A. in 2010 because of high numbers of deaths while patients were under his treatment. During an interview, Webster had said “I do not know precisely how many former clinic patients died of an opioid overdose. At most it could be 20. Many of those probably were suicides. I don’t think any of the deaths were for scripts I wrote. They were from staff.” (In some states, including Utah, nurse practitioners and physician assistants can write prescriptions if they are supervised by a physician — and the prescription is signed by a physician. Was this called throwing your staff under the bus, Dr. Webster?)
Florida Board of Medicine you have a pill mill crisis in your state! Why are you contributing to it?
Surveillance image from what was once South Florida’s largest pill mill. Courtesy: wsvn.com
Have you seen the statistics in Florida of the deaths and addictions to controlled substances?
Marianne Skolek Global News Centre
(MYRTLE BEACH) There is an organization of ordinary citizens operating out of Florida called StoppNow. Here is a link to their website http://stoppnow.com/?page_id=252. These ordinary citizens recognize that pill mills operating out of storefront buildings are warehouses of prescription opioids who are dispensing pills to hopelessly addicted people lined up outside the storefront pill mills. So StoppNow organizes picket lines in front of the pill mills calling attention to law enforcement and the D.E.A. that people are dying and families torn apart because of these pill mills. Ordinary citizens saving lives — heroes in every sense of the word.
Exposing lies, telling the truth
In ‘Exposing Lies of the Empire’, Andre Vltchek documents, with chillingly violent detail, the sins of Christianity which has wanted converts (at the point of a gun if necessary) and does not tolerate, let alone ‘love thy neighbour’, when the neighbour is of a different faith.
Robert J. Burrowes Global News Centre
(TASMANIA) I have just read Andre Vltchek’s new book ‘Exposing Lies of the Empire’. http://badak-merah.weebly.com/exposing-lies-of-the-empire.html Let me tell you something about this book of 800 pages.
Vltchek writes with passion and poetry, describing the true horror experienced by the world at large, living at the gunpoint of the imperial powers, while also describing and drawing you into a world of progress, culture and refinement that exists in some places and, so we are tantalised, might exist elsewhere too and even, perhaps, one day for us all.
If God sends her to me, she is a blessing. Affirmation of a mother to her daughter with Down syndrome
The journal The New England Journal of Medicine, reported that it has reviewed a new, noninvasive test that can discover Down syndrome three months after fertilization, with an accuracy of 87%.
Clemente Ferrer Global News Centre
(MADRID) Eddy enrolled their children in the CADI (Center for the Integral Development), Uruguay institution that seek sto help improve the quality of life for children and families at social risk. Eddy thinks that in CADI she learned to see God’s hand in everything. By having her last child with Down syndrome she said, “If God sends her to me, she is a blessing.”
Vietnam Veteran will not lose 2nd Amendment rights over PTSD
The Kirby family believed they were facing an Orwellian nightmare.
Pat Kirby was told he would lose his right to bear arms because he suffers from wartime PTSD.
Tim King Global News Centre
(MYRTLE CREEK) An Oregon man who suffers from combat PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) was told he would lose his gun rights in late 2013, because he was deemed “incompetent” by the VA (Veterans Administration). Pat Kirby, a decorated Vietnam Veteran, was threatened with the loss of his most basic rights as an American, because he doesn’t physically write checks to pay his own bills. His wife, Susan Kirby, has always taken care of the financial side of their family affairs, ever since he came home from his final tour in Vietnam, in 1972.* For that reason, he was initially told he would literally have to hand over his guns, from his extremely rural location, in the mountains near Roseburg, Oregon.
OKINAWA: fighting to save nature and culture
Bruce Gagnon for Global News Centre
(BATH, Me.) The right-wing newspaper, Washington Times, ran a piece on Monday entitled “The other side to the Okinawa story: The ‘All Okinawa’ opposition to US military presence [occupation] is a leftist ruse”.The hit piece was written by Robert Eldridge (political affairs and public diplomacy officer, Marine Corps Installations Pacific on Okinawa). He wrote about the current visit of Okinawan Gov. Takeshi Onaga to Washington to express the demand of his people that the US government close the military bases on their island. Gov. Onaga was elected in a recent landslide vote by the citizens on Okinawa who have had more than enough of US bases, destruction of their environment and culture, and want them immediately closed.
In the Washington Times Eldridge commented:
