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A Review of Medical Errors in Laboratory Diagnostics and Where We Are Today
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<div class="ww-citation-primary"><em>Laboratory Medicine</em>, Volume 43, Issue 2, February 2012, Pages 41–44, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1309/LM6ER9WJR1IHQAUY">https://doi.org/10.1309/LM6ER9WJR1IHQAUY</a></div>
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<h2 class="abstract-title js-splitscreen-abstract-title" id="117212705">Abstract</h2>
<section class="abstract"><p class="chapter-para">While many areas of
health care are still struggling with the issue of patient safety,
laboratory diagnostics has always been a forerunner in pursuing this
issue. Significant progress has been made since the release of “To Err
is Human.”<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b1-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b1-0430041">1</a></sup> This article briefly reviews laboratory quality assessment and looks at recent statistics concerning laboratory errors.</p></section> <div class="article-metadata-panel clearfix"><div class="kwd-group"><a class="kwd-part kwd-main" data-keyword=""laboratory error"">laboratory error</a>, <a class="kwd-part kwd-main" data-keyword=""patient safety"">patient safety</a>, <a class="kwd-part kwd-main" data-keyword=""medical error"">medical error</a></div><div class="related-topic-tags">
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<p class="chapter-para">It has been 12 years since the Institute of
Medicine (IOM) reported the alarming data on the cause and impact of
medical errors in the United States.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b1-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b1-0430041">1</a></sup>
Besides causing serious harm to patients, medical errors translate into
huge costs for the national economy. In 1999, Berwick and Leape
published that the estimated cost of medical errors in the United States
was between $17 billion-$29 billion a year.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b2-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b2-0430041">2</a></sup>
In 2006, Null and colleagues published an article indicating the
overall estimated annual economic cost of improper medical intervention
was much higher, approaching $282 billion.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b3-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b3-0430041">3</a></sup>
While many areas of health care are still struggling with the issue of
patient safety, laboratory diagnostics has always been a forerunner in
pursuing this issue. The concepts and practices of quality assessment
programs have long been routine in laboratory medicine, and error rates
in laboratory activities are far lower than those seen in overall
clinical health care.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b4-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b4-0430041">4</a></sup> This article briefly reviews laboratory quality assessment and looks at recent statistics concerning laboratory errors.</p> <h2 class="section-title js-splitscreen-section-title" id="117212708">Quality Standards</h2>
<p class="chapter-para">Laboratory medicine sets high quality standards.
Regulation of quality in the health care sector is based on
accreditation, certification, quality monitoring, patient’s rights,
standard operation processes, and standards of health care quality.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b5-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b5-0430041">5</a></sup>
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulates all
laboratory testing (except research) performed on humans in the United
States through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA).
The Division of Laboratory Services, within the Survey and Certification
Group, under the Center for Medicaid and State Operations (CMSO), has
the responsibility for implementing the CLIA program. The objective of
the CLIA program is to ensure quality laboratory testing.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b6-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b6-0430041">6</a></sup></p><p class="chapter-para">In
order for a health care organization to participate in and receive
payment from Medicare or Medicaid programs, it must be certified as
complying with the Conditions of Participation (CoP), or standards, set
forth in federal regulations. This certification is based on a survey
conducted by a state agency on behalf of CMS. However, if a national
accrediting organization, such as The Joint Commission (TJC), formerly
known as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care
Organizations, has and enforces standards meeting the federal CoP, CMS
may grant the accrediting organization “deeming” authority and “deem”
each accredited health care organization as meeting the Medicare and
Medicaid certification requirements. The health care organization is
then considered to have “deemed status” and is not subject to the
Medicare survey and certification process. Laboratories can also be
accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the
Commission on Office Laboratory Accreditation (COLA), both of which also
have deemed status with CMS.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b7-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b7-0430041">7</a>,<span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b8-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b8-0430041">8</a>,<span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b9-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b9-0430041">9</a></sup></p> <h2 class="section-title js-splitscreen-section-title" id="117212711">Sources of Laboratory Error</h2>
<p class="chapter-para">Traditionally, laboratory practice can be
divided into 3 phases (pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical).
All 3 phases of the total testing process can be targeted individually
for improving quality, although it is well published that most errors
occur in the pre- and post-analytical phases (<span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-t1-0430041"></span><a class="link link-reveal link-table xref-fig" data-open="t1-0430041">Table 1</a>).<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b10-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b10-0430041">10</a></sup>
In the field of laboratory medicine, Lippi and colleagues published
that the total testing process error rate ranges widely from 0.1% to
3.0%.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b11-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b11-0430041">11</a></sup> In studies done by Plebani and Carraro, laboratory error rates declined over 10 years from 0.47% in 1977 to 0.33% in 2007.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b12-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b12-0430041">12</a>,<span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b13-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b13-0430041">13</a></sup>
A similar declining trend has been seen specifically in analytical
errors. The analytical variability is now frequently less than 1/20th of
what it was 40 years ago.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b14-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b14-0430041">14</a></sup> Analytical mistakes now count for <10% of all mistakes.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b12-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b12-0430041">12</a></sup></p> <h2 class="section-title js-splitscreen-section-title" id="117212713">Analytical Error</h2>
<p class="chapter-para">Focusing first on the analytical phase of
laboratory testing, the analytical phase begins when the patient
specimen is prepared in the laboratory for testing, and it ends when the
test result is interpreted and verified by the technologist in the
laboratory. Not processing a specimen properly prior to analysis or
substances interfering with assay performance can affect test results in
the analytical phase. Establishing and verifying test method
performance specifications as to test accuracy, precision, sensitivity,
specificity, and linearity are other areas where errors can occur in the
analytical phase of laboratory testing.</p><p class="chapter-para">The
laboratory has spent decades improving analytical quality by
establishing internal quality controls (IQC) and external quality
assessment (EQA). The role of EQA and proficiency testing (PT) is to
provide reliable information allowing laboratories to assess and monitor
the quality status of internal procedures and processes, the
suitability of the diagnostic systems, the accountability and competence
of the staff, along with the definition of measurement uncertainty in
laboratory results. The responsibility of laboratory professionals is to
appropriately analyze EQA/PT samples and reports, detect trends or bias
that may not be apparent in single results, investigate root causes
producing unacceptable performances, apply and monitor opportune actions
for removing the underlying cause(s), verify the effectiveness, and,
above all, determine whether the problem affected clinical decision
making.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b15-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b15-0430041">15</a></sup></p> <h2 class="section-title js-splitscreen-section-title" id="117212716">Pre-analytical Error</h2>
<p class="chapter-para">The pre-analytical phase of the total laboratory
testing process is where the majority of laboratory errors occur.
Pre-analytical errors can occur at the time of patient assessment, test
order entry, request completion, patient identification, specimen
collection, specimen transport, or specimen receipt in the laboratory. A
report by Bonini and colleagues found that pre-analytical errors
predominated in the laboratory, ranging from 31.6% to 75%.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b16-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b16-0430041">16</a></sup>
In 2008 to 2009, Chawla and colleagues performed a 1-year study in the
clinical chemistry laboratory on the frequency of pre-analytical errors
observed in both inpatients and outpatients. For the inpatients, a
pre-analytical error rate of 1.9% was reported. The variable receiving
the highest frequency rating was specimen hemolysis at 1.10%. For the
outpatients, the error rate was 1.2%, and the variable with the highest
frequency rating was insufficient volume for testing.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b17-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b17-0430041">17</a></sup>
Some of the other common sources of pre-analytical error are the
following: ordering tests on the wrong patient, ordering the wrong test,
misidentifying the patient, choosing the inappropriate collection
container, or labeling containers improperly.</p><p class="chapter-para">A comprehensive plan to prevent pre-analytical errors has 5 interrelated steps: </p><ol class="number"><li><p class="chapter-para">Developing clear written procedures.</p></li><li><p class="chapter-para">Enhancing health care professional training.</p></li><li><p class="chapter-para">Automating functions, both for support operations and for executive operations.</p></li><li><p class="chapter-para">Monitoring quality indicators.</p></li><li><p class="chapter-para">Improving communication among health care professionals and fostering interdepartmental cooperation.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b18-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b18-0430041">18</a>,<span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b19-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b19-0430041">19</a>,<span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b20-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b20-0430041">20</a></sup></p></li></ol>
<div class="table-modal table-full-width-wrap" style="display: block;"><div class="table-wrap table-wide"><div class="table-wrap-title" data-id="t1-0430041" id="t1-0430041"><span class="label"></span><div class="caption"><p class="chapter-para"><sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b9-0430041"></span><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b20-0430041"></span></sup></p></div> </div><div class="table-overflow"><table><thead><tr><th><strong></strong><br /></th><th><strong></strong><br /></th><th><strong></strong><br /></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td rowspan="9"><br /></td><td><br /></td><td rowspan="9"><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><br /></td><td><br /></td><td rowspan="4"><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><br /></td><td><br /></td><td rowspan="3"><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div class="table-full-width-wrap"><div class="table-wrap table-wide"><div class="table-wrap-title" data-id="t1-0430041" id="t1-0430041"><span class="label">Table 1</span><div class="caption"><p class="chapter-para">Types and Rates of Error in the 3 Stages of the Laboratory Testing Process<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b9-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b9-0430041">9</a>,<span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b20-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b20-0430041">20</a></sup></p></div> </div><div class="table-overflow"><table><thead><tr><th><strong>Phase of Total Testing Process</strong></th><th><strong>Type of Error</strong></th><th><strong>Rates</strong></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td rowspan="9">Pre-analytical </td><td>Inappropriate test request </td><td rowspan="9">46%–68.2% </td></tr><tr><td>Order entry errors </td></tr><tr><td>Misidentification of patient </td></tr><tr><td>Container inappropriate </td></tr><tr><td>Sample collection and transport inadequate </td></tr><tr><td>Inadequate sample/anticoagulant volume ratio </td></tr><tr><td>Insufficient sample volume </td></tr><tr><td>Sorting and routing errors </td></tr><tr><td>Labeling errors </td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4">Analytical </td><td>Equipment malfunction </td><td rowspan="4">7%–13% </td></tr><tr><td>Sample mix-ups/interference </td></tr><tr><td>Undetected failure in quality control </td></tr><tr><td>Procedure not followed </td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3">Post-analytical </td><td>Failure in reporting </td><td rowspan="3">18.5%–47% </td></tr><tr><td>Erroneous validation of analytical data </td></tr><tr><td>Improper data entry </td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="
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must clearly explain how to identify a patient, collect and label a
specimen, and subsequently transport the specimen and prepare it for
analysis. Those individuals performing the pre-analytical procedures
must understand not only what the procedures are but why they are
important to follow. They need to know not only what happens if the
correct steps are not followed, but also what errors can occur and what
effect they can have on the sample and ultimately the patient. There
must be ongoing training for these employees and competencies must be
assessed annually.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b21-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b21-0430041">21</a></sup></p><p class="chapter-para">Modern
robotic technologies and information systems can also help reduce
pre-analytical errors. Computerized order entry simplifies test ordering
and eliminates a second person from transcribing the orders. Automated
phlebotomy tray preparation provides a complete set of labeled blood
tubes and labels for hand labeling in a single tray for each patient.
Pre-analytical robotic workstations automate some of the steps and
reduce the number of manual steps involving more people. Barcodes also
simplify specimen routing and tracking.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b21-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b21-0430041">21</a></sup></p><p class="chapter-para">Recent
advances in laboratory technology have made available new and more
reliable means for the automated detection of the serum indices,
including the hemolysis index. Visual detection of hemolysis must be
abandoned due to low sensitivity and low reproducibility. Laboratory
personnel must ask for new samples when hemolysis is detected. If a new
sample cannot be obtained, it is the responsibility of the laboratory
specialist to communicate the problem to the clinician. The data
obtained from the serum indices can be used to monitor the quality of
the collection process.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b22-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b22-0430041">22</a></sup></p> <h2 class="section-title js-splitscreen-section-title" id="117212724">Post-analytical Error</h2>
<p class="chapter-para">In the post-analytical phase of the testing
process, results are released to the clinician, and s/he interprets them
and makes diagnostic and therapeutic decisions accordingly. Such things
as inappropriate use of laboratory test results, critical result
reporting, and transmission of correct results are areas of potential
error in the post-analytical phase of the total laboratory testing
process.</p><p class="chapter-para">In an article by Plebani and Piva,
the authors give a comprehensive overview on the ongoing efforts for
improving actual consensus on the definition and notification of
laboratory critical values, and for evaluating their contribution to
improve clinical outcomes and patient safety. The article also provides
some highlights on a valuable experience of automated notification,
which is a reliable tool for improving the timeliness of communication
and avoiding potential errors for which accreditation programs require
read-back of the results.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b23-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b23-0430041">23</a></sup></p> <h2 class="section-title js-splitscreen-section-title" id="117212727">Monitoring Errors</h2>
<p class="chapter-para">The success of any efforts made to reduce errors
must be monitored in order to assess the efficacy of the measures
taken. Quality indicators must be used for assessment. In the testing
process areas involving non-laboratory personnel, interdepartmental
communication and cooperation are crucial to avoid errors. Therefore the
entire health care system must be involved in improving the total
testing process. There must be adequate and effective training of
personnel throughout the institution to be competent in following
processes and procedures.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b21-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b21-0430041">21</a></sup></p> <h2 class="section-title js-splitscreen-section-title" id="117212729">Incident Reporting in Laboratory Diagnostics</h2>
<p class="chapter-para">While major efforts have been made to monitor
the pre-analytical phase and provide reliable solutions, it is
surprising that concrete formal programs of incident reporting have not
been so pervasive in laboratory diagnostics.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b24-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b24-0430041">24</a></sup>
The major focus in health care is placed on incident reporting for
several medical conditions with lesser effort devoted to translating
this noteworthy practice into laboratory diagnostics. If, in fact,
laboratory errors are being underreported, then current statistics
reveal only a small portion of the medical errors actually taking place.
There is an urgent need to establish a reliable policy of error
recording, possibly through informatics aids,<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b25-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b25-0430041">25</a></sup>
and settle universally agreed “laboratory sentinel events” throughout
the total testing process, which would allow gaining important
information about serious incidents and holding both providers and
stakeholders accountable for patient safety. Some of these sentinel
events have already been identified, including inappropriate test
requests and patient misidentification (pre-analytical phase), use of
wrong assays, severe analytical errors, tests performed on unsuitable
samples, release of lab results in spite of poor quality controls
(analytical phase), and failure to alert critical values and wrong
report destination (post-analytical phase).<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b26-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b26-0430041">26</a>,<span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b27-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b27-0430041">27</a></sup>
The Drafting Group of WHO’s International Classification for Patient
Safety (ICPS) has also developed a conceptual framework that might also
be suitable for diagnostics errors.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b28-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b28-0430041">28</a></sup></p><p class="chapter-para">Development
and widespread implementation of a Total Quality Management (TQM)
system is the most effective strategy to minimize uncertainty in
laboratory diagnostics. Pragmatically, this can be achieved using 3
complementary actions: preventing adverse events (error prevention),
making them visible (error detection), and mitigating their adverse
consequences when they occur (error management).<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b24-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b24-0430041">24</a></sup></p><p class="chapter-para">Other
methodologies can also be used to prevent errors. Failure Mode and
Effect Analysis (FMEA) has been a broadly cited reliable approach to
risk management. It is a systematic process for identifying potential
process failures before they occur, with the aim to eliminate them or
minimize the relative risk. The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs
National Center for Patient Safety developed a simplified version of
FMEA to apply to health care, called Healthcare FMEA (HFMEA).<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b29-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b29-0430041">29</a></sup>
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is an additional valuable aid, since it is
based on a retrospective analytical approach. A RCA focuses on
identifying the latent conditions underlying variation in medical
performance and, if applicable, developing recommendations for
improvements to decrease the likelihood of a similar incident in the
future.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b11-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b11-0430041">11</a></sup></p> <h2 class="section-title js-splitscreen-section-title" id="117212733">Conclusion</h2>
<p class="chapter-para">Patient safety emphasizes the reporting,
analysis, and prevention of medical errors that often lead to adverse
events. Besides carrying serious harms to patient health, medical errors
translate into a huge amount of money wiped out of the national and
international economy. Significant progress has been made since the
release of “To Err is Human.” Basically what has changed is the
willingness to recognize the challenge and not argue about the numbers,
but appreciate care must be safe always and everywhere for each patient.
This has led to remarkable changes in the culture of health care
organizations, so medical errors can no longer be seen as inevitable,
but as something that can be actively streamlined and prevented.<sup><span class="xrefLink" id="jumplink-b24-0430041"></span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="b24-0430041">24</a></sup></p>Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-26987703567669807742021-05-31T10:27:00.001-07:002021-05-31T10:27:10.977-07:00American Obesity Means Big Fat Profits For The Food And Medical Industry <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2011/07/07/f1208383-a644-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/thumbnail/640x480/6c364ac63e0a991786137c81e39fd009/americanburger_istock_000012108834.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2011/07/07/f1208383-a644-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/thumbnail/640x480/6c364ac63e0a991786137c81e39fd009/americanburger_istock_000012108834.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> Americans, particularly the ones is the South are are mostly fat pieces of shit and they had a lot of help getting that way. OINK! Obesity and gluttony translates into HUGE profits for the food and medical industries. Not surprisingly that filthy charlatan Dr Oz is in on the act. Fat girls swoon over Dr Oz and knowing that his show has become in part a cooking show. Cooking shows are porn for fat bitches. OINK!</p><p>Obesity and gluttony is responsible for at least 1/3 of our healthcare costs. Obesity and gluttony also raise the price of food. The average American eat beast consume more than double the calories of a responsible and lean American. Americans have become vulgar food-centric ego-centric food sluts who have been easily seduced by calorie laden nutritionally lacking junk food. People would like to place all the blame on fast food places such as McDonalds but the fact remains, if the fast food industry were to offer healthy food, the pigs would reject it. McDonalds and other fast food companies tried that and it failed.</p><p>While the American Medical Mafia is mostly responsible for the obscene high cost of healthcare Their promotion and enabling of the gluttonous American lifestyle along with the errand boys at the revolving door of the FDA is directly and indirectly responsible for the high cost of healthcare and the overall poor health of Americans. </p><p>While it is undeniable that fat people are vulgar waddling weak-willed gluttons or junk food addicts, they had a lot of help becoming the ugly bags of blubber that we see shamelessly lumbering or riding their fatty scooters through Walmart. </p><p>The unbridled greed medical industry has not only enabled these pork beasts and land whales it has emboldened them. Keep in mind, fat parents pass their vulgar lifestyles and fattitude on to their little piglets. Obesity, gluttony and type 2 diabetes has been the new normal in America for decades and the American Medical Mafia couldn't be more thrilled. FDA corruption at its finest!<br /></p>Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-71561637725946267482021-05-29T18:35:00.003-07:002021-05-29T18:35:52.304-07:00US Healthcare Costs Per Capita<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.pgpf.org/sites/default/files/How-Does-The-U.S.-Healthcare-System-Compare-To-Other-Countries-chart-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://www.pgpf.org/sites/default/files/How-Does-The-U.S.-Healthcare-System-Compare-To-Other-Countries-chart-2.jpg" width="640" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Until the Medical Mafia is exterminated, this will never change. It will only get worse. If you can think of a peaceful way to fix this, leave a comment in the comment section. The Medical Mafia is pure evil.<br /></div><br /><p></p>Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-50718110373925520342012-09-01T17:42:00.001-07:002012-09-01T17:42:38.057-07:00Stephanie Cutter: The Romney Campaign's Double Standard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This video explains Romney's dismal jobs record.Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-12603036368471489122012-08-18T14:34:00.001-07:002012-08-19T00:22:40.828-07:00Health Care Regulation Under Romney The Liar<img alt="http://fakeposters.com.s3.amazonaws.com/results/2012/08/19/lr3qs7ivzu.jpg" src="http://fakeposters.com.s3.amazonaws.com/results/2012/08/19/lr3qs7ivzu.jpg" /><br />
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Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-35663347370833700202012-08-15T21:34:00.000-07:002015-07-13T15:04:07.776-07:00The Medical Device IndustryHave you noticed all the recalls for various joint implants? I bet you have. The FDA has a medical device division that is every bit corrupt as the drug and food divisions. The FDA in their greed and corruption has approved the sale and implantation of metal on metal joint implants. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell you that putting a metal on metal joint implant into a human being is a recipe for disaster but the FDA and the medical industry thugs did it one better. The metal they use in these implants was cobalt which is toxic to humans.<br />
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There are many... too many medical device companies but three of the biggest and most corrupt are Medtronic, Stryker and Johnson & Johnson/DePuy. They run the device division of the FDA.<br />
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Medtronic is most likely responsible for the largest amount of carnage. Click this link to read more about <a href="http://fdacorruption.blogspot.com/2012/05/medtronics-fraud-crime-and-kickbacks.html">Fines exceeding $100 MILLION against Medtronic</a> <br />
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These devices are not only designed by brain damaged engineers so that they fail in a few years; even if they function properly mechanically they shed toxic metal that causes bone necrosis and liver failure. The device companies know that these implants had a high failure rate during clinical trials and even before the clinical trials they knew every single on of them would shed toxic metal ions. They still approved them knowing that they would kill and maim thousands of humans.<br />
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Joint implants are only one example of the massive corruption within the FDA and its industry masters. Cardiac stents, imaging equipment, trans vaginal and pelvic mesh are a few other devices that are maiming and killing patients.<br />
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OK folks, most of you know where this is going. It's been about a week since the Sikh temple massacre and now we have a massacre in Texas near the the campus of Texas A&M. The shooter Thomas "Tres" Caffall killed a police officer with one of his semi automatic rifles.<br />
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Texas in full of a lot of right wing nuts who hate the police and any form of authority so that may have been motivation but one thread that runs through all these mass shooting is prescription medication namely SSRI antidepressants such as Wellbutrin, Paxil or Prozac.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's already been established that Caffall was a right wing gun nut. </span><br />
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<b>Did some deranged hate filled Right wing Christian coward do the shooting thinking he was killing Muslims? That is a distinct possibility. Was it merely a hate crime? We don't know yet but if this is like all the other mass shootings the perpetrator did not act alone. It is quite likely that his horrifying actions were fueled by an SSRI antidepressant like Paxil or Wellbutrin.</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Add dangerous mind altering prescription drugs to people who are already delusional enough to worship the gruesome homicidal god of Abraham in you'll have a recipe for disaster.</span></b> <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The following article is a reprint from</span></b> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Medical Holocaust </span></b></span>.<br />
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It has already been said and understood that Sikhs are not fucking
assholes like Muslims and Christians tend to be. They are handling this
tragedy with grace and dignity. Hopefully Sikhism will supplant the vile
and violent Abrahamic faiths. I don't know much about Sikhism but I
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Judging by the serenity and humility the Sikhs have shown so far that
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Here is a long list of <a href="http://www.ssristories.com/index.php">SSRI MURDERS AND SUICIDES AND SSRI VIOLENCE</a><br />
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We know that the Batman Shooter was on prescription drugs. This shooter
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SSRI Bullets an article by Scott Bell explains the pharmacology of SSRI's <a href="http://www.problogs.com/Post3944.htm">SSRI Bullets</a> <br />
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The conspiracy theorists are claiming this was staged. That's a remote possibility but the more logical explanation is the same as for all the school shooting and other murders ... Prescription drugs. Even in the Casey Anthony case there were prescription drugs involved and in all the accounts of people who knew her she also underwent a drastic personality change. IMO this was not more staged that the many school shootings. Holmes planned this all by himself. Holmes has a very high IQ. The guns were easily obtainable as was the ammo. Bullet resistant body armor is available online. <br />
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The TV shrinks will be running their mouths and presenting theory as fact. Dr Drew will pipe in with his usual bullshit but don't expect him to implicate prescription drugs since Holmes was not an addict. Dr Phil will pontificate as well in order to exploit this for ratings and he will in all likelihood be talking about the victims so his brain dead audience can have their warm fuzzies but you will not hear any mention of the mind altering effects of prescription drugs being catalyst in the shootings even though it is widely known that all the school shooting involved prescription antidepressant medications. <br />
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Alex Jones in his usual paranoid delusion is presenting one of his nut job conspiracy theories. If you want good laugh check out <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/colorado-batman-shooting-shows-obvious-signs-of-being-staged.html">Alex Jones Says Batman Shooting Staged</a><br />
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There is no conspiracy here. Prescription drugs like the SSRIs SNRIs were the culprits in the school shootings and many other shooting rampages. Drugs like Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Lexapro, Cipralex, Celexa, Zoloft, Lustra, Pristiq, Cymbalta, were involved in all the school shootings.<br />
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It may not come out that Holmes was on a an anti depressant until the trial. The mainstream media will talk about gun control, half baked psychological theories and exploit the victims for ratings but don't expect to hear any discussion about the role drugs may have played in the shooting, wounding and deaths of the Aurora movie theater shooting victims.<br />
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<br />Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-22145379480957219842012-07-17T18:32:00.001-07:002012-07-22T18:11:33.852-07:00Traction and Disk Heriations<h1 id="article-title-1" itemprop="headline" style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;">American Spine Surgeons are the worst in the industrialized world as well as highest paid and greediest. That may be why most of them don't recommend traction for disk hernias. </span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The following study was conducted in Korea so chances are it is more reliable and honest than anything you will find in the greedy US.</span></h1>
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Reducibility of Cervical Disk Herniation: Evaluation at MR Imaging during Cervical Traction with a Nonmagnetic Traction Device</h1>
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<li class="contributor" id="contrib-1" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/search?author1=Tae-Sub+Chung&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Tae-Sub Chung</a></span><span class="contrib-degrees">, MD</span>,
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<li class="contributor" id="contrib-2" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/search?author1=Young-Jun+Lee&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Young-Jun Lee</a></span><span class="contrib-degrees">, MD</span>,
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<li class="contributor" id="contrib-3" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/search?author1=Seong-Woong+Kang&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Seong-Woong Kang</a></span><span class="contrib-degrees">, MD</span>,
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<li class="contributor" id="contrib-4" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/search?author1=Chang-Jun+Park&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Chang-Jun Park</a></span><span class="contrib-degrees">, MD</span>,
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<li class="contributor" id="contrib-5" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/search?author1=Won-Suk+Kang&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Won-Suk Kang</a></span><span class="contrib-degrees">, MSc</span> and
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<li class="last" id="contrib-6"><span class="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/search?author1=Yong-Woon+Shim&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Yong-Woon Shim</a></span><span class="contrib-degrees">, MD</span></li>
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<sup>1</sup>From
the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Research Institute of
Radiological Science, Brain Korea 21 Project for Medical
Science (T.S.C., Y.J.L., W.S.K., Y.W.S.), and
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (S.W.K.), Yonsei University
College of
Medicine, YongDong Severance Hospital, 146-92
Dogok-Dong, Kangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-270, Korea; and Airtrac MSI, Seoul,
Korea
(C.J.P.). From the 2000 RSNA scientific
assembly. Received July 17, 2001; revision requested September 17; final
revision
received March 25, 2002; accepted May 14.
Supported by Airtrac grant 1999-31A1-00014. <b>Address correspondence to</b> T.S.C. (e-mail: <i>tschung@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr</i>).
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Abstract</h2>
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The authors evaluated the reducibility of
cervical disk herniation at magnetic resonance (MR) imaging performed
with the patient
in cervical traction. After the acquisition of
neutral-state images, cervical traction images were obtained in 29
patients
and seven healthy volunteers while they wore a
portable intermittent traction device. During traction, all volunteers
and
21 patients had a substantial increase in the
length of the cervical vertebral column. The disk herniation was
completely
resolved in three patients and partially reduced in
18. The reducibility of cervical disk herniation can be evaluated at MR
imaging performed during cervical traction.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span>ervical traction has been applied widely to relieve neck pain from muscle spasm or nerve compression in rehabilitation medicine
settings (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-1" id="xref-ref-1-1">1</a>,<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-2" id="xref-ref-2-1">2</a>). Continuous or intermittent traction has been regarded as an effective treatment for herniated cervical disks (HCDs) because
it facilitates widening of the disk spaces (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-3" id="xref-ref-3-1">3</a>,<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-4" id="xref-ref-4-1">4</a>). The traction induces pain relief and regression of the herniated disks. Several reports (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-5" id="xref-ref-5-1">5</a>–<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-7" id="xref-ref-7-1">7</a>) have described the regression of herniated disks either spontaneously or within the treatment period.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span>idening of disk space during traction has been demonstrated mostly on radiographs (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-1" id="xref-ref-1-2">1</a>).
Radiography does not yield direct images of the herniated disk,
however; radiographs show only the changes in vertebral
bone structures. Direct visualization of the cervical
disk would be very helpful for evaluating the reducibility of disk
herniation
during traction, and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging
is the best examination for evaluation of intervertebral disk problems.
To our knowledge, however, a device that enables
visualization of the cervical disk during traction and is applicable to
MR
imaging has not been available before now. Although a
portable traction device for cervical fractures has been reported on,
the report was in the form of a technical note
regarding a portable traction device that can be used with myelography
or computed
tomography (CT) (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-8" id="xref-ref-8-1">8</a>).
The study was not applicable to MR imaging because the metallic
composition of the described traction device produced substantial
artifacts.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span>e have designed a portable intermittent
traction device made of nonmagnetic materials that do not affect MR
imaging. The
purpose of our study was to evaluate the reducibility
of cervical disk herniation at MR imaging performed with the patient
in cervical traction.
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Materials and Methods</h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">F</span>or 19 months, from June 1999 to November
2000, a total of 29 patients who consecutively received a diagnosis of
HCD on the
basis of findings at previously performed cervical
CT or MR imaging and seven healthy volunteers were examined at cervical
spinal MR imaging. The healthy volunteers were
selected from a group of young persons during two stages: First, a
rehabilitation
physician (S.W.K.) selected young (ie, aged 18–40
years) healthy volunteers if they had none of the following symptoms or
signs: pain, stiffness, tenderness, fracture,
dislocation, neurologic signs such as decreased or absent deep tendon
reflexes,
weakness, sensory deficits, or muscular signs such
as decreased range of motion or point tenderness. Next, the selected
volunteers
underwent T2-weighted MR imaging while in a neutral
(ie, nontraction) state, and if either a degenerative change in or a
herniation
of a disk was detected, the subject was excluded.
Finally, the selected volunteers underwent MR imaging while wearing the
inflated traction device.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he patient group consisted of 10 men and
19 women, who ranged in age from 25 to 62 years (mean age, 44.4 years).
The healthy
volunteer group consisted of one man and six women,
who ranged in age from 19 to 37 years (mean age, 26 years). The MR
imaging
examinations were performed after informed consent
had been obtained from all patients and volunteers, as was required by
the institutional review board of Yonsei University
College of Medicine, YongDong Severance Hospital.
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Traction Device</h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he traction device (<a class="xref-fig" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#F1" id="xref-fig-1-2">Fig 1</a>)
was originally designed for portable intermittent use to accommodate a
patient’s daily activities during traction. It is
also constructed of a nonmagnetic material
(Airtrac 101; Airtrac MSI, Seoul, Korea) that is compatible to MR
imaging units.
The traction device consists of three main
parts: <i>(a)</i> a shoulder cover for the base of the device, <i>(b)</i> an accordion-shaped middle component that can be expanded by means of air inflation, and <i>(c)</i>
mandible supports for effective transmission of traction. When the
device is inflated with air, the accordion-shaped middle
component stretches and has a traction effect on
the neck. The anterior portion of the middle component is fixed with a
band
to maintain a flexion posture of the neck. We
used 30 pounds of traction force: The pressure to the internal space was
0.4
kgf/cm<sup>2</sup>. Immediately after the procedure, we asked the volunteers and patients if they had experienced any pain or other discomfort
during inflation of the traction device or during imaging.
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<b>Figure 1a.</b> Cervical traction device used on a healthy volunteer. <b>(a, b) </b>The traction device consists of a shoulder cover at the base of the device <i>(1),</i> an accordion-shaped middle component that is expanded by means of air inflation <i>(2),</i> and mandible supports for effective transmission of traction <i>(3)</i>. In <b>b</b>, the anterior portion <i>(4)</i> of the middle component is fixed with a band to maintain a flexion posture of the neck. <b>(c, d) </b>When the device is inflated with air, the accordion-shaped middle component stretches to have a traction effect on the neck.
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<b>Figure 1b.</b> Cervical traction device used on a healthy volunteer. <b>(a, b) </b>The traction device consists of a shoulder cover at the base of the device <i>(1),</i> an accordion-shaped middle component that is expanded by means of air inflation <i>(2),</i> and mandible supports for effective transmission of traction <i>(3)</i>. In <b>b</b>, the anterior portion <i>(4)</i> of the middle component is fixed with a band to maintain a flexion posture of the neck. <b>(c, d) </b>When the device is inflated with air, the accordion-shaped middle component stretches to have a traction effect on the neck.
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<b>Figure 1c.</b> Cervical traction device used on a healthy volunteer. <b>(a, b) </b>The traction device consists of a shoulder cover at the base of the device <i>(1),</i> an accordion-shaped middle component that is expanded by means of air inflation <i>(2),</i> and mandible supports for effective transmission of traction <i>(3)</i>. In <b>b</b>, the anterior portion <i>(4)</i> of the middle component is fixed with a band to maintain a flexion posture of the neck. <b>(c, d) </b>When the device is inflated with air, the accordion-shaped middle component stretches to have a traction effect on the neck.
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<b>Figure 1d.</b> Cervical traction device used on a healthy volunteer. <b>(a, b) </b>The traction device consists of a shoulder cover at the base of the device <i>(1),</i> an accordion-shaped middle component that is expanded by means of air inflation <i>(2),</i> and mandible supports for effective transmission of traction <i>(3)</i>. In <b>b</b>, the anterior portion <i>(4)</i> of the middle component is fixed with a band to maintain a flexion posture of the neck. <b>(c, d) </b>When the device is inflated with air, the accordion-shaped middle component stretches to have a traction effect on the neck.
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<h3>
MR Imaging</h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>ll MR imaging studies were performed
by using a 1.5-T MR system (Vision; Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) with
25-mT/m gradient
capability. With the patient wearing the
traction device, standard cervical spinal MR images were acquired with
sagittal turbo
spin-echo T2-weighted and transverse
two-dimensional fast low-angle shot sequences by using a standard spine
circular polarization
array coil. The parameters for sagittal turbo
spin-echo T2-weighted MR imaging were 4,000/128 (repetition time
msec/echo time
msec), a 138 × 256 matrix, a 156 × 250-mm field
of view, and nine images of 3-mm section thickness obtained during an
acquisition
time of 52 seconds. The parameters for
transverse two-dimensional fast low-angle shot MR imaging were 550/12, a
30° flip angle,
a 112 × 256 matrix, a 125 × 200-mm field of
view, and nine images of 3-mm section thickness obtained during an
acquisition
time of 2 minutes 5 seconds. We reduced the
matrix number to less than that used to obtain standard MR images, to
minimize
the acquisition time and motion artifacts.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">F</span>irst, neutral-state images were
obtained during deflation of the traction device. Then, traction-state
images were obtained
10 minutes after inflation with an external air
tube to allow time for the traction effect on the normal or herniated
disk.
The patients and volunteers were monitored with
closed-circuit television surveillance and could communicate by means of
microphone
to prevent unexpected emergency situations
during traction.
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<h3>
Image Analysis</h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>s a parameter of cervical vertebral
column elongation, the distance between the middle point of the superior
border of the
C1 anterior arch and the inferoposterior point
of the C7 vertebral body on magnified sagittal MR images was measured by
using
the computer console of the MR imaging unit
(Vision). We did not use the odontoid process as the superior landmark
because
exact localization of the odontoid process tip
could have been difficult sometimes owing to a patient’s tilting or
rapid position
change during traction. Measurements of cervical
vertebral column elongation were obtained by two neuroradiologists
(T.S.C.,
Y.J.L.) separately and blindly. The
neuroradiologists were not informed of the patients’ clinical
information.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he reducibility of cervical disk
herniation was evaluated in the patient group. Complete resolution of
the herniation was
defined as a result in which the disk was
completely inside the annulus margin without a residual herniated disk
particle.
Partial reduction was defined as a more than 50%
volume reduction in the herniated disk particle with some residual
tissue.
The reduction ratio was calculated as follows:
[(<i>D</i> − <i>d</i>)/<i>D</i>] × 100, where <i>D</i> is the distance between two parallel lines—one line drawn at the base of the herniated disk particle and the other drawn
at the tip—in the neutral state and <i>d</i> is this distance in the traction state (<a class="xref-fig" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#F5" id="xref-fig-5-1">Fig 2</a>).
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<b>Figure 2.</b> Measurement of reduction ratio. Reduction ratio was calculated as follows: [(<i>D</i> − <i>d</i>)/<i>D</i>] × 100. <i>D</i> is the distance between two parallel lines—one line drawn at the base of the herniated disk particle and the other drawn
at the tip—in the neutral state, and <i>d</i> is this distance in the traction state.
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Whether there was widening of the
facet joints or intervertebral foramen during traction was determined in
the patients and
healthy volunteers. Retraction of the posterior
margin of the disk during traction, as depicted on sagittal MR images,
also
was evaluated in the volunteers and patients. If
the retracted posterior margin of the disk passed an imaginary line
drawn
from the posterior margins of two adjacent
vertebral bodies, we defined this phenomenon as dimpling.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he two radiologists evaluated the
pre- and post traction images side by side, without knowledge of the
patients’ clinical
information. The radiologists reviewed the
images simultaneously, and results were recorded when they reached a
consensus.
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<h3>
Statistical Analysis</h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he extent of cervical vertebral
column elongation in the patients during traction was compared with that
in the healthy volunteers.
Statistical analysis was performed by using
computer software (SPSS; SPSS, Chicago, Ill and Excel 2000; Microsoft
Korea, Seoul,
Korea). The Mann-Whitney <i>U</i> test was used to analyze our study data, and a <i>P</i> value of less than .05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.
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<h2>
Results</h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he MR images obtained in the seven
healthy volunteers during traction showed that the length of the
cervical vertebral column
had increased by 0–3 mm (mean length increase, 1.93
mm). Of the 29 patients, 21 (72%) had complete resolution or partial
reduction
of the cervical disk herniation and an elongation
of the cervical vertebral column of 0–7 mm (mean length increase, 2.19
mm),
which was not significantly different from that in
the volunteers (<i>P</i> = .917). Eight patients had minimal elongation of the cervical vertebral column (mean length increase, 0.44 mm), which was
significantly shorter than that in the healthy volunteers (<i>P</i> < .001) (<a class="xref-table" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#T1" id="xref-table-wrap-1-1">Table 1</a>). No patient reported having pain or any other discomfort during either traction device inflation or MR imaging.
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TABLE 1. Increased Length of Cervical Vertebral Column during Traction</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>f the 29 patients, who had a total of 40
HCDs, 19 had an HCD at one cervical disk level, nine had HCDs at two
levels, and
one had HCDs at three levels. There were 15 HCDs
each at the C5–6 and C6-7 cervical disk levels. There were five HCDs at
the
C3-4 level, three at the C4-5 level, and two at the
C7-T1 level. In the patient with HCDs at three levels, the herniation
at one level was reduced but the herniations at the
two remaining levels were not. In the nine patients with HCDs at two
levels
(total of 18 levels), the herniations were reduced
at 13 levels and not reduced at five levels. Of the 19 patients with
HCDs
at one level, 13 had reduced herniations and six
did not.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span>isk herniation was completely resolved in three (10%) of the 29 patients (<a class="xref-fig" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#F6" id="xref-fig-6-2">Fig 3</a>) and partially reduced in 18 (62%) (<a class="xref-fig" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#F10" id="xref-fig-10-2">Fig 4</a>).
Eight of the 29 patients had minimal elongation of the cervical
vertebral column during traction (mean length increase,
0.44 mm; range, 0–1.5 mm), however, and no
reduction of the disk herniation. The length of elongation of the
cervical vertebral
column during traction in this group was
significantly shorter than that in the healthy volunteers (<i>P</i> = .02). There was a significant difference in elongation of the vertebral column between the patients who did and those who
did not have some herniation reduction (<i>P</i> = .01).
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<b>Figure 3a.</b><b>(a, b) </b>Sagittal (4,000/128) and <b>(c, d) </b>transverse
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MR images depict a completely resolved cervical
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an HCD (arrow). <b>(b, d) </b>Traction-state MR images show reduction of the cervical disk herniation and the residual deformed spinal cord. Widening of
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MR images depict a completely resolved cervical
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an HCD (arrow). <b>(b, d) </b>Traction-state MR images show reduction of the cervical disk herniation and the residual deformed spinal cord. Widening of
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MR images depict a completely resolved cervical
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an HCD (arrow). <b>(b, d) </b>Traction-state MR images show reduction of the cervical disk herniation and the residual deformed spinal cord. Widening of
the right-side facet joint space (arrow in <b>d</b>) is seen on the transverse traction-state image.
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MR images depict a completely resolved cervical
disk herniation after traction. <b>(a, c) </b>Neutral-state MR images show extrinsic compression of the dural sac and spinal cord at the C5-6 cervical disk level due to
an HCD (arrow). <b>(b, d) </b>Traction-state MR images show reduction of the cervical disk herniation and the residual deformed spinal cord. Widening of
the right-side facet joint space (arrow in <b>d</b>) is seen on the transverse traction-state image.
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the posterior central direction at the C5-6 cervical disk level. <b>(b, d) </b>Traction-state MR images show a reduction of the fragment (arrow in <b>b</b>) through a torn tract of the annulus fibrosus at the C5-6 cervical disk level.
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the posterior central direction at the C5-6 cervical disk level. <b>(b, d) </b>Traction-state MR images show a reduction of the fragment (arrow in <b>b</b>) through a torn tract of the annulus fibrosus at the C5-6 cervical disk level.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span>idening of the facet joint space was observed at MR imaging during traction in two (29%) of the seven healthy volunteers
and in five (17%) of the 29 patients (<a class="xref-fig" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#F14" id="xref-fig-14-1">Fig 5</a>).
In addition, foraminal widening was observed in one (14%) of the seven
volunteers and in five (17%) of the 29 patients.
Dimpling of the annulus capsule due to the
secondary retraction effect of the increased disk length was observed on
the sagittal
MR images obtained in three (43%) of the seven
healthy volunteers and in 12 (41%) of the 29 patients (<a class="xref-fig" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#F15" id="xref-fig-15-2">Fig 6</a>) (<a class="xref-table" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#T2" id="xref-table-wrap-2-1">Table 2</a>).
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TABLE 2. Dimpling of Annulus Capsules and Changes in Facet Joints and Intervertebral Foramina during Traction</div>
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<b>Figure 5.</b> Sagittal T2-weighted MR images (4,000/128) of the foramen at the C6-7 cervical disk level and the facet joint at the C7-T1
cervical disk level in a patient with HCD in <i>(a)</i> neutral and <i>(b) </i>traction states. The facet joint (arrow) is widened at traction <i>(b) </i>compared with in the neutral state <i>(a).</i> The width of the foramen (arrowheads) also increased with traction.
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<b>Figure 6a.</b> Sagittal T2-weighted MR images (4,000/128) of the cervical spine of a healthy volunteer in <b>(a) </b>neutral and <b>(b) </b>traction states. Dimpling of the annulus capsule (arrow in <b>b</b>) is seen at traction.
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<b>Figure 6b.</b> Sagittal T2-weighted MR images (4,000/128) of the cervical spine of a healthy volunteer in <b>(a) </b>neutral and <b>(b) </b>traction states. Dimpling of the annulus capsule (arrow in <b>b</b>) is seen at traction.
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Discussion</h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>lthough regression of a herniated intervertebral disk at follow-up has been reported in up to 3% of cases of herniated cervical
or lumbar disks (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-6" id="xref-ref-6-1">6</a>,<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-7" id="xref-ref-7-2">7</a>),
the exact mechanism of the regression of a herniated intervertebral
disk is still not understood. The disk may be subject
to desiccation and shrinkage from loss of
hydrophilic proteoglycans, which leads to a loss of water content and,
consequently,
a decrease in disk size (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-7" id="xref-ref-7-3">7</a>). Reports (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-8" id="xref-ref-8-2">8</a>,<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-9" id="xref-ref-9-1">9</a>)
have suggested that traction therapy can induce HCD regression.
However, the mechanism of the disappearance of the HCD at
follow-up MR imaging after traction—that is,
whether it is a reduction or a spontaneous resorption—is still unclear.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>n a report (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-1" id="xref-ref-1-3">1</a>),
it is stated that the length of a cervical disk increases during
traction. The report only describes those changes in disk
length that were identified by measuring the
distance between the bone margins of adjacent vertebral bodies on
radiographs,
however. Therefore, the reduction of a herniated
disk particle during traction could not be precisely evaluated in that
study.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>f cervical spinal MR imaging could be
performed simultaneously with traction, the changes in intervertebral
disks could be
directly evaluated. A cervical traction device for
MR imaging should be made of nonmagnetic materials. In addition, the
volume
of the device should be small enough to fit easily
on the limited space of an MR gantry and coil while inducing an adequate
traction force. Therefore, we designed a device
that can be expanded by means of air inflation. With expansion of the
device,
elongation of the neck between the shoulder and the
occiput can be achieved. The device has a traction effect on the
cervical
vertebral column that is similar to that of
conventional traction methods that are applied at bedside. We used 30
pounds of
traction force (ie, pressure to the internal space
of 0.4 kgf/cm<sup>2</sup>) because early separation of the posterior vertebral segment is induced by applying a minimum pressure of 25 pounds (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-10" id="xref-ref-10-1">10</a>).
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<div id="p-24">
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<div id="p-24">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>n our evaluation of the changes in HCDs
during traction at MR imaging, we observed a reduced herniated nucleus
pulposus particle
through the tract of a torn annulus (<a class="xref-fig" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#F10" id="xref-fig-10-4">Fig 4</a>).
This suggests that direct reduction effects on HCDs can be verified at
MR imaging performed during traction. <b>Although long-term
follow-up was not performed in this study, we
believe that reduction of the herniated nucleus pulposus might lead to
healing
of the torn annulus and resolution of the disk
herniation. Complete resolution or partial reduction of a disk
herniation was
seen in 21 patients; these results suggest that
traction has an effect on HCDs.
</b></div>
<div id="p-25">
<br /></div>
<div id="p-25">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>ll seven healthy volunteers and 21 (72%) of the 29 patients with HCD showed substantial elongation of the cervical vertebral
column after the traction device was applied and inflated.
</div>
<div id="p-26">
In a cadaveric study (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/895.full#ref-11" id="xref-ref-11-1">11</a>),
there were significant increases in the intervertebral foraminal volume
and the size of the area at the foraminal isthmus.
We also induced a flexion posture of the cervical
spine during traction. However, neither widening of the facet joint
space
(in two [29%] volunteers and five [17%] patients)
nor widening of the intervertebral foramen (in one [14%] volunteer and
five
[17%] patients) was frequent. These results might
have been due to the thickness of sections on sagittal images, which may
have been such that very rapid changes in the facet
joint and intervertebral foramen could not be sufficiently evaluated.
</div>
<div id="p-27">
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<div id="p-27">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span>impling of the annulus capsule of the
cervical disk was seen in three (43%) of the seven volunteers and in 12
(57%) of the
21 patients who had elongation of the cervical
vertebral column during traction. This dimpling might have been a
secondary
effect of cervical vertebral column traction and
may represent a response to the traction. Responding to the traction,
intervertebral
disks can show dimpling of the annulus capsule by
increasing the length of disk space, which instantly results in negative
pressure on the disk. Owing to its flexibility, the
disk decreases in width to resolve this phenomenon. However, a disk
that
does not respond to the traction might not show
dimpling of the annulus capsule.
</div>
<div id="p-28">
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<div id="p-28">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>n conclusion, cervical spinal MR imaging performed during cervical traction with a portable intermittent traction device
can be used to evaluate the reducibility of cervical disk herniation with traction.
</div>
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The authors thank Yong-Jae Lee, MD, for advice and support and for serving as a photographic model in the volunteer study.</div>
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<li class="fn" id="fn-1">
<div id="p-30">
Abbreviation: HCD = herniated cervical disk</div>
</li>
<li class="fn" id="fn-2">
<div id="p-31">
Author contributions: Guarantor of
integrity of entire study, T.S.C.; study concepts, T.S.C.; study design,
T.S.C., C.J.P.;
literature research, T.S.C., S.W.K.; clinical
studies, T.S.C., Y.J.L., S.W.K., C.J.P.; experimental studies, T.S.C.,
C.J.P.,
Y.W.S.; data acquisition, T.S.C., W.S.K.;
data analysis/interpretation, Y.W.S., T.S.C., Y.J.L.; statistical
analysis, W.S.K.;
manuscript preparation, T.S.C., Y.J.L.;
manuscript definition of intellectual content, Y.J.L.; manuscript
editing, Y.W.S.,
T.S.C., Y.J.L.; manuscript revision/review,
T.S.C., Y.J.L., W.S.K.; manuscript final version approval, T.S.C.
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<span class="rsna-kwd-group INDEX"><span class="rsna-kwd-header">Index terms:</span>
<span class="rsna-kwd">Magnetic resonance (MR), functional imaging, 316.12144</span>
<span class="rsna-kwd">Spine, intervertebral disks</span>
<span class="rsna-kwd">Spine, MR, 316.121411, 316.121412, 316.12144</span>
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The Drugging Of Americans and Medical Industry Greed </h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="color: darkred; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><i>Is
America over medicated? </i></span></b></span></h4>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="color: darkred; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><i>Is the FDA more interested in
Americans' health, safety, & well being or the billions of
dollars it receives annually from the pharmaceutical companies
to approve new drugs & keep current drugs on the market? </i></span></b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="color: darkred; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><i> Please read the following list of disturbing facts &
statistics & decide for yourself.</i></span></b></span><br />
<br />
<ul style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Based on a 2002 survey, 46% of Americans use at least one prescription drug daily. </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Total number of prescriptions filled in 2001: 3.1 billion </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Total cost of prescriptions in 2001: $132 billion </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Projected cost of prescriptions in 2014: $414 billion </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Percentage of incoming undergraduates using psychotropic, mind-altering drugs: 40% </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>From 1992 - 2003, the abuse
of psychotropic drugs grew at twice the rate of marijuana
abuse; five times that of cocaine abuse; & 60 times
that of heroin abuse. </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>20% of recently approved prescription drugs have serious, life threatening side effects. </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>90% of authors of clinical
practice guidelines received research funding from, or acted as
consultants to drug companies. </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Medical doctors,
psychiatrists, & all those licensed by the government who can
"legally" prescribe drugs are paid huge monetary incentives by
the pharmaceutical industry to write prescriptions of
their drugs. Those doctors & other professionals who
choose financial incentives over a patients well being
& health should be defined as "legal drug pushers"
contributing to the overmedicating of America for profit.
</b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Percentage increase from 1985 - 1999 in stimulant psychotropic drugs prescribed to children: 327% </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Percentage increase from
1991 - 2000 in stimulant psychotropic drugs prescribed to
preschoolers between 2 & 4 years of age: 50% </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The number of antidepressants prescribed annually for children under 19: 11 million </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The number of children diagnosed with "ADD/ADHD" & drugged in 1985: 500,000 </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The number of children diagnosed with "ADD/ADHD" & drugged today: approximately 6 million </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bio-medical.com/adhd_0002.htm"><b>CHADD</b></a><b>
(Children and Adults with ADD) received over $700,000 in
2001 from pharmaceutical companies to promote &
market their drugs. </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>CHADD refers to the 1999
Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health when citing ADHD as a
neurobiological disorder, yet the Surgeon General's
report, the <i>DSM-IV</i>, the National Institutes of
Health, and the American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical
Practice Guideline for ADHD, <i>do not</i> confirm or
state that ADHD is a "neurobiological" disorder. In fact,
the Surgeon General provided no conclusive evidence to
support this theory—a fact CHADD neglects to mention on
its website. </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The epidemic use of
psychotropic drugs started many years ago. In 1965, approximately
58 million new prescriptions & 108 million refills were
written for psychotropic drugs. This accounted for 14% of
all prescriptions written that year. </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Percentage of Americans taking anti-allergy medications who may not even have allergies: 65% </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The number of signs advertising the drug Claritin in Newark International Airport lobbies: 75 </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The amount spent by Merck Pharmaceutical to advertise the drug Vioxx in 2001: $161 million </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The total number of
advertising violations issued by the FDA for misleading drug ads
from 1997 - 2001: 88; Amount of fines levied for such
violations: $0 </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>US direct-to-consumer drug
ad spending soared to $2.49 billion in 2001 up from $859
million in 1997. </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Number of Americans annually
who request & receive a prescription for a specific drug
after seeing a commercial for it: 8.5 million </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Estimated prescriptions of Paxil in 2002: 37 million </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Amount spent on lobbying by pharmaceutical companies from 1996 - 2002: $500 million </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The number of former congressmen now serving as lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry: 24 </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The approximate total number of lobbyists: 600; Their average annual income: $300,000 - $400,000 </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The amount of direct
contributions from the drug industry to the 2002 political
campaign: $20 million; Percentage that went to Republicans: 75%
</b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Seven drugs recalled by the
FDA between 1993 & 2000 after reports of death &
severe side effects exceeded $5 billion in sales before
being withdrawn. </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The major stockholders of
the pharmaceutical industry: FDA workers, FTC workers,
Congressmen, & the CEO's of the pharmaceutical
companies. </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Annual cost of prescription drug errors: $100 billion </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>A natural herbal cure was
found for diabetes. The amount paid to the person that
discovered it to not market or announce the cure: $30
million </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Out of the last 20 FDA
commissioners, upon leaving the FDA, the number who went to work
directly for the pharmaceutical industry: 12 </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The approximate number of Americans that die annually from FDA approved drugs: 125,000 </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The approximate number of Americans that die annually from Aspirin use: 2,000 </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The percentage of FDA
workers who are paid directly through funding from the
pharmaceutical industry: 55% at an average of $1.2 billion
annually </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The FDA passed a law stating
that only a "drug" can cure a disease therefore; farms,
orchards, or any company promoting fruit as beneficial to
your health were threatened with violations & the
confiscation & destruction of their products. Their
"cherries" for example were not approved as a new drug by
the FDA & were not declared as "safe &
effective". The average cost to get a "new drug"
approved: $800 million. Sound unbelievable? </b><a href="http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/g5520d.htm"><b>Actual FDA letter sent to a farm marketing cherries as a natural remedy.</b></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>In 2004 approximately 12,000
Texas Foster Children each received 21 prescriptions of
psychotropic drugs totally more than $29 million.</b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>According to a recent study,
up to 20% of all prescriptions written are for "off-label"
use not approved by the FDA & with no support from
scientific studies.</b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>According to a recent study,
96% of all "off-label" psychiatric drug prescriptions lacked
scientific support.</b></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>25% of
239 patients consuming Vioxx had heart attacks within the
first 13 days of being on the drug. Vioxx was pulled
from the market on September 30th, 2004.</b> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The amount of money the
pharmaceutical industry & the FDA would loose if Americans
turned to natural cures (vitamins, minerals, herbs, fruit,
etc.) instead of prescription drugs:
trillions!</b></span></li>
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A former Bain Capital partner acknowledged Sunday that Mitt Romney
"legally" remained the head of the private equity firm until 2002,
contradicting Romney's claims that he left the company in February 1999.<br />
<br />
During an appearance on MSNBC's "<a class="bbc_url" href="http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/15/12751962-former-bain-capital-partner-says-romney-was-legally-ceo-of-bain-capital-until-2002" rel="nofollow" title="">Up w/ Chris Hayes</a>,"
Edward Conard, who worked at the private equity firm during Romney's
tenure as CEO, noted that Romney remained "legally" in charge of the
company for at least two years after the former governor says he left to
take over the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.<br />
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"Mitt's names were on the documents as the chief executive and sole
owner of the company," Conard said. Conard served as managing director
of the firm from 1993 to 2007.<br />
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MSNBC <a class="bbc_url" href="http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/15/12751962-former-bain-capital-partner-says-romney-was-legally-ceo-of-bain-capital-until-2002" rel="nofollow" title="">reports</a>: <br />
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Despite Romney's statements that he left in
1999, Conard's new remarks suggest that, in fact, Romney's continued
ownership of the firm enabled him to negotiate a better exit deal. "We
had to negotiate with Mitt because he was an owner of the firm," Conard
said.The legal transfer of ownership dragged on for three years after
Romney's informal departure to run the Olympics in Salt Lake City,
Conard said, because Romney was aggressively negotiating his retirement
package and compensation with executives and lawyers at the company.<br />
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"He'd created a lot of franchise value, and we were going to pay him for
that," Conard said, adding: "We had a very complicated set of
negotiations that took us about two years for us to unwind. During that
time a management committee ran the firm, and we could hardly get Mitt
to come back to negotiate the terms of his departure because he was
working so hard on the Olympics."<br />
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Conard's comments are the latest in a growing pile of evidence that
contradicts Romney's repeated claims that he ended his active role at
Bain in 1999. On Sunday, The Huffington Post reported on a <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/mitt-romney-bain-capital_n_1674209.html?utm_hp_ref=politics" rel="nofollow" title="">corporate document</a> filed in December 2002 that lists Romney as a "managing member" of Bain Capital Investors. Earlier reports show Romney <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2012/07/12/government_documents_indicate_mitt_romney_continued_at_bain_after_date_when_he_says_he_left/" rel="nofollow" title="">listed</a> as CEO on 2002 Securites and Exchange Commission filings, attending <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/mitt-romney-bain-departure_n_1669006.html?utm_hp_ref=politics" rel="nofollow" title="">board meetings</a> for Bain-affiliated companies after 1999, and receiving an at least $100,000 salary from Bain in 2001 and 2002.<br />
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The discrepancies between these documents and Romney's account of his
departure have become the focus of the presidential campaign, as
President Obama's team raises questions about the Republican candidate's
truthfulness. Beyond the issue of honesty, there are deeper
implications for Romney if he was involved in the company after 1999, as
Bain's <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/romneys-bain-capital-invested-in-companies-that-moved-jobs-overseas/2012/06/21/gJQAsD9ptV_story.html" rel="nofollow" title="">outsourcing activity</a> during that time has raised concern. <br />
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Obama addressed the controversy on Saturday, telling DC-based ABC affiliate WJLA that Romney should come clean on his record. <br />
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"Ultimately, I think, Mr. Romney is going to have to answer those
questions because if he aspires to being president, one of the things
you learn is you're ultimately responsible for the conduct of your
operations," the president <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/14/unrelenting-obama-jabs-romney-job-record_n_1672989.html" rel="nofollow" title="">said</a>.Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-1699840636837558442012-07-15T00:29:00.003-07:002012-07-15T00:29:35.386-07:00Obamacare Will Cut Deficit...<span style="font-size: 26px;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black;">CBO: Health reform to cut deficit by $50 billion more than we thought...</span></span><b> <i>Republicans lie about health care. See them get busted.</i></b><br />
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<a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/cbo-health-reform-to-cut-deficit-by-50-billion-more-than-we-thought/2011/08/25/gIQAXgPSES_blog.html" rel="nofollow" title="">http://www.washingto...gPSES_blog.html</a><br />
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I’m getting a lot of e-mails quoting articles like this one, by John
Ransom, that say something like, “In a wholly predictable development,
it turns out the cost for Obamacare will end up being twice the original
price that the Democrats said.” Ransom also writes that I was
“w-w-w-wrong” to say, back in January 2011, that the law “cuts enough
spending and raises enough taxes to more than pay for itself.”<br />
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Actually, no, I wasn’t. That statement, in fact, is even truer today than it was then.<br />
<br />
But let’s back up. The occasion for this dust-up is a set of updated
cost estimates for the coverage provisions of the health-care law. The
new estimates reflect a couple of factors. The Congressional Budget
Office lists them:<br />
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- An increase of $168 billion in projected outlays for Medicaid and CHIP;<br />
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<strong class="bbc"> - A decrease of $97 billion in projected costs for exchange subsidies and related spending;<br />
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- A decrease of $20 billion in the cost of tax credits for small employers; and<br />
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<strong class="bbc">- An additional $99 billion in net deficit reductions from penalty payments,</strong>
the excise tax on high-premium insurance plans, and other effects on
tax revenues and outlays—with most of those effects reflecting changes
in revenues. <br />
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You’ll notice something about the above list: It appears to add up to a
net reduction in the cost of the health-care law. And, sure enough,
here’s CBO: “the insurance coverage provisions of the ACA will have a
net cost of just under $1.1 trillion over the 2012–2021 period—about $50
billion less than the agencies’ March 2011 estimate.” You would get the
opposite impression reading Ransom.<br />
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The problem for Ransom and others is that they didn’t read this analysis closely, or, if they did, they didn’t understand it.<br />
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Ransom quotes CBO saying “those provisions will increase deficits by
$1,083 billion,” but he either didn’t notice or didn’t choose to include
the CBO’s warning that this analysis does “not encompass all of the
budgetary impacts of the ACA because that legislation has many other
provisions, including some that will cause significant reductions in
Medicare spending and others that will generate added tax revenues.”<br />
<br />
As it says right in the title, this is just a look at “the insurance
coverage provisions” of the Affordable Care Act. That is to say, it’s a
look at the spending side of the bill. So it doesn’t include the
Medicare cuts, or many of the tax increases, that pay for the
legislation. It’s like reading only the “outlays” side of the budget and
ignoring the “revenues” part. Of course that would make the deficit
look huge.<br />
<br />
But those other parts of the bill aren’t a secret. They’re mentioned
right there in the analysis. Quoting again: “CBO and JCT have previously
estimated that the ACA will, on net, reduce budget deficits over the
2012–2021 period; that estimate of the overall budgetary impact of the
ACA has not been updated.”<br />
<br />
It’s easy to do at least some of the update ourselves. This analysis
shows the net cost of the coverage provisions will be about $50 billion
less than previously estimated. That implies the law will cut more, not
less, from the deficit than previous estimates suggested. In other
words, this estimate says the bill is more, not less, fiscally
responsible than was previously reported.<br />
<br />
One other thing that’s confused some people is that this estimate is
looking at a different timeframe than the original estimates. The CBO’s
first pass at the bill looked at 2010-2019. But years have passed, and
so now they’re looking at 2012-2021. That means they have two fewer
years of implementation, when the bill costs almost nothing, and two
more years of operation, when it costs substantially more.<br />
<br />
But it also means that the included cuts and taxes, which grow with
time, are larger. That’s why, when House Republicans wanted to repeal
health reform in 2011, the estimated increase in the deficit was $230
billion, rather than the $130 billion that would have been expected from
the 2010-2019 analysis. As you extend the analysis, the bill both costs
more and saves more, and the savings grow more quickly than the costs.<br />
<br />
There are a few other interesting things in the CBO report: It says, for
instance, that the bill is now expected to cover 30 million Americans,
rather than 33 million Americans. It doesn’t give a reason for the
revision.
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<br />Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-40624702658751425892012-06-22T12:32:00.000-07:002012-09-28T15:41:29.146-07:00A Compliation of FDA Corruptionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBeXPYah6yw<br />
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6eGQDuU88E&feature=related<br />
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<a href="http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=E422FE9A5D1E2C455393C681BB0E1D80">Hear Doctor/Congressman Ron Paul Explain It!</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.americanchinesemedicineassociation.org/Americans%20Fed%20up%20with%20Drug%20Industry%20Influence%20and%20FDA%20Corruption.htm">Shocking Facts About FDA Corruption </a><br />
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<br />Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-75271790192138014902012-06-17T20:10:00.001-07:002012-06-17T20:10:20.807-07:00Chris Rock Doctors and Drugs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Think about what he's saying. There have been damn few cures in the past 40 years. I think Hib Disease has a minimally effective vaccine and Chicken Pox had a vaccine in 1974. Medical greed keeps people sick. <br />
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Checkout <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://medicalholocaust.blogspot.com/">Medical Holocaust</a> </span><br />
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<br />Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-55365620263531078222012-06-15T17:07:00.001-07:002012-06-15T17:11:36.824-07:00The FDA's Long History of Corruption<img alt="http://rlv.zcache.com/evil_fda_black_bumper_sticker-p128065356819246732z74sk_400.jpg" src="http://rlv.zcache.com/evil_fda_black_bumper_sticker-p128065356819246732z74sk_400.jpg" /> <br />
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Going as far back as the 1950s -- and likely even much earlier than that
-- the FDA has made it routine practice to ignore and even deny the
dangers associated with drugs and medical devices when approving them.
In the case of the <i>Upjohn Company</i>, for instance, which unveiled
the antibiotic drug Panalba back in 1957, the FDA ignored many years of
complaints about the drug's safety in order to protect the company's
profits.<br />
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At the time, data showed that as many as 20 percent of
patients taking Panalba had suffered severe allergic reactions to the
antibiotic, and yet the FDA did nothing. Even Upjohn's own research
studies on Panalba showed that the drug was less effective and less safe
than alternative drugs on the market, and still the FDA did nothing,
effectively sheltering Upjohn's enormous profits from Panalba, which
represented 12 percent of its overall profit earnings.<br />
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Sadly, the
same is true today, as the drug industry and the FDA essentially work
in tandem to get dangerous, but highly-profitable, drugs and medical
devices to market. It is a win-win situation for both groups as the FDA
gets kickbacks in the form of exorbitant new drug and medical device
application fees, and the drug industry rakes in billions of dollars for
blockbuster drug and device products that would never have been
approved had science and facts been legitimately factored into the
equation.<br />
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America was rudely awakened to a new kind of danger on September 11,
2001: Terrorism. The attacks that day left 2,996 people dead, including
the passengers on the four commercial airliners that were used as
weapons. Many feel it was the most tragic day in U.S. history.
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Four commercial jets crashed that day. But what if six jumbo jets
crashed every day in the United States, claiming the lives of 783,936
people every year? That would certainly qualify as a massive tragedy,
wouldn't it?
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Well, forget "what if." The tragedy is happening right now. Over 750,000 people actually do die in the <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/United_States.html">United States</a>
every year, although not from plane crashes. They die from something
far more common and rarely perceived by the public as dangerous: <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/modern_medicine.html">modern medicine</a>.
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According to the groundbreaking 2003 medical report <i>Death by Medicine</i>,
by Drs. Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio and
Dorothy Smith, 783,936 people in the United States die every year from
conventional <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/medicine.html">medicine</a>
mistakes. That's the equivalent of six jumbo jet crashes a day for an
entire year. But where is the media attention for this tragedy? Where is
the <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/government.html">government</a> support for stopping these <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/medical_mistakes.html">medical mistakes</a> before they happen?
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<br />
After <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/9-11.html">9/11</a>, the White House gave rise to the Department of <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/Homeland_Security.html">Homeland Security</a>,
designed to prevent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Since its
inception, billions of dollars have been poured into it. The 2006 budget
allots $34.2 billion to the DHS, a number that has come down slightly
from the $37.7 billion budget of 2003.
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<br />
According to the study led by Null, which involved a painstaking <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/review.html">review</a> of thousands of medical records, the United States spends $282 billion annually on deaths due to medical <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/mistakes.html">mistakes</a>, or iatrogenic deaths. And that's a conservative estimate; only a fraction of <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/medical_errors.html">medical errors</a>
are reported, according to the study. Actual medical mistakes are
likely to be 20 times higher than the reported number because <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/doctors.html">doctors</a> fear retaliation for those mistakes. The American public heads to the doctor's office or the <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/hospital.html">hospital</a> time and again, oblivious of the alarming <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/danger.html">danger</a>
they're heading into. The public knows that medical errors occur, but
they assume that errors are unusual, isolated events. Unfortunately, by
accepting conventional medicine, <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/patients.html">patients</a> voluntarily continue to walk into the leading <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/cause_of_death.html">cause of death</a> in America.
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According to a 1995 U.S. iatrogenic report, "Over a million patients are
injured in U.S. hospitals each year, and approximately 280,000 die
annually as a result of these injuries. Therefore, the iatrogenic <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/death_rate.html">death rate</a> dwarfs the annual automobile accident mortality rate of 45,000 and accounts for more <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/deaths.html">deaths</a> than all other accidents combined." This report was issued 10 years ago, when <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/America.html">America</a> had 34 million fewer citizens and <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/drug.html">drug</a> company scandals like the <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/Vioxx.html">Vioxx</a> recall were yet to occur. Today, <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/health_care.html">health care</a> comprises 15.5 percent of the United States' gross national product, with spending reaching $1.4 trillion in 2004.
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Since Americans spend so much money on <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/health.html">health</a>
care, they should be getting a high quality of care, right?
Unfortunately, that's not the case. Of the 783,936 annual deaths due to
conventional medical mistakes, about 106,000 are from <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/prescription_drugs.html">prescription drugs</a>, according to <i>Death by Medicine</i>. That also is a conservative number. Some <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/experts.html">experts</a> estimate it should be more like 200,000 because of underreported cases of <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/adverse_drug_reactions.html">adverse drug reactions</a>.
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Americans today are used to fixing problems the quick way – even when it
comes to their health. Thus, they rely heavily on prescription <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/drugs.html">drugs</a> to fix their diseases. For every conceivable ailment – real or not – chances are there's a pricey <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/prescription_drug.html">prescription drug</a> to "treat" it. Chances are even better that their drug of choice comes chock full of <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/side_effects.html">side effects</a>.
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The problem is, prescription drugs don't treat diseases; they merely cover the symptoms. U.S. <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/physicians.html">physicians</a> provide allopathic health care – that is, they care for <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/disease.html">disease</a>,
not health. So, the over-prescription of drugs and medications is
designed to treat disease instead of preventing it. And because there
are so many drugs available, unforeseen adverse drug reactions are all
too common, which leads to the highly conservative annual prescription
drug <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/death.html">death</a> rate of
106,000. Keep in mind that these numbers came before the Vioxx scandal,
and Cox-2 inhibitor drugs could ultimately end up killing tens of
thousands more.
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American medical patients are getting the short end of a rather raw deal
when it comes to prescription drugs. Medicine is a high-dollar, highly
competitive <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/business.html">business</a>.
But it shouldn't be. Null's report cites the five most important
aspects of health that modern medicine ignores in favor of the almighty
dollar: Stress, lack of <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/exercise.html">exercise</a>,
high calorie intake, highly processed foods and environmental toxin
exposure. All these things are putting Americans in such poor health
that they run to the <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/doctor.html">doctor</a>
for treatment. But instead of doctors treating the causes of their poor
health, such as putting them on a strict diet and exercise regimen,
they stuff them full of prescription drugs to cover their <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/symptoms.html">symptoms</a>.
Using this inherently faulty system of medical treatment, it's no
wonder so many Americans die from prescription drugs. They're not
getting better; they're just popping drugs to make their symptoms
temporarily go away.
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But not all doctors subscribe to this method of "treatment." In fact,
many doctors are just as angry as the public should be, charging that
scientific medicine is "for sale" to the highest bidder – which, more
often than not, end up being <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/pharmaceutical_companies.html">pharmaceutical companies</a>. The pharmaceutical <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/industry.html">industry</a> is a multi-trillion dollar business. Companies spend billions on <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/advertising.html">advertising</a>
and promotions for prescription drugs. Who can remember the last time
they watched television and weren't bombarded with ads for pills
treating everything from erectile dysfunction to sleeplessness? And who
has ever been to a doctor's office or hospital and not seen every pen,
notepad and post-it bearing the logo of some prescription drug?
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Medical experts claim that patients' requests for certain drugs have no
effect on the number of prescriptions written for that drug.
Pharmaceutical <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/companies.html">companies</a> claim their drug ads are "educational" to the public. The public believes <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/the_FDA.html">the FDA</a>
reviews all the ads and only allows the safest and most effective drug
ads to reach the public. It's a clever system: Pharmaceutical companies
influence the public to ask for prescription drugs, the public asks
their physicians to prescribe them certain drugs, and doctors acquiesce
to their patients' requests. Everyone's happy, right? Not quite, since
the prescription drug death toll continues to rise.
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The public seems to genuinely believe that drugs advertised on TV are
safe, in spite of the plethora of side effects listed by the
commercial's narrator, ranging from diarrhea to death. Patients feel
justified in asking their physicians to prescribe them a particular drug
they've seen on TV, since it surely must be safe or it wouldn't have
been advertised. Remember all those TV ads heralding the wonders of
Vioxx? One might wonder how many lives could have been spared if
patients didn't see the ad on TV and request a prescription from their
doctors.
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But advertising isn't the only tool the <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/pharmaceutical_industry.html">pharmaceutical industry</a>
uses to influence medicine. Null's study cites an ABC report that said
pharmaceutical companies spend over $2 billion sending doctors to more
than 314,000 events every year. While doctors are riding the dollar of
pharmaceutical companies, enjoying all the many perks of these "events,"
how likely are they to question the validity of <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/drug_companies.html">drug companies</a> or their products?
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Admittedly, not all doctors reside in the pockets of the pharmaceutical
companies. Some are downright angry at the situation, and angry on
behalf of an unaware public. Major conflicts of interest exist between
the American public, the medical community and the pharmaceutical
industry. And although the public suffers the most from this conflict,
it is the least informed. The public gets the short end of the stick and
they don't even know it. That is why the pharmaceutical industry
remains a multi-trillion dollar business.
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Prescription drugs are only a part of the U.S. <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/healthcare.html">healthcare</a>
system's miserable failings. In fact, outpatient deaths, bedsore deaths
and malnutrition deaths each account for higher death rates than
adverse drug reactions. The problems run deep and cannot be remedied
without drastic, widespread change in the system's money and <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/ethics.html">ethics</a>.
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The first issue – <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/money.html">money</a> – is the main reason the medical industry cannot seem to change. Prescribing more drugs and recommending more <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/surgeries.html">surgeries</a> means more profits. Getting more drugs approved by the <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/FDA.html">FDA</a>, regardless of their <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/safety.html">safety</a>, means more money for the pharmaceutical industry. As the <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/healthcare_system.html">healthcare system</a>
stands today, physicians and drug companies can't seem to pass up
earning loads of money, even if a few hundred thousand people lose their
lives in the process. Even in drastic cases of deadly drugs, everyone
involved has a scapegoat: Drug companies can blame the FDA for approving
their product and the doctors for over-prescribing it, and doctors can
blame the patients for wanting it and not properly weighing the risks.
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What ultimately arises is a question of ethics. In layman's terms,
ethics are the rules or moral guidelines that govern the conduct of
people or professions. Some ethics are ingrained from childhood, but
some are specifically set forth. For example, nearly all medical schools
have their new doctors take a modern form of the Hippocratic Oath.
While few versions are identical, none include setting aside proper
medical care in favor of money-making practices.
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On the <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/research.html">research</a>
side of the issue, "Death by Medicine" cites an ABC report that says
clinical trials<br />
funded by pharmaceutical companies show a 90 percent
chance that a drug will be perceived as effective, whereas clinical
trials not funded by drug companies show only a 50 percent chance that a
drug will be perceived as effective. "It appears that money can’t buy
you love, but it can buy you any 'scientific' result you want," writes
Null and his team of researchers.
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The government spends upwards of $30 billion a year on homeland <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/security.html">security</a>. Such spending seems important. Since 2001, 2,996 people in the United States have died from <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/terrorism.html">terrorism</a>
– all as a result of the 9/11 attacks. In that same period of time,
490,000 people have died from prescription drugs, not counting the Vioxx
scandal. That means that <b>prescription drugs in this country are at least 16,400 percent deadlier than terrorism</b>.
Again, those are the conservative numbers. A more realistic number,
which would include deaths from over-the-counter drugs, makes drug
consumption 32,000 percent deadlier than terrorism. But the scope of
"Death by Medicine" is even wider. Conventional medicine, including
unnecessary surgeries, bedsores and medical errors, is 104,700 percent
deadlier than terrorism. Yet, our government's attention and money is
not put into reforming health care.
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Couldn't a little chunk of the homeland security money be better spent
on overhauling the corrupt U.S. healthcare system, the leading cause of
death in America? Couldn't we forfeit the color-coded threat system in
favor of stricter guidelines on medical research and prescription drugs?
No one is attempting to say that terrorism in the world is not a
problem, especially for a high-profile country like the United States.
No one is saying that the people who died on 9/11 didn't matter or
weren't horribly wronged by the <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/terrorists.html">terrorists</a>
that day. But there are more dangerous things in the United States
being falsely represented as safe and healthy, when, in reality, they
are deadly. The corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and in
America's healthcare system poses a far greater threat to the health,
safety and welfare of Americans today than terrorism.
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We all know that Romney's Bain Capital bought companies and raped them for profit while laying off employees making it a huge job killer. Romney's unethical and criminal conduct did not stop there. Romney's Bain Capital bought Damon Corp and gutted it. For 3 years Romney was head of Damon Corp and during those three years Damon Corp, a medical testing corporations swindled millions in Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Romney should be in jail or be facing a firing squad for his thuggish corporate gangster behavior. <br />
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<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/the-story-behind-romney-medicare-fraud-and-the-latest-superpac-movie/">Read the TRUTH HERE</a><br />
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Romney is a criminal who needs to be in prison and beaten by the inmates.<br />
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You probably think that the most criminal and deadly part of the medical industry is big pharma and you are probably thinking right but you may be wrong, Enter the pigs from Medtroncs. Located at 7000 Central Avenue Northeast Fridley, MN 55432 Medtronic continues to break the law and kill and maim Americans.<br />
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Medtronics level of sleaze is huge even by greedy American medical standards.<br />
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In 2011 Medtronics was fined $23.5 million for paying illegal kickbacks to
physicians who participated in clinical studies and device
registries to induce doctors to implant the company's pacemakers and
defibrillators. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/13/us-medtronic-kickbacks-idUSTRE7BC2GV20111213<br />
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<span id="articleText" style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="focusParagraph">(Reuters) -
Medtronic Inc has agreed to pay $23.5 million to settle allegations that
it paid kickbacks to doctors to encourage them to use its pacemakers
and defibrillators</span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span><br />
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If you are a heart patient and your doctor uses Medtronics products your doctor should be executed along with executives at Medtronics. Luckily for them they live in the USA where fraudsters are rewarded. If they were in China they'd be killed. China has the right idea.<br />
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203430404577095261065225318.html <br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="http://augnet.augsburg.edu/news-archives/2009/09_28_09/article_imgs/stanton.jpg" height="265" src="http://augnet.augsburg.edu/news-archives/2009/09_28_09/article_imgs/stanton.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is Marshall Stanton, vp of clinical research and reimbursement for the Medtronic cardiac and vascular group. He has a lot of blood on his hands.Wouldn't it be satisfying to walk up to a weasel slime ball like him and break every bone in his ugly corporate pig face? I hope somebody does.</span></td></tr>
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http://www.pharmalot.com/2011/12/medtronic-pays-235m-to-settle-kickback-charges/<br />
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Medtronics also sold biliary stents and told doctors that they were suitable for cardiac use. They lied and patients died.<br />
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Medtronics is like one of those criminals you hear about who just can't seem to stop committing crimes. Keeping with their criminal pedigree, Medtronics fraudulently sold the deadly Infuse bone morphogenic protein for off label uses in spite of numerous warnings from the FDA. It gets worse. During clinical trials for Infuse, Medtronics bribed 100 participating doctors and orthopedic practices to lie to the FDA about the safety and efficacy of Infuse.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="http://images.publicradio.org/content/2011/05/11/20110511_omar-ishrak_33.jpg" src="http://images.publicradio.org/content/2011/05/11/20110511_omar-ishrak_33.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Somethings put me at a loss for words. Medtronic CEO and Chairman Omar Ishrak's company was ranked as America's
50th-best corporate citizen this week by Corporate Responsibility
magazine. (Courtesy of Medtronic)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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The corporate medical world is so far beyond corrupt that it boggles the mind. Medtronics is a corporate gangster responsible for more death, injury and death than the Mafia and the KKK combined. The Mafia has more honor and Medtronics is on a par with the KKK.<br />
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Omar Ishrak replaced these two CEO gangsters at Medtronics.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/125anniversaryissue/img/lg/collins.jpg" src="http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/125anniversaryissue/img/lg/collins.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Criminal & former Medtoonic CEO Arthur Collins Jr </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="http://images.forbes.com/media/2010/12/01/1201_medtronics-bill-hawkins_398x398.jpg" src="http://images.forbes.com/media/2010/12/01/1201_medtronics-bill-hawkins_398x398.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Another Criminal former Medtronic CEO Bill Hawkins</b></td></tr>
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I don't have the full story on Ishrak yet but if he's anything like Bill Hawkins or Arthur Collins Jr or most medical industry CEOs he's probably an amoral thug who needs to be arrested, tried and executed China style.<br />
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<b>In a related story...</b> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: maroon;"><b>Kyphoplasty Fraud at 14 Hospitals<br />
</b></span>Fourteen </span><span class="202400015-21092010">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">
<b style="font-weight: 400;">hospitals in seven states have
settled False Claims Act cases alleging they submitted false
kyphoplasty claims to Medicare. <b>Medtronic</b>, which makes </b>
the
kyphoplasty spinal surgery equipment in question,
<b style="font-weight: 400;">previously paid </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;" title="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20080522/NEWS/956551232">
<b style="font-weight: 400;" title="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20080522/NEWS/956551232">
<a href="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20080522/NEWS/956551232" title="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20080522/NEWS/956551232">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">$75 million to settle</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">
<b style="font-weight: 400;">their part of the kickback and
billing scheme.
<a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/February/12-civ-173.html" target="_blank">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hospitals have now paid $40 million</span></a> to
clean up their side of the street.</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="202400015-21092010"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Medtronic has been caught and fined at least 4 times for massive criminal behavior and still nobody goes to jail!</b></span> The filthy rich are above the law. Should they be executed China or bin Laden style? Maybe it is time for some do it yourself justice?</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="202400015-21092010"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: 400;"> </b></span></span></span></span> <br />
<b>Disclaimer: </b>In these politically correct times some people can
say somethings and others cannot. The purpose of this article is not to
encourage violence towards anyone or any group of people. This article
is meant to point out the hypocrisy and double standards that exist in
our criminal justice system when compared to a country like China that
has a long history of human rights violations.<br />
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<span class="st" style="line-height: 1.24;">In December 2008 a Medtronic <i style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Infuse</i> wrongful <i style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">death lawsuit</i> was filed on behalf of a California woman who went into a coma following surgery and <i style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">died</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">In June 2011, a study published in The Spine Journal disclosed that Medtronic-paid researchers had failed to report serious complications from Infuse, including cancer, sterility in men, infections, bone dissolution and worsened back and leg pain. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">The article said these complications occurred in 10 to 50 percent of patients who got the product in 13 Medtronic-funded clinical trials conducted between 2000 and 2010.</span></b> The Spine Journal review also examined payment data from Medtronic to the doctors who co-authored the Infuse studies, and found that the median amount the company paid to doctors was at least $12 million to $16 million per study. </div>
Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-88494281166004374072012-05-18T15:13:00.000-07:002012-05-18T15:13:21.277-07:00Who Owns The FDA?The answer is simple. The FDA is owned by the food and medical industries. The FDA is not a watchdog for Americans. The FDA is the lapdog of the food and drug industries.<br />
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What can be done to stop this unholy alliance? Answer... nothing legal.<br />
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What will stop the corruption? SEAL Team 6<br />
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There are a lot of qui tam whistle blower lawsuits against the companies who bribe FDA officials but nobody ever gets brought to justice. There are some fines and some mentions in the news but there is not justice.<br />
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Here's justice!Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-49369894671197877602012-05-08T03:59:00.000-07:002012-05-14T23:05:27.362-07:00Mitt Romny's Massive Medicare Fraud"While Romney was a director of the Damon Corp., the company was
defrauding Medicare of millions. Prosecutors called it ‘corporate greed
run amok.’ The company was fined $100 million. But Romney himself made a
fortune. Corporate greed … Medicare fraud. Sound familiar?"<br />
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The story begins in 1989, when Romney was the head of Bain Capital, a
private equity firm that specialized in buying troubled companies,
turning them around, and then selling them for a profit. That year, Bain
bought Damon Corp., a medical testing company based in Needham, Mass.<br />
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Bain took the company public in 1991, and Romney served on the
company’s board of directors. In 1993, Bain orchestrated a sale of the
company to Corning Inc., getting a handsome return on its investment and
earning Romney himself $473,000, according to <i>The Real Romney</i>. After the sale, Corning closed the main facility in Needham, laying off 115 people.<br />
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In October 1996, federal prosecutors announced that Damon was agreeing
to pay $119 million in both civil and criminal fines after pleading
guilty to defrauding Medicare. The company was providing doctors with
forms that didn’t make clear what tests included, so doctors were
checking off additional tests that weren’t necessary, according to the <i>Globe’s </i>summary of the government’s case.<br />
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The overbilling went from 1988 through 1993, prosecutors said. "This is
a case, pure and simple, of corporate greed run amok," U.S. Attorney
Donald Stern said when the settlement was announced.<br />
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Criminal and now Florida Governor Rick Scott started and ran hospital chain Columbia/HCA. It too was fined heavily for massive Medicare fraud. (<a href="http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2010/jun/10/bill-mccollum/rick-scott-leading-polls-opponents-pull-out-fraud-/">You can read up on it here</a>.) The ad’s initial claim, that while Romney was "a
director of the Damon Corp., the company was defrauding Medicare of
millions is true. Like criminal Rick Scott Romney was also involved with massive fraud. Both of these corporate gangsters should be in jail but as anyone know the filthy rich rarely serve time for their crimes.<br />
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Maybe reporters will do their job and grill this greedy gangster Romney on this. If I had my way I would water board that Mormon son of a bitch.Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05479147352816145505noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196140031724043609.post-88676866745718838652012-05-05T18:28:00.002-07:002012-05-05T18:28:40.864-07:00What Does GOP Mean?<abbr class="published" title="2012-05-06T01:23:42+00:00"></abbr>
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This speaks for itself! Send this video to everyone!<br />
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The US needs to be executing FDA and industry officials. We read stories about the contaminated drugs and medical devices that come from China and we think to ourselves how corrupt the Chinese might be. We need to think again. American medical companies have been killing and maiming Americans for decades and the worst that ever happens is they may get fined but that fine never comes out of the pockets of the filthy rich executives who are responsible for the deaths and injuries. They see it as the cost of doing business and they pass the costs onto the consumer.</div>
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Here are some solutions for greedy medical big shots.</div>
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The noble guillotine should be reserved for these greedy traitors.</div>
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The Second Amendment Solution<br />
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<b>Disclaimer: </b>In these politically correct times some people can say somethings and others cannot. The purpose of this article is not to encourage violence towards anyone or any group of people. This article is meant to point out the hypocrisy and double standards that exist in our criminal justice system when compared to a country like China that has a long history of human rights violations. </div>
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