Body, Mind & Soul Wellness
Posted by continuum wellness on Aug 20 2009
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will soon schedule trials of Sanofi-Aventis’ vaccine in children aged 6 months to 17 years old. Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation units are used as the testing grounds. Several universities around the country conduct the tests. Supposedly this summer healthy adults were tested with no [...]
Posted by continuum wellness on Jul 25 2009
The term “fresh” meat should be defined. The public doesn’t really know when the animal was killed, how long the meat has been in transit, etc. The following research article states that meat may contain additives which are not on the label. The article warns these products may be harmful to someone suffering [...]
Posted by continuum wellness on Mar 04 2009
If for some reason you need to take pharmaceutical drugs, protect yourself and loved ones by reading the package inserts. According to this research adverse drug events happen to the the tune of $3.5 billion dollars, and those are the reported incidents.
The new Food and Drug Administration drug package insert: implications for patient safety [...]
Posted by continuum wellness on Jan 27 2009
The following article has a definite slant against the pharmaceutical industry. Read it and see if it makes sense to you. The article highlights the huge downside of the way drugs are produced and the impact of its processes. The creed “do no harm”, should extend itself through the whole process of [...]
Posted by continuum wellness on Dec 12 2008
I posted a government survey here on this blog which concluded that 38 percent of American adults and 12 percent of American children use complementary and alternative medicine (here). The Washington Post did an article on this topic too (here)
Critics of these health care approaches are up in arms, claiming that acupuncture is a [...]
Posted by continuum wellness on Oct 23 2008
A poll by Macmillan Cancer Support suggests nearly half of cancer patients in England are being forced to cut back on basic necessities in order to pay for their prescriptions.
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Benefits of Homeopathy
One of the benefits of homeopathy is that the remedies work to arouse your vital force to help your body to [...]
Posted by continuum wellness on Oct 23 2008
Almost one-quarter of biologic therapies approved in the United States and Europe since 1995 have been the subject of at least one safety-related regulatory action in the decade since they were approved.
Eleven percent, including Remicade (infliximab), used to treat Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis, and Avastin (bevacizumab), used to treat cancer, have been issued a [...]
Posted by continuum wellness on Sep 22 2008
BOSTON – Acupuncture is as effective and longer-lasting in managing the common debilitating side effects of hot flashes, night sweats, and excessive sweating (vasomotor symptoms) associated with breast cancer treatment and has no treatment side effects compared to conventional drug therapy, according to a first-of-its-kind study to be presented Wednesday, Sept. 24 at the American [...]
Posted by continuum wellness on Sep 02 2008
“. . . If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biologicals of unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow.”
The above is a quote from a vaccine blog [...]
Posted by continuum wellness on Aug 06 2008
A novel high blood pressure drug has been approved by the FDA. It is injectable. It may be useful as as an acute hypertensive treatment as drug studies suggest. “Novel” and new drugs may rouse cheers in stockholders but the public continues to be one huge test market with those injured deemed [...]
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