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Drug companies are billing the U.S. public for AT LEAST $1 trillion
This is, without any doubt in my mind, one of the biggest scandals in
the history of the United States.
This Medicare drug plan fiasco enriches pharmaceutical companies,
fleeces taxpayers, and forces millions of older Americans to accept
inferior drug coverage -- while doing nothing to address the real
reasons prescription drugs cost so much.
The financial impact of this legislation on taxpayers cannot be
overstated. Government projections that the drug program will cost $400
billion over the next decade cannot be trusted, as existing Medicare
programs cost four times more than was estimated when they were created.
The likely cost is at least $1.5 trillion over 10 years, and much more
in following decades as the American population grows older.
Posted on June 21, 2007 by Jennifer Phillips
Autism and Vitamin D
Vitamin D Newsletter
27 May 2007
John Cannell, MD
Autism is now epidemic in the industrialized world. If you know an affected family, you know the tragedy of autism.
No one knows what causes autism. Why has it increased so dramatically in the last 20 years? How could it increase if it is a genetic disease? Why is one identical twin severely affected and the other not? Why are boys so much more likely to get it than girls? Why is it more common in Blacks? Why do autistic children have larger heads? Why can't they excrete heavy metals? Why is autism less common closer to
the equator? Why do symptoms first appear around the age of weaning? Why do certain drugs increase the risk? Why are seizures so common in autism? Why do autistic children have frequent infections? Why do mothers who consume seafood during their pregnancy have a reduced risk of having an autistic child? Why do a few autistic children seem to get better? Why do multivitamins seem to help? We don't know any of the answers to these questions. We don't know how to prevent autism, or how to treat it.
Now a single theory answers all these questions. Furthermore, the theory implies simple prevention and raises, at least the possibility, of treatment.
Posted on June 21, 2007 by Jennifer Phillips
Jennifer Phillips, ND
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