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[Guest guest]

The Herald Sun National Newspaper here yesterday had an article " Taking

Vitamins can cause Women to have cancer " too (something along those

lines!!!) As for DMSO - people look at you as if you are crazy when you

recommend it!!

Jane

http://www.eamega.com/HighFieldHealth

~The Highest Field of Energy Healing you now!~

[Chemtrail_Illness_Research] 8 Invented Diseases Big Pharma is

Banking on

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View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/146471/

8 Invented Diseases Big Pharma Is Banking on

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet

Posted on April 16, 2010, Printed on April 18, 2010

http://www.alternet.org/story/146471/

Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising debuted in 1997, pharma's

credo has been When The Medication Is Ready, The Disease (and Patients) Will

Appear. Who knew so many people suffered from restless legs?

But pharma's recent plan to move from mass-market molecules into

more lucrative vaccines and biologics did not see the anti-vaxer movement

coming: millions of Americans saying You Want to Vaccinate Me -- and My

Child -- with WHAT?? and condemning vials of H1N1, rotavirus and MMR

vaccines to sit, well, way past their expiration dates. Nor were fears of an

international vaccine conspiracy helped by former CDC Director

Gerberding resurfacing as President of Merck Vaccines in December. (Nice

revolving door if you can catch it.)

Now pharma is back to creating new diseases, patients, risks and

" awareness campaigns " faster than you can say thimerosal (the vaccine

preservative that started the backlash.)

1. SERM deficiency

A pill to prevent postmenopausal osteoporosis packs the " magic

three " of drug sales-- fear, forever and faith--since you never know if it's

working or you need it but fear stopping. But 15 years after women began

swallowing bisphosphonates like Boniva and Fosamax because pharma-planted

bone density machines in medical offices revealed they had " osteopenia, " *

bisphosphonates are linked to jaw bone death, esophageal cancer and causing

the fractures they were supposed to prevent. Sorry about that. Now pharma is

hawking Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs) like Evista and

Tamoxifen to prevent osteoporosis and even some cancers. Unfortunately they

can cause others.

2. Statin Deficiency

If it seems like the whole world is on statins, it's not your

imagination. Last year the FDA approved AstraZeneca's Crestor for children

as young as 10 and in March it approved Crestor for 6.5 million people who

have no cholesterol or heart problems at all! (See: fear, forever and

faith.) Many say, since lead investigator of the Justification for the Use

of Statins in Primary Prevention study Ridker of Brigham and Women's

Hospital in Boston is co-patent holder/inventor of the C-reactive protein

(CRP) test which " proves " Crestor's effectiveness, there's a conflict of

interest. Others say, since CRP isn't necessarily even a marker for heart

disease and statins can cause Type 2 diabetes, it's bad science along with a

conflict of interest.)

3. Circadian Dysrhythmia

Insomnia is a gold mine for pharma because everyone sleeps -- or

watches TV when they can't. But Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata and Rozerem have

reached market saturation, so pharma is rolling out subcategories like

nocturnal, middle-of-the-night (MOTN) and terminal insomnia and sleep

eating, sleep walking and sleep sweating (yes sweating) to boost the

franchise. Meanwhile another demo is swelling Circadian Dysrhythmia numbers:

Thanks to restless legs syndrome, sleep apnea, shift work sleep disorder,

people who skimp on sleep and of course insomnia meds themselves, there's an

epidemic of excessive sleepiness! Enter Provigil -- " a mood-brightening and

memory-enhancing psychostimulant which enhances wakefulness and

vigilance, " -- Adderall and Vyvanse, known in the days of Lenny Bruce --

also an " excessive sleepiness " sufferer -- as speed.

4. Adult Autism, ADHD and Refusal to Play Nicey

Having marketed adult diseases like depression, bipolar disorder and

schizophrenia in 4-year-olds to death, pharma is now finding childhood

diseases in adults. Adults with ADHD have hyperactivity, impulsivity,

" executive function deficits " and " difficulty with organization and time

management, " says Harvard Medical School's ph Biederman, in a 2004 JAMA.

The disease, found in most people's brother-in-laws, requires " lifelong "

medication says Biederman, who was accused of pushing Risperdal and hiding

pharma income by Congress in 2008. Adults may suffer from autism too says a

2008 article in Psychiatric News, if they're " unsociable, extremely rigid,

given to angry outbursts " and " acutely sensitive to light, heat, and pain. "

Luckily, in two studies " SSRI antidepressants led to a decrease in

repetitive behaviors and to somewhat more socializing, " in adults with

autism says Psychiatric News.

5. Asthma That Requires " Two Drugs "

Leave it to pharma to develop an asthma drug--the long-acting

beta2-agonists (LABAs)-- that triples the rate of asthma deaths, especially

in African-Americans. And leave it to the FDA to approve LABA's on the basis

of a trial, the 2003 SMART trial (Salmeterol Multicenter Asthma Research

Trial), that was stopped early because of so many deaths. In March, after

more deaths, especially in children, a sheepish FDA recast LABAs as a last

resort medication with or without use of a concomitant inhaled steroid. But

AstraZeneca doesn't want to stop selling its LABA with a steroid,

Symbicort -- and GSK its LABA with a steroid, Advair -- just because they're

correlated with death. So the LABA drugs are being billed as safe and able

to treat " both " causes of asthma (see: Vytorin) and projected to earn

billions this year.

6. " Treatment Resistant " Conditions

If an engine additive or laundry product didn't work, who would

chase it with another product--or two-- because the manufacturer told them

to? Who would pay $300 to $900 a month out of their pocket for

antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and mood brighteners some

of which don't work? (see: fear, forever, faith.) Increasingly, pharma is

approving drugs as add on or " adjunctive therapy " like AstraZeneca's

antipsychotic Seroquel, approved last year " for patients who had failed to

respond adequately to an antidepressant alone. " Also last year, the FDA

approved Eli Lilly's Symbyax, a combination of the SSRI antidepressant

Prozac and controversial antipsychotic Zyprexa -- do patients gain 100

pounds but feel great? -- for " treatment resistant depression. " Why are

diseases " treatment resistant " instead of the drugs " ineffective " or

diagnoses " wrong " ?

7. Low T

Men are you feeling run down and over the hill? Is your hair falling

out, skin wrinkling and abdomen developing its own zip code? Have you lost

interest in sex or worse, has your partner? (With you?) Do you need reading

glasses, dental implants and heel splints? You're not getting old, you just

have Low T and are ready for the aging-is-really-just-low-hormones con that

women have lived with for 60 years: hormone replacement therapy. Like 50

million women before you, you can be Forever Masculine even though, to

(quote hormone giant Wyeth) you have outlived your testes if you start

replacing your lost testosterone. You'll get both kinds of zips back in your

life, and it won't change your prostate-specific antigens. Pharma promises.

8. " Spectrum " Disorders

Nothing proves pharma's when-the-medication-is-ready credo better

than the legions of people who have fibromyaglia now that Cymbalta, Savella

and Lyrica are available to treat it. Still, a " grassroots " pharma front

group is conducting a Fibromyalgia Is Real awareness campaign like it did

for depression and bipolar disorder, just to make sure. Pharma has also

rolled out the term " depression spectrum disorder " for fibromyalgia to make

sure patients who have some but not all of the symptoms seek treatment. And

speaking of spectrums, " Epilepsy Spectrum Disorder " was rolled out in

January's JAMA -- a disorder which is not just about seizures anymore but

has " shared mechanisms " with " depression, autism.., and other cognitive

comorbidities. " Spectrum disorders are Real--which is pharma-speak for

Reimbursable.

* a pharma contrivance like " perimenopause " to widen the patient

pool

Martha Rosenberg frequently writes about the impact of the

pharmaceutical, food and gun industries on public health. Her work has

appeared in the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune and

other outlets.

© 2010 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.

View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/146471/

[Guest guest]

Bet I know who is the biggest advertiser in the Herald Sun Newspaper. And I am

certain it is not a seller or distributor of vitamins or supplements.

Subject: Re: Fw: [Chemtrail_Illness_Research] 8 Invented Diseases Big

Pharma is Banking on ( OFF TOPIC)

The Herald Sun National Newspaper here yesterday had an article " Taking

Vitamins can cause Women to have cancer " too (something along those

lines!!!) As for DMSO - people look at you as if you are crazy when you

recommend it!!

Jane

http://www.eamega.com/HighFieldHealth

~The Highest Field of Energy Healing you now!~

[Chemtrail_Illness_Research] 8 Invented Diseases Big Pharma is

Banking on

© 2010 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.

View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/146471/

8 Invented Diseases Big Pharma Is Banking on

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet

Posted on April 16, 2010, Printed on April 18, 2010

http://www.alternet.org/story/146471/

Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising debuted in 1997, pharma's

credo has been When The Medication Is Ready, The Disease (and Patients) Will

Appear. Who knew so many people suffered from restless legs?

But pharma's recent plan to move from mass-market molecules into

more lucrative vaccines and biologics did not see the anti-vaxer movement

coming: millions of Americans saying You Want to Vaccinate Me -- and My

Child -- with WHAT?? and condemning vials of H1N1, rotavirus and MMR

vaccines to sit, well, way past their expiration dates. Nor were fears of an

international vaccine conspiracy helped by former CDC Director

Gerberding resurfacing as President of Merck Vaccines in December. (Nice

revolving door if you can catch it.)

Now pharma is back to creating new diseases, patients, risks and

" awareness campaigns " faster than you can say thimerosal (the vaccine

preservative that started the backlash.)

1. SERM deficiency

A pill to prevent postmenopausal osteoporosis packs the " magic

three " of drug sales-- fear, forever and faith--since you never know if it's

working or you need it but fear stopping. But 15 years after women began

swallowing bisphosphonates like Boniva and Fosamax because pharma-planted

bone density machines in medical offices revealed they had " osteopenia, " *

bisphosphonates are linked to jaw bone death, esophageal cancer and causing

the fractures they were supposed to prevent. Sorry about that. Now pharma is

hawking Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs) like Evista and

Tamoxifen to prevent osteoporosis and even some cancers. Unfortunately they

can cause others.

2. Statin Deficiency

If it seems like the whole world is on statins, it's not your

imagination. Last year the FDA approved AstraZeneca's Crestor for children

as young as 10 and in March it approved Crestor for 6.5 million people who

have no cholesterol or heart problems at all! (See: fear, forever and

faith.) Many say, since lead investigator of the Justification for the Use

of Statins in Primary Prevention study Ridker of Brigham and Women's

Hospital in Boston is co-patent holder/inventor of the C-reactive protein

(CRP) test which " proves " Crestor's effectiveness, there's a conflict of

interest. Others say, since CRP isn't necessarily even a marker for heart

disease and statins can cause Type 2 diabetes, it's bad science along with a

conflict of interest.)

3. Circadian Dysrhythmia

Insomnia is a gold mine for pharma because everyone sleeps -- or

watches TV when they can't. But Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata and Rozerem have

reached market saturation, so pharma is rolling out subcategories like

nocturnal, middle-of-the-night (MOTN) and terminal insomnia and sleep

eating, sleep walking and sleep sweating (yes sweating) to boost the

franchise. Meanwhile another demo is swelling Circadian Dysrhythmia numbers:

Thanks to restless legs syndrome, sleep apnea, shift work sleep disorder,

people who skimp on sleep and of course insomnia meds themselves, there's an

epidemic of excessive sleepiness! Enter Provigil -- " a mood-brightening and

memory-enhancing psychostimulant which enhances wakefulness and

vigilance, " -- Adderall and Vyvanse, known in the days of Lenny Bruce --

also an " excessive sleepiness " sufferer -- as speed.

4. Adult Autism, ADHD and Refusal to Play Nicey

Having marketed adult diseases like depression, bipolar disorder and

schizophrenia in 4-year-olds to death, pharma is now finding childhood

diseases in adults. Adults with ADHD have hyperactivity, impulsivity,

" executive function deficits " and " difficulty with organization and time

management, " says Harvard Medical School's ph Biederman, in a 2004 JAMA.

The disease, found in most people's brother-in-laws, requires " lifelong "

medication says Biederman, who was accused of pushing Risperdal and hiding

pharma income by Congress in 2008. Adults may suffer from autism too says a

2008 article in Psychiatric News, if they're " unsociable, extremely rigid,

given to angry outbursts " and " acutely sensitive to light, heat, and pain. "

Luckily, in two studies " SSRI antidepressants led to a decrease in

repetitive behaviors and to somewhat more socializing, " in adults with

autism says Psychiatric News.

5. Asthma That Requires " Two Drugs "

Leave it to pharma to develop an asthma drug--the long-acting

beta2-agonists (LABAs)-- that triples the rate of asthma deaths, especially

in African-Americans. And leave it to the FDA to approve LABA's on the basis

of a trial, the 2003 SMART trial (Salmeterol Multicenter Asthma Research

Trial), that was stopped early because of so many deaths. In March, after

more deaths, especially in children, a sheepish FDA recast LABAs as a last

resort medication with or without use of a concomitant inhaled steroid. But

AstraZeneca doesn't want to stop selling its LABA with a steroid,

Symbicort -- and GSK its LABA with a steroid, Advair -- just because they're

correlated with death. So the LABA drugs are being billed as safe and able

to treat " both " causes of asthma (see: Vytorin) and projected to earn

billions this year.

6. " Treatment Resistant " Conditions

If an engine additive or laundry product didn't work, who would

chase it with another product--or two-- because the manufacturer told them

to? Who would pay $300 to $900 a month out of their pocket for

antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and mood brighteners some

of which don't work? (see: fear, forever, faith.) Increasingly, pharma is

approving drugs as add on or " adjunctive therapy " like AstraZeneca's

antipsychotic Seroquel, approved last year " for patients who had failed to

respond adequately to an antidepressant alone. " Also last year, the FDA

approved Eli Lilly's Symbyax, a combination of the SSRI antidepressant

Prozac and controversial antipsychotic Zyprexa -- do patients gain 100

pounds but feel great? -- for " treatment resistant depression. " Why are

diseases " treatment resistant " instead of the drugs " ineffective " or

diagnoses " wrong " ?

7. Low T

Men are you feeling run down and over the hill? Is your hair falling

out, skin wrinkling and abdomen developing its own zip code? Have you lost

interest in sex or worse, has your partner? (With you?) Do you need reading

glasses, dental implants and heel splints? You're not getting old, you just

have Low T and are ready for the aging-is-really-just-low-hormones con that

women have lived with for 60 years: hormone replacement therapy. Like 50

million women before you, you can be Forever Masculine even though, to

(quote hormone giant Wyeth) you have outlived your testes if you start

replacing your lost testosterone. You'll get both kinds of zips back in your

life, and it won't change your prostate-specific antigens. Pharma promises.

8. " Spectrum " Disorders

Nothing proves pharma's when-the-medication-is-ready credo better

than the legions of people who have fibromyaglia now that Cymbalta, Savella

and Lyrica are available to treat it. Still, a " grassroots " pharma front

group is conducting a Fibromyalgia Is Real awareness campaign like it did

for depression and bipolar disorder, just to make sure. Pharma has also

rolled out the term " depression spectrum disorder " for fibromyalgia to make

sure patients who have some but not all of the symptoms seek treatment. And

speaking of spectrums, " Epilepsy Spectrum Disorder " was rolled out in

January's JAMA -- a disorder which is not just about seizures anymore but

has " shared mechanisms " with " depression, autism.., and other cognitive

comorbidities. " Spectrum disorders are Real--which is pharma-speak for

Reimbursable.

* a pharma contrivance like " perimenopause " to widen the patient

pool

Martha Rosenberg frequently writes about the impact of the

pharmaceutical, food and gun industries on public health. Her work has

appeared in the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune and

other outlets.

© 2010 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.

View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/146471/