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Men who regularly take over-the-counter painkillers are twice as likely to suffer hearing problems than those who don’t, a study has shown.
Researchers found that younger men are particularly at risk.
Taking paracetamol at least twice a week doubles the risk of mild to severe deafness before the age of 50. Other painkillers, including aspirin and ibuprofen, are also linked to hearing loss, the American researchers found. Read more

By TARA PARKER-POPE

What’s the worst thing you can say to the nurse in an emergency room?

This and other questions are answered in an informal survey of doctors, nurses and paramedics, who offer their own insights into the inner workings of hospital emergency rooms. Every year, the nation’s emergency rooms treat 117 million patients, and the average patient spends nearly three hours in the E.R. Read more

Bush lied people died, whoops wrong website. Big Pharma lied people died. There that’s better. In what should be a shocking report but now is all to common, Glasko Smith Kline got caught lying about the dangers of their blockbuster diabetes drug named Avandia. Health Freedom Alliance assumes the penalty will be a small fine and increased campaign contributions. Read more

(NaturalNews) It’s being called the largest research fraud in medical history. Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer’s speakers’ bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published in medical journals.
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By Lyndsay Moss

Using drugs to lower cholesterol increases the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, research in Scotland suggests.
An analysis of 13 studies involving the drugs, known as statins, found that they increased the chances of someone developing diabetes by 9 per cent. Read more

(NaturalNews) GE Healthcare, a British subsidiary of multinational giant General Electric, is suing Henrik Thomsen, a senior radiologist and professor of radiology, for sounding the alarm about the dangers of the company’s medical imaging drug, Omniscan. After witnessing kidney patients who had received the drug develop potentially fatal conditions, Thomsen publicly exposed the drug’s dangers which caused a firestorm of controversy.

In an effort to muzzle Thomsen, GE Healthcare has already spent more than 380,000 British pounds, or about $610,000, in legal fees pursuing litigation against him. Utilizing loopholes in Britain’s libel laws, the company is alleging that Thomsen falsely accused GE of suppressing sensitive information about the drug’s risks at an Oxford scientific congress presentation in 2007. Read more

A leading health expert said the swine flu scare was a “false pandemic” led by drug companies that stood to make billions from vaccines, The Sun reported Monday.

Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claimed major firms organized a “campaign of panic” to put pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic.

He believes it is “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century,” and he has called for an inquiry. Read more

Using the martial metaphor for something as complex as cancer makes the disease ripe for political and financial exploitation

Mike Marqusee

Obituaries routinely inform us that so-and-so has died “after a brave battle against cancer”. Of course, we will never read that so-and-so has died “after a pathetically feeble battle against cancer”. But one thing that I have come to appreciate since being diagnosed with multiple myeloma (a cancer of the blood) two years ago is how unreal both notions are. It’s just not like that. Read more

By Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber and Maloy Moore

The frantic knocking of home health nurse Orphia Wilson startled the boy’s parents awake just after dawn.

Their 3-year-old son, who suffered from chronic respiratory failure and muscular dystrophy, had stopped breathing. Read more

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