News & Updates
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Family who Fueled and Seeded the Opioid Epidemic Awarded A Patent to Make Money On A Treatment
Dr. Richard Sackler, a member of the family that owns Purdue Pharma who has made billions from the sale of addicting OxyContin and is being sued by more than 1,000 jurisdictions for its alleged role in seeding the opioid crisis. Now he has been awarded a patent for a treatment for opioid use disorder. Congress…
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MENINGITIS FACTS
Meningitis is a RARE disease, 3 people statewide a YEAR contract the illness. The vaccine itself does not cover all prevalent meningococcal strains, including those primarily found on college campuses and it is a very costly vaccine. The disease rate has been going down across all ages and the vaccination rates for high school students…
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Bob’s Red Mill Sued Over Organic Oats Contaminated with Glyphosate Roundup
Bob’s Red Mill is facing a federal class action, filed in San Francisco Friday, after the world’s most used weedkiller, glyphosate, was discovered in both its organic and non-organic oats. Over the years concerned consumers have questioned Bob’s Red Mill via their company blog on the presence of glyphosate in the oats being sold. Many…
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Vaccine Market Projected to be Worth $60 Billion in 2020
What if I also told you that the global market for vaccines is expected to be worth $100 billion in 2025, up from $170 million in the early 1980s. Let me say that again. In the 1980s, with no childhood epidemics to speak of, the market for vaccinations was worth $170 million. Fast forward, and…
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Kids Vaccinated with Flu Mist Are Spreading Disease
After seeing a 2% drop in vaccine sales for flu, the ACIP panel brought back the ineffective FluMist live virus multi-strand flu vaccines. It was so ineffective last time it was pulled mid season because it hardly worked. This time doctors won’t know for sure if it works better than before — or better than…
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Explosion of Chronic Disease in Our Children
Over the past fifty years, rates of autoimmunity and chronic disease in our children have exploded: currently 1 in 2.5 American children has a severe allergy, 1 in 11 has asthma, 1 in 36 has autism and the list goes on. While some attribute this rise to increased awareness and diagnosis, Thomas Cowan, MD, argues…