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ForMONDAY:

NEWS

1. Report: FDA generic drug reviews delayed - Reuters

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed to review on time nearly half the applications from generic drug makers seeking approval to sell cheaper versions of brand-name pharmaceuticals, according to a government report released on Friday.”

Okay, so this says that the affordable versions of drugs alleged to treat symptoms of illness, the ones that show up on the market once the patented high-dollar ones have run their terms, are taking much longer to receive approval than their Big Pharma predecessors. It’s hard to believe anyone thinking this is a good thing! (Of course, the claim is usually made that this is only indicative of how THIS administration’s FDA operates, and how different it will be when the OTHER party’s stooges are in place … does anybody else out there believe that crap, either?)

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1331291620080614

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2. Five reasons women get pregnant in spite of pill - Fox News

“The pill is 99 percent effective in preventing pregnancy. Even so, between 2 and 8 percent of women become pregnant each year while using it. And doctors say it’s not the pill that’s failing women, but women failing the pill.”

Once again we get an “it’s mostly your fault” take on accidental pregnancy; although there is at least some shared responsibility shown in a couple of the “reasons” (generics not as effective, etc.), the main finger-pointing is at women who are not meticulous about their pill-taking (missing a day, only slightly worse than not taking them at the same time each day …). And once again, there is no discussion about how if contraception were more reliable and less complicated, and less reliant on “perfect attendance” (to detail) of some sort, the entire abortion issue would barely be a ripple on the political front … sigh!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,366741,00.html

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1. Was Tim Russert killed by heart medication?
Natural News - Mike Adams

“NBC commentator Tim Russert was taking prescription medications when he suffered a heart attack and died yesterday at the age of 58. The mainstream media is reporting that Russert died from a ‘heart attack,’ but no press outlet has yet bothered to ask: ‘What caused the heart attack?’ … Pharmaceuticals, you see, do not solve any underlying health problems. They do not cure heart disease, nor do they prevent it. Rather, they simply “control” the symptoms of disease by artificially lowering or inflating numbers on a blood test … when, in reality, no fundamental health improvements exist at all. That’s why pharmaceuticals that are used to treat heart disease actually promote the continuation of disease and discourage patients from taking other, more proactive steps to resolve their underlying health problems and eliminate the need for medication.”

It’s actually hard to know how to improve on this commentary; Adams has as usual done his homework, as well as correctly noting the distortions that Big Pharma’s “symptom blockers” produce on otherwise healable conditions in the body. Nobody else has been bold enough to question the MSM account of this story.

http://www.naturalnews.com/023434.html

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2. The science is in: Drink your milk!
Center for Consumer Freedom - staff

“Thanks to researchers at the University of Illinois, activist-driven smear campaigns against milk and meat hit a major bump in the road this week. Contradicting what the animal rights clan has been claiming in recent years, a study published in this month’s Journal of Nutrition shows that milk still does a body good.”

This hardly should be a surprise; the interesting thing is that the CCF is not addressing the issue of RAW milk, which has become the latest regulatory cause celebre of the nanny-staters. However, perhaps now that the “milk is evil” claptrap has been debunked, this will be next.

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/3659

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3. Behind the attack of the killer tomatoes
Tom Paine/Our Future - Isaiah J. Poole

“What we’ve been calling e. coli conservatism is a major factor in the salmonella outbreak in tomatoes that has led to at least 228 illnesses and one suspected death. The outbreak took place several months after the Food and Drug Administration, the agency responsible for policing the produce supply, released its ‘food protection plan’ …”

And once again the argument is made here that this is only a function of the “pro-business” Bushites, and that the so-called “progressive”alternative will “change” all that. They ignore the corporatist favoritism of the Clintonians, which preceded the Shrubbos, and followed the Reagan/Bush Sr. dynasty period, which was preceded by Nixon and Ford and Carter, which all followed LBJ’s Great Society meddling that began most of this mess, anyway …

http://tinyurl.com/5s5f3s

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