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Baltimore County bill would allow Tradepoint Atlantic to seek public financing help
By Pamela Wood
The company redeveloping the former steel mill in Sparrows Point took the first step toward requesting a county subsidy to help to pay for needed roads and water and sewer lines.
Tradepoint Atlantic asked the Baltimore County Council to pass legislation that would allow tax-increment financing, an arrangement in which the county would help finance the up-front costs of infrastructure projects.
"Having the necessary infrastructure in place will help us attract marquee tenants and high-quality employers by having shovel-ready sites for them," said Aaron Tomarchio, a vice president for Tradepoint Atlantic.
In tax-increment financing — often referred to as a TIF — a jurisdiction borrows money by issuing bonds for infrastructure projects that benefit development. The developer doesn't pay the bonds back through cash payments; rather, they are paid off over time from the increased property taxes paid by the development.
Tomarchio said the company hasn't determined how much of a financing package it might seek or when a deal might be executed. The legislation before the County Council is a preliminary step that creates a five-year window for a tax-increment financing deal.
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Following a work session Tuesday at which the bill was discussed, a council vote is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 4.
Tomarchio said talks are preliminary, although Tradepoint floated the idea of a TIF deal more than a year ago. The company commissioned an economic study from Sage Policy Group that recommended a TIF as a way to help pay for at least part of the estimated $200 million needed for roads, bridges, utilities, stormwater management systems, rail upgrades and port improvements.
"This is signaling that we are looking at a TIF. We are still in conversations with Baltimore County," Tomarchio said.
Tradepoint Atlantic is a joint venture of local firm Redwood Capital Investments and the Chicago-based liquidation and redevelopment firm Hilco. Tradepoint bought the Sparrows Point property in 2014 with ambitious plans to turn the shuttered steel mill into an industrial campus with shipping, logistics and light manufacturing uses.
The site has attracted several distribution centers and an auto import operation.
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County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, a booster of the Tradepoint development, has promoted it as a success story in his campaign to become the Democratic gubernatorial nominee who will run against Republican Gov. Larry Hogan next year.
In a statement, Kamenetz said the council bill "simply establishes the physical boundaries of a development district in Sparrows Point. It does not obligate the county to any tax increment financing."
Will Anderson, the county's director of economic development, said there have been no talks with Tradepoint about details of what a TIF might look like.
"We've discussed this first step because they asked us to," Anderson said.
Councilman Todd Crandell, a Dundalk Republican who represents the area where Tradepoint is located, said he's taking a wait-and-see approach to whether a TIF is a good idea for Tradepoint.
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"This is very early in the process," Crandell said. "There's no TIF to examine, there's no TIF to analyze or crunch the numbers. I'm waiting for that so we can do our own analysis."
Crandell said he expects it will be at least several months before a TIF proposal is brought to the council. For now, he said there's no harm in passing the preliminary legislation because it does not obligate the county to enter into a financing deal.
Debt from Baltimore TIF financing deals expected to grow to nearly $1 billion
"I look at this through the lens of opportunity," Crandell said. "As we move forward and more is known about it, what is the scope of opportunity? Is it worth the bang for the buck? I owe it to our constituency to assess the impacts of this."
Tax-increment financing is rarely used in Baltimore County — most recently the method was tapped to pay for a parking garage and other infrastructure at the Owings Mills Metro Centre. In that case, the county authorized the TIF, but the bonds were issued by the Maryland Economic Development Corp. Metro Centre, located adjacent to a Metro SubwayLink station, includes retail shops, apartments and branches of the county library and the Community College of Baltimore County.
TIFs have been controversial in other parts of the region, including Baltimore City, where there was disagreement whether the city should extend $660 million worth of financing for Sagamore Development's massive Port Covington redevelopment in South Baltimore.
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And in Howard County, some politicians had second thoughts over a $90 million TIF financing package awarded for a parking garage and other improvements at a proposed development near Merriweather Post Pavilion in downtown Columbia.
If Baltimore County were to extend TIF financing to Tradepoint Atlantic, it would require County Council approval. The legislation currently before the council is a preliminary step to designate the Tradepoint property as a "development district" that could be eligible for a TIF.
Tomarchio said Tradepoint is exploring multiple options for financing the infrastructure upgrades. Tradepoint and Baltimore County recently applied for a $25 million federal grant to help pay for upgrades to the port portion of the property.
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Amazon is moving ahead with plans for a distribution center in Sparrows Point that will employ 1,500 people, the online giant announced Wednesday morning.
By Lorraine Mirabella and Pamela Wood
"There's a number of financing tools that developers look at when looking at a size of a project like this, TIF being among them," Tomarchio said.
As part of the redevelopment, Tradepoint Atlantic pledged to spend at least $50 million on environmental cleanup of the 3,100-acre site, which has contaminated soil and groundwater from more than a century of steel-making, much of it before modern environmental rules.
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Tradepoint also has spent the past three years systematically clearing the site, tearing down most of the old mill buildings, including the L-blast furnace that once towered over Sparrows Point. It was imploded in early 2015.
Tomarchio said Tradepoint's investors are "in a good place" but said their money has been spread out among various needs.
"This is a very complex redevelopment, so there's capital being expended at our port, there's capital being expended at our rail, there's capital being expended at our environmental remediation that's being done, there's capital being invested on the vertical construction that's happening, there's capital being expended on the demolition," Tomarcho said.
"There is extensive capital that has been deployed and will continue to be committed," he said.
Some of Tradepoint's tenants thus far include Pasha Automotive, which imports vehicles; FedEx, which operates a distribution center; Under Armour, which plans to open an e-commerce fulfillment center next year; and Amazon, which recently signed a deal to build a massive distribution center there. Amazon is receiving $2 million from the state and $200,000 from the county in loans that will be forgiven if the company employs a certain number of workers at Tradepoint.
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The new downtown Hancock Hotel has much Hancock County in it, from pictures of local scenes to suites named after Findlay and the villages. And there is local craftsmanship throughout.
It starts in the lobby of Marathon Petroleum Corp.'s $20 million hotel. Behind the counter at check-in, patrons will see an image of the Hancock County Courthouse printed and spread over three antique mirrors. Like the photos throughout the hotel, the courthouse image was copied from photos at the Hancock Historical Museum.
Dietsch Bros. chocolate will be there, too.
Korsos said the hotel also is exploring partnerships, like perhaps making Wolfies Nuts and Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn available for guests to take home.
All 99 guest rooms will be stocked with Dietsch Bros. chocolate-covered pretzels and other treats. Locally-made beers provided by Mancy's will be in each room, along with half-bottles of wine, craft cocktails and soft drinks.
Twelve suites, larger lodging areas named after Findlay and the villages, each have a living room space in addition to the bedroom and bathroom. Suite bathrooms have a tub in addition to the shower. They also have vanities, makeup mirrors and other amenities.
Blanchard Ballroom, with a large dance floor, can seat up to 320. Just across the hall, on the Lincoln Street side of the building, is the Flag City Junior Ballroom, which can seat 75 to 100 people.
"By and large, most of the trade companies that did work for us, whether it's cabinetry, flooring, painting, all those type of things, were done by local trade persons, and I think it turned out quite beautiful," said Don Malarky, engineering manager for major projects for Marathon Petroleum.
On the Main Street-Lincoln Street corner is the Donnell Boardroom, which will host meetings, receptions and wedding rehearsal dinners.
Even with its floor-to-ceiling windows, it lets in no sound of street traffic.
A fitness center contains treadmills, elliptical walkers, bikes, yoga and medicine balls, mats, free weights and a universal weight machine. Hotel guests who want more for their workout can get into the nearby Findlay Family YMCA with their room key.


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At Gorilla Gym, we value the comfort that something like being able to swing in your own house can give someone with autism, sensory processing disorders, or other disabilities. Research gathered by SpectrumNews.org, an organization that focuses on news regarding autism and autism research, showed that often times in autistic children's behavioral therapy, physical activity is overlooked. Small studies have shown that therapies that incorporate games and other activities that keep children active has actually helped children with their social skills, behavior, eye contact, and motor skills more than traditional behavioral therapy alone. This report, coupled with the fact that compared to typically developed children, autistic children are more likely to be overweight and obese is reason enough to start implementing physical activity into behavioral therapies. Read about these reports and more in the posts below, and feel free to add your own opinion in the comment sections.


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CANNABIS CAN CURE MANY FORMS OF CANCER
Odds are you've heard something about it but weren't sure whether the information was reliable or definitive. So, in order to help clear things up, here is a list of 34 studies showing that marijuana cures cancer, categorized by the type of cancers being cured in each study.
https://www.cureyourowncancer.org/cannabis-can-cure-many-forms-of-cancer.html
The Dream & Lie of Louis Pasteur
by R. B. Pearson (originally Pasteur, Plagiarist, Imposter 1942)
http://www.temcat.com/009-Health-Secrets-Sem/Hazards/Pastuer.pdf
The Dream and Lie of Louis Pasteur [Import] [Paperback]
R. B. Pearson (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/The-dream-lie-Louis-Pasteur/dp/0646195417
The War Against Cancer: Endless by Design?
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/event/war-against-cancer-endless-design
Medical journals report that pharmaceutical-based medicine is one of the leading causes of death & injury in developed countries. These articles explain so you can avoid becoming a victim.
http://www.medicinekillsmillions.com/
By Gary Null, Ph.D., PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD
http://www.medicinekillsmillions.com/articles/death-by-medicine-is-leading-cause-of-death.html
WHY DO PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS INJURE AND KILL SO MANY PEOPLE?
http://www.medicinekillsmillions.com/articles/pharmaceutical-drugs-injure-kill-millions-of-people.html
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A Factological History of AMERICA'S $10,000,000,000 DRUG CARTEL — ITS METHODS, OPERATIONS, HIDDEN OWNER-SHIP, PROFITS AND TERRIFIC IMPACT ON THE HEALTH OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
By Morris A. Bealle
Chapter 1 What Nujol Started
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/TheDrugStoryBeale.htm
Your source for natural health videos
http://www.ihealthtube.com/aspx/search.aspx?s=peter%20glidden
http://www.ihealthtube.com/
Medication Errors Injure 1.5 Million People and Cost Billions of Dollars Annually;
Report Offers Comprehensive Strategies for Reducing Drug-Related Mistakes
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11623
Fire Your MD, by Peter Glideen
Curriculum Vitae: Peter Glidden BS, ND
1987: BS from University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA.
1991: ND from Bastyr University, Seattle WA.
1992: Licensed to practice Naturopathic medicine.
1993 - Present: Private Naturopathic medical practice.
1987 - Present: Member - American Association of Naturopathic Physicians.
2008 - Present: Member - Illinois Association of Naturopathic Physicians.
http://fireyourmdnow.com/dr__glidden
Mercola.com's Death by Medicine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_e_4AOsFo
Death by Medicine-Animated Statistics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t-Y0_VND8Q
At between 780,000 and 1,000,000 deaths per year the American Medical System is the leading cause of death in the U.S.A. This ahead of heart disease at 700,000 and cancer at 550,000. To see the research paper that studied the research and government statistics see http://www.whale.to/a/null9.html For a PDF version of this see http://www.webdc.com/pdfs/deathbymedicine.pdf.
For an update on this 2003 study see http://www.leadingcauseofdeathprescriptiondrugs.com/, and in case you are wondering, things are getting much worse ...
Death by Medicine Trailer
Death by Medicine explores the dominant medical paradigm, the current health crisis, and a healthier, more holistic system. Based on Gary Nulls groundbreaking book with statistical evidence of hundreds of thousands of injuries and deaths due to conventional medicine. It looks at the pharmaceutical industry, drug reps, medical schools, medical journals and the absence of real medical science. The lack of oversight by our regulatory agencies, private insurance firms and lobbying influence upon our legislators. The result is the American medical system is broken and it is time to create a new medical paradigm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNDL4M4qC4
Death By Medicine, Parts 1 thru 3
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4834BD6F50CA0A20
Quarter-Million Doctor-Induced Deaths Annually: Iatrogenocide?
Murder Or Mistake?
The fine line between murder or mistake is a hot potato. If you saw your neighbors being killed one by one or en masse, yet did nothing about it, or took up for the killers, you could be guilty of "accessory to murder" or "accessory to murder after the fact." Many analogies and ethical juxtapositions could be generated in such a debate. One could even make the argument for a global elitist plan at population control allowing iatrogeny to gain such momentum.
Regardless of etiology, Iatrogeny is real. It is rampant and far from being under control. By making iatrogeny, through semantics, sound as if it is an infectious disease beyond the control of physicians and hospitals, we allow the medical profession and pharmaceutical cartels to distance themselves from responsibility and relieve them from the culpability for what mirrors negligent homicide.
It would be humanly impossible to eliminate genuine mistakes entirely. "But how many times does a mistake happen until it's not just a mistake anymore, but negligence?"
This author believes that 225,000 deaths every year may be an example of when mistakes cross over to the darkness of negligence. If so, then we are witnessing the greatest holocaust to befall mankind ever.
http://www.campaignfortruth.com/Eclub/130902/idahoobserverdeathbydocs.htm
Lets look at the actual basis for the said data:
• Heart disease: 616,067
• Cancer: 562,875
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 127,924 • Accidents (unintentional injuries): 123,706 • Alzheimer's disease: 74,632 • Diabetes: 71,382 • Influenza and Pneumonia: 52,717 • Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 46,448 • Septicemia: 34,828
Complete table with source documentation can be found here.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/NCHS/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_19.pdf
The study and the numbers come right from the AMA Journal. Of course since 2000, they have made that abstract and the study a dead link on their site; imagine that. The information and data from that study is still available. Why did they decide they needed to hide that study??? Was it found to be incorrect; answer: no, never. It was simply and obviously to much truth?
Look at the real data.
Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Killing 225,000 People Every Year, Jul 30, 2000
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/07/30/doctors-death-part-one.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/01/15/doctors-drugs-part-two.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/02/medical-mistakes-part-three.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/26/prescription-drugs-number-one-cause-preventable-death-in-us.aspx
Medical Errors - A Leading Cause of Death Alternative analysis:
http://www.vaclib.org/legal/drdeath.htm
http://www.rense.com/general91/medic.htm
The JOURNAL of the AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (JAMA) Vol 284, No 4, July 26th 2000 article written by Dr Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, shows that medical errors may be the third leading cause of death in the United States.
However, we can clearly see what was in that study when we go here below to an interview with Dr Barbara Starfield.
MEDICALLY CAUSED DEATH IN AMERICA
On July 26, 2000, the US medical community received a titanic shock to the system, when one of its most respected and honored public-health experts, Dr. Barbara Starfield, revealed her findings on healthcare in America.
The landmark Starfield study, "Is US health really the best in the world?", published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, came to the following conclusions:
Every year in the US there are:
ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR:
12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries;
7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals;
20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals;
80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals;
106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines.
The total of medically-caused deaths in the US every year is 225,000.
Now look at your numbers. 225,000 fits right between, Heart disease: 616,067 Cancer; 562,875 Chronic; and Lower respiratory diseases: 127,924; making that, (by the study figures), the third leading cause of death in the US! Now, this is 2012; do you think those numbers have become worse, or better? Nothing has changed, nor promoted any change, so obviously it could not ever actually get better. And the FDA is still the corrupt revolving door with the pharma industry, that silences any whistle blowers, and they all know that their jobs depend on not being in disagreement and nor rocking that boat.
This makes the medical system in that year 2000, the third leading cause of death in the US, behind heart disease and cancer. Face it. Those ARE the facts in that study, and it was published in the AMA Journal, and as a fact.
Now, lets go to another study in the year 2004, showing so called modern medicine to be the first and leading cause of death in the US! Take a look at the numbers.
Modern Health Care System is the Leading Cause of Death, Part I, Jul 7, 2004
One of the most prominent articles on this site is Doctors are the Third Leading Cause of Death. That article was written and the study published in the AMA Journal in 2000 and now it appears that, based on a variety of references noted in the below article, some from prior to 2000 some after, the conventional medical system in fact the LEADING cause of death in this country. Not heart disease, not cancer--doctors. In all fairness, doctors themselves are not to blame for all of this. The entire modern health care system, however, is responsible for allowing, even promoting, so many unnecessary procedures, drugs and mishaps. This illustrates precisely why the system is so desperately in need of change, and why facilitating this change is, and will continue to be such a substantially difficult endeavor; as they simply refuse to recognized their level of utter failure regarding pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines; nor do they openly recognize that it is happening, nor why.
By Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD
A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good. The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. 1 Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics. 2, 2a
The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. 3 The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million. 4 The total number of iatrogenic [induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures] deaths shown in the following table is 783,936.
It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251. 5
Check out the graph on the site page referenced:
Adverse Drug Reactions 106,000
Medical error 98,000
Bedsores 115,000
Infection 88,000
Malnutrition 108,800
Outpatients 199,000
Unnecessary Procedures 37,136
Surgery-Related 32,000
TOTAL 783,936 (cost) $282 billion
Remember this number from above? Heart disease: 616,067 (it is simple math, alias no identity, Costner)!
We could have an even higher death rate by using Dr. Lucien Leape's 1997 medical and drug error rate of 3 million. 14 Multiplied by the fatality rate of 14 percent (that Leape used in 1994 16 we arrive at an annual death rate of 420,000 for drug errors and medical errors combined. If we put this number in place of Lazorou's 106,000 drug errors and the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 98,000 medical errors, we could add another 216,000 deaths making a total of 999,936 deaths annually.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/07/07/healthcare-death-part-one.aspx
By Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD
Something is wrong when regulatory agencies pretend that vitamins are dangerous, yet ignore published statistics showing that government-sanctioned medicine is the real hazard.
http://www.webdc.com/pdfs/deathbymedicine.pdf
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_01.htm
Death by Medicine [Hardcover]
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Medicine-Gary-M-Null/dp/1607660024
FDA: Failure, Deception, Abuse: The Story of an Out-of-Control Government Agency and What It Means for Your Health [Hardcover] Life Extension Magazine (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/FDA-Deception-Out-Control-Government/dp/1607660016/ref=pd_sim_b_5
Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat [Hardcover] Fran Hawthorne (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-FDA-Business-Politics-Behind/dp/0471610917/ref=pd_sim_b_2
Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients [Paperback] Ray Moynihan (Author), Alan Cassels (Author)
Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, one of the world's largest drug companies, told Fortune magazine that he wanted Merck to be more like chewing gum maker Wrigley's. It had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people so that Merck could "sell to everyone." Gadsden's dream now drives the marketing machinery of the most profitable industry on earth. Drug companies are systematically working to widen the very boundaries that define illness, and the markets for medication grow ever larger. Mild problems are redefined as serious illness and common complaints are labeled as medical conditions requiring drug treatments. Runny noses are now allergic rhinitis, PMS has become a psychiatric disorder, and hyperactive children have ADD. When it comes to conditions like high cholesterol or low bone density, being "at risk" is sold as a disease. Selling Sickness reveals how widening the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits, in turn threatening to bankrupt health-care systems all over the world. As more and more of ordinary life becomes medicalized, the industry moves ever closer to Gadsden's dream: "selling to everyone."
http://www.amazon.com/Selling-Sickness-Pharmaceutical-Companies-Patients/dp/156025856X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y
This exclusive interview with former GlaxoSmithKline employee and whistleblower Blair Hamrick reveals insider details of GSK's operations, for which the company recently pleaded guilty to felony crimes and paid a $3 billion settlement with the U.S. government.
In this Health Ranger Report video, Blair describes his firsthand knowledge of the "bribery" of physicians, the push for off-label marketing of drugs for unapproved health conditions, the illegal marketing of drugs to children, how 80 percent of physicians were willing to be "on the take," and much more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y_RJ9QPG70U
A Government Bribe by Any Other Name?
Let's say you have a business that sells something to the government – something unbelievably profitable. Let's say you get caught doing something wrong, but the government will allow you to keep your business running if you provide them with a cut of your profits. Let's say you get caught time and time again doing more illegal things, and each time, you just give the government a cut of your profits and your legal problems just go away. Doesn't this sound a lot like how a bribe works?
http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/a-government-bribe-by-any-other-name
Big Pharma Pays Yet Another Government Bribe
I recently wrote an article about all the bribes that drug companies pay out to the government in order to maintain their illegal business practices. Well, they're not really bribes, but that's what I've started calling the silly "fines" that they are forced to pay. Day after day, the nation's pharmaceutical companies knowingly engage in illegal activities that endanger our lives and take money out of our wallets. I assert that they essentially pay bribes to make the government agencies get out of their way, and then continue to conduct the same illegal business practices time and time again.
In some cases, pharmaceutical companies have been found guilty of knowingly (and dangerously) marketing drugs for purposes other than that for which they were approved by the FDA. In other cases, they have been fined for overcharging for their drugs or failing to give the government required rebates that would ultimately bring down the costs of these drugs for consumers. Over the years, they have been found guilty of countless other deceptive and fraudulent business practices, from deliberately hiding research that shows drugs are dangerous to disseminating misleading information to doctors.
http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/big-pharma-pays-yet-another-government-bribe
Too Big to Prosecute: Big Pharma Executives Are Apparently "Above the Law"
By now you've probably heard that the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has been slapped with a $3 billion dollar fine, the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history. The list of wrongdoings they have committed is quite simply shocking. In fact, in a previous article, I explained why these companies are simply evil – after all, some of their violations include drugging children and robbing poor people.
I'm glad the government levied such a large fine on GlaxoSmithKline, though when compared to their annual profits, this is more like a speed bump that slows them down temporarily rather than something so painful that it will likely change their corporate culture.
http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/too-big-to-prosecute-big-pharma-executives-are-apparently-above-the-law
GlaxoSmithKline whistleblower speaks out about bribery of doctors, off-label marketing of drugs
http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/glaxosmithkline-whistleblower-speaks-out-about-big-pharmas-deplorable-acts
Progressive Radio Network presents
A Gary Null Production
WAR ON HEALTH: The FDA's Cult of Tyranny
Introduced by the director (from his speech at the world premiere in New York City, June 15, 2012)
http://garynull.tv/video/487/war-on-health-the-fdas-cult-of
War on Health: A Must-See Documentary Exposing the FDA (Youtube version)
A powerful documentary that exposes the ties between the FDA and Big Pharma, Big Food and Big Agra called War on Health: The FDA's Cult of Tyranny. The documentary is the latest film project from acclaimed natural health expert, author and radio show host, Gary Null. It features interviews with my good friend, health freedom attorney, Jim Turner, as well as Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association, Gretchen DuBeau of the Alliance for Natural Health, Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com, Dr. Jonathan Wright, Dr. Julian Whitaker, Will Faloon of the Life Extension Foundation and many other health freedom advocates.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VibVIRsHnI0
Some of the evidence and footage presented in this film is downright shocking. It seems the FDA will do whatever it takes to make us dependent on conventional medicine while preventing us from using safe, natural, non-pharmaceutical means to heal and prevent disease. This means using militaristic tactics to make small, independent food producers and supplement companies do their bidding.
Guess What Kills One Person Every 19 Minutes?
At the same time, statistics are showing that deaths from pharmaceutical drugs are rising at an alarming rate. But don't take my word for it. Just google the term "pharmaceutical drugs kill" and you'll see headlines from major news organizations such as Fox and CNN that read:
"Prescription drugs 62,000 times more likely to kill …
"Prescription drugs kill 6200% more Americans …"
"Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans than Illegal Drugs…"
"Prescription drugs are now killing more people than traffic accidents…"
"Prescription Drug Deaths Skyrocket…"
"Prescription drugs kill one person every 19 minutes…"
"Prescription Drugs Now Kill More People Than Heroin And Cocaine Combined…"
Sadly, most people don't know that properly prescribed prescription drugs kill over 100,000 Americans each year. (This excludes prescription drug abuse, which causes this number to skyrocket even higher). This is more than or equal to the number of people who die from accidents, Alzheimer's, influenza and diabetes!
One reason that most people are in the dark about the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs is due to a fundamental misunderstanding of how these drugs get tested and approved. Too many people believe that the FDA has some kind of rigorous testing and evaluation system. Sadly, this is far from the truth.
The current system puts almost the entire burden to test the safety of a new pharmaceutical drug on the developer of that drug. And since developing a new drug costs billions of dollars, you can imagine the immense pressure on the entire organization to make sure that drug gets to market. Making things worse are the fees that the pharmaceutical companies pay the FDA, which amount to about 20% of its total budget. Now, I'm no expert on organizational structure, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that this system is inherently flawed and corrupt.
What's the final product of this cozy relationship between Big Pharma and the FDA? It's simple – dangerous drugs being put on the market, leaving us hapless consumers as real world guinea pigs. Simply put, the big drug companies profit and we die.
One of the most infamous examples of this is what happened with the painkiller Vioxx. It's widely known that Merck engaged in several illegal and dubious strategies to influence the research backing the safety of Vioxx. Sadly, this easily tricked the FDA who approved the drug, only to remove it from the shelves after it killed approximately 60,000 people – more than the number of brave soldiers who died in Vietnam. Will we be building a memorial for the Vioxx victims?
The latest example of the flaws in the process for getting pharmaceutical drugs approved by the FDA is the diabetes drug Avandia. A Senate Finance Committee investigation showed that GlaxoSmithKline intentionally hid reliable scientific data clearly showing that Avandia significantly increases the risk of heart attack. Naturally this came to light after the FDA approved the drug, and it didn't take long before it was linked to 83,000 heart attacks and deaths, according to the FDA's own scientists.
If you think Vioxx and Avandia are flukes, think again. There are dozens, and perhaps hundreds, of drugs killing people every day, because their makers provided flawed, biased and corrupt data to the FDA. And since the FDA is unequipped, incapable or unwilling to change the system, more and more people are going to die.
If you believe your doctor provides the final line of defense for you, think again. Despite good intentions, guess who trained your doctor on all of the "benefits" of the drug they are prescribing to you? You guessed it – the company that stands to make billions of dollars from its sale. Your doctor got duped (and probably got a free golf trip in Hawaii). Meanwhile, you got a potentially harmful drug that may put your health in jeopardy.
The bottom line – don't trust that pharmaceutical drugs are safe. Big Pharma has a long, sad track record of lies, corruption and deceit, all in the name of profits. And the FDA's system to approve drugs is as flawed as perhaps any function of government.
My advice: If your doctor prescribes you a drug, take your health into your own hands! Consider lifestyle changes, look for natural alternatives, get second opinions and do your own research. Only take the drug after you are 100% certain it is safe and in your best interests. After all – your life may depend on it!
http://www.secretsofthefed.com/guess-what-kills-one-person-every-19-minutes/
Pharma Not in Business of Health, Healing, Cures, Wellness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AazObF_pHSU
Pharma Sales Reps Speaks Out - Pharma Not in Business of Health, Healing, Cures, Wellness.
Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such healthcare giants as Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as both victim and survivor of life-threatening adverse drug reactions. After leaving pharmaceutical sales in 2000, Gwen worked in the natural foods industry first as an Account Manager for Nature's Way, and then as a Regional Sales Manager for Gaia Herbs. She is currently a writer, speaker, and natural health consultant.
The United States health care system is killing Americans at an alarming rate, even though we spend over fifteen percent of the Gross National Product (GNP) on health care. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, our health care outcomes ranked only fifteenth among twenty-five industrialized nations worldwide. Adverse effects from prescription drugs have become the third-leading killer of Americans. Only heart disease and cancer claim more lives. We trust our doctors to inform us and our government to protect us from medical malfeasance that may put profits ahead of consumer health and safety. But the fine line walked by the FDA between the interests of the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the American public has continually been crossed. The result is the unleashing of an unprecedented number of lethal drugs on the U.S. market!
Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American's medicine cabinet, working in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education would come as a victim and, ultimately, as a survivor.
Visit Gwen's Website at
http://www.gwenolsen.com/
Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher [Paperback] Gwen Olsen (Author) Publication Date: April 24, 2009
On December 2, 2004, Gwen Olsen's niece Megan committed suicide by setting herself on fire-and ended her tortured life as a victim of the adverse effects of prescription drugs. Olsen's poignant autobiographical journey through the darkness of mental illness and the catastrophic consequences that lurk in medicine cabinets around the country offers an honest glimpse into alarming statistics and a health care system ranked last among nineteen industrialized nations worldwide. As a former sales representative in the pharmaceutical industry for several years, Olsen learned firsthand how an unprecedented number of lethal drugs are unleashed in the United States market, but her most heartrending education into the dangers of antidepressants would come as a victim and ultimately, as a survivor.Rigorously researched and documented, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher is a moving human drama that shares one woman's unforgettable journey of faith, forgiveness, and healing.
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Drug-Pusher-Gwen-Olsen/dp/1935278592/ref=pd_sim_b_9
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It [Paperback] Marcia Angell (Author)
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless influence over medical research, education, and how doctors do their jobs. She sympathized as the American public, particularly the elderly, struggled and increasingly failed to meet spiraling prescription drug prices. Now, in this bold, hard-hitting new book, Dr. Angell exposes the shocking truth of what the pharmaceutical industry has become–and argues for essential, long-overdue change.
Currently Americans spend a staggering $200 billion each year on prescription drugs. As Dr. Angell powerfully demonstrates, claims that high drug prices are necessary to fund research and development are unfounded: The truth is that drug companies funnel the bulk of their resources into the marketing of products of dubious benefit. Meanwhile, as profits soar, the companies brazenly use their wealth and power to push their agenda through Congress, the FDA, and academic medical centers.
Zeroing in on hugely successful drugs like AZT (the first drug to treat HIV/AIDS), Taxol (the best-selling cancer drug in history), and the blockbuster allergy drug Claritin, Dr. Angell demonstrates exactly how new products are brought to market. Drug companies, she shows, routinely rely on publicly funded institutions for their basic research; they rig clinical trials to make their products look better than they are; and they use their legions of lawyers to stretch out government-granted exclusive marketing rights for years. They also flood the market with copycat drugs that cost a lot more than the drugs they mimic but are no more effective.
The American pharmaceutical industry needs to be saved, mainly from itself, and Dr. Angell proposes a program of vital reforms, which includes restoring impartiality to clinical research and severing the ties between drug companies and medical education. Written with fierce passion and substantiated with in-depth research, The Truth About the Drug Companies is a searing indictment of an industry that has spun out of control.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Truth-About-Drug-Companies/dp/0375760946/ref=pd_sim_b_4
What You Must Know about Statin Drugs & Their Natural Alternatives: A Consumer's Guide to Safely Using Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, Crestor, Mevacor, or [Paperback]
http://www.amazon.com/about-Statin-Drugs-Natural-Alternatives/dp/0757002579/ref=pd_sim_b_8
Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine [Paperback] John Abramson (Author)
Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself.
Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology, and health policy, John Abramson, M.D., reveals the ways in which the drug companies have misrepresented statistical evidence, misled doctors, and compromised our health. The good news is that the best scientific evidence shows that reclaiming responsibility for your own health is often far more effective than taking the latest blockbuster drug.
You—and your doctor—will be stunned by this unflinching exposé of American medicine.
http://www.amazon.com/Overdosed-America-Promise-American-Medicine/dp/0061344761/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z
Bitter Pill: The Exorbitant Prices of Health Care
NOW, is there any question, why there is no real understanding and yet no cure for cancer??? Check out the dollar cost to the patient, and the profit figures in this article! The standard cancer industry, they are NOT going to give that up, no matter how many need to needlessly suffer, and/or die! They will keep walking and running for the cure until hell freezes over, nothing is obviously going to change.
Gauze Pads: $77
Charge for each of four boxes of sterile gauze pads, as itemized in a $348,000 bill following a patient's diagnosis of lung cancer
1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills
When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanie's father had been treated there 10 years earlier, and she and her family credited the doctors and nurses at MD Anderson with extending his life by at least eight years.
Because Stephanie and her husband had recently started their own small technology business, they were unable to buy comprehensive health insurance. For $469 a month, or about 20% of their income, they had been able to get only a policy that covered just $2,000 per day of any hospital costs. "We don't take that kind of discount insurance," said the woman at MD Anderson when Stephanie called to make an appointment for Sean.
Stephanie was then told by a billing clerk that the estimated cost of Sean's visit — just to be examined for six days so a treatment plan could be devised — would be $48,900, due in advance. Stephanie got her mother to write her a check. "You do anything you can in a situation like that," she says. The Recchis flew to Houston, leaving Stephanie's mother to care for their two teenage children.
About a week later, Stephanie had to ask her mother for $35,000 more so Sean could begin the treatment the doctors had decided was urgent. His condition had worsened rapidly since he had arrived in Houston. He was "sweating and shaking with chills and pains," Stephanie recalls. "He had a large mass in his chest that was … growing. He was panicked."
Nonetheless, Sean was held for about 90 minutes in a reception area, she says, because the hospital could not confirm that the check had cleared. Sean was allowed to see the doctor only after he advanced MD Anderson $7,500 from his credit card. The hospital says there was nothing unusual about how Sean was kept waiting. According to MD Anderson communications manager Julie Penne, "Asking for advance payment for services is a common, if unfortunate, situation that confronts hospitals all over the United States."
Diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 42. Total cost, in advance, for Sean's treatment plan and initial doses of chemotherapy: $83,900. Charges for blood and lab tests amounted to more than $15,000; with Medicare, they would have cost a few hundred dollars
The total cost, in advance, for Sean to get his treatment plan and initial doses of chemotherapy was $83,900.
http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/#ixzz2LpUTG3Zz
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,2178453595001_2136781,00.html
The Cost of Traditional Cancer Treatment
The average cost of a 30 day cancer drug prescription was more than $1,600 in 2006 and it's even higher today. Many cancer drugs cost much more than drugs for other illnesses. Some of the newer cancer treatments can cost as much as $10,000 for a month's supply. Also, co-pays are often higher for these prescriptions than those for other types of treatment. When your doctor prescribes medicines or outpatient care, here are some questions you can ask:
http://www.cancer.org/treatment/findingandpayingfortreatment/managinginsuranceissues/the-cost-of-cancer-treatment
How Much does Cancer Treatment Cost?
There are five items that will require a great cost in treating cancer and they are the hospital stay, travel, chemotherapy and radiation, surgery, and the follow up exam. The average cost for hospital stay is about 7,500 dollars for a four day stay. The travel depends on how far away you are from the hospital that treats your condition and if you can't walk due to the cancer you also may need to buy a wheelchair. For therapy it can cost up to 52,000 dollars just for the medication and for surgery it can cost up to 40,000 dollars, and just for the follow up which usually only takes about 20 minutes can be quite costly in itself.
http://answers.reference.com/wellness/conditions/how_much_does_cancer_treatment_cost
Cancer Treatment Expenses
http://www.ehow.com/about_5534025_cancer-treatment-expenses.html
Cancer's growing burden: the high cost of care
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/story/health/story/2012-02-27/Cancers-growing-burden-the-high-cost-of-care/53271430/1
How much does cancer treatment actually cost? Average Annual Costs
http://costofcancer.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/average-annual-costs/
As a fact more than 1 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year in the US. I bet the profit factor would never have anything to do with never finding a real cure, nor in having adequate understanding of the real cause. How about its effect in never allowing advancement of a alternative cure that pharma and the cancer industry could not profit from??? I bet those 1 million diagnosis have nothing to do with a cheaper route of treatment, never becoming available. How evil is that? All for profit, control, and saving their careers. Instead of promoting and supporting that long as waited cure, instead they attack the person or people that promoted it, the effectively silencing all knowledge of its true viability. You see the evidence of that again, right here.
Medicine's Big Mystery, What Does Treatment Cost?
The next time I see my oncologist, my main complaint will be not the side effects of my cancer treatments, though I have plenty of those, but the impossibility of finding out how much those treatments will cost before I have them.
In 2006, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was 29. The cancer was small and, in terms of surgery and immediate recovery, things went well.
But my five-year follow-up treatment has been an endless loop of side effects that generate their own costs and -- often just as stressful -- a dizzying accumulation of medical debt.
Repeatedly I have been stunned by bills I didn't expect because no one -- not doctors, hospitals or insurance companies -- could tell me in advance how much their services would cost.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-12/medicine-s-big-mystery-what-does-treatment-cost-mimi-ferraro.html
And instead of fixing THIS miserably failed mess, instead we got simply forced into that failed system,,of Obamacare?
The Rockefellers, The FDA & The Cancer Industry
http://youtu.be/sDjcVrZnemM
Burzynski The Movie - Cancer Is Serious Business
http://www.burzynskimovie.com/
Welcome to the Burzynski Clinic
"What makes us different is that we find and treat the cause and stimulation of your cancer..." SRB
http://www.burzynskiclinic.com/
He Who Pays the Piper - Creation of the Modern Medical (Drug) Establishment
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Health_Concerns/Pharmageddon/drugs_and_big_money.htm
He Who Pays the Piper - Creation of the Modern Medical (Drug) Establishment by G. Edward Griffin http://www.sntp.net/fda/piper_griffin.htm
Int J Health Serv. 1980;10(1):71-88.
He who pays the piper: foundations, the medical profession, and medical education reform.
Brown ER.
The development of modern medical education was shaped by the medical profession's own reform strategies and by material and ideological support from the corporate class. This article examines how the Rockefeller medical philanthropies, the largest single source of funds for medical education reform from 1910 through the 1930s, forced the adoption of a specific reform--full-time clinical faculty--to make medicine serve the needs of capitalist society rather than the interests of the medical profession. Memorandums and letters from archival files demonstrate that foundation leaders believed the full-time plan would separate medical schools from the grip of practitioner-dominated medical societies, bringing all medical faculty under the control of foundations and university boards of trustees. This policy was to be a first step in rationalizing medical care and distributing the technical benefits and social-control functions of medicine to all segments of the population. The author traces the development of the full-time plan, its adoption as foundation policy, and the struggle over its implementation.
The Pied Piper Tactics of Vaccination
http://kamuhammad.net/articles/Vaccination_Pied_Piper_Tactics.pdf
Doctors Are More Dangerous Than Gun Owners-Humorous (not so much) Fiction!
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/doctor-deaths.htm
NVIC Cites "Betrayal" of Consumers by U.S. Supreme Court Decision Giving Total Liability Shield to Big Pharma
http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/February-2011/NVIC-Cites--Betrayal--of-Consumers-by-U-S--Supreme.aspx
No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates.
http://www.nvic.org/nvic-vaccine-news/march-2011/no-pharma-liability--no-vaccine-mandates-.aspx
Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: An American Tragedy
http://www.nvic.org/nvic-vaccine-news/april-2011/doctors-denying-vaccine-risks--an-american-tragedy.aspx
The Latest in Atrocious Supreme Court Decisions - Only 2 Justices Stand Up for Your Rights...
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/03/22/betrayal-of-consumers-by-us-supreme-court-gives-total-liability-shield-to-big-pharma.aspx
Vaccines have been based on medical fraud for over a hundred years http://www.naturalnews.com/035715_vaccines_history_fraud.html
KAYLYNNE MATTEN MEMORIAL
http://kaylynne-matten.blogspot.com/
Cause of Death Undetermined.
http://kaylynne-matten.blogspot.com/2012/01/cause-of-death-undetermined-bs.html
http://www.curtis-britch.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1334073&fh_id=13004
In Loving Memory Of Kaylynne Mae Patricia Matten
https://www.facebook.com/pages/In-Loving-Memory-Of-Kaylynne-Mae-Patricia-Matten/257713137624196
Flu Vaccine Causes Death Of 7 Year Old Kaylynne Matten
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/03/13/flu-vaccine-death-7-year-kaylynne-matten-95491/
Rare association: possible myocarditis secondary to influenza vaccination. (Not as rare as they would like us to think).
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/_/print/PrintArticle.aspx?id=124856181
13 more similar scientific abstracts on this page.
The Flu Vaccine–What Your Doctor Won't Tell You (Or Probably Doesn't Even Know)
Myth #4: If I Get a Flu Shot, I Won't Get the Flu! (And My Body Will Be Healthier and Stronger to Boot!)
http://vaxtruth.org/2011/09/the-flu-vaccine-what-your-doctor-wont-tell-you-or-probably-doesnt-even-know/
Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/flu-vaccinated-kids-more-likely-to-be-hospitalized-0198.html
Evidence-based vaccinations: A scientific look at the missing science behind flu season vaccines
http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html
Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest quackery ever pushed in the history of medicine
http://www.naturalnews.com/027239_vaccine_flu_vaccines.html
Vaccines Implicated in Rocketing Childhood Diabetes Rates
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/mmr-implicated-in-rocketing-childhood-diabetes-rates/
You see it on TV and on road signs. "GET YOUR FLU SHOTS OR YOU MAY DIE"! "GET vaccinated, and to protect the herd"
Flu Shots Contain More than 250 Times the EPA's Safety Limit for Mercury
http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/10/10/flu-shots-have-more-than-250x-epa-mercury-safety-limit/
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/flu-shots-contain-more-than-250-times.html
Study Finds Positive Association Between Autism and Vaccines
http://autisminnb.blogspot.com/2011/06/study-finds-positive-association.html
A POSITIVE ASSOCIATION FOUND BETWEEN AUTISM PREVALENCE
AND CHILDHOOD VACCINATION UPTAKE ACROSS THE U.S. POPULATION
Evidence presented in this paper suggests a possible link between susceptible children receiving a battery of vaccinations and developing autism or speech disorders. Although Hg has been removed from many childhood vaccines, other ingredients could link vaccines to autism. Aluminum, which is found in at least 20 U.S. childhood vaccines (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010), is not only a neurotoxin, but also an immunosuppressant that may allow measles-containing vaccines to create cytokines that damage the brain.Enhanced exposure to aluminum via vaccines may be associated with an increase in the prevalence of neurological disorders such as Downloaded By: [Canadian Research Knowledge Network] At: 22:54 29 May 2011914 G. DELONG autism, especially if an aluminum-containing vaccine is administered along with a measlescontaining vaccine. Reducing thimerosal and observing an increase in autism exonerates neither thimerosal nor vaccines from being potential links to autism. Further research into the relationship between vaccines and autism is warranted.
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/documents/vaccines/Vaccine%20and%20Autism%20correlation%20US%202011%20J%20Tox%20Env%20Health.pdf
But oh no, the CDC states we have funded and looked at all the science (epidemiological studies), we need to, and no way do vaccines cause autism. We and Paul Offit believe it is a new genetic defect in all the autistic kids that developed in the last 20 years! We have thrown tons of money at it to exonerate vaccines and we still can't proved it; but we know it is the genetics. We have lied about Wakefield, and we have lied about that there are replication studies regarding Wakefields work anywhere to be found. You look to use for all your information, and do not become a misguided internet MOM!!!
Exposed: CDC deliberately manipulated, covered up scientific data showing link between vaccines containing mercury and autism
http://www.naturalnews.com/034038_vaccines_autism.html
ALL the Vaccines Are Contaminated - Every Last One of Them
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november292011/vaccines-contaminated-se.php
Institute of Medicine adverse reactions report admits MMR vaccines cause measles, seizures, anaphylaxis and other health problems
http://www.naturalnews.com/033447_Institute_of_Medicine_vaccines.html
MMR Causes Autism – Another Win In US Federal Court
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/juliawinsmmrcase/
Unanswered Questions from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury
http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1681&context=pelr
http://www.ebcala.org/unanswered-questions
Background on the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program - The Right to Legal Redress
4.In order to prevail in the VICP on a claim of vaccine-induced injury, a petitioner must present a plausible scientific theory, a logical sequence of cause and effect, and a connection in timing between the vaccination and the injury.13 The burden of proving a vaccine-induced injury is on the petitioner. There are many universally acknowledged gaps in vaccine safety science, which leave petitioners without the ability to definitively prove their cases and therefore, without compensation, even when there is no credible explanation for what happened to the child except vaccine-induced injury.
http://www.ebcala.org/unanswered-questions/vaccine-epidemic
The Amish Don't Get Autism? And They Don't Get Vaccinations – Possible Link?
http://wvoutpost.com/2011/06/07/the-amish-dont-get-autism-and-they-dont-get-vaccinations-possible-link/
Why the Amish are healthier than most Americans
http://www.worldtruthtoday.com/gracemj/2011/03/24/why-the-amish-are-healthier-than-most-americans/
The Amish are much healthier than the rest of America
http://www.naturalnews.com/027930_Amish_health.html
Autism In Amish Children – 1 in 10,000
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/autism-in-amish-children-1-in-10000/
Big Study: Vaccinated Kids 2-5 More Diseases Than Unvaccinated
http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/10/14/big-study-vaccinated-kids-2-5-more-diseases-than-unvaccinated/
State of health of unvaccinated children/ Illnesses in unvaccinated children
http://www.vaccineinjury.info/vaccinations-in-general/health-unvaccinated-children/survey-results-illnesses.html
http://thinktwice.com/sids.htm
Today's Health Problems: Will Most Children Ever Know How Good Health Feels?
How can anyone suggest that the FDA's goal is to protect the health of the people? It could not be more clear that their goal is the subjugation of people, to bring them into the rapacious maws of Big Pharma, Agribusiness, and Big Medicine.
It's time to take a stand—or forever hold your peace. The forces amassed against us have no problem with stealing our health and happiness to stuff their coffers. They have created an image of panacea, the idea that we can rely on them to care for us, to resolve diseases, if only we pay them enough. The reality is exactly the opposite. At one time, they led us. Now, they're so powerful that they're pushing us to a precipice, a point of no return.
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2011-10-12/todays-health-problems-will-most-children-ever-know-how-good-health-feels/
Vaccines and Autism - Time to Get The Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAUgPyzmGnA&sns=fb
If You Think You Know Everything About Vaccines... Think Again! Video - The Greater Good
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/30/the-greater-good.aspx
Freedom Of Information Request Reveals Major Government Vaccine Conspiracy
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2012-01-08/freedom-of-information-request-reveals-major-government-vaccine-conspiracy/
Mechanisms of Aluminum Adjuvant Revealed: Vaccine Risks to Children Clarified
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2012-01-14/mechanisms-of-aluminimum-adjuvant-revealed-vaccine-risks-to-children-clarified/
Mechanisms of aluminum adjuvant toxicity and autoimmunity in pediatric populations
http://lup.sagepub.com/content/21/2/223
Wakefields Texas Lawsuit against the BMJ, Brians Deer, and Fiona Goddly
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/04/BritMedJ.pdf
Brian Deer's 'Wakefield Fraud' Report Is Full of Misrepresentations
Big Pharma must be utterly terrified of Wakefield's observations to have unleashed such utterly fraudulent claims of fraud against him. This is an analysis of just how misleading Deer's claims are
http://www.gaia-health.com/articles351/000374-deer-wakefield-fraud-report-misrepresentations.shtml
BMJ Focuses on Science Fraud, But Is Their Own Exposed by Wakefield Lawsuit?
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2012-01-07/bmj-focuses-on-science-fraud-but-is-their-own-is-exposed-by-wakefield-lawsuit/
Dramatic Development Further Exonerates Andrew Wakefield and Puts Pressure on British Medical Journal
http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/11/dramatic-development-further-exonerates-andrew-wakefield-and-puts-pressure-on-british-medical-journa.html
Brian Deer's Charges Against Wakefield Are False: Documents Analyzed by Outside Expert
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2011-11-10/brian-deers-charges-against-wakefield-are-false-documents-analyzed-by-outside-expert/
Andrew Wakefield Speaks to Private US Physicians on the Smear Campaign Against Him
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2011-10-10/andrew-wakefield-speaks-to-private-us-physicians-on-the-smear-campaign-against-him/
Another Nail in the Coffin of the Case Against Wakefield: Pathologist Speaks Out
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2011-11-18/another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-case-against-wakefield-pathologist-speaks-out/
Callous Disregard
http://www.callous-disregard.com/
http://www.callous-disregard.com/research.htm
Wakefield Gives Proof: No Fraud. Brian Deer Lied.
http://www.gaia-health.com/articles351/000394-wakefield-proof-no-fraud.shtml
Failure of Whooping Cough Vaccine Used to Promote Vaccination of Parents
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2011-12-27/failure-of-whooping-cough-vaccine-used-to-promote-vaccination-of-parents/
Life-threatening Pneumonia Is Caused by Pneumonia Vaccine
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2011-12-19/life-threatening-pneumonia-is-caused-by-pneumonia-vaccine
Medical journal openly questions science, ethics of HPV vaccinations
http://www.naturalnews.com/034636_vaccinations_quack_science_medical_journals.html
Contaminated Gardasil Vaccine May Be Infectious – Potentially Causing Millions More to Become Sick via Blood Transference – Merck Doctor Admits Contaminant Does Not Belong in the Vaccine
http://sanevax.org/contaminated-gardasil-vaccine-may-be-infectious-potentially-causing-millions-more-to-become-sick-via-blood-transference-merck-doctor-admits-contaminant-does-not-belong-in-the-vaccine/
A Gardasil Causalty Jessica Ericson
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Beautiful Jessica Ericzon, "Died as a Guinea Pig for Gardasil"
http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/07/beautiful-jessi.html
In Memory of one of the First Gardasil Girls: RIP Jessica Ericzon
http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/03/in-memory-of-one-of-the-first-gardasil-girls-rip-jessica-ericzon.html
Victims of Gardasil
http://youtu.be/jJmKlUy6WZ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJmKlUy6WZ4
Gardasil Victims – In Memoriam – Healthy Young Women – Aged 15 to 21
Gardasil Victims – Remember My Name
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/gardasil-victims/
Vaccine Victims Hotline Listing
http://sanevax.org/resources/vaccine-victimw-hotline/
http://www.gardasilandunexplaineddeaths.com/
A License to Kill? Part 3: After Gardasil's Launch, More Victims, More Bad Safety Analysis and a Revolving Door Culture
http://vaccinesafetycouncilminnesota.org/a-license-to-kill-part-3-after-gardasil%E2%80%99s-launch-more-victims-more-bad-safety-analysis-and-a-revolving-door-culture/
One Less
A mother wonders whether the sudden death of her nineteen-year-old daughter could be related to the highly marketed Gardasil vaccine
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/one-less/Content?oid=1088404
http://truthaboutgardasil.org/memorial/
Feds contine to ignore mounting Gardasil bodycount
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/10/feds-contine-ignore-mounting-gardasil-bodycount
Gardasil® Developer Claims Vaccine Prevents Abnormal Pap Tests, Not Cervical Cancer
http://truthaboutgardasil.org/gardasil%C2%AE-developer-claims-vaccine-prevents-abnormal-pap-tests-not-cervical-cancer/
http://www.free-press-release.com/news-gardasil-developer-claims-vaccine-prevents-abnormal-pap-tests-not-cervical-cancer-1297697975.html
Vaccine exemptions: Do they really put others at risk?
http://www.naturalnews.com/035024_vaccine_exemptions_children_infectious_disease.html
http://www.nvic.org/Myths-and-Facts.aspx
Gone after Gardasil: Acceptable collateral damage?
http://www.naturalnews.com/034890_Gardasil_collateral_damage_fatalities.html
http://truthaboutgardasil.org/
http://sanevax.org/
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/new-survey-shows-unvaccinated-children-vastly-healthier-far-lower-rates-of-chronic-conditions-and-autism/
http://www.vaccineinjury.info/vaccinations-in-general/health-unvaccinated-children/survey-results.html
Mortality Rate 50% Higher with More Vaccine Doses
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2013-01-13/medical-childrens-psych-journal-wont-retract-fraudulent-paxil-study/
Relative trends in hospitalizations and mortality among infants by the number of vaccine doses and age, based on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 1990–2010
http://het.sagepub.com/content/31/10/1012.long
Polio Vaccines Now The #1 Cause of Polio Paralysis
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/polio-vaccines-now-1-cause-polio-paralysis
More examples of the desperation, to contain the vaccine truth movement!
CDC now calling U.S. households and demanding child immunization records as part of vaccine surveillance and tracking program
http://www.naturalnews.com/033717_CDC_National_Immunization_Survey.html
How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten our Human Rights, Our Health and Our Children http://www.vaccineepidemic.com/
The Entire Vaccine Industry Is Being Exposed For Unproven Assumptions And Misrepresentations of Data
http://preventdisease.com/news/12/101012_The-Entire-Vaccine-Industry-Is-Being-Exposed-For-Unproven-Assumptions-And-Misrepresentations-of-Data.shtml
How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor [Mass Market Paperback]
Robert S. Mendelsohn M.D. (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Raise-Healthy-Child-Spite-Doctor/dp/0345342763
Confessions of a Medical Heretic [Paperback]
Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.(Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Medical-Heretic-Robert-Mendelsohn/dp/0809241315
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/33235.html
Albert Einstein, (attributed)
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
In the modern day world of chemical pharma based, modern medicine.
Profits, Not Science, Motivate Vaccine Mandates
http://www.wellbeingjournal.com/profits-not-science-motivate-vaccine-mandates/
Why is the CDC Ignoring Explosion of Recorded HPV Vaccine Injuries, as Other Countries Move to Take Protective Action?
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/why-is-the-cdc-ignoring-explosion-of-recorded-hpv-vaccine-injuries-as-other-countries-move-to-take-protective-action/
Vaccines are only chosen by ignorant people
http://canadiansforhealthfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/vaccination-rates-fall-among-better-educated-families-even-while-cdc-keeps-pushing-vaccine-quackery/
DOCTORED - THE MOVIE (THE MONOPOLIZATION OF OUR MEDICAL SYSTEM)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR9Y0C9eJA0
Doctored - The Movie
http://www.doctoredthemovie.com
Doctored: The Film the AMA Does Not Want You to See (2013)
http://www.amazon.com/Doctored-The-Film-Does-Want/dp/B00BOZQ54K
Bought Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lhfD6MbL_8
The Canadian Adverse Events Study: the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients in Canada
Interpretation: The overall incidence rate of AEs of 7.5% in our study suggests that, of the almost 2.5 million annual hospital admissions in Canada similar to the type studied, about 185,000 are associated with an AE and close to 70 000 of these are potentially preventable
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/170/11/1678.full
J Patient Saf. 2013 Sep;9(3):122-8. doi: 10.1097/PTS.0b013e3182948a69.
A new, evidence-based estimate of patient harms associated with hospital care.
James JT.
Based on 1984 data developed from reviews of medical records of patients treated in New York hospitals, the Institute of Medicine estimated that up to 98,000 Americans die each year from medical errors. The basis of this estimate is nearly 3 decades old; herein, an updated estimate is developed from modern studies published from 2008 to 2011.
A literature review identified 4 limited studies that used primarily the Global Trigger Tool to flag specific evidence in medical records, such as medication stop orders or abnormal laboratory results, which point to an adverse event that may have harmed a patient. Ultimately, a physician must concur on the findings of an adverse event and then classify the severity of patient harm.
Using a weighted average of the 4 studies, a lower limit of 210,000 deaths per year was associated with preventable harm in hospitals. Given limitations in the search capability of the Global Trigger Tool and the incompleteness of medical records on which the Tool depends, the true number of premature deaths associated with preventable harm to patients was estimated at more than 400,000 per year. Serious harm seems to be 10- to 20-fold more common than lethal harm.
The epidemic of patient harm in hospitals must be taken more seriously if it is to be curtailed. Fully engaging patients and their advocates during hospital care, systematically seeking the patients' voice in identifying harms, transparent accountability for harm, and intentional correction of root causes of harm will be necessary to accomplish this goal.
HOSPITAL INCIDENT REPORTING SYSTEMS DO NOT CAPTURE MOST PATIENT HARM
https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-09-00091.pdf
Patients' and Physicians' Attitudes Regarding the Disclosure of Medical Errors
The limited available data, however, suggest that full disclosure of errors to patients may be uncommon. In a 1991 study, 76% of house officers said they had not disclosed a serious error to a patient.24 Multiple factors may inhibit physicians from disclosing errors, such as fear that informing the patient of an error could lead to a malpractice suit, damage the physician's reputation, and be awkward and uncomfortable.15,25- 31 Some institutions are developing new policies requiring or strongly encouraging disclosure of some errors to patients.7,32- 37 It is not known whether these policies are increasing error disclosure. In a recent national survey, only 30% of respondents who experienced a medical error said that the involved health care professional had informed them of the error.12 Failure to tell patients about medical errors could impair patient trust and satisfaction and increase the chances of a malpractice suit.13- 15,26,38- 43
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=196045&link=xref
TO ERR IS HUMAN:
BUILDING A SAFER HEALTH SYSTEM
Health care in the United States is not as safe as it should be--and can be. At least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many as 98,000 people, die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors that could have been prevented, according to estimates from two major studies. Even using the lower estimate, preventable medical errors in hospitals exceed attributable deaths to such feared threats as motor-vehicle wrecks, breast cancer, and AIDS.
Medical errors can be defined as the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim. Among the problems that commonly occur during the course of providing health care are adverse drug events and improper transfusions, surgical injuries and wrong-site surgery, suicides, restraint-related injuries or death, falls, burns, pressure ulcers, and mistaken patient identities. High error rates with serious consequences are most likely to occur in intensive care units, operating rooms, and emergency departments. Beyond their cost in human lives, preventable medical errors exact other significant tolls. They have been estimated to result in total costs (in cluding the expense of additional care necessitated by the errors, lost income
and household productivity, and disability) of between $17 billion and $29 billion per year in hospitals nationwide. Errors also are costly in terms of loss of trust in the health care system by patients and diminished satisfaction by both patients and health professionals. Patients who experience a long hospital stay or disability as a result of errors pay with physical and psychological discomfort. Health professionals pay with loss of morale and frustration at not being able to provide the best care possible. Society bears the cost of errors as well, in terms of lost worker productivity, reduced school attendance by children, and lower levels of population health status.
http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/1999/To-Err-is-Human/To%20Err%20is%20Human%201999%20%20report%20brief.pdf
Medical error disclosure: improving patient safety through better communication
In 1999 the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report entitled To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System which estimated that up to 100,000 Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical errors.
Here at home, the 2004 Canadian Adverse Events Study reported that medical errors occur during 185,000 or 7.5% of hospitalizations across the country, and almost 37% of these errors are preventable.
A more recent estimate, published earlier this year in the Journal of Patient Safety is that as many as 440,000 Americans die each year from preventable medical errors. This would make medical error the third leading cause of death in the United States.
This groundbreaking research has raised global awareness about patient safety, leading to the launch of several initiatives aimed at reducing medical error including the Institute for Health Improvement's 100,000 Lives Campaign and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute's flagship Safer Healthcare Now! program.
…To disclose is not
Despite this focus on error prevention, much less attention has been paid to the process of medical error disclosure.
"Twelve years ago there was nothing in the literature," reflects Dr. Wendy Levinson, the Sir John and Lady Eaton Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
"The Institute of Medicine had done To Err is Human, but no one was talking about physicians disclosing errors; 10 years ago nobody talked about this topic," Levinson notes. "There was a lot of the counter messaging and a culture of secrecy because people were worried about getting sued—I don't think there was disclosure of errors to patients."
In 2003, Levinson published a seminal study exploring patients' and physicians' attitudes about medical error disclosure. Levinson's work revealed a disconnect between patients' wishes and physicians' actions.
Patients wanted disclosure of all harmful errors as well as an apology and detailed information about what happened, why the error occurred, how the error's consequences will be mitigated, and how recurrences will be prevented. By contrast, physicians often avoided stating that an error occurred, why the error happened, or how recurrences would be prevented.
Levinsons' 2003 study also reported that physicians' reluctance to fully disclose medical error and apologize was often driven by a fear of litigation and concern about fracturing trust in the doctor-patient relationship. However, patients wanted an explanation, not to assign blame, but to understand what happened and to ensure that actions were being taking to prevent future events. In fact, earlier research reported that patients commonly filed malpractice suits as a result of insensitive handling and poor communication following medical error, because they wanted to ensure that similar errors were not repeated.
http://healthydebate.ca/2013/12/topic/quality/disclosing-medical-errors

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Die Golden Amur sind ein ehemaliger russischer Eishockeyklub aus Chabarowsk, der in der Saison 2004/05 in der Asia League Ice Hockey spielte.

Geschichte
Die Golden Amur wurden im Sommer 2004 gegründet und dienten als Farmteam von Amur Chabarowsk aus der russischen Superliga. Die Mannschaft nahm in der Saison 2004/05 an der ein Jahr zuvor gegründeten Asia League Ice Hockey teil, in der sie den dritten Platz bei acht teilnehmenden Mannschaften belegte. In den anschließenden Playoffs unterlagen die Russen den Seibu Prince Rabbits in der ersten Runde mit einem Sweep in der Best-of-Five-Serie. Die ALIH wollte mit der Aufnahme eines russischen Clubs den Sprung nach Russland schaffen, während für Chabarowsk die Möglichkeit bestand, Spieler aus einer qualitativ guten Liga zu rekrutieren. Aufgrund finanzieller Probleme mussten die Golden Amur nach nur einer Spielzeit den Spielbetrieb wieder einstellen.

Bekannte Spieler
 Juri Kokscharow
 Artemi Lakisa

Weblinks
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 Kader und Saisonstatistik bei eliteprospects.com

Russischer Eishockeyclub
Sport (Chabarowsk)
Gegründet 2004
Sportverein (Region Chabarowsk)
Aufgelöst 2005
Ehemaliger Sportverein (Russland)


Take Hwy 401 West to Kitchener, take Hwy 8 west to Stratford, continue west to Seaforth, at the lights go North on County Road 12 to the T-intersection, then go East on County Road 25 to Walton and follow the signs. Walton Raceway is located one kilometre east of Walton church at 42932 Walton Road.
Go North on Highway 4 then East from Blyth on County Road 25 and follow signs. Walton Raceway is located one kilometre east of Walton church at 42932 Walton Road.
Take Hwy 86 west to Listowel, continue west on Amberley Road 86 to Brussels Line Road 12, go south through Brussels for 10 km. to Walton. Walton Raceway is located one kilometre east of Walton church at 42932 Walton Road.


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Listed below are all Classic restaurants in Amsterdam that serve Lactose free and Sugar free, with All-you-can-eat. Do you want to eat in Amsterdam? Would you like a nice dinner at a cozy restaurant or perhaps some tasty snacks? You'll find it at Eet.nu!


winding route. The misty villages lay along the green hillsides, with the sharp steep roofs of old farmhouses and funky cafes asking drivers to stop. It took 2 hours in the rain up and down the mountain roads listening to good old George Harrison & Eric Clapton live in Osaka 1991, the concert I saw!
wind could blow my little minivan over the edge. I made it down to the Lake Biwako plain where two men in white rain suits were stopping all traffic from entering the road I`d just emerged from. All was well, I got home safe with the photos in the camera.
Another small solo Kansai adventure.
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Motus Nova Expands FDA-Approved Robotic Stroke Therapy System, Adds New Hospital Partners
Neuro rehabilitation provider eyes entry into consumer market for home use.
The Hand Mentor Pro. Image courtesy of Motus Nova.
BioSig Technologies Announces New Research Program With Mayo Clinic
FDA Clears MRI Interventions' ClearPoint PURSUIT Neuro Aspiration System
Largest Medical AI Imaging Technology Platform Adds Capabilities to Speed Radiology Reports
Corindus' Technology Successfully Used in World's First-in-Human Telerobotic Coronary Intervention
BioSig Technologies To Commence First–in-Human Studies at Mayo Clinic
PR Newswire06.21.19
Motus Nova, a technology firm offering the only robotic system approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be as effective as an in-person therapist for remote stroke rehabilitation, is expanding its list of partner hospitals and clinics using the device, as well as making plans to introduce its patented system to the consumer market for home use in Q3 2019.
Twenty-five hospitals in the Atlanta area within Emory Healthcare, the Grady Health System and the Wellstar Health System are joining the list of hospitals that have partnered with Motus Nova to use its technology for rehabilitation therapy for stroke survivors.
A collaborator with institutions such as Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic and Massachusetts General Hospital, Motus Nova began a decade ago developing a robotics device using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate recovery from neurological injuries such as strokes. Named one of the 10 Most Innovative Companies in Georgia by the Technology Association of Georgia in 2019, Motus Nova is now transitioning from years of success in the clinical setting—where its system has helped thousands of stroke survivors regain their independence—to bring its benefits to stroke survivors continuing their rehabilitation at home.
A Robotic System for Active-Assist Stroke Therapy
Motus Nova was founded to fill a real need: To provide a way for stroke survivors to get the many hours of therapy required for brain healing without requiring real-time oversight at every session by an onsite clinician.
The Motus Nova Hand Mentor and Foot Mentor are sleeve-like robots that fit over a stroke survivor's impaired hand or foot. Equipped with an active-assist air muscle and a suite of sensors and accelerometers, they provide clinically appropriate assistance and resistance while individual's perform the needed therapeutic exercises. A touchscreen console provides goal-directed biofeedback through interactive games—which Motus Nova calls "theratainment"—that make the tedious process of neuro rehab engaging and fun.
"It's a system that has proven to be a valuable partner to stroke therapy professionals, where it complements skilled clinical care by augmenting the repetitive rehabilitation requirements of stroke recovery and freeing the clinician to do more nuanced care and assessment," said Dr. Nick Housley, director of clinical research for Motus Nova. "And while we continue to fill orders for the system to support therapy in the clinic and hospital, we also are looking to use our system to fill the gap patients often experience in receiving the needed therapy once they go home."
Filling the Outpatient Therapy Gap
With 7 million stroke survivors in the United States and 800,000 new cases every year, strokes are more prevalent than heart attacks in the United States. They are the leading cause of long-term disability, yet many stroke survivors are not getting the therapy they need to recover. Why? Current insurance plans for reimbursing stroke therapy after an in-hospital stay are based on the model for reimbursing outpatient rehab therapy when an individual is recovering from an orthopedic injury or surgery. The problem is that it's false equivalence. It takes many more repetitions of therapy to elicit the neural change and achieve the neuroplasticity required for stroke recovery than it does for an individual to bring range of motion and normal functionality back to a repaired ligament or replaced joint. The stroke survivor must work to forge new neural pathways and re-teach the brain to perform everyday functions with the hand or foot affected by the stroke.
Lower Cost, More Frequent Treatment
Clinical studies show that neuroplasticity begins after approximately many tens to hundreds of hours of active guided rehab. The healing process can take months or years, and sometimes the individuals might never fully recover. Yet the typical regimen for stroke survivors is only two to three hours of outpatient therapy per week for a period of three to four months.
"These constraints were instituted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in determining Medicare reimbursement without a full understanding of the appropriate dosing required for stroke recovery, and many private insurers have adopted the policy, as well," said David Wu, Motus Nova's CEO. Motus Nova plans to offer a more practical model.
"By making the system available for home use at a reasonable weekly rate as long as the patient needs it, the individual can perform therapy anytime," Wu said. "A higher dosage of therapy can be achieved without the inconvenience of scheduling appointments with therapists or traveling to and from a clinic, and without the high cost of going to an outpatient center every time the individual wants to do therapy. We are looking forward to offering this new model. More details about pricing and ordering will be available as we approach our projected launch date this summer."
In his 2017 book, "Best Care Everywhere," David Shulkin, M.D., former secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), wrote that the Motus Nova Hand and Foot Mentors represent "some of the best and brightest ideas that have been developed … [and] are currently being scaled for national implementation, so that Veterans across the country have access to the innovative and effective care they deserve." In addition, VA studies estimate about 50 percent institutional costs savings for hospitals using the Motus Nova system.
Dr. Daniel Schlatterer, M.D., is an orthopedic surgeon and a stroke survivor who has used the Motus Nova system with good results. "I'm an orthopedic surgeon in a trauma center in downtown Atlanta, and a little over two years ago at the age of 48 had a stroke. I've tried just about everything and I can tell you that this has helped and made a difference. I've seen improvements in my wrist motion since I've started this. I'm making steady progress in improvement."
AI for a Personalized medicine approach
While the system gathers data about individual performance, AI tailors the regimen to maximize user gains, discover new approaches, minimize side effects and help the stroke survivor realize his or her full potential more quickly. "By optimizing factors such as frequency, intensity, difficulty, encouragement and motivation, the AI system builds a personalized medicine plan uniquely tailored to each individual user of the system," said Dr. Housley. "Our system is durable, too, proven in clinical trials to deliver an engaging physical therapy experience over thousands of repetitions. We look forward to making it available on a much wider scale in the coming months."
Motus Nova is a partner to stroke survivors and stroke recovery clinical teams. Its patented robotic rehabilitation system—the first and only active-assist robotic stroke rehab system approved by the FDA to be successfully deployed in the home—guides stroke survivors through therapy, with results clinically proven as effective as if the therapist were by the individual's side. Founded as a provider of the technology to leading hospitals, stroke centers and clinics, Motus Nova is expanding its model to provide the systems at an economical price for out-of-the-box use at home. Motus Nova's theratainment approach incorporates interactive video games to make therapy fun and keep stroke survivors motivated between visits to their therapists. The system may also be of value to individuals with other conditions—cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and more.
Third FDA Clearance for Zebra-Med's AI Solution for Brain Bleeds Alerts
Eyenuk Combines AI Disease Detection and Human Grading to Launch Diabetic Retinopathy Diagnostic
FDA OKs World's First AI Solution for Flagging Pulmonary Embolism
World's First AI Chest X-Ray Triage Product Wins FDA Nod
Using AI to Predict Breast Cancer and Personalize Care
iCAD Reports Strong Momentum of its AI-Based Solution for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
FDA OKs Current Health's AI-Powered Remote Patient Monitoring for In-Home Care
BioSig Appoints Vice President of Engineering
Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Announces Inaugural Board of Directors, Officers
Novel App Uses AI to Guide, Support Cancer Patients
Electrophysiology Expert Joins BioSig Technologies Management Team
The allowed claims address a system for visualizing signals such as low amplitude cardiac signals during an ablation procedure in the presence of noise.
Digital Health | Software & IT
SoomSafety is the first mobile app to close the information gap between the U.S. FDA, manufacturers, and medical device users.
The device is designed to reduce cough and mucus production through a minimally invasive, bronchoscopic procedure.
The versatile and compact system offers the power and simplicity to support more patients in more places.
Cardiovascular | Diagnostics | Software & IT
New Tech Boosts Post-Stroke AFib Detection
The electrocardiomatrix converts two-dimensional signals from ECG into a three-dimensional heatmap that allows for rapid inspection.
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan 07.15.19
Analysis Shows ACIST CVi System Lowers Costs, Improves Patient Safety for Coronary Catheterizations
An economic model analysis demonstrates $464,498 in annual cost-savings to hospitals based on 3,500 annual coronary procedures.
Digital Health | Electronics | R&D & Design | Software & IT
Siemens Allies with Universities to Enhance Care Delivery
Alliance aims to transform care delivery for patients.
Siemens Healthineers, University of Missouri System and University of Missouri Health Care Columbia 07.12.19
Viant Appoints New CEO
Alton E. Shader most recently served as president of Front Line Care for Hillrom.
Former Cardinal Health Exec to Lead Battelle's Health Business Unit
Latest hire also worked at Steris and Abbott Laboratories.
U.S. Urological Device Market to Reach $3.8 Billion by 2025
The market is largely driven by the aging population.
AngioDynamics Receives FDA OK to Initiate Study for Use of NanoKnife in Prostate Cancer Treatment
The prospective, non-randomized pilot study includes six subjects at up to three clinical sites.
INSIGHTEC Gains FDA Nod & CE Mark for Exablate Neuro with GE SIGNA Premier MR System
The Exablate Neuro is a focused ultrasound platform for treating deep in the brain with no surgical incisions.
FDA Clears RaySearch's RayStation 8B Including Machine Learning Functionalities
RayStation 8B touts the first machine learning applications in a treatment planning system on the radiation oncology market today.
GE Healthcare Recalls Giraffe and Panda i-Res Infant Warmers
The bedside panels and latch areas on the beds may crack, break, or become damaged if the unit is not properly used.
GE Healthcare 07.11.19


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In their annual meeting, the members of the Utah Film Critics Association recognized Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse with three awards, including Best Picture of 2018. The film was also honored as Best Animated Feature, and for the Adapted Screenplay by Phil Lord & Rodney Rothman.
Roma also received three awards: Alfonso Cuarón for Directing and Cinematography, and for Best Non-English Language Feature.
In performance categories, Elsie Fisher was named in the Lead Performance, Female category for Eighth Grade, which also received Original Screenplay honors for Bo Burnham. Ethan Hawke received Best Lead Performance, Male for First Reformed; while Oliva Colman received Best Supporting Performance, Female as Queen Anne in The Favourite. In Best Supporting Performance, Male, there was a tie between Russell Hornsby for The Hate U Give and Hugh Grant for Paddington 2.
Other winners include Annihilation's Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury for Best Original Score, and Won't You Be My Neighbor? for Best Documentary Feature.
The Utah Film Critics Association is made up of Utah-based film journalists contributing to print, broadcast and online outlets. For membership and other information, visit utahfilmcritics.com.


I remember your term "maximalist" and think of it with a smile every time I make tacos or fajitas or any other million-tiny-bowl meal. 🙂 Did you know my husband is Korean? They are the ultimate maximalists!
I used to heart D'Angelo's burgers!!!


Trail-Gear's Fabricated 8-inch E-locker Housing is built to accept Toyota 8" e-locker differentials and feature all of the same specifications as our Rock Assault 9 axles.
We started with a 1/4-inch thick formed shell for the center section made out of A36 Steel. This is a high-strength, low alloy, structural steel plate with a minimum yield strength of 36,000 psi! All of this is attached to an equally strong 1/2" thick faceplate for anchoring the DOM axle tubes. The axle tubes are secured by the industry's first 3-point attachment system, giving the tubes superior support and engagement into the center section. We also face the center section to ensure your differential mounts flush against the axle housing to prevent leaks.
We offer 2 versions to better meet specific customer needs. Both versions have 3.5" OD axle tubes. The 1/4-inch wall tube version saves weight while the 3/8-inch wall tube version provides even greater durability.
NOTE: The housing is shipped with no ends. Housing ends must be sourced and installed to complete axle. Portal style ends are commonly used for this application.
305932-KIT Toyota E-locker 8" Housing (3.5" OD - 1/4" Wall Tube) 76 lbs.
305933-KIT Toyota E-locker 8" Housing (3.5" OD – 3/8" Wall Tube) 96 lbs.
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