How Much Do You Really Know About the Flu Vaccine?
Did you know that the flu vaccine is the number one selling vaccine in America, but it is also the least effective? Each year, pharmaceutical companies produce over 150 million doses of influenza vaccine. Each dose sells for about $20, making flu vaccination a $3 billion annual industry. Over the past decade, annual flu vaccine […]
Vaccination Not All Black and White | Richard Moskowitz, MD
So, let’s think about the measles. That’s a very good example because it’s a strong infectious disease, and it has a high fever, and then you get over it in a week… and I’m looking at that process, what’s involved in that. That’s a concerted outpouring of the entire immune system, the result of which […]
I Love the Smell of Naled in the Morning—Battle Against Zika
An update on Zika. First area in Florida where Zika was found was in Wynwood. There are now 14 cases of Zika infection. All originating in the Wynwood section—a one square mile area north of downtown. A few weeks after that they found a few more Zika cases here in Miami Beach. They created another […]
Children Suffer Vaccine Side Effects
In 2005, Hu Haitoa took his son, Hu Bing, to a local clinic in East China’s Shandong province. There, the four and a half month old baby received a vaccination to prevent polio. But 14 days later the infant showed signs of a serious reaction. The child slipped into a brief coma and also experienced […]
The Hidden Side of Clinical Trials | Sile Lane
What I’m about to tell you will shock you. It shocked me the first time I heard about it, and frankly it still shocks me. When you go to a doctor and they prescribe you medicine, you presume it’s been tested and we know everything we need to know about whether it works, right? Well, […]
Mercury Poisoning
We’ve all heard that too much mercury exposure, especially from fish, can be bad for us. But liquid mercury was used as far back as 3,500 years ago and was found in Egyptian tombs. It’s also called quicksilver, like the X-man character, because it’s fast-moving and surprisingly heavy, originally named after the wing-footed god and […]