FDA Warns Individuals and Firms to Stop Selling Fake Cancer 'Cures'

[Danke]

The only thing those "make bigger" are the bank accounts of the people selling them.

Speaking from experience?

 

[Dr.3D]

Speaking from experience?

Yeah, I have a hat that fits really loosely on my head so I thought I would try some of that stuff and the hat is still very loose on my head. It didn't do anything.

I thought, perhaps it wasn't anything to do with the size of my head so I started checking my height and weight and neither of those has gained either. It is a fraud.

 

[Mckarnin]

Haven't heard of the miso diet but if I ever get diagnosed there are quite a few natural things I would try before permanently frying my body with radiation and killing it with chemo. I'd like to see some research of the "dangers" of the natural treatments compared with those of the pharmaceutical treatments (besides the danger of delaying the start of effective treatment). I also think that there are lifstyle choices that can certainly increase your chances of getting cancer. Here in Pittsburgh UPMC has a preventative oncology group that hands out brochures on avoiding pesticides in foods and environmental contaminants and eating a healthy diet...


QUOTE=acptulsa;1524409]You can fight cockroaches tooth and nail or you can just keep your kitchen squeaky clean and so stop feeding them. They die either way. Doing the latter is much better for your kitchen. You never need to worry where that fogger left some poison for you or your family to find later.

If I get the big C diagnosis I'm going on a Miso diet. Even if Big Pharma convinces the socialists and fascists to regulate diets.[/QUOTE]

 

[Mckarnin]

Stop trying to save money on buying some by asking others...just try it out yourself.

Speaking from experience?

 

[Danke]

Stop trying to save money on buying some by asking others...just try it out yourself.

Do you suppose?

 

[Mckarnin]

lol!

Do you suppose?

 

[yongrel]

My great-grandfather beat cancer - twice - while treating himself with a self-designed diet of exclusively broccoli.

When he was 40, he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. He ate nothing but broccoli for 1 year, and broccoli with every meal for another year. Next thing ya know, he's cancer free.

When he was 60, he was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer. Broccoli again. Cancer free.

My family has no idea what the hell happened. He was a very strange man. A lucky one too.

 

[acptulsa]

My family has no idea what the hell happened. He was a very strange man. A lucky one too.

All very intelligent and free-thinking people are very strange--and lucky. He'd have been in good company here, I think.

 

[yongrel]

All very intelligent and free-thinking people are very strange--and lucky. He'd have been in good company here, I think.

Probably. He was a millionaire in land assets, but he went dumpster diving every Tuesday. In 1930, he decided that shaving razors and batteries were too expensive, so he shoplifted them for the rest of his life. He had entire dressers full of them.

When he was 70, he decided that he wanted to create political empire for himself, so he had his eldest son run for governor of Colorado. This fell through when everyone realized that my great uncle was bug nutty.

He was a very strange man.

 

[acptulsa]

He was a very strange man.

The Great Depression turned a lot of people into misers. Not unusual.

Aren't you glad bug nuttiness doesn't run in the family?

 

[meemes]

In Regards to the FDA Warning

Is this really a warning? Or is it more of the conspiracy or the FDA's attempts to influence consumers to spend their $$ on the big pharmaceutical corporations so-called remedies. What happened to free choice or better yet "the land of the free and the home of the brave"?

Really pisses me off! I have in fact been using one of the black salves to remove skin cancer from my scalp. The allopathic dermatologists have been no help whatsoever in this situation, and I have been to six. The only one willing to do a biopsy did not do it in the correct area. The others don't want to bother looking for the spots because it's to much trouble to sort through my hair. I guess they expect me to shave my head for their convenience?! What a joke that profession is?

Mega-doses of vitamin C have also helped my situation as well as another health concern tremendously. In fact, studies have proven the health benefits of Vitamin C and that it even suppresses melanoma:

http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/C_ancer_31/051011432008_Vitamin_C_may_protect_against_melanoma.shtml

Some of the best research and studies on Vitamin C have been done by Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling.

 

[meemes]

In Regards to the FDA Warning

http://www.amsa.org/news/release2.cfx?id=322​

THOUSANDS OF MEDICAL STUDENTS CALL ON SCHOOLS TO ELIMINATE PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETING INFLUENCE​

National PharmFree Week Commences Today​

Reston, Va. - Thousands of medical students join together this week, National PharmFree Week, calling upon medical schools to eliminate pharmaceutical marketing from their campuses.
National PharmFree Week is sponsored by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation’s largest, independent medical student organization. Over the course of the week, thousands of future physicians and healthcare leaders will hold events across the country to promote liberation from pharmaceutical company influence. Events include:

• Capitol Hill Briefing: AMSA joins the National Physicians' Alliance and the Prescription Project to lobby on behalf of Senate Bill 2029. The legislation will require disclosure of payments to physicians by the pharmaceutical industry. (Monday, October 22, 2:30 p.m. Location: Senate Room 120, Capitol Building.)
• New Policy Announced at UConn: The University of Connecticut Medical Center will announce its new pharmaceutical policy. (Wednesday, October 24, 12 p.m. Location: Onyiuke Dining Room in John Dempsey Hospital.)
• FLIP Symposium: The symposium will provide skills to become more critical and evidence-based prescribers. Guest speakers will include several nationally renowned leaders, including The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Editor in Chief Catherine DeAngelis. (Saturday, October 27, University of Illinois at Chicago. Must register online: http://www.uic.edu/com/dom/gim/FLIP/flip_conference_registration.htm.)

About 90 percent of the pharmaceutical industry’s $21 billion marketing budget is directed at physicians, according to JAMA. There are more than 90,000 pharmaceutical representatives that visit U.S. physicians, providing free lunches, gifts, marketing paraphernalia and free medication samples. These enticements are designed to influence doctors to prescribe more drugs and more expensive drugs and have often become a substitute for objective medical evidence.

“These marketing practices, including the growing number of “ask your doctor” commercials, has led to over-medicating of the U.S. population,” says Michael Ehlert, M.D., AMSA national president. “There is substantial evidence that marketing shapes physician prescribing habits. By eradicating pharmaceutical companies from all medical schools, hospitals and academic medical centers, physicians will be able to go back to practicing evidence-based medicine.”
Over the last decade, 70 percent more prescriptions have been written; though the population has only grown by nine percent. By “creating” illnesses, the pharmaceutical industry remains one of the most profitable industries on the Fortune 500.
As marketing to physicians and consumers increases, so does the price of medications. The pharmaceutical industry claims that high priced pharmaceuticals are essential to offset the expense of research and development, yet the number of research jobs has remained virtually the same since 1995, while the marketing staff has increased by more than 50 percent.
“AMSA wants to cure healthcare’s addiction to the pharmaceutical industry and envisions a day when drugs are used because they are effective in treating disease, not because they are successfully marketed,” says Anthony Fleg, AMSA PharmFree coordinator. “Our patients deserve the best care; and that means not prescribing a specific drug because the drug rep was attractive or because the physician’s closet is full of free samples.”
Launched in 2002, AMSA’s PharmFree Campaign encourages medical schools and academic medical centers to develop policies that limit the access of pharmaceutical company representatives to their campuses and prohibit medical students and physicians from accepting gifts of any kind from these representatives. In May 2007, AMSA released its PharmFree Scorecard, which was a first-of-it’s-kind ranking of medical schools according to their pharmaceutical influence policies. Of all the medical schools in the United States, five received a grade of “A,” which translates into comprehensive school policy that restricts pharmaceutical representatives to both the medical school campus and its academic medical centers. Forty schools received an “F” for their lack of policy.
AMSA remains one of the few national organizations to completely reject all pharmaceutical advertisements and sponsorships. National PharmFree Week is supported by The Medical Letter. For more information on the PharmFree Campaign or events during National PharmFree Week, visit www.pharmfree.org.

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[freelance]

Doesn't barbeque merely ADD CO2 to AGW?

Don't worry. They'll ban outdoor cooking before you know it.

 

[acptulsa]

Don't worry. They'll ban outdoor cooking before you know it.

When only outlaws have barbeques I'll be becoming an outlaw.

Aren't stupid laws wonderful? What would the Corrections Corporation of America do without them?

 

[Truth Warrior]

When only outlaws have barbeques I'll be becoming an outlaw.

Aren't stupid laws wonderful? What would the Corrections Corporation of America do without them?

The BBQ Bandito!
"Have tongs, will roast".

We're sorry, but there's a strict "NO SMOKING" policy and ordinance, applied within 100 yards of any establishment!

Violators will be TAXED then SHOT!