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Anti-psychotic drugs linked to deaths

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:10:12 GMT

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A review of the use of anti-psychotic drugs for dementia patients in Britain has concluded they are largely unnecessary and sometimes deadly.

The review ordered by government ministers concludes about 1,800 deaths are linked to the drugs.

The anti-psychotic drugs in question were originally developed to treat schizophrenia but over the past 30 years they have been increasingly used to subdue disturbed or violent dementia patients.

According to the report commissioned by Britain's department of health, of the 180,000 patients given the drug, just 36,000 actually benefited.

For many others like Arthur Truman, it was a disaster. His health deteriorated rapidly after being prescribed powerful drugs known as the chemical cosh and his son Allan Truman feared the worst.

Report author Professor Sube Banerjee says not only are the drugs over-prescribed by the National Health Service (NHS), they are often given for too long.

Tags: health

Health Minister says NO

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:11:19 GMT

clipped by: Welsh Lib Dems

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Row over 'no' to NHS cash probe

The Lib Dems are unhappy the health minister rejects calls for an inquiry into claims £1bn of NHS cash is not being spent properly.

Family stunned after M61 death

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:32:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: RIP

Clip Source: www.wigantoday.net

Family stunned after M61 death

TRAGEDY: Ian Wilkinson

This is the Wigan man who died in an horrific accident after his car broke down on the motorway.

It is thought Ian Wilkinson, 39, from Hindley, was attempting to cross the southbound carriageway of the M61 early on Sunday morning when he was struck by a heavy goods vehicle.

Lancashire police have confirmed his car had broken down and was found on the hard shoulder further down the motorway.

It said: "Ian was a fantastic and loving father. He was loved by his mother Olive, father Lawrence, brothers Stephen, Adrian and David and partner Nicola. This was such an unexpected tragedy that has left all that knew him stunned.

"Ian served the public working for the NHS and will be sorely missed by his family and many close friends."

The ‘Costs’ of Medical Care by Thomas Sowell NRO

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:38:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: countries where the medical training may not be the best. In short, reducing doctors’ income is not reducing the cost of medical care, it is refusing to pay those costs. Like other ways of refusing to pay costs, it has consequences.

Any one of us can reduce medical costs by refusing to pay them. In our own lives, we recognize the consequences. But when someone with a gift for rhetoric tells us that the government can reduce the costs without consequences, we are ready to believe in such political miracles.

There are some ways in which the real costs of medical care can be reduced, but the people who are leading the charge for a government takeover of medical care are not the least bit interested in actually reducing those costs, as distinguished from shifting the costs around or just refusing to pay them.

The high costs of “defensive medicine” " expensive tests, medications, and procedures required to protect doctors and hospitals from ruinous lawsuits, rather than

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

Despite all the demonizing of insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and doctors for what they charge, the fundamental costs of goods and services are the costs of producing them

If highly paid chief executives of insurance companies or pharmaceutical companies agreed to work free of charge, it would make very little difference in the cost of insurance or medications. If doctors’ incomes were cut in half, that would not lower the cost of producing doctors through years of expensive training in medical schools and hospitals, nor the overhead costs of running doctors’ offices

What it would do is reduce the number of very able people who are willing to take on the high costs of a medical education when the return on that investment is greatly reduced and the aggravations of dealing with government bureaucrats are added to the burdens of the work

Britain has had a government-run medical system for more than half a century and it has to import doctors, including some from Third World

Tags: liberals shifting cost around, nhs import doctors from 3rd world countries, obamacare, shell game, u.s. r and d pharmaceuticals

Patients to get private health care on the NHS if they have to wait too long for treatment

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:44:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Patients forced to wait 18 weeks for treatment on the NHS will be given a new legal right to receive it from the private sector.

The move, agreed by the Cabinet earlier this week, will be rushed into law before the next general election, which is expected next spring.

It will be coupled with a further legal right for cancer patients to receive private treatment if they have not been seen by an NHS specialist within two weeks of referral.

According to The Times today, the plans will be unveiled in next month's Queen's Speech, the last of the Parliament, and will see Labour take the fight to the Tories on public service 'entitlements' ahead of the election.

They are hoped to prevent waiting lists increasing again as NHS budgets are curbed in future years.

The report also revealed that cancer patients who were unable to see a specialist within two weeks of GP referral would be given funding for private treatment.

A vaccine for anxiety? The real reason why drug companies are pushing more vaccines

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:42:21 GMT

clipped by: The Infowarrior
clipper's remarks: "If the current health regime is allowed to continue in America, I can easily imagine a day when anyone who disagrees with vaccinations is immediately "diagnosed" with Oppositional Defiant Disorder and injected with a psychiatric vaccine designed to "cure" the "disorder." Effectively, it will be a chemical lobotomy."

Clip Source: www.naturalnews.com

There's a new vaccine for nicotine addiction, and another one for drug addiction. There's an AIDS vaccines (which doesn't work) and a vaccine for cervical cancer that's been approved for use on boys (boys don't have a cervix). Through the pharmaceutical industry, the big push for vaccines is on!

But why, exactly? Is there suddenly a new rash of epidemic disease requiring vaccine treatments? No, not really. What's new is the way Big Pharma is latching on to these diseases as new opportunities to sell more drugs.

with vaccines, no proof of efficacy is required

In essence, by pushing for a vaccine approach to virtually everything, including nicotine addictions, the pharmaceutical industry has transformed itself from a small industry that only served sick people with scientifically-proven medicines to a huge global industry that sells vaccines to everyone and needs no proof that they even work. By any assessment, it's a brilliant strategy for increasing pharmaceutical profits.

Tags: who, un, nwo, eu, big pharma, nhs, nau, health, vaccines, placebo poison

Generation depression: British women are more unhappy than ever

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:36:05 GMT

clipped by: Tri-City Psychology

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

A fifth of women in Britain are said to suffer from a mental health disorder, and millions are routinely being prescribed antidepressants. But can they really all be depressed? Or are some of them victims of clever marketing? Olivia Gordon investigates the unhappiness industry .

Depression is expected to become the world’s second biggest health problem after heart disease by 2020, according to the World Health Organization. As it is, women are more affected than men – and the number of women suffering in England is rising, according to an NHS report published in January.

About 20 per cent of adult women suffered from a common mental disorder – typically depression or anxiety – compared with about 12 per cent of men.

Somehow a whole generation feels entitled to happiness in a way that those who lived through the two world wars didn’t.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to redescribe depression as a fallow period, in which one can lie low, to regroup energies, to think again.’

Kirsty on £1BN errors

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:40:24 GMT

clipped by: Welsh Lib Dems

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, said it was "shocking" that a fifth of the NHS budget in Wales was not being spent appropriately.

1BN Health Mistakes

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:36:23 GMT

clipped by: Welsh Lib Dems

Clip Source: www.bbc.co.uk

"There's a billion pounds that we're not utilising appropriately."

Tags: health, wales, kirsty williams, nhs wales

How Safe is The HPV Vaccine?

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:57:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.informationisbeautiful.net

I’ve been reading a lot about the HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccine and the risk of serious side effects and even death. I thought I would seek out the numbers and put them in context. Especially given headlines claiming the HPV jab is “as deadly as the cancer” it seeks to prevent.

A note about the UK. These are the figures for Gardasil, the vaccine used in the US. In the UK, the dominant vaccine is Cervarix. For which I have no figures. Ben Goldacre explores some important points around Cervarix. Worth reading.

(You can explore my data here. I’ve put the data on three separate sheets inside the spreadsheet. Here are the original source documents from the US Centre Of Disease Control).

If you have any figures on Cervarix or any other facts and sources that can add to this diagram, please get in touch. Thanks!

If you’re looking for information on HPV, Cervical Cancer and immunisation, try these links
: The NHS page on the cervical cancer jab
: General info on immunisation, including HPV

Tags: hpv vaccine

Half of women are diagnosing themselves online, says Ofcom

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:19:47 GMT

clipped by: Tri-City Psychology

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Increasing numbers of people (48 per cent) say that they have used the internet to find out more about an illness according to a report by Ofcom, the media regulator.

The research found women are more likely to do so, with 53 per cent admitted to looking online for medical advice, in a trend has become known was ‘Dr Google’.

Ofcom's UK Adults' Media Literacy interim report found that use of NHS Direct/NHS 24 websites had increased from 70 per cent in 2007 to 84 per cent in 2009.

The report just says the increase in use of NHS websites could be related to the change in the profile of internet users since 2007.

Online diagnosis can now be done for swine flu as well, under the Government's National Pandemic Flu Service

Medical professionals have warned that online self-diagnosis can cause the worried well to fear the worst and creates “cybercondriacs”.

Today's Great Moment in Socialized Health Care

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:36:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

A grandfather who beat cancer was wrongly told the disease had returned and left to die at a hospice which pioneered a controversial 'death pathway'.

Doctors said there was nothing more they could do for 76-year- old Jack Jones, and his family claim he was denied food, water and medication except painkillers.

He died within two weeks. But tests after his death found that his cancer had not come back and he was in fact suffering from pneumonia brought on by a chest infection.

To his family's horror, they were told he could have recovered if he'd been given the correct treatment.

Tags: england, nhs, medicine, death

Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:18:38 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: Sarah Palin spoke about death panels.....see how wonderful they can be?

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.

Hazel Fenton and her daughter Christine Ball

Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients.

Doctors say Fenton is an example of patients who have been condemned to death on the Liverpool care pathway plan. They argue that while it is suitable for patients who do have only days to live, it is being used more widely in the NHS, denying treatment to elderly patients who are not dying.

Ball, 42, from Robertsbridge, East Sussex, said: “My mother was going to be left to starve and dehydrate to death. It really is a subterfuge for legalised euthanasia of the elderly on the NHS. ”

Tags: death panels, barmy britain, killing off the elderly

Transsexual in court appeal for breast enlargement

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:29:04 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: Why can't she get a job and pay for it herself????

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

A transsexual refused breast enlargement surgery on the NHS is to take her case to the High Court, at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds to the hospital's budget.

Her unique test case against the West Berkire Primary Care Trust (PCT), in which the the Equality and Human Rights Commission will also be playing a part, is now set for hearing at the High Court on October 20.

But, at a preliminary hearing, the PCT's barrister, David Lock, bemoaned the heavy cost of defending the case - with cash that would otherwise be used for treating patients.

The court heard the woman - referred to in court only as "C" - has been battling to persuade the PCT to fund breast augmentation surgery since 2006, but has been repeatedly refused on grounds that her's is not an "exceptional" case.

C has not had a sex change operation, but has undergone hormone and other treatments to make her more feminine, the court heard.

Arguing that C would "derive psychological benefit" from breast enhancement

Tags: barny britain, loony lawsuits

Terminally ill grandmother 'left to starve' by doctors

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:45:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Under NHS guidance introduced in England, medical staff can withdraw fluid and drugs from dying patents and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away. But this approach can also mask signs of improvement, it has been argued.

Miss Ball, who had been looking after her mother before she was admitted to the Conquest hospital, Hastings, East Sussex, on Jan 11, said she had to fight hospital staff for weeks before her mother was taken off the plan and given artificial feeding.

Miss Ball, 42, a carer, from Robertsbridge, East Sussex, said: “My mother was going to be left to starve and dehydrate to death. It really is a subterfuge for legalised euthanasia of the elderly on the NHS. ”

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Terminally ill grandmother 'left to starve' by doctors

Hazel Fenton, an 80-year-old grandmother who was placed under a controversial care plan and left to “starve to death” after doctors identified her as being terminally ill, only recovered after the intervention of her daughter.

Hazel Fenton pictured with her daughter Christine Ball

Mrs Fenton, from East Sussex, is still alive and “happy” nine months after doctors declared she would only survive for days, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding, her daughter, Christine Ball, said.

“Without my persistence and pressure I know my mother would be dead now,” she added.

However, there has been recent criticism that not only cancer patients but others with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under the NHS scheme.

Last month six prominent British doctors and health care professionals wrote to The Daily Telegraph, expressing concern that some patients were being wrongly judged as close to death.

Tags: terminally ill grandmother 'left to starve' by doc, euthanasia