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		<title>Bayer a company you can trust?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why I would never buy any drugs from Bayer! Bayer Knowingly Sold HIV-Contaminated Vaccines, Say Internal Documents Here&#8217;s a little-known truth about Bayer that needs to be revisited. In 2006, it was discovered that Bayer found out a vaccine it was selling in the United States was accidentally contaminated with HIV. In order to cover [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Why I would never buy any drugs from Bayer!</strong><br />
Bayer Knowingly Sold HIV-Contaminated Vaccines, Say Internal Documents</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a little-known truth about Bayer that needs to be revisited. In 2006, it was discovered that Bayer found out a vaccine it was selling in the United States was accidentally contaminated with HIV.</p>
<p>In order to cover its tracks, say the journalists in this video (below), Bayer pulled the vaccines off the market and sold them to consumers in Japan, France, Spain and other countries, where hemophiliacs were then contaminated with HIV due to the vaccine.</p>
<p>Despite these apparent crimes, no Bayer executives  faced arrest or prosecution in the United States.</p>
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<p>A Bayer spinmeister had this to say: &#8220;Bayer behaved responsibly, ethically and humanely&#8230; [and its actions] were consistent with regulations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sure they did. Don&#8217;t forget that Bayer is the same pharmaceutical company linked to Nazi Germany&#8217;s medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. They have a long and dark history of being involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons. As stated on CorporateWatch.org</p>
<p>&#8221; IG Farben continued to grow during the inter-war period as one of the most powerful chemical and pharmaceutical companies in the world. Products included polyurethanes and the first &#8216;sulpha&#8217; drugs. It is during Nazi-era Germany and WW2 that IG Farben (Bayer) entered its most sinister phase. IG Farben as the leading chemical company in Nazi Germany took over chemical plants across Nazi occupied Europe, used slave-labour in their factories (including operating their own concentration camp), conducted medical experiments on those held in the concentration camps and manufactured the poison gas used to kill thousands. At the end of the war the 1945 Potsdam Agreement called for the break up of IG Farben into its constituent companies. Twelve IG Farben employees and directors were jailed for war crimes at the Nuremburg Trials.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Bayer Corp, the maker of aspirin, is trying to get the FDA to approve the use of aspirin as a preventive measure against heart attacks. The ploy, of course, is to get permission to run TV ads that say, &#8220;One aspirin a day will prevent heart attacks, even if you&#8217;ve never had a heart attack.&#8221;<br />
Bayer wants every person in the world to take one aspirin a day. Why? Because it&#8217;s good for profits, of course. Very good for profits. Get the entire population believing that aspirin is good for them, and get the FDA to line up behind it, and you&#8217;ve got a great racket running.<br />
In reality, eating some chlorella each day, or flax oil each day, or some fresh fruits and vegetables each day is probably far better for your heart than an aspirin a day, and real foods don&#8217;t cause gastrointestinal scarring, either.</p>
<p>Dr Holger Crone MD NMD HD</p>
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		<title>FDA recommendation that over-the-counter cough and cold medicines not be given to children under 6 years of age because of a lack of effectiveness and potential for side effects.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many parents are concerned about the recent FDA recommendation that over-the-counter cough and cold medicines not be given to children under 6 years of age because of a lack of effectiveness and potential for side effects. With this recent news in mind, a team of researchers from the Penn State College of Medicine decided to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many parents are concerned about the recent FDA recommendation that over-the-counter cough and cold medicines not be given to children under 6 years of age because of a lack of effectiveness and potential for side effects. </p>
<p>With this recent news in mind, a team of researchers from the Penn State College of Medicine decided to put nature to the test.   They tested the effectiveness of three different approaches for children who were having trouble sleeping due to a cough. </p>
<p>The children in the study were given either no treatment at all, a little bit of buckwheat honey or dextromethorphan (DM), the chemical cough suppressant found in many over-the-counter cold medicines.  The children receiving the honey or DM took it about 30 minutes before bedtime. </p>
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<p>The research team found that honey was more effective in reducing the severity and frequency of nighttime cough compared with DM or no treatment at all. Honey also allowed the children to sleep better.  The findings are published in the December, 2007, issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. </p>
<p>According to the study’s lead researcher, Dr. Ian Paul, Penn State’s director of pediatric clinical research: &#8220;Honey provided the greatest relief of symptoms compared with the other treatments.  With honey, parents now have a safe and effective alternative to use for children over age 1 that have cough and cold symptoms”.  Some of the children were hyperactive for a short time after being given the honey, Dr. Paul said. However, children who received honey slept better and so did their parents, he noted. </p>
<p>Dr. Paul cautioned that honey should never be given to children younger than 1, because of the rare risk of infantile botulism. In addition, he noted, cough medicines that mention &#8220;honey&#8221; on the label actually contain artificial honey flavor not real honey. </p>
<p>Honey has been used for centuries to treat upper respiratory infection symptoms such as cough. In addition, honey has antioxidant and antimicrobial effects, and also soothes the back of the throat. Once again, science has proven that food really can be your medicine.</p>
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<p>So I want all of you who are parents to try this natural approach in place of over the counter medications that are full of artificial ingredients and other dangerous chemicals.  When your child is sick, you have to ask yourself – is my child eating 5 servings of good fruits and vegetables every day- or just junk food?  Is my child drinking at least 5 glasses of water every day – or just sodas?  Is my child getting at least an hour of exercise every day – or watching TV and playing computer games all day?  Is my child getting 9 to 10 hours of sleep every day – or just 6 or 7 hours so they are they tired all of the time?   These things are the foundation of a healthy child – there are no pills or over the counter medications that can take the place of a healthy lifestyle. </p>
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