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10 Dec (WASHINGTON) – At first glance, the US Dept. of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) “Healthy People 2020” seems like an excellent idea. After all, what could be better than helping Americans live healthier lives? Unfortunately, the initiative has – like many government programs – a much darker side. (more…)
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6 Nov (OMSJ) – Last week, OMSJ responded to reports that scientists at Imperial College in London had developed a new HIV test that is “10 times more sensitive and a fraction of the cost of current methods.” Shortly after we published our report, Quest Diagnostics demande (more…)
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Nancy Turner Banks MD spent twenty-five years practicing general obstetrics and gynecology during which she was also the director of outpatient gynecology at The North General Hospital in Harlem, New York. She served as an attending physician at North General, Nyack Hospital in Nyack, New York, Columbia Presbyterian Medical (more…)
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“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was ‘not done’ to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodox (more…)
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Last year, Prof. Susan Reverby reported on the recent history of human experimention in the US and Guatemala. Prof. Reverby wrote that virologists “knew that secrecy, and even law-breaking was sometimes necessary to further research,” quoting the father of virology who later explained: (more…)
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Mark Conlan is a journalist, gay activist and founder of HEAL San Diego. In this extended interview for the award winning documentary House of Numbers (2009), he recounts how the self-destructive behavior of a tiny segment of the gay community led to AIDS, which played a critical role in the political ascendance and financial success of the “gay movement.” (more…)
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In their own words, see how AIDS drugs harm patients (more…)
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“The National Institutes of Health did take a look at the conflicting evidence that AZT use by HIV-infected individuals can prolong life – the claims and the counterclaims… but what they essentially came up with was a strategy for doctors and patients to simply figure it out for themselves.” (more…)
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Mark Conlan is a journalist, gay activist and founder of HEAL San Diego. In this extended interview for the award winning documentary House of Numbers (2009), he recounts how the self-destructive behavior of a tiny segment of the gay community led to AIDS, which played a critical role in the political ascendance and financial success of the “gay movement.” (more…)
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In their own words, see how AIDS drugs harm patients (more…)
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“The National Institutes of Health did take a look at the conflicting evidence that AZT use by HIV-infected individuals can prolong life – the claims and the counterclaims… but what they essentially came up with was a strategy for doctors and patients to simply figure it out for themselves.” (more…)
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