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More Accusations Emerge Over Boston Children’s Hospital’s Forced Medical Treatments
Another man attending the Justina Pelletier rallies outside the courthouse in Boston claims the same thing happened to his child, and that the hospital ended up killing his 2 year old son who had previously been healthy, and fed only organic food. He died in October 2013. Here is his statement on video. Another published story from 2008 explains a child died while in custody at Boston Children's Hospital, after being removed from her parents over a disagreement on medical treatment.
Teen-age Girl Forceably Held by Boston Children’s Hospital Might be Transferred Back to Connecticut
A teen-age girl who has been held at Boston Children's Hospital against her will and the will of her parents for 11 months due to a dispute in medical treatment may be transferred back to Connecticut soon. These are the reports coming out of the most recent court hearing in Boston. The judge presiding over the case has issued a gag order, so it is difficult to get details. The judge reportedly ruled that State of Massachusetts will not receive permanent custody of Justina Pelletier, where she has been held in custody in Boston Children’s Hospital “Bader 5″ psychiatric unit. It appears the judge would like Justina to go back to Connecticut, which is where she was originally being treated until Boston Children's Hospital intervened and kept her detained in their psych ward because of a disagreement over her diagnosis. The family had brought Justina in to Boston Children's Hospital to simply receive treatment for the flu. They have not been allowed to bring her home now for 11 months, as they watch her condition deteriorate, only being allowed to visit her once a week. Ted Glanzer of the West Hartford Patch has also been covering this story, and he reports that Kathleen Higgins, a former Boston Children’s nurse, wrote a Jan. 8 letter to Olga Roche, commissioner of the Department of Children and Families, stating that the hospital’s treatment of Justina in this case was more akin to “torture.” Unfortunately, Justina's story is not all that unusual. There are many cases very similar to this one, where Child Protection Services or a similar agency, is used by a doctor or hospital to seize children away from their parents when they did not comply to their recommended medical treatments.
Doctors in Pennsylvania Intimidating Parents over Vaccines and Misrepresenting State Laws
A mother submitted a photo from a physician's website in Pennsylvania stating that since 2012 "children who are not fully vaccinated will be denied entry to the school building." She asks: "Is that legal? We live in Pennsylvania." No, the information is incorrect, even though it is written on a physician's form. Find out what the actual law states in Pennsylvania, and in other states regarding legal vaccine exemptions that allow unvaccinated children to continue attending school.
Does the Flu Vaccine Cause H1N1 Infections? 5 Year Old Boy Dies from H1N1 Virus, Even Though He Was Vaccinated Month Before
A 5-year-old boy in Oregon died last flu season due to complications from the H1N1 virus. He and his siblings had received the flu vaccine the month before. As the H1N1 flu broke out all across America last flu season, almost every single news report stated the same thing: Go get a flu shot to protect yourself. No one is asking the tough questions, as to why last year's H1N1 outbreak was happening in the first place, when hundreds of millions of flu vaccines containing the H1N1 strain have been sold over the past few years. So here are Health Impact News we will ask the tough question: Could the flu vaccine be primarily responsible for the outbreaks of H1N1? Let's take a look at the data, and then you can make your own informed decision.
How Much Money do Doctors Make From Flu Shots?
What would readers think if I provided an admission in writing from a medical doctor as to a reason why the medical profession should consider administering flu vaccines? One MD, who also is a speaker for Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, and Sanofi-Pasteur – all vaccine makers, says: "Giving influenza vaccine is also good for the financial health of your practice." That candid remark, made in writing, came from Richard Lander, MD, and was published in the article “Influenza vaccination makes sense for everyone” on Healio Pediatrics webpage about Infectious Diseases in Children. Guess how much the vaccine administration fee is? According to Dr. Lander, it should range from $14 to $30. Dr. Lander uses a hypothetical patient base of 2,000 and explains who may or may not receive the flu vaccine. He contends bottom line and revenue results are $14,000 to $30,000 from only 1,000 patients receiving the flu shot. However, Dr. Lander throws in a financial wild card regarding 100 patients, who called to get a flu shot and then end up scheduling a well visit. According to Lander, a doctor “should be generating an additional $10,000. Bottom line: $25,000 to $42,500, which is not bad!”
Pro Vaccine Doctor Explains how Mandatory Flu Vaccines for Healthcare Workers Violates HIPAA Law
We guard the privacy of patients in my hospital zealously—we take care of a lot of celebrities since we’re right in the shadow of Beverly Hills. And of course we live in terror of HIPAA violations, those federally mandated HHS rules that protect individually identifiable healthcare information and could bring down “civil money penalties” upon us if we don’t keep our patients’ medical records strictly confidential. But for healthcare workers—physicians, nurses, technicians, even medical supply vendors—in LA County, the usual privacy rules don’t apply any more. Now everybody gets to know at least some of our medical history: whether or not we’ve been vaccinated against influenza. How will anyone know whether or not I’ve had this year’s flu vaccine? Because policy dictates that I must publicly say so, whether I want to “out” that information or not. As of October 2013, all healthcare workers in Los Angeles County must be vaccinated against influenza or wear a protective mask any time they might have contact with patients or stray into patient care areas. This is an order that came down by fiat from Dr. Jonathan Fielding, the Director of the LA County Department of Public Health, and now applies in LA County to every hospital and care facility. In other southern California counties, healthcare personnel may still decide whether the risks of the flu vaccine outweigh the potential benefits, and keep that decision to themselves with the same right to medical privacy that everyone else has. But in LA County, you either get the vaccine or wear a mask, even if you’re perfectly healthy and haven’t got the slightest symptom of the flu. Because that’s what Dr. Fielding has ordered. Let me point out the obvious flaws in this system. If I should become ill with a strain of influenza that hasn’t been covered by this year’s vaccine, since I’ve been vaccinated I don’t have to wear a mask though I could be quite contagious for at least a day before I develop overt symptoms. No hospital (to my knowledge) is requiring patients’ visitors and families to provide evidence of flu vaccination or wear masks, though they go in and out of patient care areas at will. If we are really to be logical and scientific about flu transmission, either we all should wear masks or none of us should bother.
FDA Violates Patient Privacy Laws: Provides Patient Records to USA Today to Attack Cancer Doctor Burzynski
We have covered the history of the government's relentless attacks against cancer doctor Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D. His story has also been documented in an award winning film, and you can watch one of the trailers here. Dr. Burzynski has cured many people of cancer without FDA approved drugs, which is a direct threat to the largest pharmaceutical business in the world today: Cancer Treatment. The Alliance for Natural Health brings us the latest updates on how the FDA is still attacking this doctor in Houston, by using the mainstream media, specifically USA Today. In the process, they have violated their own laws regarding patient privacy in their effort to attack Dr. Burzynski, who has been successful in treating cancer without FDA approved drugs.
Why is the CDC Ignoring Explosion of Recorded HPV Vaccine Injuries, as Other Countries Move to Take Protective Action?
Last month (December 2013), Katie Couric's popular daytime television show aired an episode on "The HPV Controversy." Both sides of the controversy were represented, but the show was widely criticized in the mainstream media for simply suggesting there was a controversy. Vaccine damaged families were interviewed (watch the interviews here), but according to the medical community, Gardasil and the HPV vaccine are completely safe. So Katie Couric issued what was basically an apology and then aired a follow-up show which featured the one-sided standard government position, with an interview of Dr. Anne Schuchat, Assistant Surgeon General and Director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Dressed in military attire, the whole interview was basically an appeal to authority: Trust us, we are the authorities, and we know what's best. Norma Erickson is the director of SaneVax, the leading website on the Internet highlighting the dangers of the HPV vaccine. She was present with Katie Couric at the first show airing both sides, but no one representing the victims of the vaccine were present for the airing of the second show. She offers her rebuttal below, giving facts and hard science in reply to the spin piece by the government doctor, who is obviously trying to do "damage control," which was aired on the most recent Couric show. As Norma shares the data and science below, in response to the government doctor's comment "we aren’t finding any concerning problems" regarding Gardasil, also keep in mind the following facts: The U.S. government holds patents on Gardasil and also earns royalties from the sale of the vaccine. People injured or killed by the Gardasil vaccine cannot sue Merck, as all vaccine manufacturers have legal immunity from lawsuits in the U.S. More than 10 young women have recently sued Sanofi, the distributor of Gardasil in France, for damages due to the vaccine, including lupus, Guillain-Barré, ADEM, idiopathic hypersomnia, and multiple sclerosis. Japan halted recommendations for the HPV vaccine and has begun a full scale probe over its safety, due to the large amount of serious adverse reactions reported.
Mentally Challenged Teen Killed by Police in Front of Parents
"My word that I want to get out to every family who has a mentally ill patient: do NOT call the police department for help, because your son will probably get shot and killed, just like mine did." These are the words of the mother of 18 year old Keith Vidal, who was shot and killed by police when they responded to a call from the family for help with their schizophrenic son in Boiling Spring Lakes North Carolina. The mother and other family members addressed the media after the Southport Police Department held a press conference, where the family reportedly was not invited. According to the family's report, as can be heard directly in the video below, their son was upset and had a small screw driver in his hand, which they could not get away. He was not threatening anybody with it, but they could not get it away from him. They were afraid he was going to hurt himself. A call was put in to the police to help them get the screw driver away from the boy. The boy only weighed 90 lbs. The boy was tasered first. Then two officers were holding the youth down with the father nearby, when a third police reportedly walked in, about 15 minutes after the first two policemen had arrived and were already dealing with the situation, and within 10 seconds reportedly stated “We don’t have time for this” and then drew his gun and shot the boy who was between the other two policeman. The father jumped up and threw him back, and the policeman reportedly drew his gun again, and the father states he was afraid that he was going to be shot next: "I thought he was going to shoot me."
Forbes Reports on Ineffectiveness of Big Pharma Flu Products
Here is something rare: a medical columnist in the mainstream media warning people that Big Pharma's flu products are ineffective! I guess he got tired of seeing him and his family suffer from the flu while using Big Pharma's products to supposedly protect them from the flu. The Myth of Tamiflu: 5 Things You Should Know by Harlan Krumholz, Forbes Influenza-like-illness is sweeping the country with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention reporting that most areas of the country experiencing high rates. I should know, my family is in the midst of it despite having been vaccinated. This year may rival some of the worst years in recent history.
Flu Vaccine is the most Dangerous Vaccine in the U. S. based on Settled Cases for Injuries
The last report issued in 2013 by the Department of Justice (Vaccine Court), for compensation made by the Health and Human Services for people injured or killed by vaccines, was released in December 2013, covering the period of 8/16/2013 through 11/15/2013. There were 139 claims settled during this time period, with 70 of them being compensated. So, just over 50% of the claims filed for vaccine damages were compensated during this period. Once again, the greatest percentage of damages compensated were for the influenza vaccine, and most of those were for Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS). Yet these facts, tucked away in a file on the Department of Health and Human Services website, are never reported in the mainstream media. So we will report them here.
Nurses Across the U.S. are Taking a Stand Against Forced Flu Vaccines
As 2014 begins to unfold, it is becoming clear that the medical care industry is facing a crisis. We have already reported about how many doctors are refusing to participate in the new Obamacare health insurance exchanges. But another unintended consequence of new medical care legislation is the refusal of nurses to comply with new mandatory flu vaccination requirements. With a nation-wide shortage in nurses already problematic long before Obamacare was implemented, things are only going to get worse. Nurses across the United States are choosing to lose their jobs rather than submit to forced mandatory flu vaccinations. This began last flu season, in 2012, and we reported many stories of brave nurses standing up for their rights and refusing to submit to mandatory flu vaccinations as a requirement to keeping their jobs. Unfortunately, many of our nation's best nurses were already lost at the beginning of the 2012-2013 flu season as new mandates in Obamacare kicked in, requiring medical care facilities to have a 90% compliance to the flu vaccine as a requirement to receive full reimbursements for Medicare and Medicaid. The trend towards losing nurses over the mandatory flu vaccine has continued this flu season, in 2013-2014. For example, Dreonna Breton, a registered nurse in Pennsylvania, lost her job recently due to refusing the vaccine on medical grounds. She is pregnant, and has a history of miscarriages. Her doctor advised her NOT to get the flu vaccine, but her hospital refused her exemption and fired her. For those nurses who are granted exemptions to avoid the flu vaccine, they are forced to wear masks while at work, for the entire flu season. Since studies show that even those who are vaccinated can still pass on the influenza virus, and since the requirement to vaccinate 90% of medical care workers with the flu vaccine is a financial consideration for getting the full federal funds available for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, this requirement to single out those refusing vaccines is a clear case of discrimination and harassment. Nurses across the country are gathering together on the Internet, such as the Nurses Against Mandatory Vaccines Facebook Page, and proudly displaying their masks as badges of honor in not giving in to intimidation and medical tyranny. They are some of the few honorable people left in the corrupt medical system.
American Woman Sues Border Agents after Alleged Sexual Assault and Forced Medical Treatments when Re-entering U.S.
In 2013 we published too many stories about forced medical treatment by coercion. For example, we published the story regarding John Wrana, the WWII veteran who just before his 96th birthday was tasered and shot with bean bag rounds in his managed care facility, which resulted in his death, simply for refusing to go to a hospital for a urinary tract infection. The investigation regarding his death is still pending and we expect to publish an update here in 2014. We saw other stories where children were taken away from their parents and forced to receive medical treatment against the wishes of their parents, including one teenage daughter who has been held by Boston Children's Hospital for over ten months and has still not been released. In this news report from KOB Channel 4 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an American woman, who was returning to the United States from Mexico, was allegedly sexually assaulted and forced to have medical treatments against her consent, simply because a dog supposedly indicated she may have illegal drugs in her body somewhere. She was stripped and searched. When they did not find anything, she was forced to have X-rays and a CT Scan which turned up negative. She was billed $5,000.00 for the forced medical treatments. She was also allegedly subjected to a "cavity search" several times, all without a warrant and without her consent. The ACLU has taken up her case and filed charges for unlawful search and sexual harassment.
BMJ: Escalating Criminal Behavior by Pharmaceutical Companies due to Insufficient Penalties
This editorial written and published in the British Medical Journal does a good job of explaining why criminal settlements against pharmaceutical companies do NOT stop criminal behavior in the pharmaceutical industry. 20% of all corporate crime is now committed by pharmaceutical companies, and those are just the cases that are litigated and settled. The problem with corruption in scientific studies that are used to approve drugs do not even come up in litigation. As Sidney M Wolfe points out in this article published last month in the British Medical Journal, the fines and penalties levied against corporations are just to0 small, and they are simply considered as part of the "cost of doing business" which lead to higher drug prices passed on to the consumers.
Gardasil: My Daughter’s Worst Nightmare
Cancer is a frightening word. Any parent in the world would do whatever was in their power to protect their child from this terrible disease. I had no idea adding Gardasil to our list of protective measures would turn our lives into a nightmare. My beautiful 12 year old daughter, Allie, was a victim of Gardasil and I believe that had she been given the 3rd Gardasil shot, it would have killed her as she barely survived the 2nd shot. The authorities will not acknowledge this as yet, but someday they will, and until then I will be the advocate for my child. I will decide what medications she needs and what vaccinations she needs or does not need. I will do the research and investigate the adverse effects of all drugs. I strongly urge anyone reading this to do the same. Do your research. KNOW what they are putting into the bodies of our children!
10 More Young Women File Criminal Complaints due to Injuries from Gardasil Vaccine in France
Criminal complaints have been filed in France against yet to be named defendants regarding severe injuries after Gardasil vaccinations. The complaints were filed by Camille Krouchner on behalf of ten young women, ages 18 to 24, suffering from a variety of autoimmune disorders including lupus, Guillain-Barré, ADEM, idiopathic hypersomnia and multiple sclerosis after being injected with the HPV vaccine, Gardasil.
Children Taking Powerful Antipsychotic Prescription Drugs has Nearly Tripled
The number of children taking powerful antipsychotic drugs has nearly tripled over the last 10 to 15 years, according to recent research. The increase comes not because of an epidemic of schizophrenia or other forms of serious mental illness in children, but because doctors are increasingly prescribing the drugs to treat behavior problems, a use not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). And a disproportionate number of those prescriptions are written for poor and minority children, some as young as age 2.
U.S. Operators of Drones Suffering: Suicide and Antipsychotic Drugs are Result After Watching People Killed Repeatedly
We have previously reported about the widespread abuse of over-prescribing drugs to veterans, and the high suicide rate. In this new story just published in The Guardian, a woman who worked on the US drone program reveals that suicide and prescription drug abuse is also a problem with drone operators, who have to continually watch people killed, many of them innocent victims of the drone program.
Seven out of every 10 Physicians in California are Rebelling against Obamacare
An estimated seven out of every 10 physicians in deep-blue California are rebelling against the state's Obamacare health insurance exchange and won't participate, the head of the state's largest medical association said. Independent insurance brokers who work with both insurance companies and doctor networks estimate that about 70 percent of California's 104,000 licensed doctors are boycotting the exchange. Mazer, a past president of the San Diego County Medical Society, agreed, saying, “I cannot find anybody in my specialty in the area that has signed a contract directly with any of these plans." Mazer said that not only are many doctors not participating, but many are also thinking of retiring. “I just turned 55, and a lot of us are kind of going, ‘Maybe there’s something else we can do in the last 10 years,’ because this is just getting too onerous to keep on going.” If a large number of doctors either balk at participating in the exchange or retire, the state’s medical system could be overwhelmed.
Child Taken Away from Parents for Medical Reasons Dies in Foster Care
WREG News Channel 3 in Memphis has reported on the story of an 11-month-old child who died while in custody of the Department of Child Services (DCS). DCS had reportedly removed the child, along with his 2-year-old sibling, from the home of their parents because they suffered from "digeorge syndrome", which limits delay of essential body functions. DCS had judged that the parents did not have "sufficient training" to properly care for their children. So the two children were placed in foster care. They were to be returned to their parents in October, but the father reportedly lacked a one-hour course. The father died in a car accident in early December. The 11-month-old child died while in foster care in November. Paramedics reportedly found the child in the foster home with a "wet wipe" stuffed in his mouth. We report these stories on Health Impact News, because medical tyranny is increasing in the United States, and these stories are not as rare as you might think. All across America, children are being taken away from their parents for differences in opinion about medical treatment, or because the State believes they can raise children better than parents. The choice of parents to choose their own medical care for their children is increasingly being taken away all across the country. While protecting children from situations where they are in danger is a legitimate concern, the system in place today is too often corrupted by financial incentives, or arrogant medical personnel overstepping their bounds of authority and forcing their beliefs and values on those unable to resist or fight back.