Pope Leo speaks with President Zelensky, calls for humanitarian aid

Pope Leo and President Zelensky during an audience in Castel Gandolfo, July 2025 (VATICAN MEDIA)

In a telephone conversation with the Ukrainian President, Pope Leo XIV expresses his hope for cooperation to allow food and medical aid to reach civilians in Oleshky, in the Kherson region, and for their safe evacuation.

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The Holy See Press Office has announced that Pope Leo XIV and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke over the telephone on Monday, 19 October.

During the conversation, according to a statement, "the Holy Father recalled the grave situation in the city of Oleshky, in the Kherson region, and made reference to the request for a humanitarian ceasefire that he had presented to the President of the Russian Federation".

The Pope also expressed his hope that "cooperation between both parties will allow for the delivery of food and medical aid", as well as for the "voluntary and safe evacuation of the civilian population".

Finally, the Holy Father reaffirmed the Holy See's commitment to promoting dialogue and peace.

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Pope Francis sends special Christmas gift to the people of war-torn Ukraine

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 19, 2024 / 15:25 pm

Pope Francis blesses small mobile medical unit being donated to Ukraine. | Credit: Dicastery for the Service of Charity

“Martyred” Ukraine has occupied a special place in Pope Francis’ heart since the Russian army invaded the country in February 2022.

The pontiff has regularly called for prayer for the Ukrainian people and appealed for peace. But not only that, the Holy Father has also made concrete gestures of solidarity with the victims of the conflict.

The latest is a special gift as Christmas draws near: a vehicle converted into a small mobile hospital to care for the inhabitants of this country devastated by war.

The person in charge of delivering the vehicle where the injured can be operated on will be the pope’s almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajweski.

In addition, the Holy Father is sending six ultrasound machines that will be donated to destroyed and bombed hospitals.

During his trip to Ukraine, Krajewski will visit several communities to meet the suffering people, to bring them hope and the closeness of Pope Francis.

The cardinal has already visited the most affected areas on at least eight occasions at the request of the Holy Father.

In June, he brought the third ambulance donated by the pope to Ukraine. On that occasion, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity visited the district of Zboriv ​​in the Ternopil region.

He also brought with him a large quantity of essential medicines from the Vatican Pharmacy and the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic Pharmacy.

This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.

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The delusion called Fauci - by Jon Rappoport

by Jon Rappoport


May 9, 2022

This one was too good to pass up.

In an interview with the National Geographic, Tony Fauci made comments about “alternative views” of the origin of the coronavirus. But he was really talking about all unorthodox medical information:

“Anybody can claim to be an expert even when they have no idea what they’re talking about—and it’s very difficult for the general public to distinguish. So, make sure the study is coming from a reputable organization that generally gives you the truth—though even with some reputable organizations, you occasionally get an outlier who’s out there talking nonsense. If something is published in places like New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature, Cell, or JAMA—you know, generally that is quite well peer-reviewed because the editors and the editorial staff of those journals really take things very seriously.”

Right you are, Tony.

So, Tony, here is a very serious statement from a former editor of one of those “places,” the New England Journal of Medicine:

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” (Dr. Marcia Angell, NY Review of Books, January 15, 2009, “Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption)

And here is another one, from the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal, The Lancet, founded in 1823:

“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness…”

“The apparent endemicity of bad research behaviour is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world. Or they retrofit hypotheses to fit their data. Journal editors deserve their fair share of criticism too. We aid and abet the worst behaviours. Our acquiescence to the impact factor fuels an unhealthy competition to win a place in a select few journals. Our love of ‘significance’ pollutes the literature with many a statistical fairy-tale…Journals are not the only miscreants. Universities are in a perpetual struggle for money and talent…” (Dr. Richard Horton, editor-in-chief, The Lancet, in The Lancet, 11 April, 2015, Vol 385, “Offline: What is medicine’s 5 sigma?”)

Why stop there? Let’s consult a late public-health expert whose shoes Fauci would have been lucky to shine: Dr. Barbara Starfield, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

On July 26, 2000, the US medical community received a titanic shock, when Starfield revealed her findings on healthcare in America.

The Starfield review, “Is US health really the best in the world?”, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), came to the following conclusion, among others:

Every year in the US, correctly prescribed, FDA approved medical drugs kill 106,000 people. Thus, every decade, these drugs kill more than a MILLION people.

On the heels of Starfield’s astonishing findings, media reporting was perfunctory, and it soon dwindled. No major newspaper or television network mounted an ongoing “Medicalgate” investigation. Neither the US Department of Justice nor federal health agencies undertook prolonged remedial action.

All in all, those parties who could have made effective steps to correct this ongoing tragedy preferred to ignore it.

On December 6-7, 2009, I interviewed Dr. Starfield by email. Here is an excerpt from that interview.

Q: What has been the level and tenor of the response to your findings, since 2000?

A: The American public appears to have been hoodwinked into believing that more interventions lead to better health, and most people that I meet are completely unaware that the US does not have the ‘best health in the world’.

Q: In the medical research community, have your medically-caused mortality statistics been debated, or have these figures been accepted, albeit with some degree of shame?

A: The findings have been accepted by those who study them. There has been only one detractor, a former medical school dean, who has received a lot of attention for claiming that the US health system is the best there is and we need more of it. He has a vested interest in medical schools and teaching hospitals (they are his constituency).

Q: Have health agencies of the federal government consulted with you on ways to mitigate the [devastating] effects of the US medical system?

A: NO.

Q: Are you aware of any systematic efforts, since your 2000 JAMA study was published, to remedy the main categories of medically caused deaths in the US?

A: No systematic efforts; however, there have been a lot of studies. Most of them indicate higher rates [of death] than I calculated.

Q: Did your 2000 JAMA study sail through peer review, or was there some opposition to publishing it?

A: It was rejected by the first journal that I sent it to, on the grounds that ‘it would not be interesting to readers’!

—end of interview excerpt—

Physicians are trained to pay exclusive homage to peer-reviewed published drug studies. These doctors unfailingly ignore the fact that, if medical drugs are killing a million Americans per decade, the heraldic published studies on which those drugs are based must be fraudulent. In other words, the medical literature is completely unreliable, and impenetrable.

WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THE TWO ESTEEMED MEDICAL EDITORS I QUOTED ABOVE—MARCIA ANGELL AND RICHARD HORTON—ARE SAYING.

If you know a doctor who enjoys sitting up on his high horse dispensing the final word on modern medicine, you might give him the quotes from Dr. Angell and Dr. Horton, instruct him to read them, and suggest he get in touch with Angell and Horton, in order to discover what has happened to his profession.

As in: DISASTER.

But please, continue to believe everything Fauci is saying. He must be right about the “pandemic.” After all, he has a very important position, and he’s on television.

So what if his policies have torpedoed the economy and devastated and destroyed lives across the country?

So what if he accepted, without more than a glance, that fraud Neil Ferguson’s computer projection of 500,000 deaths in the UK and two million in the US? In 2005, Ferguson said 200 million people could die from bird flu. The final official tally was a few hundred.

So what?

Fauci has an important position, and he’s on television.

And that’s the definition of science, right?

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A test, a cure: North Country veterans battle hepatitis C

 

 

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Veterans in the Champlain Valley are celebrating a national victory for servicemen and...



Mar 30, 2016 — by Zach Hirsch (Plattsburgh Correspondent) , in Morrisonville, NY



Danny Kaifetz said he contracted hepatitis C while serving in the Marine Corps. "I promised to put my life on the line for this country. And I never thought it would be in this manner or at this deferred date," he said. Photo: Zach Hirsch






Mar 30, 2016 — Veterans in the Champlain Valley are celebrating a national victory for servicemen and women who have hepatitis C, a potentially lethal liver disease common among people who served in the Vietnam War.

There is a cure. And now, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said it will give that cure to all veterans with hepatitis C. In an announcement earlier this month, the VA said it can afford that thanks to a boost from Congress. The drugs are also starting to become more affordable.

It’s a huge relief for American Legion Post 1619, near Plattsburgh. The veterans there have been hard at work for months fighting to get people the treatment they need, and trying to end the stigma associated with the disease.

On a Friday afternoon about a month ago, it was happy hour at the American Legion Post in Morrisonville, just west of Plattsburgh. People ate and drank beer at the bar, and downstairs, nurses from the local hospital turned the basement into a clinic. They offered free, anonymous testing for hepatitis C virus, or HCV.

“And it’s just like a diabetes test. One drop of blood, bingo, 20 minutes, you’re on your way,” said Mike Rock, the post’s commander. He’s been trying to spread the word that Vietnam War-era veterans have a high chance of having HCV. Civilians born between 1945 and 1965 are also considered at risk.

Hepatitis C virus was discovered in the late 1980s. It became clear that people were catching it from blood-to-blood contact: blood transfusions, organ transplants, and dangerous behaviors, like taking intravenous drugs.



Vietnam veterans say it was common practice to in inoculate hundreds of soldiers with the same jet gun. Photo provided by Kaifetz



The jet gun used air pressure to inject multiple vaccines in one shot without the use of a needle. Veterans say it still drew blood. Use of the gun was discontinued in 1997. Photo: Danny Kaifetz



For a lot of veterans, the chief suspect is a scary-looking device called the jet injector gun. From the 1960s up to 1997, the military used it to give soldiers multiple vaccines in one shot using air pressure. During the Vietnam War, it was common practice to inoculate hundreds of soldiers with the same gun.

“If you were supposedly completely motionless the air pressure, 150 pounds of air pressure, forced this tiny stream of vaporized liquid and air through your skin without the use of a needle. The problem was it hurt like hell and everybody flinched when you got that shot,” said Danny Kaifetz, medical information officer with the American Legion post. He’s the leader of the public awareness campaign. He has HCV.

He said when soldiers flinched, their skin broke and bled. And since the injector gun was right up against the arm, blood got on the gun and inside the vaccine chamber. “So you had an unsterilized gun in untrained hands pulling blood out of one person and giving it to another,” Kaifetz said.

There’s a huge debate about the jet injector gun. Veterans, their advocates, and some doctors say the gun likely transmitted hepatitis C. The Defense Department and the VA mostly reject that idea. Federal officials didn’t want to go on tape for this story, but in emails said there is no scientific evidence the gun spread the virus.



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But the VA said a link between the jet injector gun and the disease is “biologically plausible.” It’s a huge deal for Kaifetz and the more than 200,000 veterans believed to have HCV. It means they are sick because of a military practice – not from something they did wrong, something taboo like taking intravenous drugs.

“We wanted to make the jet gun the great equalizer, that a guy can look at his 14-year-old daughter and say I’m going to get tested for hep-C. The jet gun washed away the stigma of even getting tested,” Kaifetz said. He was in the Marine Corps in the 1970s. He said the jet gun must have been what gave him HCV, because he never ended up seeing combat. “I was diagnosed in 2011. In 2012 I was told I was neither a candidate for treatment nor for transplant. So basically my options were zero,” he said.

He waited years before he told anyone he was sick. He said he didn’t want people to feel sorry for him. Then, at the end of last year, his American Legion Post was remembering veterans who died from HCV. “And that’s when I came forward and said I’m going to try to help others from going through this dark uncertainty because it’s very hard on you psychologically,” Kaifetz said.

Hepatitis C virus used to be a death sentence, but now there are drugs almost guaranteed to cure it. And Kaifetz just started the treatment. He got the call from the VA hospital in Albany last month. “You know when I thought back, and I’ll tell you what got me through it is my oath of enlistment. I promised to put my life on the line for this country. And I never thought it would be in this manner or at this deferred date, but I told myself, I said, ‘You still are obligated to that oath you took.’ I apologize," he said. "This isn’t the – you talked about why don’t you tell people you’re sick. I guess this is part of it. It’s never an easy conversation.”




Kaifetz hosted a free, anonymous hepatitis C screening at American Legion Post 1619 last month. Photo: Mountain Lake PBS.



Back at the American Legion Post in Morrisonville, the free HCV screening was a huge success. Four hundred veterans were tested. Kaifetz said there were “multiple positive tests,” although he won't say how many. Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, the hospital that helped with the testing, also has not released the results.

He said the next step is to test veterans in other parts of the state. “I know our post would like to serve as the blue print for other posts,” Kaifetz said.

As for Kaifetz, he just wants to focus on getting better. He said his energy is low and he looks at the calendar every day, wondering when he’ll start to feel a difference.

Thanks to Mountain Lake PBS for help with some of the audio in this story.



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Vegetarian diet tied to fewer deaths over time

By Andrew M. Seaman

NEW YORK | Mon Jun 3, 2013 4:35pm EDT

(Reuters Health) - People who limit how much meat they eat and stick to mostly fruits and vegetables are less likely to die over any particular period of time, according to a new study.

"I think this adds to the evidence showing the possible beneficial effect of vegetarian diets in the prevention of chronic diseases and the improvement of longevity," said Dr. Michael Orlich, the study's lead author from Loma Linda University in California.

In 2012, a Gallup poll found about 5 percent of Americans reported to be vegetarians.

Previous research has found that people who eat mostly fruits and vegetables are less likely to die of heart disease or any other cause over certain periods of time (see Reuters Health stories of March 14, 2012 and January 31, 2013 here :reut.rs/14opIgy and reut.rs/14opJBa.)

Another study from Europe, however, found British vegetarians were just as likely to die at any point as meat eaters, so it's still an "open question," Orlich said.

For the new study, he and his colleagues used data from 73,308 people recruited at U.S. and Canadian Seventh-day Adventist churches between 2002 and 2007.

At the start of the study, the participants were asked about their eating habits and were separated into categories based on how often they ate dairy, eggs, fish and meat.

Overall, 8 percent were vegans who didn't eat any animal products while 29 percent were lacto-ovo-vegetarians who didn't eat fish or meat but did eat dairy and egg products. Another 15 percent occasionally ate meat, including fish.

The researchers then used a national database to see how many of the participants died by December 31, 2009.

Overall, they found about seven people died of any cause per 1,000 meat eaters over a year. That compared to about five or six deaths per 1,000 vegetarians every year.

Men seemed to benefit the most from a plant-based diet.

Orlich cautioned, however, that they can't say the participants' plant-based diets prevented their deaths, because there may be other unmeasured differences between the groups.

For example, Alice Lichtenstein, director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at Tufts University in Boston, said the participants who were vegetarians were healthier overall.

"It's important to note that the vegetarians in this study were more highly educated, less likely to smoke, exercised more and were thinner," Lichtenstein, who was not involved with the new study, told Reuters Health.

Those traits have all been tied to better overall health in the past.

SHOULD YOU GO VEG?

Dr. Robert Baron, who wrote an editorial accompanying the new study in JAMA Internal Medicine, said the new evidence doesn't mean everyone should switch to a plant-based diet.

"I don't think everybody should be a vegetarian, but if they want to be, this article suggests it's associated with good health outcomes," said Baron, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Instead, he writes limiting added sugars, refined grains and saturated fats trumps whether or not to include a moderate amount of dairy, eggs, fish or meat.

Previous research has found that people who were on a mostly plant-based diet still had lower cholesterol while eating a small amount of lean beef (see Reuters Health article of January 2, 2012 here :reut.rs/14oPRMr.)

"It's like everything else, you have to think about it in terms of the whole package," Lichtenstein said.



SOURCE: bit.ly/MbBLb9 JAMA Internal Medicine, online June 3, 2013.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/03/us-health-vegetarian-idUSBRE95215220130603

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Paul Farmer: "To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation"

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 11:06 a.m.



Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health, an organization that builds hospitals and provides heathcare to countries afflicted by poor health conditions, attends to one of his patients in rural Haiti.
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Diane speaks with renowned physician and social activist Paul Farmer. In his latest book, he encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times, from global health and poverty to climate change.

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co-founder of Partners in Health and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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Cuban Medicine Killed Hugo Chavez

By Joel Hirst

Published February 28, 2013

Fox News Latino

There is perhaps no worse political disaster for the government of Cuba than the death of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. After the Soviet Union collapsed and ceased to subsidize the Castro regime, the government of Cuba went through a very difficult period. That is, until President Chávez picked up the tab.

While the real amount of the subsidy is unknown, Venezuela does send more than 115,000 barrels of oil a day to the refinery at Cienfuegos and pays for tens of thousands of Cuban doctors and sports trainers who are deployed all over Latin America. The true amount is probably significantly north of five billion dollars a year.

If there was anybody that could expect the very best Cuban medicine had to offer, it was the Castro's five billion dollar man. This makes the upcoming death of Chávez that much more embarrassing for the Castros, because the velocity at which the strongman has deteriorated is due in no small part to the incompetence of the Cuban doctors at Cimeq - the hospital of choice for the communist party leaders.

According to Dr. Jose Marquina, who has become well known for having the only information on the Venezuelan president's condition that has proved over time to be accurate, the Cuban doctors are at least partially at fault for the Venezuelan leader's imminent demise. He has said that the Cubans misdiagnosed the cancer, treating Chávez with chemotherapy and other treatments designed for the wrong type of cancer. This made the disease resistant and impossible to treat, while causing other complications which affected not only Chávez's life expectancy but also the quality of what life remained.

If President Chávez, with an unlimited wallet and access to the best Cuban medicine has to offer —as the VIP of Havana's Cimeq hospital, the hospital of the communist party leadership and Fidel himself — was assassinated by Cuban mal-practice, it begs the question what can ordinary Cubans hope for from their dilapidated dictatorship?

For Americans, subject for years to endless waves of Cuban propaganda through movies like Michael Moore's "Sicko," among so many others, at very least we now know the truth about the island dictatorship's archaic medical infrastructure. Maybe now we can turn that particular page in Cuba's ongoing propaganda war.



Joel D. Hirst is a Principal at Cordoba Group International and author of "El Teniente de San Porfirio," a novel on Socialist Venezuela by Grito Sagrado Press. He tweets @JoelHirst.

Source: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2013/02/28/cuban-medicine-killed-hugo-chavez/#ixzz2MjntW1GM

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Dr. Ben Carson - On Point withTom Ashbrook

February 26, 2013 at 10:00 AM

Dr. Ben Carson

We’re talking to neurosurgeon, Obama health care critic and new darling of the American conservative movement, Dr. Ben Carson.

Dr. Ben Carson (carsonscholars.org)

Dr. Ben Carson is accomplished, conservative, and black. This month he stood up at the National Prayer Breakfast, one seat away from the President, and laid down a big political critique of the Age of Obama.

On taxes, on health care, on political correctness. Time for self-reliance, he said. Within twenty-four hours, the Wall Street Journal headlined its editorial “Ben Carson for President.”

Conservative media threw their arms around the big doctor. He’s still on a roll.

This hour, On Point: Dr. Ben Carson, conservative man of the moment, on America now.

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Dr. Benjamin Carson, neurosurgeon and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008. (@realbencarson)

Jonathan Cohn, writer and senior editor at the New Republic. Author of “Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis—and the People Who Pay the Price.” (@citizencohn)

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Breathe Easier with Japanese Herbs

Sara Altshul 

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This botanical duo could ease asthma symptoms and cut drug doses

As many as 17 million American adults know asthma's symptoms firsthand: breathlessness, wheezing, and coughing. But Satoshi Yoshida, MD, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, both in Boston, suggests that Japanese herbal medicine (Kampo) may help control those symptoms as effectively as conventional asthma therapy.

In Japan, where all herbal treatments are covered by national health insurance, six different botanical therapies are recognized under national guidelines for asthma management. Dr. Yoshida says that two herbs are particularly effective--and both are available in the US.

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Saiko (Bupleuri radix) acts as an anti-inflammatory and helps to regulate the immune system, two critical functions in managing asthma symptoms, according to Dr. Yoshida. Over time, this herb has helped people with asthma lower their doses of corticosteroids, drugs that can have serious side effects.  Mao (Ephedra spp.), which is called ma huang in Traditional Chinese Medicine, relaxes bronchial passages that constrict during an asthma attack. While too much ephedra can be dangerous, using this herb under the care of a qualified herbal medicine practitioner can be safe and effective, Dr. Yoshida says.

Don't try this treatment plan on your own. Dr. Yoshida recommends consulting a qualified doctor of Oriental Medicine (OMD). To find one, call toll-free (888) 500-7999; in Canada, call (610) 266-1433. Or visit the American Association of Oriental Medicine online at www.aaom.org. Your OMD and your regular physician should work together to monitor your condition and drug dosages.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Bodega ‘Pharmacies’ a Risky Business, Experts Warn

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The Mexican contraception Perlutal is one of the medications available without prescription in a bodega in El Barrio.
For Mariela Suarez, a 36-year-old Mexican woman, the bodega near her home is her pharmacy.

Last week Suarez went to a store on 110th Street in Harlem’s El Barrio neighborhood for an injection of the birth control medication she has been using for several months.

For $23, Suarez bought Perlutal, a medicine made in Mexico which is not approved for sale in the United States. For $5, Luisa (not her real name), a Mexican woman who runs the store, injected her with an ampule’s worth of the drug in the back of the store where fruit and other merchandise is stored.

The bodega, a store of less than 350 square feet which carries products ranging from flowers to fruits and vegetables, also sells and injects other medicines without prescription. These include Pentrexyl, an injectible antibiotic, for $24, or in pill form for $1.75 each.

Luisa sounds like an expert pharmacist.

“This is good for everything,” she explained in a friendly way when she is asked about a medicine for a sore throat. “It cures infections of the ear, the stomach and the throat,” she adds.

The medicines are not on public display. But the sale of un-prescribed medicines is an open secret. Clients arrive, explain their symptoms in Spanish, and the sales clerk responds by listing the medicines the store carries to cure them.

Some of the medicines, spread out on a counter in front of the buyer, have no seal of guarantee, nor any expiration date; others are about to expire.

“It’s very cheap, and it’s good,” Suarez said of Perlutal. “I haven’t got the money to go to a doctor, much less to buy expensive contraceptives in a pharmacy. I’ve got to use what I can get.”

Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, a professor at Lehman College and a specialist in health issues affecting Latinos, explained that the sale of illegal medications is neither a new phenomenon nor confined to the community of El Barrio, but rather a common practice in the city’s immigrant neighborhoods.

“The Latino community is experiencing a health crisis,” said Marilyn Aguirre-Molina. “The purchase of medications without a prescription has become a necessity for immigrants who have no insurance.”

Besides the risks of taking medicines without medical supervision, the use of medications for purposes other than those intended is also becoming more and more common, warned Aguirre-Molina.

Out of control

On a second visit to the store in El Barrio, Aguirre-Molina’s warning was apt.

Perlutal, according to Hispanic women of the area, is very well known among young women and transsexuals, not only for its ability to prevent conception, but also as a hormonal stimulant which enlarges breasts and hips.

Tatiana (not her real name), a Peruvian woman of 21 who grew up and still lives in El Barrio, confirmed that the medicine is popular among her friends.

“I don’t use it,” she said. “But women I know well do use it to make their breasts grow bigger. Although I don’t know if it really works.”

Aguirre-Molina, the CUNY professor, said that hormonal contraceptives can lead to weight gain in some patients, but not in specific areas like buttocks and breasts. She also warned that hormonal contraceptives are not recommended for adolescents, since they can have a damaging effect on their development.

Gloria Sanchez-Contreras, a spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration, said that Perlutal is not approved for sale and distribution in the United States. The spokeswoman also warned of the health risks of consuming medications of unknown origin and doubtful purity. She pointed out that imported medicines can lack the information which would allow for a patient’s rapid treatment in case of side-effects.

The New York State Attorney General’s Office would not comment on whether investigations into the sale of illegal medicines in the city are underway.

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'Baby Joseph' Dies in His Canadian Home Surrounded by Family

Published September 28, 2011

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The baby who in March was hours from being pulled off life support at a Canadian hospital but was rescued by a pro-life group that brought the boy to the U.S. for treatment, died Tuesday night in the comfort of his own home in Windsor, Ontario.

"Baby Joseph" died with his mother Sana Nader, father Moe Maraachli at the home, CBC News reported.

“It seemed like a relaxing breath, like he was OK. It didn’t seem like he struggled,” Nader said, according to the report. “It was God’s way of telling us his last breath was OK.”

The family of 20-month-old Joseph Maraachli, who suffered from a rare, progressive neurological disease rendering him in a vegetative state, understood his long-term prognosis was grim. But they sought a medical procedure that would, at the minimum, allow boy to die at home instead of in a hospital bed hooked up to a respirator.

But the boy took center stage in a right-to-life dispute after the Canadian hospital denied to perform the tracheotomy and reportedly recommended he be removed from life support, according to reports.

His parents appealed to Canadian courts to overturn the hospital's decision, but were denied.

Upon learning the news, Rev. Frank Pavone and other staff members at Priests for Life, the pro-life group, removed "Baby Joseph" from the Canadian hospital and delivered him to Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, where doctors successfully performed the tracheotomy that enabled the boy to be moved back to his home without the need of a respirator.

Pavone said in a statement:

"I learned with sadness tonight of the passing of Baby Joseph, and extend my prayers to his family. This young boy and his parents fulfilled a special mission from God. Amidst a Culture of Death where despair leads us to dispose of the vulnerable, they upheld a Culture of Life where hope leads us to welcome and care for the vulnerable."

He continued, "From my first conversation with Baby Joseph's parents, they expressed to me their trust in God. They had no demands of Him regarding how long their son would live. They just wanted to fulfill their calling to love their child unconditionally and to protect him from those who considered his life worthless.

"I praise God tonight for the tens of thousands who stood with Priests for Life and other prolife groups to save Baby Joseph. We remain convinced that the value of life is not measured in months or years, but rather reflected in the love we share moment by moment. We all loved Joseph, because God entrusts us to the care of each other. In that conviction we will continue to counteract the culture of death and restore protection and equality to all, born and unborn."

Priests for Life covered all of the family’s medical bills while Joseph underwent treatment in the U.S. and also covered the costs of Joseph’s flight home, the Windsor Star reports.

"This is all the family ever wanted, let God decide when their child should leave this earth, not doctors our the civil courts," Brother Paul O'Donnell posted on Facebook, according to the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation's website.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/28/baby-joseph-reportedly-dies-in-his-canadian-home/#ixzz1ZGpvE46U

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EU Bans Your Right to Natural Health

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itaMSyFWo9I&feature=player_embedded

HumanSayNo 13.02.2011

This broadcast starts with the typical BBC propaganda, “Leading pharmacists are warning that new licences being granted to herbal remedies, could mislead customers into believing that they work”. Well thank you for the warning from the biggest killers in history, the pharmaceutical industry. Im sure they genuinely are concerned about us using these hazardous herbs.

If word got out that ambulatory medicine was a racket, and every illness known to man can be cured with natural, un-patentable herbs & remedies that grow in the garden, it would be a serious hazard to the pharmaceutical industries profit margin.

Anyway, where do these bureaucrats think they get the authority to grant a licence for a natural, God given plant? If I want to eat a bunch of nettles to cure whatever, there is no human being on this planet that has the authority to tell me I can't do it.

Of course the pharmacists are going to tell us natural herbs are dangerous. What they are not telling us is that nearly all pharmaceutical drugs are artificially copied from the very natural herbs, plants, roots, nuts and seeds they are trying to ban now. And what about the hundreds of thousands of people who die every year, as a side effect of their medically sanctioned toxins? No mention of that from the concerned pharmacists.

Are we really to believe that all natural herbs and remedies do not work and are dangerous? Even with a 5000yr proven safety record? This is modern eugenics!

This is no new scheme. This is the work of Codex Alimentarius, look it up!



Recorded from BBC Weekend Breakfast, 12 February 2011.
Thanx to liarpoliticians: http://www.youtube.com/user/liarpoliticians

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Daily baths and showers polluting the environment

Showers and baths are polluting water supplies partly due to growth in shampoos, gels and skin products, new research claims.

By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
Published: 11:15PM GMT 24 Mar 2010

Researchers have detected substances in water supplies that have come from prescription drugs and toiletries.

In the past environmental concerns have focused on sewage as a source chemical pollution as it is thought antibiotics and the active ingredients of pills are flushed down the lavatory.

But now the new research by the US Environment Protection Agency suggests that waste from showers and baths should also be looked at.

Dr Ilene Ruhoy, who coauthored the study reported at the American Chemical Society annual meeting, said that scientists have long known that bathrooms are a "portal" for release of so-called active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) into the environment.

An active ingredient in a pill is the medicine, usually combined with binders to hold the pill together, stabilisers, and other inactive ingredients.

However, scientists and pollution control officials had previously assumed that lavatories were the main culprit, with APIs excreted in urine and faeces and flushed into sewers and sewage treatment plants.

But now the new sources of the pollutants have been found.

"These routes may be important for certain APIs found in medications that are applied topically, which means to the skin," said Dr Ruhoy.

"They include creams, lotions, ointments, gels, and skin patches."

Dr Ruhoy and her team identified this potential new source of APIs through a comprehensive review of hundreds of scientific studies.

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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7513258/Daily-baths-and-showers-polluting-the-environment.html

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Looters roam Haiti streets as US troops pour in

Machete-wielding looters brought more terror to Haiti's streets Friday as US troops poured into the quake-ravaged nation to start streaming tons of aid to traumatized and destitute people.

Saturday, January 16, 2010
By: Stephane Jourdain

Haitian looters fight for food, January 15, 2010 in a street of Port-au-Prince. US military leaders said they would pour 10,000 troops in earthquake-battered Haiti in the coming days, warning that it was urgent to bring water and food to prevent deaths and unrest. AFP PHOTO OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI.


PORT-AU-PRINCE, January 16, 2010 (AFP) - Machete-wielding looters brought more terror to Haiti's streets Friday as US troops poured into the quake-ravaged nation to start streaming tons of aid to traumatized and destitute people.

Three days after Tuesday's earthquake, anger and frustration mounted in the ruined capital city, with thousands of people still desperate for food and water amid the stench of corpses left rotting in the tropical sun.

A vanguard of the 10,000 US troops being deployed to Haiti took control of the airport, clogged with tons of relief supplies, and began the first mass distributions of aid seeking to quell any threat of violence.

"As long as the people are hungry and thirsty, as long as we haven't fixed the problem of shelter, we run the risk of riots," warned Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, after a visit to the capital Port-au-Prince.

Haitian officials said at least 50,000 people had been killed and 1.5 million left homeless in the Caribbean nation, one of the poorest countries in the world, which has long witnessed violence and bloodshed.

As UN officials on the ground pleaded for more medical and food aid for survivors, looting became widespread and there were angry scuffles at the few distribution points.

The fourth night after the quake brought fresh fears for many families already terrorized by armed gangs.

"Men suddenly appeared with machetes to steal money," said Evelyne Buino, a young beautician, after a long night in a neighborhood not far from the ruined city center.

"This is just the beginning."

"We need to protect and guard (our home). There are many armed men, a lot of looting," Eglide Victor, whose shabbily-built house was the only one left standing on his street in the heart of the Haitian capital, told AFP.

Officials have estimated that some three million people -- a third of the population -- were affected by the 7.0-magnitude quake.

"We really need to focus on the living, and what we can do for them," Nicholas Reader, spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told AFP.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon is set to visit Haiti on Sunday as the world body appealed for 562 million dollars from donors. Ban said the UN system was mobilizing all its resources "as fast as we possibly can."

The UN mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) was hit hard by the quake, with 37 of its 12,000 employees confirmed dead and 330 unaccounted for.

UN officials said the World Food Programme was now feeding around 8,000 people several times a day and hopes to feed roughly one million people within 15 days and two million people within a month.

"People had reserves for a few days, but now they are dwindling. They are afraid to go downtown in search of food because it has become too dangerous," said Haiti resident Patricia Etique, a Swiss citizen.

With thousands of bodies piled up on the streets of the capital, there was also a race against time to reach any survivors still in the ruins and treat those who were badly injured.

Foreign relief teams were increasingly seen on the streets, some backed by vital heavy-lifting equipment.

Scores more survivors were pulled alive from the rubble. A Belgian rescue team extracted a 28-year-old Haitian woman from one building after first amputating her leg above her right knee.

"We're very happy. It's what we're here for, and after this amount of time and the heat, it's great to still find people alive," Sergeant Major Edouard Dekoster, part of a specialized search and rescue team, told AFP.

US President Barack Obama finally reached Haiti's President Rene Preval by telephone Friday, and offered "full support" in earthquake relief aid and long-term rebuilding.

But President Preval told AFP that the aid operation needs to be better organized.

"We need international aid, but the problem is the coordination," he said.

Preval, whose temporary seat of government is now a police station near the capital's airport, said 74 planes from countries including the United States, France and Venezuela, had arrived in a single day.

Scientists warned that Haiti and its neighbors must prepare themselves for more massive quakes after the devastating tremors this week increased pressure along a lengthy fault line.

Paul Mann, a senior research scientist at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin, warned that just because the rebuilding process had started people shouldn't assume the risk was over.

"This relief of stress along this area near Port-au-Prince may have actually increased stress in the adjacent segments on the fault," he told AFP.

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Source: http://www.laredosun.us/notas.asp?id=3017

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Separated twins 'bring hope to world'

Posted Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:21pm AEDT

The twins' surgery has touched people across the world. (Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne: Lloyd Ellis)

A top Catholic cleric says the world should take inspiration from the "miraculous" separation of conjoined Bangladeshi twins Krishna and Trishna.

Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson said the twins' remarkable journey from an orphanage in Bangladesh to the moment of separation in Melbourne had brought joy and hope to all corners of the globe.

"The twins' recovery from marathon surgery to separate their fused heads had touched people across the world," Archbishop Wilson said in his annual Christmas message.

"It is an experience which touches our hearts and reveals to us the presence of God in our daily living ... a wonderful symbol of the regeneration of life that is given to us through the birth of Jesus Christ.

"This Christmas, let the faces of Krishna and Trishna be a constant reminder to us of God's love for us and inspire us to spread peace and goodwill to all."

Krishna and Trishna were released from Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital on Monday, five weeks after being separated in a marathon 30-hour surgery.

The pair - who celebrated their third birthday on Tuesday - have been discharged into the care of legal guardian Moira Kelly, who heads the Children First Foundation.

The girls amazed doctors with their fast recovery from surgery, with Trishna recently crawling for the first time.

They were given only a 25 per cent chance of surviving the surgery without neurological damage, but doctors believe they have come through the operation without serious brain damage.

"We are absolutely delighted with their progress. I look forward to seeing them live a long and happy life," neurosurgeon Wirginia Maixner said earlier this week.

Source:http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/24/2780585.htm?section=australia

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Ancient Symbols in Modern Medicine: But Why?

Does the ancient symbolism employed by the institutions that control modern medicine reflect the influence of secret societies such as the Freemasons? In order to fully understand the esoteric significance of modern medical symbolism, such as the cross, or Ankh, or the serpents and staff of Moses, or the winged staff of Hermes, it is helpful to begin by understanding that all doctors swear to pagan gods.

The Hippocratic Oath, which is sworn by all doctors, begins with the invocation: "I swear by Apollo the Physician. By Aesculapius, Hygela and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods and goddesses..."[1] Dr Robert Orr showed in 1993 that 100% of American medical schools administer some form of the Hippocratic Oath to graduates.[2]

Dr James Appleyard, Chairman of the World Medical Association's medical ethics committee, supports the modern use of the ancient Hippocratic oath as "the continuation of a statement of fundamental ethical principles that could be affirmed at graduation by doctors worldwide".[3]
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The World Medical Association's logo[4] features a serpent wrapped around a staff, the symbol of the ancient Greek god Asklepios. Aesculapius, worshipped by the Greeks as the god of healing, who originated in ancient Egypt as Imhotep, high-priest, sage and minister to the pharaoh, Zoser. It is significant that this symbol is reminiscent of the Staff of Moses.[5] The World Health Organisation's logo[6] also contains the ancient religious symbol of the serpent and staff, which is superimposed over the United Nations emblem.

In fact, the medical establishment is steeped in ancient religious symbolism. The British Columbia Medical Association coat of arms[7] includes the Rod of Aesculapius, a golden griffin where the substance represents alchemy, a medieval knight's helmet, and an ancient Egyptian Ankh (Crux Ansata or Handled Cross). The Insider approves of their official motto: "Always seek the truth." Paramedics also use the symbol of staff and serpent in the internationally recognised paramedic symbol[8], also called The Star of Life[9]. The resemblence between this sign and the early Christian symbol of the Pax Christi (Chi-Rho)[10], a cross-like monogram for Christ in ancient Greek, may be significant.

The Wellcome Trust, a major medical charity, employs the winged staff and snakes of Hermes[11] as their official logo, and for no apparent reason there is a huge image of the ancient Egyptian religious symbols of the Udjat eye of Horus and the Winged Disc of Ra, etched into the glass above their entrance opposite Euston train station in the West End of London. The winged sun disc is an ancient symbol for the sun god, Ra. Well known examples of the winged solar disc symbol can be found in ancient Egyptian temples, for instance over the entrance to the Solar Temple of Amen-Ra at Karnak, or or over the Temple doorway in Medinet Habu on the West bank of Luxor.

The Royal Society of Medicine coat of arms[12] features the serpent of Moses on a Tau cross, and flowers which resemble the stylised Lotus frequently depicted in ancient Egyptian art. In this discussion about secret societies and the modern of ancient symbols it is pertinent that The Royal Society - the foremost scientific institution in the U.K., was founded by a prominent Freemason, Sir Robert Moray.[13]

John Robinson explains in his popular book on Freemasonry: "When Freemasonry came public in 1717 ... it appeared that the Royal Society was virtually a Masonic subsidiary, with almost every member and every founding member of the Royal Society a Freemason."[14] An article in the leading Masonic magazine, Freemasonry Today, echoes this and mentions that "many masons were also members of the Royal Society".[15] The Royal Society remains associated with British Freemasonry today.

The Red Cross was first associated with human welfare and medical help during the medieval crusades, when European Knights travelled overseas to help pilgrims and foreigners alike, such as the Knights of St John[16], the Knights Hospitaller, and the Knights Templar[17] which was the first organisation to officially adopt the red cross symbol.

The Knights Templar[18] has been operating in secret for centuries, and traditions and inner mysteries are connected with those of the secret society of Freemasonry[19].

REFERENCES
1. The Hippocratic Oath, from the Junior Doctors Association website.
2. Orr RD, Pang N, Pellegrino, EJ, Siegler M., 1997. Use of the Hippocratic Oath: A review of 20th century practice and a content analysis of oaths administered in medical schools in the U.S. and Canada in 1993. Journal of Clinical Ethics, 8(4):377-388.
3. World Medical Association website, press center, statement of support for the Hippocratic Oath.
4. World Medical Association's official logo.
5. Exodus (2 Moses) 4:2-3, & Numbers (4 Moses) 21:8-9, Christian Bible or Jewish Torah.
6. World Health Organisation, official website.
7. British Columbia Medical Association's coat of arms on their official website.
8. Paramedic symbol from a major paramedics website.
9. History of The Star of Light, North Virginia Emergency Medical Services Council website.
10. Examples of Christian religious symbolism, Gospel Facts website.
11. Irish Emergency Ambulance Service website, see Ambulance History page for information about ancient religious symbols used in modern medicine, such as the Rod of Asclepius and the Caduceus.
12. Royal Society of Medicine coat of arms, featured and explained on their official website.
13. Lecture on The Royal Society, by the author and Freemason Robert Lomas, on his official website.
14. J. J. Robinson, 1990. Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry. New York, USA: M Evans & Co.
15. An article from the official Masonic magazine, Freemasonry today, posted on their website.
16. The History of First Aid, on an official St. John's Ambulance website.
17. Knights Templar History website.
18. An official Knights Templar website.
19.Knights Templar page on the official Indiana Masons website.
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NOTES & FURTHER READING
1. J.S.M. Ward , 1940. Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods. Montana, USA: R A Kessinger Publishing Co.

*** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *** One of the most revealing publicly available sources about the Craft, since the 1940s this has been the benchmark reference textbook for research into the relationship between Freemasonry and religion.

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Source: http://www.theinsider.org/reports/medical-symbols/

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