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Why I can’t quit
Why Smokers Can’t Quit Easily: Every smoker knows it’s tough to kick the habit. In fact, just seeing a photo of someone smoking is enough for would-be quitters to ditch their best intentions and light up “just one more,” research now shows. And it doesn’t help when quit smoking commercials are on the TV and…
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Amanda Peet speaks out for vaccination with backup
Defending Vaccines: Actress Dispels Link To Autism: My newfound respect for Amanda Peet keeps increasing. Instead of spreading fear and junk science about vaccinations like Jenny McCarthy, Amanda Peet us speaking out in favor of vaccinating children and actually has a prominent doctor backing her up. After her baby was born in early 2007, she…
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Jenny McCarthy Slams Amanda Peet Over Vaccines
Link LOS ANGELES — Actress and new mom Amanda Peet referred to parents who choose not to vaccinate their children as “parasites” in a recent interview. But despite her public apology aimed at parents of autistic children who believe that vaccines may have caused the illness, Jenny McCarthy hasn’t forgiven or forgotten. “She (Peet) has…
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Public needs to know vaccines are safe, docs say
Public needs to know vaccines are safe, docs say – Yahoo! News A new coalition of 22 major medical groups says public confidence in vaccine safety needs to be restored to avoid risks for deadly disease outbreaks. Thursday’s message comes from the Chicago-based American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and 20 more of…
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No Connection Between Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) Vaccine And Autism, Study Suggests
Link We found no relationship between the timing of MMR vaccine and the onset of either GI complaints or autism.” Not that this will convince the Luddites of anything. They’d rather have their kids die of infectious diseases than embrace current scientific data. As much as I feel for kids with autism a lot of…
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FDA probes allergy drug’s suicide link
Link Now I’m sure some asthma sufferers are going to get all huffy and puffy over this. Pun intended by the way. But I’ve been on Singulair for years. As a matter of fact, I even quit smoking while on Singulair and I have not had any suicidal thoughts. I realize that this is anecdotal…
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How to Fight a Health Insurance Denial
Link As someone who has worked on both sides of the healthcare industry, I can vouch that this article is the real deal. I’ve been wanting to write something like this for years now but never got around to it. Now I don’t have to. 🙂
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Parents may be jailed over vaccinations
Link Calm down conspiracy-minded autism fearing parents. This is in Belgium. But if it did happen in the states I wouldn’t mind. Then we could wipe out the childhood diseases that we already wiped out once.
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Study: Anti-Depressants Lower Teen Suicide Rates
Link Not that this would ever shut the anti-anti-depressant Luddites up. They’re just as bad as the immunizations cause autism freaks.