 NHF legislation, sponsored by Rep. Dan Burton, to amend DSHEA grandfathering date to 2007, exempting all dietary supplements made prior to 2007 from the new FDA Draft Guidance testing requirements. 698 Actions Taken So Far
Let's not bury our heads in the sand. Health Freedom America would like to know of your interest in helping to spread the word, contact congress people etc., and fight for freedom of speech and Your Health Freedom. Read below Fwd from Organic Consumers with a link to their site.
We are losing our freedom of speech. When Dr. Weil has to remove something from his website and others too! It is time to take action and stand together. Do you want to be forced to take a vaccination that hasn't been fully tested for years and years and years... if at all? Read on and email me.
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Obama's FDA Threatens Dr. Weil in Swine Flu Scam Warning
Days after President Obama declared the swine flu a national emergency, his Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a joint consumer warning on products claiming swine flu prevention or cures. A joint warning letter was also sent to websites and companies demanding they stop selling or stop making false claims about their products or they will face criminal and civil charges.
The dragnet of swine flu scams was so broad that it caught up Dr. Andrew Weil, one of the best-known and most trusted alternative medicine doctors in America. He was forced to remove information from his site about his Immune Support Formula, which contains astragalus, "traditionally used to ward off colds and flu and has demonstrated both antiviral and immune-boosting effects in scientific investigation."
The irony is that the declaration of a national swine flu emergency allows the FDA to authorize "the emergency use of certain unapproved and uncleared products." The FDA has already authorized the emergency use of the "investigational antiviral drug" peramivir and will likely rush other untested drugs to market.
The FDA admits there is limited safety data on peramivir, and has mandated that healthcare providers report all adverse events and all medication errors associated with peramivir to FDA's MedWatch program within seven days. In effect, all swine flu patients administered peramivir are participating in human trials of an experimental drug. So far, adverse events in patients given peramivir have included diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and neutropenia. (According to Wikipedia, neutropenia is a "disorder characterized by an abnormally low number of neutrophils, the most important type of white blood cell ... [P]atients with neutropenia are more susceptible to bacterial infections and, without prompt medical attention, the condition may become life-threatening).
Astragalus bad, peramivir good? It's hard to trust an FDA that "protects" the public from from time-tested natural herbal supplements while rushing untested pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines to market!
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Judge: Child protection case headed to trial
By Kurt Nesbitt — Staff Writer
POSTED: May 2, 2009
The Journal, New Ulm, MN
NEW ULM - A judge decided Friday morning that the issues being raised by attorneys in a child protection case, stemming from a family's decision not to put their 13 year-old son through a second round of chemotherapy, are issues for trial and not grounds for the summary judgement sought recently by the boy's parents.
Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg decided the trial of the child protection case involving Daniel Hauser, 13, of Sleepy Eye, will begin next Friday morning.
The case comes out of a child protection petition filed in early April by Brown County Family Services, alleging Hauser's parents were medically neglecting him because he was not going to chemotherapy but receiving alternative treatments for his nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a form of cancer common among adolescents and young adults, despite the advice of four doctors, because of religious beliefs and because of concerns his parents had about chemotherapy, which Daniel's aunt died from.
At the pre-trial hearing Friday morning, Hauser's parents' attorney, Calvin Johnson of Mankato, asked the court for a summary judgement on the grounds that the state's action violates spiritual law and that "by his religious beliefs and his freedom of conscience" Danny will refuse chemotherapy.
Daniel Hauser also submitted an affidavit Friday of his own through his attorney, Phil Elbert of New Ulm, which stated he is a Nemenhah medicine man, a church elder, that he will do no harm to himself or others, is opposed to chemotherapy "because it is self-destructive and poisonous", that his aunt died as a result of chemotherapy, that he is receiving adequate medical care consistent with his religious beliefs and has made the decision to disobey any order to have him surrender to any medical treatment "involving self-destruction and death, including chemotherapy."
Rodenberg informed the court at the beginning that the pre-trial would be handled in open court due to public interest in the matter, instead of in his chambers like most pre-trial hearings in custody matters.
Rodenberg denied the motion to dismiss, ruling that there are issues for resolution in the case, including whether or not Brown County can demonstrate a compelling state interest in intervening in the decisions regarding medical care that Daniel's parents arrived at previously.
New Ulm attorney Phil Elbert said that Daniel agrees with his parents' motion. Elbert argued that while most child protection petitions stop the harm being caused to or by a child by ordering treatment or incarceration, the petition will not stop the harm in Daniel Hauser's case because it cannot stop his cancer.
Rodenberg told Elbert that Tony and Colleen Hauser have said they will follow the court's orders. Elbert replied, citing a state statute that allows a competent person the right to refuse treatment.
"We have that because of the problem of coming to court to solve those problems," Elbert argued.
Brown County Attorney James Olson rebutted that he would have no problem with Elbert's argument, except that Daniel Hauser is 13, rather than 18, and that the court would not be ordering Daniel to go to chemotherapy, but would be ordering his parents to do that.
"That makes no sense because we're dealing with a 13-year-old," Olson said.
Although Johnson disagreed, Rodenberg repeated his decision, telling the attorney the issues he raised in his motion are issues for a trial.
Two new attorneys were added to the case on Friday, one representing the guardian ad litem for Brown County and the other a Washington D.C. attorney for the Hausers who works in medical rights matters.
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