New FDA Label

FYI
We need to remember, every medication that the FDA bans or requires new label warnings, once had the approval of the FDA as it was, before the ban or new label.

Please check this link for the antibiotics on the list.

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm365050.htm

Health Scare

I came across some interesting information recently, that I simply have to share.  For several years now, staph has become an issue for many people who have some sort of inpatient procedure done.  They go in for whatever surgery and end up with a staph infection.  Now, there are many reasons given for why this happens, but it so far hasn't stopped anyone from subjecting themselves to this potentially fatal disease.

As the plagues and pestilences continue to gain momentum in our society and around the world, we need to be aware of some things.  The medical industry actually protects itself from a number of liabilities by requiring patients to sign authorization and treatment forms.  There are a number of "exclusionary what ifs" that people sign in agreement stating the risk is on them, and the facility will not be held accountable.

The diagnosis of HIV is still protected, meaning a medical professional can be HIV+ and you don't have the right to know that.  The truth of the matter is, the server at the restaurant can be HIV+ and it would be discrimination to not hire them, but we realize there are chances we take every time we interact in public.  It's in medical treatment that we continue to be very vulnerable, yet trusting, even after the statistics indicate we have reason to be alarmed.

There is policy in place now that actually instructs patients to use certain chemical precautions before submitting to surgery in the facility, in an attempt to minimize the possibility of staph or MRSA.  Now some say this is such a wonderful precaution, but we don't consider the fact that staph and MRSA are super bugs because of the previous precautions taken.   We are literally creating and mutating bacteria by the overuse of antibiotic and anti-bacterial chemicals.

Medical facilities are not where we obtain health and let's face it, they don't stay in business healing people, but treating people, repeatedly . . .  Much like the casinos, the winners aren't keeping the doors open and the lights on.

Something to Consider

. . . While we still can think clearly.  Have you ever wondered about the rise in Alzheimer's and dementia?  For a time I just attributed it to people living longer and it was inevitable that the brain, being an organ, would give out just like a heart, or any other organ.  I truly thought it was just a matter of genetics, diet, and lifestyle in the early years that determined which organs gave out first.  Add to that an extended life expectancy from artificial means, and you're bound to have more cases of everything in an aging population that isn't really healthier at all, but rather; preserved.  "Better living through chemistry," as the saying goes.

 What I hadn't taken into consideration until about twenty years ago, was the devastating effect medications can have on our thought process and memory.  I never considered how much of our aging population was taking medications that really had not been tested in long term use, because these drugs simply have not been in existence long enough to know the long term effect.

Over the counter drugs are, in my opinion, highly over used.  Because they are obtainable without prescription, many people consider them to hold no long term effect.  We simply do not really know the potential.  Then add to that, the drinking water that contains pharmaceuticals along with memory altering chemicals and we may have a better understanding of the increase in Alzheimer's and dementia.  The increase in cases may be a simple line of cause and effect from the chemicals we ingest over the years, believing them to be harmless.

http://intellihub.com/2013/07/09/studies-prove-that-these-drugs-make-your-brain-stop-working/