The Wall Street Journal reports that a combination vaccine has been shown to reduce HIV infection by 31%, the first major breakthrough in AIDS management in years. This means, that of the 135 volunteers that contracted HIV, 74 did not receive the vaccine, and 51 did receive the vaccine. The vaccinated volunteers who contracted HIV [...]

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I am adamantly opposed to the swine flu vaccine, and am convinced that getting a vaccination against swine flu is not in your best interest. Read the facts, and decide for yourself.
About the swine flu
Dr. Russell Blaylock, author, lecturer, retired neurosurgeon, and nutritional researcher, did a detailed analysis of the material from the CDC [...]

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The Real Cost of Cheap Food
Opening page reads: He’s raised on grass and hay and lives happily on a pasture by the ocean. His meat is free of antibiotics, but can we afford to eat it? We can’t afford not to. Time Magazine recently reported on our national dietary habits in this compelling article, but [...]

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Appendix May Be Useful Organ After All
“The idea that the appendix is an organ whose time has passed has itself become a concept whose time is over.” In AOL News, Researcher William Parker, immunologist at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC suggests the appendix houses

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In the recent Wall Street Journal article, “Swine Flu Remains Mild as Vaccine Advances,” reporters stated results from a CDC study, showing that most of the U.S. children who had died as a result of the swine flu had pre-existing conditions.
The H1N1 swine flu virus continues to ‘sicken’ people world-wide, but is not becoming more [...]

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Wall Street Journal

Living With a Lifesaving Drug’s Side Effects
A recent Wall Street Journal article touts the benefits of a new drug called Gleevec, which is effective against certain cancers, but carries with it significant side effects. The Journal mentions one person, Alice Sulkowski, taking the drug and states that she has had difficulty dealing with

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I received a comment from a reader regarding the GMO article (genetically modified foods):
“…studies on GMO foods- your article in the 1 September 2009 Meridian Magazine did not cite any of the studies to which you referred- Please cite at least a few specific studies to provide support for your article. Thank you for an [...]

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Regulators and Physicians Raise Alarms About Dangerous Ingredients in Many Herbal Remedies
The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, September, 8, 2009
Extreme cases of supplement contamination are emphasized—Dan Gerkey tried a supplement that advertised that it would build strength.  The supplement included steroids, which caused Dan to experience

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