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The National Health Freedom-UK branch is launched
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Swine Flu

The Society of Homeopathy advises anyone concerned to consult the NHS advice available at www.nhs.uk/AlertsEmergencies/Pages/Pandemicflualert.aspx and to follow the symptom checker if necessary, contacting their GP or NHS Direct on 0845 4647 if they are still worried.

The single most effective way to stop or slow the spread of diseases such as swine flu is to prevent the spread of germs by:

· washing your hands regularly with soap and water
· covering your mouth and nose if you cough or sneeze
· disposing of used tissues as soon as possible
· staying at home if you do become ill

Registered members of The Society of Homeopaths (RSHoms) regularly prescribe for patients suffering with common ailments such as colds and flu.

The above has been reprinted with the kind permission of The Society of Homeopathy.

If you have any queries regarding Swine Flu please call me to discuss your concerns.

For further info on Vaccines in general please go to:


http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/compulsory-vax/

http://vactruth.com/2009/07/21/dr-andrew-moulden-interview-what-you-were-never-told-about-vaccines

http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/there-is-no-anti-vaccine-movement


www.the-cma.org.uk for monthly newsletter and new book on swine flu and your choices.

well.blogs.nytimes.com for positive article on benefits of Arnica from the New York Times.

www.homeopathic.com
for good articles on homeopathy.

www.HPVfacts.co.uk for info on the cervical cancer vaccine.

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Swine Flu (continued)


NaturalNews.com printable article
Originally published July 28 2009

Ten Things You're Not Supposed to Know about the Swine Flu Vaccine
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) She was deathly afraid of the flu.
So she asked her doc what she should do.
He jabbed her unseen
With a swine flu vaccine
Blurting, "Darling, I haven't a clue."

- by the Health Ranger

Let's not beat around the bush on this issue: The swine flu vaccines now being prepared for mass injection into infants, children, teens and adults have never been tested and won't be tested before the injections begin. In Europe, where flu vaccines are typically tested on hundreds (or thousands) of people before being unleashed on the masses, the European Medicines Agency is allowing companies to skip the testing process entirely.

And yet, amazingly, people are lining up to take the vaccine, absent any safety testing whatsoever. When the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. announced a swine flu vaccine trial beginning in early August, it was inundated with phone calls and emails from people desperate to play the role of human guinea pigs. The power of fear to herd sheeple into vaccine injections is simply amazing...

Back in Europe, of course, everybody gets to be a guinea pig since no testing will be done on the vaccine at all. Even worse, the European vaccines will be using adjuvants -- chemicals used to multiply the potency of the active ingredients in vaccines.

Notably, there is absolutely no safety data on the use of adjuvants in infants and expectant mothers -- the two groups being most aggressively targeted by the swine flu vaccine pushers. The leads us to the disturbing conclusion that the swine flu vaccine could be a modern medical disaster. It's untested and un-tried. Its ingredients are potentially quite dangerous, and the adjuvants being used in the European vaccines are suspected of causing neurological disorders.
Paralyzed by vaccines
I probably don't need to remind you that in 1976, a failed swine flu vaccine caused irreparable damage to the nervous systems of hundreds of people, paralyzing many. Medical doctors gave the problem a name, of course, to make it sound like they knew what they were talking about: Guillain-Barre syndrome. (Notably, they never called it "Toxic Vaccine Syndrome" because that would be too informative.)

But the fact remains that doctors never knew how the vaccines caused these severe problems, and if the same event played out today, all the doctors and vaccine pushers would undoubtedly deny any link between the vaccines and paralysis altogether. (That's what's happening today with the debate over vaccines and autism: Complete denial.)

In fact, there are a whole lot of things you'll never be told by health authorities about the upcoming swine flu vaccine. For your amusement, I've written down the ten most obvious ones and published them below.

Ten things you're not supposed to know about the swine flu vaccine
(At least, not by anyone in authority...)

#1 - The vaccine production was "rushed" and the vaccine has never been tested on humans. Do you like to play guinea pig for Big Pharma? If so, line up for your swine flu vaccine this fall...

#2 - Swine flu vaccines contain dangerous adjuvants that cause an inflammatory response in the body. This is why they are suspected of causing autism and other neurological disorders.

#3 - The swine flu vaccine could actually increase your risk of death from swine flu by altering (or suppressing) your immune system response. There is zero evidence that even seasonal flu shots offer any meaningful protection for people who take the jabs. Vaccines are the snake oil of modern medicine.

#4 - Doctors still don't know why the 1976 swine flu vaccines paralyzed so many people. And that means they really have no clue whether the upcoming vaccine might cause the same devastating side effects. (And they're not testing it, either...)

#5 - Even if the swine flu vaccine kills you, the drug companies aren't responsible. The U.S. government has granted drug companies complete immunity against vaccine product liability. Thanks to that blanket immunity, drug companies have no incentive to make safe vaccines, because they only get paid based on quantity, not safety (zero liability).

#6 - No swine flu vaccine works as well as vitamin D to protect you from influenza. That's an inconvenient scientific fact that the U.S. government, the FDA and Big Pharma hope the people never realize.

#7 - Even if the swine flu vaccine actually works, mathematically speaking if everyone else around you gets the vaccine, you don't need one! (Because it can't spread through the population you hang with.) So even if you believe in the vaccine, all you need to do is encourage your friends to go get vaccinated...

#8 - Drug companies are making billions of dollars from the production of swine flu vaccines. That money comes out of your pocket -- even if you don't get the jab -- because it's all paid by the taxpayers.

#9 - When people start dying in larger numbers from the swine flu, rest assured that many of them will be the very people who got the swine flu vaccine. Doctors will explain this away with their typical Big Pharma logic: "The number saved is far greater than the number lost." Of course, the number "saved" is entirely fictional... imaginary... and exists only in their own warped heads.

#10 - The swine flu vaccine centers that will crop up all over the world in the coming months aren't completely useless: They will provide an easy way to identify large groups of really stupid people. (Too bad there isn't some sort of blue dye that we could tag 'em with for future reference...)

The lottery, they say, is a tax on people who can't do math. Similarly, flu vaccines are a tax on people who don't understand health.

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PRESS RELEASE: UPDATE ON BCA v SIMON SINGH, 7 MAY 2009

In April 2008 Simon Singh published an article in the Guardian newspaper and on Guardian Online in the course of which he wrote that:

“the British Chiropractic Association claims that their members can help treat children with colic, sleeping
and feeding problems, frequent ear infections, asthma and prolonged crying, even though there is not a jot of evidence. This organization is the respectable face of the chiropractic profession and yet it happily
promotes bogus treatments.”

The BCA asked Dr Singh to retract his allegations because they are factually wrong, defamatory and damaging to the BCA’s reputation. Dr Singh refused to do so. In July 2008, the BCA issued libel proceedings against Dr Singh. He defended his position and the case has been continuing.

At a hearing on 7 May 2009 in the Royal Courts of Justice before Mr Justice Eady, Dr Singh’s submissions that what he published was not defamatory and that it was fair comment were roundly rejected by the Judge. Mr Justice Eady held:
1. that what Dr Singh had published was defamatory of the BCA in exactly the way the BCA had claimed; and
2. that Dr Singh’s allegations were not comment but were serious defamatory allegations of fact against the BCA.

Dr Singh’s application for permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal was refused by the Judge. Dr Singh has indicated, however, that he proposes to challenge that decision at the Court of Appeal and he now has three weeks to lodge that challenge.

Mr Justice Eady ordered Dr Singh to pay the BCA’s costs of the hearing within 28 days. After the hearing BCA President Dr Tony Metcalfe said, “The BCA brought this claim to preserve its integrity and reputation. I’m delighted that the Judge has vindicated the BCA’s position.”

The trial will conclude later this year.

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The National Health Freedom-UK branch is launched

WORLD'S OLDEST HEALTH-FREEDOM GROUP LAUNCHES FULL-TIME OPERATIONS IN THE U.K March9, 2009

On March 17, 2009, in Cardiff, Wales, the National Health Federation - the World's oldest health-freedom organization for consumers begins a new chapter in its existence with the launch of its NHF-UK branch. With members in some 17 different countries, including the United Kingdom, the NHF has long had a member presence in the UK. However, with the launch of the NHF-UK, its activities in Great Britain will have a continuous UK presence with a focus on those health-freedom issues important to the British people - such as maintaining and expanding traditional health rights while protecting against unnecessary and dangerous fluoridation, vaccinations, GMO-contaminated foods, and Codex and EU bureaucratic over-regulation and strangulation of health freedoms. Glenda M Davies, NHF-UK's Executive Director, said, 'Health freedom has always been important as a way of ensuring that individuals have unhindered access to those many different healthcare treatments, whether conventional or alternative, that such individuals wish to use for themselves and their families. Unfortunately, we have seen a steady erosion of our right to choose and, with it, an erosion of control over our own bodies and healthcare decisions. With the launch of NHF-UK, we begin a concerted effort of many voices joined together to stop and reverse this erosion of our rights.' Ian R Crane, author, researcher and lecturer, and the 'midwife' for the birth of NHF-UK says, "The formal constitution of the NHF-UK presents a tremendous opportunity for supporting and promoting the various individuals
and groups throughout the UK, who are committed to challenging the Bio-Tech
and Agri-business agenda; i.e. to effectively eliminate organic farming and
marginalize the Complementary and Alternative Health industry."

Scott C Tips, the NHF President, commented that, "This is a very
important step for the National Health Federation and for health freedom -
both in Britain and elsewhere in the World. For far too long we have seen
our health-freedom rights trampled upon with disdain and ease. Bureaucrats
and Members of Parliament alike have little comprehension and appreciation
of the well-established fact that the best health for a population comes
from freedom and not from the blind, heavy-handed, dead-weight of numerous
'protective' rules and regulations, most of which are imposed upon us by
unelected and therefore unaccountable bureaucrats with little knowledge of
how the real world works. By joining our health-freedom voices together
here in Britain, we can reassert our health-freedom rights and thus our
health."

Join the NHF-UK by contacting Glenda Davies at glenda@thenhf.co.uk or at contact-us@thenhf.com.

Established in 1955, the National Health Federation is an international
consumer-education, health-freedom organization working to protect
individuals' rights to choose to consume healthy food, take supplements, and
use alternative therapies without needless government restrictions. With
consumer members all over the World, and a Board of Governors and Advisory
Board containing representatives from 7 different countries, the Federation
is unique as being the only consumer health-freedom organization in the
World to enjoy official observer status (able to speak out for health
freedom) at meetings of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the highest
international body on food standards.


Reproduced by kind permission of the NHF.

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Health Freedom in the UK by Glenda M. Davies, NHF-UK Executive Director

As we currently stand in the United Kingdom we do still have a good choice over our health and have the freedom to seek the advice of an alternative health practitioner. We can also walk into any natural health-store and choose to buy good-quality, high-dose vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplements and at reasonable prices. There are only three other countries in the European Union where this could also be said.

However, it is worrying that in a couple of years’ time this might not still be the case, with the full implementation of the European Union’s Food Supplements Directive, which is due to come into effect at the start of 2010. The United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, and the Netherlands will be dragged down to the harshly-restrictive level of control seen in France and Germany.

Strict Product Licences
Under one of the articles of this Directive, vitamin, mineral, and herbal supplement producers will have to manufacture their products under a strict product licence. And while most practitioners here think that more-stringent manufacturing procedures might reduce even further the risk of contamination and guarantee even higher-quality supplements, the far-more negative side to this part of the Directive would be, among other things, increased manufacturing costs and therefore increased retail costs for consumers.
Importantly, too, we will only see the production of low-concentration supplements at exorbitant prices, manufactured by large corporate giants who can afford the product-licence fee. For those consumers wishing to purchase high-dose supplements (for example, 1000mg Vitamin C), they will only be available – if at all – prescription only, which, when that does happen, we are not likely to get hold of. Ironically, enough, in this supposed quest for consumer safety, the net result will be less consumer safety and lower health because consumers will no longer have access to those necessarily higher-dose nutrients that will effectively support their optimal health!

Absurdly Low Safe Upper Levels

The other and even more-worrying issue about this Directive is its unwillingness to accept the production of vitamin and mineral supplements within true upper safety levels, but rather at levels far lower than the suggested optimum nutritional allowance (SONA) as is currently the case. Our health will be the victim of this Directive.

Under the new scheme our supplements will be manufactured at levels based purely on a multiple that will be set well below the recommended daily allowances (RDA) and in fact we are seeing this already as one pharmaceutical giant has started producing a Vitamin-C supplement at 10 milligrams, well below the 1000-milligram optimum level!

Bullying Tactics
Most small natural-health businesses see this as nothing less than bullying tactics by the big giants and ultimately such businesses will be priced out of the market. There are a number of regional groups here that are fighting this legislation, such as the Consumers for Health Choice and the Alliance for Natural Health, now joined by the National Health Federation-UK; and there is a case being brought forward at the Court for Human Rights.
I intend to contact my Member of European Parliament (MEP) as a matter of urgency on this subject. On the 17th March, Scott Tips and Ian Crane addressed the Welsh public on the issues of this Directive in particular and of Codex Alimentarius in general. Incidentally, March 17th falls as St Patrick’s Day and since St Patrick was actually a Welshman, I think it was an appropriate time to wake-up Wales to these issues and launch our NHF in the United Kingdom! Now that NHF is here, look for more action on several fronts vital to our health. And join the NHF-UK to help us advance health freedom here in the United Kingdom.

Reproduced by kind permission of the NHF. For up to date articles on the NHF please go to www.thenhf.co.uk

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One Click Group items

4 March 2009
THE ONE CLICK GROUP REPONSE Professor David Salisbury Threatens Legal Action For The Attention Of: Professor David Salisbury Messrs. Blake Lapthom, Solicitors One Click Group Director Jane Bryant writes: “Firstly, I would like to thank the many friends of One Click for their assistance in the composition of this Open Letter in answer to the litigation threatened against our pressure group by Professor David Salisbury, Head of Immunisation at the UK Department of Health. From the satire to the serious, your creative and constructive proposals from around the world have informed this response. I would also like to personally thank Professor David Salisbury for supporting the wide reach of the material published by One Click. As his solicitors write: ‘The postings on the website have a wide circulation....’ Such a ringing endorsement from one such as Professor Salisbury is always welcome. Thank you.” Introduction
THE ONE CLICK GROUP www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk Email mail@theoneclickgroup.co.uk

On 26 February 2009, Professor David Salisbury, Head of Immunisation at the UK Department of Health, instructed Blake Lapthom, a firm of solicitors based in Eastleigh, to initiate legal proceedings against The One Click Group unless we comply with the following: The removal from our website of the MMR Vaccine – GMC Formal Complaint submitted to the General Medical Council by grandfather Bill Welsh and the article entitled To Encourage the Others written by investigative writer Martin J Walker. Salisbury not only wants these evidence based factual documents removed from the website, he also wants One Click to apologise to him for having the temerity to publish them. Both these papers deal with vaccine damage that has now reached epidemic proportions in Britain and around the world today.

One Click Response A most appropriate response to Salisbury’s litigation threat would be to take a leaf out of the long and honourable tradition started by satirical magazine Private Eye. When confronted with such legal threats, the then Private Eye Editor, Richard Ingrams, apparently took up a chunky red felt tip pen, diagonally scrawled the equivalent of ‘Go Forth And Multiply’ all over the legal papers and sent them back to the solicitors in question by return J. For our international readers unfamiliar with the short form of the vernacular, the verbatim first word starts with F and the second, with O. Since David Salisbury (forever henceforth to be tagged as Outraged of Eastleigh by us due to his solicitor location) has elected to deliver his litigious missive to One Click by email alone rather than by post, this opportunity has been denied us and so it is via the internet currency selected by Salisbury that One Click will respond. According to his 26 February letter, Outraged of Eastleigh seems particularly piqued that upon One Click’s publication of Bill Welsh’s MMR Vaccine – GMC Formal Complaint published on 9 January 2009 and Martin Walker’s To Encourage the Others article on 12 January 2009, we did not give him the Right of Reply. His Eastleigh based solicitors write on Outraged’s behalf: “Your website did not ask for any comment from our client before publishing the complaint. Therefore our client was not given the opportunity to address his well founded concern about the publication of the details of a complaint made to the GMC [General Medical Council]. As a matter of good practice this complaint should not have been published on the internet prior to it being considered by the GMC.” We beg to differ. As a matter of fact, the GMC had already formally responded to Mr. Welsh and his GMC Complaint prior to One Click’s publication of the contents. We know because Mr. Welsh advised us of this in writing whilst requesting that we publish his offering. But one should never let the facts get in the way of a good Outraged of Eastleigh solicitor’s letter though, eh? As a matter of fact, One Click would have been delighted to offer Salisbury a Right of Reply had he requested it and indeed it is highly unusual for Salisbury to be shy of speaking up at the back. You only had to ask, old boy. You most certainly know where we are. Instead, Salisbury has elected to despatch a solicitor’s letter threatening all sorts. Headed ‘Not For Publication’, the letter states amongst its four page offerings: “We reserve the right to show this letter to the Court on the question of costs...” What is good enough to be displayed in the public courts is certainly good enough for One Click Readers and Contributors to see too. Furthermore, it seems rather unfair for Salisbury to want to carry out his legal bullying behind closed doors. One Clickers simply cannot believe that Salisbury did not want us to publish his letter and therefore despite it being headed ‘Not For Publication’ we are publishing Outraged of Eastleigh’s Right of Reply for this is what it amounts to. There is absolutely no legal impediment in so doing.

Next Steps What is Salisbury planning to do? Launch suits against every portal in the world that has carried this material that he so much detests or any reference or link to it? Have a go at all the Blogs? Try to force that from Timbuktu to Alaska and beyond, these documents and all references to them MUST BE TAKEN DOWN from Blogs and websites around the world? Outraged of Eastleigh, we wish you all the best with this. Of course you realise that by adopting this approach, these documents could well become the cause celebre of 2009? That around the world, people who’d never really heard of these documents before would certainly hear about this? Backed by court action this has the potential to go nuclear. Fully in line with the principle of open dialogue and Right of Reply perhaps in David Salisbury's next letter to us as Outraged of Eastleigh despatched by his lawyers, he might care to make comment on the following. It’s not just the MMR vaccine that he’s got to worry about.

• “It has recently been announced that the US vaccine court awarded damages to a ten year-old child, Bailey Banks, who it said had developed acute brain damage involving autistic spectrum disorder as a result of his MMR vaccination. The ruling was unequivocal. It concluded from the evidence provided by a full neurological examination of the child 16 days after his MMR vaccination that the jab had caused Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) which in turn had led to Pervasive Developmental Delay, a disorder on the autistic spectrum. It also turns out from this ruling that the vaccine court had heard two previous cases where the Special Master had found that the MMR vaccine had caused Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis.”

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Another ruling in the US vaccine court, Melanie Phillips, The Spectator

• Published in The Health Protection (Vaccination) Regulations 2009 (No. 38) is the edict that in the future, as of 4 April start date, it will be the Obligation on the Secretary of State to ensure implementation of Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommendations. This says: “The Secretary of State must make arrangements to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the recommendation of the JCVI is implemented.” So the Secretary of State will have to take orders from an unelected committee long recognised as dealing with commercial matters, and well known for turning a blind eye to adverse reactions despite having a sub committee with the sole purpose of discussing them. None of this has been discussed openly through the proper parliamentary channels. Could this deceptive move be paving the way for forced vaccination UK, by stealth?

• A 2007 analysis of HPV vaccine Gardasil adverse event reports revealed that there have been at least 3,461 complaints of adverse reactions and eight deaths. The ‘side effects’ reports also included 28 women who miscarried. Other side effects reported to the FDA included paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures were also reported. Three young women in the US died shortly after receiving Gardasil, while two other women in Europe also died after the vaccine was administered.

• Cervarix, GSK's cervical cancer vaccine, is now being administered in the UK to girls as young as 11 after the company won a lucrative `£100m a year supply contract with the UK Department of Health'. HPV vaccines are a cause for concern for many parents after the number of deaths and adverse effects associated with administration of the leading competitor, Gardasil. In addition, it is not comforting that the clinical trial data for Cervarix has been compiled for female adolescents and women significantly older (e.g. age 15-25) than the target market (girls as young as 11). This Cervarix vaccine contains a completely novel combination adjuvant system whose safety and efficacy, prior to its introduction, was completely untested on the girls destined to receive it. See Cervarix HPV Vaccine And The ASO4 Novel Adjuvant System, 7 October 2008. How can it be that the UK Department of Health is spending £100m of taxpayer’s money on a vaccine that has not been tested properly and has the developing evidence base of causing harm and death in ever-increasing numbers? Why don’t you pump more money into the perfectly good facilities already set up around Britain for smear tests and general better sexual health? Why are you spending £100m of our money on this damaging vaccine that does not fulfil the criteria of ‘unmet need’?

• In view of the recent withdrawal of 76,000 doses of the Gardasil HPV vaccine by the Spanish Health Authorities, is the Department of Health going to review the safety of its recent programme of HPV immunisation in the UK? (See Reuters report). In view of your Department's mass-HPV-vaccination policy, do you have any plans to advise UK parents of the reports coming out about HPV vaccines so that they are more able to reach a balanced conclusion about the safety of this vaccination and whether they should, or should not, vaccinate their children?

Let us also not forget about the 17,000 doses of the toxic Meningitis C vaccine contaminated with a version of MRSA despatched to GP surgeries across the land last week. Oh yes, and the chicken pox vaccine that you are proposing to include with the MMR jab that according to reports, is set to increase the incidence of Shingles by 50%. Do you not think that you have enough problems with the controversy and litigation swirling over the MMR vaccine already? Chickenpox in children is generally very mild. Shingles by contrast is at best absolutely awful to endure and at worst, can lead to brain damage and death. Shingles is never mild. Questions about vaccine safety are increasing every day. There are so many issues that One Click will be more than happy to debate in public with David Salisbury. The link between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and vaccines is definitely one of our top agenda items. Outraged of Eastleigh, we look forward to receiving your Right of Reply on all the above.

Conclusion

On One Click we defend the right of Free Speech. We defend the right to publish formal complaints delivered to the General Medical Council subsequent to their formal response and we defend the right to publish evidence based articles and place them in the public domain. We will not be removing the aforementioned articles from the website and we will not be apologising for publishing them. These items have been published, referred to and linked by websites and blogs around the world and are common currency readily available to all. One of the dangers for Professor David Salisbury, as we are sure his solicitors will advise, is that if he is so foolish as to want to take on a Mother and her sick child in litigation for being named as owning a website that publishes evidence based information over the vaccines controversy, amongst the many other health advocacy issues covered by One Click, he will end up looking like the defendant rather than the plaintiff. Commenting on vaccines, Dr Peter Fletcher, former Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health, said: "The refusal by governments to evaluate the risks properly will make this one of the greatest scandals in medical history. There are very powerful people in positions of great authority who have staked their reputations on the safety of MMR and they are willing to do almost anything to

Jane Bryant states: “I will not be bullied by David Salisbury. One Click will not grovel to him under duress. I predict that if this case comes to court, it will serve to lift the lid on the UK vaccination policy with the attendant media coverage such as nothing else could possibly do so effectively.” Salisbury’s proposed legal action against One Click, as just one of the internet publishers of these documents, will provide the greatest house cleaning service of the activities of the vaccine industry ever. It is far better than any other initiative that we could possibly have devised. One Click to Outraged of Eastleigh: If you absolutely insist on this course of legal action, Game On. We’ll die all over your shoes and cost you millions. Alternatively, One Click is more than happy to provide you with Right of Reply any time. In fact, I think that it is safe to say that we all positively look forward to opening a mutually beneficial dialogue at minimal cost on a range of vaccine issues that concern people around the world today. Could we please have your Right of Reply copy in by next week in regard to the aforementioned? Cheers!

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The One Click Group 4 March 2009 Related Links:

* Concerns Growing About Vaccines The One Click Group/Holly Richards, Zanesville Times Recorder
* Grandad jabs at top doctors over MMR vaccine Phil Doherty, The Sunday Sun
* Angry grandad drags top docs before GMC Janet Boyle, The Sunday Post
Taken from www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk

Vaccine Bullies And Fighting Back

UK Government Vaccines Director Dr David Salisbury has been tagged the 'Basil Fawlty' of the vaccines industry by The Independent newspaper

During the past decade, families in the United Kingdom, Canada and America have witnessed the demonization of brave doctors and parents of vaccine injured children. This rabid foaming at the mouth, which is being exhibited by physicians and journalists promoting forced vaccination, would be comical if it wasn't for the decidedly Stalinist bent to their rants. Bully boys always choose to use fear and intimidation to try to control the thoughts and actions of others and those calling for censorship and punishment for exercising freedom of thought, expression and informed consent to vaccination are no exception. On February 26, 2009, bully boy Dr. David Salisbury, the Director of Immunization at the UK Department of Health, threatened The One Click Group, a UK internet based news service founded by Jane Bryant, that he would sue them for publishing facts about MMR vaccine risks unless One Click removes the information he wants censored and apologizes for publishing it without his permission.
Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center
Related Links:
* Dr David Salisbury, UK Gov Vaccines Director - Ooops! Never Mind Me, I'm Basil Fawlty!
Information Release, The One Click Group
* UK Government Vaccines Director Threatens Legal Action Against One Click
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News from the Complementary Medical Association

Arnica gets MHRA Licence Great news for homeopathy in the UK - and worldwide. Under the new Homeopathic National Rules Scheme a scheme developed in the UK to extend licences to complementary therapies, the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted its first ever licence to a homeopathic remedy. Nelson's Arnicare Arnica 30c pillules are the first to be given this 'therapeutic' licence since the scheme was introduced in September 2006.Arnicare Arnica 30c has received a licence "for the relief of sprains or bruising" and its label has been redesigned to read 'A homeopathic medicinal product used within the homeopathic tradition for symptomatic relief of sprains, muscular aches and bruising or swelling after contusions.'The chair of Nelsons, Robert Wilson, said: 'The fact therapeutic indications may now be included on the packaging of licensed homeopathic medicines not only opens the practice of homeopathy up to new users but also gives it added credibility as a safe and natural complement to conventional medicine.' This has obviously upset traditional "mumbo - jumbo" critics like Edzard Ernst who still believes that homeopathy has no plausible operative mechanism. Read the full story in the doctor's magazine 'Pulse' here This article refers to a trial that Ernst conducted way back in 2003 on post-operative use of Arnica in carpal tunnel procedures. At best this trial was simply a preliminary study - and is not the definitive evidence that homeopathy doesn't work, as some would have us believe. Here is an an excellent rebuttal from Dr Peter Fisher and colleagues. Dr Fisher is Clinical Director of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital and the Queen's physician. Interestingly, a later placebo controlled trial - published in 2006 in The Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, found that the use of Arnica was in fact related to decreased bruising after surgery.

Breaking News: study proves safety and effectiveness of KavaBack in 2002 the herb Kava Kava (piper methysticum: traslates as 'intoxicating pepper') was banned in the UK and Europe due to fears of liver toxicity. Interestingly, it was never banned in the more litigious US. We are delighted to report that a well conducted study at the University of Queensland demonstrates that Kava is safe and effective for the treatment of anxiety - which has long been known. Interestingly, the study also shows that Kava also improves mood. One possible explanation as to why this study is positive is that the Kava was prepared in a water solution (as traditionally prepared by indigenous peoples) - and not alcohol, as used in previous studies. The article will be published this week in the journal "Psychopharmacology" . Lead researcher Jerome Sarris, from UQ's School of Medicine, said "We've been able to show that Kava offers a natural alternative for the treatment of anxiety, and unlike some pharmaceutical options, has less risk of dependency and less potential of side effects," Read the full story Here Picture: Forest & Kim Starr

Now it is possible to detect Qi Vacuity Qi (pronounced 'chee')vacuity (QV) is defined by Traditional Chinese Medicine as a loss of energy in the human body. There has been no way of measuring Qi strength or weakness - until now! A fascinating study published on the 8th May 2009 in the journal 'Complementary and Alternative Medicine" used an automatic reflective diagnosis system (ARDK) which is a device that detects human bioenergy through measuring skin conductance at 24 special acupoints on the wrists and ankles.The results of the study suggest that the bioenergy level of the human body can be measured by skin conductance. The paper's authors conclude that ARDK is a safe and effective complementary method for detecting and diagnosing QV. Read the full paper here.

B12 vital during pregnancy to prevent spina bifida in babiesIn a recently published article in the journal - Pediatrics - researchers from the National Institutes of Health in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, and the Health Research Board of Ireland, have found that pregnant women with a low level of vitamin B12 were far more at risk of having a child with a neural tube defect like spina bifida or anencephaly: When compared to women with the highest levels of B12, the fisk was five times greater. That's a 500% increase in risk!And crucially, levels of B12 needed to be at a high enough level during the first 4 weeks of pregnancy as this is the critical period for the formation of the child's brain and spinal column. You can read the full story here.

Most (flu vaccination) studies in prestigious medical journals have conclusions that don't hold up (BMJ)Given the crucial role that prestigious medical journals play in educating doctors and scientists across the globe another research study - published in the BMJ - looking at 274 comparative studies (on flu vaccination) - has found that only 18% of the studies were deemed to actually prove what the articles claimed to be their findings. That means that over 80% of them were judged not to have "made the case" outlined in their conclusions. "70% of the studies reported conclusions favourable to the vaccines, but only 18% showed complete concordance between data reported and study conclusions. Over half (56%) of studies were at high risk of bias, with only 4% being at low risk".Click here to read the full text

Case Study: A Practitioner's Unexpected Success!Aloe Vera for Asthma? CMA Member Han van de Braak Shares His Unexpected Success: "We practitioners know that sometimes the unexpected happens in clinic. I'd like to share this fascinating case with you. A patient presented with Crohn's Disease for which I often use an Aloe Vera of exceptional quality and this was predictably effective for him. What I hadn't expected is that he would share his prescription with his wife who suffered from bronchial asthma all her life. She was dependent on bronchodilator inhalers, corticosteroids inhalers and oral steroids by mouth for frequent exacerbations. Her condition improved so much that she has not needed steroids since. The action of Aloe Vera on digestive and skin complaints is well known - however few therapists would straight off connect asthma to Aloe Vera, for what would support such a choice of remedy?" Click here to find out more and also to read references. We have a special reader offer for super high quality Aloe Vera here - exclusive to CMA e-newsletter readers

Small Amount of Wine Daily Boosts Life Expectancy by 5 years Everybody knows that heavy alcohol consumption is bad for your health. But did you know that light consumption of wine, in men, can add five years to their life expectancy? This new study from the Netherlands, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, looked at men (1,373) who were born between 1900 and 1920, and then looked at studies of their health taken from 1960 onwards until 2000. It suggests a positive health benefit for light alcohol consumption - but especially for light wine consumption. Read the full story here

Is a 'Swine Flu Party' a good idea? It worked for chicken pox when you were a kid, didn't it? So why not find someone who has been infected with Swine Flu - and survived, and invite them round, with all your friends for a 'Swine Flu Party'? This is one of the ideas currently circulating in the US where thousands of people have been confirmed as infected (and 3 deaths have occurred). However flu experts say this is a bad idea as there is no way to tell how bad a case of Swine Flu, or any flu, will be from one person to the next. So even if you invite a 'survivor' they might spread the flu to someone who reacts far more severely to the infection. And they say, the evidence from the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918 suggests that if a second, or third wave of Swine Flu spreads later this year, that people who survived it the first time around will not be any better protected against it as it 'mutates'. Read the full article here

The World Health Organisation suggests that up to 2 billion people could be infected with Swine Flu On Thursday Keiji Fukuda, chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that, "If the situation continues to evolve and the virus does become established in other countries, and we do move into a pandemic, we would expect the virus to infect many people. Perhaps a third of the world's population could be infected with this virus, based on previous pandemics." Many observers commented that this was an unusual statement to make at this time as it could cause a panic. Fukuda did remind his audience that he was not predicting what was going to happen, but merely considering what might happen, based on previous pandemics.Others praised Fukuda as he was seen to be preparing people, especially in the medical and scientific community for a potentially more severe 'second wave' of Swine Flu later in the year.Full Story here

SWINE FLU: LatestIn Mexico Swine Flu has now claimed 56 victims and there have now been 3 deaths in the US, one in Canada and one in Costa Rica. (As at 13th May 2009). As was the case in the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, most of the deaths have occurred amongst adults aged between 20 and 55. Authorities in the US and Canada are saying that the victims in their countries are thought to have other health issues in the first place. The number of confirmed cases in Mexico has risen to 2,059, which indicates that this particular bout of Flu does not have a high death rate (in recent years the mortality figures amongst those who caught Bird Flu (H5N1) were over 50%) and the authorities in most of Mexico are starting to allow schools, businesses, etc to reopen. There have been 68 confirmed cases of Swine Flu in the UK and 5,728in total, in 33 countries worldwide, with the number of confirmed cases in the US (3,009) overtaking the numbers in Mexico. Read More here

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