Dr Kurt Donsbach arrested - NewsGrabs Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Kurt Walter Donsbach arrested for practicing medicine without a license
Dr Donsbach was arrested during a broadcast of his internet radio health show. It takes quite a nerve to arrest Donsbach, a homeopath and nutrition researcher, for what doctors and healers in America and all over the world do daily: try and help patients to better health.For most of the media the case seems clear: guilty as charged - no need to wait for the court to make that determination...
Comment from an 83-year old man in Iowa:
"Dr. Donsbach is one of the kindest people I know. I am told it took 20 armed lawmen to arrest this good man. Why was that necessary? Was the 'establishment' trying to create a spectacle of some kind?
Question: What kind of results can you expect from a "phony doctor" who promotes healing via the body's own immune system?
Specifically, what has Dr Donsbach done for me?After being in the hospital for six days, going through many tests and many specialists, I was sent home with no answers. The MD's and DO's didn't have a clue as to how to fix my problem. Then, Dr. Donsbach came to town to do a lecture and I went to him immediately following his program. I explained my situation and the good Doc said, "Piece of cake! Follow my nutritional program for three days and you'll be OK." Piece of cake? I had just been in the MD Hospital for 6 days and they couldn't get to square one! Dr Donsbach was right. I was OK in just three days. Simple: just give the body what it is missing and it will heal itself! That's the way Naturopathic doctors think.
Which doctors are "phony"? The ones that get results, or the ones that don't?"
Higher dose vitamin D reduces fractures by 20% in over 65s
Although calcium (in combination with magnesium) is of crucial importance in the formation of bone, and short trials of calcium supplementation have shown that it can help to reduce loss of bone density in postmenopausal women, it has been known for some time that high calcium diets do not appear to reduce the risk of hip fractures, and should by no means be the main focus when it comes to osteoporosis recommendations. It has been shown that the same applies for fractures amongst older men. Individuals at risk of fractures are much more likely to be deficient in vitamin D and magnesium, than in calcium.
Vitamin D may exacerbate autoimmune disease
Written under the guidance of professor Trevor Marshall of Murdoch University, Western Australia, the paper contends that 25-D's actions must be considered in light of recent research on the Human Microbiome. Such research shows that bacteria are far more pervasive than previously thought - 90% of cells in the body are estimated to be non-human - increasing the likelihood that autoimmune diseases are caused by persistent pathogens, many of which have yet to be named or have their DNA characterized.
Natural Products Europe '09: Risks of GM crops in Europe
Dr Robert Verkerk's presentation in the keynote theatre at Natural Products Europe, 'Genetically Modified Food – how might it impact your health and your business?', has been uploaded in 5 parts on youtube.
GM and medicinal laws: how long will we be free?
...on March 2nd ... the environment ministers of all but 4 of Europe's 27 Member States voted to support the rights of Austria and Hungary to maintain their ban on the planting of Monsanto and Bayer's GM maize crops. They did this in full contravention of the desires of the European Commission and the World Trade Organization—the policeman of the Codex Alimentarius Commission which develops global guidelines that by and large are built around the interests of the world's largest food producers.
Kids as Guinea Pigs - The New GM Food Trials
Golden rice was genetically engineered to produce a beta carotene-packed staple food in the hopes that impoverished children and adults might have abundant, easy access to vitamin A.What's wrong with this picture? I'll let the scientists who sent the Tufts letter explain: "There is now a large body of evidence that shows that GM crop/food production is highly prone to inadvertent and unpredictable pleiotropic effects, which can result in health damaging effects when GM food products are fed to animals."
So it's hard to imagine why the Tufts program simply passed on the animal stage for testing golden rice.
U.S. Government Accountability Project Report Urges FDA Clinical Trial Reform
The report examines a number of recent and historical controversies with regard to clinical trial studies and institutional review boards – analyzing how major players at both the corporate and FDA levels have too often failed to perform their critical duties to safeguard human health. More importantly, GAP's report proposes constructive reforms to the overall process, calling for the empowerment of trial participants, whistleblower protections for employees staffing trials and IRBs, removal of financial conflicts of interest between parties, and trial biases in favor of approval of proposed drugs.
Mexico City Bans GMO Corn - Vows to Protect Native Varieties
Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard has announced that the City government will take steps to protect more than 60 maize breeds known to grow in its territory, also known as the Mexican Altiplano.The declaration says that a research programme will be established with the aim of improving local maize breeds. There will also be funds to support farmers who sow only native seeds and to promote the use of organic fertiliser and pesticides. The purchase and distribution of transgenic maize in Mexico City is now banned.
Harvard Doctor Falsified Data in Obesity, Sleep Apnea Study
"Dr. Robert B. Fogel, who taught at Harvard Medical School and practiced at Brigham and Women's Hospital until 2004, said he altered numbers and invented anatomic details reported in an article about obesity and sleep apnea. The journal Sleep retracted the article in February and the federal Office of Research Integrity concluded its investigation last month."What I did was obviously horrendously wrong," Fogel told The Scientist magazine. "I never really thought through the consequences, and once I did this I got myself into a loop that I found I couldn't get out of...."
FDA Orders Safety, Effectiveness Data For ECT Machines, Other Medical Devices
ECT devices haven't been through randomized clinical trials versus groups of patients on placebo or on an anti-depressant of known efficacy or against psychotherapy, etc. and the fact that such trial data hasn't been submitted to the agency represents a serious oversight on the part of the FDA. Even deeply treatment resistant depression treatments deserve this level of safety and efficacy review.
Psychotic in America
Last week, an FDA Advisory Committee voted against the approval of the atypical antipsychotic, Seroquel, to treat General Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder in adults because the benefits of the drug for those indications did not outweigh the risks."Extension of labeling to these common indications would likely result in the exposure of hundreds of thousands if not millions of patients to substantial medical risks without significant clinical benefit to justify these risks," Harrisburg Pennsylvania psychiatrist, Stefan Kruszewski, told committee members in a submission to the panel.
Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry
Motherhood has fallen prey to the psycho-pharmaceutical complex. If new legislation known as the Mother's Act becomes law, the drugging of infants through pregnant and nursing mothers will no doubt increase.Congress has rightfully refused to pass this bill for eight years. The official title is currently the "Melanie Blocker Stokes Mom's Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act of 2009."
The legislation was introduced in the House during the 110th Congress on January 4, 2007, by Illinois Democrat Bobby Rush and later reintroduced into both bodies of the new Congress in January 2009
Wi-fi networks a cancer risk, say UK teachers
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers called for classroom wireless networks to be suspended immediately until research has properly considered the threat to health.Members said they were concerned by scientific reports linking wi-fi with impaired concentration, loss of short-term memory, chromosome damage and increased incidence of cancer.
Program Your Own Money
by Douglas Rushkoff
Yes, we are watching something melt down. But I'd argue the thing that's dying is not business itself, but a financial parasite -- a speculative marketplace that no longer funds business but instead seeks to extract value from healthy commerce. More a funds vampire than an infuser of needed capital, the investment industry has been exposed as a drag on business. The future of commerce looks bright to me because it may be unencumbered by the weight of this non-productive capital.
Tiny Flower Turns Pig Waste into Fuel
Able to thrive on nutrients in animal waste, duckweed produces far more starch per acre than corn, say researchers. It could be an alternative to corn-based ethanol biofuel, which is disfavored by environmentalists because of waste generated in farming it."Based on our laboratory studies, we can produce five to six times more starch per unit of footage," said Jay Cheng, a biological engineer at North Carolina State University.
Sounds like an interesting alternative to using corn for fuel. The advantages: more efficient, no use of prime agricultural land to grow fuel crops and ... it might make a dent in the great problem of animal waste which accumulates and eventually gets into our water supply or pollutes the oceans.- - -
More information out there...
There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.
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Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.
The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.
For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.
A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:
http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition
posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Tuesday April 14 2009
updated on Wednesday August 15 2012URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2009/04/14/dr_kurt_donsbach_arrested_newsgrabs_tuesday_14_april_2009.htm
