WHO’s Ten Threats to Global Health in 2019 have been much in the news lately – a kind of collective New Year’s Resolution list. The 10 resolutions can be seen below. They have prompted an alternate RxISK list of threats. These are not listed in order of importance.
RxISK’s Threat List
- Sequestration of Clinical Trial Data.
Most of what passes as science in medicine is nothing of the sort – its Fake News. The details of what are put in the public domain about treatments and devices are Fake and the process of claiming claims not backed by data are scientific is also Fake. - Ghostwriting.
The greatest concentration of ghostwriting/fake news on earth centres on the medicines doctors dish out. - Falling Life Expectancy.
Life Expectancy is now falling in developed countries – among the elderly in particular. There are no explanations at present for this. Polypharmacy is an almost certain contributor given evidence that reducing it increases life expectancy. There is at present no effort to get to the bottom of what is going on. - Professional capture.
There is talk of regulatory capture by pharmaceutical companies but this is less important than the capture of medicine, nursing, psychology and social work. Fewer and fewer of these professionals have a thought in their head not put there by pharmaceutical marketing or if they have such thoughts, something inhibits them from speaking out even when faced with patients obviously struggling with the medicines they are on. - Pharmaceuticalization.
An increasing amount of normal variation is being pathologized. Quite aside from the risks from medicines, this poses, there is the danger that we will lose a sense of what it means to be human. This pharmaceuticalization involves a dangerous and profoundly alienating fear-mongering – as the examples in The Great Purple Pill show. - Global ASD Pandemic.
There has been a thousand fold surge of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). There is no obvious effort to establish what is happening. Some ASD cases are likely fashionable diagnoses but the authorities need to take a position on issues like this. Does ASD primarily map onto epidemics like bipolar disorder, created by company marketing, that come and go, or onto the current wave of transgender states, or does it map better onto increases in dementia or auto-immune disorders? - Rattling Children.
Children have always been in the firing line. Fifty years ago the most common surgical operations were done on them from circumcision to tonsillectomies. Now its an increasing profusion of vaccines and increasingly medicines. Children were rarely on more than short courses of an antibiotic but now an increasing number are on several and any contact with health services for any kind of nerves is a gateway to multiple meds and a lifetime’s consumption of meds. We have yet to see the consequences in terms of obesity and the disorders it brings in its wake and the dementias inevitable with chronic consumption of medicines. - WHO .
In 1977, WHO had the temerity to produce an essential drugs list. Soon after, it was turned into a global health bureaucracy coordinated by the World Bank rather than the international co-operation it had been and since then it has been a driver of rather than a break on drug consumption. Sometimes this is not obvious – as in the non-communicable disease item below which is an effort to extend the use of Western medicines like statins to developing world populations. Or as in the fact that soon after being taken over by the World Bank, depression all of a sudden became the greatest global health burden. Sometimes it is very obvious as in vaccine hesitancy below. - Medical Coercion.
At a time when the incidence of serious mental illness like schizophrenia is declining, there are more and more people ending up in the mental health system – an increasing proportion of which are detained compulsorily. While death from heart attacks have been falling for decades, semi-compulsory treatment with drugs like the statins is continuing to increase. And there is increasing pressure on everyone to have vaccines - There is a slot here for readers to pick a final option – either from WHO’s list below or from the list of 15 available on Brand Fascism.
WHO’s Threat List
- Air pollution and climate change
- Non-communicable diseases
- Global Influenza Pandemic
- Fragile and Vulnerable settings (poverty)
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Ebola and high-threat pathogens
- Weak primary healthcare
- Vaccine hesitancy
- Dengue
- HIV
annie says
WHO’s Who, of signatories …
Juan Gérvas Retweeted
Peter G. Lurie
@DrPeterLurie
An open letter urging
@US_FDA
to resume its stalled pilot program to disclose Clinical Study Reports. Making disclosure mandatory would increase transparency around drug approvals: (link: https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k294/rr-1) bmj.com/content/360/bm… via
@bmj_latest
Rapid Response
23 January 2019
FDA to begin releasing clinical study reports in pilot programme
https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k294/rr-1
In January 2018 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a pilot project designed to enhance transparency around drug approval and assess the value of publicly disclosing Clinical Study Reports (CSRs).
Further, CSRs have enormous potential to improve public health by identifying unpublished, underreported, and misreported trials in the published medical literature. Consider the case of paroxetine (Paxil).
Despite the value of disclosing CSRs, a year after its launch the pilot project appears to have stalled. No additional CSRs have been posted on FDA’s website.
Juan Gérvas Retweeted
Prof. Peter Gøtzsche
@PGtzsche1
Open letter to National Boards of Health in Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland: Warning against using depression pills in children and adolescents is needed. Look to Denmark please! (link: https://bit.ly/2DuaEKc) bit.ly/2DuaEKc
susanne says
Has anybody else had a security warning blocking which blocks access to the ‘facist brand’ link? There is a way of unblocking apparently but I don;t know how – if any body has had the same security warning and unblocked the list could you write it out please?
John Stone says
No childhood vaccines in the US schedule have been tested against placebo:
https://www.ageofautism.com/2019/01/no-us-childhood-vaccines-were-placebo-tested-why-the-pharmagovernment-complex-is-getting-desperate-to-shut-down-the-web.html
ASD in schools up more than 10 times in real terms in two decades (the government CMO, Dame Sally Davies, waffles):
https://www.ageofautism.com/2019/01/confirmation-bias-and-the-united-kingdom-department-of-health.html
annie says
Peter Gotzsche releases New E Book Today
Scroll to top to read long preview – a must-read!
Juan Gérvas
@JuanGrvas
Death of a whistleblower and Cochrane’s moral collapse. #CochraneCrisis This book reveals institutional corruption. People’sPress, Denmark. Muerte de un informante y colapso moral de Cochrane. By @PGtzsche1
@DaHammerstein
@cochranecollab
@nogracias_eu
(link: https://books.google.es/books?id=s8SFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT85&lpg=PT85&dq=Death+of+a+whistleblower+and+Cochrane%27s+moral+collapse+People+press+denmark&source=bl&ots=bdAaqFGOgD&sig=ACfU3U03EHubHNJptwbUokNmZodRgXk-4w&hl=es&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiExcmL95fgAhVHAWMBHVTVBxEQ6AEwAHoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=Death%20of%20a%20whistleblower%20and%20Cochrane's%20moral%20collapse%20People%20press%20denmark&f=false) books.google.es/books?id=s8SFD…
Mere om bogen
31 January 2019
E-bog
http://peoplespress.dk/projects/death-of-a-whistleblower-and-cochranes-moral-collapse/
For the first time, Gøtzsche pulls back the covers on this unscrupulous process, giving us all access to secret recordings, which reveal how his own organisation betrayed him and mislead millions of people after Cochrane cowered to the threats and intimidation from his critics.
This is the fascinating story about institutional corruption in one of the world’s most venerated charities, which ultimately led to the worst show trial in academia you can imagine.
annie says
Too GOOD, to MISS …
RxISK introduced Krista Hartman with a Series of Posts
She is off-again, with a dramatic, brilliantly written narra, narra, narrative and the wench GETS-IT
‘I was part of the well-documented tidal wave of profit-propelled bipolar diagnoses following the expansion of criteria in the Allen Frances-piloted, infamous DSM-IV. I could expound on this subject for hours; I’ll let better writers do that for me here. Dr. David Healey’s well-regarded, 2006 PloS Med article “The Latest Mania: Selling Bipolar Disorder” is a concise explanation of what occurred forensically. It was my ‘gateway’ article and it made me weep; here was someone who knew. Gary Greenberg’s 2013 The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry is the longer explanation; equally entertaining and grotesque. My perspective was very different by then; I was cynical and tougher, but no less terrified and trapped.
I am the wrench in the works of the psychiatric industry’s well-oiled machine
https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/02/full-moral-status-how-i-fought-back/
annie says
My steady motion forward with my narrative and this idea, strengthens my resolve towards the goal of establishing an outlet for help. I received affirmation from Dr. David Healy’s RxISK.org website (safety and transparency), Dr. Paula Caplan, and now Robert Whitaker’s MIA site (science, psychiatry, and social justice). These are significant contributors to the principle subject and it’s many tributaries; it’s a BIG subject with many topics and I’m scratching at the door.
‘Full Moral Status’ Part II: How to Achieve Safety, Parity, and Change
By
Krista Hartmann
February 10, 2019
https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/02/full-moral-status-part-ii-how-to-achieve-safety-parity-and-change/#comment-149196