Which Antibiotics are More Dangerous and Should be Avoided at All Costs?

Which Antibiotics are More Dangerous and Should be Avoided at All Costs?: "Which Antibiotics are More Dangerous and Should be Avoided at All Costs?"

Excerpt from an open letter to Congressman Holt from Jay S. Cohen, M.D. about severe, disabling reactions linked to Cipro, Levaquin, and other fluoroquinolone antibiotics:
Dear Congressman Holt,
Thank you for taking the time to speak with people concerned about, or injured from, reactions associated with fluoroquinolone antibiotics (e.g. Levaquin, Cipro, Floxin, Tequin). I am the author of a study about severe, long-term fluoroquinolone reactions published in the December 2001 issue of the Annals of Pharmacotherapy.
These severe reactions are occurring in patients who are usually healthy, active, and young. Most often, the antibiotics are prescribed for mild infections such as sinusitis, urinary or prostate infections. Most reactions occur very quickly, sometimes with just a few doses of the fluoroquinolone antibiotic. Reactions are acute, severe, frightening, and often disabling.
Since the publication of my article with its 45 cases two and a half years ago, I have received e-mails from more than 100 people seeking help for their reactions. In most cases, their doctors have dismissed their complaints or outright denied that the reactions could occur with fluoroquinolones.
Yet extensive medical workups do not find any other cause. Worse, there are no known effective treatments. Thus, these people suffer pain and disability for weeks, months, and years.
I hope you will look seriously at this problem and respond accordingly. These people need your help. This is a largely preventable problem.
Thank you.
Jay S. Cohen, M.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Family and Preventive Medicine and of Psychiatry

University of California, San Diegohttp://www.MedicationSense.com





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Making a monkey out of Darwin

Making a monkey out of Darwin: "Making a monkey out of Darwin


Posted: June 29, 2009
8:48 pm Eastern

© 2009
'You have no notion of the intrigue that goes on in this blessed world of science,' wrote Thomas Huxley. 'Science is, I fear, no purer than any other region of human activity; though it should be.'
As 'Darwin's bulldog,' Huxley would himself engage in intrigue, deceit and intellectual property theft to make his master's theory gospel truth in Great Britain.
He is quoted above for two reasons.
First is House passage of a 'cap and trade' climate-change bill. Depending on which scientists you believe, the dire consequences of global warming are inconvenient truths – or a fear-mongering scheme to siphon off the wealth of individuals and empower bureaucrats.
The second is publication of 'The End of Darwinism: And How a Flawed and Disastrous Theory Was Stolen and Sold,' by Eugene G. Windchy, a splendid little book that begins with Huxley's lament."


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Shocking Facts of GM’s History and Current Bankruptcy

Shocking Facts of GM’s History and Current Bankruptcy: "Shocking Facts of GM’s History and Current Bankruptcy



The automobile did not end up dominating American transportation by chance -- or by public choice. There was a plan by automakers to buy up and destroy mass transit companies. General Motors led the way.

In the 1920s, many American cities and towns were connected by a network of electric railroads and interurban trolleys. Within cities, electric street railways, trolleys, and elevated trains moved large numbers of people easily and cheaply.

But between 1920 and 1955, General Motors bought up more than 100 electric mass transit systems in 45 cities, allowed them to deteriorate, and then replaced them with rubber-tired, diesel-powered buses. Buses are more expensive, less efficient, and much dirtier than electric/rail systems -- and of course automobiles are even less efficient than buses."


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Personally - we live in the country, and public transportation is not an option. But having a car is a huge chunk of our budget between gas and upkeep, the car is paid for, but now the AC is again not working, added to a long list of "not working" electronic items, like rolling the window up and down, or popping the trunk.

When we lived in Colorado, we had just the one car, but I was able to ride the buses and get where I needed to go when I really wanted to do so. I had 3 different bus lines withing easy walking distance and could pick and choose depended on where I wanted to go - it wasn't perfect - one transfer was a 50 minute wait on a shadeless corner without a bench. I chose instead to walk the 2 miles home and usully was within site of the house when the bus I would have taken overtook me. Then I discovered the trails connecting a series of elementery and Jr. high school and parks - and made a game of walking the trails and getting home before the bus! It was fun - but that was before children too.

National Geographic's Best Pictures Of The Year

National Geographic's Best Pictures Of The Year: "National Geographic's Best Pictures Of The Year


It’s not hard to see why these amazing pictures were deemed the best of the best."


Click on the article title to go see these amazing pictures - many would make great desktop pictures!

Politics - Going to the Dogs

I've really gotten to enjoy the thought provoking posts I find at Generation Cedar. Todays was, as usual, quite good. I've also enjoyed her posts on dating and courting over the last several days.

Her post today pointed to a post called, Sit, Stay, Roll Over

They are political in nature. A topic Tim and I have discussed quite a bit - the growing downhill slide into Socialism of our country.

This only gives one side of the picture. The Demagraphic Winter post I did a few days ago, gives another point of view.

This is a huge elephant of a problem. And we grope around it looking at first one aspect and then another, blame goes here and blame goes there. Truthfully - you could write dozens of huge thick volumes on why people do what they do or think what they think. And just when you think you have it all figured out - someone goes and throws a new angle into it.

Reminds me of the poem about the blind men who went to see an elephant and each had hold of a differnt part, and each was sure that they had a good idea what the elephant looked like.

What about the aspect of Health Care in the USA?
Or how Food affects our Health?
Or the Economic Crash?

Why is Tim and so many others that we know, struggling to find jobs? It's been almost 8 months now.

How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time.

It has shocked me how much socialism and secularism and materialism and such have been major building blocks of the way I thought (and often still catch myself thinking). Where in the world did I pick them all up? We were not the "Sunday go to meeting Christians" type. I came from good sturdy pioneer Bible believing stock.

Fortunately, I guess it's fortunate, I have a gift for being able to see a bigger picture and analyze things. It didn't take me long to realize that I had picked up most of it in public schools and the rest from books I had read and even from "shockingly" sermons that I had heard.

But how to get all that information out of my head and into one tiny post? Besides - I long since have realized that most do not have the same gifts that I have (ever seen me try to decorate a cake? - LOL) - and that would cause information overload in most everybody.

So here you have the elephant's tail (or is the dog's tail?).... or maybe the nose. Hmmm... yes, if you have read the "Humanist Manifesto" then this would have to be the nose.

I'll stop rambling now. Thanks for listening.