FDA Finally Admits That Drugs for Crohn's Disease and Arthritis May Promote Cancer

The FDA has ordered makers of drugs for a variety of inflammatory diseases to add a "black box warning" about an increased risk of cancer in children and adolescents.

A black box warning is the most severe warning that the FDA can place on a product without withdrawing it from the market.

The FDA began analyzing the drugs, known as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blockers, when reports emerged that dozens of children had developed cancer while taking the drugs. TNF blockers are used to treat inflammatory and autoimmune diseases such as Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis. They include adalimumab (marketed as Humira), certolizumab pegol (marketed as Cimzia), etanercept (marketed as Enbrel), golimumab (marketed as Simponi) and infliximab (marketed as Remicade.'

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Hidden Government Papers Expose Lies About Measles Vaccines for Infants

How a mother is supposed to decide what vaccines are safe, when the governments change their minds so frequently, is anyone’s guess. One minute the government makes it categorically clear that the measles vaccine should never, under any circumstances, be given to a child under the age of nine months, the next minute they are saying the complete opposite and actually advising it.'

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6,500 Disabled Children in Gaza After War

Recent statistics shows an increment in the number of children who have lost at least one or more of their limbs during the war in Gaza. The number is an estimated 6,500.'

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NHS Spending on 'Chemical Cosh' Child-Calming Drugs Soars by 60% to £31m

NHS spending on 'chemical cosh' drugs to treat hyperactivity has soared by two-thirds to £31million in just four years, new figures revealed yesterday.

Nearly 750,000 prescriptions are now being doled out every year for Ritalin and similar drugs - most of them to children.

The surge triggered concerns that children are being unnecessarily drugged as poor discipline is increasingly seen as a medical issue.

Teachers warned today that prescribing calming drugs was often cheaper and easier than 'talking cures' and parenting support.'

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Influenza Vaccine Sends Children Into Convulsions

Influenza vaccines have sent 57 children into life-threatening convulsions, reports The Age out of Australia. These influenza vaccines were being give to children under five to "protect" them from seasonal flu, but after receiving the shots, these children started going into convulsions.

An investigation has revealed that there is no quality control problem with any particular batch of influenza vaccines. They all pass quality control, in other words, so the convulsions are being caused by what is intentionally put into the vaccines, not by some mistaken chemical contaminant.'

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Flu Shots Suspended After Kids Hospitalised

The Western Australian Government has suspended all flu vaccinations for children under five while it investigates a spike in admissions to Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth.

The Health Minister, Kim Hames, says 45 children have been taken to hospital suffering high temperatures and febrile convulsions after receiving the vaccination.'

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The Widespread Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers

The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world for kids with children being medicated at a younger and younger age. Medicaid records in some states show infants less than a year old on drugs for mental disorders.

The use of powerful antipsychotics with privately insured children, aged 2 through 5 in the US, doubled between 1999 and 2007, according to a study of data on more than one million children with private health insurance in the January, 2010, "Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry".'

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Breaking Gaza: Two Martyrs and Many Critically Injured in Khan Younis

'The IOF carried an invasion in khan younis opening random fire on civilians causing many injuries among them.

All kinds of Israeli air crafts were over seeing and protecting the ground IOF while the invasion, then they missiled a playground in khan younis targeting a bunch of children playing football. 3 children were critically injured, Abd Rabbu, 6 years, got hit in the back and is currently in the ICU.'

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Pupils Aged Five on Hate Register: Teachers Must Log Playground Taunts For Government Database

Heads will be forced to list children as young as five on school 'hate registers' over everyday playground insults.

Even minor incidents must be recorded as examples of serious bullying and details kept on a database until the pupil leaves secondary school.

Teachers are to be told that even if a primary school child uses homophobic or racist words without knowing their meaning, simply teaching them such words are hurtful and inappropriate is not enough.

Instead the incident has to be recorded and his or her behaviour monitored for future signs of 'hate' bullying.

The accusations will also be recorded in databases held by councils and made available to Whitehall and ministers to help them devise future anti-bullying campaigns.

The scale of the effort to stop children using homophobic or racist language was revealed after the parents of a ten-year-old primary school pupil in Somerset, Peter Drury, were told that his name would be put on a register and his behaviour monitored while he remained at school.'

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U.S. Health Officials Urge Second Dose of Unwanted Swine Flu Vaccine for Kids

U.S. health officials have asked parents to get their children under 10 years of age fully vaccinated against the A/H1N1 flu virus as another wave of strike might be coming soon.'

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Afghan Govt. Demands Arrest of US 'Death Squad' Who Handcuffed, Executed Eight Children. US Refuses

Kai Eide, UN Representative to Afghanistan confirmed the Afghan government’s investigative conclusions that US troops handcuffed and then executed eight students enrolled in grades 6 through 10 in a night raid on December 27, 2009. The US military and NATO responded the troops involved were non-official. The most likely source of para-military “non-official” troops in Afghanistan is Blackwater/Xe.

President Hamid Karzai demanded arrest of the US troops engaged in the break-in and mafia-style execution of their children. The US responded to the Afghan demand of January 1 by rejecting the findings of the Afghan government and UN with a vague promise of their own self-investigation at some later date.'

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Turning Children Into Orwellian Eco-Spies

There is a long and sordid tradition of trying to socialise children by scaring them. The aim of such socialisation-through-fear is twofold: firstly, to get children to conform to the scaremongers’ values; secondly, to use children to influence, or at least to contain, their parents’ behaviour.'

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TV Exposure Linked to Aggressive Behavior in Young Children

Plopping toddlers in front of television sets for a few hours a day may seem as American as apple pie and baseball. But this all-too-common habit could have a dark side. According to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, the more TV three-year-old toddlers watch, the more they demonstrate aggressive behavior.'

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Children Banned From Public Parks In Maryland

Public parks are usually the places where children go to have fun. But the town of Kensington just passed a new rule that bans kids over five years old from playgrounds during the daytime.

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1,000 UK Children to be Used As Government Swine Flu Vaccine Guinea Pigs

The first children in Britain have started receiving a swine flu vaccine as part of a major new trial.
Researchers are hoping to use around 1,000 youngsters over the next fortnight to see which of two different drugs perform the best.

The children, aged between six months and 12 years, are being recruited at five test venues in Oxford, Bristol, Southampton, Exeter and London.

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All Child Vaccine Records to be Checked

All children should have their medical records checked when they start school to see if they have had vaccinations for MMR and other illnesses, under official guidance.

Where there are gaps, health visitors should contact parents to encourage them them to ensure their children are given all the appropriate jabs, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence had said.

The checks should be made when a child joins nursery, playgroup or primary school and records kept where parents have expressed concerns about vaccination, the guidance said.

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A Nation on Mind Altering Drugs: Antidepressants Most Commonly Prescribed Drugs in US

As NaturalNews has reported in detail, antidepressants like Prozac (fluoxetine) and the growing list of similar selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor drugs (SSRIs) not only can have numerous side effects from nausea to headaches -- but they've also been linked to horrendous problems including suicide in teens, sudden death in women and even murders. But has that stopped US doctors from prescribing the drugs or slowed down the antidepressant pill popping by Americans? Apparently not. New research shows that antidepressants are now the most widely prescribed drugs in the country.

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Girls Aged Six and Eleven 'Stopped and Searched by Police Using Anti-Terror Powers'

Two police officers are under investigation after they allegedly stopped and searched a six-year-old girl using anti-terrorism powers.
The plain-clothed officers are also accused of carrying out a stop and search on an 11-year-old girl and her father, who were with the six-year-old.

A complaint was made after the trio were stopped as they walked towards a bus station in South London.'

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Obama's Mind - Control Speech to America's Children

The amoral Obama is now after the minds of America’s children. On September 8, 2009, Obama will be speaking to children ages 6 thru 17 in America’s public schools via national broadcasting from Wakefield High School in Arlington Washington. Parents won’t be there - state controlled teachers, will.

Obama’s speech, billed as: “President Obama’s National Address to America’s School Children,” will be a flowery, innocuous sentiment about the “importance of education.” Thus, Obama supporters will say the current backlash regarding the speech is much ado about nothing. But nothing could be further from the truth.

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UK Government: Children Using Mobile Phones No More Harmful Than Hot Bath

Current advice from the Department of Health had said that research showed mobile phone use "affects brain activity", although it conceded there were "significant gaps in our scientific knowledge".

But a draft of a new advisory leaflet for parents now makes clear that precautions need not be taken when it comes to children.

According to The Daily Mail, the draft says: "There is currently no scientific or biological evidence that radio waves cause cancer."

Whereas overheating of the brain was considered a concern before, the new advice now says "mild heating is not a health problem. Body heating is normal and happens with exercise or in a hot bath with no ill effects."

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