Archive for March, 2018

Dementia & Lyme – Hangout with Dr. Cameron

Lyme Hangout with Dr. Cameron:  Dementia and Lyme Disease

HOST: Dr. Daniel Cameron

DATE: Tuesday, March 27, 2018

TIME: 8 PM EST

Dementia and Lyme disease are common. Kris Kristofferson was thought to have suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for ten years before he was diagnosed with Lyme disease. Two other individuals who were thought to suffer from dementia before being diagnosed with Lyme disease were also described in my book, Lyme Disease takes on Medicine. I will discuss these three cases during my next live Lyme Hangout Tuesday, March 27, 8PM EST.

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Share your thoughts, ask questions or just listen in and hangout!

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More more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/01/04/aluminum-alzheimers-ld/  Kris Kristofferson’s story.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/06/10/the-coming-pandemic-of-lyme-dementia/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/01/18/a-bug-for-alzheimers/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/06/09/alzheimers-byproduct-of-infection/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/11/17/antibiotics-and-alzheimers/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/06/03/borrelia-hiding-in-worms-causing-chronic-brain-diseases/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/08/09/dr-paul-duray-research-fellowship-foundation-some-great-research-being-done-on-lyme-disease/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/06/26/important-example-of-iv-antibiotics-for-lymemsids/

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Activism, Lyme, Psychological Aspects, research

University of Maryland AIDS Expert Named New CDC Director

http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-cdc-director-20180321-story.html

University of Maryland AIDS expert named new CDC director

bs-1521667670-0qdzphhrow-snap-imageDr. Robert Redfield Jr. of the University of Maryland School of Medicine was named the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal government’s top public health agency. (Tracey Brown/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)
By Andrea K. McDaniels – Contact Reporter
The Baltimore Sun

March 21, 2018

A doctor with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, a longtime AIDS researcher who helped found the school’s prestigious Institute of Human Virology, has been appointed the new head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The appointment of Dr. Robert Redfield Jr., an infectious disease expert, was announced late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

Health Secretary Alex Azar lauded Redfield for his contribution to advancing the understanding of HIV/AIDS. His most recent work was running a treatment center for HIV and hepatitis C patients that Azar said will prepare Redfield for fighting the opioid epidemic, one of the CDC’s most pressing issues.

“Dr. Redfield has dedicated his entire life to promoting public health and providing compassionate care to his patients, and we are proud to welcome him as director of the world’s premier epidemiological agency. Dr. Redfield’s scientific and clinical background is peerless,” Azar said.

 

Redfield was not available for comment. He was also a finalist for CDC head in 2002 under the George W. Bush administration.

His appointment already was being met with criticism from people who said his background was mostly in research and that he lacked public health experience. He was also at the center of an experimental and controversial AIDS vaccine in the 1990s.

Sen. Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat, sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump, raising concerns about Redfield’s appointment that said his controversial positions on issues regarding HIV/AIDS raised questions about his qualifications about the job. Murray, ranking member of the committee that oversees CDC, also criticized his lack of public health experience.

“I believe the CDC Director must first and foremost be a champion of public health and ensure this Administration embraces the science around public health in both its domestic and global work,” Murray wrote. “I am concerned by Dr. Redfield’s lack of public health expertise and his failure to embrace the science underscoring critical public health work, and I urge you to reconsider him as a candidate for CDC Director.”

The Center for Science in the Public Interest also protested the selection of Redfield because of what it says is a history of scientific misconduct. The group said he doesn’t have important relationships with local health departments.

Dr. Peter Lurie, the organization’s president, called the appointment “disastrous.” He noted that Redfield was investigated by the military for scientific misconduct for exaggerating the benefits of a “putative” HIV vaccine. Researcher disputed his findings that the vaccine worked and Congress stopped plans for a large clinical trial. Smaller studies later proved the vaccine ineffective, but the investigation cleared Redfield.

“What one wants in a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a scientist of impeccable scientific integrity,” Lurie said in a statement before the announcement, when Redfield was being considered.

Redfield also has supported a variety of policies related to HIV/AIDS that many public health professionals don’t support, including mandatory HIV testing, reporting of positive HIV results to public health authorities without the patient’s consent, and quarantining of HIV-positive individuals in the military, Lurie said.

Redfield suggested those policies in the 1980s and 1990s when researchers were still learning about the disease.

The Trump administration’s previous CDC director, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, resigned after questions were raised about conflicts of interests related to some of her financial investments.

Redfield began his career in the late 1970’s at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and co-founded the Institute on Human Virology at Maryland in 1996. The institute’s patient base grew from 200 patients to more 6,000 in Baltimore and Washington under his tenure. It also has more than 1.3 million patients in African and Caribbean nations.

“Dr. Redfield was one of my early collaborators in co-discovering HIV as the cause of AIDS and demonstrating heterosexual transmission of AIDS,” said Dr. Robert C. Gallo, also co-founder of the human virology institute, in a statement. “He is a dedicated and compassionate physician who truly cares about his patients and is deeply committed to ensuring patients receive the highest quality of care possible. Dr. Redfield has served his country well, and consistently demonstrates strong public health instincts that are grounded in science and clinical medicine.”

Dr. E. Albert Reece, dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, said that Redfield is “eminently qualified for this critical position.”

“He has made a lifelong commitment to advancing biomedical research and human health through discovery-based medicine,” Reece said in a statement. “…. he has been one of the most accomplished scientists and public health advocates in the nation in increasing our understanding of the prevention and treatment of infectious disease. His significant contributions have led to the treatment of more than a million HIV patients by the Institute in the U.S. and around the world.”

Baltimore Sun reporter Meredith Cohn contributed to this article.

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Activism, Uncategorized

Unlocking Gut Dysfunction: Live Webinar With Dr. Rawls

Unlocking Gut Dysfunction: Live Webinar

Join Dr. Bill Rawls during this new LIVE WEBINAR on Tuesday, March 27, 8pm EDT as he shares how he was able to rewrite his own gut health story, why our modern-day diets are not designed to support a healthy gut, and how you can identify and overcome the most common gut disruptors.

Topics covered by Dr. Rawls during the webinar will include:

  • His personal story of gut dysfunction — and how he reclaimed his gut health
  • Why our GI tract is not configured to thrive on a modern diet
  • What you need to know about gut dysfunction — and what you can do about it
  • His holistic approach to digestive health — and how a happy, healthy gut is within your reach
  • Plus, we will announce an exclusive offer for webinar attendees.

Join us, and bring your questions. Dr. Rawls will host a LIVE Q&A on gut health immediately after his presentation.

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Category:

Activism, diet and nutrition, Gut Health

HHS Proposes Rule Expanding Religious & Conscience Protections in Health Care – Including Vaccinations: Please Provide Comments

https://parentalrights.org/hhs-rule/

HHS Proposes Rule Expanding Religious and Conscience Protections in Health Care

March 21, 2018

 

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released a wide-ranging proposed rule https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/01/26/2018-01226/protecting-statutory-conscience-rights-in-health-care-delegations-of-authority that focused on increasing protections for the rights of conscience and religious liberties in the area of health care services. Several provisions of the rule pertain to the issue of parental rights.

Interested people can provide comments until Tuesday, March 27.

The proposed rule, Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care; Delegations of Authority, (83 FR 3880) states that:

HHS proposes this rule to enhance the awareness and enforcement of federal health care conscience and associated anti-discrimination laws, to further conscience and religious freedom, and to protect the rights of individuals and entities to abstain from certain activities related to health care services without discrimination or retaliation.

In addition to laying down some new regulations, it also revises old regulations to make certain that the correct practices and policies are in place that will help promote the rights of individuals and entities in the area of individual health care decisions. Toward this end, the proposed rule states the following:

Through this rulemaking, the Department proposes to grant overall responsibility to its Office of Civil Rights (OCR) for ensuring that the Department, its components, HHS programs and activities, and those who participate in HHS programs or activities comply with federal laws protecting the rights of conscience and prohibiting associated discriminatory policies and practices in such programs and activities.

One provision affecting parental rights addresses the issue of vaccinations. While ParentalRights.org does not take any official position on the use of vaccinations, the provision in this proposed rule does guarantee greater protection for parents to make their own informed medical decisions for their children. Section XII C (1) (i) specifically makes reference to ensuring that persons and entities are not “being required to administer or receive certain vaccinations derived from aborted fetal tissues as a condition of work or receipt of educational services.” This rule also includes broader “provisions [to] protect parents who conscientiously object to their children being forced to receive certain treatments or health interventions.” (Section III (I))

ParentalRights.org is excited to see the steps that HHS is taking to ensure that parents have the right to make their own choices regarding the health care of their children.

If you would like to comment and voice your opinions regarding the proposed rule, formal comments may be submitted here:  https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/01/26/2018-01226/protecting-statutory-conscience-rights-in-health-care-delegations-of-authority#open-comment

Finally, if you would like to learn more about the new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division within the OCR whose jurisdiction the provisions of this rule fall under, visit https://www.hhs.gov/conscience.

Other issues the proposed rule concerns:

  • Conscience protections related to abortion, sterilization, and certain other health services to participants in programs—and their personnel—funded by the Department (the Church Amendments, 42 U.S.C. 300a-7);
  • Conscience protections for health care entities related to abortion provision or training, referral for such abortion or training, or accreditation standards related to abortion (the Coats-Snowe Amendment, 42 U.S.C. 238n);
  • Protections from discrimination for health care entities and individuals who object to furthering or participating in abortion under programs funded by the Department’s yearly appropriations acts (e.g., Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, Pub. L. 115-31, Div. H, Tit. V, sec. 507(d) (the Weldon Amendment) and at Div. H, Tit. II, sec. 209);
  • Conscience protections under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) related to assisted suicide (42 U.S.C. 18113), the ACA individual mandate (26 U.S.C. 5000A(d)(2)), and other matters of conscience (42 U.S.C. 18023(c)(2)(A)(i)-(iii), (b)(1)(A) and (b)(4));
  • Conscience protections for objections to counseling and referral for certain services in Medicaid or Medicare Advantage (42 U.S.C. 1395w-22(j)(3)(B) and 1396u-2(b)(3)(B));
  • Conscience protections related to the performance of advanced directives (42 U.S.C. 1395cc(f), 1396a(w)(3), and 14406);
  • Conscience protections related to Global Health Programs to the extent administered by the Secretary (22 U.S.C. 7631(d); Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, Pub. L. 115-31, Div. J, Tit. VII, sec. 7018 (Helms Amendment));
  • Exemptions from compulsory health care or services generally (42 U.S.C. 1396f & 5106i(a)(1)), and under specific programs for hearing screening (42 U.S.C. 280g-1(d)), occupational illness testing (29 U.S.C. 669(a)(5)); vaccination (42 U.S.C. 1396s(c)(2)(B)(ii)), and mental health treatment (42 U.S.C. 290bb-36(f)); and
  • Protections for religious nonmedical health care (e.g., 42 U.S.C. 1320a-1, 1320c-11, 1395i-5 and 1397j-1(b)).

(These laws will be collectively referred to as “Federal health care conscience and associated anti-discrimination laws” for purposes of this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.)

Category:

Activism, vaccines

Homeopathy & Lyme/MSIDS Presentation

Recently I posted the fact the FDA is planning to increase regulation on homeopathic medicines:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/15/march-20-deadline-to-protect-homeopathy/ and https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/19/today-is-the-deadline-to-comment-on-regulation-for-homeopathy/.

The following link is an excellent presentation by Katina Makris on homeopathy and how it can be used to treat Lyme/MSIDS symptoms.

https://www.eomega.org/videos/homeopathy-and-lyme-disease  Click here for presentation.  Approx. 45 Min.

 

 

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Activism, Lyme, Treatment