Medical developments from around the world

Use of Stents Linked to Injuries and Fatalities
According to a Bloomberg News article titled “Deaths Linked to Cardiac Stents Rise as Overuse Seen”, authored by Peter Waldman et al, reported on ‘US medicine’s binge on cardiac stents’. In some cases, “overuse, death, injury and fraud have accompanied the devices’ use as a go-to treatment, according to thousands of pages of court documents and regulatory filings, interviews with 37 cardiologists and 33 heart patients or their survivors, and more than a dozen medical studies.”

The article drives home the point I have been making from day one with regard to this business of stents. Andreas Gruentzig showed how plastic balloons could be dilated with pressure across a block in a coronary vessel. He was in Zurich and was unknown. The stents business has become a multi-billion dollar business in the US where there are still some checks & balances. India has no such regulations; audits and deaths are swept under the carpet. Greedy doctors do angioplasty on anyone (that is around 75% of the normal healthy population even among children) who has healthy coronary blocks which pre-condition the myocardium to survive in the unlikely event of a heart attack. No one takes note of my several articles in this area. Now, the theerth, the holy water, comes from the conch.

Mercury Shown To Affect the Endocrine System in Birds
Environmental mercury poisoning is not rare. A study, very carefully planned at the University of Florida in Gainesville, has shown that ibises, birds resembling seagulls, have been affected by small doses of environmental mercury. This study was published in the Journal of the Royal Society. Birds lose their sexual instinct and refuse to mate with females to procreate but prefer mating with males, a behaviour totally absent in these birds hitherto. Mercury could alter their endocrine orchestra.

Obese Patients More Likely To Survive TAVI
Research published online in the American Journal of Cardiology indicated that “overweight and obese elderly patients survived trans catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) better than their slimmer peers.” Researchers also found that “overweight was associated with a 26% lower likelihood of dying within one year of the procedure compared with normal-weight patients”. I was looking for some advantage for the obese people while the world condemns them for life. Other studies now show that overweight by itself is not a risk for precocious death, if the person is very active all his life. It is laziness and sedentary lifestyle that bode danger.

Vaccination Dangers
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, has been marketed as a preventive measure for cervical cancer. The inventor of the vaccine now thinks that it might not protect girls from cancers. To cap it, according to NaturalNews article, genetically modified DNA strands in this vaccine get tagged on to the aluminium preservative that is added and lasts for years in the blood of the vaccinated victims. Therefore, it is not safe to get blood for transfusion from those who are vaccinated with HPV vaccines!