Health Risks
Written on 3 May, 2002 at 8:49 in
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An April 17 letter from Danco Labs, the New York company that manufactures and distributes the abortion pill Mifeprix (RU-486) sent to health care workers warned of severe complications associated with its abortifacient and admited that six women have developed serious illnesses and two have died after taking the drug to induce abortions. The letter also warned doctors that they must report similar complications ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Oct, 2001 at 10:17 in
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Tony Gosgnach
Pro-abortionists' quest for their Holy Grail of a "safe and easy" abortion method has suffered a hard blow with the news that a Canadian woman has died during a second clinical trial of the so-called abortion pill, RU-486.
The unidentified woman, whose place of residence and death is also not known, began medicinal treatments for an abortion on August 23. She was given a dose of the drug mifepristone, then, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Feb, 2000 at 7:21 in
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By France Bissonnette
The Interim
If you have not had a full-term pregnancy and are taking the Pill - STOP. According to the research of Dr. Chris Kalenbourn, taking the Pill before a full-term pregnancy increases a woman's chance of getting breast cancer by between 40 and 220 per cent. The following is a summary of a talk given at the Human Life International conference in Toronto last April.
The Pill is a combination of synthetic hormones, estrogen and progestin. It works ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1996 at 14:44 in
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Joseph Keith Woodard The very mention of homeopathy may elicit cracks about “Kentucky Fried Medicine” (27 secret herbs and spices).
And the homeopathic principle, “like cures like,” may sound distressingly akin to alchemy. Still, when homeopaths criticize mainstream physicians today for being blinkered and narrow in their approach to health and disease, there may be something in the charge.
“The whole of modern medicine is built upon Pasteur’s germ theory,” says Calgary homeopath Cathy Marrick. “But Pasteur’s germ theory,” says Calgary homeopath Cathy Marrick. “But ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1996 at 14:41 in
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Tony Gosgnach VARIANCE feels it’s a good idea to thoroughly scrutinize and make parents aware of mass vaccination campaigns
For the last four years, a Toronto-based group has been advising parents about the risks and potential adverse reactions of vaccines.
Vaccinations Risk Information and Alternative Resource Group (also known as Variance) wa formed as a follow up to a successful 1984 effort by concerned parents to have the Immunization of School Pupils Act amended. The amendment made it possible to exempt children on the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1996 at 13:51 in
Abortion, Health Risks, Issues | Author:
Mike Mastromatteo The notion of abortion as a safe medical procedure took another blow with the recent death of Carolina Gutierrez of Miami.
Gutierrez, 21, the mother of two children, obtained a legal abortion at the Maber Medical Center December 19 in the East Little Havana section of Miami. According to reports, Gutierrez had been reluctant to obtain the abortion, but was pressured into the action by a family friend.
On returning from the clinic, Gutierrez experienced pain and dizziness and after her calls ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1996 at 12:51 in
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Interim Staff Ministry of Health institutes program to avoid any future measles outbreaks
The Ontario Ministry of Health has identified the possibility of a provincial measles outbreak and has set up an inoculation campaign to avoid it. There are still enough parents around who remember getting measles and fully agree with the government campaign.
The Health Ministry’s intent is to give a second measles vaccination to all Ontario school-aged children—“to immunize an entire generation,” as Jim Wilson, the Minster of Health, proclaims. Children usually ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1996 at 10:44 in
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Gloria Lawrenson In the past month, the Ontario Ministry of Health sent home a red and white flyer entitled “Help Wipe Out Red Measles” with every child in the province. Replete with warnings of “blindness,” “hearing problems,” “brain damage,” “death” and even suspension from school for the un-inoculated, the flyer and its accompanying multi-media blitz hope to convince the public that they have a patriotic duty to have their kids inoculated—one more time.
The Kitchener-Waterloo Record called this campaign “aggressive,” “paternalistic,” “mystifying,” “objectionable”—even ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1996 at 9:23 in
Abortion, Health Risks, Issues | Author:
Mike Mastromatteo Two Ottawa women feel that the information is “too important to leave alone”
Two Ottawa women are doing their part to spread information linking induced abortion with an increased risk of breast cancer.
Karen Murawsky, public affairs officer with Campaign Life Coalition Ottawa, and partner Lyn Smith, are authors of the report, Women Need to Know. The report is a summary of studies dating back to 1970 which indicate a positive association between the increased rate of breast cancer in women who ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1996 at 9:21 in
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Interim Staff Police in Dallas are trying to determine what role a doctor who gives out contraceptives, had in a sexual abuse case.
The Dallas Morning News reports that Dr. Andrew Burke has come under fire for his decision to implant the abortifacient Norplant into an 11-year-old girl.
Norplant is a highly controversial implant favoured by birth-control groups who believe in its long-term capabilities. However, there have been a rash of lawsuits by women who claim it causes fainting spells, irregular heart beats, exhaustion, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Dec, 1995 at 9:30 in
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Interim Staff Told by doctors her baby was dead, woman delivers two healthy sons
A British study raises concern over the number of preborn children who have been killed after they were wrongly diaganosed as already dead or disabled in ultrasound scans. A study of more than 2000 babies in West Yorkshire revealed one in 200 terminations were based on misinterpretation of routine scans.
The same study, conducted by Ian Brand, a consultant radiologist at Airedale General Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire, revealed failure ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Dec, 1995 at 9:27 in
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Interim Staff U.K. studies show a brand of birth control pill may be linked with “deep vein thrombosis”
A health warning issued by the British Government revealed the results of studies that link seven popular brands of low dose contraceptive pills with deep vein thrombosis. This instigated an uproar within the medical profession and provoked confusion and outrage amongst the British population.
The Government warned that of the 3 million British women taking oral contraceptives, the 1.5 million, using those seven brands of the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Nov, 1995 at 12:43 in
Health Risks, Physicians for Life, Pro-life Groups | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Pharmacists for Life International is disputing mainstream media reports of “safe and quick” home abortion techniques using drugs already available for other uses.
The reports say an American researcher has discovered that a combination of methotrexate (a drug used in chemotherapy) and misoprostol (a gastr-intestinal medicine) can induce abortions in 96 per cent of women during their first nine weeks of pregnancy. The methotrexate is said to destabilize the uterine lining, while the misoprostol prompts contractions which expel the unborn child.
“This ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Aug, 1995 at 14:55 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Frank Kennedy, Health Risks, Issues, Motherhood | Author:
Frank Kennedy Poor Linda Groce.
She’s doing 12 months in jail for illegal sidewalk counselling outside of Robert Scott’s Toronto abortuary. She is also one of the 18 pro-lifers charged two years ago by the former NDP government for their pro-life activities.
Linda, 46, the mother of three children is well acquainted with the serious problems ensuing from having an abortion (having had one herself).
She remains in jail a silent martyr—a prisoner of conscience—ignoring a law that thwarts her attempts to tell other women ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Aug, 1995 at 12:20 in
Bioethics, Health Risks, Issues | Author:
Paul Dodds Looking at some news stories in Ontario causes me to wonder-and worry-about the future facing disabled persons.
Toronto Star columnist Thomas Walkom recently wrote about the plight of one Ontario family in the wake of welfare cutbacks. Matthew Jensen is an eight year old with severe autism who cannot speak feed or dress himself. Matthew is fed through a tube inserted directly into his stomach and still wears diapers. His father took flight shortly after he was born, leaving his mother ... (Continue reading)
