Sunday, December 30, 2007

Ilena quoted in RedWood Age: Resolutions That Go Beyond Losing Weight

Excerpt from Redwood Age:

#6 Become a better health advocate

Ilena Rosenthal, a women's health advocate, cautioned boomers not to be swayed by advertising, and to be mindful of subsequent perks some physicians receive to tout products.

"Learning to follow the money behind the massive number of medical messages we receive daily may well lead us to realize that modern medicine has little to do with health and everything to do with business," Rosenthal said."

… full article here

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Friday, December 14, 2007

Halliburton Employee Violently Raped ... Breast Implant Trauma ... How She Was Further Mistreated

The last few days I've been made aware of this horrific story ... of the brutal rape, imprisionment, and other mistreatment by a woman employed by Halliburton.

I just found a website she made relating her horrors ... and read this:

I awoke the next morning in the barracks to find my naked body battered and bruised. I was still groggy from whatever had been put in my drink. I was bleeding from between my legs and my breast implants were severely disfigured. (I found out later that my attackers tore my pectoral muscles due to the brutality of the attack).

The rest of Jamie's story is here.

http://www.jamiesfoundation.org/Jamie.htm

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

For women of a certain age ...


Women of a certain age will fully appreciate this true story.

If you don't, ask your Mom ... for sure she will.

A Michigan woman and her family were vacationing in a small new England town where Paul Newman and his family often visited.

One Sunday morning, the woman got up early to take a long walk. After a brisk five-mile hike, she decided to treat herself to a double-dip chocolate ice cream cone.

She hopped in the car, drove to the center of the village and went straight to the combination bakery/ice cream parlor.

There was only one other patron in the store.
Paul Newman, sitting at the counter having a doughnut and coffee.

The woman's heart skipped a beat as her eyes made contact with those famous baby-blue eyes.

The actor nodded graciously and the star struck woman smiled demurely.

Pull yourself together! She chides herself. You're a happily married woman with three children, you're forty-five years old, not a teenager!

The clerk filled her order and she took the double-dip chocolate ice cream cone in one hand and her change in the other. Then she went out the door, avoiding even a glance in Paul Newman's direction.

When she reached her car, she realized that she had a handful of change but her other hand was empty.
Where's my ice cream cone? Did I leave it in the store? Back into the shop she went, expecting to see the cone still in the clerk's hand or in a holder on the counter or something. No ice cream cone was in sight.

With that, she happened to look over at Paul Newman.
His face broke into his familiar warm friendly grin and he said to the woman,


'You put it in your purse.'



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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Why the breast implant issue is never boring ...


To read lots of stories of women post implants ... please visit:

Humantics Foundation Website
Breast Implant Awareness Blog
Wed Dec 5, 2007 



By Dan Whitcomb
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-12-05T141823Z_01_N05581766_RTRUKOC_0_US-IMPLANTS.xml

LOS ANGELES, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Porn star Mary Carey, who shot to fame by running for California governor against Arnold Schwarzenegger, unveiled plans on Tuesday to auction off her autographed, recently removed breast implants for charity.

Carey said the size 36-D implants were taken out two weeks ago and replaced with larger 36-DDDs and while under anesthesia she realized they could be used to raise money for breast cancer research.

"The doctors asked me what I wanted to do with them and I said, 'You know what, I'm going to keep them and try to sell them. Because my grandmother had breast cancer," Carey told Reuters in an interview.


The 27-year-old star of such adult films as "Boobsville Sorority Girls" and "Big Breasted Beauties" will be seen in the upcoming VH1 reality show "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" and said that during taping she kicked addictions to the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and alcohol.

"Now that I'm sober I wanted a new physical state to go along with my new mental state," Carey said. "I thought the auction would be a great way to spread some holiday cheer and make sure someone out there would have a Mary Mary Christmas."

The autographed implants have been placed on eBay and Carey, whose real name is Mary Cook, said she planned to donate some 90 percent of the proceeds to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

She intends to use the rest of the money on medical bills for her mother, who suffered major injuries after jumping off a four-story building in 2006.

"I'm actually overall very anti-plastic surgery," Carey said. "I watched my mom go through 11 surgeries (for her injuries) and it's like, for me to voluntarily put myself through that, the only right thing to do is make money and donate it to charity."

Carey gained international fame in 2003 with her quixotic gubernatorial campaign against eventual winner Schwarzenegger. She abandoned a second run for governor against Schwarzenegger to be with her ailing mother and said it was then that she turned to Xanax, taking three times the prescribed dose.

Saturday, December 01, 2007

Shocking document: FDA Science and Mission at Risk ... " The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific base has eroded ..."


Thanks to Louise Kosta for the heads up on this.

Watching the FDA cave in to the breast implant industry pressure and claim that their very often very dangerous medical device is 'safe' was certainly one of many recent low points. We believe women put their health at risk believing breast implants are 'safe.'
www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/

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EXCERPT:
1.2.1 The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific base has eroded and its scientific organizational structure is weak.

Complete report here (opens pdf file)
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/07/briefing/2007-4329b_02_01_FDA%20Report%20on%20Science%20and%20Technology.pdf

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/07/briefing/2007-4329b_02_00_index.html
Full index

New York Times December 1, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/washington/01fda.html?_r=2&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1196514155-yrpd2FxUV18JPLsHEtnRIg&oref=slogin

Advisers Say F.D.A.'s Flaws Put Lives at Risk
By GARDINER HARRIS

"WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 — The nation's food supply is at risk, its drugs are potentially dangerous and its citizens' lives are at stake because the Food and Drug Administration is desperately short of money and poorly organized, according to an alarming report by agency advisers."
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From Associated Press coverage:
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/washington/index.ssf?/base/politics-14/119648218241120.xml&storylist=washington
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"The Science Board subcommittee given the task was blunt: 'In contrast to previous reviews that warned crises would arise if funding issues were not addressed, recent events and our findings indicate that some of those crises are now realities and American lives are at risk.'"
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The report itself is linked at
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/07/briefing/2007-4329b_02_00_index.html