The pot calling the kettle black!

But of course the marketplace can regulate itself!

I don't know why but more pyramid schemes and snake oil products seem to come out of Utah than anywhere else.

The USA does not need Federal oversight. Just let people die to make a profit.

You know what they call alternative medicine that actually works? Medicine.

Thank you, FDA!

What great reporting, they don't even tell us the specific products. :|

Showmeproof, I have used alternative medicine successfully for a variety of ailments, but none of my practitioners have ever tried to sell me something that claims to have benefits like this. I would not classify these products as alternative medicine. I like alternative medicine b/c it is holistic and actually tries to find and treat the root cause of problems, not just alleviate symptoms that problems cause. I find alt. med. docs seem to listen more and try to find the root of a problem, rather than quickly prescribing something and moving on.

There just needs to be a government entity to monitor internet scams (hey, it'd make some jobs!!!)

"The only FDA-approved chelation therapies are used to treat lead and mercury poisoning"

but then they go on to claim,

FDA officials said at least one death — involving a child with autism — has been reported with the products, although side effects of such unproven remedies often are not reported.

What is reported is all the deaths due to pharmaceutical drugs that have to be withdrawn from the public and the Doctors who prescribed these drugs.  Also, the FDA does allow this procedure to be used in lead and mercury poisoning.  It would appear the FDA is trying to make much out of nothing.  Leave this alone and start policing pharmaceuticals who do their own research with much bias. 

Why worry about a few people trying to make a buck on the Internet when many of Big Pharma's products such as Chantix (suicide), Boniva (broken bones), Reglan (tardive dyskinesia), Yazmin birth control pills (heart attack), Meridia (stroke), and Serzone (liver failure) will kill you just as dead?

Thank you "Federal Death Administration"! Thank you so much for saving us from this evil! We know that mercury and live cancer viruses your handlers put in vaccines are safe. We know your GMO food, and fluoride in our water is safe. We know there is no cure for cancer so we'll keep wishing for the cure you say doesn't exist. You pieces of scum will be defeated! We are warning you criminals, back off!

September 11, 2001: Terrorism left 2,996 people dead, including the passengers on the four commercial airliners. Many logical humans and teapartysapiens feel it was the most tragic day in U.S. history.

But what about the breaking news of the over 800,000 people in the United States die every year from for big profit conventionanl medicine, over 200,000 deaths are from FDA approved prescription drugs But where is the media attention for this tragedy? The pharmaceutical industry is a multi-trillion dollar business. Companies spend billions on advertising (MSNBC, FOX, etc.) and promotions for prescription drugs. Who can remember the last time they watched television and weren't bombarded with ads for pills treating everything from erectile dysfunction to sleeplessness?

For every conceivable ailment – real or not – chances are there's a pricey FDA approved prescription drugs to "treat" it. Chances are even better that their drug of choice comes full of deadly side effects.

FOX, MSNBC FDA are a pharma dependent fraud association for not reporting the facts correctly to the public

You can wake up in the morning and shower with a soap containing EDTA, use a shampoo containing EDTA, apply cosmetics, eye drops, and lotions containing EDTA, the brushyour teeth with toothpaste conatining EDTA. Then after using an asthma inhaler containing EDTA can consume dried fruit in your breakfast cereal that has been treated with EDTA, served in a bowl cleaned with a dish soap containing EDTA. After getting dressed in clothing laundered with an EDTA containing detergent, take a protein bar for mid morning snack that is iron fortified using EDTA, wash it down with a cup of coffee whitened by a creamer containing EDTA. At lunch consume a yogurt containing EDTA, or eat a sandwich spread with mayo containing EDTA on bread fortified with iron bound to the bread by EDTA and wash it down with a carbonated drink containing EDTA.

At dinner you may choose a frozen or canned seafood product packed and processed with EDTA or add a lovely gravy or sauce to your meal containing you guessed it, EDTA.

When the day ends and you re-apply the soaps, toothpaste, etc and climb into a bed freshly laundered with EDTA it seems the FDA wants you to rest peacefully knowing they are working diligently to prevent the marketing of EDTA as a product to REMOVE all the chemicals in, on and around your body that were originally put in, around and on your body by the FDA approved uses for EDTA.

Pleasant dreams.

P.S., perhaps the regulators need to review the facts. The products they are warning are not intravenous preparations. The "dangers" they allude to with regard to "death" are the result of confirmed medical error and not the chelation process itself. The "danger" is fabricated, as the documentation of all 3 (yes 3) deaths from chelation medication ERRORS is readily available from the CDC if the regulators even once concerned themselves with telling the truth to the public.

Gee, I wonder how many people have died from Oxycodone, Paxil, Lipitor, Faulty Pacemakers, CT Scans and MRI's, TCE, BENZENE, ARSENIC ect. ect. ect.??? These are the things that NEED ATTENTION!!!!! I would rather take natural herbs for my ailments than trust a chemical that's been approved by it's maker. And this is why you are bothering those few 8 companies... you aren't kidding anyone.

people are so brainwashed by the pharma companies. Everybody realizes inherently that there is a link between diet and disease. most are not proactive enough to do anything about it. Colon Cancer is by most doctors account 90% preventable through diet. Type II diabetes incidence has increased due to obesity. This does not even include things like high blood pressure and cholesterol which can be largely controlled by getting the right stuff in your body. Why not try somthing natural and see if it works for you. I guess pharma does not want to encourage us to do that. Why because were taking big profits away from them.

Is this like Michelle Obama's cleansing rituals?

Folks,

Quack doctors/companies, promising miracle cures are not new. Not even a little.

In the plague outbreak, in London, in 1665 quack doctors promised plague relief by making either a mixture to be applied or taken internally of powdered toads and unicorn horn. In either case it is likely that the binding agent was quick silver (modernly known as mercury).

Perhaps that's not far enough back for you. In the 1540's, again to help cure the Plague in London, Henry VIII released a proclaimation of plague orders, which were to e carried out by the mayor. These plague orders were active until circa 1610 and included a cure which instructed the patient to pluck the feathers out of the butt of a chicken and apply it to the plague sore. It is said that the chicken "will gasp and labor for life"(1) and then finally die. Then the patient is instructed to repeat the exercise with a 2nd chicken, and "it too will gasp and labor for life"(2). But, this time as the chicken dies it will transfer it's life force into the patient, and suck out the poison of the disease. The cure is taken from a medieval Welsh fairy tale.

Too long ago? Okay, let's look at the 1700's where snuff (ground tobacco) was breathed in through the nose in order to make the person sneeze, as a way to clear the head. In 1739 an advertisement for 'angelick snuff' was published in the Daily Post. The ad claimed that it could: "

instantly removing all Manner of Disorder of the Head and Brain, easing the most excruciating Pain in a Moment; taking away all Swimming or Giddiness, proceeding from Vapours, or any other Cause; also Drowsiness, Sleepiness, all other Lethargick Effects; perfectly curing Deafness to Admiration, and all Humours or Soreness in the Eyes, wonderfully strengthening them when weak.

It certainly cures Catarrhs or Defluxions of Rheum, and remedies the most grievous Tooth-ach in an Instant; is excellently beneficial in Apoplectick Fits, and Falling Sickness, and assuredly prevents those Distempers; corroborates the Brain, comforts the Nerves, and revives the Spirits" (3). But, in all actuality, it likely derrived it's name from containing of angelica, an herb that has purported effects of being an anti-bacterial, which can strengthen the heart.

Still not convinced? In the mid- 1800's a whole new world opened for medicine with the introduction of harnessed electricity. For example, the celebrated electro-magnetic machine which sent electric shocks through the patient's body and claimed to cure Rhumatism, palsy, paralysis of vital organs, toothaches, cholera, skin diseases, deafness, loss of voice, pertussis, brochitis, and more.

Too long ago? Okay, I can work with that. In the early to mid-1900s (up to 1950s) thousands of Ultra Violet Ray Machines were sold for home use. These used electrical stimulation in order to treat anything from writers cramp to heart disease (for more info, see: http://www.museumofquackery.com/devices/uv.htm).

Folks, this isn't new. The major difference between the 'miracle cures' of the past and what we have available today is that we have the skills, like literacy and the time to utilize it, and the means (internet, libraries, accessible medical professionals) to do our own research and make our own decisions on what our treatment is and who we want to administer it. It has little to do with government regulations or types of economies. It has to do with making informed choices, with the best information that is available to you at the time. And it's about knowing that these issues are not new, and that using the history of medicine to recognize what has/has not worked in the past and why can help you put that information in context.

1-2. Wilson, FP (1927) "The Plague in Shakespeare's London." Oxford University Press. London
3. Rance, Caroline "The Quack Doctor: Historical Remedies for All Your Ills." The Quack Doctor: Historical Remedies for All Your Ills. 15 July 2010. Web. 25 October 2010.

A doctor put me on chelation therapy and I almost died from it. I know of two others that had a friend that died. Be very careful. It really works on heavy metal poisoning but chelation is not for everybody.

Know a man who had years of chelation therapy (IV - by an MD). He was unable to have cardiac surgery due to numerous other health conditions, and the chelation gave him years of added life and eventually relieved the other conditions to the point that he was able to have the cardiac bypass surgery. (local MDs still refused him, but the Cleveland Clinic took the challenge.) Given a death sentence at age 50 yrs and 5 heart attacks, he recently died at age 73. He was a pragmatic man and inquired into chelation because he had had metal exposure, altho his testing came back below thresholds. This was not an "alt" kind of guy...

Chelation was expensive - insurance will not pay for it except for heavy metal removal - and it gave the gentleman terrible body odor (think rotting broccoli) but as he couldn't walk 100 feet at the start of it, and was able to walk 500 feet (and up hill) after a year of chelation therapy, it seems it helped. His Doctor's office was filled with "hopeless" cases from all over the US and Canada. My point is, if you've been given a death sentence and can afford to try the treatment, the govt should not keep you from it. They don't know it all. You have a right to choose.

EDTA chelation therapy reversed my father-in laws heart blockages. He couldn't walk across the room without gasping for breath when he was in his mid 60's. He lived until the age of 94 years old. My wife, a Masters degree nutritionist, swears it had to be the chelation treatments.

People just don't drink enough pure water, Period. Dehydration is common in hospitals because patients refuse to drink enough liquid.

Find an Integrative medical doctor who has experience with IV chelation, follow up with blood test, and drink plenty of liquids. There may be companies out there causing problems with oral chelation. FDA is on the war path, along with big Pharma, to undermine any alternative health treatment they can at the moment. Create fear in the masses so they can pass the S510 bill in Congress, banning all vitamins and taking away their competition.

Thanks FDA if you would have been on your watch, you would have stopped the freaking dumping of Corexit that is killing people in the Gulf. Now that gulf is Radioactive. We have been screaming for 5 years to the CDC, EPA, and FDA.

When in Gods name are you going to stop controlling our choices. We are trying to open up clinics for these very ill people in the Gulf Coast and get Blocked by BP and the FEDS. I think you all need to go for a good swim in that water you allowed to be tainted in the name of Money and Power.

Your actions have been a coverup from the beginning, You have had five years to study Morgellons and still no word and now it is a pandemic and worse. You have allowed the Corporations...Mansatan, Dupont to control our food supply. Now you allow Doctors to tell these people up there they have the FLU. Putting Mickey Mouse in your offices would be better than what we have up their in your 9-5 weekends off business of hiding the truth.

You better wake up, people are dying on your watch and while we are at it BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME. We need help here and you are minding the business of the world, while you allow us to become a 3rd world country.

Trisha Springstead RN

www.morgellonsreport.com

During the Cold War the term 'third world country' was created to recognize countries that did not align themselves with, or pursue alignment with capitalism, NATO, or socialism. So, since we're capitalist, that really doesn't apply to us. Thanks for playing.

As far as turning us into a third world country, I'll let Woman's Rights Worldwide answer that one. Mind you this is just on woman's rights:

"...sadly, in our world today, being female often means being sentenced to a life of poverty, abuse, exploitation, and deprivation. Compared to her male counterpart, a girl growing up in the developing world is more likely to die before her fifth birthday and less likely to go to school. She is less likely to receive adequate food or health care, less likely to receive economic opportunities, more likely to be forced to marry before the age of 16, and more likely to be the victim of sexual and domestic abuse. Girls are forced to stay home from school to work. In fact, two thirds of the nearly 800 million illiterate people in the world are women. Only one in 10 women in Niger can read. Five hundred thousand women die every year from childbirth complications— that’s one woman every minute. Girl babies are even killed in countries where males are considered more valuable. Women are denied property rights and inheritance in many countries. Worldwide, women own only 1 percent of the world’s property. They work two-thirds of all the world’s labor hours but earn just 10 percent of the world’s wages. Being female, in much of our world, is not “heavenly.” And yet, in my opinion, the single-most significant thing that can be done to “cure” extreme poverty is this: protect, educate, and nurture girls and women and provide them with equal rights and opportunities—educationally, economically, and socially. According to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan: “No tool for development is more effective than the empowerment of women.” This one thing can do more to address extreme poverty than food, shelter, health care, economic development, or increased foreign assistance. There is a saying in Ghana: “If you educate a man, you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.” When a girl is educated, her income potential increases, maternal and infant mortality is reduced, her children are more likely to be immunized, the birth rate decreases, and HIV infection rates (especially in Africa) are lowered. She is more likely to acquire skills to improve her family’s economic stability, and she is more likely to ensure that her daughters also receive an education. Educating girls pays dividend after dividend to the whole community. - World Vision Magazine - Spring 2007"

As for the FDA, they are overworked and understaffed. If you know information that will help them, call them at 1-888-463-6332. They are very nice and willing to assist or take information as you have need of it. I know. I've called them in the past.

Bravo, FDA. For once, you did something that appearsto be altruistic. What they consistently fail to mention, whenever "watchdogging" labs outside the reach of their claws, is that the market responds to the needs of the public. For every fluoroquinolone-induced (Cipro, Levaquin, Avelox, etc) toxic reaction, there are a hundred things that may or may not help, since there is no presently-known cure for these reactions except (I'm sorry to say) time and a supportive family. For every one "holistic" product, there are fifty legal poisons that the FDA should have pulled from pharmacy shelves twenty years ago.

Remember Vioxx and Fen-phen? Those are just two examples of successful "little man" victories in the face of the FDA's cash-fed juggernaut. And lest you all think the NIH is any different, they're not. It all comes down to cold, hard cash. Your body is YOUR temple; to the FDA, it's a children's chemistry set, rarely taken seriously.

Be your own advocate, read the labels on everything you ingest, and take the Internet with a HUGE grain of salt. An informed consensus is better than blind trust, especially when it comes to the one body and one mind we've got for this crazy marathon called Life.

1. FDA members sit on the drug companies boards - no bias there?

2. The drug companies has been trying like crazy to make all vitamins drugs so they can have complete control and sell them at a much higher price, of course. The minute a Vitamin makes a claim about curing anything then it is considered a drug and only Pharma can do drugs. Cute, huh?

3. Oh my yes there are snake oil salesman so buyer beware. But lets face it most are easy to spot because they claim to cure eveything, make you look 50 yrs younger and become brillant in less then a month. Come on people - get over the "if it is on tv or the internet it must be true".

4. Look at the statisics of the FDA approved drugs that have killed way more people. Though to be fair some of that is because people have the idea that if 1 pill is good then 2 is better instead of following the directions.

5. A good study is a "double blind cross-over study". Many of the studies done by the drug companies wouldn't allow their drugs to be approved if they were held to that standard so I guess the others think why should I do that expensive study and they are expensive (6 digit expensive) if FDA doesn't require it from the drug companies.

6. Some are pure quackery but then some of the drugs from the Pharma are pure quackery, too.

7. And if you believe something can cure you, it just might. AT least 50% of being cured is in your head, by your will power that's why studies usually show that a small % of people were cured on a sugar pill instead of the drug.

I don't know if these companies have done real studies to support their claims or not so it may be justified then again the drug companies sure don't want them around and FDA does what the drug companies want.

www.metrametrix.com Environmental Medicine, sound....tested and accurate.

Help these people please.

They are very sick.

Trisha Springstead RN MS