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March 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney Undergoes
Heart Transplant
Former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant at a
Virginia hospital Saturday.
Cheney, 71, has suffered five heart attacks since his 30s, the
Washington Post reported. He underwent quadruple-bypass surgery in
1988, then two angioplasties as well as the implantation of a
heart-monitoring device, which was removed in 2007.
According to the Post, Cheney, who was vice president under
President George W. Bush, had been on the heart transplant waiting list
for 20 months. He was recovering Saturday in the intensive care unit of
Inova Fairfax Hospital near Falls Church, Va.,
Cheney aide Kara Aherm said in a statement released late Saturday.
“Although the former Vice President and his family do not know the
identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful for this lifesaving
gift,” Ahern said. She added that Cheney “is thankful to the teams of
doctors and other medical professionals at Inova Fairfax and George
Washington University Hospital for their continued outstanding care.”
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FDA Must Consider Ban on Antibiotic Use in
Livestock: Court
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration must follow through on a
35-year-old proposal that would have banned the use of certain antibiotics
in animal feed due to fears about potential harm to human health, a
federal district court in Manhattan ruled Thursday.
In 1977, the FDA proposed banning the use of penicillin and two forms
of tetracycline due to concerns that overuse of the drugs in livestock led
to the development of drug-resistant bacteria that can infect people, the
Washington Post reported.
The FDA has never taken action on the proposal and was sued in May 2011
by five environmental, health and consumer advocacy groups. The court
ruling forces the FDA to move ahead with proceedings that could lead to
the withdrawal of the drugs.
“The scientific evidence of the risks to human health from the
widespread use of antibiotics in livestock has grown, and there is no
evidence that the FDA has changed its position that such uses are not
shown to be safe,” Judge Theodore H. Katz wrote, the Post
reported.
The makers of the drugs will be given an opportunity at a hearing to
prove that the antibiotics are safe.
“If, at the hearing, the drug sponsors fail to show that the use of the
drugs is safe, the [FDA] Commissioner must issue a withdrawal order,” Katz
wrote.
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FDA Approved Higher Dose of Alzheimer’s Drug
Despite Warnings:Experts
A higher dosage of the Alzheimer’s drug Aricept was approved by the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration even though it caused potentially
dangerous side effects and worked only slightly better than the existing
dosages of the drug, according to an article published Thursday in the
British Medical Journal.
The 23-gram version of Aricept was approved by the FDA against the
advice of agency reviewers. The approval was granted in July 2010, four
months before the 5- and 10-milligram dosages of Aricept lost patent
protection, The New York Times reported.
The FDA reviewers noted that a clinical trial involving 1,400 patients
showed that the higher dosage failed to meet its goal of improving
cognitive and overall functioning in people with moderate to severe
Alzheimer’s disease.
The trial also showed that the higher dosage caused substantially more
nausea and vomiting, which are potentially dangerous side effects for
elderly patients with advanced Alzheimer’s disease, The Times
reported.
The drug was developed by Japanese drug maker Eisai and is co-marketed
in the United States with Pfizer.
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