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AMENDMENT html.15.Kingston RL, Wong AW, Khan I, Comment onBROADCASTAn Increase in Dietary Supplement Exposures Reported to US Poison Control Centers, J Med Toxicol, March 2018,14(1):108-109,doi:10.1007/s13181-017-0638-0;By Michael LeVesque, NHF Board MemberEpub 2017 Nov 28, at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29185195.16.Nationwide Childrens Hospital, Study finds 275,000 calls to poison control centers for dietary supplement ex- Pass the Medical Freedom posures from 2000 through 2012, Medical Express, July 24, 2017, at https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-07-poi- Amendmentson-centers-dietary-supplement-exposures.html. data,W hen it comes to mattersTechnically,undertheNinthAmend-17.Hank Schultz, Experts file comment questioning conclusions drawn from poison control center Nutraingredients-USA, Dec 11, 2017, at https://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Article/2017/12/11/Experts-file-comment-questioning-conclusions-drawn-from-poison- ofhealth,theMedicalment,theFederalgovernmenthasno control-center-data.18.Staff Writer, Zero Deaths from Vitamins, Miner- FreedomAmendmentauthoritywhatsoeveroverthemedical als, Amino Acids or Herbs, Orthomolecular Medicine(MFA)isnecessarytochoices made by Americans. However, as News Service, Jan 5, 2011, at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n01.shtml. protect all of us from the overreach ofwith so many other customs and laws, this 19.Dangerous Prescription Drugs, undated, at http:// government. Currently, the World Healthexpress reservation of rights to the people dangerousprescriptiondrugs.weebly.com/death-by-medi-cine.html. Organization (WHO) has gained controlis honored more in the breach than in the 20.Derrick Lonsdale, The Role of Thiamin in High Cal- over medical policies and actions for theobservance. It is this utter disregard of the orie Malnutrition, Austin J Nutri Food Sci, 2015, 3(2): 1061, at https://www.austinpublishinggroup.com/nutri- World. Every member government is cur- Ninth Amendment that has required the tion-food-sciences/fulltext/ajnfs-v3-id1061.php. rently obliged to strictly follow the WHOsspeci c wording present in the proposed 21.Khanh Luong & Lan Nguyen, The Impact of Thi-amine Treatment in the Diabetes Mellitus, Journal ofguidelines related to health emergencies.MFA.Itmustaddressthepossibleways Clinical Medicine Research, June 2012, 4(3): 153160, doi:Our own Federal government is the ma- the government has denied these rights and 10.4021/jocmr890w, at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3376872/. jor fi nancial engine behind the WHO andchoices. It also specifi cally protects the re-22.Bill Sardi, Is This the Cause of Your Heart Palpita- willingly commits itself to those actions,lationship of the Individual with his or her tions? Knowledge of Health, March 5, 2013, at https://knowledgeofhealth.com/is-this-cause-heart-palpitations/. medical decisions, and mandates. healthcare provider.23.Liberopoulos E, Florentin M, Mikhailidis D, et al.,Itisonethingforasovereignnation- Therefore, it is prudent and necessary to Compliance with lipid-lowering therapy and its impact on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, Expert Opin- al government to obligate itself to certainmake it our highest priority to protect each ion on Drug Safety, Nov 2008, 7(6):717-725, https://doi:global medical agreements, whether in thecitizens medical freedom, choice, and pri-10.1517/14740330802396984, at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18983218. best interest of the country or not. Howev- vacy. This protection is also insured by the 24.Jim Giles, Drug giant Merck accused of deaths cov- er, that does not mean that the Americannecessary medical informed consent of the er-up, New Scientist, April 15, 2008, at https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13685-drug-giant-merck-ac- government has that same authority overindividual.Thefi rstandforemoststate-cused-of-deaths-cover-up/. its citizens. When citizens have protectionment in the MFA is All people have the 25.Larry D. Sasich, Testimony on Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA), Public Citizen, Sept 15, 2000, atthroughtheU.S.Constitution,thegov- right to secure their Health in the manner https://www.citizen.org/article/testimony-on-prescrip- ernment must honor that freedom underthey choose.tion-drug-user-fee-act-pdufa/.26.Howard Wolinsky, Disease mongering and drugall conditions and under the judicial courtTheMedicalFreedomAmendment marketing,EMBOReports,July2005,6(7):612- system. reads:12 H EALTHF REEDOMN EWS /F ALL2023'