By Peter Jamison
SFWeekly.com
According to the San Francisco-based organization California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), more than 25,000 California nursing-home residents are being given anti-psychotic drugs. That’s about a quarter of the state’s nursing-home population, and according to CANHR and other elder-rights activists, it’s a figure that’s way too high — […]
By Dr. Mercola
Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) is not contagious.
It is an autoimmune disorder that develops when a person’s own immune system attacks and damages the myelin sheath of the body’s nerves, causing muscle weakeness and paralysis.
GBS symptoms can last for a few weeks or months or can become permanent.
In rare cases, people […]
By Pete Kennedy, Esq.
Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
On November 1, a group of mothers who feed their children raw milk and others who oppose the FDA’s enforcement actions against the distribution of raw dairy products will hold a demonstration outside the agency’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. The rally will protest […]
By Norma Erickson, President
Sane Vax Inc.
In response to the recent announcement by SANE Vax Inc. of the discovery of genetically modified HPV DNA residue in multiple vials of Gardasil, the FDA posted the following page on their site, FDA Information on Gardasil – Presence of DNA Fragments Expected, No Safety Risk. The FDA lists […]
by Dr. Mercola
Carole Baggerly is the director and founder of an organization called GrassrootsHealth, which is primarily focused on creating awareness about the profound importance of vitamin D for optimal health.
They’re also developing and substantiating research to support the use of vitamin D as a prevention strategy against diseases like cancer.
Carole’s interest in this […]
By Stuart Pfeifer
Los Angeles Times
Excerpts:
The bust had all the makings of a major criminal investigation. Ten law enforcement and regulatory agencies dedicated hundreds of hours of personnel to track the suspects. They used high-tech video equipment hidden on a utility pole for round-the-clock surveillance and undercover agents to make covert buys.
Defense attorneys […]
by Michael Belkin
The Refusers
The flu vaccine and the pertussis vaccine just received resounding failure grades from mainstream scientific studies.
The first study from The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal showed that the injection flu vaccine (inactivated trivalent vaccine, the most widely prescribed type of vaccine in the U.S.) — had a pooled efficacy of 59% […]
By Andrew W. Saul
National Health Federation
It Just Takes Lots of Pharmaceutical Industry Cash
Recent much trumpeted anti-vitamin news is the product of pharmaceutical company payouts. No, this is not one of “those” conspiracy theories. Here’s how it’s done:
1) Cash to study authors. Many of the authors of a recent negative vitamin E […]
By Associated Press
WashingtonPost.com
Excerpts:
Pat Summitt has handled the talk about her dementia diagnosis the same way she manages Tennessee basketball and her life: with control and determination. The Hall of Fame coach dictated how news of her condition was revealed in August and has made it clear since that she wants the […]
by Dr. Mercola
Death by medicine is a 21st-century epidemic, and America’s “war on drugs” is clearly directed at the wrong enemy!
Prescription drugs are now killing far more people than illegal drugs, and while most major causes of preventable deaths are declining, those from prescription drug use are increasing, an analysis of recently […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
Increasingly, breast cancer fundraising means playing ball with companies whose products actually cause cancer.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, formerly known as the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, is the largest and most heavily funded breast cancer organization in the US. (Last year alone it took in about $420 […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
In a shocking move, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today that the HPV vaccine Gardasil should be given to 11- to 12-year-old boys as well as girls.
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices unanimously recommended routine vaccinations for boys to protect them from […]
by Dr. Mercola
Could it be possible that nearly everything your doctor and the media is telling you about high cholesterol and how it relates to heart disease and strokes is wrong?
Absolutely!
The media and health experts have been giving out massive misinformation about cholesterol. In a thought-provoking two-part series, Dr. Ernest N. […]
What is love? What power does true love have to bring about healing?
by Michael Flannery
Evolution News
In the face of strong and convincing evidence linking Darwinism to the evolutionary ethic and “racial hygiene” of the Nazis (see Richard Weikart’s From Darwin to Hitler and Hitler’s Ethic; see also the Nazi propaganda film “Upfer der Vergangenheit” [“Victims of the Past”]), Darwinian ideologues have typically reacted with denials and indignation. […]
[Health Impact News] Tom Kisken of the Ventura County Star wrote an article this week discussing the practice of parents choosing the gender of their babies using a controversial in vitro procedure. He highlighted the story of a family that had given birth to three boys and wanted to be sure their fourth child was […]
By Dr. Stephanie Seneff
Mercola.com
Just about everyone in America is convinced of two well-established tenets for how to live a long and healthy life:
Eat a low-fat diet
Avoid the damaging rays of the sun
My goal in this essay is to convince you that these two tenets, […]
Homemade Mayonnaise
[Health Impact News] It’s amazing how analysis of scientific studies regarding saturated fats and heart disease changes when one does not start out with the presupposition that “saturated fat is evil and causes clogged arteries and heart disease,” which has been repeated so many times over the past couple of decades that it came […]
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
4-year-olds on drugs? You betcha. The American Academy of Pediatrics issued new treatment guidelines for “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” that say ADHD can be diagnosed in kids as early as age four, and that Ritalin and similar drugs are an appropriate treatment even for children this […]
by Dr. Peter R. Breggin
The New York Times
Excerpts:
The drugging of children for A.D.H.D. has become an epidemic. More than 5 million U.S. children, or 9.5 percent, were diagnosed with A.D.H.D. as of 2007. About 2.8 million had received a prescription for a stimulant medication in 2008.
The A.D.H.D. diagnosis does not identify a […]
