by Judy Cohain, CNM
GreenMedInfo.com
Abstract: In 2009, while 99.3% of US women delivered in hospital, 0.7% delivered at home. In response to this slight rise in homebirths, The American Journal of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AJOG) issued a warning to all doctors and midwives to refuse to attend homebirth under all circumstances. In the absence of respected […]
Lawmakers Look into Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism
The House Oversight Committee Hearing on Autism was held in Washington D.C. on November 29, 2012
Health Impact News Editor Comments: Earlier this year it was announced that autism rates had reached 1 out of every 88 children in the United States. Congress finally held hearings on […]
by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
New research flies in the face of a new theory that statin drugs, used to lower cholesterol, may be of value in those suffering from osteoarthritis. To the contrary, statin drugs are likely contributing to the epidemic of knee osteoarthritis in exposed populations.
Symptomatic knee osteoarthritis is quite common in people older than 40 […]
Congress Is Back. And So Is Monsanto’s Sneak Attack.
by Organic Consumer Association
With the elections over, Congress has returned for a lame duck session to clear its plate of post-Thanksgiving legislative leftovers. Not surprisingly, Monsanto is back, too, pushing a rider to the FY 2013 Agricultural Appropriations Bill that if passed, would grant the biotech […]
Health Impact News
Vigo County of Indiana is currently experiencing the country’s largest outbreak of Chicken Pox, with 92 cases so far. Out of these 92 cases, only 3 were never vaccinated. That means this may be the nation’s first case of a serious Chicken Pox outbreak among children who were actually vaccinated for Chicken […]
By Dr. Mercola
Deaths from prescription drug overdoses have been called the “silent epidemic” for years, and now, with one American dying every 19 minutes from an accidental prescription drug overdose,1 it’s being described as “the biggest man-made epidemic in the United States.”2
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital and CNN’s chief […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
Behind a dangerous new test approved by the FDA is a new drug by the same company. Meanwhile, new research offers better natural solutions.
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new test from Eli Lilly & Co that detects the presence of proteins in the brain that have […]
by Dr. Miguel Gonzalez, MD
HerpesBulletin.com
Herpes helped with Coconut Oil
Herpes infections or simply Herpes, medically known as herpes simplex virus or HSV, is a common virus and is often unrecognized. An estimated 80% of American adults have had the oral infection (causing cold sores on the mouth and lips) with herpes and as many as 1 […]
By Dr. Mercola
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is actually the second-highest funding source for drug studies (first is the drug companies, themselves). Many assume NIH-funded studies are unbiased, but NIH accepts a great deal of money from Big Pharma and is deeply enmeshed with the industry,
The revolving door between government and the pharmaceutical […]
Those bugs 'are going to outsmart us' - As nature adapts to chemicals and genetically engineered seeds, farmers face new threats.
