FDA Approves Drug that Kills 5 Times More than Placebo

by Heidi Stevenson
Gaia-Health.com

Bedaquiline kills more than 5 times as many subjects as the placebo does, so what did the FDA do? If you think they’d ban it, you’ll be mistaken. They have approved it.

Update: The FDA didn’t just grant Sirturo (bedaquiline) fast track status. It’s worse than that. They have skipped fast tracking and went straight […]

Why The Apple Is One Of The World’s Most Healing Superfoods

by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com

This commonly overlooked superfood protects the body from nuclear fallout, kills a wide range of cancers, and keeps the arteries unclogged — to name but a few, experimentally confirmed ways in which the apple awakens your inner physician.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

This age old saying has never rang with greater […]

Coconut Oil Offers Hope for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS

by Brian and Marianita Shilhavy
CoconutOil.com

In what is yet another great investigative report by Lorie Johnson of CBN, we hear how coconut oil is helping people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS. (Note: we also covered the remarkable story of how coconut oil helped with ALS last year here: Coconut Oil Reverses Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis – ALS).

They […]

Obama Administration Seeks Approval to Test Anthrax Vaccine on Children

by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection

FYI / Action

A public meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has been scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, January 14-15, to be held at the University of Miami Hospital Seminar Center, Florida:

The stated topic for discussion is “ethical issues associated with the development of […]

Family Farmers to Travel to Washington, D.C. to Take on Monsanto

by The Cornucopia Institute

WASHINGTON, D.C. –   Dozens of family farmers, Plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association et al v. Monsanto,will travel from across America to Washington, D.C. this week to take on Monsanto and demand the right to farm. They will attend the January 10th Oral Argument in the Appeal […]

The Lack of Science Behind GMO Technology

Health Impact News Editor Comments: Are those against genetically engineered foods “anti-science”? Peter Melchet answers this charge and shows how it is actually the pro-GM lobby that is against science. Be sure to also watch the short video below by Dr. Bernhoft, who discusses the lack of science behind genetically engineered food and how […]

Judge: Case of Seized Newborn From Mother Who Questioned Vaccine May Now Proceed

Health Impact News Editor Comments: Last year we covered this story as reported by Michael Farris, chairman of the Homeschool Legal Defense Fund (HSLDA). (See: Newborn Baby Seized by Hospital and Police Because Mother Questioned Vaccine) Homeschooling remains one of the safest places in the United States to protect our children from government-mandated medical policies, […]

Are Mandatory Flu Vaccines for Healthcare Workers part of Obamacare and Linked to Financial Reimbursement to Healthcare Facilities?

Health Impact News
In the closing months of 2012, and here at the beginning of 2013, we are seeing many reports of healthcare workers losing their jobs for refusing to comply with mandatory flu vaccinations. Health Impact News has covered many of these stories:
TriHealth fires 150 employees in Cincinnati for not getting flu shots

Mandated Flu […]

What You Need to Know About the Different Forms of Mercury, the Next Generation of Mercury Testing, and How to Detox Safely

By Dr. Mercola

Dr. Christopher Shade, a former organic farmer, received his PhD from the University of Illinois. His education included the study of metal-ligand interaction in the environment, and for a long time, he specialized in environmental- and analytical chemistry of mercury.

About six years ago, he developed and commercialized technology for mercury speciation analysis—a process […]

Shady Drug Approval Research Groups in India Dealt Blow by India Supreme Court

Health Impact News Editor Comments: Last year we covered the NBC News Dateline’s story regarding the FDA drug approval process, and their use of clinical research organizations in India that are used to conduct human trials on new drugs by major pharmaceutical companies. To test the drug approval process, NBC Dateline setup a fictitious medical company […]