Deadly medical errors still common in U.S. hospitals

by: David Gutierrez
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) In spite of a decade of efforts to improve patient safety, dangerous medical errors are still common in U.S. hospitals, according to a study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and published in the “New England Journal of Medicine.”

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In Praise of Midwives: Having a Baby Is Not an Illness

by Nancy Cronk
The Huffington Post

There is a bill in the CO State Senate that brings back a flood of emotion for me. Senate Bill 088 re-authorizes midwives to practice a profession that has been in existence since time began — assisting others in the natural process of becoming parents. The bill would […]

Antipsychotic drugs such as Zyprexa, Risperdal & Seroquel place the elderly at increased risk of strokes & death

By Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

Elderly Abuse: Cruel Mental Health Programs
Introduction

In today’s high-pressure world, tradition is too often replaced by more “modern” means of dealing with the demands of life. For example, while once heavily community-, church- and family-based, today the task of caring for our parents and grandparents routinely falls to […]

GM in your cornflakes? Food fears as U.S. approve new genetically engineered maize

By Sean Poulter
MailOnline

Breakfast cereals, including corn flakes, bread and snacks are under threat after the US authorities approved the growing of a new GM maize.

The warning is significant because it comes from the North American Millers’ Association, a food industry trade body, rather than green campaigners.

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Baby’s injury spurs bill on hepatitis B vaccine

By Gail Elber, The World

In 2009, Kyle and Sara Cox and their newborn son Zakkary had a close call. An apparent reaction to a hepatitis B vaccine gave Zakkary a stroke — and could have sent his parents to jail.

The Coxes were lucky. Now Zakkary’s grandmother, Tracy Kidd, is on a mission […]

The Medicated Child

by Tom Naughton
FatHead

I watched a PBS documentary titled The Medicated Child a couple of nights ago.  It made me want to reach into the TV and strangle some of the doctors who are pumping kids full of drugs.  I don’t doubt that some people are born with true chemical imbalances that require medication, but […]

Scientists admit dementia not a normal part of aging

by: Jonathan Benson
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Contrary to popular belief, dementia is not a normal part of the aging process. The condition, which most often plays itself out in the form of Alzheimer’s disease, is an abnormal neurological condition that is likely caused by a combination of factors, including but not limited to […]

Overuse of Antibiotics “Greatest threat to human health”

The Sydney Morning Herald

Excerpts:

“Experts are warning of a not-too-distant future where life-saving medical interventions will be too risky to undertake; a future where chemotherapy is impossible and organ transplants are no longer an option. They say this would happen in a world without effective antibiotics, and they are calling for more public […]

Lyme Disease: Misdiagnosed, Underreported, and Epidemic

Alliance for Natural Health

This is yet another example of the US medical-industrial complex run amok. Lyme is one of the most serious epidemics of our time. Yet the opinions of 2% of the medical community are dominating the beliefs and practices of the mass majority of practicing Lyme physicians!

The number of Lyme disease cases […]

What You Believe About Tomorrow Affects Your Health Today!

by Brian Shilhavy
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. (Philippians 3:20-21)
When we are […]