Are You Taking Pills You Don’t Need? Ghost Writing Might be the Reason

By Martha Rosenberg
The Epoch Times

Most people blame direct-to-consumer advertising, especially on TV, for elevating everyday anxiety to depression, depression to bipolar disorder, childhood behavior problems to psychiatric illnesses, lack of sleep to excessive sleepiness, migraines to epilepsy-drug deficiencies, and old age to hormone deficiency.

Ghostwriting also helps promote the national malaise: people suffering from […]

Colorado joins national trend to implement unconstitutional restrictions on vaccine exemptions: your state could be next

by: Alan Phillips, J.D.
NaturalNews

Colorado is among the growing list of states seeking to increase the number of mandatory vaccines while restricting access to vaccine exemptions. Previous recent efforts have occurred in WA, NY, NJ, CA and NC. (See Articles by Alan Phillips, and Stealth Vaccine Laws Allow Children to Consent to […]

New Study: Antipsychotic Drugs Ineffective for Veteran’s Stress

By BENEDICT CAREY
NY Times

Drugs widely prescribed to treat severe post-traumatic stress symptoms for veterans are no more effective than placebos and come with serious side effects, including weight gain and fatigue, researchers reported on Tuesday.

The surprising finding, from the largest study of its kind in veterans, challenges current treatment standards so directly that it […]

Ghost Writers of Medical Research should be Sued for Fraud Argue Lawyers

by CTV News.ca Staff

Academics who lend their names to medical and scientific articles that they didn’t actually write are doing little more than prostituting themselves, according to two law professors at the University of Toronto.

The professors outline their argument in a piece in PLoS Medicine, saying researchers who engage in the practice should […]

How to Feed your Dog or Cat Coconut Oil

allnaturalpethealth.com

Giving coconut to your pet is an excellent health decision and can improve your pet’s quality of life, but there is a right way and wrong way to start supplementing your dog or cat’s diet with coconut oil.
Start slow and increase gradually.
When beginning to supplement your pet’s diet with coconut oil, start slow and […]

The Freedom to Eat Food: Going local in uncertain economic times

By Deborah Adams
Food Freedom
When I decided to live the locavore diet for a month, it hardly seemed worth the bother. I have a garden, my chickens provide eggs, my pantry is stocked with beans, peas, potatoes, apples, peaches, and other goodies that I preserved last year. A plethora of small farms […]

NDI Draft Guidance is a Big, Fat Gift to Big Pharma

by Alliance for Natural Health

Want to let the drug industry take your favorite supplements off the market, patent them, and sell them back to you—by doctor’s prescription only—for 10 or 100 (or even more) times what you’re paying now? A follow-up to our recent Action Alert.

As Big Pharma becomes more […]

New Diagnosis (Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder) to increase already scandalous overprescription of dangerous antipsychotic medication to children

by Allen Frances, M.D.
Psychology Today
We are already in the midst of a false epidemic of ADD. Rates in kids that were 3-5% when DSM IV was published in 1994 have now jumped to 10%. In part this came from changes in DSM IV, but most of the inflation was caused by […]

How Negative Study Results Won’t Stand In The Way Of The Great Statin Push

Dr. John Briffa
for The Cholesterol Truth

Excerpts:

It’s easy to believe that statins have dramatic life-saving properties. The reality is, however, that for the majority of people who take them, they don’t. In the biggest and best review published to date, statins were not found to reduce overall risk of death in individuals with no previous […]

You are 35,000 times more likely to become ill from other foods than you are from raw milk

By Ted Beals, MD
RealMilk.com
Those Pathogens, What You Should Know
Remarks delivered at the Third International Raw Milk Symposium, May 7, 2011, Bloomington, Minnesota.

I wish to begin by saying that the real discussion of food, including raw milk, should focus on the undeniable values and benefits for our development and sustained health. Sally […]