By Evelyn Pringle, Martha Rosenberg
AlterNet.org
Young children were once expected to outgrow their issues; now they’re diagnosed with lifelong psychiatric problems.
Where do parents and teachers get the idea there’s something wrong with kids that only an expensive drug can fix? From Big Pharma’s seamless web of ads, subsidized doctors, journals, medical courses and conferences, paid “patient” groups, phony public services messages […]
by Heather Loney
Global News
There’s a new genetically modified crop on the horizon that some say is jeopardizing the entire Canadian organic farming industry.
Organic farmers across the country are sounding the alarm bells on the state of alfalfa, one small plant with a massive role in organic farming.
When most people hear the word alfalfa they generally think of sprouts they […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
These vitamins come from a major drug company. Maybe we should conclude that vitamins made by a drug company reduce cancer and others don’t?
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, favorite home for every would-be debunker of vitamins, finds that a low-dose multivitamin may help prevent cancer in men, […]
Many commercial pain relieving salves are made with a petroleum base. With the harmful effects of petroleum on our bodies, making our own pain relieving arnica salve at home keeps us safe from chemicals and is much easier than you would expect! This easy recipe uses a base of coconut oil to help soothe away those aches and pains!
by David Gumpert
Two weeks ago, I wrote a post about what I thought was a well balanced scientific assessment, by a prominent international science writer, of several large-scale research studies out of Europe about the potential health benefits of raw milk. It was published in SPLASH, the newsletter of the International Milk Genomics Consortium (IMGC), which is housed […]
Yahoo Canadian News
Excerpts:
A man on the west coast of Newfoundland claims a new treatment is helping his family cope with the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s disease, a condition for which medical science offers very little help.
Wilf Roberts of Woody Point, near Gros Morne National Park, believes coconut oil is greatly helping his wife’s Alzheimer’s.
Roberts […]
By Dr. Mercola
The medical and health fields are absolutely riddled with dogmatic beliefs that defy both commonsense and scientific truth. And yet they prevail because they are supposedly backed by “science.”
But what if that science was not actually trustworthy, but rather a carefully orchestrated product… the result of massive conflict of interest, perpetuated by […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
Working on a tip from ANH-USA, a reporter discovers internal documents detailing the true motives of the dietetics board. Action Alert!
In July we reported that the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is being sued because the board wanted to prevent a blogger, Steve Cooksey, from offering free nutrition advice based on […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
Some doctors are now prescribing long-term ADHD medications to low-income kids who don’t have ADHD—simply to boost academic performance.
One physician, Dr. Michael Anderson of Canton, Georgia, calls ADHD a “made up” disorder, “an excuse” for doctors to prescribe Adderall to treat poor academic performance in inadequate schools. According to a disturbing […]
By Dr. Mercola
There are currently two HPV vaccines on the market, but if there was any regard for sound scientific evidence, neither would be promoted as heavily as they are.
The first, Gardasil, was licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2006. It is now recommended as a routine vaccination for girls […]
by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection
The Associated Press reports that at least seven scientists sent letters of resignation in protest about an embattled Cancer Prevention Research Institute in Texas (CPRIT). CPRIT was backed by Governor Rick Perry and Lance Armstrong.
The scientists, among them Nobel laureates, Dr. Phillip Sharp, and CPRIT’s chief scientific officer, […]
By Dr. Mercola
Statins are the world’s most-prescribed class of medications. A staggering one in four Americans over the age of 45 now take cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Pravachol, Mevacor, Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor, and others. A majority of them are taking these drugs for primary prevention of heart attacks and strokes.
However, mounting research suggests this […]
Dr. Robin Bernhoft was one of the first doctors in the U.S. to recognize the toxic effects of GMO, and to see positive results in his patients after prescribing a diet free of GMO foods. In this video, Dr. Bernhoft explains the "science" behind GMO foods, and why you want them labeled.
by Brian Shilhavy
Created4Health.org
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. (2 Corinthians 7:10)
There are two types of “sorrow” in life; two kinds of sorrow that lead people to say “I’m sorry.” One is a Godly sorrow that leads to life and spiritual health, and one […]
by David Klinghoffer
Evolution News and Views
On weekday mornings I wait with our 5-year-old twins at the bus stop for kindergarten where a couple of neighbor boys wait for the same bus. The other kids are older, the sons of a pastor and his wife who live a few houses down from us. One morning last […]
by Katherine Mangu-Ward
Reason.com
Excerpts:
A school in Newport Beach, California—where you’d think they would know better—suspended an elementary school kid for the beverage his mommy packed in his lunch bag. It was kombucha, a fermented drink made with tea and sugar that can contain trace amounts of alcohol.
The California kid originally got fingered for the container his mom […]
by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
As far back as the 5th century BC the Greek physician Hippocrates wrote about the use of a bitter powder extracted from willow bark that reduced fevers and eased aches and pains. Native Americans also used an infusion of willow bark for similar purposes. What was this remarkable “healing” principle within the bark […]
By Dr. Mercola
Americans are a pill-popping population, taking an average of 13 different prescription drugs per capita as of last year’s statistics.1 Children in the US are the most medicated in the world, averaging out at four prescriptions per child. Among seniors, drug use is beyond epidemic, averaging out at a staggering 28 prescriptions per […]
by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection
This is the season that many Americans are advised-even pressured–to get flu shots. Indeed, flu shots are being hawked at every drug store chain…
But what does the evidence show about the effectiveness of the flu vaccine when vaccinated and unvaccinated groups are compared ?
Well, the negative finding of a […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
Why don’t they want it? Because some of them know too much. Here’s the whole tawdry tale.
This week we learned that hospital employees throughout Colorado will be fired unless they get a flu shot by the end of the year. New state health regulations require flu shots for health care workers to […]
