We’ll cover the truth regarding the dangers of prescription medicines and vaccines.

Doctors Prove that Mammography Exam Can Cause Cancer

by Dr. Mercola

The Nordic Cochrane Center has put out a leaflet that every woman should read, explaining the potential benefits and potential harms of mammographyi. They point out that recent studies suggest mammography screening is not effective in reducing your risk of dying from breast cancer. And in fact, screening creates breast cancer patients out of […]

Why is the American Lung Association Promoting Vaccines?

by Alliance for Natural Health

And some states want to take away your right to decide about vaccinations for your kids. Urgent Action Alerts!
The American Lung Association is partnering with Sanofi Pasteur, the largest company in the world devoted entirely to vaccines, in an educational campaign endorsing the annual flu vaccine. The two have launched the […]

FDA’s Huge Conflicts of Interest with Big Pharma

by Alliance for Natural Health

Tragically, the drug they endorsed is killing the women who take it. Why is FDA doing this?
The birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin, which were endorsed by an FDA advisory committee last December, contain a drug called drospirenone. Women who take it are nearly seven times more likely to develop […]

Baby’s Being Harmed by Mom’s Antidepressants

by Alliance for Natural Health
But now we know that “low serotonin”—which is what SSRI’s “fix”—doesn’t even cause depression! Action Alert!
A study conducted jointly in the Netherlands and the US has found that babies born to mothers who took antidepressants while they were pregnant had slightly slower head growth and were more likely to be […]

How Honest Is Your Doctor?

by Dr. Mercola
A U.S. telephone survey found that 79 percent of Americans trust their doctor.iOnly 8 percent said they do not … But can your doctor really be trusted?

Doctors are human, after all, and though most would certainly expect that their doctor is being upfront when it comes to health advice and diagnoses, it’s […]

Gardasil Vaccine Lobbyists Target States, Get 41 to Sign on to Legislation

by Tim McCoy
NaturalSociety

Since 2006, 41 states have introduced legislation to support the HPV vaccine industry, despite the danger of death and injury. Shockingly, Dr. Diane Harper, a lead developer of Merck’s Gardasil HPV vaccine, warns against Gardasil vaccine deaths and she advocates complete disclosure about the risk of death and adverse reactions (including Guillian-Barre syndrome) […]

FDA scientist gets 5 years for insider trading on drug approval process

By Jeremy Pelofsky
Reuters

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration chemist was sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to insider trading by using confidential information about drug approvals.

Cheng Yi Liang, 58, admitted buying and selling stock in more than two dozen companies with confidential FDA information to rack up just over $3.77 […]

British Court Throws Out Conviction of Autism/Vaccine MD: Andrew Wakefield’s Co-Author Completely Exonerated

Autism Action Network
In a stunning reversal, world renowned pediatric gastroenterologist Prof. John Walker-Smith won his appeal against the United Kingdom’s General Medical Council regulatory board that had ruled against both him and Andrew Wakefield for their roles in the 1998 Lancet MMR paper, which raised questions about a link to autism. The complete victory means that […]

Are FDA Approved Drugs Safe? Don’t Bet Your Life On It!

Health Impact News Editor Comments: Dateline NBC News conducted an exhaustive investigation on the drug approval process here in the U.S.  To test the drug approval process, they setup a fictitious medical company and then put together a plan to conduct drug trials on a drug that was identical to Merck’s Vioxx. Vioxx is now banned […]

Why Do Doctors Push Vaccines?

by Janet Levatin, MD
Tenpenny Integrative Medical Center
I recently received an email asking, “Why do doctors (especially pediatricians) push scheduled vaccines so strongly? Why do they fight against parents who refuse? Do they have incentives? What can I share with my family members to open their eyes? What can I do to […]

More Evidence That Flu Vaccines Are Worthless

by Dr. Mercola

High-risk patients with chronic, underlying health conditions that increase the risk of severe illness and death after influenza infection are among the first of all groups that public health officials target to receive flu vaccinations.

This population is targeted for vaccination despite the fact that very few studies have […]

Detroit School Vaccinates Girl Against Parent’s Consent

 

By: Tom Wait
newsnet5.com

DETROIT – Sighle Kinney is fuming after her 14-year-old daughter was given four shots by the school nurse at Marcus Garvey Academy without her permission.

The daughter said she was called out of class by the school nurse on Jan. 30 and sent to the school’s clinic, which is […]

FDA Admits Statins Cause Memory Loss, Liver Damage, and Diabetes

How FDA Guidelines On The Adverse Effects Of Statins Are Very Telling
by Dr John Briffa
for The Cholesterol Truth

Excerpts:
The Food and Drug Administration in the US is responsible for making decisions about which drugs should be licensed. It also keeps a database of information regarding the adverse effects of drugs, and occasionally revises the warnings issued […]

Increase in School Shootings Linked to Antidepressant Prescription Drugs


Health Impact News Editor Comments: The article below was written by Dr. Mercola prior to the recent shooting incident in Ohio, as was the Fox News story above on school shootings and antidepressant drugs which was filmed in 2007. This was a rare story from the mainstream media taking an honest look at the link […]

Chiropractors and Exercise Are Better than Drugs Says New Study

by Dr. Mercola

Chronic pain is an exceedingly common condition impacting an estimated 76.5 million Americans, one-third of whom describe their pain as severe and “disabling”.i

Among them, many suffer from neck pain, which is the third most common type of pain according to the American Pain Foundation.

It is estimated that 70 percent of […]

FACT: Antidepressant drugs no better than placebos

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor of Health Impact News
The CBS news program “60 Minutes” has produced a story featuring Dr. Irving Kirsch’s research on placebos and antidepressant drugs. To anyone who believes that popular antidepressant drugs prescribed for depression have solid scientific evidence based on sound research, you owe it to yourself to invest 14 minutes of […]

Medical Care is the Number 1 Cause of Death in the U.S.

by Dr. Mercola

The latest data on the leading causes of deathi in the United States has been released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

The report, which is based on 2010 data, lists the 10 leading causes of death as follows:

Diseases of the heart
Cancer
Chronic lower respiratory diseases
Cerebrovascular diseases (stroke)
Accidents (unintentional injuries)
Alzheimer’s […]

FDA Secretly Monitors Emails of Mammogram Whistleblowers

by Dr. Mercola

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) secretly monitored the personal e-mail of nine whistleblowers—its own scientists and doctors—over the course of two years.

The monitored employees had warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that posed unacceptable risks to patients.

Six of the monitored scientists and doctors recently […]

How Doctors Do Harm

By Dr. Mercola
It’s a widely held tenet in our society that if you get sick, you should visit your doctor to “get well.”

But many physicians are relatively clueless about “wellness care,” they are in the business of disease treatment.

This is why the vast majority of physicians’ visits end up with a medication being […]

The California Whooping Cough Cover Up

By Dr. Mercola

2011 was the first year in more than two decades during which there were no deaths from whooping cough.  In 2010, 10 infants died from the disease.  The number of people who became infected also dropped from 9,000 in 2010 […]