We’ll cover the truth regarding the dangers of prescription medicines and vaccines.
Children with ADHD are “Forced” to Take ADHD Drugs
By Dr. Mercola
Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has issued controversial draft guidelines that could put parents’ right to choose whether or not to medicate their children with ADHD at risk.
There are clearly many superior alternatives for addressing ADHD than potentially dangerous psychiatric drugs that often contain different […]
Flu Vaccine: No Good Evidence
by Damien Downing, M.D.
orthomolecular.org
Is it wise to have the flu vaccine, or Tamiflu, or would you get better protection just from taking vitamin D? Having a vaccine should be a matter of personal choice; we don’t think that government or insurance companies or medical societies should be telling you what to […]
AMA Proposes Forcing People to Participate In Vaccine Trials
by Ginger Taylor
Adventures in Autism
You read that right. The American Medical Association has published a piece in the Policy Forum entitled:
Should Participation in Vaccine Clinical Trials be Mandated?
I am absolutely apoplectic.
The article, written by Suzanne Sheehy and Joel Meyer (who I can’t find a bio for) begins its argument for forced participation in vaccine […]
Big Pharma Routinely Suppresses Data from Clinical Trials—but FDA Approves These Dangerous Drugs Anyway!
by Alliance for Natural Health
Help us persuade Congress to reform the agency with our Action Alert!
Drug research, even from clinical trials sponsored by the federal government, is routinely suppressed, according to a new study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), an international peer-reviewed medical publication. The study found that less than half […]
72 Page Document Shows Merck Paid Doctors at Least $18,810,495.52
By Jeffry John Aufderheide
Vactruth.com
Sometimes gems are difficult to come by. However, when we find them, just clean them up a bit and we can appreciate their ‘real value’. The little treasure I discovered was a document located on Merck Pharmaceutical’s website. It disclosed how much Merck paid doctors as speaking fees in the […]
U.S. to Force Drug Firms to Report Money Paid to Doctors
By ROBERT PEAR
N.Y. Times
Excerpts:
To head off medical conflicts of interest, the Obama administration is poised to require drug companies to disclose the payments they make to doctors for research, consulting, speaking, travel and entertainment.
Many researchers have found evidence that such payments can influence doctors’ treatment decisions and contribute to higher costs by encouraging the […]
How to Tell if Your Doctor is on the Drug Industries’ Payroll
By Dr. Mercola
rug companies are master marketers, and they attack the drug market on multiple levels.
On the surface level are direct-to-consumer advertisements, like the drug commercials you see on television and in magazines.
The next level is an army of drug reps who “educate” physicians about new drugs; a practice that includes visiting physicians […]
Medical journal openly questions science, ethics of HPV vaccinations
by: Rosemary Mathis, Vice President of Victim Support, SANE VAX, INC.
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) On January 12, 2011 the Annals of Medicine published a ground-breaking peer-reviewed paper titled, Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine policy and evidence-based medicine: Are they at odds?, 1written by renowned researchers Lucija Tomljenovic, Ph.D., and Christopher Shaw, Ph.D., with the Neural Dynamics research Group, […]
Cholesterol Testing For Children As Young As 9?
by Dr. John Briffa
for The Cholesterol Truth
Excerpts:
A recent report from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), in the US, recommends that all children aged 9-11 should be screened for raised cholesterol levels. The report recommended that this should be repeated at age 17-21 too. Last month, the Journal of the American Medical Association […]
Big Pharma Marketing: You’re Sicker Than You Think – You Need Our Drugs
Big Pharma uses ads that sow hypochondria, raise health fears and sell diseases to adults and their children.
By Martha Rosenberg
Alternet
It’s no secret that advertising works. Big Pharma wouldn’t spend over $4 billion a year on direct-to-consumer advertising if it didn’t mean massive profits.
What is more unknown is why drug ads that sow hypochondria, raise […]
New Ways of Marketing Statins: Cholesterol Lowering Drugs for the Flu?
by Dr. Mercola
A new study has led to what is perhaps the most ludicrous recommendation for flu treatment ever — statin drugs!
The researchers reported that statin use may reduce death risk in people hospitalized with the flu, and the media is reporting sensational headlines like “Statins reduce flu death risk by half.”
This […]
Lower Your Cholesterol, Increase Your Diabetes Risk By 48%
by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
A recent study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins increase the risk of diabetes within postmenopausal women by 48%.
This new finding adds to a growing body of clinical evidence that statin drugs are fundamentally diabetogenic, which is not surprising considering the National […]
Merck Paid Doctors Millions to Promote Vaccines
By Jeffry John Aufderheide
Vactruth.com
Sometimes gems are difficult to come by. However, when we find them, just clean them up a bit and we can appreciate their ‘real value’. The little treasure I discovered was a document located on Merck Pharmaceutical’s website. It disclosed how much Merck paid doctors as speaking fees in the […]
7 Reasons America’s Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity
By Bruce E. Levine
AlterNet
Drug industry corruption, scientifically unreliable diagnoses and pseudoscientific research have compromised the values of the psychiatric profession.
Why do some of us become dissident mental health professionals?
The majority of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals “go along to get along” and maintain a status quo that […]
The Medical Establishment Fired Me for Rejecting Conventional Wisdom
by Karen De Coster
Karendecoster.com
The greatest things always seem to happen to me. By “greatest,” I mean the kind of really offbeat stuff that just doesn’t seem to happen to a lot of other people. Stuff that makes for such good stories that it almost sounds fabricated.
Two weeks ago, I received a […]
Are Statins Behind Your Memory Loss?
Dr John Briffa
for The Cholesterol Truth
Excerpts:
As people age, they can find themselves becoming increasingly forgetful and absent-minded. Some will end up being affected by Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia. I often find that my patients believe that there is quite a lot they can do to maintain and even improve the […]
Legal Drugs vs. Illegal Drugs: Are we fighting the Right War?
by Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact News
Drugs: almost 100% of Americans use them. Chances are you have some in your medicine cabinet in your bathroom. Most drugs used in the U.S. today are legal, while some are illegal. Unfortunately, the picture of drugs portrayed by the mainstream media is very biased and one-sided, and not well […]
Does the Flu Shot INCREASE Your Risk Of Getting the Flu?
by Dr. Mercola
Before you decide to get a flu shot for yourself or your child, take a few minutes to look into the research on both their effectiveness and safety.
What you will find may very well impact your decision.
Case in point, new research in the Journal of Virology found that the seasonal flu vaccine […]
Freedom Of Information Request Reveals Major Government Vaccine Conspiracy
By Christina England
Vactruth.com
Sometimes the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act provides us with a little gem. Thanks to Wendy Stephen the mother of MMR victim Katie Stephen [1] sending in a FOI request on an unrelated topic, I am now able to prove that Munchausen by Proxy expert Prof Roy Meadow was […]
Consumer Alert: 300+ Health Problems Linked To Statin Drugs
by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
A growing body of clinical research now indicates that the cholesterol-lowering class of drugs known as statins, are associated with over 300 adverse health effects — research boldly flying in the face of national health policy, medical insurance premium guidelines, statin drug manufacturer advertising claims, and the general sentiment of the public, with […]