We’ll cover the truth regarding the dangers of prescription medicines and vaccines.
213 Women Who Took the HPV Vaccine Suffered Permanent Disability
by Dr. Mercola
Naomi Snell, a 28-year-old woman in Melbourne, Australia, is leading a class-action civil lawsuit against drug maker Merck after suffering autoimmune and neurological complications following injections with the HPV vaccine, Gardasil.
After receiving the first of three doses of the vaccine, Naomi suffered convulsions, severe back and neck pain, […]
Pennsylvania Woman Forced to Take Powerful Antipsychotics
This MindFreedom International member, Christina Walko of Pennsylvania, is being forced to take many psychiatric drugs on an outpatient basis, even though she is living peacefully in the community. She says, “People do not heal when they are bullied or forced!” Her hearing is this Friday, 27 January 2012. Please […]
Cholesterol Guidelines Designed to Sell More Drugs
by Dr. Mercola
One of the most revealing examples of what happens when policy makers are allowed to accept money from drug companies lies in the current U.S. cholesterol guidelines. In 2004, the U.S. government’s National Cholesterol Education Program panel advised those at risk for heart disease to attempt to reduce their […]
Pediatrician calls Police and CPS on Parent refusing to Vaccinate Child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NM-phJ2BaY
Rachel Garmon, a resident of the Centre County area of Pennsylvania, recently took her 2 ½ year old son to an appointment with a new pediatrician. Mrs. Garmon states in her recent interview with Alex Jones that her visit with the doctor was going well. The pediatrician even stated that […]
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 […]