We’ll cover the truth regarding the dangers of prescription medicines and vaccines.
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 […]
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 […]
Harvard Expert Ties Mental Illness “Epidemic” to Big Pharma’s Agenda Since 1980s
By Minyanville Staff
For any mental illness or passing mood swing that may trouble a person, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — better known as the DSM — has a label and a code. Recurring bad dreams? That may be a Nightmare Disorder, or 307.47. Narcolepsy uses the same digits in a […]
How Drug Companies Push Heart Drugs That Have No Proven Benefit
by Dr John Briffa
for the Cholesterol Truth
Excerpts:
This week’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) contains an interesting editorial from Dr. Eric Topol [1]. The editorial focuses on the drug nesiritide (Natrecor) used to treat heart failure (where heart function is weak and can cause symptoms such as fatigue and breathlessness, and ultimately lead to death). […]
Lab used for clinical trials of FDA approved drugs falsified data and manipulated samples during 5 year period
by Ed Silverman
Pharmalot
This is every drugmaker’s nightmare. The pharmaceutical industry has been put on alert by the FDA that any clinical tests conducted between April 2005 and June 2010 by a contract research organization called Cetero Research may have to be reevaluated because two FDA inspections and an outside audit found falsified data and manipulated […]
Why James Murdoch Is Now a Headache for Glaxo
by The Refusers
MB Comment: James Murdoch (son of Rupert) sits atop News Corp, the parent company that employed Brain Deer of The London Times, who led the crusade against Dr. Andrew Wakefield. James Murdoch is also on the board of Glaxo, which makes the MMR vaccine – the same MMR vaccine that was the […]
Psychiatrist traces how deception and conflicts of interest have resulted in millions being on psychiatric drugs they don’t need
Interview with Psychiatryland Author Phillip Sinaikin, MD
Martha Rosenberg
scoop.co.nz
Phillip Sinaikin, MD, is a Florida psychiatrist who has been in practice for 25 years. Author of “Get Smart About Weight Control” and co-author of “Fat Madness: How to Stop the Diet Cycle and Achieve Permanent Well-Being,” his new book focuses on excesses and industry influence in […]
Five dementia sufferers die each day from wrongly prescribed drugs
By Martni Beckford
The Telegraph
Excerpts:
Many more hospital patients and care home residents suffer strokes triggered by the antipsychotic medications they are given to keep them sedated.
New GP-led bodies that will purchase services under the reformed NHS are being told to review the prescriptions of all 180,000 dementia sufferers currently […]
Millions of people die each year from medical errors and infections in hospitals according to World Health Organization
Health Impact News Editor Comments: I am not sure why WHO linked hospital deaths to flying, which is one of the safest forms of travel. They should have mentioned that there is three times more risk of being killed in a hospital than there is in driving your car, as auto deaths in the US are […]
Testimony For Vaccine Exemption in Schools To MA Legislators on H1055
Testimony presented to Massachusetts in support of House Bill 1055 to allow children who choose not to be vaccinated to not be discriminated against and prevented from being admitted into school.
Film by The Canary Party.
AMA Study: Statin Drug Use Linked to Diabetes
By Dr. Mercola
A recent meta-analysis has demonstrated that taking statin drugs is associated with excess risk of developing diabetes.
Researchers looked at five different clinical trials that together examined more than 32,000 people. They found that the higher the dosage of statin drugs being […]
Pharmageddon: Prescription drugs are killing America’s youth
by J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews
No parent wants to lose a child, but when one dies from something that should be very preventable, the heartbreak and tragedy is compounded. Such is increasingly the case with prescription drugs – they’re killing our youth.
Sarah Shay and Savannah Kissick, of Morehead, Ky., best friends since […]
What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disease & The Vaccine
by Barbara Loe Fisher
National Vaccine Information Center
Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between two and 12 […]
Michael Belkin’s Comments at the CDC Forum on the Proposed Meningitis Vaccine
Image from TheRefusers.com
Health Impact News Editor Comments: Earlier this week we published the story by Dr. Mercola and Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center about the new proposed meningitis vaccine for infants under the age of 9 months. Dr. Mercola and Barbara do a good job highlighting the dangers of this vaccine, and how […]
CIA Vaccinated Poor Children with Fake Vaccination Program in War Against bin Laden
Health Impact News Editor Comments: In a story published in the Guardian and also widely published in the U.S., it is reported that the CIA organized a fake vaccination program in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the al-Qaida leader’s family. As far […]
The Town of Allopath: Good Parody on the Modern Drug-based Medical System
http://www.mercola.com/townofallopath/index.htm Watch the free animated short video that has created a major controversy across the Web. The video parodies the drug companies and conventional healthcare system and many are furious about the truth being exposed.
Proposed New Meningitis Vaccine Unsafe for Children
by Dr. Mercola
Barbara Loe Fisher is a pioneer in vaccine education and safety, and the co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC). Over the past 25 years, she’s been appointed to several federal vaccine advisory committees as a consumer representative because of her leadership role in the area of consumer advocacy.
Here, […]
Psychiatric Meds and The Road Back Program to Get Off Drugs Safely
by Stephen Cook
The Sussex Newspaper
If you are on antidepressants or other ghastly psychiatric medications and want to get off them, here is news that will dramatically improve your chances of succeeding.
Of all drugs, psychiatric medications are arguably the worst. They are notoriously debilitating and extremely hard to kick. Indeed, discontinuing […]