We’ll cover the truth regarding the dangers of prescription medicines and vaccines.
Migraine and epilepsy drug greatly increases risk for oral birth defects
By Susan Heavey
(Reuters) – An epilepsy drug also used to help prevent migraines can increase the risk for oral birth defects in babies born to women taking the medication, health officials said on Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration said new data shows expecting mothers taking the drug, sold generically and as Johnson & Johnson’s […]
Bone Strengthening Drugs Actually Cause Fractures
by Dr. Mercola
Orthopedic surgeons and bone specialists have been seeing an increasing number of unusual fractures among long-term users of bisphosphonate bone-strengthening drugs such as Fosamax, Actonel, Boniva and Reclast.
The latest and largest study suggests that women who’ve been on bisphosphonates for more than five years have a nearly three times higher risk of […]
Anti-inflammatory Drugs Increase your Risk of Heart Disease
by Dr. Mercola
Drugs that include traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) as well as new generation anti-inflammatory drugs (COX-2 inhibitors) have been linked to cardiovascular risks.
Researchers performed a comprehensive analysis of all randomized controlled trials that compared any NSAID with other NSAIDs or placebo. The analysis included more than 30 trials that examined in total […]
Big Pharma Seeks Little Patients
(Martha Rosenberg)
by Martha Rosenberg
Since pharma discovered the ka-ching in pediatric psychopharmacology, millions of kids are on ADHD meds and other psychotropic drugs for conduct disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, mixed manias, social phobia, anxiety, and assorted “spectrum” disorders.
They are even treated for seizure-spectrum disorders without the presence of […]
BMJ Admits Competing Commercial Interests in Wakefield Attacks Warranted Disclosure
BMJ editor admits that they should have disclosed competing commercial interests in Wakefield attack
By John Stone
Age of Autism
British Medical Journal’s editor has been forced into an embarrassing admission that the journal should have disclosed connections with MMR manufacturers Merck and GSK when publishing attacks on the integrity of Andrew Wakefield in January (HERE). […]
FDA grants monopoly over preterm labor prevention drug: 15,000 percent price increase then announced!
by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Still think the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has your best interests in mind? According to new reports, the agency has arbitrarily decided to grant exclusive approval to KV Pharmaceutical to produce the one-and-only FDA-approved premature birth prevention drug — which is really just a modified, patented […]
Antibiotic Overuse in Dentistry Still Common
By Dr. Mercola
Researchers at the University of Otago, in Dunedin, New Zealand compared impacted third molar extractions in the same patient with and without antibiotic prophylaxis. Ninety-five patients were divided into two groups and served as their own control, receiving antibiotics for one surgery and placebo for the other.
No significant differences were observed between test […]
Congresswoman Slaughter Fights to Keep Antibiotics Effective, Reduce Unnecessary Use in Animals
by Louise M. Slaughter
Slaughter Reintroduces the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee, today said we must take action to limit the overuse of antibiotics in animals so these life-saving drugs remain effective in the treatment of human illnesses.
Today Slaughter is reintroducing H.R. […]
Big Pharma lies about R&D costs to justify illicit profits
by Ethan A. Huff
(NaturalNews) If you listen purely to the industry side of the story, you might think that drug companies are more than vindicated in selling brand-name drugs for sometimes thousands of times more than they cost to produce, and raking in billions of dollars in profits every year. After all, much of […]
Take This Antidepressant, and You Too May Have a Violent Psychotic Break
Alliance for Natural Health
Not only may the drugs meant to cure your depression actually drive you to suicide, but these dangerous and addictive drugs may be behind the Columbine shooting—and dozens of others. Ask the FDA to warn the public that SSRIs may make people commit violence against others! […]
Diet Pills that “Help” Depression—with Confusion, Hostility, and Heart Problems
Alliance for Natural Health
So-called weight-loss drugs are huge business, but they’re going from bad to worse. The newest include antidepressant ingredients—and most users won’t even know they’re there—with more really awful side effects.
On February 1, the FDA declined to approve the weight-loss drug Contrave for the time being, expressing concern about […]
Dealing With Depression Naturally
By Chris Kilham
FoxNews.com
According to a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, approximately 10 percent of Americans are taking antidepressant medications. This means that over 31 million Americans are gobbling Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Elavil, Norpramin, Luvox, Paxil, Wellbutrin and other antidepressant psychiatric drugs like M & M’s. This drug use accounts for billions of […]
The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
from Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights International
In “The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth,” just released in paperback, psychology professor Irving Kirsch argues that antidepressant drugs are not effective and that the idea of depression as a chemical imbalance in the brain is pure myth. Kirsch provides what he […]
Ex-Pharma Sales Reps Speaks Out – Pharma Not in Business of Health
Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such healthcare giants as Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as both […]
Antidepressant drugs do not work, and they have serious side effects
By Dr. Mercola
Every year, 230 million prescriptions for antidepressants are filled, making them one of the most prescribed drugs in the United States. The psychiatric industry itself is a $330 billion industry—not bad for an enterprise that offers little in the way […]
Abilify Kills
Andy Behrman, a former spokesman for Abilify and Bristol Myers Squibb, discusses his side effects from Abilify, the “wonder drug” of Bristol Myers Squibb
The Uncertainty of Medical Practice: A physician’s perspective
By Dr. John Briffa
The Epoch Times
Here are the opening sentences from Dr. Spence’s column this week that struck a chord:
“We are scientists. But the Big Book of Medical Facts is in fact just a pamphlet printed at home, with two paragraphs in a very large font. The only certainty of science is uncertainty.
“Medicine […]
The hidden tyranny: children diagnosed and drugged for profit
by: Monica G. Young
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Not everyone has fallen for the grand hoax: 20 million kids worldwide diagnosed with mental disorders, necessitating psychiatric drugs for years or life. Some individuals are speaking out. Yet so many parents, kids and schools have fallen prey to one of the most insidious yet most […]
Mainstream Media Finally Reporting that Type 2 Diabetes can be Reversed
by Dr. Mercola
More than 25 million people in the U.S. suffer from diabetes. Most have type 2 diabetes, which usually develops later in life. But type 2 diabetes can be reversed.
CNN reports what some of us have known for a long time now — by making changes such as adding exercise and improving their diets, […]
Antibiotic Resistance: Don’t Flush Your Drugs!
Think it’s a good idea to flush your antibiotics when they expire? Think again! Flushing any medication risks contamination of our drinking water.
by BodyEcology.com
What you flush down the toilet can end up your drinking water.
Out-dated pharmaceuticals or prescription medicine that you no longer need can be tricky to get rid of. If you throw pharmaceuticals […]