We’ll cover the truth regarding the dangers of prescription medicines and vaccines.
Pain-for-profit industry booming
by Dr. Carolyn Dean
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Global Industry Analysts, Inc. (GIA) released their comprehensive global report on Pain Management markets in January 2011. The Pain-for-Profit Industry is so darn lucrative that you have to pay $4500 just to read the report but I’ll give you the highlights for free.
The Pain-for-Profit Industry will earn US$60 billion […]
Prescription Drug Use Increases Among Military with Deadly Results
Health Impact News Editor Comments:
It is good to see a major media source, the New York Times, write such a comprehensive report on the problem of prescription drug use among our troops. This story was a collaboration of three writers, and it is an excellent piece of investigative reporting that has been sorely missed […]
Fewer Doctors Love Their Work
by Dr. Mercola
A recent poll showed that over a third of doctors are unhappy about some aspect of their profession. They often expressed serious concerns that the current state of health care is impeding their ability to provide quality care.
Even physicians who said they were happy agreed that there were […]
WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Religious & Medical Exemptions & Violates Privacy
by Barbara Loe Fisher
If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill 5005 also discriminates against […]
Many Get Antidepressants for No Psychiatric Reason
by Dr. Mercola
More than a quarter of Americans taking antidepressants have not been diagnosed with a single one of the conditions the drugs are typically used to treat. This means millions could be exposed to the drugs’ side effects without any demonstrated benefit.
Researchers looked at a nationally representative sample of more than 20,000 U.S. […]
Psychiatry Labeling Kids with Bogus ‘Mental Disorders’
by Citizens Commission on Human Rights International
20 Million Kids & Adolescents are labeled with “mental disorders” that are based solely on a checklist of behaviors. There are no brain scans, x-rays, genetic or blood tests that can prove they are “mentally ill”, yet these children are stigmatized for life with psychiatric […]
Psychotropic drugs kill an estimated 3000 people per month
by Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Psychiatrists would like you to believe there is an epidemic of mental disease—and that psychotropic (mind‑altering) drugs are the remedy.
For decades they have worked to convince the public that their drugs are indispensable to the problems of everyday living. And yet ask any psychiatrist—as we did—and he will confess he […]
Statin drugs can destroy your memory and lead to ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease)
In this interview, Dr. Duane Graveline, a family doctor with 23 years experience and a former astronaut, discusses the health implications of cholesterol, statin drugs, and coenzyme Q10.
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by Dr. Mercola
Dr. Mercola’s Comments:
Dr. Graveline has an interesting background that makes him particularly suited to speak on the topic […]
Why the media is usually wrong about health information
by Dr. Mercola
What if wrong answers in medical research aren’t an exception, but actually the rule? Many scholars who scrutinize health research are saying that it isn’t just an occasional individual study that has flaws, but the entire framework of medical research itself.
Over and over, major pillars of conventional medicine are toppled when the […]
People vaccinated with the herpes zoster vaccine Zostavax can spread the herpes virus to others
by Fran Lowry
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters Health) Feb 08 – People who get vaccinated with the herpes zoster vaccine Zostavax to prevent shingles can shed the virus in their saliva for weeks afterward, according to research presented here at the 69th annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Read the Full Article Here: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/737083
Vaccinations – Let parents make the choice: New Jersey Lawmaker Charlotte Vandervalk Appeals for Common Sense
Opinion: Vaccinations – Let parents make the choice
BY CHARLOTTE VANDERVALK
The Record
Charlotte Vandervalk, R-Westwood, is an assemblywoman representing District 39. Send comments about this article to Peter Grad, Op-Ed Page editor, at grad@northjersey.com
THE YOUNG DAUGHTER of the woman calling my office had been given her shots for school, had a reaction, and […]
Vaccine Epidemic – The Most Important Book in the Autism Debate?
by Kent Heckenlively, Esq.
Age of Autism
The masterful new book, Vaccine Epidemic, edited by Louise Kuo Habakus, M.A., director of the Center for Personal Rights, and Mary Holland, J.D., research scholar at the New York University School of Law may be the most important book yet published on the autism-vaccine controversy.
I say this as an […]
Psychiatry vs. Religion: Psychiatrists Have Defined Sin and Evil as Mental Disorders
Video – Unholy Assault: Psychiatry Versus Religion, by Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights
by Jan Eastgate, President – Citizens Commission on Human Rights International
Psychiatry’s assault on religion dates back to the late 1800s. (Health Impact News Editor note: this corresponds to the time Darwin’s writings gained acceptance in science.) It was then that psychiatrists first sought to […]
Dr. Halvorsen on Wakefield, Witch Hunts and Vaccine Safety
By Anne Dachel
Age of Autism
Several months ago, I interviewed British doctor Richard Halvorsen concerning the heated vaccine-autism controversy. Dr. Halvorsen had gained a fair amount of attention in the British press. I contacted him recently to get his views on the allegations of fraud against Dr. Andrew Wakefield. He minced […]
Athletes Cannot Use Statins Due to Muscular Problems
by Tom Naughton
It was yet another bang-up Super Bowl. I love it when the game is in doubt until the very end … although as a Bears fan, I didn’t mind seeing them blow away the Patriots back in 1986. I like the pomp of the Super Bowl, the hype, the […]
Beware of Advice from WebMD: Site Controlled by Pharmaceutical Companies
Health Impact News Editor Comment:
Those in alternative health circles have long known that WebMD is controlled by pharmaceutical companies. For possibly the first time, a writer for one of the mainstream newspapers (NY Times) exposes the same thing, and recommends the Mayo Clinic website as a more reliable source of information. Virginia Hefferman writes […]
How Could Bill Gates Be So Confused About Vaccines?
by Dr. Mercola
Microsoft founder Bill Gates was recently interviewed by CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta. Gates was attending the World Economic Forum to push his mission of eradicating polio by 2012. Gates, through his foundation, has pledged $10 billion to provide vaccinations to children around the world.
In the course of the interview, in […]
U.S. Government Starts its Own Drug Company
by Dr. Mercola
The U.S. government, faced with a diminished drug-development pipeline in the private sector, is starting its own federal drug development center. The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences will receive $1 billion in funding to conduct drug research, with the goal of attracting private investors.
In the past, the National Institutes of Health […]
New Research Shows Link between MMR Vaccine and Autism
by Dr. Mercola
New research reveals that there could indeed be a link between the controversial MMR vaccine and autism, as well as bowel disease in children. The study appears to confirm the findings of doctor Andrew Wakefield, who suggested a possible link in 1998 and has since been accused of fraud.
A research team is […]
9 Questions That Stump Every Pro-Vaccine Advocate and Their Claims
David Mihalovic, ND
The International Medical Council on Vaccination
Since the flu pandemic was declared, there have been several so-called “vaccine experts” coming out of the wood work attempting to justify the effectiveness of vaccines. All of them parrot the same ridiculous historical and pseudoscientific perspectives of vaccinations which are easily squelched with […]