by Alliance for Natural Health
These vitamins come from a major drug company. Maybe we should conclude that vitamins made by a drug company reduce cancer and others don’t?
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, favorite home for every would-be debunker of vitamins, finds that a low-dose multivitamin may help prevent cancer in men, […]
By Dr. Mercola
The medical and health fields are absolutely riddled with dogmatic beliefs that defy both commonsense and scientific truth. And yet they prevail because they are supposedly backed by “science.”
But what if that science was not actually trustworthy, but rather a carefully orchestrated product… the result of massive conflict of interest, perpetuated by […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
Some doctors are now prescribing long-term ADHD medications to low-income kids who don’t have ADHD—simply to boost academic performance.
One physician, Dr. Michael Anderson of Canton, Georgia, calls ADHD a “made up” disorder, “an excuse” for doctors to prescribe Adderall to treat poor academic performance in inadequate schools. According to a disturbing […]
By Dr. Mercola
There are currently two HPV vaccines on the market, but if there was any regard for sound scientific evidence, neither would be promoted as heavily as they are.
The first, Gardasil, was licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2006. It is now recommended as a routine vaccination for girls […]
by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection
The Associated Press reports that at least seven scientists sent letters of resignation in protest about an embattled Cancer Prevention Research Institute in Texas (CPRIT). CPRIT was backed by Governor Rick Perry and Lance Armstrong.
The scientists, among them Nobel laureates, Dr. Phillip Sharp, and CPRIT’s chief scientific officer, […]
By Dr. Mercola
Statins are the world’s most-prescribed class of medications. A staggering one in four Americans over the age of 45 now take cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Pravachol, Mevacor, Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor, and others. A majority of them are taking these drugs for primary prevention of heart attacks and strokes.
However, mounting research suggests this […]
by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
As far back as the 5th century BC the Greek physician Hippocrates wrote about the use of a bitter powder extracted from willow bark that reduced fevers and eased aches and pains. Native Americans also used an infusion of willow bark for similar purposes. What was this remarkable “healing” principle within the bark […]
By Dr. Mercola
Americans are a pill-popping population, taking an average of 13 different prescription drugs per capita as of last year’s statistics.1 Children in the US are the most medicated in the world, averaging out at four prescriptions per child. Among seniors, drug use is beyond epidemic, averaging out at a staggering 28 prescriptions per […]
by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection
This is the season that many Americans are advised-even pressured–to get flu shots. Indeed, flu shots are being hawked at every drug store chain…
But what does the evidence show about the effectiveness of the flu vaccine when vaccinated and unvaccinated groups are compared ?
Well, the negative finding of a […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
Why don’t they want it? Because some of them know too much. Here’s the whole tawdry tale.
This week we learned that hospital employees throughout Colorado will be fired unless they get a flu shot by the end of the year. New state health regulations require flu shots for health care workers to […]
by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection
This is an introduction to our lengthy IV-Part, fully referenced, review of America’s Healthcare Crisis—including numerous recent peer reviewed journal articles.
America’s acute healthcare crisis affects average Americans—not just the poor. Specifically, we focus on several critical safety issues that plague US healthcare which are neither acknowledged, much less, addressed by ObamaCare,its progenitor, RomneyCare, nor any […]
By Dr. Mercola
Dr. Lawrence Palevsky is a board-certified pediatrician who uses a holistic approach to children, wellness, and illness by incorporating nutritional science, environmental medicine, chiropractic, osteopathy, and other natural healing modalities in his pediatric office in New York.
He has also worked in pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric & neonatal intensive care medicine, and in-patient […]
By Dr. Mercola
There were a record 4.02 billion prescriptions written in the United States in 20111– that’s more than ever before.
There are 314 million people in the United States, and with 4.02 billion prescriptions, that amounts to roughly 12.74 prescriptions per person.
The cost for all these prescriptions? $308.6 billion, a hefty sum that is […]
Holistic dentists have been warning the public about root canals for years. So why is the dental profession burying its head in the sand about the dangers of root canals? Because it is an enormously profitable profession. With 25 million root canals being performed each year, and the average cost between $740 for a front tooth and $1,000 for a molar (with the vast majority of root canals being done on molars), it’s a $25 billion dollar industry. More:
By Evelyn Pringle and Martha Rosenberg
AlterNet.com
Who belongs to this “untapped” market? Just about anybody.
There is good news and bad news about attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — that is, if you’re a drug company. The bad news is the kid market has peaked out with 4.5 million U.S. children now carrying the label. The good […]
by Martha Rosenberg
Citizens Commission on Human Rights International
How has Big Pharma managed to get so many children on expensive drug cocktails for “mental illness”? Drugs that they may not even need?
Big Pharma has spent millions on public relations campaigns that tell parents, teachers and clinicians to dose children at the first sign of problems. It knows if […]
by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
A new study published in the journal Atherosclerosis found that statin use is associated with a 52% increased prevalence and extent of coronary artery plaques possessing calcium.[i] This study, published on August 24th, was preceded only three weeks earlier by one in the journal Diabetes Care, which found that coronary artery calcification “was significantly higher in more frequent statin users […]
by CCHR International
A recent article posted in the Wall Street Journal posed the question, “Are ADHD Medications Overprescribed?”
Is that a rhetorical question? 5 million children are currently taking ADHD drugsin the U.S. alone.
In fact the U.S. has the unfortunate distinction of being the world’s leader when it comes to child drugging—the top nation fueling the […]
By Dr. Mercola
The Canadian press recently broke the story that new research confirms initial findings that the flu vaccine appeared to actually increase people’s risk of getting sick with H1N1, and cause more serious bouts of illness to boot.
According to the Vancouver Sun:1
“Researchers, led by Vancouver’s Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an influenza expert at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, […]
by: Margie King, Health Coach
GreenMedInfo.com
You’ve heard it repeatedly: there are two kinds of cholesterol: the good high density lipoprotein (HDL) and the “bad” low density lipoprotein (LDL). Now a researcher at Texas A&M University has come to the defense of LDL and says that it may not be so bad after all. In fact, it helps […]
