by Alliance for Natural Health
The DEA is enabling—even encouraging—a generation of opiate addicts, while the FDA tries to quash safe and helpful supplements like DHEA.
Goodness, the legal drug-makers have been busy! This week the Associated Press revealed that in 2010, US pharmacies dispensed the equivalent of 69 tons of pure oxycodone (used as ingredient […]
by Dr. Mercola
A growing trend of drug misuse is alarming medical experts, policymakers, and patient advocates.In recent years, there has been a massive increase in off-label use of a class of drugs called “atypical niacantipsychotics.”
These drugs, which include Seroquel, Zyprexa, Risperdal and Abilify, are only approved to treat disabling mental illnesses, but they’re being […]
by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection
A committee of the National Academy of Sciences heard testimony about the tenfold increase during the last decade, in the number of scientific journal articles that had to be retracted.
But that number may obscure the far greater number of unsupportable published reports in so-called peer reviewed academic journals that […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
But now we know that “low serotonin”—which is what SSRI’s “fix”—doesn’t even cause depression! Action Alert!
A study conducted jointly in the Netherlands and the US has found that babies born to mothers who took antidepressants while they were pregnant had slightly slower head growth and were more likely to be […]
by Dr. Mercola
A U.S. telephone survey found that 79 percent of Americans trust their doctor.iOnly 8 percent said they do not … But can your doctor really be trusted?
Doctors are human, after all, and though most would certainly expect that their doctor is being upfront when it comes to health advice and diagnoses, it’s […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: Dateline NBC News conducted an exhaustive investigation on the drug approval process here in the U.S. To test the drug approval process, they setup a fictitious medical company and then put together a plan to conduct drug trials on a drug that was identical to Merck’s Vioxx. Vioxx is now banned […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: The article below was written by Dr. Mercola prior to the recent shooting incident in Ohio, as was the Fox News story above on school shootings and antidepressant drugs which was filmed in 2007. This was a rare story from the mainstream media taking an honest look at the link […]
by Dr. Mercola
Chronic pain is an exceedingly common condition impacting an estimated 76.5 million Americans, one-third of whom describe their pain as severe and “disabling”.i
Among them, many suffer from neck pain, which is the third most common type of pain according to the American Pain Foundation.
It is estimated that 70 percent of […]
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor of Health Impact News
The CBS news program “60 Minutes” has produced a story featuring Dr. Irving Kirsch’s research on placebos and antidepressant drugs. To anyone who believes that popular antidepressant drugs prescribed for depression have solid scientific evidence based on sound research, you owe it to yourself to invest 14 minutes of […]
by Dr. Mercola
The latest data on the leading causes of deathi in the United States has been released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The report, which is based on 2010 data, lists the 10 leading causes of death as follows:
Diseases of the heart
Cancer
Chronic lower respiratory diseases
Cerebrovascular diseases (stroke)
Accidents (unintentional injuries)
Alzheimer’s […]
by Jef Feeley
Bloomberg
Johnson & Johnson hid studies showing its Risperdal anti-psychotic drug caused diabetes to protect billions of dollars in sales, a lawyer said in the first personal-injury claim over the medication to go to trial.
Researchers at J&J’s Janssen unit knew as early as 1999 that a study found Risperdal caused diabetes at a […]
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 […]
by Gaia-Health.com
Foods are redefined as drugs. This simple act of redefinition makes food the domain of Big Pharma—to our everlasting loss of rights and health.
In the endless quest to separate people from nature, modern medicine now treats food itself as the enemy. Grapefruit. Ginger. Garlic. Green tea. Aloe vera. The Mayo Clinic, long considered […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
by Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact News
Drugs: almost 100% of Americans use them. Chances are you have some in your medicine cabinet in your bathroom. Most drugs used in the U.S. today are legal, while some are illegal. Unfortunately, the picture of drugs portrayed by the mainstream media is very biased and one-sided, and not well […]
by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
A growing body of clinical research now indicates that the cholesterol-lowering class of drugs known as statins, are associated with over 300 adverse health effects — research boldly flying in the face of national health policy, medical insurance premium guidelines, statin drug manufacturer advertising claims, and the general sentiment of the public, with […]
