Seven Tips to Fix Your Cholesterol Without Medication

by Mark Hyman, MD

THE SINGULAR FOCUS on treating cholesterol as a means to prevent heart attacks is leading to the deaths of millions of people because the real underlying cause of the majority of heart disease is not being diagnosed or treated by most physicians. For example, I recently saw a patient named Jim […]

Have Statin Makers Fleeced More People Out of More Money than Madoff?

by Dwight C. Lundell M.D.
For 25 years as a thoracic surgeon, my life was passionately dedicated to treating heart disease; I gave many thousands of patients a second chance at life.

Then a few years ago I made the most difficult decision of my medical career.  I left the surgery that I loved to have […]

Deadly Superbugs are Spread Miles from Farms by House Flies

by DAVID DERBYSHIRE

Potentially deadly superbugs can be spread by flies from farms to people living miles away, scientists warned last night.

Researchers have found disturbing evidence that houseflies and cockroaches carry antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria normally found in the guts of livestock.

Read the full Article Here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1350621/Deadly-superbugs-spread-miles-farms-house-flies.html

Early antibiotic use can lead to increased risk of childhood asthma of 50%, study suggests

by Science Daily

ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2011) — When babies are given antibiotics, their risk of developing asthma by age 6 may increase by 50 percent. This relationship between antibiotic use in babies less than six months old and risk of developing asthma was documented in a study conducted by Norwegian University of Science and Technology […]

Psych drugs are estimated to kill 2.5 times more people annually than are killed by homicide

Video link: http://www.cchr.org/videos/making-a-killing/psychiatrys-drug-push.html
Since 1952, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)–psychiatry’s billing bible—has grown from a small booklet listing 112 “mental disorders” to a massive volume numbering 886 pages, listing 374 disorders. It is only through this book that psychiatrists can diagnose, drug and bill for services. In fact, the psychiatric industry currently […]

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

by John P. A. Ioannidis

Abstract
Summary
There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in […]

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science

IMAGE CREDIT: ROBYN TWOMEY/REDUX
by DAVID H. FREEDMAN

Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science.

IN 2001, RUMORS were circulating in Greek […]

Community Mental Health – it appears to be good news, but its costing us billions. What is it really?

Video link: http://www.cchr.org/cchr-reports/community-ruin/introduction.html
by Jan Eastgate

With the rapid growth of gov­ernment “Community Mental Health” programs for severely mentally disturbed individuals now costing billions of ­dollars, how is mental health faring in our communities today?

The US New Freedom Commission on Mental Health issued a report that claimed, “Effective, ­state-of-the-art treatments vital for quality care and ­recovery are […]

Psychotropic drugs can cause 700,000 serious adverse reactions a year –

Video link: http://www.cchr.org/videos/psychiatry-an-industry-of-death/an-industry-of-death.html

Governments, insurance companies and private individuals pay billions of dollars each year to psychiatrists in pursuit of cures that psychiatrists admit do not exist. Psychiatry’s “therapies” have caused millions of deaths.

An estimated 50% of all Americans who commit suicide are on psychotropic drugs.

Video link: http://www.cchr.org/videos/making-a-killing/psychiatrys-drug-push.html

Since 1952, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)–psychiatry’s billing bible—has grown from a small booklet listing 112 “mental disorders” to a massive volume numbering 886 pages, listing 374 disorders. It is only through this book that psychiatrists can diagnose, drug and bill for services. In fact, the psychiatric industry currently […]

Douglas Kennedy, on antidepressants, violence, suicide, and homicide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUchjOKxKY8

Fox News, Hannity’s America with Douglas Kennedy, on antidepressants, violence, suicide, and homicide.

How Some Drugs for Mental Disorders Can Actually Destroy Your Brain

by Dr. Mercola

A study showed that neuroleptic drugs may cause problems far more serious than the ones they are meant to solve.  The research showed that both an older neuroleptic (Haldol, also known as haloperidol) and a newer atypical neuroleptic (Zyprexa, also known as olanzapine) caused significant shrinkage in the higher level parts of […]

‘Bath Salts’ A Growing Drug Problem, Officials Say

by SHELIA BYRD

FULTON, Miss. — When Neil Brown got high on dangerous chemicals sold as bath salts, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven’t been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Wave, Red Dove and […]

Drug company links ‘may have compromised cancer study’

by Julia Medew

THREE Melbourne oncologists say cancer treatment research published in one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals may have been compromised by a drug company that funded the study.
Publication of the research in The Lancet may have boosted the drug’s perceived value to doctors and patients around the world, helping its manufacturer, […]

Psychiatric Disorders Voted Into Existence

by Citizens Commission on Human Rights

Psychiatry’s diagnostic criteria are literally voted into existence and inserted into the American Psychiatric Association’sDiagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM).  What is voted in is a system of classification of symptoms that is drastically different from, and foreign to, anything in medicine. None of the diagnoses are supported by […]