Elderly Patients Routinely Prescribed Risky Drugs

One in five seniors on Medicare in the South were prescribed medications that health authorities have specifically advised doctors to avoid giving to older patients because of their severe side effects, N.Y. Times is reporting.

Why Essential Oils Heal and Drugs Don’t

Drugs and oils work in opposite ways. Drugs toxify. Oils detoxify. Drugs depress the immune system. Oils strengthen the immune system. Oils are smart. Drugs are dumb.

700 Percent Increase in Number of Psych Drugs Prescribed to Active Soldiers Leads to More Deaths by Suicide than Deaths by Combat

Last year, more active-duty soldiers committed suicide than died in battle. According to data not reported on until now, the military evidently responded to stress that afflicts soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan primarily by drugging soldiers on the front lines.

The Drug War on Boys

Boyhood isn’t a medical condition to be cured. The God-complex of doctors, on the other hand, could use an injection of humility. Physician, heal thyself.

Herd Immunity: Three Reasons Why I Don’t Vaccinate My Children – And Why Vaccine Supporters Shouldn’t Care

My background as a medicinal chemist taught me to rely on proven research. In my own research, I have uncovered facts that every parent should be aware of.

TV Ads for Statins Drive Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment According to Study

By Dr. Mercola

The United States is one of only two countries, the other being New Zealand, that allows drugs to be advertised on TV, and it’s not difficult to understand why nearly every other country has given such ads the boot.

As with all commercials, the ads are intended to influence you to buy their […]

Will Flu Vaccines Be Required For All U.S. Health Employees by 2020?

Health Impact News Editor Comments: We have reported many stories this past flu season of healthcare workers losing their jobs for refusing the flu vaccine. Here are a few:

TriHealth fires 150 employees in Cincinnati for not getting flu shots

Mandated Flu Shots for Health Workers Wrong Says Physicians and Surgeons Group

More Nurses Refuse Flu Vaccine and Lose […]

Psychiatric Research Misconduct at the University of Minnesota: How Forced Participation in Drug Trial Resulted in Death

by Vera Sharav
ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION
I have just signed a petition urging Mark Dayton, Governor of Minnesota to appoint an independent, external panel of experts to conduct an investigation into gross medical research and clinical care misconduct by psychiatrists at the University of Minnesota who put their financial interests above the life of a […]

Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Fail Again

by Dr. David Brownstein
Dr. Brownstein’s Holistic Medicine

The headline in the New York Times on 2.15.13 stated, “Merck Settles Suits of Cholesterol Drug”.  The article indicated that Big Pharma Founding Cartel Member Merck agreed to pay $688 million to settle lawsuits claiming that it had harmed investors by delaying the release of unfavorable study results for […]

Why Do All Vaccine Advocates Refuse To Answer or Justify This Question?

by Dave Mihalovic
PreventDisease.com

Regardless of their reputation, credentials, experience or background, proponents of vaccines can never answer or justify one simple question: Why are the pharmacokinetics, specifically the rates of bodily absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of vaccine ingredients including any of the toxic extraneous components never studied?

To the ordinarily sane person, injecting a heavy […]

Unvaccinated Children Suffer Fewer Infectious Diseases: Study

Health Impact News Editor Comments: Thanks to Heidi Stevenson of Gaia-Health.com we have some truly investigative journalism into a study that was published regarding vaccines, because she read the study herself. What she found was that the way the study was spun by their conclusions did not accurately represent all the facts the study uncovered. […]

Strong Flu Season Boosts Vaccine Profits Despite Vaccine Being Ineffective

By Dr. Mercola

Vaccine policymakers routinely ignore the safest and most effective strategies that can naturally strengthen your immunity to help you stay well or move through illness with fewer complications if you do get sick.

For example, there are many far more effective ways to prevent the flu and other flu-like diseases, such as dietary […]

State Laws Promoting Pharmaceutical Profits While Denying Parents’ Constitutional Rights

by Alan Phillips, J.D.
GreenMedInfo.com

Every state legislator in the U.S. takes an oath to uphold their state and federal Constitutions. However, in the real world, those oaths can apparently be meaningless. Last year, I wrote about state laws that allow children to consent to vaccines and other medical treatments.[1] These laws clearly violate the U.S. Constitution, […]

Lowering Your Blood Pressure Using Drugs May Increase Your Risk of Death, Study Shows

by Dr. Mercola

Hypertension is dangerous if uncontrolled, increasing your risk for heart attack and stroke. But using drugs to lower your blood pressure may shorten your lifespan instead of extending it, according to the results of a University of Florida study.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,1 suggests that when […]

Why Birth Control and Artificially Manipulating Your Hormones Causes Cancer

by MARCO TORRES
Preventdisease.com

The conventional medical opinion is that birth control is one of the most important hallmarks of an advanced society. Those well-versed in natural health including many scientists know that it is also the hallmark of disease that only leads to lasting and damaging long-term health effects. Bluntly stated, when it comes to […]

How Pharma Markets Sickness to Justify their Medicine “Cures”

Do You Have Back Pain? Hot Flashes? Big Pharma Hopes So!
Excerpts:

Recently some of the nation’s top researchers, clinicians and scientists convened in Washington D.C. for the first annual Selling Sickness conference–examining how Pharma “sells” diseases to move the medications intended to treat them.

Examples of Pharma’s disease-mongering business model abound, especially since direct-to-consumer advertising began […]

Should the FDA Have the Authority to Make Life and Death Decisions in Your Life?

 

Health Impact News Editor Comments: While this story is disturbing, I think we should address the larger question as to whether the FDA should have the power and authority to force or stop anyone from making a personal decision about their health and the the products they choose to take, regardless of whether or […]

Diclofenac Causes as Many Heart Attacks as Vioxx

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By Dr. Mercola

A brand new meta-analysis reveals that the world’s most popular painkiller is as dangerous as ill-fated Vioxx. Vioxx (refecoxib) was pulled from the American market in 2004 — but not until 60,000 people had lost their lives from heart attacks and strokes […]

Newtown Mother Fights to Get Adam Lanza’s Medical Records


Patricia Sabato testifies in Hartford, CT 2 14 2013 re bills in Children’s Committee – Still no release from the State of Connecticut of Adam Lanza’s records so no bills should even be presented without the evidence.
by Ann Marie Somma
Hartford Faith and Values

Excerpts:

Patricia Sabato, a Newtown mother, is the lone voice struggling to be heard […]

Vaccine News: AAP Opposes Ban on Thimerosal, While Study Finds More Vaccines Equate to Increased Hospitalization and Death

By Dr. Mercola

According to public health doctors and a medical trade association representing U.S. pediatricians, poor children in developing countries should continue to get vaccines containing the mercury preservative, thimerosal, because providing these children with mercury-free vaccines “would devastate public health efforts in developing countries,” the New York Times reports.1

The defense for keeping thimerosal in vaccines […]