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Do Pharmaceuticals Make You Healthy? Health Ranger Announces $10,000 Health Challenge to Big Pharma

6/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) It is the position of Big Pharma that pharmaceuticals make people healthier. That's the whole point of taking them, of course -- to enhance your health in some way that the human body apparently cannot achieve on its own (if you believe...

Why Drug Companies Do Not Want You to Take Supplements

6/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) Supplements like Coenzyme Q10, amino acids, even a daily multiple vitamin can provide your body with natural health benefits. So why would the pharmaceutical companies have a problem with this? Think about it. If nutritional supplements...

Flawed St. John's Wort Study on ADHD Failed to Use Active Form of Herbal Extract

6/13/2008 - (NaturalNews) On the heels of shocking revelations that top psychiatric research Dr. Joseph Biederman secretly took $1.6 million from drug companies while conducting psychotropic drug experiments on children, it has been learned that Dr. Biederman is...

Top Psychiatric Researcher Dr. Biederman Caught Lying about $1.6 Million in Drug Money; Performed Medical Experiments on Children

6/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) Harvard University's Dr. Joseph Biederman has been a loyal soldier in the battleground for chemical control over children's minds. A highly-influential researcher at Harvard University, Dr. Biederman spearheaded a 4000% increase in the...

The truth behind the headlines about antioxidants and vitamins

6/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) If you've been reading the health headlines in the mainstream media recently, you might have come to the conclusion that vitamins are the most dangerous thing you could possibly consume. Headlines declare antioxidants to be useless, vitamin...

The ADHD Scam and the Mass Drugging of Schoolchildren (Transcript)

5/30/2008 - (NaturalNews) Today I am bringing you news from the world of ADHD, because scientists claim they have found a difference in the brains of children with ADHD versus "normal" children. The brains of these children who have been diagnosed with ADHD were...

Review of Google Health - Technology Achievement or Privacy Disaster?

5/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) Google Health was launched with much fanfare this week, positioned by Google, Inc. as a technological solution to the rather embarrassing problem of an advanced nation still running on medical records that seem to be stuck in 1970's-era...

Vioxx and Ghostwriting Explained: (Recipe for Disaster)

5/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) Blurring the line between best-selling novels and best-selling pharmaceutical drug ads, Merck Inc. disguised professional writers as Vioxx drug safety researchers. As if their drugs were not scary enough, Merck brought in “ghostwriters”...

Heparin Contamination Fiasco Reveals Dirty Secret of Drug Industry: Their Pills are Made in China!

5/1/2008 - (NaturalNews) Remember a couple of years ago how the FDA warned Americans not to buy prescription drugs from Canada because they might be "contaminated by terrorists?" I'm not making that up: That was the official announcement of an FDA spokesperson,...

Widespread Ghostwriting of Drug Trials Means "Scientific" Credibility of Pharmaceutical Industry is a Sham

4/21/2008 - (NaturalNews) The discovery that drug companies have been ghostwriting scientific studies using in-house writers, then paying (bribing) doctors and high-level academics to pretend they were the author of the article is making shockwaves across conventional...

98 Percent of NaturalNews Readers Say Big Pharma Should be Denied Blanket Immunity: Survey

4/17/2008 - (NaturalNews) At online survey posted at www.NaturalNews.com reveals that 98 percent of survey participants believe Big Pharma should not be granted blanket immunity for the harm caused by their drugs. A push is currently underway by Big Pharma's lawyers...

How Drug Companies Covertly Influence the Content of Medical Literature

4/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical companies regularly carry out every aspect of a study on their products, then solicit academics to put their names on the final papers in order to disguise their involvement, according to an essay published in the journal...

U.S. drug companies defrauded Medicare with price fixing scheme, rules judge

3/13/2008 - (NaturalNews) A federal judge has ruled that three pharmaceutical companies artificially marked up their prices in order to defraud Medicare and encourage doctors to prescribe their drugs over those of competitors. The decision came in a class-action...

Supreme Court Shields Medical Device Manufacturers from Consumer Lawsuits

2/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that medical device manufacturers cannot be sued for injuries caused by their products if those products were pre-approved for use by the FDA. The court ruled that Charles Riegel, who was injured in 1996...

FDA's Assault of Bioidentical Hormones Demonstrates Pro-Pharma Loyalties, Disregard for Consumer Choice

2/5/2008 - (NaturalNews) In January of 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to compounding pharmacies around the country. That warning demanded pharmacies stop selling bioidentical hormones as an alternative to Hormone Replacement Therapy...

American Academy of Pediatrics Unleashes Hysterical Attack on Fictional Television Show about Vaccine / Autism Link

1/31/2008 - (NaturalNews) The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has gone ballistic over a fictional television program airing on ABC that shows a family successfully suing a vaccine manufacturer for their child's autism. Not satisfied to push dangerous vaccines...

Media Blames Heath Ledger, Refuses to Examine Dangers of the Pharmaceuticals Found Beside His Body

1/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) Can you imagine the outcry if Heath Ledger's body was found next to a pile of Chinese herbs? The media outcry would be deafening, and nearly everyone would leap to the conclusion that the herbs must have killed Ledger. But when Ledger's...

Week in Review: Cloned Meat, Scientific Fraud and Mandatory Organ Harvesting from (Nearly) Dead Patients

1/18/2008 - (NaturalNews) Wrapping up the important health news stories this week, the FDA announced that cloned meat and milk could now be sold to consumers without any labeling indicating its cloned status. Now factory cattle farms -- which already operate with...

Merck Committed Scientific Fraud in Delays, Distortions of Vytorin Drug Trial (opinion)

1/16/2008 - (NaturalNews opinion) The latest round of scientific fraud from Big Pharma arrives in the form of yet more junk science conducted by Merck on its blockbuster cholesterol drug Vytorin. Results of a clinical trial involving the drug were finally released...

Merck Engaged in Blatant Scientific Fraud with Vytorin Cholesterol Study? (opinion)

1/11/2008 - (NaturalNews Editorial) It's no surprise these days to hear about a pharmaceutical company committing scientific fraud and distorting clinical trials to get the results they want, but it's unusual to see it done as blatantly and arrogantly as what you're...

Study "Disproving" Mercury-Autism Link Published in Journal with Financial Ties to Vaccine Manufacturers

1/9/2008 - (NaturalNews) While the mainstream press is widely reporting a new study "disproving" any link between autism and mercury-containing thimerosal in vaccines, no one has bothered to point out that the study was published in a medical journal stacked full...

Kevin Miller's New "Generation Rx" Documentary Exposes Mass Betrayal of Children by FDA, Big Pharma

1/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) A new documentary on the dangers of mind-altering drugs will be arriving this year, and the film's creator Kevin Miller was kind enough to send us an advance copy of the film for review. Not many films have the potential to radically reshape...

Antidepressants, Bipolar Disorder and the Chemical Enslavement of Humankind by Drug Companies

1/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) Big Pharma is constantly looking for new ways to develop its markets and generate more profits. This is the inescapable directive of all corporations: Be more profitable, regardless of the cost to society. In Big Pharma's case, the pursuit...

Bristol-Myers Squibb to Pay Half a Billion Dollars to Settle Doctor Kickback Charges and Avoid Prosecution

1/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) The pharmaceutical company Apothecon and its parent, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, have agreed to a comprehensive settlement in a variety of federal and state lawsuits that accused the companies of myriad degrees of financial misconduct. The...

Bottom Line Blurs Veterinary Practices

1/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) Imagine if every time you went to the doctor you were given vaccinations that you don’t need; vaccinations that offer no benefit but all of the risks of harmful side effects. Or you were given medications with no explanation or information...

Judge Rules U.S. Drug Companies Defrauded Medicare with Price Fixing Scheme

12/19/2007 - (NaturalNews) A federal judge has ruled that three pharmaceutical companies artificially marked up their prices in order to defraud Medicare and encourage doctors to prescribe their drugs over those of competitors. The decision came in a class-action...

FDA Sleeps While Common Medications Poison the Elderly

12/14/2007 - (NaturalNews) On November 29, 2007 the FDA made a rather surprising, almost honest announcement. It said that it could not protect Americans from the dangers of drugs. A 56-page report by its Subcommittee on Science and Technology stated the FDA “suffers...

Sen. Grassley proposes bill requiring drug companies to disclose gifts to doctors

10/8/2007 - (NaturalNews) Senators Herb Kohl, D-Wis., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, have introduced a bill to require companies to disclose the gifts that they make to doctors, in an effort to avoid undue influence on the prescribing of treatments. The Physicians...

FDA seeks to bypass doctors with behind-the-counter drug sales via pharmacists

10/3/2007 - In a bold move designed to sell even more prescription drugs, the FDA has announced its intention to bypass doctors and allow pharmacists to prescribe certain drugs directly to consumers. The move would subject patients to prescription-strength pharmaceuticals...

FTC sues Kevin Trudeau over weight loss claims while ignoring Big Pharma monopoly pricing

9/21/2007 - Kevin Trudeau, author of the super popular "Natural Cures" books, has once again been sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This time, it's not about coral calcium and cancer; it's about weight loss claims made in the marketing of his book, "The...

Senate, House agree on FDA reform; key provisions remain but FDA remains threat to America

9/20/2007 - The U.S. Congress has reached agreement on a House / Senate compromise regarding the recently passed FDA reform legislation that aims to improve the safety of pharmaceuticals. The bill will now move to the White House where it is expected to be signed...

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