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Big Pharma's New Mass-Drugging Agenda Pushes Statin Drugs for Healthy People

11/12/2008 - (NaturalNews) Drug companies used to sell products for the treatment of disease. But it didn't take long for Big Pharma to figure out that the number of diseased people is limited, and therefore so are drug profits. To bypass this problem, they began...

Bush Administration Committed War Crimes Against Prisoners, Reveals Physicians for Human Rights

11/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) The Bush administration has committed war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay in its practice of torturing prisoners, according to the conclusions of a medical examination conducted by the organization Physicians for Human Rights. "After...

Beautiful Hair and Skin Require Optimal Thyroid Functioning

10/2/2008 - (NaturalNews) Whether your hair turns gray and falls out or stays a thick mane of vibrant color is dependent on your body having proper levels of thyroid hormones. New ground breaking research has documented that human hair follicles are direct targets...

Insured Americans Still Have No Health Care

9/19/2008 - (NaturalNews) Here is a surprising statistic: approximately 56 million Americans do not have a relationship with a primary care physician. This is according to the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). A large part of this group of...

Homeopathy Proven Better Than Conventional Medicine for Eczema

7/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) No benefit exists in using the highly toxic drugs for eczema pushed by conventional medicine. Homeopathy has better results without the use of harmful products. A peer-reviewed journal reports that there is no reason to subject your children...

AMA Admits Decades of Discrimination Against Black Doctors (opinion)

7/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) After more than a century of institutional discrimination against blacks in the medical profession, the American Medical Association has finally admitted its role in promoting such discrimination, issuing an apology for all the harm its...

Physicians Routinely Protect Incompetent Colleagues; 45 Percent Admit Failure to Report

7/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) Nearly half of doctors fail to report colleagues who are impaired or incompetent to the proper authorities, according to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study's findings were based on survey responses...

Mercury Fillings Shattered! FDA, ADA Conspiracy to Poison Children with Toxic Mercury Fillings Exposed in Groundbreaking Lawsuit

6/5/2008 - (NaturalNews) The FDA has, for decades, ridiculously insisted that mercury fillings pose no health threat whatsoever to children. While dismissing hundreds of studies showing a clear link between mercury amalgam fillings ("silver fillings") and disastrous...

Second Largest US Physicians Group Endorses Medical Marijuana

5/6/2008 - (NaturalNews) Transcending political controversy and stigma surrounding the subject, the second largest physician group in the country has endorsed the use, reclassification, and further study of medicinal marijuana. In a position paper issued February...

American College of Physicians Endorses Medical Marijuana

4/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) Transcending political controversy and stigma surrounding the subject, the second largest physician group in the country has endorsed the use, reclassification, and further study of medicinal marijuana. In a position paper issued February...

Minorities Are Not Satisfied With Their Health Care

4/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) Minority patients are more likely than white patients to rate their received health care as fair to poor. This is particularly true of Chinese-Americans, blacks born in Africa, and Vietnamese-American patients. Researchers at Harvard...

Big Pharma Money Spent on Marketing Exceeds Drug Development Costs

2/22/2008 - (NaturalNews) Why are pharmaceuticals so expensive? This question has been asked for many years. In fact this was the question asked by Senator Estes Kefauver (D) in the late 1950s. Senator Kefauver was the first to put together an indictment against...

Hawaii Aspartame Bill Update: Lobbyists Crushing Consumer Protection Law to Ban Nutrasweet

2/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) Consumer Protection efforts to ban Aspartame/Methanol/Formaldehyde as an artificial sweetener in Hawaii have run into curious tactics by lobbyists compounded by indifference and inertia on the part of the key legislators. The House Bill...

The Side-Effect Challenge: Whole Plant Medicines Vs. Drug Counterparts

2/12/2008 - (NaturalNews) Quinine was first isolated from Peruvian Bark (aka: Chinchona, Quina) in 1820. It took until the early 1900’s for it to really become a world-wide popular drug for malaria. It was a wonderful drug for a while. It cured malaria and took the...

A Call for Earlier Diagnosis of Celiac Disease

12/9/2007 - (NaturalNews) Alessio Fasano, M.D. is professor of pediatrics, medicine and physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of its Center for Celiac Research. He is famous, at least in celiac research circles for asking, back...

Children herded like cattle into Maryland courthouse for forced vaccinations as armed police and attack dogs stand guard

11/19/2007 - (NaturalNews) Following the State of Maryland's threats against parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated, children were herded into a Price George County courthouse being guarded by armed personnel with attack dogs. Inside, the children were...

American College of Physicians warns women in their 40s about dangers of mammograms

5/14/2007 - The American College of Physicians has recommended women in their 40s consult with their doctors before undergoing routine annual mammography screening. An expert panel from the American College of Physicians (ACP), which represents 120,000 internists,...

Statin drugs expose patients to dangerous, debilitating side effects

1/8/2007 - Millions of Americans take statin drugs to help lower their cholesterol, making it one of the most popular classes of prescription drugs on the market today, but like most prescription medications, these drugs are often unnecessary, as most Americans...

Reporters for Just Say ‘Know’ to Prescription Drugs Initiative Find MD’s Failure to Discuss Side Effects ‘Significantly Higher’ Than New Study Stated (press release)

11/20/2006 - UCLA head researcher says, “We were very liberal.” Actual percentage of physicians who fail to discuss risks of prescribed medication are “much higher” than 65 percent reported previously. Today, the Just Say “Know” to Prescription Drugs Campaign,...

Physicians often do not communicate important medication information (press release)

11/13/2006 - Physicians prescribing new medication often do not communicate to patients important details, such as potential side effects, how long or how often to take the drug or the specific name of the medication, according to an article in the September 25 issue...

Many resident physicians not trained in the use of medical interpreters (press release)

10/25/2006 - A significant number of resident physicians receiving training in U.S. hospitals report they have not received instruction in key aspects of communicating with patients who do not speak English, despite federal regulations requiring adequate interpreter...

Three Common Herbs Effective in Boosting Key Lymphocytes (press release)

10/9/2006 - As the public’s appetite grows for more “natural” health remedies, there is a concomitant demand from physicians and governments to document the benefits and effects of some herbs. In partial response, a team of researchers has recently investigated...

Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (press release)

10/9/2006 - In four years, 50 million American women will be in menopause. The federal government’s decision in 2002 to suspend the use of synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in a large scale clinic trial of the effects of HRT, left many women and physicians...

A Mushroom Extract May Impact the Body’s Immune System (press release)

10/9/2006 - Can the extract of a mushroom that is commonly found in the woods of North America, Asia and Europe have a beneficial impact on the human immune system? A small study using “Turkey Tail” mushroom (Trametes versicolor) extract, has found that it may. The...

Naturopathic Care Proves Beneficial for TMD Pain (press release)

10/6/2006 - Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) are characterized by pain and tenderness in the jaw muscles and joints used for chewing. TMD is a problem for millions of Americans whose treatment options range from eating soft foods to undergoing open-joint surgery....

Fitness level affects bariatric surgery outcomes (press release)

10/4/2006 - Morbidly obese patients with poor cardiopulmonary fitness may experience increased complications after bariatric surgery. New research published in the August issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP),...

Paying physicians to recruit patients into trials: The ethical concerns (press release)

9/29/2006 - A policy paper in PLoS Medicine shines a light on the legal and ethical issues surrounding so-called "finder's fees"--payments to health professionals for successfully recruiting patients into clinical trials. ...

UGA researchers find high rates of off-label prescriptions (press release)

9/25/2006 - A University of Georgia study has found that three-quarters of people prescribed antidepressant drugs receive the medications for a reason not approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. This practice, known as off-label prescribing, is...

Emphasis on performance measures may lead to inappropriate antibiotic use (press release)

9/8/2006 - Patients with suspected pneumonia may receive antibiotics unnecessarily as a result of hospital and physician efforts to meet certain performance measures. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the timing of pneumonia-related antibiotic...

Common Reflux Treatment Linked to Life Threatening Bowel Infection in Premature Infants (press release)

9/7/2006 - Researchers in an NIH network have found that premature infants given a common class of non-prescription drugs used to treat acid reflux are slightly more likely to develop a potentially fatal bowel disorder than are infants who are not treated with...

DOCTORS WIDELY PRESCRIBE DRUGS WITHOUT ADEQUATE SCRUTINY, STANFORD SCIENTIST FINDS (press release)

9/5/2006 - In choosing which drugs to prescribe, doctors often select medications for patients despite a lack of conclusive medical evidence of their effects and safety, according to a new study led by a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Of...

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