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Seven Techniques for Overcoming Migraine Headaches

11/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) Migraine headaches have become all too common in our fast paced high stress world. With the hectic pace of our lives and the fear that is too often associated with the modern lifestyle including wars, terrorism, the economy, family and work,...

Chi: The Basis of True Health

11/2/2008 - (NaturalNews) Today nearly everyone it seems has some kind of health issue. If it’s not a serious internal illness like cancer, tumors or heart disease, then it’s joint or mobility issues, inability to focus or any of thousands of different ailments affecting...

Why the Institutions of Western Finance and Western Medicine are Both Doomed to Fail

9/29/2008 - (NaturalNews) Here at NaturalNews, we've been publicly predicting the fall of Western Medicine for nearly five years. During that time, we've also covered the increasingly precarious financial situation, warning readers in 2005 and 2006 about the impending...

Western Medicine Fails Tim Russert

6/19/2008 - (NaturalNews) The shocking death of Tim Russert last Friday has left an entire nation wondering what happened. He was a model patient, doing everything his doctors asked. All major media have run articles trying to explain the nuances and difficulties...

MRSA Superbug Invades Public Schools as Conventional Medicine Ignores Natural Cures

5/2/2008 - (NaturalNews) Schools in at least eight states have reported confirmed cases of students being infected with the "superbug" known as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) following the death of a 17-year old Virginia student late last year,...

The quackery of modern medicine (opinion)

3/3/2007 - (NaturalNews) The closer you look at conventional medicine, the more you realize just how much it's based on quackery. From the exaggerated claims of drug advertisements (which imply that swallowing patented chemicals will solve your life problems) to...

Doctors withhold information from patients on "controversial" types of care, study finds

2/20/2007 - (NaturalNews) A recent study shows that more than one in ten doctors are willing to withhold information to patients about controversial types of care, including birth control and abortion. The report, published Wednesday, surveyed nearly 1,150 practicing...

Gunpoint medicine: Why conventional medicine must use intimidation to control patients (opinion)

7/2/2006 - This commentary is in response to the Medicine at Gunpoint article published earlier, which revealed that conventional medicine is now resorting to kidnapping and the enlistment of gun-toting law enforcement personnel to "persuade" a mother that her...

Systems of medicine explained: Conventional, alternative, integrative, complementary and more

5/1/2006 - What's the deal with all the different systems of medicine? And what's the difference between "Western medicine" and "conventional medicine?" Here, you'll find some honest answers. "Conventional medicine" refers to the classic medical training offered...

Bones and body parts don't wear out with age: Questioning the strange metaphors of conventional medicine

4/20/2006 - I was talking to a physical therapist today, and he was trying to convince me that the human body wears out with use, sort of like car parts. He said to me, "Bone is bone." He explained that people who do a lot of running or punching have a lot of joint...

The tale of doctors who tried to create art

8/17/2005 - There was once a small group of medical doctors (MDs) who wanted to create art. To accomplish this, they first decided to study art to find what it was made of. Using elaborate microscopes and measurement devices, they discovered that art was made...

What the American Medical Association hopes you never learn about its true history

6/23/2005 - To most Americans, the concept of "nonprofit" goes hand-in-hand with trust. If a person or an agency isn't driven by money, they seem more likely to be trustworthy and unbiased. They should have the public's best interests at heart, right? The American...

Welcome to the town of Allopath

6/19/2005 - There once was a town called Allopath. It had many people, streets and cars, but due to budget limitations, there were no stop signs or traffic lights anywhere in Allopath. Not surprisingly, traffic accidents were common. Cars would crash into each...

What would happen if doctors were car mechanics

6/4/2005 - An interesting thing happened to me today. My car was experiencing some trouble, but I couldn't find any local mechanics that were available, so I decided to take it to an MD. That's right, I took it to a doctor, figuring, "Well, gee, if they can figure...

Ten Lies About Health Your Doctor Taught You

5/5/2005 - Lie #1: Prescription drugs will make you healthier. Truth #1: Prescription drugs only mask symptoms. They do nothing to correct the underlying biochemical causes of disease. Simultaneously, most prescription drugs cause nutritional deficiencies which...

Why more people are ditching their MDs and switching to naturopathic physicians

12/29/2004 - Throughout many of the articles on this site, I’m frequently recommending that people visit naturopathic physicians. You may wonder why I’m recommending N.D.s over traditionally-trained medical doctors. In this article, I’m offering some concrete answers...

Disease names like diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading and misinform patients about disease prevention

12/10/2004 - There is a curious tendency in conventional medicine to name a set of symptoms a disease. I was recently at a compounding pharmacy having my bone mineral density measured to update my health stats. I spotted a poster touting a new drug for osteoporosis....

FDA Approves New Drug for Treatment of Brown's Grass Disease (satire)

9/26/2004 - Satire: Researchers from Southern Duke University have discovered a new treatment for Brown's Grass Disease, which is a disease characterized by grass turning brown. This disease is most prevalent in the southern climates where rainfall is diminished....

The top ten things you'd be able to do if you didn't live under a system of health oppression masquerading as modern medicine

8/17/2004 - Many U.S. citizens mistakenly believe they live in a free society. But when it comes to health, medicine and nutritional supplements, the system under which we live today is more like the Dark Ages than a system of freedom. Want proof? Just ask yourself,...

UC Berkeley Wellness Letter authors remain nutritionally illiterate about chlorella, spirulina, and blue-green algae

8/7/2004 - On this website we discuss the ignorance of western medical doctors and medical institutions with such frequency that it hardly seems unusual to find another case of health ignorance worth mentioning, but every once in a while, another article or news...

Western Medicine's Domination By Egoistic, Narrow-Minded Male Physicians Now Being Overturned by an Increase in Female Doctors

8/6/2004 - In what can only be considered bizarre news from the world of medicine, Professor Carol Black, the new female president of the Royal College of Physicians, and only the second woman to hold that post in 500 years, has announced her concern that there...

Obesity Researchers Lose Sight of the Big Picture While Peering Into Their Microscopes; Modern Science Loses Perspective

8/6/2004 - New research conducted at Brown Medical School is exploring the biochemical precursors to obesity. The research is finding that metabolism is regulated by peptides in the hypothalamus, which is a part of the brain that controls appetite. Two enzymes...

Cancer Industry Spreads Fear and Disinformation To Scare People Away From Learning About Alternative Treatments for Cancer on the Internet

8/6/2004 - The public was recently warned about getting information from the internet on cancer prevention and curing cancer. New headlines blared that cancer sites posed a health risk. This has been propagated around the world in newspapers and news sites, and...

American Heart Association's Advice on Vitamin E and Antioxidants is Terrible Advice, Highly Distorted, and Prone to Actually Cause Heart Disease

8/6/2004 - The American Heart Association, which has for decades fought against vitamins and nutritional supplements, has now found a new reason to recommend that people stop taking vitamins -- and instead start taking cholesterol-lowering prescription drugs like...

New science proves that cancer is reversible, but organized medicine insists that cancer cannot be cured

8/3/2004 - Fascinating new research is showing that cancer is reversible. A cloning experiment conducted on cancer cells showed that those very same cells can revert to healthy cells and result in the creation of a healthy organism, free of cancer. This is ground-breaking...

Acupuncture proven effective at treating post-operative nausea; but modern medicine marginalizes true potential of acupuncture

8/3/2004 - Acupuncture has proven itself useful yet again in a study conducted in Sydney, Australia that focused on the use of a single acupuncture point, the P6 point, as a point for treating post-operative nausea. The study showed that those who received the...

Hospital warning: medical errors kill 195,000 Americans each year, says new study

7/28/2004 - A new study has revealed startling statistics about the number of people killed each year in U.S. hospitals. That number is now estimated to be 195,000 people, or almost twice as many as were estimated in a 1998 report on the same subject. To put this...

Seasonal Affective Disorder sufferers need natural sunlight, not antidepressants or artificial light

7/28/2004 - There is a lot of information about seasonal affective disorder (S.A.D.) available on the internet and in the medical literature today, but most of the information about this disorder fails to inform readers about the real causes of it, and the simple,...

Unconscious surgical patients unknowingly practiced on by med school students

7/26/2004 - As you are unconscious undergoing surgery at a hospital, med school students could be practicing on you without your knowledge -- this, according to a special report published in Men's Health magazine. What's really going on here? Med schools are...

Medical community concedes that multivitamins are important for health, but only after decades of denying benefit from vitamins

7/21/2004 - It only took 38 years for the American Medical Association, old-school doctors and conservative medical authorities to admit that vitamin supplements are, in fact, necessary for optimum health. That's not bad: four decades is moving pretty fast for these...

The Top Ten Technologies: #9 Vibrational Medicine

7/14/2004 - Vibrational medicine is a promising area of "technology" (it's difficult to call it that) that covers a variety of pioneering healing modalities now known to be far more powerful than drugs and surgery in improving the lives of patients. These modalities...

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