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Available Articles: (updated weekly)(reprinted with permission from the NaturalNews Network)Merck litigation strategy - destroy expert witnesses (By Evelyn Pringle) Former Vioxx users could be at risk of developing strokes for years, a prominent scientist said this week after evaluating new data from a 107-page report on patients who were followed for a year after they stopped the drug "It may be that Vioxx is causing permanent damage to the cardiovascular... Merck caught in scandal to bury Vioxx heart attack risks, intimidate scientists and keep pushing dangerous drugs; Vioxx lawsuits now forming (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The truth has finally come out about Vioxx: insider emails published by the Wall Street Journal reveal that Merck, the maker of Vioxx, was fully aware of the health risks of its COX-2 inhibitor anti-inflammatory drug as early as March, 2000. As is apparent from the published emails, there was a concerted... Leaked documents show Merck knew of Vioxx dangers, yet hid them for years (By Dani Veracity) "What are the long-term benefits of your being able to bring value to the relationship with our customers?" Merck asked sales trainees in a PowerPoint slide captioned "The Payoff." "Bonus," appeared on the next slide, showing a sales representative holding a glowing bag of money. This is from a company... Merck Caught in Massive Scientific Fraud as In-House Authors were Disguised as Independent Scientists (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Drug giant Merck has been caught red-handed in a scheme to deceive the FDA and the public over the integrity of its scientific studies, say top medical authorities. According to reports that were (amazingly!) published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and detailed... Merck Committed Scientific Fraud in Delays, Distortions of Vytorin Drug Trial (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) (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 this week, nearly two years after they were known... Drug companies discredit negative studies and blacklist honest researchers (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Just when I thought I was done criticizing Merck, new evidence surfaces that gives us another reason to discuss some of the outrageous behavior by this pharmaceutical company. The latest news concerns Merck's attempts to suppress and discredit a study linking Vioxx with heart attacks. This comes out... Vioxx disaster shows health hazards of prescription drugs, failure of FDA to protect the public (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) There is a new national uproar over a prescription drug, Vioxx, which has been an extremely popular anti-inflammatory drug manufactured and marketed by Merck. Vioxx was recently pulled from the market by Merck after studies revealed the drug increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, which is the... Merck loses Vioxx lawsuit: jury awards $253.4 million to widow (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) It's simultaneously a milestone for consumer advocacy and a major setback for Big Pharma: a Texas jury has found Merck & Co. liable for the death of a Vioxx patient, and it has awarded the widow $253.4 million in damages. The 10-2 jury vote sends a powerful message to drug companies around the globe... Pharmaceuticals in the Water: Why Medication Contamination is a Danger to Our Health and the Environment (transcript) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Welcome everyone. I'm the Health Ranger, Mike Adams. Today we're talking about the dangers of chemicals in your tap water. The Associated Press has done a study, and they're reporting today that all kinds of chemicals are found in your tap water, and this time we're not talking about... Merck now under criminal investigation by the Justice Department for Vioxx scandal (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical giant Merck is now under scrutiny by the Justice Department, which has begun a criminal investigation into the firm’s marketing of the painkiller Vioxx (withdrawn from the market on September 30, 2004). Since that time, the Vioxx scandal has expanded thanks in part to the publication of... FDA drug safety bill passes in the U.S. Senate; health freedom advocates outraged at betrayal of American consumers (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The U.S. Senate passed the FDA "drug safety" bill today (S.1082) with a 93-1 vote. A key amendment that would have called for genuine drug safety protections for consumers -- the Grassley amendment 1039 -- was defeated by a single vote (47 to 46). The new law deepens financial ties between Big Pharma... Merck now under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for possibly misleading investors (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Merck, already under fire for its Vioxx scandal and now undergoing criminal investigation by the Justice Department, is now also being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC). The SEC is wondering whether Merck misled investors by failing to disclose facts concerning the harmful... New England Journal of Medicine accuses Merck of deleting important Vioxx information from study (By Alexis Black) As if things weren't bad enough for pharmaceutical giant Merck and Co., the picture just got a little grimmer. Already facing tremendous heat and a long line of lawsuits over Vioxx -- its arthritis medication that was pulled off the market in September 2004 after it was determined to increase heart attack... Merck Engaged in Blatant Scientific Fraud with Vytorin Cholesterol Study? (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) (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 about to see here. In June, 2002, Merck and... TMAP, medication algorithm horrors, and the drugging of our children (By Dani Veracity) In an Oct. 17, 2005 meeting, Director Charles Currie announced that the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) no longer endorses the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP). Upon hearing this news, the Government Accountability Project and numerous other watchdog groups breathed... Heparin Blood Thinner Drug Linked to Sudden Deaths; Cheap Ingredients Imported from Chinese Chemical Factory (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In case you haven't heard, the popular blood thinning drug Heparin was voluntarily recalled by its manufacturer (Baxter) after hundreds of reports surfaced linking the drug to sudden deaths and severe allergic reactions requiring hospitalization. Drug safety investigators have now confirmed... Actor Heath Ledger Apparently Killed by FDA-Approved Pharmaceuticals (update 1) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Actor Heath Ledger has become the latest high-profile fatality caused by prescription and non-prescription pharmaceuticals. He was found dead in his New York City apartment earlier today, and apparently died from the fatal effects of the pharmaceuticals found near his body. No foul play... Vioxx only the beginning; antidepressants and statin drugs are medication timebombs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) There's a much bigger story than you might think about the recent hoo-ha concerning Vioxx being pulled from the market. It's not just about Vioxx or Merck, the drug's manufacturer. Virtually all prescription drugs that are heavily marketed by pharmaceutical companies today are harmful to human physiology... Heparin Contamination Fiasco Reveals Dirty Secret of Drug Industry: Their Pills are Made in China! (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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, and it was part of their fear strategy for enforcing... India's Waterways A Toxic Stew of Pharmaceutical Chemicals Dumped from Big Pharma Factories (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Many of the pharmaceuticals consumed in the United States are made in India, where labor is cheap and environmental laws are lenient on powerful corporations. U.S. drug companies are exploiting this situation to manufacture hundreds of millions of doses of high-profit pharmaceuticals in... Reputation of the FDA in shambles after Vioxx scandal; calls for wholesale FDA reform gain momentum (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) "...the agency’s senior management is more concerned with external appearance than rigorous science." -- Dr. Richard Horton, editor, The Lancet The reputation of both the FDA and Merck lies in shambles today after evidence continues to surface that shows the FDA knowingly approved, promoted... Cocktail of Pharmaceuticals Found in the Fish Caught Near Major U.S. Cities (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical pollution is out of control, polluting the waterways of our world to such a disturbing degree that now even the fish are carrying detectable levels of pharmaceuticals in their own bodies! A study conducted by Baylor University researcher Bryan Brooks, and published... FDA seeks to bypass doctors with behind-the-counter drug sales via pharmacists (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) 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 even though they have not been examined... Big Pharma takes over veterinary medicine; dogs and cats drugged with chemicals for profit (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Big Pharma has successfully completed its takeover of veterinary medicine in the United States and other first-world nations. Knowing that massive profits could be generated through the bodies of pets, drug companies have spent two decades pursuing an aggressive campaign of rewriting vet school curricula... Do Pharmaceuticals Make You Healthy? Health Ranger Announces $10,000 Health Challenge to Big Pharma (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 the drug ads, anyway). The drug industry's direct... Antidepressant drugs found in drinking water; pharmaceuticals have now become environmental pollutants (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Pharmaceuticals are now being found in drinking water, according to a study conducted in England. The study looked at 12 pharmaceuticals thought to pose an environmental threat, including painkillers, antibiotics, and antidepressants, and it found traces of these pharmaceuticals in both sewage waters... Q & A: Are there any situations in which pharmaceuticals and medications are okay to use? (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A reader asks: In regards to your recommendation to avoid all prescription drugs, what about situations where people are in an accident, or an athlete tears his knee up? Do you recommend pain medication then, or do you recommend going to the doctor and being treated? Thanks for... Following deplorable attacks in London, pharmaceuticals are still more deadly than terrorists (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Just days after we posted an article on the dangers of pharmaceuticals vs. terrorism, London was hit by a terrorist attack that left 37 dead and hundreds more wounded. Headlines around the world are ablaze with news of the event. National leaders are adamant in their efforts to track down and punish... Arthritis drug Bextra found to promote heart attacks and strokes (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Following the recent revelations that Vioxx cause a high incidence of heart attacks and strokes, a competing drug from Pfizer, Bextra, has now been shown to display similar health problems. What's especially weighty about this particular revelation is that it comes from the American Heart Association... 28 Senators vote to maintain Big Pharma monopoly over U.S. consumers; Republicans oppose free trade for medicine (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) On May 3rd, 2007, U.S. Senators voted on an amendment to the 2007 Prescription Drug User Fee bill that aims to reform the FDA and enhance drug safety. This amendment, known as the "Dorgan Amendment No. 990," threatened to break Big Pharma's monopoly over pharmaceutical sales and allow U.S. consumers... Big Pharma's New Mass-Drugging Agenda Pushes Statin Drugs for Healthy People (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 inventing diseases and marketing them to the... Big Pharma and profit priorities: why business ethics never trickle up (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) One of the things I've observed while doing public speaking, being a part of business councils and interacting with a lot of well-connected people in society, is that many people work with the pharmaceutical company known as Merck. Merck seems to be everywhere, with drug reps, consultants, marketing... Media Blames Heath Ledger, Refuses to Examine Dangers of the Pharmaceuticals Found Beside His Body (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 body is found next to bottles of FDA-approved pharmaceuticals... Bush / Big Pharma conspiracy? White House to oppose open disclosure of clinical drug trials (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The White House is taking steps to kill the FDA reform legislation recently passed in the House of Representatives that would require drug companies to publicly post clinical trial results so that doctors, researchers and the public could review them. According to a report in Inside Health Policy... PYY3-36 appetite control nasal spray may be effective, yet still misused by consumers (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Every once in a while, a prescription drug comes along that has the potential to actually help people. In this article, I will be discussing the PYY3-36 Appetite Control Nasal Spray made by a company called Nastech. This is an upcoming prescription drug product still in Phase II testing that could someday... Long-term testing requirement for psychiatric drugs abandoned due to Big Pharma pressure on the FDA (By Dani Veracity) The bipolar medication lithium is so toxic that it often causes major kidney damage, yet most patients must use it for lifetime maintenance of manic-depressive disorder. Similarly, schizophrenics often spend lifetimes on neuroleptics with long-term side effects such as tardive dyskinesias, or uncontrollable... Big Pharma is a Bigger Hoax than Bigfoot (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As the internet is abuzz with talk about the latest Bigfoot hoax, little attention is being paid to another grand hoax in modern society: Big Pharma and the empty promises of prescription drugs. In the Bigfoot hoax, two hunters (Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer) claim they found a carcass... Merck backs off national push for mandatory HPV vaccinations (By David Gutierrez) Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Inc. announced this week that it will no longer lobby state governments for mandatory vaccination of school-age girls against human papillomavirus (HPV) strains that cause cervical cancer. Previously, Merck had been lobbying legislators to require the administration... If prescription drugs are so good, where are all the healthy drug takers? (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) When observing the state of modern medicine and the unprecedented influence of pharmaceuticals, an interesting paradox arises. The drug companies claim that pharmaceuticals can do wonders for people: lower their cholesterol, end clinical depression, reverse osteoporosis, eliminate allergies, calm your... Corruption exposed: drug companies gave grants, consulting fees to panelists who issued new cholesterol guidelines that are driving demand for statins (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The new cholesterol lowering guidelines are proving to be a windfall for statin drug manufacturers like Pfizer and Merck: most news articles and medical advice concerning the new guidelines recommend drugs -- and drugs only -- to reduce cholesterol level. As a result, the guidelines are perhaps better... Americans betrayed by Democratic senators with surprise amendment that protects Big Pharma monopoly (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Consumers expecting a miracle in the Senate that would end Big Pharma's monopoly and the FDA-enforced drug racket now operating in the United States will be sorely disappointed by yesterday's events. Fifteen Democratic senators (led by Sen. Edward Kennedy) abandoned consumer interests and joined a Republican... Drug company investors to experience accelerating losses as pharmaceutical company stock prices continue to fall (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The stock prices of drug companies have been hammered over the last six months thanks to a series of scandals regarding the safety of drugs that have long been approved by the FDA. It turns out that just because a drug is approved by the FDA doesn't at all mean it is safe. In fact, given the current... Pharmaceutical television advertising is a grand hoax (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Television drug ads engage in such blatant deceptions and exaggerations that even the medical journals are starting to condemn the practice. This week, the Annals of Family Medicine published an analysis of popular drug advertisements that concluded the ads essentially lie to the public about... Why health freedom will ultimately overcome Big Pharma mischief and FDA corruption (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Do you find yourself frustrated with the lack of progress in the fight for consumer rights against Big Pharma and the FDA? Take comfort, my friends, in knowing that even though we did not achieve the victory we wanted in this latest legislative effort in the United States, we did stand up and be... Big Tobacco racketeering ruling mirrors future Big Pharma prosecutions (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) For decades, major tobacco companies have lied about the risks of smoking. A federal judge has now ruled that Big Tobacco engaged in decades of conspiracy and civil fraud, scoring a major victory for the Dept. of Justice, which sued tobacco firms seven years ago. It has taken decades for this legal... Interview with Jamie Reidy, former Viagra sales rep and author of "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman" (By Jessica Smith) Editor's note: We include this interview with Jamie Reidy, a pharmaceutical sales rep, to give you a flavor of what really goes on behind the scenes at Big Pharma. See for yourself the lack of ethics, the abuse of the system, and the heavy emphasis placed on profits. Learn how the drug companies... Pfizer ends development of "blockbuster" cholesterol drug after excessive patient deaths (By Jessica Fraser) Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced that it has ended a clinical trial for the highly anticipated cholesterol drug torcetrapib -- which raises levels of "healthy" HDL cholesterol -- after a high number of patients participating in the trial died or experienced cardiovascular problems. ... Silencing public health advocates: Outspoken Vioxx critic loses job after testimony against Merck in federal trial (By Alexis Black) There's something fishy going on at the Cleveland Clinic. In a surprising move in December 2005, the prestigious clinic removed Dr. Eric Topol, a well-known cardiologist and vocal critic of Merck's prescription Vioxx arthritis medication, from his position as chief academic officer at the hospital's... Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicals (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Have you ever thought about the similarities between pharmaceutical and tobacco companies? They're striking. Both sell products that kill people when used as directed. The statistics are readily available for pharmaceuticals, which kill around 100,000 Americans each year according to the Journal of the... Medical tyranny in Texas turns teenage girls into HPV vaccination profit centers (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) (NaturalNews / Opinion) This is an important health freedom update from Mike Adams. If you believe in your health freedom, and you believe that forced vaccinations of children have gone too far, then you need to know the real story about what's happening in Texas right now. On Friday, Feb. 2, Texas... New cholesterol guidelines a handout to pharmaceutical companies Merck, Pfizer (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) There's little doubt that the new cholesterol guidelines are a major handout to pharmaceutical companies (like Merck and Pfizer) who manufacture statin drugs. In my view, this is part of the reason the guidelines were put in place: to sell more prescription drugs. What's my evidence on that? It's... A Public Drug Registry Would Bring Honesty to Pharmaceutical Research, But the Idea Terrifies Drug Companies (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new idea has surfaced in the medical community -- to publish the results of all medical studies on a publicly accessible website that would include results from both positive and negative studies. This proposal has been floated in response to the recent discovery by regulatory authorities and various... Health Ranger Offers Thirty-One Predictions for 2009 - Health, Economy, Terrorism and More (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Making public predictions about the economy, terrorism, politics and health care is always risky business. There are too many variables to track with much certainty, and nobody has a crystal ball that really works. But by looking at the big picture and monitoring trends, we can make some... FDA tyranny to become law: HR.2900 analysis by Richards and Adams (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) On July 11, 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 2900, blocking debate on the law and preventing the introduction of any amendments that might have provided meaningful drug safety protections for consumers. This action demonstrates that the House of Representatives, much like the Senate... Viagra Now Being Increasingly Used as a Recreational Drug By Younger Men: Is Pfizer Responsible? (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new study is showing that recreational use of Viagra is growing rapidly in men under 45 years of age. From 1998 to 2002, the use of Viagra in men under forty-five tripled, says the study, which looked at 5 million insured American males. What this study indicates is that Viagra is being used as a recreational... The Vitamin Hoax: Big Pharma Speaks Through Reader's Digest Magazine (By Carol L. Ohnesorge) The cover of the November 2007 issue of Reader's Digest magazine makes a strong statement through a featured article entitled The Vitamin Hoax: 10 Not to Take. Written by Reader's Digest Senior Research Editor, Neena Samuel, the article cautions readers not to be duped into purchasing vitamins... Eli Lilly knew Prozac had 1200% higher suicide rate than other antidepressants (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) It's yet another example of the widespread negligent actions committed by Big Pharma in the quest for profits. It's not just Vioxx, Bextra or Celebrex. Now the truth is finally starting to come out on antidepressant drugs like Prozac. And what is the truth? That drug makers like Eli Lilly not only... "Side Effects" movie targets Big Pharma's sales tactics on the big screen (By Ben Kage) Big Pharma has enjoyed years of positive publicity in the mainstream media through large financial expenditures toward lobbying and advertising; indeed, the industry spends more money on self-promotion than it does on product research. Now, however, a new kind of exposure is looming on the horizon... How to build a pharmaceutical factory in your back yard and grow your medicine for free (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) I have just completed construction on a massive pharmaceutical factory in my own back yard. I'm not making this up. This is absolutely true. Right now, this factory is turning out pharmaceuticals that prevent prostate cancer, nervous system degeneration, birth defects and Alzheimer's disease. There is... Heath Ledger Death Update: Six Pharmaceuticals Found - Antidepressants, Sleep Meds and More (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In a surprising turn of events, the mainstream media has begun to ask the question, "What killed Heath Ledger?" According to the Associated Press, authorities have now stated they found six different prescription drugs in Ledger's apartment. Those drugs reportedly include Zoloft (a mind... Lipitor class action lawsuits expand; Pfizer cover-up alleged (By NaturalNews) More consumers of Pfizer's cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor have joined a class-action lawsuit charging that the company deceived the public by failing to adequately warn doctors and patients of the drug's side effects, according to Jimmy Moore, a health blogger and author of "Livin' La... Kevin Trudeau's Natural Cures book review (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As Kevin Trudeau's Natural Cures book has suddenly become the top-selling self-published book in history, a lot of readers are emailing and asking what I think about Trudeau, his book, and his commercial success. A few people are even asking whether I feel like Trudeau is stealing the spotlight and getting... The quackery of modern medicine (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 the absurd pro-drug, anti-nutrition regulatory proclamations... 98 Percent of NaturalNews Readers Say Big Pharma Should be Denied Blanket Immunity: Survey (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 (aided by the FDA) to grant drug companies blanket... Conflicts of interest: How Big Pharma influences the FDA's drug approval process at the expense of public safety (By Alexis Black) In a recent eight-to-one vote, an FDA panel recently recommended approval of the diabetes drug Pargluva, despite concerns that it could cause potentially serious heart problems. Astoundingly, the decision was made without the help of a cardiologist, since the panel's lone heart expert declined to participate... The secret history of Big Pharma's role in creating and marketing heroin, LSD, meth, Ecstasy and speed (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Most consumers think that street drugs are in an entirely different class than prescription drugs, and they believe that pharmaceutical companies would never manufacture or sell street drugs. But guess what? As you'll read here, drug companies actually invented many of the street drugs now considered... Natural health community having a huge impact on Senate bill S.1082; consumers achieving important victories (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) We have good news to report on the Senate bill S.1082 that we've been covering all week. The grassroots efforts of citizens and advocates in the health freedom movement are making a huge impact on this legislative effort. We've already managed to delay the voting on the bill from early this week to next... Incessant disease mongering turns Americans into profit-generating guinea pigs for Big Pharma (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Disease mongering - the practice of pushing disease in order to sell more drugs - has become so routine and so successful in modern medicine that drug companies actually depend on inventing new diseases as a way to ensure future profits. It's not enough to sell drugs to people who are truly sick, you... Jury finds Merck negligent in Vioxx trial, awards $50 million to retired FBI agent (By NaturalNews) A New Orleans jury deciding a case brought against Vioxx maker Merck & Co. by a heart attack victim says the pharmaceutical firm should pay the plaintiff $50 million in compensatory damages. Gerald Barnett, a 62-year-old retired FBI agent, took Vioxx for 31 months before he suffered... Analysis: Senate committee approves drug safety bill, but FDA still runs on Big Pharma money - UPDATE 1 (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) On Monday, April 30th, the Senate is expected to vote on the FDA Evilization Act of 2007 (oops, I mean the "Revitalization Act"). This is a bill that has some good points (such as banning advertising on new drugs until they're on the market for two years) but also contains some extremely dangerous provisions... The FDA Exposed: An Interview With Dr. David Graham, the Vioxx Whistleblower (By Manette Loudon) The following interview with Dr. David Graham (senior drug safety researcher at the FDA) was conducted by Manette Loudon, the lead investigator for Dr. Gary Null. This interview contains jaw-dropping insights about the corruption and crimes that take place every day inside the Food and Drug Administration... Big Pharma is developing drugs for the most distressing disease of all: Life (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Let's get to the raw truth about the pharmaceutical industry. Drug companies want to turn every normal human experience into a diagnosable disease that's treatable with their high-priced, patent-protected, brand-name drugs. It used to be that drugs were intended just to treat bonafide diseases -- things... Americans fed up with drug industry influence, FDA corruption, reveals remarkable Consumer Reports survey (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) More than four out of five Americans think drug companies have too much influence over the Food and Drug Administration, and 84 percent believe that advertisements for prescription drugs with safety concerns should be outlawed, reveals a striking new survey from Consumer Reports. The... FDA, Merck may have conspired to discredit whistleblower, says U.S. Senator (By NaturalNews) Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has asked the inspector general at the Health and Human Services Department to investigate whether the FDA conspired with drug maker Merck to discredit the safety findings of FDA drug safety official Dr. David Graham. In a letter to Inspector General... Merck to "pirate" Traditional Chinese Medicine compounds to develop new drugs, warns consumer health advocate (By Jessica Fraser) German pharmaceutical giant Merck announced last week that it would collaborate with a Chinese pharmaceutical company to develop new cancer drugs based on traditional Chinese herbs and botanical medicines. Hong Kong-based Chi-Med -- a pharmaceutical firm that develops consumer health... Why the Institutions of Western Finance and Western Medicine are Both Doomed to Fail (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 housing bubble crash and the implications for... An outspoken doctor calls the pharmaceutical industry a national fraud that promotes disease and prevents prevention (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As pharmaceutical companies continue their march toward profitability and domination over our "modern" health care system, more and more doctors are speaking out against them. One of the most interesting and outspoken doctors is Dr. Rath. Dr. Rath,... The great thimerosal cover-up: Mercury, vaccines, autism and your child's health (By Dawn Prate) You have probably seen your nurse insert a syringe into a large vial, extract some liquid, and then leave a substantial amount of vaccine in the original container. If you've witnessed this seemingly benign procedure, you've seen how vaccine manufacturers are saving money at the expense of public health... Why Merck Lost Its 3rd Bid to Sell Mevacor Over the Counter (By Teri Lee Gruss) An expert panel working with the FDA recently voted 10 to 2 against approving Merck's statin drug Mevacor for over-the-counter (OTC) sales. The FDA could potentially ignore this recent vote and approve Merck's request but this is not a likely scenario considering the results of a recent... New FDA leadership has strong ties to Big Pharma, Wall Street (By NaturalNews) According to Byron J. Richards, author of "Fight For Your Health: Exposing The FDA'S Betrayal of America," the FDA is in a position to change the health and wellbeing of all Americans, but are set to steer that change in the wrong direction, "straight over a cliff." The root of this... If Drugs From Canada Are So Dangerous, Where Are All the Dead Canadians? (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Amid all of the frantic warnings from the FDA that prescription drugs from Canada are somehow dangerous, a question arises: where are all the dead and injured Canadians? If drugs are somehow more dangerous in Canada, shouldn't the FDA be able to produce endless examples of people who have actually been... Merck set up offshore accounts to avoid U.S. taxes; settles with IRS for $2.3 billion (By M. T. Whitney) American pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. for years held offshore accounts in Bermuda to hold patents for two of its drugs, and then used the royalties from these patents as tax deductions in the United States. On Wednesday, the company agreed to pay $2.3 billion to the Internal Revenue... Desperate Big Pharma Pushing to Double Statin Sales (By Byron J. Richards) In the face of overwhelming negative science the statin marketing machine marches on, now suggesting that statins should be given to middle aged men and women even though they don't have elevated cholesterol. Apparently there is a critical mass of Big Pharma backed statin-pushers who have... Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists (By Jessica Fraser) America was rudely awakened to a new kind of danger on September 11, 2001: Terrorism. The attacks that day left 2,996 people dead, including the passengers on the four commercial airliners that were used as weapons. Many feel it was the most tragic day in U.S. history. Four commercial jets crashed... Widespread Ghostwriting of Drug Trials Means "Scientific" Credibility of Pharmaceutical Industry is a Sham (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 medicine. This latest revelation of scientific... Heart Failure Drug Found To Have Killed Thousands, Injured Tens of Thousands; Yet Doctors and the FDA Continue To Support It (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new study conducted by the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences, a health care research organization in Toronto, has concluded that a prescription drug commonly prescribed for congestive heart failure is now responsible for an increased number of deaths of heart patients due to the drug being... Pharmaceutical fraud: How Big Pharma's marketing and profits come before consumer safety and wellness (By Dani Veracity) If you have a long, drawn-out, incurable but treatable disease, it's unfortunate for you but great for pharmaceutical companies. While you're suffering indefinitely, you're also buying expensive pharmaceutical drugs to make the disease "manageable." "Managing" diseases is the trend in mainstream... Merck Plant Dumps Vaccine Waste and Chemicals Into Water Supply (By Joanne Waldron) Merck, the maker of the very controversial Gardasil vaccine, has a pharmaceutical plant located in West Point, Pennsylvania, that discards pollutants from this facility into the Upper Gwynedd Township Publicly Owned Treatment Works (UGT... Interview with Dr. Ray Strand, author of Death by Prescription and Releasing Fat (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Mike: This is Mike Adams with Truth Publishing welcoming Dr. Ray Strand. He is the author of Death by Prescription and is one of the most courageous doctors to speak out about the health effects of prescription drugs. Welcome, and thank you for joining us, Dr. Strand. Dr.... The hoax of modern medicine: Seven facts you need to know (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) What happens when the Bush Administration negotiates drug prices with private industry using public money? To answer the question, just consider the situation with U.S. government "negotiations" over the prices of prescription drugs for Medicare: The Bush Administration not only agreed to pay monopoly... Pharmaceutical company admits to lying about the health risks of its drugs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A major prescription drug company in the United States has admitted to making misleading claims about the safety of its products. The company failed to include important information about hypoglycemia and diabetes, and promoted its drug as being safer than other anti-psychotic drugs. The FDA has issued... Merck Delayed Release of Clinical Study Revealing Failure of Vytorin Cholesterol Drug (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The long-awaited release of the results from a clinical trial of Merck and Schering-Plough's cholesterol drug Vytorin has renewed allegations that the companies deliberately delayed in making the study data public. "It is easy to conclude that Merck and Schering-Plough intentionally... FTC sues Kevin Trudeau over weight loss claims while ignoring Big Pharma monopoly pricing (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) 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 Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About... Big Pharma fears Democratic majority, end of Medicare profiteering racket (By Jessica Fraser) U.S. pharmaceutical companies could face falling profits if Democrats win the majority in the House of Representatives in the upcoming November 7 elections. Campaigning Democratic candidates say they will push legislation that would allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices for its... Antidepressants, Bipolar Disorder and the Chemical Enslavement of Humankind by Drug Companies (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 of this mission inevitably leads to the targeting... Today's pharmaceutical industry mirrors the hyping and marketing of radioactive products in the early 1900's (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) At the turn of the 20th century, radioactive products were thought to be good for you. Manufacturers made, marketed and sold products like radioactive tablets (designed to give you more energy!), radioactive water storage containers, and even radioactive bottled water. Many of the people behind the marketing... FDA Report Exposes Troubles at Merck Vaccine Plant (By Joanne Waldron) A new FDA report, obtained and brought to the attention of the public by Karl Stark of the Philadelphia Inquirer and available to anyone via the federal Freedom of Information Action Act (FOIA), reveals that a Merck vaccine plant located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania was cited... Elderly patients regularly prescribed dangerous medications with severe side effects (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new study conducted at the Duke Clinical Research institute reveals that one in five older patients is currently receiving at least one prescription drug deemed unsafe according to a database of unsafe drugs. This study looked at prescriptions written for 765,000 patients, all over the age of 65, and... Nigeria Issues Arrest Warrants for Top Pfizer Officials After Drug Experiments Conducted on Children (By David Gutierrez) A Nigerian state judge has issued arrest warrants for three top Pfizer officials, saying that they failed to appear in court to face charges of illegally conducting drug trials that led to the deaths of 11 children. Judge Shehu Atiku, sitting in the city of Kano, said that Nigerian Pfizer... U.S. Supreme Court Poised to Strip Consumers of Right to Sue over Deadly Pharmaceuticals (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In arguments and discussion for Warner-Lambert Co. v. Kent heard today, Justices are proposing that consumers should not be able to sue pharmaceutical companies for damages from side effects because some people might be helped by those same drugs. Forget all the technical... Pfizer forced to cut 20 percent of U.S. sales force (By Jessica Fraser) Pfizer Inc. -- the world's top pharmaceuticals manufacturer -- announced earlier this week that it would cut 20 percent of its U.S. sales workforce as part of its plan to reduce costs and boost earnings in the coming years. The job cuts will affect 2,200 employees at all levels of... Pfizer seeks FDA approval to prescribe Celebrex to toddlers as young as 2 (By Jessica Fraser) Drug giant Pfizer Inc. is set to meet this Wednesday with a panel of advisors from the Food and Drug Administration to review the company's request to expand the use of its painkiller Celebrex -- which has been linked to serious heart risks -- in children as young as 2. Celebrex -... Antidepressant drugs quadruple risk of suicides, research shows (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The very first week you start taking antidepressant drugs, your risk of committing suicide quadruples. Antidepressants have long been accused of actually causing suicides and violent behavior, and now research is proving it. It may be news to you and me, but it's not news to antidepressant drug manufacturers... New York Sues Merck over Vioxx Fraud (By David Gutierrez) The city and state of New York have filed a joint lawsuit against Merck & Company for deliberately concealing the dangers of its painkiller Vioxx, thereby defrauding public health programs out of millions of dollars in prescription costs. "Merck's irresponsible and duplicitous conduct... Big Pharma scare tactics: How the pharmaceutical industry influences American consumers (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, especially in this case. Lloyd Grove, a columnist for the New York Daily News, says that the pharmaceutical lobby in the United States, a group called PhRMA, actually commissioned the writing of a fiction novel designed to scare Americans into avoiding... Consumers' use of pharmaceuticals, personal care products polluting rivers and oceans with toxic chemicals (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Our water supply is becoming increasingly contaminated -- and not just by big factories dumping pollutants into the rivers. It is consumers, often unwittingly, who are poisoning rivers and oceans by sending potentially toxic chemicals down the drain. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stated... Cholesterol Disease Mongering Reaches New Low with Statin Drug Push For 8-Year-Olds (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In the latest example of absurd disease mongering to receive widespread media attention, the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee has announced that infants as young as two years old need to be screened for high cholesterol, and children as young as eight years old should be put on... Unraveling the lies about the antioxidant study on vitamins E and C (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new study published in the August 13, 2007 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine found that vitamins E and C, when taken together, result in a significant reduction in the risk of strokes (31 percent) and heart attacks (22 percent). The study followed 8,171 women who were instructed to... Drug companies allegedly defraud state Medicaid programs with 54,000% markups (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Where do you find a two-dollar bottle of sodium chloride selling for $928.51? In Big Pharma, of course, where 79 drug companies are now being accused of defrauding state Medicaid programs by artificially inflating the prices of drugs. According to the Department of Justice, the actual wholesale price... Long-term use of Tylenol (acetaminophen) found to cause kidney damage, says new study (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) New research shows that long-term use of acetaminophen -- sold under the brand name Tylenol -- harms kidneys. This research was conducted on 1,700 women, and spanned 11 years. Overall, it showed that 10% of the women experienced a decline in their kidney function, indicating that their kidneys were being... Herceptin hype: Big Pharma's new "miracle cure" for breast cancer is inferior to free, natural cures (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The drug industry is happily jumping up and down, shouting about what it considers to be a new, amazing, miracle-class breakthrough drug for breast cancer. The drug is called Herceptin, and the words being used to describe this drug include "amazing" and "unprecedented." It's even been called "a cure... FDA Revitalization Act renamed, amended and still hotly debated; floor vote is imminent (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The hotly-debated S.1082 legislation sponsored by Sen. Kennedy has now been renamed the Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2007, reports Brenna Hill of the Health Freedom Foundation and American Association (www.HealthFreedom.net). The bill is being hotly debated and has been delayed by two... Shattering the false philosophy and junk science of conventional medicine (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Have you ever wondered why pharmaceuticals don't work? By that, I mean that they don't make people healthier. Sure, some pharmaceuticals can modify a measurable chemical marker, but they don't make people healthier. We have 40 percent of the U.S. population on at least one prescription drug, yet our... Senate bill could end Big Pharma conspiracies that intentionally postpone the release of generic drugs (By Jessica Fraser) Both Republican and Democratic senators announced earlier this week that they would support legislation aimed at stopping settlements between brand-name drug firms and generic drug makers that delay the release of less expensive generic medicines. If passed, the bill -- introduced... Democrats win, Big Pharma loses (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The election results are (mostly) in, and they show a sweeping change in Washington. Fed up with the war on Iraq, the corruption, scandals and incessant fear mongering of the Republican party, voters ushered in what soon-to-be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi calls, "A new direction for America." ... Conflicting media messages: How ads for pharmaceuticals and dangerous foods have infiltrated health publications (By Alexis Black) A February 2006 issue of Prevention magazine features a young, fit, happy looking couple on its cover, surrounded by headlines like, "How to be (and stay) happy" and "18 best foods to fight disease." Taken at face value, the approximately 4.5 by 6.5-inch, full color booklet appears to be a publication... S.1082 Update - Senate Stabs Americans in the Back; Big Pharma Maintains Monopoly on U.S. Drug Prices (By Byron Richards) For approximately four days Americans lived in a delusional state that they may soon pay drug prices the same as every other country in the civilized world. Euphoria over breaking the Big Pharma monopoly turned to disgust as the chameleon, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), changed sides and lead a contingency... The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) All of a sudden, everyone's talking about health care reform in the United States. From corporations like Wal-Mart to the newly-elected Democratic majority in the House, it seems that everyone -- business, government and the public -- recognizes our health care system is broken. And it is widely recognized... Merck hid negative trial results from FDA, reveals former Merck research scientist in Vioxx trial (By NaturalNews) -- The former head of Merck & Co.'s research labs testified in a California Vioxx trial that the drug company failed to inform the FDA of two studies showing that Vioxx users were more likely to die than patients given a placebo. Dr. Edward Scolnick testified in a videotaped deposition... The lawlessness of the FDA, Big Pharma immunity, and crimes against humanity (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) June 30, 2006 is a day that will be long remembered as a dark milestone in the history of FDA and its campaign against health consumers. On June 30, an FDA "Final Rule" goes into effect, establishing a regulatory power grab of such scale and scope that it attempts to bypass all laws, the will of Congress... FDA seizes $71k in herbal tea products as campaign of censorship against nutritional supplements continues (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, continuing its campaign of censorship against truthfully-described herbal supplements, seized $71,000 worth of Charantea herbal supplements last week in a raid involving U.S. Marshals. The company, Fulllife Natural Options, was accused by the... Pledge of Allegiance hijacked by Big Pharma (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Under new laws declared by the Bush Administration, Big Pharma will begin funding public education, but schoolchildren will now be required to recite an UPDATED Pledge of Allegiance. For those who may have forgotten, here's the ORIGINAL Pledge: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the... Senate, House agree on FDA reform; key provisions remain but FDA remains threat to America (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) 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 by the President. While this new FDA reform bill... Chronic disease caused by lack of water, says doctor, but Big Pharma treats symptoms and kills 250,000 Americans each year (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Mike: Let me start this next section by asking you about the correlation between water consumption and chronic disease. There are many diseases you mention in your books that are related to dehydration. I wonder if you can give our readers a brief of what the major diseases are and why they are... Will Dr. Sanjay Gupta Disclose His Financial Ties to Big Pharma? (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As we all learned earlier this week, Dr. Sanjay Gupta is President-elect Obama's choice for Surgeon General. Numerous questions have been raised, however, about Dr. Gupta's ties to pharmaceutical companies and his tendency to promote vaccines and pharmaceuticals while dismissing safety... Absurd vaccine marketing calls for cervical cancer vaccinations for young boys! (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The headline for this story is not a typo. The push to sell more vaccines and pharmaceuticals has now reached a level of absurdity that should astonish any intelligent person. The mainstream media is now reporting -- and I'm not kidding -- that young boys should be vaccinated with Gardasil (the drug... A Deeper Look At Drugs In Our Tap Water (By Cathy Sherman) Picture this: Three guys go into a bar. The batender asks, "What'll you have?" "A beer", says the first guy. Second one says, "Whiskey" and turning to the third guy asks, "what about you?" "Oh me, I really need a good strong kick, one with lots of punch to it... Yep, I think this... Senators who protected Big Pharma received millions of dollars from drug companies (By David Gutierrez) Senators who received substantial donations from pharmaceutical companies were instrumental in making a new drug bill more industry-friendly, according to studies by nonprofit groups and remarks by some of the senators themselves. The bill, which passed the Senate 93-1 and now goes before... Thailand issues license to manufacture generic version of Efavirenz; snubs Merck AIDS drug monopoly (By Jessica Fraser) Thailand announced last week that because of rising prices of foreign-made HIV/AIDS drugs, it would issue a five-year license to manufacture an inexpensive generic version of Merck & Co.'s Efavirenz drug. Though Merck -- which holds the patent on Efavirenz -- criticized the military... Top Alzheimer's researcher charged with felony criminal conduct for secret financial ties to Pfizer (By Jessica Fraser) A top researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was charged Monday with criminal violation of federal conflict-of-interest laws by failing to disclose financial links with drug giant Pfizer, prosecutors said. Pearson "Trey" Sunderland III, former chief of the Geriatric... FDA Collaboration with Big Pharma Raises Eyebrows (By Byron Richards) The Andrew von Eschenbach FDA era is upon us. The Avandia scandal is the tip of the iceberg. Is anyone ready? The words "illicit financial collusion" have been replaced by the politically correct term, "collaboration." On May 30, in defense of his cozy relationship with Big Pharma and Big... Week in Review: Cloned Meat, Scientific Fraud and Mandatory Organ Harvesting from (Nearly) Dead Patients (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 a disturbing lack of ethical behavior or compassion... Antidepressant drugs found to cause birth complications (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new warning is being issued about pregnant women taking antidepressant drugs. It turns out that taking such drugs during late pregnancy puts the health of their babies at risk and leads to birth complications that may require prolonged hospitalization, breathing support, and tube feeding. This warning... How the FDA is Becoming a Drug Company: Consumer Safety and Access to Natural Health Options Threatened (By Byron J. Richards, CCN) Under the false pretense of improved food and drug safety the FDA is re-inventing itself as a kingpin drug company. This charade has so far hoodwinked virtually all members of Congress. The Senate has already approved this FDA transformation. The House will bring similar legislation out of committee... Surprise Supreme Court Decision Ends Big Pharma's Pre-Emption Bid for Legal Immunity (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against Wyeth in the Diana Levine case, setting a crucial precedent in the battle against Big Pharma. The ruling ends an important part of the Big Pharma / FDA conspiracy racket that sought to market extremely dangerous (and even deadly... The great direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising con: how patients and doctors alike are easily influenced to demand dangerous drugs (By Dani Veracity) A cute, animated ball bounces around very sadly until he takes a magic potion; suddenly, it becomes happier than ever. No, that isn't the plot of a new children's movie. On the contrary, it's the storyline of a Zoloft commercial – yes, Zoloft, a powerful antidepressant drug. In the 1990s, direct-to-consumer... The FDA finally admits antidepressant drugs cause suicidal tendencies in children (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The FDA has now finally admitted that children who use antidepressant drugs are 180 percent more likely to have suicidal tendencies than children taking placebos. This is after the agency stalled for months by requesting an independent investigation of the research data, during which antidepressant... The Politics of National Health Care Reform: Why no Popular Presidential Candidate can Solve Our Health Care Crisis (transcript) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The following is a transcript of Health Ranger Report #16, entitled The Politics of National Health Care Reform, which is available free of charge as an MP3 download at: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html Have you ever wondered who is going to win the presidency in... Merck Targets Low Income and Minority Women in HPV Vaccine Study (By Joanne Waldron) Merck, manufacturer of the controversial Gardasil vaccine, has awarded a research grant of $79,000.00 to two Indiana University Kelley School of Business professors to study the effect of two interventions on acceptance of the HPV vaccination among low-income and minority women, according... Trial Results for the Cholesterol Blocker Zetia Have Not Been Revealed (By Teri Lee Gruss) Has your doctor prescribed Zetia or the combination drug Vytorin to you to lower your total cholesterol or your LDL cholesterol? If so, you and your doctor should know that data from clinical trials designed to assess the effectiveness and safety of Zetia has yet to be published even though... Health freedom community rallies against passage of FDA Revitalization Act of 2007 (By Byron Richards) The following article is authored by Byron Richards, health freedom advocate and author. It concerns today's important vote on the FDA Revitalization Act of 2007. My comments (Mike Adams) are in red. Here's the full article from Byron Richards, reprinted with permission: ... Vaccines and Medical Experiments on Children, Minorities, Woman and Inmates (1845 - 2007) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Think U.S. health authorities have never conducted outrageous medical experiments on children, women, minorities, homosexuals and inmates? Think again: This timeline, originally put together by Dani Veracity (a NaturalNews reporter), has been edited and updated with recent vaccination experimentation... Study Reveals 17 Different Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater (By Dorien Herremans) What happens to medicines after they leave your body? Norwegian researchers have examined the presence of twenty toxic pharmaceuticals in the wastewater coming from two Oslo hospitals. Their stunning conclusion is that seventeen of these toxins were actually present in the wastewater! When... FDA censorship, suppression of its own scientists is routine, survey reveals (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Here's information you're not supposed to know about the FDA. It was uncovered through a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request that uncovered a 2002 Human and Health Services survey asking FDA scientists questions about the agency. Their answers reveal an astonishing lack of confidence at the Fraud... Pharmaceutical companies mired in Enron-style accounting, tax fraud (By NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical companies in the United States and abroad are finally being punished by governments for bad business practices -- including tax avoidance and accounting fraud -- according to blogger Robert Weissman, writing for The Huffington Post. Weissman points out recent cases against... European drug regulatory agency warns doctors about antidepressant drug and suicide risks, but in the U.S., the FDA remains silent (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The European Union is warning its member nations and their physicians about the increased suicide risk from patients taking a popular anti-depressant drug known as Seroxat. This drug is said to increase the risk of suicide in young adults, and it is currently being taken by as many as 800,000 people... Can Obama's Win Lead to Meaningful Health Care Reform? 13 Urgent Suggestions for a Healthy USA (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In an astonishing turn of events for a nation that seemed headed for certain economic destruction just weeks ago, Americans overwhelmingly chose Democratic candidates in yesterday's elections, selecting Obama as the next U.S. President and securing Democratic majorities in both the House... Elderly at high risk of harm from toxic pharmaceutical combinations (By NaturalNews) -- A recent UK survey found that seniors run a high risk of accidentally taking lethal combinations of prescription drugs. Kim Munro, a pharmacist at Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University, recently surveyed 695 elderly people aged 78 to 86, who were living in sheltered housing, and found that... Virginia law guaranteeing parents' medical rights routed by mandatory HPV vaccination (By Ben Kage) This month, health freedom advocates celebrated when both the House and Senate of the Virginia Legislature passed Abraham's Law (HB 2314 /SB 905), a parents' rights law named for cancer patient Abraham Cherrix. But critics are saying that the victory has been darkened by another bill; one... Study reveals why COX-2 inhibitors cause heart attacks and other dangerous side effects (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Every prescription drug is unsafe, the FDA recently admitted. Every drug on the market has unintended side effects, and the fallout from this is that people who start taking one drug show new side effects (symptoms) that must be treated with another drug. This cascade of symptoms continues until the... FDA poised to change the health & wellbeing of all Americans (By Byron J. Richards) The FDA is now poised to dramatically change the health and well being of all Americans. Unfortunately, they are headed in the wrong direction--straight over a cliff. The FDA is supposed to make sure drugs are safe and effective; they are mandated to protect the public. However, the top two positions... FDA, Inc.? Food and Drug Administration to enter drug business under new "Revitalization Act" (By Byron Richards) NaturalNews is reprinting, with permission, an article published today by Byron Richards, author of Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America. In this article, Richards exposes the real story behind a... MOTHERS Act Seeks to Drug Expectant Mothers with Antidepressants to "Treat" Postpartum Depression (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new law being considered in the U.S. Congress would attempt to prevent postpartum depression in new moms by drugging them with SSRI antidepressant drugs while they're still pregnant. This legislation is being aggressively pushed by pro-pharma front groups in an effort to expand the customer... FDA whistleblower warns about safety of new arthritis drug Arcoxia (By NaturalNews) Associate Director of the FDA's Office of Drug Safety Dr. David Graham is well-known for blowing the whistle on both Merck and his own agency during the Vioxx scandal, and now he is warning the public about another Merck drug called Arcoxia. Like its predecessor, Vioxx -- and its... Kevin Miller's New "Generation Rx" Documentary Exposes Mass Betrayal of Children by FDA, Big Pharma (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 the understanding of an entire nation and create... The beginning of the end of chemical-based medicine (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A recent study published in the medical journal "The Lancet" reveals that as many as 140,000 heart attacks, in the United States alone, were caused by Vioxx, and 44 percent of those likely died from those heart attacks. That means more than 60,000 Americans have been killed by Vioxx if this data are... Children herded like cattle into Maryland courthouse for forced vaccinations as armed police and attack dogs stand guard (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 forcibly vaccinated, many against their will, under... Why Doctors are Idiots: 150 Years of Disatrous Advice on Children's Health (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) (NaturalNews Satire) With mandatory vaccines suddenly being forced onto parents by doctors and so-called "health authorities" in places like Maryland, New Jersey and Texas, you might think that doctors being full of bunk is a new phenomenon. But no, it's nothing new. Doctors have been full of bunk for... Vytorin Linked to Cancer; Prominent Medical Journal Reverses Stance (By Byron Richards) In an unprecedented change of posture, the New England Journal of Medicine has reversed itself on the issue of whether Vytorin causes cancer. In the initial release of data back in July, NEJM stood by Merck and Schering-Plough, who hired an Oxford consultant to rule that a 50% statistically... Merck Pushing for Over-The-Counter Approval for Statin Drug Mevacor (By David Gutierrez) For the third time, Merck is seeking FDA approval for over-the-counter sale of its cholesterol-lowering statin medication lovastatin, marketed under the brand name Mevacor. An FDA advisory panel voted against approving the drug for over-the-counter use on December 14, 2007. The recommendations... Bentonite Clay: Protect Yourself From Pharmaceuticals in Your Water (By Cheryl McCoy) Armed with the proper information, there's no reason to fear the latest news about toxins and pharmaceutical drugs being found in your water. Not to say that this news isn't alarming. Measures must be taken to remove these harmful substances from our eco-system. But until the day that dream... Liver-Damaging Effects of Cholesterol Drug Zetia Hidden by Merck, FDA Documents Reveal (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Documents on the FDA Web site reveal that pharmaceutical companies Merck and Schering-Plough conducted numerous safety studies on the popular cholesterol drug Zetia but did not publish the results, which suggested that the drug may cause liver damage when mixed with statins. Zetia is... Merck's Vioxx replacement drug found to cause cardiovascular complications (By Jessica Fraser) A safety study of Merck's latest Cox-2 drug Arcoxia -- meant to replace the painkiller Vioxx -- found that it poses the same heart risks as an older arthritis medication, which experts say could hinder its FDA approval. The Arcoxia study -- presented at yesterday's meeting of the American... FTC Launches Operation False Cures to Suppress Natural Cancer Remedies (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today launched "Operation False Cures," a coordinated scheme to censor natural cancer remedies and financially destroy companies offering them for sale. In doing so, the FTC joins the criminals at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who currently... Big Pharma Money Spent on Marketing Exceeds Drug Development Costs (By Sarah Aitken) 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 the business practices of the pharmaceutical industry... Medication Pollution Spreads: Water Supply of 24 U.S. Cities Found Contaminated with Pharmaceuticals (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Analysis of tap water supplies in major metropolitan areas conducted by the Associated Press has revealed that the water supply in 24 major U.S. cities -- serving over 40 million people -- are contaminated with trace amounts of pharmaceuticals including antibiotics, anti-seizure medications... With Tysabri decision, the FDA declares no drug is too dangerous to be FDA approved (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency that claims to be responsible for protecting consumers from dangerous food and drug products, has just surrendered its primary responsibility. Recently, an FDA advisory panel voted to recommend that a dangerous prescription drug Tysabri, which was withdrawn... Merck denied blood pressure screening services to doctors that did not prescribe its brand-name drugs (By Jessica Fraser) The UK branch of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. was recently suspended from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) after "serious breaches" were discovered in its ethical conduct. Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd (MSD) recently engaged in a campaign to promote its prescription... Fosamax Dangers: More Trouble for Merck (By NaturalNews) Fosamax, the popular osteoporosis drug made by Merck, has now been linked to a condition called osteonecrosis according to findings published in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. This rare disease causes a patient’s jawbone to rot and die. Merck also makes Vioxx, which was pulled off the... Psychiatry and disease mongering: Road Rage Disorder is latest spontaneously "discovered" disease (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Disease mongering has reached a new level of ridiculousness with the widely-reported announcement that millions of American now have undiagnosed Road Rage Disorder, also sometimes called Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED). Desperate to scrounge up new diseases that can be treated with high... The Supreme Court Betrays the Public on Medtronic Preemption Case (transcript) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger reporting for www.NaturalNews.com . This article is a transcript of the audio from Health Ranger Report #11, available here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html Today, I'm bringing you some rather disturbing news about the Supreme Court's... Human medical experiments go terribly wrong in "nightmare" TGN1412 drug trial (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) "We told ya so" just doesn't cut it. Barely ten days after Truth Publishing warned the public about the dangers of medical experimentation on humans, a disastrous pharmaceutical experiment has left six men fighting for their lives. The scene was a living medical hell, say witnesses. After being... Big Pharma CEO Fakes Cancer while Pill-Pushing Doctor Fakes Clinical Trial Results for Bextra, Effexor and Celebrex (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The culture of deceit and fraud that permeates conventional medicine became even more apparent today with the announcement that Howard Richman, the former vice president of a pharmaceutical company named Biopure, faked his own cancer and even impersonated a doctor in order to convince... FDA Knew of Avandia's Dangers Nearly Five Years Ago, Memo Shows (By Public Citizen) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew nearly five years ago about the dangers associated with the diabetes drug Avandia, an internal FDA memo shows. A study released Monday by the New England Journal of Medicine showed a 43 percent increase in heart attacks in people using Avandia. In a letter... The truth behind the headlines about antioxidants and vitamins (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 C to be dangerous and vitamin E to be deadly!... Nuremberg Trials: Big Pharma's Crimes Against Humanity (By Gabriel Donohoe) After World War Two, scores of suspected Nazi war criminals were prosecuted by the Allies in the Palace of Justice in the city of Nuremberg, the birth-place of the Nazi Party. The defendants were drawn not just from the military, but also from medical, judicial, administrative, industrial... Why Michael Moore's SiCKO is a health care documentary every American must see (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) America's disastrous health care system is heaving the country head-first into near-certain economic collapse. Just about everybody's either financially strained or going broke due to spiraling health care costs: the people, the employers, state governments and even the federal government. Multinational... Big Pharma's Latest Insanity? A "PolyPill" Combining Five Different Drugs Into One Pill (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) What do you get when you combine cholesterol medication, three different blood pressure drugs and aspirin into a single pharmaceutical pill? If you believe the drug company that funded its own study on this chemical cocktail, you get a wonder drug that has all the "benefits" of five different... Big Pharma Quietly Hikes Drug Prices 100 Percent or More (By David Gutierrez) Without any fanfare, pharmaceutical companies have been raising the prices of many of their drugs by 100 percent or more, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota. The researchers investigated cases in which drugs had their prices increased by 100... Drug companies engage in massive health care fraud, but are never held accountable (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) U.S. pharmaceutical companies are finding clever ways to avoid the consequences of a 1996 law that mandates their exclusion from federal health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid if they are convicted of felony health care fraud. According to news reports, since 2001 at least four major drug... Update on Senate bill S.1082 and implications for the health freedom of consumers (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) After enduring numerous amendments, debates and public scrutiny, Senate bill S.1082 is headed for a likely vote on Wednesday, May 9th. The bill at one point contained an approved amendment that would have ended Big Pharma's monopoly over drug prices in the United States and saved consumers and businesses... Human medical experimentation in modern times: How immigrants, poor people, minorities and children are modern-day guinea pigs for Big Pharma (part one) (By Dani Veracity) "The concentration camps were used as a huge laboratory for human experimentation," says Wolfgang Eckhart, professor of Historical Medicine at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. During the Holocaust, Bayer, Hoechst, BASF and other German pharmaceutical and chemical companies combined into a powerful... New online consumer health guide reveals nutritional deficiencies caused by prescription drugs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) NaturalNews.com, a leading natural health news and information site, has launched NaturalNews DrugWatch(TM), a free online resource that reveals the nutritional deficiencies caused by over 540 brand-name prescription drugs. The pages are provided free of charge as a service to enhance the health and safety... States sue the federal government over the Bush drug benefit program (commentary) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) President Bush marketed his Medicare drug benefit program as a popular handout that would put more prescription drugs in seniors' pockets and more money in State coffers. But as it turns out, the drug benefit promises were completely fabricated, just like "weapons of mass destruction." In reality... Dissecting a Thimerosal Study (By Heidi Stevenson) They're at it again. The campaign to make people believe that vaccines and their preservative, thimerosal, are safe is in full swing. The usual technique of a pseudo-scientific test is being used, with the medical system jumping on the bandwagon. The upshot of the reports is always the same... Boku Super Food: An Astonishing New Premium Superfood Product Reviewed by the Health Ranger (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Let me say emphasize right from the start that NaturalNews has absolutely no financial ties to the product or company I'm about to introduce to you. I've been paid nothing to review this product, and I don't earn a dime off its sale. Nevertheless, I'm incredibly excited to reveal this organic... Bribery in medicine: How drug authorities, Big Pharma pushers and other medical racket operators forfeit ethics for power and profits (By Dani Veracity) Mike Espy, Spiro Agnew, the Bolsheviks -- why, even Thomas Edison participated in bribery. African American civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois exposed the connections between bribery, exploitation and the "new capitalism" of his day; however, bribery was an epidemic even in ancient civilizations, widespread... Secret recipe revealed for next wave of pharmaceuticals (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) I recently donned a disguise and was able to sneak into the pharmaceutical laboratory of ConPfuzer Pharmaceuticals. After bribing a couple of low-grade lab technicians grumbling about the falling value of company stock options, I got my hands on a document revealing the secret recipe for the firm's next... FDA refuses to pull dangerous diabetes drug Avandia, even knowing it will kill thousands (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly to keep the diabetes drug Avandia on the market, despite its known deadly effects. Two FDA committees met yesterday in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to consider whether the drug -- which has led to the deaths of 80,000 people -- should be pulled from the... Schoolchildren Are Increasingly Dosed With Both Ritalin and Anti-Psychotic Drugs, Says New Research (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Researchers from the Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt have found that anti-psychotic medications are being prescribed at an alarming rate for Tennessee children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. The use of anti-psychotic drugs has more than doubled since 1996, and today children... The truth about medical journals, and how drug companies exert heavy influence over published scientific articles (By Ben Kage) Can the medical journals be trusted to provide accurate, unbiased information about medicine even as they are almost entirely funded by drug companies? In her book, Vaccination, Peggy O'Mara writes that the current era of medical beliefs (or dogma) began to develop soon after Louis Pasteur's... Prescription skin cancer cream Aldara has horrific side effects, say users (By Dani Veracity) Elaine Hollingsworth put Aldara on her nose thinking that it was the "benign salve" that her dermatologist made it out to be; instead, it was the beginning of her nightmare. After using the pharmaceutical skin cancer treatment for only two weeks, a "disgusting, thick, crusty, black scab" covered her... Statin drugs expose patients to dangerous, debilitating side effects (By Alexis Black) 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 could lower their LDL (bad) cholesterol levels simply... Massive medical fraud exposed: pharmaceutical company paid doctors to prescribe drugs and run sham clinical trials (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Here's a must-read article for anyone interested in learning how the pharmaceutical industry really operates. It's a case of aggressive marketing gone bad, with a mixture of corrupt physicians, underhanded payola and a near-total disregard for patient health. And yet it's business as usual in the pharmaceutical... Hospital Superbugs Prove Deadly; Over-Prescription of Antibiotics Contributes to the Problem (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) One hundred people have died from superbug infections in just one hospital in Quebec over the last 18 months, says a hospital infectious disease expert. Fifty-four people died in the hospital last year, and so far this year the death toll has already reached 46. It is yet another example of how dangerous... Former Shill for Big Pharma Tells the Truth About Drug Testing (By Heidi Stevenson) Erick Turner, a psychiatry professor at the Oregon State Health and Sciences University, woke up one day and realized that he was acting as a shill for pharmaceutical corporations. Worse, he was promoting drugs that not only provide very little benefit, but also do great harm. In spite of... FDA panel says no to over-the-counter statin drugs; will the recommendation stand? (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Merck and Johnson & Johnson are working hard to make statin drugs available without a prescription. The thought is downright horrifying to those who know the true dangers of statin drugs -- muscle wasting, brain fog, even the risk of birth defects -- but it's just "business as usual" at Big Pharma. The... Tufts University study shows more than half of psychiatric DSM-IV authors have financial links to Big Pharma (By Jessica Fraser) Hollywood star Tom Cruise made national headlines when he launched a verbal assault on the field of psychiatry while appearing on the Today Show with host Matt Lauer in June 2005. Cruise called the field "pseudoscience" and criticized Adderall and Ritalin, the prescription drugs prescribed for... Big Pharma Spin Doctors Gather to Plot New Public Relations Strategies for Influencing the FDA, Popular Press (By David Gutierrez) Concerned by the increasingly negative public image of their industry, pharmaceutical companies are meeting with major public relations associations in a conference intended to plan public relations strategies for the coming months. According to a press release, the First Annual Pharmaceutical... The top ten reasons why the U.S. needs more pharmaceutical companies (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) 1. Cures: We need drug companies to keep finding cures for major diseases. Look at all the cures they've found so far like... well... okay, they haven't actually found any cures yet. But maybe they can at least cure all the bogus diseases they made up like "social anxiety disorder" and "attention... Thailand health minister stands firm against Big Pharma monopolistic profiteering (By David Gutierrez) The health minister of Thailand, Mongkol na Songkhla, has announced that the country will override international drug patents if pharmaceutical companies do not significantly lower their prices to make medications affordable to the country's poor. Specifically, he cited drugs for cancer... Modern Medicine Hilariously Claims Credit for Reduction in Heart Disease Deaths (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The death rates for heart disease and stroke among U.S. citizens has dropped 30 percent between 1999 and 2006, reports the Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers are hailing the report as a major success in the effectiveness of conventional medicine. "It's one of... FDA Announces Plan to Eliminate Vitamin Companies (By Byron Richards) The FDA, emboldened by its transformation into a drug company, has embarked upon an anti-American plan of interfering with business and intentionally eliminating various dietary supplement companies from the market. The FDA announcement came on Friday, June 22, 2007 under the guise of a... Cold medicine scam finally exposed after decades of harming children (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Another example of outright quackery by pharmaceutical companies has finally gathered enough steam to achieve mainstream news coverage: Cold medicines are useless, say pediatricians who petitioned the FDA to ban the marketing of such products to children. Last month, an FDA advisory panel... Review of Google Health - Technology Achievement or Privacy Disaster? (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 technology. The Google Health service promises to... FDA's Assault of Bioidentical Hormones Demonstrates Pro-Pharma Loyalties, Disregard for Consumer Choice (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 drugs (HRT), insisting that compounding pharmacies... Pharmaceuticals contaminating public water supplies; anti-seizure meds found in Lake Michigan (By Staff writer) Pharmaceuticals, including birth-control hormones and anti-seizure medications, have been found in Lake Michigan and public water supplies, according to a new study. The study was jointly sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the American Pharmacists Association. The water system examined... GlaxoSmithKline settles price fraud lawsuit with 40 states (By NaturalNews) Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay more than $41 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by more than 40 states alleging the company inflated the prices of cancer drugs and other pharmaceuticals. The U.S. Justice Department, the National Association of Medicaid Fraud... Modern Medicine, Part I: How Healing Illness Became Managing Illness (By Tony Isaacs) For over 6000 years, man looked first to nature to heal illness and maintain wellness. As a result of a deliberate and often sinister plan, the past century and a half has seen curing illness with nature replaced with managing sickness and treating the symptoms of illness in a system that... With COX-2 decision, no longer any doubt about FDA corruption and U.S. drug racket (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Following the death of as many as 60,000 Americans from COX-2 inhibitors (source: British Medical Journal, author Dr. David Graham, FDA drug safety researcher), an FDA advisory panel has now voted to allow the drugs to return to the market with full FDA safety approval. The fact that a single COX-2 drug... Journal Corrects Vioxx Article to Reflect Short-Term Heart Risk (By NaturalNews) The New England Journal of Medicine on Monday issued a rare correction on a influential 2005 study on the now-withdrawn painkiller Vioxx. The correction involves a crucial point that was first reported a month ago: That cardiovascular risks linked to the controversial cox-2 inhibitor kick in at... FDA Wants Big Pharma to Use Terminally Ill Patients as Guinea Pigs for Unapproved Drugs (By David Gutierrez) The FDA has proposed allowing the testing of experimental drugs on terminally ill patients once the drugs have passed the first safety testing phase, but before they have received final approval. The plan has already sparked controversy, with physicians staking out positions both for and... Herceptin cancer drug causes heart damage in 28 percent of patients (By NaturalNews) A new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has found that the cancer drug Herceptin causes heart damage in 28 percent of its users. A team of researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center studied 173 patients with advanced breast cancer who had been taking... Medical myth remains: most people still believe that high-priced prescription drugs are necessary for innovation (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) It's one of the most widely-held beliefs in health care: that sky-high prescription drug prices are the key to innovation, and without 100,000% markups (or more) on prescription drugs, pharmaceutical companies would halt research and never find cures for chronic disease. There are so many individual... U.S. Senators financially enslave Americans as Indentured Servants to Big Pharma (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The facts found in the report are almost as astonishing as the source of the report itself: USA Today, a mainstream media giant in the United States, has revealed the apparent financial conflict of interest by U.S. Senators who voted against the infamous S.1082 reimportation amendment. That amendment... ADHD drugs to carry new warnings about psychotic behavior (By NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday that several ADHD drugs must now carry information on the labels warning consumers of the risk of heart problems and psychotic behavior associated with taking the drugs. FDA spokeswoman Susan Bro says GlaxoSmithKline's... President's Bogus Mental Health Screening Initiative Is a Thinly Veiled Scam to Boost Pharmaceutical Profits (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The latest act of state-sponsored medical insanity has been announced by the Bush administration with their so-called New Freedom Commission on Mental Health that plans to conduct mental-health screening on all children and adults in the United States. As people are screened under this plan, they will... FDA Approves New Drug for Treatment of Brown's Grass Disease (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) 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 new treatment has been championed by a pharmaceutical... Big Tobacco racketeering charges mirror pharmaceutical industry crimes (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The United States Justice Department charges that under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), cigarette companies have deceived the public for decades in an effort to sell their products. Few would deny the deceptions, except perhaps the tobacco companies themselves. But what's... ADHD Drugs Cause Hallucinations in Children; Psychiatry Pushes Hallucinogenic Drugs for Profit (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) New research published in the journal Pediatrics reveals that the ADHD drugs prescribed to millions of children are causing them to experience frightening hallucinations. Children on these drugs hallucinated that snakes and bugs were crawling all over them, says Reuters, and... Pharmacists oppose free trade with Canada, citing loss of U.S. jobs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) When it comes to blocking the importation of prescription drugs from Canada, pharmacists are a creative bunch. First, they sited safety concerns, but ignored the statistics that show U.S. pharmacies are just as likely to improperly fill prescriptions as Canadian pharmacies. Then they backed the ridiculous... The Failing U.S. Economy is Not a Financial Problem, It's a Health Problem (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The shutdown of the American economy has begun. Today Chrysler announced it would shutter 100% of its factories for one month as it seeks bailout money from the Federal Reserve. The Fed, meanwhile, slashes its interest rates to zero, even while promising to print unlimited trillions of... Florida Attorney General sues six pharmaceutical companies for price fixing and possibly defrauding Medicaid (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Demonstrating yet again that pharmaceutical companies will do anything to make a buck, six such companies are under fire by the Florida Attorney General who has issued civil subpoenas concerning potential overcharges to Medicaid in the amount of $100 million. Apparently, the pharmaceutical companies... Branding Pregnancy as Mental Illness: Immediate Consumer Action Needed to Stop Mothers Act (By Byron Richards) The Mothers Act is pending legislation that will indoctrinate hundreds of thousands of mothers into taking dangerous psych drugs. It is a great example of how the Big Pharma lobby controls Congress to the detriment of health, as well as needlessly and dramatically inflating the costs of our health care... Canada's C-51 Law May Outlaw 60% of Natural Health Products; Big Pharma Pushing to Criminalize Supplements (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the Canadian Minister of Health... Merck Now Hyping Gardasil for Older Women (By David Gutierrez) Pharmaceutical corporation Merck & Co., Inc., is advertising the results of a recent trial that found its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil to be effective in women between the ages of 25 and 45. HPV is a common virus group, the members of which are responsible for a variety... Hopes for weight loss drug dashed by failure in human trials (By Ben Kage) Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. announced Tuesday that it would be putting the development of its formerly promising weight loss drug MK-0557 on hold because of the pill's failure to deliver in real-world human trials. The 10-year trial -- reported in the October issue of Cell Metabolism... The big Bush handout to pharmaceutical companies: mandatory mental health screening for entire U.S. population (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Bush administration's handouts to pharmaceutical companies just keep on coming. First, it was the Medicare discount drug card scam which turned out to be a system that guaranteed pharmaceutical industry profits thanks to sky-high prices of prescription drugs (the discounts were nonexistent). Next... Hillary Clinton's Universal Health Care Plan: Buy Health Insurance or Else! (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As candidates for U.S. President continue to battle for their respective parties' nominations, details are beginning to emerge about their (disastrous) health care plans. The New York Times is now reporting that Hillary Clinton's universal health care plan will be accomplished through ... Study shows the public is turning to alternative medicine and away from dangerous prescription drugs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A study published in April 2005 revealed that more than 70 percent of adults aged 50 or older are now using some form of alternative therapy. This includes medicinal herbs, meditation and chiropractic care. The fact that these people are adopting alternative medicine and using it in their own lives is... Creating the Next Society: Your Revolutionary Ideas Needed Now (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) It's fairly obvious to anyone paying attention that the American Empire, as currently configured and operated, is simply not sustainable. Financial collapse is inevitable (and accelerating, it seems), and even mainstream America can no longer deny the obvious signs that things have gone... Public Comment Date Announced for Sale of Behind the Counter Drugs (By Teri Lee Gruss) FDA announces public comment date for Behind the Counter (BTC) sales of prescription medications On October 3, 2007 the FDA posted FDA Docket number 2007N-0356 announcing that it is open to public comment on November 14, 2007. According to the FDA this docket "regards the behind-the... Maryland joins list of states attempting to buy prescription drugs from Canada, but FDA-enforced drug monopoly blocks efforts (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The state of Maryland joins a growing list of cities and states attempting to import prescription drugs from Canada. Montgomery County says it could save $6 million to $10 million a year by giving its employees the choice of filling their prescriptions through certified Canadian pharmacies. But... Drinking Water of 41 Million Americans Contaminated with Pharmaceuticals (By David Gutierrez) An investigation by the Associated Press (AP) has revealed that the drinking water of at least 41 million people in the United States is contaminated with pharmaceutical drugs. It has long been known that drugs are not wholly absorbed or broken down by the human body. Significant amounts... Review: Dr. Jonathan Wright's Health and Healing Newsletter Provides Lifesaving Remedies for Tough Times (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Without question, these are tough times. Rampant inflation, sky-high gas prices, failed wars, domestic surveillance and secret prisons run by top U.S. officials... it all adds up to uncertainty and fear in the minds of many Americans. In this increasingly unstable environment, however,... HHS chief opposes Medicare drug price negotiation; a perpetuation of Big Pharma price fixing, says health advocate (By Ben Kage) On Monday, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said the government should not negotiate Medicare drug prices, instantly drawing fire from the incoming Democratic Congress and at least one health advocate. "The idea of the government negotiating drug prices really isn't... How Drug Companies Covertly Influence the Content of Medical Literature (By David Gutierrez) 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 PLoS Medicine. Author Sergio Sismondo calls... Big Pharma: free market economics run amok (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) From a very early age, I was taught the theories of free market economics. As Americans, most of us are taught the same: that the free market is the best system in the world; that it produces more goods and services for consumers; that it raises the standard of living; that it works better than centrally... Kids Pricked for Profit: The Financial Ties of Vaccine Promoters to Big Pharma (By Joanne Waldron) In a shocking article from a mainstream media source, CBS News, it is reported that some of the biggest vaccine promoters and defenders have very strong financial ties to the vaccine industry... Natural Newsbeat: Omega-3's Really Work, Big Pharma Loopholes and Perfume Danger for Expectant Mothers (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Health experts are finally warning women to avoid using perfumes and fragrance products during pregnancy. The chemicals in cosmetics products, it turns out, cause cancer and infertility problems for the children to be born. Is anyone surprised at this? The natural health community has... Psych Drug Shocker: Antidepressant Drugs Work No Better than Placebo; Big Pharma Hoax Finally Exposed (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The following is a groundbreaking report from the independent, honest medical journal PLoS Medicine (which accepts no advertising money from Big Pharma). The full study, with sources and attributions, can be found at http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10... Ketek drug scandal reveals pattern of scientific fraud at the FDA (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The FDA has once again been caught red-handed ignoring the dangers of a widely-prescribed drug and compromising the health of millions. Internal email messages have now surfaced about how the FDA pushed the antibiotic drug Ketek despite urgent warnings from its senior drug safety scientists. The details... Time to Medicate Fido? Pfizer Launches Diet Drug for Dogs (By David Gutierrez) Pfizer has launched a diet medication for dogs, drawing criticism from veterinarians and animal welfarists who believe that there are no pharmaceutical solutions to the problem of obesity in domestic animals. Approximately one-quarter of dogs and one-third of cats in the United Kingdom... 30-Day Supply of Cherry Concentrate Supplements for Every NaturalNews Reader in the U.S. (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Over the past four years, I've written extensively about the health benefits of cherries, describing the therapeutic effects of the natural medicines found in cherry skins and explaining how cherry products help eliminate arthritis inflammation, reverse gout and can often replace anti-inflammatory... Review: Zyflamend Supplement for Inflammation; Tips on Anti-Inflammatory Foods and Herbs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Sales of anti-inflammatory pharmaceuticals are a multi-billion dollar industry. Yet as we've learned with the Vioxx fiasco and all the tens of thousands of deaths surrounding that drug, anti-inflammatory medications can be extremely dangerous. Sure, it stops the pain, but sometimes it also... FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information (commentary) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Here's a report on the FDA that could only come from outside the United States. I'm reading to you from The Independent, a British newspaper, that says, "Vital data on prescription medication found in millions of British homes has been suppressed by the powerful U.S. drug regulators, even though... FDA Attacks Small Nutrition Companies (By Byron Richards) On October 19, 2006, the FDA fired off twenty-four warning letters to small nutrition companies that made claims they had natural remedies to help with diabetes. At first glance, one might think the FDA was actually... Aspirin and painkiller drugs cause widespread stomach ulcers (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A reported 40,000 people die each year from the use of over-the-counter painkillers like aspirin. This statistic goes largely unreported, of course, since it's not something the pharmaceutical industry wants people to know about. Think about it: each year, almost as many Americans die from OTC painkillers... Cancer vaccines, little girls and the dirty business of Texas politics (By Ben Kage) Controversy about Human Papilloma Virus vaccines for young girls has exploded since Scottish health authorities announced in the summer that they were considering making them mandatory for 9-year-old girls, but while that plan was upended by parental concerns, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas recently... Processed Food, Pharmaceuticals Contribute to Declining Health (By Debby Bolen) In the United States, our modern society is so preoccupied and overwhelmed with every day activities of living we have lost contact with what is important. Have you ever contemplated the miracle of the human body functioning in harmony with lungs breathing, heart beating, senses sensing... FDA: Consumer Watchdog or Big Pharma Puppet? (By NaturalNews) A group of the world’s leading health experts is divulging insider information about the FDA’s unethical and risky relationship with the pharmaceutical industry in the timely documentary "Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety." As more Merck secrets are exposed and the Food and Drug Administration... Just Say No to Prescription Drugs (By Virginia Hopkins) Assuming you're eating well, sleeping well, exercising and tending to your relationships, the next best optimal health step you can take after the age of fifty is to avoid prescription drugs. All prescription drugs - without exception - have side effects... Sewers beat pharmaceuticals as best medical advance in nearly 200 years (By M.T. Whitney) In a poll done by the British Medical Journal of more than 11,000 people worldwide seeking the greatest medical advance in the past 166 years, it was improvements in sanitation that grabbed the win. Worldwide consensus says a good sewer system is more important than inventions like... Depression, Osteoporosis Correlation Misreported by Junk Science Media, Ill-Informed Health Researchers (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Conventional medical researchers around the world are scratching their heads over new research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine that shows a strong correlation between depression and osteoporosis. Amazingly, none of them apparently have the presence of mind to consider the simple... FDA approves Merck's Januvia diabetes drug that claims to treat diabetes but only alters symptoms, health author says (By Jessica Fraser) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday that it approved a new "blockbuster" drug from Merck to treat type 2 diabetes, a condition that affects roughly 21 million Americans. Merck says its new drug -- Januvia -- is a once-daily pill that boasts fewer side effects... The ADHD Scam and the Mass Drugging of Schoolchildren (Transcript) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 scanned with an MRI machine. They compared 40,000... Importation of prescription drugs from Canada rises despite FDA's best efforts to protect Big Pharma's profits in the U.S. (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The FDA is losing its battle waged against the pocketbooks of American consumers: people are importing more prescription drugs than ever, and they're getting them from Canada, Mexico and even the U.K. This concerns the FDA, of course, which has gone all out to protect the profits of Big Pharma by attempting... U.S. pharmaceutical companies and the FDA responsible for 100 times as many Americans deaths as terrorists (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The FDA is getting desperate in the war to monopolize the U.S. pharmaceutical industry and prevent citizens from purchasing prescription drugs at lower prices from Canada and elsewhere. They've now invoked the "terrorism" label in the fight to suppress consumer free choice. Unbelievably, FDA commissioner... Raw Broccoli, Cabbage Slash Bladder Cancer Risk by 40 Percent; Cooking Destroys Benefits (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Eating as little as three small servings of raw cruciferous vegetables per month, such as broccoli and cabbage, has been found to decrease the risk of developing bladder cancer by an astonishing 40 percent. This was discovered by researchers from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo... Pharmaceutical Maker Bristol-Meyers Squibb Pays $150 Million Settlement to SEC to Settle Charges of Accounting Fraud (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In yet more news about the criminal activity of pharmaceutical companies, Bristol-Meyers Squibb has agreed to pay $150 million to settle charges levied by the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bristol-Meyers has agreed to pay a $100 million civil fine and $50 million in other fines in response... Fidolin Drug Approved for Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Doggie Disorder: ADHDD (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Phictitious Pharmaceuticals has received FDA approval for their new drug Fidolin, a psychotropic medication designed to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactive Doggie Disorder (ADHDD). ADHDD is a brain chemistry disorder affecting tens of millions of dogs across America, causing them to be... The FDA, Vioxx, and crimes against humanity (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) I am both shocked and appalled at the recent decision by the FDA advisory panel to re-approve Vioxx and put the stamp of safety on all Cox-2 inhibitors, including Bextra and Celebrex. This vote came immediately after another vote in which the panel nearly unanimously agreed that all of these Cox-2 inhibitors... Dangerous Psych Drugs and Pregnancy: Help Stop the Mothers Act (By Byron J. Richards) The Senate is about to approve legislation Mothers Act – S.1375 (http://www.naturalnews.com/022853.html) which mandates the indoctrination of pregnant and nursing mothers into the use of extremely dangerous psychiatric medication. We already know this class of medication poses serious health risks to... Was Tim Russert Killed by Heart Medication? (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) NBC commentator Tim Russert was taking prescription medications when he suffered a heart attack and died yesterday at the age of 58. The mainstream media is reporting that Russert died from a "heart attack," but no press outlet has yet bothered to ask: "What caused the heart attack?" Nearly... Your Help Needed for North American Launch of Health Ranger Radio Show (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As promised, the Health Ranger radio show is launching March 24th. This is the show that will expand the boundaries of free speech on national radio by daring to tell the truth about natural cures for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other conditions while blatantly calling for criminal... Pharmaceutical companies and the FDA continue to suppress negative information about antidepressant drugs and violent behavior (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As evidence continues to emerge about the correlation between antidepressant drugs and violent behavior, including suicides, new facts are emerging about how the FDA has attempted to cover up this information and prevent the public from learning about it. There's new scrutiny these days as we are learning... Angry lawmakers demand Texas vaccine order be rescinded (By David Gutierrez) Lawmakers and parents have raised objections to Texas Governor Rick Perry's Feb2 executive order, which mandated vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) for all school-age girls. The order directs the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to require that by September 2008... Disease Economy: How the United States economy runs on "treating" chronic disease (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) This is an article about the disease economy. That's a term I coined because I could find no other existing term to describe what I'm observing in our economy today. I call it the disease economy because such a huge percentage of the economic activity and economic growth I see in this country is based... Criminal-minded pharmaceutical industry in the United States intercepts legal prescription drugs being imported from Canada (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The war on drugs has taken a quantum leap to a fascinating new level with the seizure of $250,000 worth of legal prescription drugs entering the country from a Canadian mail-order pharmacy company called CanadaRx. U.S. customs officials alerted the FDA about this shipment and the FDA was called in to... Astaxanthin: The Little-Known Miracle Nutrient for Inflammation, Anti-Aging, Athletic Endurance and More (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Every once in a very great while, I discover a natural medicine so astonishing that I feel compelled to share it with you. The verb "discover" is actually not to my credit, by the way; Mother Nature created this natural medicine eons ago, and it's been present in trace amounts in aquatic... Confessions of a pharmacist: What Big Pharma Won't Tell You about Prescription Drug Safety (Book Review) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Pharmacists are walking encyclopedias of knowledge about the dangers of drugs, but most of them follow a pro-Pharma agenda, so they never reveal the deadly truth about how dangerous these drugs can really be to your health. There's only one pharmacist I've ever met who dares to think... The Health Ranger Answers Common Questions About Nutritional Supplements (transcript) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The following is a transcript of a broadcast of The Health Ranger Show. You can find the downloadable audio of this program here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html What is the biggest myth about nutritional supplements? You've often wondered about that haven't you? There... Pharmaceutical companies want $1.2 billion to treat colon cancer (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Cost of prescription drugs to treat colon cancer are skyrocketing beyond belief. Adding just a few months to patients' lives can cost as much as $31,000 per patient in drug costs alone. And that means big profits for pharmaceutical companies. As always, the American consumer is getting shafted by... Illinois Shooter was Treated with Psych Meds Prior to Shooting Rampage (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) It comes as no surprise to anyone who's been following school shootings all the way back to the Colombine High massacre in Colorado: Every young, male shooter that has gone on a killing spree in the United States also has a history of treatment with psychotropic drugs -- typically SSRI... Big Pharma Synthetic Fish Oil is Not Quite Working as Intended (By Kerri Knox, RN) In the fall of 2005, GlaxoSmithKline released their new "Drug" Lovaza, a synthetic version of the Omega 3 Fatty Acids found in fish oil. But the highly refined oil isn`t performing as well in real life usage as the drug makers had hoped. It`s indication for use in moderately elevated cholesterol... Product review: AstaFactor Salmon Essentials with salmon oil and astaxanthin (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) I'd like to share the news about Mera Pharmaceuticals' AstaFactor Salmon Essentials, an exciting health product that combines potent antioxidants with heart-healthy oils. Salmon Essentials contains purified salmon oil and Astaxanthin, two ingredients that are, in their own right, potent nutritional healing... Where's the health in health care reform? (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In the months and years ahead, you're going to hear a whole lot of talk about health care reform, but most of what you're going to hear is about reform, not health. You see, there's this great lie out there, this huge misconception, this big shell game, where all these politicians and power-hungry people... Michael Moore's "Sicko" documentary project causing preemptive fear among drug companies (By NaturalNews) -- Michael Moore's upcoming 2007 documentary "Sicko" -- aimed at the $1.5 trillion healthcare and pharmaceutical industry -- has mobilized many companies within the medical industry to try to discredit Moore and the film, AdAge.com reports. Moore, who directed such documentaries as... Mass media hypes up statins, calling them wonder drugs while ignoring their dangerous side effects (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The mass media hype about statins has reached stratospheric proportions. USA Today, in this article, calls statins a "wonder drug" and poses the ridiculous question, "Should statins be in every medicine cabinet?" Statins are extremely potent prescription drugs with dangerous side effects that include... Study "Disproving" Mercury-Autism Link Published in Journal with Financial Ties to Vaccine Manufacturers (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 of ads from the very same drug companies that manufacture... Group of doctors accuses drug companies of inventing fictitious diseases to sell more prescription drugs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Royal College of General Practitioners in the U.K. has accused drug companies of inventing fictitious diseases or exaggerating the severity of symptoms in order to boost drug sales. It's being called 'disease mongering' and the college explains that pharmaceutical companies are taking the National... The Marvels of Brown Seaweeds on the Human Body (By Patty Donovan) People have eaten seaweed, sometimes called "sea vegetables" for thousands of years. It is coming under more and more scientific scrutiny and the discoveries are pretty amazing. The mixture of vitamins, minerals and trace elements found in seaweeds so closely resembles that of the human... Drug researchers bastardize nature by using Frankenstein plants to grow pharmaceuticals for profit (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Leave it to western medical researchers to come up with something this freakish: they've figure out a way to genetically modify plants to force them to create chemicals that can be used against rabies, AIDS and, eventually, other diseases. If you're steeped in the world of science and western medicine... A Bombshell Drops on Cholesterol Medication's Glass House (By Byron Richards) It had to happen sooner or later. On October 3, 2006, after extensive review of all studies relating to cholesterol-lowering benefits by statin drugs, scientists reporting in the Annals of Internal Medicine pulled... Codex Alimentarius: Population Control Under the Guise of Consumer Protection (By Dr. Gregory Damato, Ph.D.) Codeath (sorry, I meant Codex) Alimentarius, latin for Food Code, is a very misunderstood organization that most people (including nearly all U.S. congressmen) have never heard of, never mind understand the true reality of this extremely powerful trade organization. From the official Codex... China sentences ex-head of FDA to death over drug company bribes (By Byron Richards) The penalty in China is death, in America it's business as usual. Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of China's FDA, was sentenced to death for accepting $832,000 in drug company bribes and for dereliction of duty. Like China, our country is in the middle of a drug and food safety crisis. Why is FDA Commissioner... Class Action Against Therapeutic Goods Administration for Unfair Targeting of Natural Supplements (By Lynn Berry) Five years ago the TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration) took drastic action against Pan Pharmaceuticals because of the hospitalisation of 19 people who took Travacalm (a travel sickness drug). TGA stripped the company of its licence and ordered a recall of all their products including... Hormone Replacement Therapy Doubles Risk of Breast Cancer, Women Warned to Stop HRT Drugs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Drug companies can no longer deny the science: Breast cancer risk is doubled for women who take conventional Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) drugs. That's the conclusion of a new study conducted at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. There, researchers discovered... Eli Lilly lied about Prozac, hid suicide evidence, charges Harvard psychiatrist (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Eli Lilly treated the American public "like guinea pigs" says Harvard psychiatrist Martin Teicher. He goes on to explain how Eli Lilly was engaged in widespread scientific fraud in the cherry picking of individuals for drug trial results. Basically, if anyone in the drug trial began to show suicidal... Astaxanthin sources revealed: super antioxidant eases arthritis pain, joint pain, sore muscles and protects against heart disease (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Dear NaturalNews readers: As a service to you, I have negotiated substantial discounts on astaxanthin supplements from the top two suppliers in the world: Mera Pharmaceuticals and Cyanotech. Use these discounts codes, shown below, to save a bundle when ordering astaxanthin supplements. (They're... American Medical Association calls for wholesale reforms of the FDA (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) There's a major development unfolding in the world of conventional medicine. As you know, I've been calling for major reform of the FDA for several years. Other pioneering doctors and natural health physicians have been voicing such calls for decades. But recently, the journal of the American Medical... Media Reports on Pharmaceuticals may be Skewed towards Commercial Interests (By Reuben Chow) We are continually, from time to time, informed about how some supposedly independent researchers had in fact received undisclosed payouts from pharmaceutical companies. In more disconcerting news about the undesirable influence of pharmaceutical companies, a review published in the ... Big Pharma May be Handed Blanket Immunity for All Drug Side Effects, Deaths (By David Gutierrez) The Supreme Court may rule that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for dangerous or even deadly side effects from their drugs if those side effects arise from an FDA-approved use. Under a legal argument known as "pre-emption," the FDA's approval of a drug absolves companies of any... Financial Hurricane Warning: How to Protect Yourself from the Global Financial Fallout Now Underway (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) This is a special financial alert for NaturalNews readers. For more than two years, I've warned readers to get out of the housing bubble, steer clear of speculative real estate, offload U.S. dollars and get out of debt. In articles published from 2005 - 2007, I warned of hyperinflation... Antipsychotic drugs cause rapid weight gain, abnormal eating behavior (By David Gutierrez) Researchers may have discovered why certain antipsychotic medications, such as those used to treat schizophrenia, lead to extreme weight gain. A study published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences" suggests that these drugs increase the activity of the enzyme AMPK in... Antidepressant drug causes liver failure, kills patients, but FDA refuses to issue ban (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The antidepressant drug Serzone has killed dozens of people and destroyed normal liver function in at least 90 more, according to Public Citizen, which is petitioning the FDA to ban Serzone. Of course, the FDA is reluctant to pull deadly prescription drugs off the market (even though the agency quickly... Ketek antibiotic to carry black box warning, new use limitations by FDA (By David Gutierrez) The FDA has strengthened its warnings on the controversial antibiotic Ketek and banned the drug's use for treatment of sinusitis and bronchitis. The new move follows a yearlong FDA investigation into the drug's side effects. "FDA has determined that the balance of benefits and risks... Canadians file class action lawsuit against antidepressant drug maker (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Serzone, one of several dangerous antidepressant drugs now available on the market, has killed dozens of patients and injured many more. In Canada, citizens are joining a class action lawsuit against the drug maker. In the U.S., the FDA still refuses to ban Serzone. As well described on ... Thailand challenges Big Pharma, threatens to further override patents to give Thai people more affordable generic medicine (By M. T. Whitney) Thailand has stepped up its challenge to drug companies, saying it will continue to override corporate patents and make generic drugs until the pharmaceutical industry lowers its prices. The south Asian country, which last week broke... FDA Floats Hydroxycut Scare to Discredit Yet Another Supplement Company (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) After tens of millions of doses of Hydroxycut were taken by consumers, one person died. This, along with reports of a few dozen liver-related side effects, caused the FDA to push for an industry-wide recall of virtually all Hydroxycut products. The thinking behind the warning? The risk... Harvard Medical School Professors are Paid Big Bucks by Big Pharma to Push Meds (By David Gutierrez) Pressure is building on Harvard Medical School to better regulate the massive gifts and consulting fees that faculty members regularly receive from drug companies, with increasing attention being drawn to the great potential for conflict of interest in such relationships. "Before coming... Obama Tries to Sneak Major Health Care Reform Into Economic Stimulus Bill (By Byron Richards) Under the cover of emergency economic legislation the front wave of an entire new system of health care is being pushed on Americans. The strategy for this ploy was once explained by Obama's former appointee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, and now exposed tax cheat... The big vitamin scare: American Medical Association claims vitamins may kill you (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The latest round in conventional medicine's ongoing attempts to discredit (and ultimately outlaw) nutritional supplements is found in a highly questionable study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which claims that vitamins actually increase the risk of death... Revealed: The "Secret Language Codes" Used by Doctors and Drug Companies to Manipulate Patients (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Last year, I met a small, frail woman in Los Angeles who approached me after a speech I gave on nutritional cures. In a weak, crackled voice, she told me my speech was all wrong. There were no cures for diabetes or cancer, she said, and I was wrong to give people even a hint of hope at... Boston joins growing list of U.S. cities saving millions each year by buying prescription drugs from Canada (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Boston has now done the math and realized that buying prescription drugs from Canada -- rather than paying sky-high prices under the U.S. drug monopoly -- will save it millions of dollars each year. More and more U.S. cities are doing the same thing: making deals with Canadian pharmaceutical companies... How statin drug makers lie to consumers in magazine ads (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) One of the most important ways for pharmaceutical companies to sell more prescription drugs is to alter the belief systems of patients so that they believe they absolutely need these drugs in order to achieve certain health goals. Here we're going to look at an advertisement for a statin drug that appeared... Lane Labs is latest victim in FDA's war of oppression against nutritional supplements that fight cancer (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) For more than 7 years, Lane Labs has been marketing nutritional supplements to people with various forms of cancer, including skin cancer. Their most popular supplement is called MGN-3, made from a rice bran extract and well-known to boost the function of NK cells in the human immune system. Lane Labs... As the FDA Banned Ephedra, Over-The-Counter Sudafed Fueled Widespread Harm By Providing Raw Materials for Illegal Methamphetamine Labs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The proliferation of methamphetamine labs, also known as "meth labs," is a growing problem in the United States. Not only do these meth labs produce illegal drugs that harm those who choose to take them, these labs also occasionally explode, killing their inhabitants. But one of the most common ingredients... The Tragic Truth behind the Gardasil Nightmare (By Herb Newborg) Why have the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries chosen to experiment with the first ever, large scale application of a new, unproven, genetically modified, inter-species gene mixing vaccine technology on the female youth of an entire generation? Under the ruse of attempting to... Hey, Americans: Are You Suffering from Pervasive Peanut Butter Avoidance Disorder? (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) While American consumers are running scared over the possibility of tainted peanut butter, it's worth pointing out that the number of people sickened by salmonella (529 at last count) is absolutely dwarfed by the number of people harmed or killed by toxic chemicals that are intentionally... Popular Alzheimer's Drug Found to Be All But Worthless in Independent Study (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new independent study, conducted at the University of Birmingham, UK, reveals that a popular prescription drug for Alzheimer's disease, Aricept, offers no real benefit to Alzheimer's patients compared to placebo. And yet, the drug has been approved and heavily marketed based on findings from drug trials... High-dose chemotherapy offers no benefit against breast cancer (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The results are in: high-dose chemotherapy has been proven no better than low-dose chemotherapy in treating breast cancer tumors. Published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, this study shows that poisoning the patient's immune system with extremely toxic chemicals is not an effective way... Antidepressant Paxil found to double the risk of violent behavior (By NaturalNews) New British research has found that users of GlaxoSmithKline's antidepressant drug Paxil were twice as likely to experience violent behavior compared to patients taking placebo. Researchers from Cardiff University in Britain and the Cochrane Centre examined data on Paxil -- or its... Gunpoint medicine: Teenager arrested, jailed for refusing TB treatment at hospital (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Health officials in Lawrenceville, Georgia have arrested and jailed Francisco Santos, a teenager who tried to walk out of a hospital and go home after being diagnosed with TB (tuberculosis). Instead of allowing him to leave the hospital, health authorities arrested and jailed the teen, throwing him in... Big Pharma Whistleblower Awarded $1.6 Million for Exposing Cancer Drug Medicare Fraud (By David Gutierrez) A federal judge has awarded a whistleblower $1.6 million for tipping off federal prosecutors to a scheme by pharmaceutical company Cell Therapeutics to illegally promote unapproved uses of the cancer drug Trisenox. Prosecutors argued against granting whistleblower James Marchese any... JAMA says doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Journal of the American Medical Association is rocking the boat in conventional medicine. An article in JAMA has come up with the suggestion -- aghast! -- that doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies. Most people didn't know that doctors routinely accept bribes (including... Human medical experimentation on children: The exploitation of poor children by Big Pharma (part two) (By Dani Veracity) The crimes committed against children define some of the Holocaust's most morally despicable horrors. In It's My Story, Palmer told Handscomb of the abuses she received as a 13-year-old at Auschwitz. As a result of the damage done to her... The Food Irradiation Plot: Why the USDA Wants to Sterilize Fresh Produce and Turn Live Foods into Dead Foods (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) There's a new plot underway to sterilize your food and destroy the nutritional value of fresh produce. The players in this plot are the usual suspects: The USDA (which backed the "raw" almond sterilization rules now in effect in California) and the American Chemical Society -- a pro-chemical... Celebrity-endorsed ADHD "educational ad" spreads Big Pharma disease mongering across internet (By Ben Kage) On Tuesday, NaturalNews reported that an ad for the ADHD medicine Adderall -- endorsed by "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" star and ADHD sufferer Ty Pennington -- was being prominently displayed on Amazon.com's home page, and invited visitors to participate in a "Amazon survey" to determine how much they... Off-label drug use and the sham of FDA-approved drug safety (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Did you know that many drugs are used legally in the United States today for diseases and conditions they were never approved for? It's called off-label drug use, and it's a common practice that promotes the sale of prescription drugs and circumvents the so-called "gold standard" drug safety procedures... Blood thinner Coumadin gets black box warning over fatal bleeding side effect (By Jessica Fraser) U.S. health officials announced on Friday that drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb has added a black box warning to its blood-thinning drug Coumadin warning of possible "major or fatal bleeding." According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Coumadin -- known generically as warfarin... Marijuana under attack for causing memory problems, say forgetful drug researchers (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Medical researchers are once again warning about the long-term memory effects of smoking marijuana. Toking on the herb for decades apparently makes your memory, well, dopey. That is, if you believe the study which was based on 40 people found in a drug rehabilitation program who said they only smoked... Unanswered Questions Remain Regarding BTC Pharmaceuticals (By Teri Lee Gruss) Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Director of Health Research at Public Citizen, recently called for more time, research and input regarding the FDA proposal to create a third class of drugs to be sold behind the counter (BTC) by pharmacists. Public Citizen is a national nonprofit consumer... Bush Administration Censors Scientists In Order to Promote A Distorted, Politically Motivated Scientific View (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Bush administration has gone to great lengths to influence the voice of the scientific community. In a clear case of politics attempting to direct science, the U.S. government has now imposed limits on which scientists can speak to the World Health Organization. The new rules require scientists to... Vioxx found to be the single most dangerous cox-2 inhibitor drug, yet FDA publicly defends it (By NaturalNews) According to two new studies on the safety of NSAIDs, Vioxx may have been the most dangerous drug in the history of that class of drugs. Vioxx's closest competitors -- Bextra and Celebrex -- were also closely scrutinized in the wake of heightened cardiovascular risks associated with... September: A Banner Month for Drug Industry Crime (By Herb Newborg) September was a banner month for settlements by drug companies and medical device manufacturers for criminal activity in the United States, but not because of any effort by the FDA who is charged with regulating the drug and medical device industry. These cases were largely the result of... Review of scientific journals shows steadily increasing conflict of interest in funding of drug trials (By Jessica Fraser) When scientific research appears in a peer-reviewed journal, readers are supposed to be able to trust that the research is honest, unbiased and accurate -- especially when it concerns prescription drug safety. Thus, when journalists at mainstream news publications in turn relay that scientific research... Experts say antidepressant drugs cause suicides instead of preventing them (By Dani Veracity) In June 2001, a jury in Wyoming determined that the antidepressant drug Paxil caused a man to kill his wife, daughter and granddaughter before killing himself. The jury awarded the surviving family $8 million in damages, according to American Medical Publishing's Prescription Medicines, Side Effects... Celebrex doubles risk of heart attacks, has 'no role' in treating colon cancer (By NaturalNews) Two different three-year studies determined that although the Cox-2 painkiller Celebrex slightly lowers the occurrence of pre-cancerous polyps, it more than doubles the risk of serious heart problems. The larger of the two studies -- conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women's... Nurses launch national "Scrubs for SiCKO" campaign to endorse universal health care following Michael Moore's film (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Starting June 29th, the launch day of the SiCKO documentary, nurses, doctors and other health care practitioners are launching a national campaign to urge support for a shift to a universal health care system. They'll be handing out flyers and recruiting people to support a campaign to shift America... Extreme drug-resistant TB poised to become global pandemic; pharmaceuticals deemed useless (By NaturalNews) The head of the World Health Organization's tuberculosis resistance team, Dr. Paul Nunn, announced yesterday that new strains of the disease that are immune to modern drug treatments are cropping up across the globe. It was only by coincidence that Harvard sent scientists to determine... Health Freedom Candidate Ron Paul Raises $6 Million in Record-Setting Online Boston Tea Party (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Rep. Ron Paul, the only 2008 presidential candidate who supports honest health freedom reforms and the ending of Big Pharma's monopoly over medical free speech, raised more than $6 million in yesterday's record-breaking online "Boston Tea Party" event. Nearly 25,000 of the donors were new... California doctor made nude photograph collection of unconscious patients, used pharmaceuticals to wipe their memories (By Jerome Douglas) A California doctor has been accused of battering two men in his home in addition to taking nude photographs of unconscious male patients who visited his private practice in Dublin, California. Dr. Tony Shiu disappeared after the warrant was issued and has not been seen since. When... Children as Big Pharma Guinea Pigs: 98 Percent of Drug Trials on Children Have no Safety Checks (By David Gutierrez) Fewer than 2 percent of drug trials conducted on children have independent safety advisory boards, a review published in the journal Acta Paediatrica has found. Researchers from Nottingham University reviewed reports on 739 international drug trials that had been published between... "Miracle" cancer drug Glivec found to cause heart cell death, heart failure (By NaturalNews) A study of targeted cancer therapy Glivec (Imantinib mesylate) found that the treatment could cause heart failure, and moreover, could indicate side effect issues for other targeted therapies. The FDA approved Glivec in May of 2001 after 11 weeks of consideration -- the fastest review... FDA Sleeps While Common Medications Poison the Elderly (By Byron Richards) 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 from serious scientific deficiencies and is not... Forced Vaccinations = Crimes Against Children (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Public Health Council in New Jersey has voted to require all children attending preschool or daycare to be injected with not just one vaccine, but four different vaccines. If this rule goes into effect -- and political momentum is certainly in its favor -- New Jersey would be the first... Beta-blocker drugs found to promote diabetes (By NaturalNews) New UK research indicates that taking beta-blocker drugs to treat high blood pressure can increase the risk of developing diabetes by 50 percent, compared to newer drugs. Researchers from Imperial College London studied 14,000 blood pressure patients in the UK, Ireland and Scandanavia... Drug reps use psychological tactics to successfully influence doctors' prescribing habits (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical companies spend more than $15 billion each year promoting prescription drugs in the United States. One-third of that amount is spent on "detailing" -- an industry term for drug company representatives' one-on-one promotion to doctors. A paper published April 24, 2007 in the Public... Former FDA Deputy Commissioner Gottlieb Now Pushing Big Pharma Drugs (By David Gutierrez) Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA Deputy Commissioner for medical and scientific affairs, is now actively involved in the marketing of Eli Lilly's drug raloxifene, marketed as Evista. Due to his Wall Street connections with the pharmaceutical industry, Gottlieb frequently had to recuse... Big Pharma / FDA revving up male osteoporosis drug push (By NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new drug manufactured by Proctor & Gamble Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi-Aventis to treat male osteoporosis. The drug -- Actonel (risedronate sodium) -- is already widely prescribed to treat post-menopausal osteoporosis in women... Big Pharma "Doomed" if it Doesn't Change, Says Eli Lilly Chairman (By David Gutierrez) With patents set to expire on major products and no new blockbusters on the horizon, the pharmaceutical industry must adapt or die, the chairman of Eli Lilly & Co. has said. "I think the industry is doomed if we don't change," said Sidney Taurel. The expiration of patents on top moneymaking... This July 4th, declare your independence from America's failed health care system (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Independence Day is a wonderful holiday. It's a time to remember the great success America's forefathers (and mothers) achieved in gaining freedom from tyrannical rule. This July 4th, whether you live in America or not, I encourage you to continue the great tradition of rejecting tyranny and embracing... Common antibiotics cause tendon ruptures; Public Citizen demands black box warnings (By NaturalNews) In response to reported cases of tendon ruptures associated with fluoroquinolone antibiotics, consumer group Public Citizen petitioned the FDA this week to require a black box warning about the side effect rather than the current warning, which the group claims is buried in a list of possible... Britain’s largest pharmaceutical company concealed clinical test results that suggested Paxil unsafe, says BBC (By Beau Hodai) The BBC television series Panorama accused pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline this week of covering test results that link the antidepressant, Paxil, with increased suicidal tendencies in teens. Paxil, Seroxat or Paroxetine, as the drug is generically known, is a selective serotonin... The forced poisoning of Abraham Cherrix, the tyranny of modern medicine, and state-sponsored assaults on health freedom (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Across the nation, an increasing number of families are having their lives destroyed by the greed and arrogance of conventional medicine and its toxic cancer treatments. Families are arrested at gunpoint, jailed, prosecuted and separated from their children by Child Protective Services, all due to the... Treating high cholesterol? Statin drugs can cause devastating side effects (By Alexis Black) Statin drugs, which promise to reduce the levels of bad (LDL) cholesterol in the body while improving the levels of good (HDL) cholesterol, are the fastest-growing class of prescription drugs in the world, but increasing evidence shows they may not be safe, and Canadian health officials are warning that... Brand-name drug prices rise faster than inflation (By Jerome Douglas) The prices of brand-name prescription drugs used by older Americans continue to increase, while generic drugs used by the same age group remain relatively unchanged in price, according to the AARP's quarterly Rx Watchdog Report. The report listed 200 brand-name prescription drugs that... U.S. pharmacies make tragic medication mistakes that injure or kill U.S. consumers; but FDA keeps warning us about Canada (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Walgreen's has been ordered to pay $21 million to the family of a girl who was mistakenly given the wrong prescription drug at a Walgreen's pharmacy. The girl cannot walk or feed herself and was born prematurely. Not surprisingly, the girl is on several medications, and when one prescription was filled... Tamiflu drug made with cocktail of chemical ingredients, linked with bizarre behavior (By Ben Kage) According to a list compiled by Dr. Patricia Doyle at rense.com, a host of strange ingredients are used to make up Hoffman-La Roche's anti-flu drug Tamiflu, which has recently been connected with bizarre behavior, mostly in children. Patients using Tamiflu -- which many nations are... National Paxil Protest invites antidepressant drugs victims to join public outcry against GlaxoSmithKline (By Dani Veracity) Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is about to receive a few unhappy visitors with some hefty demands. On September 26, consumer activists and survivors of the drug company's popular antidepressant Paxil will converge on GSK's Philadelphia headquarters to demand the company come clean about the... Introducing nine new made-up diseases for drug companies to exploit with mind-altering drugs (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As the drug companies are running out of real diseases to boost their pharmaceutical sales, they're increasingly inventing new, fictitious diseases in order to scare people into thinking they have some sort of disorder or dysfunction. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is perhaps the best... Anemia drug found to cause fatal heart attacks and strokes (By Jerome Douglas) This week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned doctors not to excessively boost patients' red blood cell counts with anti-anemia drugs. This came after the publication of a clinical trial earlier in the week that found exceeding the FDA's dosing recommendations regarding anti... Crushing pharmaceutical pills to make them easier to swallow increases their danger (By Jerome Douglas) If you're used to crushing prescription drug pills to make them easier to swallow or ingest, you may be doing more harm than good, warns a new report from medical experts. According to David Wright -- who led the study -- crushing pills to make them easier to swallow can cause serious... Taking Paxil during pregnancy causes heart defects in fetuses, warn obstetricians (By Jessica Fraser) Pregnant women and those who might become pregnant should avoid taking the antidepressant Paxil because of a high risk of birth defects, according to a committee of obstetricians who published their opinion yesterday in the December issue of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. The... Bipolar drug Lamictal tied to birth defects when used by expectant mothers (By Jessica Fraser) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that expectant mothers taking GlaxoSmithKline's epilepsy and bipolar disorder drug Lamictal could experience a higher rate of birth defects than women not taking the drug. A recent registry of 564 pregnant women who took Lamictal... FDA, FTC have joined forces to remove natural diabetes treatments from the web using campaign of "threat letters," says health advocate (By Ben Kage) According to a newsletter on the FDA website, the agency has teamed up with the Federal Trade Commission and similar agencies in Canada and Mexico to form the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN), in order to quash "deceptive" internet ads for cures or treatments... Why is Fido dead? Prescription drugs are killing dogs, too (By Ben Kage) The FDA has released information concerning non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for pets -- including Metacam, Deramaxx, Previcox and Rimadyl -- that shows they have been connected to 22,000 cases of illness in dogs, almost 3,000 of which were fatal. The drug makers maintain their... Ambien sleeping pills linked to bizarre sleep walking behavior, including unconscious driving of vehicles and wild hallucinations (By Dani Veracity) Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed: "So do you use sleeping tablets to organize yourself?" Colin Powell: "Yes. Well, I wouldn't call them that. They're a wonderful medication -- not medication. How would you call it? They're called Ambien, which is very good. You don't use Ambien? Everybody... Doctors prescribing antidepressants, antipsychotic medications to infants under the age of one, says psychiatrist (By Ben Kage) According to Dr. Yolande Lucire, a forensic psychicatrist based in New South Wales, Australia, doctors are giving children younger than 1 year of age prescriptions for atypical antipsychotics -- a class of narcotics used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar mania, psychotic agitation and other... New diabetes drug causes weight gain, bone fractures (By Jessica Fraser) According to a new study published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, GlaxoSmithKline's new Avandia diabetes drug delays the progression of type 2 diabetes in newly diagnosed patients, but may cause serious side effects, including heart problems, bone fractures and weight gain... New Antidepressant Drug Approved, But It's All About Profits, Not Helping Patients (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The FDA has now approved Eli Lilly's new drug, Cymbalta, for treatment of depression. The new drug is expected to generate peak annual sales of about $2 billion, and is being described as a "much-needed boon for Eli Lilly after the sales of its former top-selling antidepressant Prozac fell due to generic... Parkinson's drugs found to pose severe risk of damage to heart valves (By Ben Kage) New research published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that two drugs prescribed for Parkinson's disease might have much greater risks for heart valve damage than previously thought. In the first study, researchers from the Instituti Clinici di Perfezionamento in Milan... Brain bleeding from use of anticoagulant increasing since the 1990s, researchers report (By Ben Kage) According to an article in the Jan. 9 issue of Neurology, brain bleeding associated with the blood thinner warfarin -- also known as Coumadin -- increased roughly 500 percent in the 1990s, and by an even greater degree in patients aged 80 and up. Warfarin is often prescribed to prevent... Cold medications proving deadly to infants (By Jessica Fraser) Over-the-counter cold and cough medicines can injure or even kill children younger than 2, according to a new study appearing in the Jan. 12 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the CDC. Three infants from 1 month old to 6 months old died in 2005 after being... Study shows alarming spike in prescription drug deaths at the beginning of each month (By Ben Kage) David Phillips, Ph.D., has conducted a number of studies on mortality in his career, but one of the most recent has gained significant attention, as it shows the rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs climbs roughly 25 percent at the beginning of each month. The study is notable not only for its... Ritalin stunts growth of children; long-term risk to children's health unknown (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) New research published in the August, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds that Ritalin, the amphetamine drug used to treat a fictitious medical disorder labeled Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, stunts the growth of children... Congressional Birdbrains - Your Health at Risk (By Byron Richards) On Monday, Sept 29, the American public witnessed firsthand the utter ineptitude of the United States House of Representatives, hitting Main Street directly in the pocketbook. While leaders try to figure a way out of an impending economic crisis, it is now clear for everyone to finally... Supreme Court Shields Medical Device Manufacturers from Consumer Lawsuits (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 when a balloon catheter made by Medtronic Inc.... AstraZeneca Suppressed Information about Seroquel Link to Diabetes, Told Sales Reps to Lie (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Drug maker AstraZeneca, seller of the Seroquel antipsychotic drug, suppressed clinical studies showing its drug significantly increased the risk of diabetes, say internal e-mails. As Bloomberg is reporting today (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aS_.NqzMArG8&refer=home... Low Cholesterol Increases Cancer and Death Risk (By Byron Richards) In a major shot fired across the bow of the statin marketing machine, the levels of LDL cholesterol that are the artificial targets of "health" promoted by the American Heart Association (AHA) are now found to be associated with a significant increased risk of cancer and death. The AHA... Insulin, Leptin, and Blood Sugar – Why Diabetic Medication Fails (By Byron Richards) Type II diabetes is a difficult metabolic problem. It is a national embarrassment that so many of our young people are becoming type II diabetic. It is a national disgrace that millions of type II diabetic patients are being injured with commonly used diabetic medications that are known... Tony Snow Dies Following Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) To anyone keeping count, the number of high-profile personalities and celebrities dying while under the care of conventional doctors and oncologists is truly staggering. Some of the more notable deaths in recent memory include actor Heath Ledger's death following the consumption of doctor... FDA Declares Form of Vitamin B6 a Drug, Effectively Banning Pyridoxamine from Dietary Supplements (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The FDA has effectively banned a naturally-occurring form of vitamin B6 called pyridoxamine by declaring it to be a drug, reports the American Association for Health Freedom. Responding to a petition filed by a drug company, the FDA declared pyridoxamine to be "a new drug... Sign the Petition to Investigate Gardasil Vaccine Deaths Now (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Gardasil HPV vaccine may be harming countless young girls (and even boys) right now. But Merck doesn't want to investigate the true safety concerns of Gardasil, which has been linked to worrisome reports of dangerous side effects and even the deaths of teenage girls who receive the... Hepatitis B Vaccine: Good for 'Newborn' Prostitutes and Drug Users, but Who Else? (By Dr. Gregory Damato, Ph.D.) The Hepatitis B (Hep B) vaccine is considered one of the most controversial vaccines in the pediatric vaccination schedule. Why are we giving it to newborns and what are the adverse reactions associated with such an early vaccination? What is Hep B? Hep B is a very rare disease... The false gods of scientific medicine revealed: It's a cult, not a science (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Promoters of conventional medicine claim that all the drug marketing, FDA approvals, surgical procedures, chemotherapy and all other treatments are based on "hard science." The term "science" is invoked with hilarious frequency: Science journals, science-based medicine, proven medical science and so... Oprah's Thyroid Problem Explained (By Byron Richards) Oprah is creating a lot of buzz after gaining forty pounds and simultaneously claiming she solved her thyroid problem. Her statements sent internet bloggers into a frenzy. How did she get off her thyroid medication? Did she really solve her thyroid problem? Isn't this just a temporary... Health Freedom Groups Join in Launch of Grassroots Health Revolution Petition (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new petition calling for revolutionary health care reforms and health freedoms was launched today at www.HealthRevolutionPetition.org The petition -- which is endorsed by NaturalNews, the Organic Consumers Association, the Life Extension Foundation, the American Association for Health... The latest U.S. health safety distraction ploy: Blame China! (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) U.S. health and safety officials have found yet another brilliant way to distract the public from realizing just how dangerous U.S.-made food and drug products are: Blame China! Lately, we've seen China blamed for everything from toxic toothpaste, deadly dog food, contaminated ginger and now lead-based... Lipitor Spokesman Dr. Jarvik Investigated by Congress (By Teri Lee Gruss) On January 7th, 2008 the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations sent a letter to Pfizer, Inc. CEO Jeffrey Kindler regarding the direct to consumer (DTC) advertising Lipitor campaign featuring Dr. Robert Jarvik. Anyone... NCI's Flawed SELECT Study Attacks Vitamin E (By Byron Richards) The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) SELECT study (Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial) for prostate cancer in men was halted this week after initial data analysis showed that selenium and vitamin E, taken alone or together for an average of five years, did not prevent prostate... A Listing of the Twenty-One Fabricated Studies by Dr. Scott Reuben (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The health community is up in arms over the discovery that a highly-respected and influential clinical researcher, Dr. Scott Reuben, fabricated the data used in over twenty pharmaceutical studies published in peer-reviewed medical journals. Read the full NaturalNews report on this topic... HR 875 Could Result in Arrest, Imprisonment of CEOs of Processed Food Companies (if enforced) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The health-conscious community is rightly concerned over the pending passage of HR 875, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, which hammers small family farms with a whole new level of tyranny and oppression. The proposed law is chock full of ominous-sounding text that would... Natural Vitamin E Dramatically Reduces Heart Disease (By Byron Richards) A new randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled cardiovascular study evaluating natural vitamin E, synthetic vitamin C, and synthetic beta-carotene has shown that natural vitamin E reduced cardiovascular death or serious cardiovascular disease by a statistically significant 13%, the primary end point... Suicide Link to Acne Drug Officially Established (By Michael Jolliffe) A clear chemical link has been established between the acne drug Roaccutane and the history of depression and suicide associated with its usage, according to researchers at the University of Bath. Writing in the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine a team of scientists... Girl Dies After HPV Jab - CDC Blames Birth Control Pills (By Joanne Waldron) Some people may remember the article about young Brittany who became paralyzed shortly after receiving the HPV vaccine. However, Brittany is not the only young girl to experience such a problem. A fourteen-year-old girl named Jessica had... Health Freedom Warning: Drug Company Seeks to Outlaw Vitamin B6 to Protect Pharma Profits (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Big Pharma is constantly finding new ways to destroy the natural supplements market, in much the same way that the American Medical Association once sought to destroy the chiropractic industry (for which it was later found guilty of conspiracy in U.S. courts, by the way). The latest attack... Did Statin Drugs Cause Senator Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor? (By Byron Richards) Legions of well wishers look on as Senator Ted Kennedy struggles for his life, fighting against one of the most difficult types of brain tumors. Few men have had such an impact on the laws made in the United States. As a powerful member of the Senate HELP committee Kennedy has been a... Suzy Cohen, the 24-Hour Pharmacist, Reveals Shocking Dangers of Medications in Exclusive Audio Interview (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Suzy Cohen, author of The 24-Hour Pharmacist, and a nationally-syndicated columnist for the "Dear Pharmacist" column (www.DearPharmacist.com) has revealed startling details about the dangers of pharmaceuticals in an exclusive interview with the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews... The HPV Vaccine: Herd Immunity or Human Sacrifice? (By Joanne Waldron) Reports of adverse reactions to the new HPV vaccine are escalating. One particularly heart-wrenching example is the story of an active 12-year-old little girl named Brittany who recently lost all feeling in her leg and collapsed two weeks after receiving the Gardasil vaccine. Although she... Western Medicine Fails Tim Russert (By Byron Richards) 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 in treating coronary artery disease. These articles... FDA Approves Prescription Proton Pump Inhibitor Drug for 1-11 Year Olds (By Teri Lee Gruss) The FDA recently approved the short term use of the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drug Nexium for children one to eleven years old for the treatment of GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease. Paradoxically, (www.worstpills.org) , the Health Research Group of Public Citizen recently issued a... Survey: 98% Say Parents Should Have Right to Refuse Vaccination of Children (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A public survey posted on NaturalNews.com reveals that 98% of survey participants (1919 out of 1954) believe that parents should have the right to refuse vaccinations for their children. The online survey was conducted from April 6 to April 8, and survey respondents were self-selected.... Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs" (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end game. A new FDA "guidance" document, published on the FDA's website, reveals plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetable juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage oils and massage rocks will be classified as "medical... Walgreens Mistakenly Replaced Prenatal Vitamins with Chemotherapy Drugs, Lawsuit Alleges (By David Gutierrez) A couple from St. Louis has filed a wrongful death and medical malpractice lawsuit against Walgreen Co. after Chanda Givens had her prescription for prenatal vitamins filled instead with a chemotherapy drug that caused her to miscarry. Givens became pregnant in February and was given... The week in review: Questions and answers on health freedom, the FDA and more (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) I wanted to publish a personal thank you to all the readers and supporters who have read and responded to this week's articles on health freedom, the FDA, the covert attacks on NaturalNews and natural medicine in general. You are a sharp group of thoughtful, skeptical readers, and the comments you've... Natural Products Association Issues Disinfo Announcement over Dietary Supplements and Swine Flu (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The natural products industry leaders are engaged in a clever "disinfo" campaign to brainwash people into thinking that herbs and nutritional products are useless for defending against swine flu. Today, the Natural Products Association (NPA), Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and... Fosamax Linked to Serious Abnormal Bone Fractures (By Byron J. Richards) On March 20, 2008, The New England Journal of Medicine published a physician group report of 15 women taking Fosamax who experienced "atypical low-energy fractures," which means their bones broke doing almost nothing – a serious kind of injury typically seen in very elderly individuals in declining health... Darth Vader, the FDA, and the Empire of Modern Medicine (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) When studying the actions of the FDA, the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society and the behavior of doctors, medical journals and drug companies, the phrase "evil empire" quickly comes to mind. Modern medicine is a medical racket, a drug monopoly and disease treatment scam that has... U.S. drug companies defrauded Medicare with price fixing scheme, rules judge (By David Gutierrez) 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 lawsuit against AstraZeneca, Bristol-Meyers Squibb... Health Ranger Reveals the Five Most Powerful Anti-Viral Remedies for Influenza and Swine Flu in Free Report (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Health Ranger, a proponent of nutritional education for the public, has overcome the censorship efforts of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and published a free, non-commercial guide that reveals five powerful anti-viral remedies that can help protect people from influenza pandemics... The Poisoning of America's Water Supplies (By Mark Sircus Ac., OMD) Every day in the United States more than 240 million people turn on their faucets in order to drink, bathe, and cook, using water from public water systems. But more people are arriving to the point where they will not let a drop of water touch their lips in their own homes unless that water... Top Psychiatric Researcher Dr. Biederman Caught Lying about $1.6 Million in Drug Money; Performed Medical Experiments on Children (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 diagnosis of pediatric bipolar disorder from... CNN Helps Autism Debacle Blow Up in Government's Face; Vaccine-Autism Link No Longer in Question (By Byron Richards) On April 2, 2008 CNN spent the day bringing awareness to the problem of autism. Larry King's segment, which included Jenny McCarthy along with a panel of guests, was particularly enlightening. My hat is off to Jenny, a celebrity mother who is making it quite uncomfortable for the Center... UK to Mandate HPV Vaccinations for Schoolgirls (By J. R. Schaumloeffel) British Department of Health (DoH) approved the mandatory vaccination of schoolgirls against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) which is supposedly responsible for causing cervical cancer. The series of three vaccinations are required for girls aged 12 to 13 years old beginning in 2008 with an... FDA's own scientists report pattern of intimidation, censorship and scientific fraud that undermines public safety (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In a truly astonishing survey just released by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Food and Drug Administration's own scientists describe the agency as an environment of intimidation, censorship and scientific fraud... Omaha Shooter Robert Hawkins Had Been "Treated" For ADHD, Depression (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) America seems shocked that, yet again, a young male would pick up an assault rifle and murder his fellow citizens, then take his own life. This is what happened last night in Omaha, Nebraska, where the 19-year-old Hawkins killed himself and eight other people with an assault rifle. Those... Medication errors harm 1.5 million Americans each year, reveals IOM report (By NaturalNews) A new report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reveals that at least 1.5 million Americans are made sick, injured, or killed every year by errors in prescribing or administering medication. The IOM report, which was requested by Congress in 2003, concluded that drug mistakes in hospitals... The collapse of health and the downfall of the U.S. economy (preview) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new economic study by the U.S. government reveals that health care spending is rising so rapidly in the United States that in less than ten years, it will represent 20% of the domestic economy. That's an astonishing $1 out of every $5 in economic productivity, almost all of which is based on treating... Cancer patient killed by massive chemotherapy drugs administered with an automatic pump (By NaturalNews) Alberta Cancer Board official Dr. Tony Fields apologized Thursday to the family of a woman who died last week from massive overdose of the chemotherapy drug 5-fluorouracil, which led to multiple organ failure and internal bleeding. Two nurses -- described by Fields as very experienced... Join the Ron Paul Revolution to Restore Health Freedom to America (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) It wasn't long ago that I thought Ron Paul was a long shot candidate for president. But now, thanks to a groundswell of support from intelligent people all across the nation, Ron Paul is suddenly in the running. While the mainstream media continues to attack Paul and make it look like he... Governor of Wisconsin Posts Website That Encourages Citizens to Buy Prescription Drugs From Canada (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Neither the FDA nor the pharmaceutical industry in the United States can stand the fact that the governor of the state of Wisconsin has put a prescription drug resource center online that encourages citizens to buy their prescription drugs from Canada at... Heath Ledger - Tragedy, with Controversy to Follow (By Byron Richards) The entertainment community is in shock over the loss of a rising star. Heath Ledger, dead at the age of 28, apparently from an accidental overdose of medication. Autopsy results have been delayed for 10 days, but enough information has already become public to understand what likely took place. Heath... Epilepsy and Psychiatric Drugs like Neurontin Double Risk of Suicidal Behavior (By David Gutierrez) The FDA issued a warning on earlier this year that anti-epileptic drugs double the risk of suicidal thoughts among people that take them, regardless of whether they are used as a treatment for epilepsy or other conditions. Anti-epileptics, also known as anticonvulsants, are taken by... TeenScreen - Normal Kids Labeled Mentally Ill (By Evelyn Pringle) Despite years of public outcry, based on recommendations by President Bush's New Freedom Commission to screen all school children for mental illness, TeenScreen is now being administered in the nation's public school system and children are being regularly diagnosed with one, or more, disorders chosen... Medical researchers remain baffled at attempts to treat obesity with appetite suppressing hormones like PYY (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Scientists remain baffled at attempts to treat obesity by administering hormones such as PYY, which reportedly function as appetite suppressants. In 2002, researchers from London reported that they had found a way to turn off the appetite signal by administering the PYY hormone, which appears to tell... Vioxx heart risk starts earlier than previously reported; New England Journal of Medicine publishes corrections to previous Vioxx research (By NaturalNews) -- Editors at the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) have published a correction to previous research on Merck's painkiller Vioxx. The correction reveals that the heart risks associated with the drug begin much earlier than Merck previously claimed. The journal issued an online... Vytoringate Builds Steam - Folic Acid Ignored (By Byron Richards) The Wall Street Journal now calls it Vytoringate - one of the biggest drug frauds in history. Merck and Schering-Plough sat on bad drug trial results of their cholesterol drug and raked in close to 10 billion dollars selling snake oil. The drug in question, Vytorin, was supposed to prove it could reduce... Vaccination Programs Under Scrutiny (Part 3) (By Andreas Moritz) Vaccines are composed of protein, bacterial and viral material, as well as preservatives, neutralizers, and carrying agents. The vaccine against bacterial meningitis is made from the brains and heart of cows among other highly toxic components. Alarmed by the outbreak of mad cow's disease... Heath Ledger Cause of Death Confirmed: Prescription Drug Toxicity (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Toxicology tests have now confirmed the cause of Heath Ledger's death. He was killed by a deadly combination of FDA-approved medications prescribed to him by his doctors. The drugs found in Ledger's system were OxyContin (a painkiller), Valium, Xanax (an antidepressant), Restoril, Unisom... Government's Medicare drug benefit program is an unmitigated disaster (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Do you want to know what happens when a government that cares nothing about the people gets put in charge of administering a drug benefit program? You get an unmitigated disaster, and that's what we're seeing today with the Medicare prescription drug benefit program. This program, which is just legalized... Drug trial victims will likely die of cancer, investigation concludes (By NaturalNews) An independent study of the six victims of the TGN1412 drug trial has found that the men will likely die of cancer. The London drug trial resulted in the hospitalization and near-death of six volunteers in March of this year. Professor Richard Powell of Nottingham University says... Big Pharma: The Somali Pirates of Healthcare Who Hijack Your Health to Extract Profits (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As the world's attention is now fixated on the Somali pirates who hijacked the Maersk Alabama ship in their quest for profits, it's fascinating to watch the circus of the American justice system attempt to enforce U.S. laws in a lawless region off the coast of Somalia. Abduwali Muse... Common painkillers taken by expectant mothers linked to congenital defects in newborns (By NaturalNews) New research published in the September issue of the journal Birth Defects Research Part B found that pregnant women who take NSAIDs -- non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs -- in the first trimester run an increased risk of having a child with congenital birth defects, particularly heart... Bernie Mac - Death by Medicine? (By Byron Richards) Before the dust settles on the Bernie Mac tragedy it is important for everyone to understand two things: 1) It is abnormal to die from pneumonia at age 50. And 2) There are millions of Americans with autoimmune problems of one type or another at risk for the same fate as Bernie Mac. Conspicuously... FDA acquiring new powers to suppress alternative health (By Byron Richards) Part 1 of Byron Richards' "Understanding the Threat to Dietary Supplements." Your right to have free access to safe and highly effective dietary supplements is under an intense multi-pronged FDA attack. On May 14, 2007 the Supreme Court sided with the FDA by deciding not to hear the case of... Health officials launch the great statin marketing con by announcing that tens of millions of people suddenly need lower cholesterol (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) It's the pharmaceutical industry's marketing hype machine in full action: a new announcement that all of a sudden everybody should pursue drastically lower cholesterol levels. Previously, the recommended level was 130. Now it's suddenly 100, and can you guess what people are being urged to do in order... Diet Pill Supplement Scam: Two-Thirds of Hoodia Gordonii Pills Sold In the United States Are Counterfeit (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As part of an ongoing investigation into Hoodia Gordonii supplements sold around the world, Truth Publishing has now learned that eleven out of seventeen brand-name hoodia supplements have failed a laboratory analysis of authenticity. The laboratory tests, conducted by Alkemist Pharmaceuticals in Costa... Bernie Mac Another Casualty of Conventional Medicine? (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The number of famous people dying at the hands of conventional medical doctors is increasing at an alarming rate. Today comedian Bernie Mac (best known for appearing in Oceans Eleven and The Bernie Mac Show) died following hospitalization and treatment for pneumonia. At the... Five U.S. Rivers Tainted with Pharmaceutical and Chemical Residues (By Louis Lazaris) Fish from 5 effluent-heavy rivers in various parts of the U.S. have been found to be tainted with residues from human medications and common chemicals, according to the results of a study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Baylor University. The study's findings were presented... John Hammell of International Advocates for Health Freedom discusses health freedom under siege; Part 2 (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) This is part two of an interview of International Advocates for Health Freedom President John Hammell, conducted by Mike Adams. Click here to read part one. Mike: If this AER [Adverse Events Reporting] legislation goes through -- and... Doctors, American Medical Association hawked cigarettes as healthy for consumers (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Despite its stated mission, "To promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health," the American Medical Association (AMA) has taken many missteps in protecting the health of the American people. One of the most striking examples is the AMA's long-term relationship with the... After a cancer diagnosis: Crucial questions to consider about chemotherapy vs. naturopathic cancer treatments (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) It is widely known that an increasing number of consumers are turning to alternative medicine for treatment for diseases like cancer, depression, diabetes, heart disease and so on. What are generally not known are the circumstances under which many consumers make this switch from conventional to alternative... Popular diabetes drug useless, even harmful, for diabetics, study suggests (By Ben Kage) A recent study notes the diabetes drug pioglitazone (Actos) has no clear-cut benefit for patients with type 2 diabetes, and may even be harmful to users. The scientists analyzed data from 22 clinical trials involving 6,200 patients who were prescribed pioglitazone -- a member of the... Health officials call for access to unpublished studies during drugs trials (By Jerome Douglas) A recent drug trial that almost killed six volunteers is being investigated by volunteers who are intent on preventing a repeat of the near-tragedy. The volunteer scientists are part of a group of British-government appointees led by Professor Gordon Duff. The group has called for... Why organized medicine wants to outlaw nutrition and turn healers into criminals (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) How about some truth for a change about the Food Supplements Directive in the European Union? The proponents of this directive say that it's about protecting patients from all these dangerous vitamins, minerals, supplements, plant extracts and antioxidants that are so dangerous for people. They say,... Is Diabetes Caused by Pharmaceuticals? (By Heidi Stevenson) On July 31st, Patrick Bills filed a lawsuit against Bristol-Myers Squibb claiming that its drug, Tequin, the brand name of gatafloxacin, caused his diabetes. The New England Journal of Medicine reported on March 30, 2006 that gatifloxacin causes both hypo- and hyperglycemia... Calcium Bentonite Clay: Safe Protection from Environmental Toxins (By Cheryl McCoy) During the past few months, there has been an outbreak of reports of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and toxins being found in our water supply, our food, our air, our soil....just about everything we come in contact with it seems. But, armed with the proper information, there`s no... Dead Doctors Paid Millions by Medicare to Practice Medicine Beyond the Grave (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Conventional medicine has a brilliant new career strategy for ambitious professionals: Earn money even after you're dead! As revealed in a new congressional investigation, Medicare has paid out 478,500 claims on health services to doctors who died before they performed such services. Say... Cancer drugs cause serious heart damage in nearly 75 percent of long-term patients (By NaturalNews) Dutch researchers from the University of Groningen have found that anti-cancer drugs such as anthracyclines not only damage the heart, but continue to worsen the heart over time. According to the researchers' study in the Annals of Oncology, doctors already knew that anthracyclines... Book Review: The Ultramind Solution by Dr. Mark Hyman Teaches Consumers How to Beat Depression, Anxiety and Brain Fog (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Dr. Mark Hyman has done it again, nailing the solutions for a common set of health challenges facing the population today. His newest book, The UltraMind Solution delivers a powerful nutrition-oriented solution for depression, anxiety, mood and cognitive function. What's important... Are You Ready for 2009? Top Ten Checklist for Health and Wealth Preparedness (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As the new year rolls in, the mainstream media seems to be saying now that 2008 is over, things will automatically get better for the economy. "Good bye 2008!" say the headlines. And "Hello New Year!" The trouble is, in Washington D.C. there have been no decisions made whatsoever that... Antipsychotic Drug May Be Linked to Pituitary Tumors (By NaturalNews) A link may exist between the development of pituitary tumors and the use of some drugs commonly used to treat schizophrenia, according to research from Duke University Medical Center and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Although a connection has been suspected for more than 20 years, this... Hoodia gordonii update: Honest sellers, safety information and weight loss realities (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) I am an outspoken critic of hoodia gordonii scams and con artists, but a supporter of honest nutritional supplements and herbal medicine in general. I've followed this story for almost two years now, and was the first to reveal the "Pure Hoodia" scam. As a consumer health advocate, I speak out on anything... AMA Admits Decades of Discrimination Against Black Doctors (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 racist policies have caused over the years. Unknown... The Top 10 Health Breakthroughs of 2008 (By Byron Richards) This year marks a major turning point in the theory of wellness and the prevention of disease. The drug-based paradigm of Western medicine is crumbling under the weight of its own massive fraud. New technology is proving how nutrients interact at the fundamental gene level to promote... Beta blocker drugs now considered public health hazard (By NaturalNews) -- New evidence showing that beta blocker drugs increase patients' risk of strokes, heart attacks and diabetes has led to 2 million Britons being taken off the blood-pressure drugs. A 2005 study found that beta blockers cut a patient's risk of stroke by 20 percent, whereas newer treatments... FDA, drug companies fail on post-approval drug studies (By NaturalNews) According to a new report by the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not track the status of post-approval drug studies, and is unaware of the status of many such studies promised by pharmaceutical companies. ... Are antidepressant drugs an accomplice in the Virginia Tech shootings? (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Chicago Tribune reports that Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 fellow students in a shooting rampage, was taking antidepressant drugs. This is not the first time a school shooting rampage has been linked to antidepressants. The infamous Colombine High shootings took place almost... What's Missing From Every Media Story about H1N1 Influenza (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) If you read the stories on H1N1 influenza written by the mainstream media, you might incorrectly think there's only one anti-viral drug in the world. It's name is Tamiflu and it's in short supply. That's astonishing to hear because the world is full of anti-viral medicine Adverse Event Reporting bill designed to discredit nutritional supplements, say opponents (By Ben Kage) The Adverse Event Reporting bill -- also known as S. 3546 and its House companion bill HR. 6168 -- is proposed to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to create a reporting system for nutritional supplements and over-the-counter medicines, but whether its passing would be a victory... It's old news to naturopaths: whole foods heal better than isolated chemicals (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) This article describes a study in which researchers found that lycopene, the long-heralded "active ingredient" in tomatoes that prevents prostate cancer, apparently doesn't work alone. This is news? Herbalists, naturopaths and holistic nutritionists have known this for literally hundreds of years... Drug Samples Handed Out by Doctors Pose Risk to Patient Health (By S. L. Baker) Countless U.S. doctors regularly give away free drug samples provided by the pharmaceutical industry to their patients. It's a practice that may simply seem, at first glance, like an altruistic way to help sick people save money. However, two academics have written a report just published... Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1965-2005) (By Dani Veracity) This is part two of a two-part series on human medical experimentation. Click here to read part one and the introduction. (1966) The CIA continues a limited number of MKULTRA plans by beginning Project MKSEARCH to develop and test... Flawed St. John's Wort Study on ADHD Failed to Use Active Form of Herbal Extract (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 now one of the key collaborators behind the latest... Expert Panel Recommends Doctors Abandon Vytorin Cholesterol Drug (By David Gutierrez) An expert panel from the American College of Cardiology has recommended that doctors stop prescribing the cholesterol-lowering drugs Zetia and Vytorin and stick with the older, proven class of cholesterol drugs known as statins. "Our strongest recommendation is that people need to go... Study finds drug companies deliberately use misleading marketing messages (By M.T. Whitney) The amount of television advertising money that pharmaceutical companies spend has doubled in recent years. Studies show that viewers often see a medicinal product and bring up what they saw to their doctors. However, the tone of the advertisements today often are misleading and exaggerate... Health Roundup: Side effects, generic drugs and glucosamine sleight of hand (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Following the well-publicized fact that anti-inflammatory prescription drugs have killed at least 60,000 Americans, and that NSAIDs (over-the-counter painkillers) kill at least another 16,500 each year, combined with the new realization that ADHD drugs are now killing children, Sidney Taurel, Chief Executive... Rev. Jeremiah Wright is Right about how U.S. Government Uses Blacks for Medical Experiments, Including AIDS (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Regarding the current controversy about Rev. Wright and U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama, Rev. Wright is actually quite correct about the U.S. government's exploitation of black Americans for medical experiments (and worse). What Rev. Wright is saying about the way the U.S. government... Cancer Studies Published in Respected Journals Biased By Medical Industry Money (By S. L. Baker) So what if cancer researchers have close financial ties to Big Pharma? Scientists have to disclose their associations with drug companies when they publish research in respected journals and they'd never let a little thing like financial ties influence how they interpret outcomes or run... U.S. Government Mandates HPV Vaccine for New U.S. Residents (By Sherry Baker) Despite growing reports of serious and even fatal reactions to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that people from other countries who want to become legal permanent residents of the U.S. are required to have the... Merck's Combination Children's Vaccine Linked to Convulsions (By David Gutierrez) Children who take Merck's combination vaccine ProQuad suffer from convulsions twice as frequently as children who are given two separate vaccines, a federally funded study has found. In response, the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has reversed its prior position... Who’s Trashing Our American Skies, And Why? (By Christopher Gussa) A large local TV Station (KSLA - Shreveport, LA) had the courage to take on chemtrails. See story here http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=7339345&nav=0RY5 This attracted the attention of Los Angeles network affiliate, "KNBC" which aired a report entitled, "Toxic Sky?", see video here... Health Ranger Show Airs Nationwide on AM Radio (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Health Ranger Show is a nationally syndicated radio show hosted by Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) that features exclusive interviews and independent product reviews covering natural health, disease reversal and non-toxic living ("green" living). Launched in March, 2008, the show is... FDA named "Fraud and Drug Administration" by consumer health advocacy group (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, under sharp criticism for its drug safety behavior involving anti-inflammatory drugs, antidepressants, and the silencing of its own drug safety scientists, has been offered a new name today: the Fraud and Drug Administration. The winning name was chosen... H1N1 Swine Flu Likely Already Infecting 100,000 Americans, Admits CDC (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) H1N1 influenza (swine flu) has spread beyond the ability of the CDC to track it, leading one of its health authorities (Daniel Jernigan) to admit that 100,000 Americans are likely already infected by the swine flu. The CDC has only "confirmed" 4,714 cases of the flu so far, but by its... Texas Attorney General Sues Pharmaceutical Companies for Overcharging State Medicaid (By David Gutierrez) The Texas Attorney General's office has filed lawsuits against four manufacturers of generic prescription drugs, accusing them of illegally misreporting their drug prices in order to get more money out of the state Medicaid program. "The Attorney General's enforcement action reflects... Pretend medicine: Let's play doctor! (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Conventional medicine, as practiced today, is actually pretend medicine. Doctors and drug companies pretend to make patients healthier by giving them drugs. The FDA pretends to protect the safety of the public. Medical journals pretend to print only rigorous, scientifically... Acomplia diet drug shows real promise for sustained weight loss, but only if you keep taking it (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In early clinical trials, Acomplia is looking promising. But with only 3,000+ people tested so far, it's far from being approved by the FDA. And even as effective as Acomplia appears to be in early tests, much of the hype is overblown: daily walking or cardiovascular exercise results in far more weight... Big Pharma's Pills Contaminated with Machine Parts at Pill Factories (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) An investigation by the Associated Press (AP) has uncovered evidence of widespread quality control problems in pills produced in Puerto Rico, a region that manufactures many of the prescription medications sold in America. Puerto Rico has one of the highest concentrations of pharmaceutical... Five Elements And Five Reasons We Need Traditional Chinese Medicine In America (By Christopher Gussa) The Traditional Chinese 5 Element Diagnostic System is used as a tool to determine disorders and prescribe a combination of all natural herbs for healing. It is without a doubt the most valuable "medical" wisdom we have on this planet. Of course The FDA and most Medical Doctors in this country... The truth about Enron that most Americans don't want to hear (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Mainstream America loves to dream. But those dreams turned to financial nightmares when the massive house of fraud known as Enron collapsed a few years ago. Later, nightmares turned to anger as Americans harmed by the collapse (investors, employees and energy customers) pointed their collective fingers... Is Resveratrol the Fountain of Youth? (By Byron Richards) There are a lot of great anti-aging and metabolism boosting nutrients: DHA, pantethine, acetyl-l-carnitine, carnosine, R-alpha lipoic acid, grape seed extracts – the list goes on and on. In fact, most nutrients help cells function better and thus live longer. So, why is resveratrol vying for the position... Vytorin Drug Shows No Benefit Over Older, Cheaper Cholesterol Drugs (By David Gutierrez) After a long and controversial delay, drug-makers Merck and Schering-Plough have released the results of a study showing that cholesterol drug Vytorin provides no benefit over older drugs in preventing the buildup of artery plaque. Vytorin is a combination of Merck and Schering's drug... Junk science: negative study on calcium and vitamin D supplements was poorly constructed, yet widely reported (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Based on a new research study published in The Lancet (April, 2005), newspaper headlines around the world are proclaiming that senior citizens should throw away their calcium supplements and turn to prescription drugs as their primary treatment for osteoporosis and bone fractures. Gee, what a convenient... Why America is still a great place to live: thirteen things I love about this country (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Although I find plenty to complain about with the United States of America, and I'm convinced this nation's freedoms, economy and leadership could use some major reforms, there's still a lot to like about the USA. I'm dedicating this essay to the top things I think are really great about the United States... EPA uses nanotech regulation ploy to target colloidal silver while ignoring all other nanotech particles (By Ben Kage) Nanomaterials -- products and materials changed or created at the atomic and molecular level -- are quickly gaining popularity for their multitude of uses, and while the Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to regulate popular nanosilver antibacterial products, ostensibly to protect consumers... Chrysalis Nutritionist Stephen Heuer Arrested by Federal Marshalls in FDA Raid (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Both the FTC and FDA are turning up the heat on nutrition-oriented companies and websites, resorting to arrests at gunpoint to enforce "nutritional illiteracy" across America by imprisoning those who accurately describe the health benefits of nutritional products they sell. It was only... HPV Vaccine Researcher Criticizes Drug Marketing as "Public Health Experiment" (By David Gutierrez) A researcher who has spent 20 years studying human papillomavirus (HPV) and did the bulk of the work that was used to develop a vaccine for several strains of the virus has warned that mandating the vaccine for girls under the age of 18 may actually backfire, causing cervical cancer rates... New Study Reveals Resveratrol Improves Health and Longevity (By Dr. Phil Domenico) Such important information should not be downplayed by the mass media. Yet, that is exactly what just transpired. Instead, they reported that resveratrol improved health, but not longevity, in aging mice on a standard diet. In other words, they chose not to report the most important outcome... Omega-3 supplements rapidly eliminate ADD, ADHD and bipolar disorder in children (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have reported that omega-3 fatty acid is highly effective in treating children with ADD, ADHD and bipolar disorder. The study was reported in the journal European Neuropsychopharmacology in February 2007. "Results from this prospective, open study... Anti-Smoking Drug Chantix Causes Potentially Deadly Traffic Accidents (By David Gutierrez) Pfizer's bestselling anti-smoking drug Chantix has been responsible for more than two dozen traffic accidents, due to side effects such as seizures and loss of consciousness, according to a study conducted by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices. The institute reviewed the more... The Statin Scam Marches On (By Byron Richards) Considering that tens of millions of Americans now take statins to lower cholesterol, the following headline was conspicuously absent from the major media this month: "Statins Found To Turn On Gene That Causes Muscle Damage." It's now a fact of science; a new study shows that taking statins... Antioxidants, bad science and failure of the press to tell the truth (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Following yesterday's announcement of a new study showing the phenomenal benefits of antioxidants for preventing heart disease in women, the mainstream media rallied behind a blatantly false distortion of the study designed to convince the public that vitamins E and C are somehow useless. The popular... VSL#3 Probiotic Now Generally Recognized as Safe (Gras) for the Dietary Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (By NaturalNews) New data has shown that VSL#3 provides effective relief in the dietary management of serious intestinal disorders such as ulcerative colitis and pouchitis. Based on recently published research from the Mayo Clinic, an independent panel of qualified experts has determined that VSL#3 is generally recognized... HPV Vaccine Batch Makes Girls Sick; Emergency Recall Results (By David Gutierrez) The Health Ministry of Spain has ordered an emergency recall of a batch of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil, manufactured by Merck and jointly marketed by Merck and Sanofi-Aventis. Gardasil is marketed as preventive against cervical cancer and genital warts. It is designed... Cervical Cancer Vaccine Shots Cause Intense Pain; Girls Fainting (By David Gutierrez) Merck's human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil is gaining a reputation as the most painful childhood shot, and has led to a surge in the rate of people fainting from vaccinations. Gardasil protects against the two strains of HPV that are responsible for 70 percent of cervical cancer... The FDA still refuses to protect the people (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Despite lawsuits, whistleblowers and government investigations, the FDA continues to ignore its mission of protecting consumers against dangerous food and medicine products. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, recently criticized the Food and Drug Administration for failing to... U.S. government announces it will stop illegal seizures of prescription drugs from Canada (By Jessica Fraser) The U.S. government announced yesterday that it will no longer seize small shipments of illegal Canadian pharmaceuticals at the border, which overturns months of aggressive seizures that have resulted in 40,000 confiscations nationwide. Though it is still illegal to import pharmaceuticals... Two infants dead, four injured by blood-thinning drugs administered at hospital (By NaturalNews) Two premature infants were killed, and four others were hospitalized in serious condition after employees at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis accidentally administered an adult dose of a blood thinning drug to the children. Three of the surviving babies were in stable condition this... Stanford University bans gifts from drug sales reps (By NaturalNews) The Stanford University medical center has joined with Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania in bans on gifts of any kind made from pharmaceutical sales representatives to doctors. In addition to mugs, pens, free sporting event tickets and lunch spreads, doctors often... Integrative Medicine on Capitol Hill (By Gretchen DuBeau ) The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, or DSHEA, is a decent law. It says supplements are to be treated as food, not drugs, which only makes sense. Supplements are safe and natural food substances. As such, they can't be patented. This, of course, really irritates the... Maker of Claritin Drug To Plead Guilty To Federal Criminal Anti-Kickback Charges, Pay Fine of $52 Million, Also Facing $282 Million In Civil Liabilities (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In yet another example of a pharmaceutical company found guilty of criminal charges in terms of price-fixing, the drug company Schering-Plough has agreed to plead guilty to federal anti-kickback charges. The company, which makes the popular Claritin drug, had failed to provide the best price to state... Artificial Hormone May Replace Sunscreen; Allow Users to Experience Nutritional Benefit of Sunlight Without Risk of Sunburn (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Here's another report on Melanotan, a synthetic hormone that more quickly darkens the skin of people who take it, thereby protecting them from ultraviolet sunlight -- in other words, it lets them tan more quickly so that they can go out, get more sun, and get the benefits from that natural sunlight without... Resveratrol Improves Health and Longevity in Aging Mice on a High-Calorie Diet (By Dr. Phil Domenico) Such important information should not be downplayed by the mass media. Yet that is exactly what just transpired. Instead, the headlines read: "Resveratrol Found to Improve Health, But Not Longevity in Aging Mice on Standard Diet". In other words, they chose not to report the most important... NIH researcher caught secretly taking big money from Big Pharma (By NaturalNews) -- A National Institute of Health researcher accepted more than $100,000 in unauthorized deals from pharmaceutical companies and failed to report the income, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday. Last year during an internal NIH review, Dr. Thomas J. Walsh -- a senior researcher... Baltimore Law Firm to Assess Legal Merits of Fosamax Litigation (By NaturalNews) Baltimore-based personal injury law firm Ingerman & Horwitz LLP has recently published information on its website as related to Fosamax, a Merck drug approved for those suffering with Osteoporosis. The law firm claims it has received inquiries from citizens regarding possible side effects related... U.S. Government Mandates HPV Vaccine For New US Residents (By Sherry Baker) Despite growing reports of serious and even fatal reactions to the human papillomavirus ( HPV) vaccine, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that people from other countries who want to become legal permanent residents of the US are required to have the HPV... Prescription painkillers cause more overdoses than heroin or cocaine (By NaturalNews) Death due to overdose of drugs such as heroin and cocaine have been overshadowed by deaths from opioid prescription painkiller overdoses, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study recently found. The opioids Oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone and fentanyl have been sold... U.S. Senate attempts damage control as House braces for onslaught (By Byron Richards) (Understanding the Threat to Dietary Supplements -- Part 2, by Byron Richards) Senators were taken off guard by the public outrage over the passing of bill S.1082 with language that can be used to seriously harass dietary supplements by enabling the FDA to apply drug-related risk analysis to... Hormone therapy linked to breast cancer risk (By NaturalNews) New research in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that women who take estrogen and testosterone to combat the effects of menopause run a much higher risk of breast cancer than women who do not use hormone therapy. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical... Statin drugs worthless for routine use in healthy adults, study suggests (By Ben Kage) A new study of cholesterol-regulating statin drugs -- published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine -- found that the drugs slightly lower the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with no cardiovascular disease history, but may have little capacity to reduce risk of death. ... The discovery of DNA variability, holographic blueprints and the symphony of life (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Announced with great fanfare in late November, 2006, scientists have discovered that human DNA is far more variable than previously thought. Contrary to previous beliefs, as much as 10 percent of human genes vary wildly from one person to the next. The mainstream press is hailing the discovery and some... Patients should demand full lifetime refunds on Vioxx, COX-2 inhibitors and other drugs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Let's take a closer look at honesty in medicine. Over the last few months, the FDA and state legal authorities have been going after a company selling various supplements and herbal formulas that promised to enhance breast size. According to the news reports, these products were unproven and entirely... Is Cholesterol Drug Vytorin Linked to Cancer? Secret Clinical Trial Data Says Yes David Gutierrez (By David Gutierrez) Two congresspeople have launched an investigation into why the results of clinical trial linking the cholesterol drug Vytorin to increased risk of death from cancer were kept secret. On Aug. 21 of last year, the FDA announced that it was launching an investigation into the possibility... 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 (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) 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, "What kinds of health choices should I be able... FDA approves pill that stops periods; is womanhood a disease? (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Conventional medicine has, for decades, preyed upon the "symptoms of womanhood" and attempted to transform every female activity from childbirth to menstruation into a disease requiring chemical treatment. Today, the FDA approved Lybrel, a daily pill for women that stops periods... forever. The concept... American Academy of Pediatrics Unleashes Hysterical Attack on Fictional Television Show about Vaccine / Autism Link (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of 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 onto children in the real world, the AAP now feels... The world according to the FDA and Big Pharma (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As clear-thinking people, natural health consumers sometimes look at the actions of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and wonder what planet its decision makers seem to be from. It's like the FDA is living in a completely different world than the rest of us -- a world where nutrients are dangerous... Product Reviews of Bear Fruit Bar, FruitFast Bar and Organic Food Bar (transcription) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Welcome to the Health Ranger Show. It is a great day to talk about some new health food bar products. I am going to review them here on this show independently, and objectively. I do not have any financial stake in any of the products that I am going to comment on here. (This document is... The Secret Truth About Big Pharma (By Craig Pepin-Donat, The Fit Advocate) Panelist for The International Health and Fitness Symposium and "The People's Chemist," Shane Ellison, Shares the Secret Truth about Big Pharma. We live in the "age of drugs." Not illegal, addictive substances, but legal over-the-counter and prescription medications. These substances can... FDA's relentless assault on diet pills and nutritional supplements puts Metabolife founder in hot seat (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) If you ever own a nutritional supplements manufacturing company, make sure you never try to interfere with the FDA's oppression of your own products, or you'll be charged with "interfering" with the FDA. That's what's happening to Metabolife founder Michael Ellis, who is now facing charges that he made... Why the Free Market Doesn't Work: Consumption vs. Conservation (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) I'm a big free market proponent. I love the "freedom" in it... the individual decisions of hundreds of millions of people coalescing into an "invisible hand" of efficiency improvements, quality of life enhancements and unlimited abundance. That's the Alice-in-Wonderland version of the free... Audio Interviews Posted with Debra Lynn Dadd on Consumer Chemicals and Byron Richards on Fibromyalgia (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) NaturalNews.com, the independent natural health news site read by over one million health-conscious consumers, has posted audio interviews with two health experts: Debra Lynn Dadd, author of Home Safe Home, and Byron Richards, founder of Wellness Resources (www.WellnessResources... Foods That Prevent Cancer - An Interview With Mike Adams (By Craig Pepin-Donat, The Fit Advocate) The "Health Ranger" and International Health Fitness Symposium panelist, Mike Adams, talks with chairman and host Craig Pepin-Donat, The Fit Advocate about Startling Nutrition Secrets. Every year, the FDA and CDC release frightening statistics: "One in every three men will contract some... Green-Lipped Mussels Omega-3 Oils Join Moxxor, NaturalNews (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The world of omega-3 superfoods just experienced a breakthrough. A new company called "Moxxor" has introduced a marine omega-3 oil supplement derived from green-lipped mussels grown and harvested in the aquaculture farms of New Zealand. This story explains why I'm endorsing this company... Plastic Outrage - Children in Danger from Bisphenol A (By Byron Richards) Americans once again get to watch, as industry-friendly managers at the FDA drag their feet while the health of tens of millions of American infants and children is in high danger. Consumer protection groups, like the Environmental Working Group, are sounding alarm bells. The international... Hold the Spinach, Hold the Lettuce - the FDA Wants to Nuke Our Veggies (By Joanne Waldron) The FDA has just announced that food producers may now start zapping lettuce and spinach with just enough ionizing radiation to kill E. coli. The muckety-mucks at the FDA have decided, in their infinite wisdom, to use the American public... Welcome to the town of Allopath (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) 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 other at nearly every intersection. But business... Natural Newsbeat: HPV Vaccines, Cloned Meat and the Vytorin Cancer Scare (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Anaphalactic shock can kill you, and it turns out that HPV vaccines invoke this potentially lethal allergic reaction in 500% - 2000% more young women than any other vaccine. Get this shot and you could die right there in the clinic. Maybe that's why so many deaths are already being reported... Presenting 50 Facts About Homeopathy (By Louise Mclean) In the last few years there have been many articles in the newspapers attacking homeopathy, claiming it contains nothing more than water, ignoring all the positive studies and saying it works through the placebo effect. So I decided to compile a list of facts to counter this criticism and... Almond Growers Sue USDA to Halt Mandatory Chemical Fumigation of Raw Almonds (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) After having their organic almond businesses devastated by the USDA's bizarre decision requiring mandatory chemical fumigation of almonds, the almond industry is fighting back. Fifteen American almond growers have filed a lawsuit against the USDA in an attempt to repeal the requirements... The health insurance problem is not an insurance problem, it is a health problem (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) When people start talking about health insurance reform and how to bring health insurance to the American people, they inevitably end up in a ridiculous discussion about how to negotiate the cost of drugs, how to provide drug discounts to senior citizens, or how to engage in a system of managed care... An overview of new health products, plant technology, superfoods and natural health research breakthroughs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In this article, we'll take a closer look at some of the more interesting products and issues we're uncovering these days. There’s a product that I highly recommend for those that want a nutritious food bar made with real food, and not a bunch of processed or manufactured ingredients. It's called Syndicated news services lie about antidepressant drugs with blatantly misleading headlines (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) When a major study reveals that antidepressant drugs quadruple a person's risk of committing suicide, and when that study is backed by an analysis of three million patient records covering four SSRIs like Paxil and Prozac, a reasonable person can only draw one conclusion: these drugs tend to... HRT Drugs Shrink Women's Brains (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new study carried out at Wake Forest University and published in the medical journal Neurology has found that HRT drugs literally shrink women's brains. Subjects who took HRT drugs for an extended period of time showed a loss of 2.37 cubic centimeters in the frontal lobe of the... NaturalNews Publishes Revealing Interview with Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, Author of "Saying No to Vaccines" (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Dr. Sherry Tenpenny speaks out against the dangers of vaccines in an exclusive audio interview published today on NaturalNews.com. Author of the book Saying No to Vaccines (www.SayingNoToVaccines.com), Dr. Tenpenny is a well-informed, vocal opponent of mandatory vaccination policies... Department of Health and Human Services Approves Fictitious Medical Device Review Board Led by a Dead Dog (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Just how trustworthy are medical review boards that review and approve medical devices? In a Government Accountability Office (GAO) sting, investigators were able to invent and register a fictitious review board with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), complete with a fictitious... A Closer Look at Zinc Poisoning from Denture Cream (By Cathy Sherman) The growing threats of lawsuits against denture cream manufacturers over zinc poisoning might raise concerns about zinc itself. Though zinc is the mineral involved as a cementing agent, it is critical to keep in mind that it is the misuse and overuse of zinc that is responsible, not the... Seasonal Affective Disorder sufferers need natural sunlight, not antidepressants or artificial light (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) 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, effective treatments for reversing it. First... Canadians Use More Prescription Drugs than Ever Before (By Louis Lazaris) A report released by a drug-tracking firm reveals that prescription drug use among Canadians was higher in 2008 than in any previous year. The report, released on March 26 by IMS Health, a worldwide pharmaceutical-tracking company, assesses pharmaceutical use by tracking the number of prescriptions... Personal Message to NaturalNews Readers from the Health Ranger (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) For over five years, NaturalNews has served the interests of the natural health community, bringing you important news about natural health, medicinal herbs, nutrition, Big Pharma and the FDA and even covering important, timely issues like financial protection, bailout money and the housing... How to Wipe Your Mind Clean of Health Wisdom and Plug Yourself Back Into the Mainstream Matrix (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) If you talk to many people about health, medications, toxic chemicals and food, you'll quickly come to realize that most people have very little knowledge of reality in these areas. And yet, ignorance is often bliss because these people can just wolf down a cheeseburger, get vaccine... The Mother's Act - Mandatory Screening of Moms for Depression is Like a Bad Movie Rerun (By Evelyn Pringle) The promotion of the Mother's Act is like a rewind of a bad movie dating back to the 1960's when rock stars were singing songs about "mother's little helpers." Women fought for years to gain acceptance of the fact that many female health problems were real and not symptoms of hypochondria... Women's Multivitamin Study Seriously Flawed, As Usual (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine claims that multivitamins are useless at preventing cancer and cardiovascular disease in women. The mainstream media has predictably picked up on this story, gleefully running it as "proof" that nutrition is worthless and... Miracle Cure for Gout and Arthritis Pain? Six Cherries a Day (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) I bet the big drug companies wish they had invented cherries -- they've proven to be the most powerful medicine in the world for eliminating gout and reducing the pain and inflammation of arthritis. Cherries are such powerful medicine for gout and arthritis, in fact, the FDA went out of... As Swine Flu Spreads, Conspiracy Theories of Laboratory Origins Abound (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Perhaps due to the genetic makeup of the fast-spreading H1N1 strain of influenza -- which includes genetic elements from bird flu, swine flu and human flu spanning three continents -- there is considerable speculation that the origins of this virus are man-made. It's not an unreasonable... New Vaccines Required for Texas Students (By Kirk Patrick) The Texas Department of State Health Services will require even more vaccinations for children entering kindergarten or seventh grade in 2009. Students must now receive vaccines for meningitis, tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough and chicken pox... Stress Testing the MOTHERS Act (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Mothers Act is due to be voted on soon by the U.S. Senate. This is the Big Pharma-advocated law that would require the mandatory screening of all expectant mothers for depression -- with the intent of drugging them if symptoms are present. Investigative journalist Kelly Patricia... Court Orders Parents to Poison Their 13-Year-Old Child with Chemotherapy (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Against the wishes of both the parents and the 13-year-old patient in question, a Minnesota judge has ruled that Daniel Hauser must undergo conventional chemotherapy treatments, which are characterized by the mass-poisoning of the patient with toxic chemicals. For opting to explore alternative... Senators pressure federal regulators to create mandatory database of drug trials (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Drug companies are strongly resisting the idea that they should be required to publish the results of their drug trials on a publicly accessible database. Why? Because then they wouldn't be able to suppress the enormous number of studies that show their drugs don't work -- or that show them causing dangerous... Researchers hijack natural anti-cancer compounds in plants to boost pharmaceutical profits (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Junk science alert: A press release from Purdue that says its researchers have discovered a way to use plants as natural factories for producing pharmaceuticals that fight diseases cancer. Well I've got news for Purdue researchers: plants are already natural factories for anti-cancer compounds... Drug Company Freebies Turn Medical Students into Drug Pushers (By S. L. Baker) Pharmaceutical companies routinely shower medical students with all sorts of freebies -- from notepads and ballpoint pins to clipboards and calendars – that are emblazoned with the names of prescription drugs and devices. That may sound pretty harmless but research just published in the... How to Ensure Proper Vitamin D in Children (By Sheryl Walters) Rickets seems like it should be a disease of the past. However, more and more children are being found to be deficient in Vitamin D. Twelve percent of babies and children are Vitamin D deficient and another 28% are at risk of a deficiency according to a study for the Archives of Pediatric... Three Chinese Herbs could Put an End to Statin Drugs (By Christopher Gussa) The statin drug pushing scam is going for the throat with its all time lowest assault! It is becoming more and more evident that people of all ages are being lied to day after day by doctors as a way to push the deadly protocol of Big Pharma. If you believe all the hype about statins from... How to slash national health care costs by 90% through education, nutrition, and a ban on junk food marketing (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Want a real solution to skyrocketing health care costs? Forget about all the so-called "cost saving" schemes dreamed up by politicians, drug companies and HMOs. All they do is create new levels of bureaucracy that don't address the real problems of why health care costs are so high in the first place... Poor nutrition, junk foods lead directly to pharmaceutical industry profits (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) If nutrition is so good at preventing and even reversing chronic disease, why isn't it taught by the practitioners of conventional medicine? Why isn't your doctor giving you the fundamentals of nutrition? Why don't you see television ads promoting nutrition? The reason is quite simple. There's... The top ten things we'd see if the FDA were put in charge of the criminal justice system (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) 1. Telephone con artists who scam senior citizens out of their life savings would be put in charge of direct-to-consumer drug advertising. (Explanation: Senior citizens are being financially exploited by drug companies who use direct-to-consumer advertising to con people into asking their doctors... Citrus Extracts Found to Enhance Heart Health in Small Study (By David Gutierrez) A blend of citrus and tree bark extracts was found to improve several markers of cardiovascular health and to aid in weight loss, in a study conducted by researchers from the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon, the University of Mississippi, America's Gateway Health Alliances and Next... Senior FDA officials suppressed initial findings on suicide link to antidepressant drugs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A senior epidemiologist at the Food and Drug Administration, whose job it is to assess the safety of medicines, found last year that 22 clinical studies showed children given antidepressants were almost twice as likely to become suicidal as those on placebos. The official's name is Dr Andrew D. Mosholder... Tylenol introduces candy-like pain medication with strong minty taste and instant cooling effect (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Tylenol has now decided to transform its potent, over-the-counter drugs and pharmaceuticals into candy for kids. Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, has introduced Tylenol Cool Caplets, a candy-like medicine that offers adult-strength pain medication with a strong, minty taste. This is... Film Review: GenerationRx Documents Chemical Abuse of Children by Pharmaceutical Industry, Modern Psychiatry (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Filmmaker Kevin Miller has just launched a shocking new documentary that exposes the crimes and deceptions of modern psychiatry and the drug companies that now control the industry. His film, entitled GenerationRx sheds light on the shadowy practices of psychiatric doctors who are... Adderall: Deadly Drug Treats Bogus Disease (By Barbara L. Minton) The drug Adderall is linked with heart attack and sudden death in children and young adults according to a newly released study at the New York Medical College of Family Medicine. This drug is commonly prescribed to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a phony disease that... The Amazing Heart Normalizing Action Of Dan Shen (By Christopher Gussa) Serous heart problems such as angina, arrhythmias, repeated episodes of "A-Fib" and other heart disorders can actually be eliminated with a single whole herb called Salvia miltiorrhiza known in China as Dan Shen. This is accomplished safely and remarkably fast. Dan Shen is one of those herbs... Disease names like diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading and misinform patients about disease prevention (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) 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. It was written by a drug company and it said exactly... Psych Doctor Nemeroff Barred from Emory University Chairmanship after Revelation of Secret Financial Ties to Big Pharma (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A prominent psychiatric doctor who promoted antidepressant drugs has been stripped of his chairmanship at Emory University (again!) after investigators from Senator Charles Grassley's office uncovered secret financial ties to Big Pharma. Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff received $800,000 from... Celebrities are Smarter than "Skeptical Scientists" When it Comes to Health Literacy (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The science "skeptics" are at it again, attacking the credibility of celebrities who they say demonstrate astonishing levels of scientific illiteracy. Barack Obama, Oprah, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kate Moss and Julianne Moore have all been labeled scientifically illiterate by the UK non... New study shows that 94% of marketing claims made by pharmaceutical companies have no basis in fact (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Think that health claims made on the advertising material of pharmaceuticals is based on scientific evidence? Think again. A new study carried out by the Institute for Evidence-Based Medicine in Germany has found that 94% of the information contained in promotional literature sent to doctors by pharmaceutical... Tyrannical FTC Threatens Christian Church with Imprisonment for Selling Dietary Supplements (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The FTC has unleashed a new assault against both dietary supplements and religious freedoms by targeting a Christian church for termination. Through exclusive interviews and conversations with health freedom attorney Jim Turner (http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html), NaturalNews... Inhaler Drugs Increase Risk of Heart Attacks, Death (By David Gutierrez) People taking inhaled drugs to treat a widespread lung condition may be at increased risk of heart attack and death, according to a Veterans Affairs study conducted by researchers from Wake Forest University and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The... The Benefits of Hypnosis in Treating Gastrointestinal Disorders (By Steve G. Jones, M.Ed.) Gastrointestinal disorders plague many people. Gastroenterologists report that over 50% of the cases they see are either irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or functional dyspepsia (FD). Many studies have been done that show effective results when treating gastrointestinal disorders with hypnotherapy... UC Berkeley Wellness Letter authors remain nutritionally illiterate about chlorella, spirulina, and blue-green algae (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) 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 item is released by a so-called "credible" institution... Big Brother Health Care Provisions Slipped Into Economic Stimulus Bill (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The new $800 billion economic stimulus bill contains some striking new "Big Brother" health care language that should give pause to all freedom-loving Americans. For starters, the bill requires the electronic tracking of the medical records of all Americans. All your private medical data... Bone Drugs: The Latest Skeletons in Big Pharma's Closet (By Tony Isaacs) Bisphosphonate bone drugs have been in the news recently, and if you look outside the mainstream media you will find that the news is not good at all. Instead of a product that actually cures illness or corrects deficiencies, bisphosphonates are just the latest scandalous skeletons in the... The Coming Financial Collapse of America (and Why Today's Market Bloodbath is Only a Small Taste of Things to Come...) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Americans have always been fond of the idea of getting rich without effort by putting their money in things that produce no profits and then magically being able to ride those investments, milking them for spending cash that supports a drunken spending lifestyle. From 1998 - 2001, that profit... The human medical experimentation comparison chart: Nazi Germany vs. present-day Big Pharma (By Dani Veracity) Historians usually refer to Nazi Germany's IG Farben as the epitome of bad medicine, where horrifying medical experiments were routinely carried out on innocent civilians. Most people accept the history of IG Farben as true, yet those same people are reluctant to admit that today's modern pharmaceutical... NaturalNews readers demand retractions from major media outlets over erroneous reporting of antioxidant study (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) When the mainstream media refuses to print the truth about a significant study detailing the health benefits of antioxidants and, instead, parrots the erroneous conclusions of a pro-pharmaceutical medical association, it's time for citizens to take a stand and demand accountability. Today, NaturalNews... Half a million loads of laundry will now be chemical free thanks to availability of eco-friendly "soap nuts" laundry detergent (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) American consumers are increasingly aware that plastics contain bisphenol-A, air fresheners contain phthalates, and antibacterial soaps contain a chemical called Triclosan, but few people realize that laundry detergent products often contain synthetic chemicals that pose a hazard to human... Breast Cancer Deception: New tell-all report from Mike Adams reveals profit motive behind the pink ribbons (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Outspoken natural health author Mike Adams (aka The Health Ranger) has launched a 17-page special report that sharply criticizes the breast cancer industry. The report claims that pharmaceutical companies and cancer non-profit groups put profits before prevention and actually receive a financial... Breast Cancer Industry A Scam? Support Education, Not Medication (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) This is the second annual publication of NaturalNews's "Education, Not Medication" program designed to teach women the truth about how to prevent and even cure breast cancer. This disease is 90 percent preventable, mostly using completely free therapies. The breast cancer industry does not want women... The greenwashing of toxic consumer products (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Have you noticed over the last year how virtually every large corporation is trying to make consumers believe their products are "Earth friendly?" Everything from toxic cosmetics to smog-producing cars are now being positioned as "green" products, and just recently I actually saw a package of mercury... Pharmaceutical Drugs and Human Guinea Pigs (By Michael Cambray) It has been publicly suggested in the UK Sunday Times, 30th September 07, by one of Britain's most senior scientists, Professor Colin Blakemore, (the out-going chief executive of the government funded Medical Research Council), that humans should be used as guinea pigs by chemical... China manufacturers lace children's toys with liquid ecstasy (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The next time you see your infant enjoying a new made-in-China toy, you might want to check to make sure he's not having too much of a good time: A recent discovery reveals that toys called "Aqua Dots" are coated with a chemical similar to liquid ectasy. When children eat the Aqua Dots ... New "Juice Feasting" Emerging as Phytonutrient-Rich Disease-Fighting Nutritional System (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) It's rare for something to come along that impresses me so much as a healing modality that it instantly changes my own life habits. But I've recently been introduced to a plant-based medicinal modality that's so incredibly effective at preventing and reversing disease that I believe it is... Interview with Dr. Hank Liers Part 4: Reversing mass chemical contamination (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The following is part four of an interview between Mike Adams and Dr. Hand Liers, the chief formulator of products sold by Health Products Distributors, Inc. (HPDI) (www.IntegratedHealth.com). To see all parts of this interview, search this site for "Dr. Hank Liers." Mike: I find that most... Medical journals begin cracking down on fraudulent studies funded by drug companies (By Jessica Fraser) Medical journals across the United States have begun initiating stricter ethics codes for publishing research funded by pharmaceutical or medical device-makers, including many journals that have instituted zero-tolerance policies for study authors with financial ties to drug companies. ... Mike Adams Reveals the Five Habits of Health Transformation (By Kevin Gianni) This is an excerpt from Mike Adams' interview for the Raw Summit, a complete interview encyclopedia of cutting edge living and raw food knowledge. You can find the complete transcripts and audios at (http://www.RawSummit.com) and (www.RawSummitArchives.com) . In this excerpt, Mike Adams... Millions of Americans affected by Television Deficiency Disorder (TDD) - (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) More than thirty-five million Americans may currently be suffering from a newly-discovered disorder that affects brain chemistry, behavior and health: Television Deficiency Disorder, or TDD for short. Based on work by Dr. Anne Tennah, a psychiatrist who specializes in brain chemistry disorders, this... Impotency drugs may be associated with increased risk of optic nerve damage (By NaturalNews) Viagra and Cialis, the drugs used to treat impotency, may be associated with an increased risk of optic nerve damage in men with a history of heart attack or high blood pressure, suggests a small study in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. ... Prices rise for drugs used by US elderly: studies (By NaturalNews) Prices of medicines used by older Americans for chronic conditions such as arthritis and high cholesterol are rising even as new federal drug coverage has been rolled out to help make prescriptions more affordable, two separate studies released on Tuesday showed. Researchers at Families USA found... Alpha-blocker prostate drugs cause long-term complications for eye health, cataract surgery (By NaturalNews) U.S. eye experts issued an alert yesterday warning eye surgeons that patients taking alpha-blocker drugs to treat an enlarged prostate may have difficulty recovering from cataract surgery. The American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery... Big Tobacco firms found guilty of conspiracy, racketeering (By NaturalNews) Yesterday a federal judge found Big Tobacco firms guilty of civil fraud and racketeering, but failed to impose harsh sanctions against the companies in the suit, citing a restrictive appeals court ruling. U.S. District Judge Gladys E. Kessler said the government's seven-year case against... FDA outlaws vitamin D, seeks to destroy sun to protect Americans from sunlight (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In a surprising move, the FDA has now banned the manufacture and use of vitamin D, citing studies that show vitamin D to be a powerful physiological substance that needs to undergo FDA approval before individuals are allowed to use it. Since sunlight exposure causes vitamin D production in the human... A nation asleep: the Vioxx deception put into perspective (By NaturalNews) According to estimates by the FDA's senior drug safety researcher, Dr. David Graham, the drug Vioxx caused over 140,000 heart attacks in patients, likely killing more than 60,000 Americans who took the drug. Yes the drug remains perfectly legal and continues to be prescribed to patients right now... Eli Manning: Superbowl Star Promotes Junk Food to Children (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) While New York Giants' quarterback Eli Manning achieved an astonishing success in leading his team to a 17-14 Superbowl win over the New England Patriots, he has so far positioned himself as a junk food peddler off the field by agreeing to star in television advertisements promoting Oreo... Coenzyme Q10 A Vital Energy Nutrient (By Teri Lee Gruss) Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a fat soluble compound best known for its vital function in the production of energy inside cells. It is concentrated in the part of the cell that churns out energy, the mitochondria. A lesser known function of CoQ10 may be its powerful antioxidant activity in cell... Hawaiian Doctor Kills Anti-Aspartame Bill, Condemning Hawaiian Children to Drink Neurotoxic Sweetener (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In a move that surprised no one, the bill to consider the banning of aspartame in Hawaii was crushed by Chairman Josh Green, M.D., who deferred the initiative, denying the Hawaiian legislature the ability to vote on the measure (while condemning Hawaiian children to drinking and eating... Doctors group calls for limits on drug advertising (By NaturalNews) The largest U.S. physicians' group on Wednesday called for moratoriums on consumer advertising promoting new drugs and medical devices until the products are shown to be safe and that they work. In a new policy, the American Medical Association urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to require... Inflammation: What to Eat to Reduce Your Risk of Many Diseases (By Cathy Sherman) Inflammation is a double-edged sword. While it is very critical for the healing of wounds, it is also a bodily response that can become too much of a good thing. Any infection, injury or toxicity problem inflicted on our bodies is handled by the inflammatory response that occurs automatically... Movie Review: I am Legend, Will Smith and the Dangers of Playing God with Food and Medicine (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Will Smith's latest blockbuster hit, I Am Legend, opens with the premise that medical researchers engineered a cure for cancer that required injecting (or "infecting") patients with a genetically-modified virus that blocks the growth of cancer tumors. Early human trials were extremely... Review: The Future of Food, a must-see documentary that exposes the biotech threat to life on our planet (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) There is a cabal of power-hungry corporations that are systematically destroying humanity's future. These companies have taken over the food supply, injected pesticides, viruses and invading genes into staple crops, engineered "terminator" genes that make crop seeds unviable, destroyed the livelihood... Drug companies bypass doctors, push over-the-counter Viagra with in-store consultation (By David Gutierrez) The major UK pharmacy chain Boots has launched a pilot program to begin selling the anti-impotence drug Viagra over the counter. It marks the first time that the drug, manufactured by Pfizer Inc., has been available without a prescription. As of February 14, any man between the age... War on Drugs targets natural medicine sources while meth epidemic worsens in the U.S. (By Ben Kage) Methamphetamine is a highly addictive psychostimulant drug that can have horrifying side effects, but perhaps the most shocking thing about this drug is that the FDA and Big Business may be contributing to its spread in pursuit of profits. While dietary supplements containing ephedra... Prescription pill abuse among teenagers on the rise (By M. T. Whitney) Forget the Mary Jane; all the cool kids are getting high right out of mom and dad's medicine cabinet – much to the alarm of teen drug abuse watchdogs. A new report released Wednesday showed that today's teens are shying away from illegal drugs like marijuana, but instead sharing prescription... FDA requires ADHD drug makers to warn users about serious health risks (By David Gutierrez) The FDA has instructed manufacturers of drugs for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to produce Patient Medication Guides warning patients about the risks of cardiovascular or psychiatric complications posed by those drugs. The guides also will advise patients about the precautions... Lawmakers blast FDA for censorship, negligence regarding unsafe drugs (By M. T. Whitney) Top U.S. lawmakers at a recent hearing criticized the FDA for drug safety problems. The hearing focused on the FDA's handling of a Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic, called Ketek, and several prescription anti-depressants. Problems with these drugs, and also Merck's now-withdrawn Vioxx, were cited... NaturalNews readers making waves across the natural health, natural living markets (opinion) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) I must be the luckiest journalist working today. Why? Because I have the distinct honor of writing for an expanding group of readers that has become the most highly regarded audience in the natural health community. That's not mere puffery, either. Let me explain why. Each time I write a review about... Well-funded criminals attack NaturalNews, health freedom groups with covert disruption campaigns (By NaturalNews staff) Top health freedom consumer advocacy groups in the United States are being clandestinely targeted by organized disruption campaigns and "black PR" efforts. The apparent purpose of these campaigns is to discredit, disrupt and censor their natural health and health freedom political and educational efforts... New FDA guidelines threaten religious freedoms; Holy water could be regulated as "drugs" and rosaries as "medical devices" (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The FDA has a long history of attacking and suppressing health freedoms (see our article, Tyranny in the USA: The true history of FDA raids on healers, vitamin shops and supplement companies), but did you know the agency might now be threatening religious... Doctors still fail to recognize healing power of foods, nutrition and supplements (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) I keep hearing stories of how people are changing their diet and amazing their doctors in terms of the positive change they've been able to make. One person I spoke with had been given a prescription for a high cholesterol drug by his doctor, and was told that changing his diet alone could only lower... GAO calls for stricter FDA oversight of DTC drug ads (By Jessica Fraser) The Government Accountability Office announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is unable to properly regulate direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads for pharmaceuticals in a timely manner. The GAO report found that the agency was too slow to review and regulate ads on... Medical myths explained: Why health researchers mistakenly think one disease causes another (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Health researchers are making all sorts of discoveries about the correlations between various diseases. They're finding out that gum disease is correlated with heart disease. The problem is, they're jumping to the conclusion that there is a direct causal relationship between these two things. They're... Many Americans too illiterate to understand prescription medication labels (By Jerome Douglas) More and more people living in America don't have the needed English-language literacy skills to read, interpret and follow directions -- and that can cause big problems when prescription medications are not taken per the doctor's orders. Even people with higher levels of literacy still... Coenzyme Q10 Is A Vital Energy Nutrient (By Teri Lee Gruss) Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a fat soluble compound best known for its vital function in the production of energy inside cells. It is concentrated in the part of the cell that churns out energy, the mitochondria. A lesser known function of CoQ10 may be its powerful antioxidant activity in cell... American Diabetes Association receives millions each year from junk food companies, candy manufacturers and pharmaceutical firms (By Jessica Fraser) The American Diabetes Association (ADA) recently rewrote its guidelines on accepting corporate sponsorships from companies that sell unhealthy foods in an effort to appear unbiased, but critics say the charity group's willingness to take money from junk food companies and pharmaceutical... "Illegal" psychedelic mushrooms prove to be genuine medicine for cluster headache sufferers (By Jerome Douglas) A medicinal use of a hallucinogenic compound in mushrooms has been hailed in a UCLA study exploring the therapeutic effects of an active compound in the mushrooms called psilocybin. Although these mushrooms are illegal for general use, the drug based on some of its components has now been... Financial ties between FDA, drug companies could get even stronger with new "pay to play" TV advertisement review service (By Ben Kage) Under a new deal, pharmaceutical companies will now begin paying fees to the FDA when it reviews television drug ads in return for the agency expediting the reviews, but a natural health author says the arrangement will only strengthen FDA/Big Pharma conflicts of interest if it goes through... Breakthrough honeybee drugs to treat Colony Collapse Disorder (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Following the mysterious, accelerating collapse of honeybees across North America and Europe -- a condition dubbed "Colony Collapse Disorder" -- ConPfuzer, a top pharmaceutical company, has announced a new, patented medication designed to treat the disorder by drugging honeybees with psychotropic chemicals... Fosamax Side Effects May Include 'Dead Jaw' (By NaturalNews) One of the most-prescribed drugs in America, a bisphosphonate manufactured by Merck called Fosamax is now facing growing concerns about side effects including osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ). Often referred to as 'Dead Jaw', ONJ is a rare syndrome where the jaw bone tissue dies. This Fosamax side effect... WHO launches initiative to wipe out global trade of fake medicines (By Ben Kage) The World Health Organization and its international partners are cracking down on bogus medicines with a new initiative, launched at the first meeting of the International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskfoce (IMPACT) on Wednesday. The new strategy -- piloted by WHO and partners... The new rules of imperialism: Economic warfare, consumer products and disease exports (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) History tells us that imperialist nations quite predictably invade weaker nations on a regular basis... especially when those weaker nations happen to be standing on valuable natural resources like oil or uranium. Thanks to this desire for strategic control over territories, the twentieth century was... Canadian Cancer Society announces national program to prevent cancer using vitamin D (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Canada has done what the U.S. refuses to do: Protect the health of its people through a national program of encouraging vitamin D supplementation. While U.S. cancer groups like the American Cancer Society stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the benefits of vitamin D supplements in cancer prevention, the... Influenza virus samples, vaccine patents and corporate lies (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In this article, I'm going to explain the real story behind the big international push to get Indonesia and other Asian countries to "share" their H5N1 influenza samples with the rest of the world. As you may know, countries like Australia, the United States and the UK are applying heavy political pressure... 11 million bottles of acetaminophen recalled after metal fragments found (By Jessica Fraser) Generic drug maker Perrigo Co. announced yesterday that 11 million bottles of the popular painkiller acetaminophen are being recalled because they may contain fragments of metal. The recall affects bottles of 500-milligram acetaminophen in varying quantities that were sold under store... Education Not Medication -- a women's health program by Mike Adams (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The breast cancer industry is now run by corporations that profit from women with disease. With nearly all breast cancer nonprofits being subjugated by drug companies, the FDA censoring alternative cancer solutions, and the mainstream media wildly exaggerating the benefits of near-useless cancer drugs... Urgent action needed to help stop "FDA Evilization Act of 2007" (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) If you are an American, your action is greatly needed on a pending vote in the Senate. On Monday, April 30th, the Senate is expected to vote on the FDA Evilization Act of 2007 (oops, I mean the "Revitalization Act"). This is a bill that has some good points (such as banning advertising on new drugs until... Chemical Causes of Diabetes: Overeating Is Not the Only Problem (By Mark Sircus Ac., OMD) Medical science has discovered how sensitive the insulin receptor sites are to chemical poisoning. Metals such as cadmium, mercury, arsenic, lead, fluoride and possibly aluminum may play a role in the actual destruction of beta cells through stimulating an auto-immune reaction to them after... The story of $100 billion: A mysterious number that may explain what's wrong with America (By Dani Veracity) What's wrong in America? Interestingly enough, many of our nation's problems can be summed up in one unlucky number: $100 billion. Sure, sometimes the government's $100 billion expenses signify a positive, worthwhile expense, such as the $100 billion that the federal and local governments spend on elementary... Four Videos for the Well-Informed: Algae Biofuels Breakthrough, Cymatics, Drug Marketing and Free Speech (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Isn't YouTube amazing? It's democratizing video content, taking it out of the censorship hands of the news networks and bringing information straight to the People. Today, I've selected four videos you'll really enjoy watching, especially if you're interested in global transformation and... Alliance for Human Research Protection Condemns Psychiatric Researchers for Lack of Integrity and Hidden Financial Ties (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Following yesterday's feature article about the criminal behavior of psychiatric drug promoter Dr. Biederman and his colleagues who secretly accepted millions of dollars in unreported income from drug companies, the story has found new life in the mainstream media. Astonishingly, the mainstream... John Hammell of International Advocates for Health Freedom discusses health freedom under siege; Part 1 (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Mike: Hi, I'm Mike Adams and I am here today with John Hammell of NoCodexGenocide.com to talk about Codex, the supplement industry and why people need to get involved in the fight for health freedom. Give us a little... U.S. Congress Investigating Use of Celebrity Doctors in Lipitor Ads: May be "Misleading" (By David Gutierrez) The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has launched a probe into whether television advertisements for cholesterol drug Lipitor are misleading and whether the use of celebrity endorsers is inappropriate. "Americans with heart disease should make medical decisions based... Health news roundup: Kraft shrinks, drugs in the drinking water, and obese chickens (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Give yourself a round of applause. We're winning the war against junk food manufacturers! Kraft Foods, a company that I would categorize as the largest junk food / processed food manufacturer in the world (also owned by a tobacco company, by the way) has just announced it's slashing jobs and closing... FDA Leaps from Tomatoes to Peppers in Desperate, Fumbling Fiasco of Failed Food Safety over Salmonella (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Watching the FDA trip over its own clumsy self while groping for answers on Salmonella is a sad affair. Following the FDA-encouraged destruction of tens of millions of dollars of perfectly good tomatoes, this confused, bewildered agency admits that tomatoes may not have been the problem... Natural Cellular Defense and zeolite - is it the next big thing in nutritional therapies for cancer and chronic disease? (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) You may not believe what you're about to read. Early indications are that this could be a significant breakthrough in nutritional medicine, cancer treatments and heavy metals detoxification. If early reports are to be believed, it far surpasses even the most miraculous cancer drugs from the world of... The Declaration of Journalistic Interdependence (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) This Declaration of Journalistic INTERdependence replaces the former Declaration of Journalistic Independence previously found at this URL. Previous to September, 2008, NaturalNews operated on the basis of the Declaration of Journalistic Independence, which meant we never earned money from... The common cold is no match for natural healing therapies: minerals, herbs and foods stave off colds and flus (By Jessica Smith) It happens to everyone, sometimes multiple times a year. That's why it's called the common cold, right? But while we're all familiar with the common cold, we may only know of one or two ways to fight it, which usually involve some sort of over-the-counter medication, or the folk remedy, a bowl... Health authorities warn buying prescription drugs is dangerous, but only on the Internet (By NaturalNews) New research published in the August 12 issue of The Lancet has found that more patients are buying prescription drugs on the internet, which has led many conventional medical authorities to worry about the possible dangers of online drug purchases. Mainstream media outlets are reporting... Vitamin warning! Some nutritional supplements use hydrogenated oils as filler (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The next time you buy soft-gel vitamins, you'd better take a look at what's inside them. Would you be surprised if I told you that vitamin companies are taking one of the most toxic food ingredients known to mankind and putting it in soft gels as a filler? It's absolutely true. You can find it in vitamins... FDA hoodwinks public over CAM Guidelines comment period, slams door shut on public comments one month early (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The FDA has slammed the door shut on accepting public comments over its contentious "CAM Guidelines" that threaten to destroy natural medicine by classifying virtually all health-enhancing foods, juices, nutritional supplements and functional foods as "unapproved drugs." NaturalNews has acquired emails... Threats to River Water by Leading Ecologist Jim McMahon (By Kevin Gianni) This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Renegade Water Secrets, which can be found at (http://www.renegadewatersecrets.com) . In this excerpt, Jim McMahon shares on his love for rivers and the threats to water. Renegade Water Secrets with Jim McMahon, ecologist and founder... A Small Supplement Company's Fight for Health Freedom (By Tony Isaacs) For the past five years, the Utopia Silver Supplement Company has been waging a battle for health freedom against the giants of the State of Texas and the FDA -- one which may have major implications for all of us regarding the freedom of access to natural health supplements. "This... Menstruation is a Disease (And Other Ridiculous Myths Believed by Mainstream Consumers) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As I was horrified to discover upon turning on the TV in a hotel room recently, drug companies are now pushing pills that promise women a significant reduction in the frequency of menstruation. The implication, of course, is that menstruation is a disease that needs to be treated with pharmaceuticals... Drug Companies Push New Medications for Fibromyalgia Via Disease Mongering Campaigns (By David Gutierrez) Pfizer has launched a television advertising campaign to push its medicine for fibromyalgia, even though the disease's existence is disputed by some doctors. In the ad, a middle-aged woman reads out loud from her diary, saying, "Today I struggled with my fibromyalgia; I had pain all... Conventional Infertility Treatments "Useless" Even As Fertility Rates Plummet for Mainstream Toxic Consumers (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Research on conventional infertility treatments that monitored the results of 580 couples found such treatments to have absolutely no benefit. Conducted in Scotland, the research involved five hospitals providing artificial insemination and the prescription drug clomid -- a drug... 28 Women Miscarry After Receiving Gardasil HPV Vaccination; FDA Not Concerned (By David Gutierrez) Since the approval of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil in June 2006, 28 cases have been reported of pregnant women miscarrying after receiving the vaccine. Saying that this miscarriage rate is no different than that of the general population, the FDA has said that it will not... New study declares Love a disease; medication may be available (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Doctors from the University of Allopath have announced that Love is a disease. It is characterized by abnormal heart rhythms, sweating, impaired brain function, incoherent speech patterns and loss of sleep, among other signs. Thanks to this pioneering work from researchers sponsored by the leading drug... Marine Phytoplankton is Next Revolutionary Superfood for Disease Prevention and Extraordinary Health (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In previous articles and product reviews here on NaturalNews, we've covered some astonishing superfoods. The most impressive of those have been derived from microalgae: Astaxanthin, Chlorella, Spirulina and Blue-Green Algae. Now, a new microalgae product has emerged in the natural... Byetta Diabetes Drug Linked to Patient Deaths; Real Diabetes Cures Ignored (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Another FDA-approved diabetes drug has now been linked to life-threatening pancreas inflammation that has resulted in at least two deaths. Byetta is the latest FDA-approved diabetes drug to be linked to organ damage and death. Several years ago, Rezulin was being pushed into the diabetic... The Cancer Drug Erbitux Is Extremely Toxic to the Skin (By Kevin Krautsack) Merck, a well know pharmaceutical and chemical company, according to various news sites, has applied to the European Medicines Agency to broaden the use of Erbitux to include neck and head cancer. Currently Erbitux is used to "treat" Colorectal cancer and is classified as an EGFr(Epidermal... How to grow your own pharmaceuticals (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) It's very easy to grow powerful medicines that can lower your cholesterol, protect your heart, reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, enhance nervous system function, and protect you from diabetes and many other chronic diseases. Every plant is a pharmaceutical factory provided by nature. It's like... Colony Collapse Disorder Debunked: Pesticides Cause Bee Deaths (By Heidi Stevenson) The great mystery of bee deaths has been solved. Colony Collapse Disorder is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer, has been clearly linked to die offs in Germany and France. Although the bee die offs that have occurred recently are... Movie Review: The Island starring Ewan McGregor explores timely theme of corporate exploitation of human beings (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) "The Island" is one of the best science fiction movies I've seen in a long time. Aside from its obvious strengths, which include stunning action sequences thanks to director Michael Bay, "The Island" also explores important science fiction themes that are reflected in today's culture of corporate ethics... FDA Declares Bisphenol-A Plastics Chemical Safe Enough for Babies to Drink (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) In a move that surprised no one, the FDA has aligned itself with the chemical industry and declared that Bisphenol-A, a plastics chemical previously linked to neural defects, is safe enough for babies to drink! Echoing the profit-minded desires of the chemical companies that manufacture... FDA delays generic drug guidelines that would save states millions (By NaturalNews) The Food and Drug Administration is withholding guidelines on the production of generic versions of insulin and human growth hormone (HGH) that would save states millions of dollars, prompting the governors of Kansas, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin to petition the agency to move more quickly... Tour de France doping mirrors Americans' misguided belief in quick results from magic pills (By NaturalNews) Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has tested positive for higher-than-normal levels of testosterone during the race, his Swiss-based racing team announced Thursday. Landis failed a test during the 17th stage of the race, during which he made a significant comeback to jump from 11th... Class Action Brought Against Makers of Parkinson’s Drugs (By Lynn Berry) A class action by a law firm in Melbourne (Australia) is about to be taken against two pharmaceutical companies that produce drugs for treating Parkinson's disease. The action is being taken due to side effects caused by the drugs and the lack of warnings given to doctors and their patients... Chemically-Induced Suicide: 80 Percent of Suicide Victims Took Antidepressant Drugs (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A Swedish writer has accused the National Board of Health and Welfare (NBHW) of covering up evidence suggesting a connection between psychiatric drugs and suicide. Under a recent law, Swedish health-care providers must fill out reports on all suicides committed by patients under their care... Bad Patents, Evil Corporations and the Rise of Intellectual Imperialism (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) It is a defining characteristic of Western civilization that power-hungry men seek to declare ownership over all things they discover. For most of human history, such ownership efforts were focused on usable land. Owning land that could grow food, after all, was a valuable strategy for... Are Lower LDL Levels Always Beneficial? (By Dr. Phil Domenico) Lowering cholesterol is a core principle of cardiology. However, with the results of two recent clinical trials, that theory is being seriously questioned, as is the value of some widely used cholesterol-lowering medicines. In 2006, an experimental drug from Pfizer was shown to lower... The Four Horsemen of the Health Apocalypse (By Tony Isaacs) A dark plague has crept across the land, operating largely in shadow for generations and set upon us by an evil master whose footsteps have fouled the earth for as long as man has walked upon it. Led by four evil horsemen who have been corrupted and enslaved by the master, the plague has... Healing foods, herbs and nutrients revealed in new encyclopedia websites (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Every wonder which foods, herbs or nutrients would be most helpful for your particular health challenges? Now you can find the answers, instantly! Over the last several months, we've been quietly working on a "secret" project to build the internet's most useful database of healing foods, herbs and nutrients... Despite the claims of the mainstream media, Lesco and other statins are not magic bullets for cholesterol (By Dani Veracity) We all want a "quick fix" for disorders like high cholesterol, it seems. We want to be able to eat all the pizza and cheeseburgers we want and then take a magic pill so all the LDL cholesterol running through our bloodstream just disappears. No matter what the statin drug commercials tell you, there... Health Ranger Show Needs Your Help to Reach More Listeners with Empowering Health Information (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The Health Ranger show has been on the air for one week, broadcasting from the Genesis Communications Network (www.GCNLive.com), which distributes the show via satellite to AM radio stations across North America. Initial response to the show has been overwhelmingly positive on the few stations... Big Pharma: The Greed That Is Killing Innocent People (By Christopher Gussa) Well, here I go with one of my opinions! To say at this point that I am fed up with Big Pharma's ludicrous control over innocent people's lives leading them to a certain early death and robbed of a decent lifestyle and happiness that we all hold on to dearly (as the very rights that were... Whistleblowers wanted: Truth Publishing seeks insiders to speak out about drug companies, health insurance and conventional medicine (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) If you work for a drug company, federal regulator, health insurance company, hospital, junk food manufacturer or any other organization related to health, a new opportunity has surfaced for you to make a lasting difference. Truth Publishing is now connected with key organizations (that shall go... Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1833-1965) (By Dani Veracity) Introduction by the Health Ranger: The United States claims to be the world leader in medicine. But there's a dark side to western medicine that few want to acknowledge: The horrifying medical experiments performed on impoverished people and their children all in the name of scientific progress... The FDA declares regulatory authority over gravity; bans trampolines and exercise machines (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Today the FDA declared that gravity is a medical device and urged Americans to stop using gravity to treat bone health disorders. Gravity has traditionally been used to promote bone mineral density, for without gravity, bones become weak and fragile (as astronauts quickly discovered). But apparently... Outrage! Preschoolers used as guinea pigs in psychotropic drug tests (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) As ClinicalTrials.gov reveals, in 2005, Massachusetts General Hospital conducted an 8-week trial study that recruited children as young as four years old to be drugged and monitored, including having their blood drawn, to see if their tiny four-year-old bodies would tolerate a powerful psychotropic drug... Alli weight loss drug has disgusting side effects and may block fat-soluble vitamins (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Everybody is excited, it seems, about the new weight loss drug Alli, which will soon be sold over the counter (no prescription necessary). An FDA review panel gave it the thumbs up, saying it thought the benefits of the drug outweigh the risks to health. Alli is based on the prescription drug Orlistat... Sunshine heals cancer, and the FDA is powerless to stop it, regulate it or ban it (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Do you realize that one of the most powerful cures for cancer is streaming over our heads each and every day, free of charge? It's sunlight, which is astounding in its ability to prevent and cure cancer. If it were a mainstream drug, it would probably make the cover of Time magazine and be heralded... Survey Results Reveal the Most Trusted Health News Websites and Personalities (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) Last week, we posted a survey asking our readers to rate the "trustworthiness" of various health news websites, as well as the personality traits of some of the more notable invididuals in the industry, including Dr. Gary Null, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Stephen Barrett (the Quackwatch doc... Chinese Tonic Herbs: The Amazing Natural Health Rejuvenators (By Christopher Gussa) Many of us are somewhat familiar with Chinese pathological and systematic healing herbal formulas such as "Yin Qiao" for flu and colds. These are tremendous healing formulas and they hold within them centuries of knowledge of the thousands of herbs, the 5 elements, and the 12 meridians of... Vitamins A, C and E Increase Mortality! (and other nonsense from the realm of junk science) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) The latest attack on vitamins A, C, E, selenium and beta-carotene comes from the Cochrane Library, a widely-read source of information on conventional health matters. In the paper published yesterday, these antioxidants were linked with a higher risk of mortality ("they'll kill you!"),... CounterThink Roundup: The Chinese currency blame game and corporate ethics in America (satire) (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) China's currency valuation is once again under attack by the White House, which claims China isn't letting its currency "float" in a fair way. What is China's currency crime? It has pegged its currency to the U.S. dollar! In other words, the usual dollar manipulation games played by the United States... Lip Balm Bends Light, Defies Laws of Physics, Announces Washington Post (By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews) A new "sunlight scare story" report in the Washington Post claims that lip balm "attracts the sun's rays to the lips." This is certainly news to everybody who thought light traveled in a straight line. Apparently, lip balm can now alter the laws of physics and cause light to bend like,... What's in Your Multiple Vitamin? Detecting Real Quality, Part 2 – Vitamins (By Byron Richards) Multiple vitamins are taken by at least 50% of American adults and 25% of teenagers. It is common knowledge that our food supply is lacking key nutrients that support health. Yet, the quality of multiple vitamins varies dramatically as the majority of the dietary supplement industry falls... JAMA refuses to exclude authors who hide financial ties to drug companies (By NaturalNews) The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) said today that it would not ban authors who fail to disclose financial ties to drug companies, because such an action might bring antitrust lawsuits. Catherine DeAngelis, editor-in-chief of JAMA, says after speaking with lawyers... An Amazing Discovery in Turkey - Part 1 of the Oleander Series (By Tony Isaacs) My search for a possible cancer cure began in late 2004 when I found out that my cousin, lifelong friend and running buddy, Jeff Johnson, had been diagnosed as having stage-three melanoma. The cancer had appeared out of nowhere and so it was quite a shock to my cousin and everyone close... Read about Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and NaturalNews, who created this site to help bring you more well-written articles on the topics that interest you most. Related sites: www.NutritionHeadlines.com | www.NaturalCosmeticsNews.com | www.HyperinflationReport.com | www.HealthProductsNews.com |
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