We’ll cover the truth regarding the dangers of prescription medicines and vaccines.
Big Pharma Marketing: You’re Sicker Than You Think – You Need Our Drugs
Big Pharma uses ads that sow hypochondria, raise health fears and sell diseases to adults and their children.
By Martha Rosenberg
Alternet
It’s no secret that advertising works. Big Pharma wouldn’t spend over $4 billion a year on direct-to-consumer advertising if it didn’t mean massive profits.
What is more unknown is why drug ads that sow hypochondria, raise […]
New Ways of Marketing Statins: Cholesterol Lowering Drugs for the Flu?
by Dr. Mercola
A new study has led to what is perhaps the most ludicrous recommendation for flu treatment ever — statin drugs!
The researchers reported that statin use may reduce death risk in people hospitalized with the flu, and the media is reporting sensational headlines like “Statins reduce flu death risk by half.”
This […]
Lower Your Cholesterol, Increase Your Diabetes Risk By 48%
by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
A recent study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins increase the risk of diabetes within postmenopausal women by 48%.
This new finding adds to a growing body of clinical evidence that statin drugs are fundamentally diabetogenic, which is not surprising considering the National […]
Merck Paid Doctors Millions to Promote Vaccines
By Jeffry John Aufderheide
Vactruth.com
Sometimes gems are difficult to come by. However, when we find them, just clean them up a bit and we can appreciate their ‘real value’. The little treasure I discovered was a document located on Merck Pharmaceutical’s website. It disclosed how much Merck paid doctors as speaking fees in the […]
7 Reasons America’s Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity
By Bruce E. Levine
AlterNet
Drug industry corruption, scientifically unreliable diagnoses and pseudoscientific research have compromised the values of the psychiatric profession.
Why do some of us become dissident mental health professionals?
The majority of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals “go along to get along” and maintain a status quo that […]
The Medical Establishment Fired Me for Rejecting Conventional Wisdom
by Karen De Coster
Karendecoster.com
The greatest things always seem to happen to me. By “greatest,” I mean the kind of really offbeat stuff that just doesn’t seem to happen to a lot of other people. Stuff that makes for such good stories that it almost sounds fabricated.
Two weeks ago, I received a […]
Are Statins Behind Your Memory Loss?
Dr John Briffa
for The Cholesterol Truth
Excerpts:
As people age, they can find themselves becoming increasingly forgetful and absent-minded. Some will end up being affected by Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia. I often find that my patients believe that there is quite a lot they can do to maintain and even improve the […]
Legal Drugs vs. Illegal Drugs: Are we fighting the Right War?
by Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact News
Drugs: almost 100% of Americans use them. Chances are you have some in your medicine cabinet in your bathroom. Most drugs used in the U.S. today are legal, while some are illegal. Unfortunately, the picture of drugs portrayed by the mainstream media is very biased and one-sided, and not well […]
Does the Flu Shot INCREASE Your Risk Of Getting the Flu?
by Dr. Mercola
Before you decide to get a flu shot for yourself or your child, take a few minutes to look into the research on both their effectiveness and safety.
What you will find may very well impact your decision.
Case in point, new research in the Journal of Virology found that the seasonal flu vaccine […]
Freedom Of Information Request Reveals Major Government Vaccine Conspiracy
By Christina England
Vactruth.com
Sometimes the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act provides us with a little gem. Thanks to Wendy Stephen the mother of MMR victim Katie Stephen [1] sending in a FOI request on an unrelated topic, I am now able to prove that Munchausen by Proxy expert Prof Roy Meadow was […]
Consumer Alert: 300+ Health Problems Linked To Statin Drugs
by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
A growing body of clinical research now indicates that the cholesterol-lowering class of drugs known as statins, are associated with over 300 adverse health effects — research boldly flying in the face of national health policy, medical insurance premium guidelines, statin drug manufacturer advertising claims, and the general sentiment of the public, with […]
Pharmaceutical Companies Causing 106,000 Deaths a Year
by Dr. Mercola
Over the course of the past two decades, U.S. spending on prescription drugs increased from $40 billion to more than $230 billion.
Illegal drug company activities are one factor contributing to this inflated spending.
One 2010 study looked at trends in federal and state criminal and civil actions against drug companies in […]
Vaccines create deadlier viruses through antigenic drift
by Michael Belkin
The Refusers
Here we have a study pointing out the unintended consequences of vaccination. ‘Antigenic drift occurs when pressure from the body’s immune system causes a virus used in a vaccine to mutate into a slightly different form that can potentially be more infectious.’ In other words, the vaccine creates a […]
How to Legally Get a Vaccine Exemption
by Dr. Mercola
In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the legal authority of state governments to pass laws requiring citizens residing in the state to use smallpox vaccine (or other vaccines) if the state considers mass use of the vaccine necessary to protect the “public health”.
As of 2011, all 50 states […]
Pharmageddon: U.S. is world’s biggest user of psychotropic drugs
RT.com
The United States has a passion for pills, being the world’s biggest users of psychotropic drugs, consuming 60 per cent of them. And pharmaceutical firms are keen to keep cashing in on the multibillion-dollar market, even if it costs people’s health.
America is regarded as a country with a prodigious appetite for […]
New Study Exposes the “60% Effective” Flu Shot as 98.5% Useless
by Dr. Mercola
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends a yearly flu vaccine as “the first and most important step in protecting against flu viruses.”
This advice applies to everyone 6 months of age and older, and the CDC stresses that you “should get a flu vaccine as soon as [they] are […]
Disease Creep: How we’re fooled into taking cholesterol drugs we don’t need
by Jeanne Lenzer
New America Foundation
Jeanne Lenzer is a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow and a frequent contributor to BMJ, and has published works in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Discover, The New Republic, and other outlets.
When doctors recommend tests, drugs or surgeries to prevent bad outcomes (think cholesterol-lowering agents to prevent strokes […]
Treating Disabled: Potent Drugs and Few Rules
By DANNY HAKIM
New York Times
Excerpts:
Something was happening to Katie Strignano. After she was moved into a state-run group home, the 26-year-old woman, who is severely mentally retarded, started gaining weight, drooling, breaking out in pimples and pulling out her hair, leaving a bald spot the size of a softball on her head.
Her […]
Antidepressants used by 11 percent of Americans
By Tom Kisken
standard.net
The woman leaning against a pillar didn’t know more Americans — twice as many — take antidepressants than go to movie theaters weekly. She hadn’t heard that a federal study found the meds are used by 23 percent of middle-aged women — almost one in four.
But she knows […]
New Study: Antidepressant Drugs no Better than Placebo
By Amy Norton
reuters.com
(Reuters Health) – Neither antidepressants nor “talk therapy” were able to outperform inactive placebo pills in a new clinical trial on depression treatment — though there were hints that the effects varied based on people’s sex and race, researchers report.
The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, add to evidence that […]