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FDA escalates warnings about drugs to counter anemia, chemo fatigue
Acting on growing safety concerns, the FDA on Tuesday ordered strict new procedures on the prescribing and dispensing of
Full StoryEarly Antibiotics May Raise Asthma Risk
Studies Suggest Risk Is Double for Treated Babies By Salynn Boyles WebMD Medical News March 13, 2006 — Babies treated with even one course of antibiotics during their first year of life may have twice the risk of developing asthma later in childhood as unexposed babies, an analysis of past research shows. The findings bolster [...]
Full StoryFake drugs, including Tamiflu, thrive on Internet
ABC News: GENEVA (Reuters) – Criminals are using the Internet to sell increasing quantities of counterfeit medicines, including fake versions of bird flu drug Tamiflu, a senior U.N. health expert said on Tuesday. Vitamin and health supplements, so-called “lifestyle medications” like erectile dysfunction drugs, and steroids bought over the Internet were especially likely to be [...]
Full StoryIf the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things you might notice
News Target: 1. Your average car would cost $4.5 million, representing a 30,000% markup over cost, which is typical for prescription drugs. Automakers would justify this price by saying they needed the money to fund research and development, but in reality, most of their research would be funded by taxpayer dollars through government grants and [...]
Full StoryHow to grow your own pharmaceuticals
From NewsTarget.com: 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 a multi-million dollar pharmaceutical laboratory that takes [...]
Full StoryDeadly immunity
Salon.com: Deadly immunity by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr “The elementary grades are overwhelmed with children who have symptoms of neurological or immune-system damage,” Patti White, a school nurse, told the House Government Reform Committee in 1999. “Vaccines are supposed to be making us healthier; however, in 25 years of nursing I have never seen so [...]
Full StoryUK study finds that painkillers may cause heart attacks
Earthtimes.org: Commonly used painkillers have come under an extensive scrutiny by British scientists, who say that more research is needed into the safety of painkillers as they have found evidence that some painkillers could increase the risk of heart attacks in patients who routinely use them. These comments were made after it was found that [...]
Full StoryThe beginning of the end of chemical-based medicine
by the Health Ranger (Mike Adams) 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 [...]
Full StoryRebound Headache – Stop The Cycle
By James Cottrill You’ve been getting headaches. Finally, you find some medications that are making a difference. You’re headaches are almost all gone but wait they’re coming back! They’re getting worse! The painkillers aren’t doing the job they used to do. What’s going on? You may be a victim of rebound headache. Rebound [...]
Full StoryAmericans are overmedicating, say experts
PLYMOUTH, Mass. About 130 million Americans swallow, inject, inhale, infuse, spray, and pat on prescribed medication every month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates. Americans buy much more medicine per person than any other country. The number of prescriptions has swelled by two-thirds over the past decade to 3.5 billion yearly, [...]
Full StoryDoctors Influenced By Mention Of Drug Ads
Actors pretending to be patients with symptoms of stress and fatigue were five times as likely to walk out of doctors’ offices with a prescription when they mentioned seeing an ad for the heavily promoted antidepressant Paxil, according an unusual study being published today. The study employed an elaborate ruse — sending actors with fake [...]
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