The Government Accounting Office has contacted makers of dietary supplements, announcing its review of the marketing of certain herbal supplements (chamomile, Echinacea, peppermint oil, ginger root, fennel seed). This is being done at the request of the Senate Select Committee on Aging.
Newly published study concludes that fat of any kind may increase the risk of prostate cancer. But…
National Institutes of Health now requires all CT and other radiation-producing scanners used at NIH clinics to come with software able to track the dosage of radiation given to every patient and log it into an electronic medical record.
Each week brings new studies confirming the benefits of vitamin D, and yet there is widespread vitamin-D deficiency in industrialized nations. Why is the government standing in the way of our addressing this public-health crisis?
Given the reports of lead being found in women’s handbags, cadmium in children’s jewelry and “mountains of mercury” as a byproduct of manufacturing cement, why don’t more physicians screen their patients for exposure to heavy metals?
The doctor tapped by the Atomic Energy Commission to study the effects of radiation on humans has warned about the risks of medical radiation since 1990, even when administered “properly.” So why is it still business as usual?
Despite beginning a process to retract their previous assertion that BPA (bisphenol A) is safe, the FDA claims to be “powerless to regulate BPA.” Give us a break!
Senator McCain has filed a new bill that attacks your access to supplements and would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Please contact your senators now. Tell them not to co-sponsor this exceptionally bad bill and instead help to defeat it!