Doctors Threatened With Jail
For decades, doctors have been in the crosshairs of trial lawyers. Now they are increasingly in the crosshairs of prosecutors threatening jail sentences.
20 Jul
2010
13 Jul
2010
Children Are Being Exploited to Extend Pharmaceutical Patents
Want to protect your kids from high cholesterol? Just give ’em drugs—like the new, chewable form of Lipitor. Yes, chewable. Like candy. A new Action Alert asks Congress to repeal a really rotten law that encourages this.
13 Jul
2010
Supplements Still in Peril
Over the past year, we fought four different Congressional bills that would have affected your access to supplements. In our Action Alert, we need your help to educate our lawmakers, most of whom know little or nothing about existing supplement regulation or why supplements are not drugs.
13 Jul
2010
Cancer, Chemo, and Crony Capitalism
When Medicare reduced reimbursements for oncologists in 2003, some physicians started giving their patients more expensive chemotherapy and other cancer treatments—in return for kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies, a new study has found.
12 Jul
2010
A Medical Maverick’s Fate
The attempt to wipe Andrew Wakefield, MD from the face of the medical community for honestly reporting his findings trying to help his patients
06 Jul
2010
Antibiotics for Farm Animals—Is the FDA Serious?
Last week, FDA said they’d “recommend” reducing the use of growth-promoting antibiotic drugs in meat-producing animals. “Recommend”? Our Action Alert asks the FDA to actually do something about the problem.
06 Jul
2010
Raw Milk Gets a Raw Deal
To public health officials, raw milk is dangerous. But the facts prove it’s far healthier than pasteurized. Small family farms want to sell it, consumers want to buy it—and states are battling for the right to do so.
06 Jul
2010
Are “Natural” Household Cleaners Really Safer?
Concerned about the chemicals in traditional household cleaners? A new standard provides customers the information they need to make informed decisions.
05 Jul
2010
A Pill for Every Ill
Consumer Reports has now stated that nearly 80% of Americans prefer to take a pill for depression when presented with other options including talk therapy. Consumer Reports went on to note that in a survey of 1500 readers, they benefited equally from talk therapy as they did from antidepressant medication.
02 Jul
2010
Readers Corner: ANH-USA’s Connections and Position on World Government
We’ve received some questions from a couple of our readers recently about some rumors that have been flying around the internet. Here is one: