New Government Report Says FDA Should Ask Congress for More Authority over Health Claims
Who should worry about this? And will consumers learn even less about what they are eating?
25 Jan
2011
25 Jan
2011
Weight Loss Update: FDA Panel Recommends Making Lap-Band Surgery Available to 12 Million More People
The procedure may help more people shed the pounds. But it will also fill the coffers of surgeons, hospitals, and a global specialty pharmaceutical company.
18 Jan
2011
ANH-USA to File Health Claim for Vitamin D—and It’s All Thanks to You! (Plus a Vitamin D Update)
In addition to this exciting announcement, we have some troubling news to report: more conflicts of interest over the IOM’s vitamin D report, and more evidence from a top Harvard expert that the IOM recommendations fly in the face of good science. What is really going on here?
21 Dec
2010
Milestone Victory: Texas State Medical Board’s Attack on Leading Integrative Doctor Beaten Back
A court defeat for the Texas Medical Board is changing policies—and minds.
21 Dec
2010
Another Defeat for the Texas Medical Board—Court Rules in Favor of Physicians
Plaintiffs have accused the Texas Medical Board (TMB) of “pervasive and continuing violations of…constitutional rights”—and a federal court is allowing their suit to go forward.
21 Dec
2010
More Stealth Attacks on Integrative Doctors May Be Coming
We have to watch both the AMA and the Federation of State Medical Boards. They have a new strategy to limit your health freedom.
14 Dec
2010
Breaking News: Judge Rules that a Provision in the Administration’s Healthcare Act is Unconstitutional
A federal district judge in Virginia has ruled that one of the central provisions in President Obama’s healthcare act is unconstitutional. ANH-USA has filed an amicus brief on the same provision, but in a different jurisdiction.
07 Dec
2010
Action Alert: Vitamin D Report Panelist Has Ties to Big Pharma
As we reported last week, the IOM’s new and absurdly low vitamin D recommendation flies in the face of scientific evidence. Now we need your help to get Congress to launch an investigation.
30 Nov
2010
Institute of Medicine Report on Vitamin D is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
A new report, released today by the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, says that few people are vitamin D deficient. The scientific research says otherwise.
30 Nov
2010
Top Ten Integrative Medicine Therapies
The Mayo Clinic has its list; we have ours. Which complementary and alternative medicine modalities are most important to you and your family?