Supplements Are Contaminated, Drugs Pure. Right? No, Wrong
Are megabucks of drug company advertising buying major media silence about shoddy practices?
07 Sep
2010
24 Aug
2010
With a new mandate of required payment of preventive testing, does the US Preventive Task Force miss the mark with women’s bone health recommendations?
The government has estimated that as many as ten million Americans have osteoporosis. Half of all American women will, according to these government estimates, have a fracture related to osteoporosis during their lifetime. Men are by no means immune to bone thinning.
10 Aug
2010
JAMA Reports that Vitamin B6 May Reduce Lung Cancer. Will the FDA Turn Natural B6 into a Drug?
In stark contrast to Consumer Reports Health’s profoundly negative view of supplements comes a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reporting that high levels of vitamin B6 may reduce lung cancer risk.
10 Aug
2010
The Campaign to Cover Up Americans from Sun Exposure; what are the risks versus the benefits
The Campaign to Cover Up Americans from Sun Exposure; what are the risks versus the benefits The campaign to address Americans’ sun exposure has become the standard of care in American medicine. One of this country’s leading medical educators and researchers, Michael Holick, MD, even lost his tenure ship in dermatology at Boston University when […]
03 Aug
2010
Please Participate in Our Brief Readers’ Survey!
We want to get to know you a little better, so we can serve you better. We’d greatly appreciate it if you would participate in a short (five-minute) survey—and enter our drawing for a gift bag, as our way of saying thanks.
21 Jul
2010
Readers Corner: Unfounded, Sensationalist Claims? ANH-USA Responds.
Anna writes: July 15, 2010 at 2:36 am
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.
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:
28 Jun
2010
Medical Radiation Exposure to Americans has grown Six-fold in a Few Decades
We’re number one. But that is not good news because the U.S. is number one in the world for medical radiation. Yes, that’s right that Americans get the most medical radiation exposure in the world. It is increasingly known that one of the most common and insidious ways Americans are over-tested and over-treated is the use of diagnostic tests that involve the use of medical radiation.
22 Jun
2010
How Somebody’s Medicines May Be Making You Sicker
This week we discuss several ways prescription drugs may be making us all sicker—whether through illnesses brought on because these medicines deplete critical nutrients in our body, or because we’re unwittingly consuming pharmaceuticals in the municipal water we drink.