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.
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?
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!
If a consumer loves your product and blogs about its wonders, be warned that a Federal Trade Commission ruling regarding endorsements may make you liable for false and misleading claims.
After ANH-USA succeeds in adding integrative practitioners to the Senate version of the healthcare reform legislation, Michael McGuffin of the American Herbal Products Association weighs in on the benefits to the herbal and dietary supplement industry.
Dr. Rob Verkerk, executive and scientific director of the Alliance for Natural Health International, has published a paper pointing to a fatal flaw in the model used by European authorities to determine the upper safe limits for vitamins and minerals used in dietary supplements.
The September 2009 newsletter of the Vitamin D Council weighs the scientific evidence pointing to a connection between the use of statin drugs (prescribed to lower cholesterol) and vitamin D deficiency. Are the drugs most often prescribed in the United States linked to vitamin D deficiency, known to affect up to 77 percent of all Americans?
Dr. Rob Verkerk, of ANH-Europe, weighs in on the threat to informed choice should such claims be axed.
Lead is associated with high blood pressure and mercury with cardiovascular disease. Cadmium, which often is present in astounding amounts in children’s jewelry, is now linked to learning disabilities.