ANH is launching a campaign and a legal initiative to get dangerous drugs off the market. You can help! Action Alert! Thousands of Americans die every year from taking prescription drugs, and millions more are hospitalized. This isn’t an aberration; it is a feature of a crony medical system in which the agency that is […]
And we wonder why health care costs are so high. Action Alert! Researchers using government funds have found a novel way of using an old prescription drug to prevent HIV infection. But once again, the government is allowing the pharmaceutical industry to reap the benefits of publicly-funded research, selling out sick patients. It is yet […]
Not likely, but that’s what crony government officials are promoting. From the Philadelphia Inquirer: TRENTON — Gov. Christie on Monday said the pharmaceutical industry will partner with the National Institutes of Health to more quickly find solutions to stem the opioid epidemic. Speaking after a closed-door meeting in Trenton, Christie said 14 pharmaceutical companies have agreed to […]
Making way for a parallel medical system based on the principles of natural health By Robert Verkerk PhD Founder, executive and scientific director, Alliance for Natural Health International Scientific director, Alliance for Natural Health USA Has Big Pharma had its heyday? We think so. It’s an industry borne out of a business model that’s more […]
Making way for a parallel medical system based on the principles of natural health June 27, 2017 By Robert Verkerk, BSc MSc DIC PhD FACN Founder, executive and scientific director, Alliance for Natural Health International Scientific director, Alliance for Natural Health USA Has Big Pharma had its heyday? We think so. It’s an industry borne […]
FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee has voted to limit your access to drugs not made by drug companies. Action Alert! A few weeks ago, we told you that the FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) was meeting once again to decide whether patients will have access to customized medicines. True to form, PCAC voted to reject […]
This isn’t the way to fix American healthcare. Last week, the Trump administration released its proposed 2018 budget. The document includes a proposal to increase the user fees the FDA collects from pharmaceutical companies to $2 billion—twice as much as in 2017, according to the president’s budget. The rationale provided in the budget for this […]
If you forgot the pharmaceutical industry, don’t worry. The federal government will take care of it for you. The refrain we hear from representatives of the pharmaceutical industry is that drug costs are high because the research, development, and shepherding of drugs through the FDA’s approval process is astronomically costly. What they fail to mention […]
It could be caused by acid blockers, but there are plenty of other possibilities. Most of Hillary’s symptoms could be side effects of drugs she is taking. Hillary Clinton’s recent pneumonia diagnosis followed her collapse after the 9/11 memorial service. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) revealed this month that he too had been diagnosed […]
There’s a good chance it is, but the government remains silent. Action Alert! A recent study by the US Geological Survey (USGS) has found that a startling number of American streams carry traces of drugs. The researchers sampled 59 small streams in the Southeast for 108 different pharmaceutical compounds, and one or more chemicals were […]