Healthful Artisanal Cheese Under Attack Again
FDA simply ignores the lack of a single documented illness in twenty-three years. Action Alert!
Frankenfish Could Be Close to Approval!
The flawed environmental assessment deliberately omitted critical information. Action Alert!
Another Hatchet Job from Consumer Reports
Their latest issue,“10 Surprising Dangers of Vitamins & Supplements,” is just more fear-mongering. Action Alert!
Readers’ Corner: Can My Doctor Get Into Big Legal Trouble by Offering Natural Health Treatments?
A reader asks an important question about the laws threatening integrative doctors. We lay it all out.
NDI Draft Guidance is a Big, Fat Gift to Big Pharma
Want to let the drug industry take your favorite supplements off the market, patent them, and sell them back to you—by doctor’s prescription only—for 10 or 100 (or even more) times what you’re paying now? A follow-up to our recent Action Alert.
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.
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.
State Medical Board Reform
State Medical Board Reform Integrative Practitioners Working Toward a Level Playing Field Integrative practitioners have had an uphill battle in protecting their right to practice medicine in a manner that assesses the whole patient—mind, body, lifestyle, and genetics. The right to exercise independent judgment in developing a course of treatment for a patient that exceeds […]
Codex Alimentarius
Codex Alimentarius Overview Will it or Won’t it affect your Vitamins? Background of Codex European Union U.S. Policy Codex Alimentarius Q&A Documents and Links of Interest Overview Codex dietary supplement standards are expected to mirror those currently being built into European guidelines, where the maximum limit for beta carotene would be the amount found in […]
Weigh in on Transparency at the FDA
Seize the opportunity to share your suggestions on how the FDA can improve its currently opaque “transparency policy.“ A second public meeting will be held November 3, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the National Transportation Safety Board Conference Center at 429 L’Enfant Plaza, SW, Washington, DC (https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=431). The three discussion groups are: