Secretive Trade Group Moving Against Natural Medicine?
The Federation of State Medical Boards is actually an entirely private trade group that seems to exist to thwart competition. State-based Action Alerts! For many months, we’ve been following the FDA’s war on natural medicine. The agency has been eliminating natural ingredients from the list of substances from which pharmacies can make customized medicines, such […]
Back to the Future: Infections Cured by Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (UBI)
Developed in Seattle in the 1920s; used safely and successfully nationwide UBI “replaced” by antibiotics in the 1950s Harvard University and Guangxi Medical University researchers report that UBI may be an alternative approach to treating infection If there’s fungus growing on a cloth, you know what happens to that fungus when it is left […]
Give FDA Even More Power?
That’s what a group of former FDA bigwigs want. If they get their way, natural medicine could be in even greater jeopardy. This week, six former commissioners of the Food and Drug Administration dating back to President Reagan have called on Congress to give the FDA more power by making it an independent, cabinet-level agency. […]
Why Are All Doctors Being Threatened With Jail…
Just for doing their job? Please support Senator Hatch’s new bill! Action Alert! There are now over 5,000 federal statutory crimes and over 300,000 regulatory crimes on the books—though Americans are unaware of an overwhelming majority of them. As a result, it has been estimated that the typical professional unknowingly commits several federal crimes in […]
Are Antibiotics Finished, With Millions of Casualties Coming?
The headlines say yes, but the medical establishment is ignoring some important new evidence that could yet save antibiotics. Action Alert! Antibiotic-resistant illnesses currently kill an estimated 700,000 people a year globally. By 2050, these illnesses are expected to kill 10 million people. Based on recent news, this could be coming a lot sooner. Earlier this […]
Ignoring Consumer Protests, FDA Throttles Medical Foods
Want your doctor to help you manage your diabetes with specially formulated foods? The FDA says no way. Action Alert! What does your doctor know about nutrition and its ability to heal illness? That’s a good question for many conventional doctors, but most integrative doctors actually know a lot about it. And the FDA has […]
Another Anti-Supplement Sneak Attack from Blumenthal?
We expect it to be slipped into a must-pass defense bill. Major Action Alert! Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) may be up to his old tricks and attempting to attach a last-minute amendment to must-pass legislation that would threaten Americans’ access to supplements. This comes after our champions already shut down his previous attempts in a markup […]
Bio-Identical Hormones ‘Out of Business’ Sign Going Up?
If there are no pharmacies selling, you won’t be able to buy it. Action Alert! Last week we told you about the recent guidance from the FDA that ignores directives from Congress and continues to ban office use by doctors of prepared medications such as injectable vitamin B12—while carving out a potentially lucrative exemption for hospital […]
FDA Backs Down on Censoring Food Label
Yet only recently the agency held that KIND snack bars couldn’t claim to be healthy because they contained too much fat. Never mind that the fats in question are the good fats we need. Last year the FDA sent a warning letter to KIND Healthy Snacks, telling them their products were advertised as being “healthy” […]