It will not fix healthcare. In some ways, it will make it worse. Here are four big flaws: It leaves government in charge of the design of health insurance policies. Consumers should decide what they want covered (and what they do not want covered!) in their own policy. As it stands, the bill leaves intact […]
Conventional medical doctors are lagging behind on the science, and it’s costing lives. A new report from ProPublica details how conventional doctors continue to use certain drugs and medical procedures long after their appropriateness has been contradicted by research. This means that patients are receiving treatments that are proven to be ineffective or even dangerous. […]
New rules for physician payments through Medicare went into effect on January 1. Here’s what you need to know. In 2015, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was signed into law. The legislation called for significant changes to how physicians are paid for treating Medicare patients. It repealed the Sustainable Growth Rate formula […]
Major medical journals don’t want women to know of effective natural treatments for nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. It’s happened again! Another major American medical journal has refused to inform physicians—and of course without publication, the physicians won’t know to inform their patients—that there’s a safe, effective, and rapidly active (within three days!) cure for […]
An important Finnish study found that infants who received 2,000 IU of vitamin D in the first year of life had 80% less incidence of type 1 diabetes. Other research shows that cod liver oil (which contains both omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D) also cuts the risk of type 1 diabetes. In addition, prenatal […]
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), hugely funded by vaccine makers, calls for a police-state approach to vaccination. Action Alerts! Last month, the Academy, in a report titled “Countering Vaccine Hesitancy,” called for the elimination of all non-medical exemptions to vaccinations, including religious exemptions, on the model of California. Released alongside this report was another report, also from the […]
Xanthurenic acid (XA)—a tryptophan metabolite—is high in serum in gestational diabetes Xanthurenic acid binds insulin, impeding it’s action Vitamin B6 lowers xanthurenic acid levels to normal In two 1970s research studies, 86% and 100% of women with gestational diabetes normalized their blood sugar in two weeks by taking vitamin B6 Gestational diabetes increases autism risk […]
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 […]
The price of the most metabolically active, preservative-free vitamin B12 injections from compounding pharmacies has increased by as much as 946% in ten years Los federales are the cause of this price increase Help save pharmacy compounding and natural medicine! Green Medicine’s very first issue (March 2016) reported that your doctor can no longer […]
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 […]