She was helping Coca-Cola influence world health officials on sugar limits. We wish this were unusual. But in yet another blatant example of government/medical cronyism, Dr. Barbara Bowman, director of the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the CDC (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), recently left the agency after her ties […]
How many deaths is the FDA responsible for? Our new interactive tool can provide you with a good estimate. Action Alert! The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for all of the following: Approving unsafe drugs that kill hundreds of thousands of people, and make millions more sick. Hiding or blocking clinical trials that […]
By Gretchen DuBeau Executive and Legal Director Alliance for Natural Health USA How our executive director’s difficult personal journey became a career dedicated to protecting your natural health options, and why the tide is turning in our favor I’ve always believed that obstacles are opportunities in disguise, and the growth and learning derived from the […]
An underhanded maneuver could make the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) even worse than it was originally. Action Alert! The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) picked up on an almost imperceptible but vitally important change in the TPP text. It was widely understood that the text had been completed and finally made public after years of hyper-secrecy when […]
If a mainstay treatment of natural medicine doctors is shown to be safe and effective by government research, what do you do? Ban it! Action Alert! Congress passed the Drug Quality and Security Act in response to bad medicine from a rogue compounded-drug company, which the FDA had known about and refused to shut down. […]
Some raw milk cheese you’re buying from large companies in the US may be falsely labeled. It isn’t raw at all—it’s been “subpasteurized”! The Healthy Home Economist, a website run by Sarah Pope, recently ran a fascinating article detailing how large health food companies are tricking consumers into thinking they’re buying real raw milk cheese […]
A much-needed proposal was hypocritically rejected, then buried—and this time it wasn’t the FDA’s fault. Action Alert! A recent news report revealed an FDA proposal from 2011 that would have told dentists to avoid using mercury fillings in pregnant women, nursing mothers, children, and people with mercury allergies, kidney diseases, and neurological problems. It also […]
The FDA is effectively signing the death warrant of more patients by denying them access to Dr. Burzynski’s antineoplaston cancer treatment—for no rational reason whatsoever. Please help. Action Alert! Over the years, we’ve covered the FDA’s attacks on Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, the trailblazing cancer doctor best known for his discovery and development of antineoplastons (ANP), […]
This is not how the system is supposed to work. Action Alert! We are exposed to chemicals every day: in our food, drinking water, shampoo, carpeting, hand sanitizer, household cleaning products, etc. ANH-USA’s coverage of BPA and phthalates has shown just how dangerous some of these chemicals can be. After all, most of us assume […]