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Mar 2, 2010 103Supplements Under Fire: Suzanne Somers Spars with Bill O’Reilly
On February 19, 2010, consumer healthcare advocate, best-selling author and actress Suzanne Somers appeared on Bill O’Reilly’s “No-Spin Zone,” which airs on FOX news channel. Their discussion centered on the McCain/Dorgan Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010, which many experts fear would d...
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Nov 18, 2009 4
Victory in the Senate!
We usually publish our newsletter on Tuesday. We held it overnight in order to report on the outcome of the Senate HELP Committee’s “FDA Food Safety Modernization Act” (Food Safety) mark up hearing. This hearing would decide whether to amend the dangerous Codex provision. The decision would ...
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Oct 20, 2009 0
Health Insurance Lobby Claims Legislation From Senate Democrats Would Raise Premiums
As the battle for healthcare reform heats up inside the beltway, the insurance industry has launched a blistering attack on legislation drafted by Senate Democrats. According to the New York Times, the health insurance lobby, America’s Health Insurance Plans, claims that the new Senate bill drafte...
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Dec 10, 2010 6
Urgent Action Alert! – Food Safety Bill Language Has Been Resurrected— Please Contact Your Senators Immediately!
On December 8, the House of Representatives passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) H.R.3082. A CR is supposed to provide temporary, stopgap funding for the government while budget bills are worked out. But this CR included the language of the Senate food safety bill—language that will still affect s...
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Oct 28, 2008 0
Adverse Event Report Labeling for Supplements — the Controversy Continues
In 2006, AAHF took a stand against the proposed Dietary Supplement and Non-Prescription Drug Consumer Protection legislation, now law, because we felt the bill was not in the public’s best interest. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act had already been amended to require reporting of serious adverse e...
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Oct 5, 2017 1Are Government Nutrition Recommendations Killing Us?
A brand new study suggests the answer may be yes. The study, published in The Lancet, is the first major study to look at all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease and nutrition. Here are just two of the major takeaways High carb diets are killing many of us around the world. The study ...
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Oct 26, 2010 13
With the Election Around the Corner, Our Thanks to Some Legislators
With the 111th Congress coming to an end, we want to extend our thanks to a number of senators and representatives for their example and their work on many issues that we value highly. (And we offer a “no thanks” to a few legislators as well!) Listings are alphabetical by last name. (more&hellip...
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Apr 2, 2013 35FDA-Approved Drug Linked to 542 Deaths and 2,367 Hemorrhages, but FDA Refuses to Pull It
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Feb 24, 2009 0
The First Step Toward Rationed Care?
Columnist George Will first sounded the alarm on January 28. As he reported, the stimulus legislation now approved by Congress and signed into law by President Obama “create(s) a council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. This is about medicine but not about healing the economy. The CER would...
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