Related Articles
-
Jan 26, 2010 6Herbal Products Association Weighs in on Healthcare Reform
ANH-USA has modified the U.S. Senate healthcare bill to ensure that the Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) program includes integrative medicine practitioners on its board and advisory panel. The first inclusion of integrative medicine in any federal program, this will provide integrative med...
-
Apr 16, 2020 4Does Your Prescription Increase Your Risk of COVID-19?
PPIs are among the many drugs that can make us more vulnerable to COVID-19. Action Alert! As we learn more about the COVID-19 virus, it is becoming increasingly clear that a number of pharmaceutical drugs put us more at risk for infection. While Americans should not stop their medications without...
-
May 21, 2013 21What Will Be in Your Organic Produce, Fish, and Fortified Grains if Codex Gets Its Way?
Pesticides? Yes. GMOs? Maybe. Hormones? Maybe not. (more…)...
-
Nov 18, 2009 0
Conventional Doctors Claim Integrative Therapies Lack Research, Study
The Associated Press recently betrayed its bias in a series denouncing CAM/integrative medicine. Many who value integrated medicine were outraged by the following comment, which preceded each of four articles about complementary and alternative medicine published by AP: “EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years a...
-
Dec 22, 2009 15Why Genetically Engineered Crops Threaten Your Health
If you listen to political talk-radio, you may have been puzzled by recent ads about seeds. Why would anyone be concerned about access to seeds? Because approximately 82 percent of the global seed supply is patented and owned by a handful of big corporations. Just six companies — DuPont, Monsanto,...
-
Oct 11, 2016 9FDA To Redefine “Healthy” Once Again
As usual, the agency is using outdated science and is heavily influenced by industry. Action Alert! Following the recent update to the Nutrition Facts label and the approval of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the FDA is proposing to update the definition of “healthy” and in federal re...
-
Dec 18, 2017 6Customized Resveratrol Also to Be Banned
Another update on the FDA’s war on natural medicine. Action Alert! Recently we told you about the Nov. 20-21 meeting of the FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC), in which the committee would recommend whether several natural medicines could continue to be used by pharmacies to...
-
Nov 13, 2012 35
Let’s Get the Boycott Rolling—Please Sign the Pledge
And to paraphrase a famous Californian, “We’ll be back!” Sign the pledge. (more…)...
-
Dec 2, 2014 23
FDA Further Limits What You Can Be Told about Your Food’s Heath Benefits
Q: When is a food not a food? A: When the FDA twists an old law to its own ends. Action Alert! (more…)...
-
Nov 3, 2015 0Want to Start a Wildly Innovative Gene Testing Company?
In order to survive, you will need to make friends at the FDA. And to do that, you will apparently first need to make friends with giant drug companies. Action Alert! Consider the personal genetic testing company 23andMe. Forbes reports that, after an injection of new investment from a variety of so...
Leave a Reply