The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has given a $5 million grant to a pharmaceutical manufacturer to help create a new drug for MS. No matter that the drug’s key ingredient is readily available at a lower cost elsewhere. Or that good natural health alternatives are largely ignored.
Fast food outlets could provide statin drugs free of charge so that customers can neutralize the heart disease dangers of fatty food, according to a new study highlighted by ANH–International. Burgers, fries, and dangerous drugs from your drive-through!
For decades, doctors have been in the crosshairs of trial lawyers. Now they are increasingly in the crosshairs of prosecutors threatening jail sentences.
When Medicare reduced reimbursements for oncologists in 2003, some physicians started giving their patients more expensive chemotherapy and other cancer treatments—in return for kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies, a new study has found.
To public health officials, raw milk is dangerous. But the facts prove it’s far healthier than pasteurized. Small family farms want to sell it, consumers want to buy it—and states are battling for the right to do so.
Consumer Reports has now stated that nearly 80% of Americans prefer to take a pill for depression when presented with other options including talk therapy. Consumer Reports went on to note that in a survey of 1500 readers, they benefited equally from talk therapy as they did from antidepressant medication.
The American Dietetic Association (ADA) wants to create a monopoly on state nutritional licensure. This organization—which lists among its corporate sponsors soft drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, cereal manufacturers General Mills and Kellogg’s, candy maker Mars, and Unilever, the multinational corporation that owns many of the world’s consumer products brands in foods and beverages—already has a stranglehold on who can dispense nutritional counseling at the state level.
It has become a perennial political argument. Is it wise to involve government in health care? Does the government practicing medicine help people to live longer, live better, or make healthcare more efficient? The Medicare regulations alone, more profuse than those from the IRS, have caused many a physician to say “I wouldn’t choose this […]
Human beings cannot live without vitamin B-6. The FDA recently gave one natural form of this critical vitamin to a drug company for its exclusive use. Another drug company wants the most important natural form as well, the one that our bodies cannot do without. Please help stop this outrageous vitamin grab.
Two fourth-year Harvard Medical School students question the slow trickledown to medical schools from the 1999 Institute of Medicine report blaming medical errors for 98,000 deaths annually.