Pulse of Natural Health Archives
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Oct 7, 2008 0Chelation TACT Trial Announces that Enrollment Has Temporarily Ceased
The investigators and institutions that have been participating in the National Institutes of Health Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) have temporarily and voluntarily suspended enrollment of new participants in the study. The lead TACT investigator, Gervasio Lamas, M.D., of the Universit...
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Oct 7, 2008 0
Where Do Your Representatives Stand?
Your Voice Counts on Capitol Hill The frenzied activity in Congress over the banking crisis is in response, at least in part, to an unprecedented outpouring of voter outrage. Less well publicized was the reaction to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). It provoked the greate...
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Oct 7, 2008 0
AAHF Scores a Victory with HBOT for Wounded Veterans
Hope For Traumatic Brain Injury, Diabetic Failure-to-Heal Wounds, and More? On September 30, President Bush signed into law the FY2009 Continuing Resolution that contains the Defense Appropriations bill. In doing so, crucial funding became available to complete a scientific study important to all Am...
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Oct 7, 2008 0
Drugs in Your Drinking Water?
Over ten years ago, pharmaceutical residues were found in lakes in Switzerland. A girl in middle school in West Virginia read about the drugs in Swiss lakes, and wondered about drugs in our nation’s waters. Local school teachers had no answers for her. She asked the U.S. Geological Survey and they...
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Sep 30, 2008 0
New National Study Highlights Mercury Levels in American Women
More and more evidence being published in conventional medical journals show a correlation between heavy metals and heart disease. Lead is linked to high blood pressure; mercury is linked to the incidence of heart attacks. (more…)...
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Sep 30, 2008 0
The FDA Considers Proposals to Sell Genetically Engineered Animals as Food
The Food and Drug Administration has released proposed guidelines for regulating genetically engineered animals, paving the way for them to enter the food supply. This news has stunned many consumer groups. It is estimated that as many as two dozen applications to sell genetically engineered an...
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Sep 30, 2008 0
Surviving Cardiac Arrest May Depend on Where You Live
Conventional Medicine Ignores the Science behind Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death with Fish Oil The U.S. has waged a five-decade war on heart disease thanks to the information gleaned from the Framingham Study and the studies that followed it. That war has been dominated by the use of prescription ...
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Sep 23, 2008 0
Nutrition Business Journal’s CAM Report Offers Detailed Analysis on the $39.5 Billion Complementary Alternative Medicine Services Market
Research and Markets has coverage of the Nutrition Business Journal’s “Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Practitioner Supplement Sales Report 2007.” The CAM Report 2007 presents detailed analysis on the $39.5 billion (yes, that’s “billion” with a B) complementary and alternat...
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Sep 23, 2008 0
America’s Toxic Body Burden—Face-off with the FDA over the Safety of BPA in Plastic
As discussed in the 9/9/08 issue of Pulse of Health Freedom, the FDA has ignored other government experts and sided with industry on BPA, a widespread chemical that another government agency has deemed potentially dangerous. An important update to that story is the 9/16/08 Journal of the American...
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Sep 23, 2008 0
Wellness: An Essential Part of Health Reform Legislation
The Board of Directors of the American Association for Health Freedom has voted to support a key resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that would include “sustainable wellness programs that address the underlying causal factors of chronic disease” in an effort to re-engineer our hea...
