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L.A. City Council Decides to Outlaw New Fast Food Restaurants
By Joanne Waldron | The City Council of Los Angeles, in an effort to combat the problem of the rapidly increasing number of obese citizens, has voted to put a moratorium on building new
Read More »Marijuana gave cancer sufferer her life back
Legalise Cannabis Alliance | A BREAST cancer victim made medical history recently, as the first person in Scotland to be prescribed cannabis as a treatment for chronic pain. Former National Health Service nurse Jeanie
Read More »Children as Big Pharma Guinea Pigs
98 Percent of Drug Trials on Children Have no Safety Checks By David Gutierrez | Fewer than 2 percent of drug trials conducted on children have independent safety advisory boards, a review published in
Read More »Victims of the Drug War Are Forced to Resort to Bizarre Legal Defenses
By Kevin Carey | On November 16, 2005, Willie “Bo” Mitchell and three co-defendants — Shelton “Little Rock” Harris, Shelly “Wayne” Martin, and Shawn Earl Gardner — appeared for a hearing in the modern federal
Read More »What’s on Tap and What You Need to Know About Drinking Water
By Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D. | The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental action organization, recently conducted an in-depth study into the quality of drinking water across the United States. Reviewing the tap
Read More »Drinking Caffeine During Pregnancy Doubles Risk of Miscarriage
NaturalNews | Drinking as little as 10 ounces of coffee per day may double a pregnant woman’s risk of miscarriage, according to a new study conducted by Kaiser Permanente researchers and published in the Journal
Read More »Media Censorship at Olympics in China Mirrors FDA Censorship of Health Product Claims in America
NaturalNews | The U.S. media is loudly protesting the censorship of their reporters at the Olympics in Beijing. Betraying its promise to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), China has blocked reporters’ access to “sensitive”
Read More »Free Drug Samples Usually Go to Wealthiest Patients
NaturalNews | Contrary to claims by the pharmaceutical industry, it is usually wealthier and insured patients who receive free drug samples, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Harvard Medical School and the
Read More »Make Small Changes in Your Diet to Dramatically Improve Your Health
How important is your diet to your overall health? A recent study suggests that a healthy diet can add as many as 14 years to your life. This mindset is largely ignored by most
Read More »Single Brain Neurons are Smarter Than You Think
By David Gutierrez | Stimulation of a single brain cell is enough to transmit sensations, Dutch and German researchers have discovered, and report in a study published in the journal Nature. Researchers have long
Read More »Mainstream Media Promotes Medical Myths by ‘Dispelling’ Them
By Neil McLaughlin | The MSNBC TODAY Show recently teamed up with drug companies to help “dispel” several “medical myths” that were “passed down by your grandparents” and which may have led you to
Read More »Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties
By BENEDICT CAREY and GARDINER HARRIS | It seemed an ideal marriage, a scientific partnership that would attack mental illness from all sides. Psychiatrists would bring to the union their expertise and clinical experience, drug
Read More »Call for Brain Scans of Presidential Candidates to Detect Mental Health Problems
By David Gutierrez | A neuropsychiatrist who runs a chain of private brain-scanning clinics has issued a call to scan the brains of presidential candidates in an opinion piece published in the Los Angeles
Read More »One million lose out in NHS dental reforms
By Rebecca Smith | Instead of improving access to NHS dentistry the reforms have made it worse, the report by the House of Commons Health Select Committee found. The number of dentists working in
Read More »Can Technology Improve Your Memory?
By Laura Weldon | You have everything you need to keep you informed. Technology provides you with answers to almost any question instantly. If you need reminders, you can program devices to prompt you
Read More »Autism Risk Linked to Distance From Power Plants
By Leslee Dru Browning | How do mercury emissions affect pregnant mothers, the unborn and toddlers? Do the level of emissions impact autism rates? Does it matter whether a mercury-emitting source is 10 miles
Read More »McCain’s Plan – Millions Will Lose Insurance Coverage
By Jo Hartley | Americans need to be aware of what Senator John McCain’s health care plan entails. Under the guise of fighting health care inflation, he is targeting the employer-provided system that currently
Read More »Heart experts warn Tasers deadly
By Suzanne Fournier | Tasers can cause fatal cardiac arrest and are even more dangerous if the subject is agitated, stressed and experiencing pain from the high-voltage device, two top Vancouver heart specialists said
Read More »Bush Administration Sued for Allowing Use of Pesticides
By Jo Hartley | Environmental and farm worker groups have now sued the Bush administration for allowing the continued use of four pesticides. They claim that the government brushed aside its own evidence that
Read More »Does Organic Really Mean Organic?
By David Gutierrez | The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has renewed its approval for 46 non-organically produced substances to be used in foods and beverages that are labeled “organic.” At the same time,
Read More »The Sick Science Tobacco Companies Pursue
By Scott Thill | Those who complain about how the internet or advances in technology haven’t done enough to make us smarter or better may not truly remember what life was like before either.
Read More »Exposed: the great GM crops myth
By Geoffrey Lean Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent. Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining
Read More »Canada Likely to Label Plastic Ingredient ‘Toxic’
By IAN AUSTEN OTTAWA — The Canadian government is said to be ready to declare as toxic a chemical widely used in plastics for baby bottles, beverage and food containers as well as linings
Read More »FDA Accused of Intentionally Creating Drug Monopolies
By David Gutierrez The outgoing chief executive officer of pharmaceutical giant Wyeth has accused the FDA of “establishing monopolies” by requiring new drugs to prove that they work better than products currently on the
Read More »How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
By Onnesha Roychoudhuri Author Charles Barber discusses Americans’ unrealistic notions about happiness. We’ve medicalized a lot of life issues that aren’t mental illnesses. While we’ve now become accustomed to the barrage of prescription drug
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