Posted November 22, 2019
The agency is doubling down on a bad guidance that endangers access to important medicines. Action Alert!
Recently, the FDA announced the withdrawal of Compliance Policy Guide 400.400, a document that had been in place since 1988 and which established the agency’s enforcement policies regarding homeopathic medicines. In its place, the FDA has issued a revised draft guidance declaring all homeopathic drugs are being marketed illegally. We must fight back against this attack on homeopathic medicine. Read more.
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Radiologists Conceal Heavy Metal Accumulation from MRIs
Posted November 22, 2019
Gadolinium is the contrast agent of choice in about one-third of cases.3 It’s injected into your body, allowing for greater detail to show up in the MRI images. There’s a price for this, however, as gadolinium is a highly toxic heavy metal. Read more.
UN Praises Maldives Bill Outlawing Informed Consent for Pharmaceuticals
Posted November 22, 2019
The parliament of the Republic of Maldives on November 14 passed a bill effectively outlawing the exercise of the right to informed consent, one of the most fundamental ethics in medicine. If ratified, according to multiple Maldives online news sources, the new law would make it illegal for parents to decline certain pharmaceutical products for their children. Read more.
Common Antibiotic Could Lead to Fatal Heart Issues
Posted November 22, 2019
Used to kill infections, antibiotics can also wreak havoc on your gut health and immune system. And along with the physicians incorrectly prescribing them and individuals incorrectly taking them, antibiotics are giving rise to the dangerous public health crisis of antibiotic resistance, aka “superbugs.” To make matters worse, data indicates that a certain type of antibiotic sold as, Zithromax poses serious heart risks to consumers. Read more.
12 Drug-Free Ways to Cool Hot Flashes
Posted November 22, 2019
Hot flashes are most often associated with menopause. But breast cancer survivors can have particularly severe and frequent flashes when chemotherapy or surgery sends them into premature menopause. Many women find relief with hormone replacement therapy (HRT). But breast cancer survivors aren’t candidates for HRT because of concerns that estrogen promotes breast cancer. Read more.
The Anti-Cholesterol Statin Drug Pa(Ch)arade Continues
Posted November 21, 2019
The nation’s corps of elite medical news reporters isn’t touching this one. It’s a commentary entitled “Systematic Review of The Predictors of Statin Drug Adherence For the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, published in PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE (PLoS One), in January of 2019. Read more.
Black Seed Reverses Liver Disease
Posted November 21, 2019
What alarms health researchers about fatty liver disease is its prevalence among U.S. population -up to 25% of Americans are affected, but most don’t know it- and IFL’s “canary in a coalmine” effect of signaling deeper problems on the horizon, such as heart disease, diabetes, and liver cancer. Another cause for concern is the lack of effective drug treatments. Due to the metabolic derangements caused by many pharmaceuticals, several drugs have been found to cause liver disease, such as corticosteroids, and certain cancer and arthritis medications. Read more.
Tylenol in Pregnancy Doubles Risk of Autism
Posted November 15, 2019
Many view over-the-counter (OTC) drugs as safe because they don’t require a prescription. Nothing could be further from the truth. Acetaminophen, for example, (also known as paracetamol and sold under the brand name Tylenol among others) is actually one of the more dangerous drugs you can get your hands on. Read more.
CDC Urged to be Truthful About Its Corporate Financial Ties
Posted November 15, 2019
Public interest nonprofit organizations U.S. Right to Know and Public Citizen have petitioned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop issuing false disclaimers that it “does not accept commercial support” and has “no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products.” Read more.
FDA Rigs Process Against Estriol, Other Botanicals
Posted November 14, 2019
An update in the fight to protect estriol and other hormones from an FDA ban. Action Alert!
We’ve said before that the FDA is stacking the deck against bioidentical hormones; now it seems incontrovertible. Time is running out for the natural health community to mount an effective defense of estriol and other compounded, bioidentical hormones from an FDA ban. Please take action by signing our petition to the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) study committee, urging them to consider ALL of the evidence in determining the clinical utility of compounded bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (cBHRT). Read more.
