Posted April 12, 2019
I know that the headline sounds outrageous, but it is actually true. According to a brand new report that was just released, Americans had to borrow 88 billion dollars to cover their medical bills last year. That is a truly astounding number, and it shows just how dramatically our current health care system has failed. And even though the vast majority of Americans are covered by “health insurance”, millions of us are deathly afraid to go to the hospital because of what it might cost. Today, two-thirds of all personal bankruptcies in the United States are caused by medical bills, and most of the people going bankrupt actually had health insurance. Read more.
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Restless Legs Syndrome Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Posted April 12, 2019
Some people sometimes feel fidgety before or as they sleep, tossing and turning or moving around in bed. Oftentimes, it’s brought on by anxiety, though it will eventually pass. But in some cases, it might be a sleep-related movement disorder that could affect your lifestyle and health. If you’ve been feeling the urge to move your legs, especially at night, it is important to look into your condition as you may have restless legs syndrome. Read more.
New Federal Approval for a Postpartum Depression Pill
Posted April 12, 2019
The first drug to treat postpartum depression has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but there are serious questions about whether this medication will truly help new moms in need. Postpartum depression (PPD) affects about 1 in 9 women1 in the days and weeks following childbirth, although for some the symptoms begin during pregnancy. Read more.
What Does ‘Best Evidence’ Say About Antidepressants?
Posted April 12, 2019
According to the latest statistics,1 17.3 million American adults (7.1 percent of the adult U.S. population) and 3.2 million adolescents (13.3 percent of U.S. population aged 12 to 17) suffered at least one major depressive episode in 2017. Read more.
Are Western Doctors Compelled to Support the Vaccine Industry?
Posted April 12, 2019
If we take a broad overview of the structure of conventional medicine in our Western societies, we are left with an inescapable conclusion: it is set up as a business, where profit is most highly valued and human health and safety is secondary. The evidence for this is overwhelming and is discussed in greater detail in many of our articles on the subject listed at the end of this article. Read more.
Angina
Posted April 12, 2019
Medical doctors Wilfrid and Evan Shute of London, Ontario successfully treated well over 30,000 cardiovascular disease patients with up to 3200 IU of vitamin E daily. For that achievement, they were ostracized from their medical society. Here are the principles of the therapy: Read more.
In a Free Market Economy, the Best Remedy for what ails Modern Medicine is Competition, If It Would Ever Be Allowed
Posted April 5, 2019
In a free-market economy, is there freedom for alternative practitioners to recommend vitamins for young autistic children? In the United Kingdom it is apparent alternative practitioners such as homeopathic physicians don’t compete on equal ground with allopathic doctors. Entrenched allopathic (conventional) medicine has the advantage in that it claims to have the high scientific ground, controls payment systems and is singularly favored by the news media. In fact, homeopaths are characterized as an example of health quackery in the UK. Read more.
Magnesium Puts Psychiatric Drugs to Shame for Depression
Posted April 5, 2019
Depression is one of the most widely diagnosed conditions of our time, with over 3 million cases in the U.S. every year, and 350 million believed affected worldwide.1 Conventional medicine considers antidepressant drugs first-line treatments, including the newly approved injected postpartum drug costing $34,000 a treatment, to the tune of a 16 billion dollars in global sales by 2023. Despite their widespread use, these drugs are fraught with a battery of serious side effects, including suicidal ideation and completion — the last two things you would hope to see in a condition that already has suicidality as a co-morbidity. For this reason alone, natural, safe, and effective alternatives are needed more than ever before. Read more.
FDA Approves Ketamine Derived Nasal Spray so Dangerous you Can’t Administer it at Home
Posted April 5, 2019
The recent fast track approval of a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary’s ketamine derived nasal spray called Spravato is raising a few eyebrows amid conscientious consumers. Marketed as one of the new depression therapies, Spravato is geared towards individuals who’ve tried two or more other treatments unsuccessfully, and according to recent research, this nasal spray for depression is indeed ‘effective.’ Read more.
YAHOO: FDA Medical Advisor: ‘Congress is owned by Pharma’
Posted April 5, 2019
“Dr. Raeford Brown, a pediatric anesthesia specialist at the UK Kentucky Children’s Hospital and chair of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Committee on Analgesics and Anesthetics, has been openly critical of big pharma and the lack of proper oversight from the FDA. Despite many politicians, particularly declared presidential candidates, beginning to speak out against big pharma, Brown does not think that anything will come out of it ‘because Congress is owned by pharma.’ Read more.
