Posted April 19, 2019
In the past decades cholesterol has been vilified as a primary culprit in heart disease. Merck brought the first statin drug, Lovastatin, aka Mevacor, to market in 1987.4,5 Since then, statins have gone on to become the biggest selling class of pharmaceutical compounds of all time, with annual sales in excess of $19 billion in 2017 and projected to reach $24.4 by 2022.6,7 Although the growth has been rapid, recent data demonstrate physicians are not prescribing statins to all eligible patients. Read more.
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Vitamin D Acceptance Delayed by Big Pharma Following the Disinformation Playbook
Posted April 19, 2019
A “Disinformation Playbook” has been used for decades by corporations to delay government action on matters of public interest that would adversely affect their income and profit. Some well-known examples include the big tobacco companies, the coal and oil industries, the sugar industry, and the National Football League. The Union of Concerned Scientists has outlined five “pillars” of the Playbook [Disinformation Playbook], [Alvord 2017]. Big Pharma may be using the Playbook to slow the adoption of strong support for vitamin D. Read more.
The Powerful Aspirin Alternative Your Doctor Never Told You About
Posted April 17, 2019
In a previous article titled “The Evidence Against Aspirin and For Natural Alternatives,” we discussed the clear and present danger linked with the use of aspirin as well as several clinically proven alternatives that feature significant side benefits as opposed to aspirin’s many known side effects. Read more.
Healer or Dealer: Who to Blame for the Opioid Crisis in the U.S.?
Posted April 17, 2019
The opioid crisis in the U.S. has reached the point where the Drug Enforcement Administration itself says it should be doing a better job. The United States continues to be affected by a national opioid epidemic which has been spurred, in part, by the rise of opioid prescribing and misuse. The DEA can and must do better. Let’s quickly break it down. In a span of 17 years, 200,000 people have died as a result of overdose. Deaths involving opioids increased by four times from 1999 to 2016, and every day more than 650,000 opioid prescriptions are issued in the U.S. Read more.
New Bill Could Help Save Natural Medicines
Posted April 17, 2019
Legislation has been introduced to protect patient access to customized natural medicines. It needs our support. Action Alert! Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA) has reintroduced a bill to ensure continued consumer access to customized natural medicines made at specialized pharmacies (known as compounding pharmacies). While other challenges remain, the Preserving Patient Access to Compounded Medications Act is an important step toward curbing the attack on these important natural medicines. Read more.
Taxpayer-funded HIV Treatment Making Big Profits for Big Pharma
Posted April 17, 2019
And we wonder why health care costs are so high. Action Alert! Researchers using government funds have found a novel way of using an old prescription drug to prevent HIV infection. But once again, the government is allowing the pharmaceutical industry to reap the benefits of publicly-funded research, selling out sick patients. It is yet another example of why medicine is so expensive in this country, and it has to stop. Read more.
News Release: Codex-Driven Pesticide Profits Destroy Planet Earth
Posted April 17, 2019
First, it was antibiotic resistance. Now, anti-fungal drugs fail while global deaths mount. The situation is deadly serious. If you thought the “urgent threat” to the welfare of the Planet were the unvaccinated, think again. Fungicides over-used on agricultural crops have created an international crisis. During the past several years, a stealth germ has steadily gained resistance against common anti-fungal drugs: The rise of Candida Auris (C. auris) embodies a deadly-serious and emergent threat easily on par with global antibiotic resistance. Read more.
Diabetes: Facts About This Modern Epidemic
Posted April 17, 2019
According to research conducted in late 2016, life expectancy in the United States has declined for the first time in two decades, leaving the researchers baffled as to what the exact cause is.1 One of the primary perpetrators of this decline is believed to be drug overdose. But there is another major factor that has been pinpointed by a supporting study: diabetes, specifically Type 2 diabetes. Read more.
The Fox Owns the Henhouse — When Public Safety is Governed by Private Profit
Posted April 17, 2019
James Goodwin of the Center for Progressive Reform stated, “The American public would be surprised, and maybe even concerned, if they knew how widespread the practice of self-regulation was.” I wondered what implications this example might carry for aviation safety, agriculture, vaccine safety, and generally for the future of government oversight and scientific inquiry. Read more.
The Absolute Failure of US Public Health…
Posted April 17, 2019
(1) Whose job is it to generally protect the Public Health in the US? Easy answer – “We the People,” through a series of legislative acts, gave that job to what we now sneeringly call “US Public Health,” a conglomeration of Federal, State, and County agencies we funded, and empowered, to do the job. Read more.
