Articles by Heidi Stevenson:

20-Year Study: Lead Linked to Violent Crime and Shrinks the Brain (NewsTarget) A landmark study of children from birth into adulthood shows definitively that lead exposure leads to violent crime, that there are no safe levels of lead, and that it shrinks the brain. The study was reported in the Public Library of Science...

One in Nine Emergency Room Visits Caused by Pharmaceuticals (NewsTarget) A Vancouver, Canada study has documented that 12% of emergency room (ER) visits were the direct result of problems with a pharmaceutical drug. The length of stay for those admitted to the hospital was significantly longer. When a study...

Why Americans Are No Longer the Tallest People in the World (NewsTarget) Average height provides one of the best indications of a population’s overall health. Until the last few years, U.S. citizens were the world’s tallest and enjoyed better health than the people of any other nation. Things have changed, though....

How Corporations Drain Our Aquifers for Profit (Part 1) (NewsTarget) A modern water war is raging in the tiny town of McCloud, California, snuggled at the base of Mt. Shasta. The enormous conglomerate, Nestlé, managed to extort a contract with the financially strapped town’s board members. They were so broke...

How Corporations Drain Our Aquifers for Profit (Part 2) (NewsTarget) McCloud is not the only town under duress and Nestlé is not the only corporation waging war over this precious resource that actually belongs to the people. Methods Used to Steal the People’s Water In 2004, Denmark, Maine foolishly...

Disaster Results From Artificial Blood Testing on Unsuspecting People (NewsTarget) If you have been in an accident during the last ten years, you could have been a guinea pig for a medical product without even being told –- and the FDA approved it. The products are artificial blood, several types produced by different...

Lasik Surgery Results in Worse Vision and Never-Ending Pain (NewsTarget) Perfect vision without glasses or contacts sounds wonderful. Before considering having Lasik surgery, though, it would be wise to ask how many people actually do have good results and how many will suffer bad effects years after Lasik surgery....

Bananas Are Dying, Killed by Corporate Monoculture (NewsTarget) Prepare to say goodbye to bananas. Do you remember back in the sixties when there was a change in bananas? It wasn’t announced, but those of us who love the fruit did. They became less sweet and creamy -- just not as good. There was no information...

Asthma Drug Worse Than Placebo, Symptoms Worsen on Withdrawal (NewsTarget) Asthma symptoms worsen on withdrawal of the drug Accolate (zafirlukast). Benefits are seen for only the first five weeks, after which symptoms return to their original state within seven weeks. These eye-opening results were reported in...

Aspirin Sold as a Wonder Drug for All That Ails, But Falls Far Short (NewsTarget) You've likely seen the articles currently ballyhooing the idea that aspirin, along with other NSAIDs, cuts the risk of breast cancer. It sounds so good. The UK's Independent reported that the breast cancer risk is cut by 20%. The New York...

New Neurological Disease Found in Pig Processing Plant Workers (NewsTarget) We now have a new horrible disease brought by the same insane meat-raising industry that brought Mad Cow Disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, both implicated from the brains of sheep and cattle. It’s known by two terms, Progressive Inflammatory...

Life-threatening Pneumonia Caused by Pneumonia Vaccine (NewsTarget) Prevnar, an anti-pneumonia vaccination given in the United Kingdom, likely causes a significantly worse form of pneumonia to develop. This life-threatening lung disease, called Serotype 1, has become ten times more prevalent in ten years. Serotype...

So-Called Education Intentionally Dumbs Down Americans (NewsTarget) As Mike Adams’ wonderful analysis of the current state of the world shows in “The Biofuels Scam, Food Shortages and the Coming Collapse of the Human Population” (http://www.naturalnews.com/023091.html) , something is deeply wrong in America...

Former Shill for Big Pharma Tells the Truth About Drug Testing (NewsTarget) Erick Turner, a psychiatry professor at the Oregon State Health and Sciences University, woke up one day and realized that he was acting as a shill for pharmaceutical corporations. Worse, he was promoting drugs that not only provide very...

Odds of Intensive Care Medication Errors Are Over One Hundred Percent (NewsTarget) A report produced by PubMed Central states that 1.7 errors per day are experienced by patients in intensive care units (ICU). At least one life-threatening error occurs at some point during virtually every ICU stay. 78% of the serious medical...

First It Was Bees, Now It's Bats That Are Dying (NewsTarget) Though bats are a bit spooky looking, inviting thoughts of Dracula, the real horror story is that bats are becoming sick and perishing. A massive bat die-off is happening. Their extinction in the United States is threatening -- and no one...

Private Study Links Vaccinations to Neurological Disorders (NewsTarget) Studies financed by pharmaceutical corporations and government agencies - which are now largely under the control of big pharma - keep stating that there is no link between autism and vaccinations or thimerosal. As a previous News Target...

Childhood Vaccinations Hoax - Not Effective and at Worst, Harmful (NewsTarget) It's taken as an article of faith that vaccinations have improved our lifespan. We take our children to the doctor for their injections without question. We think of ourselves as bad parents if we don't. It's simply one of those things that...

WiFi and EM Radiation - The Rest of the Autism Story (NewsTarget) As has been well documented on NewsTarget*, there is a clear link between mercury poisoning, especially through thimerosal in vaccinations, and autism, along with other neurological disorders. There is, though, another factor that has recently...

Arachnoiditis - The Risk You Take When Opting for Spinal Surgery (NewsTarget) André Gorz, founder of the French magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur, the most popular Paris news magazine today, and a brilliant journalist and philosopher, died in a suicide pact with his wife on September 24, 2007. They committed suicide...

Dissecting a Thimerosal Study (NewsTarget) They're at it again. The campaign to make people believe that vaccines and their preservative, thimerosal, are safe is in full swing. The usual technique of a pseudo-scientific test is being used, with the medical system jumping on the bandwagon....

Is Diabetes Caused by Pharmaceuticals? (NewsTarget) On July 31st, Patrick Bills filed a lawsuit against Bristol-Myers Squibb claiming that its drug, Tequin, the brand name of gatafloxacin, caused his diabetes. The New England Journal of Medicine reported on March 30, 2006 that...