Articles by Byron Richards:

Western Medicine Fails Tim Russert (NaturalNews) The shocking death of Tim Russert last Friday has left an entire nation wondering what happened. He was a model patient, doing everything his doctors asked. All major media have run articles trying to explain the nuances and difficulties...

Did Statin Drugs Cause Senator Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor? (NaturalNews) Legions of well wishers look on as Senator Ted Kennedy struggles for his life, fighting against one of the most difficult types of brain tumors. Few men have had such an impact on the laws made in the United States. As a powerful member...

What's in Your Multiple Vitamin? Detecting Real Quality. Part 1 – Minerals Junky vitamins are often passed off as quality, and many times are endorsed by a physician or celebrity. There are many tricks that low quality supplement companies use to hide their poor quality, spending more money on marketing than on what is under...

What's in Your Multiple Vitamin? Detecting Real Quality, Part 2 – Vitamins (NaturalNews) Multiple vitamins are taken by at least 50% of American adults and 25% of teenagers. It is common knowledge that our food supply is lacking key nutrients that support health. Yet, the quality of multiple vitamins varies dramatically as...

CNN Helps Autism Debacle Blow Up in Government's Face; Vaccine-Autism Link No Longer in Question (NaturalNews) On April 2, 2008 CNN spent the day bringing awareness to the problem of autism. Larry King's segment, which included Jenny McCarthy along with a panel of guests, was particularly enlightening. My hat is off to Jenny, a celebrity mother...

Branding Pregnancy as Mental Illness: Immediate Consumer Action Needed to Stop Mothers Act The Mothers Act is pending legislation that will indoctrinate hundreds of thousands of mothers into taking dangerous psych drugs. It is a great example of how the Big Pharma lobby controls Congress to the detriment of health, as well as needlessly and...

Vytoringate Builds Steam - Folic Acid Ignored The Wall Street Journal now calls it Vytoringate - one of the biggest drug frauds in history. Merck and Schering-Plough sat on bad drug trial results of their cholesterol drug and raked in close to 10 billion dollars selling snake oil. The drug in...

Heath Ledger - Tragedy, with Controversy to Follow The entertainment community is in shock over the loss of a rising star. Heath Ledger, dead at the age of 28, apparently from an accidental overdose of medication. Autopsy results have been delayed for 10 days, but enough information has already become...

FDA Collaboration with Big Pharma Raises Eyebrows (NewsTarget) The Andrew von Eschenbach FDA era is upon us. The Avandia scandal is the tip of the iceberg. Is anyone ready? The words “illicit financial collusion” have been replaced by the politically correct term, “collaboration.” On May 30, in defense...

FDA Announces Plan to Eliminate Vitamin Companies (NewsTarget) The FDA, emboldened by its transformation into a drug company, has embarked upon an anti-American plan of interfering with business and intentionally eliminating various dietary supplement companies from the market. The FDA announcement...

FDA Sleeps While Common Medications Poison the Elderly (NewsTarget) On November 29, 2007 the FDA made a rather surprising, almost honest announcement. It said that it could not protect Americans from the dangers of drugs. A 56-page report by its Subcommittee on Science and Technology stated the FDA “suffers...

The Statin Scam Marches On (NewsTarget) Considering that tens of millions of Americans now take statins to lower cholesterol, the following headline was conspicuously absent from the major media this month: “Statins Found To Turn On Gene That Causes Muscle Damage.” It’s now a...

The Gullible Jennifer Garner Flu Shot Campaign (NewsTarget) Flu shots remain a subject of intense controversy. Vaccinations of all types remain the centerpiece of the public health herd-mentality paradigm. Just wait until the Avian flu comes, then you will see public health at its finest. Yes, there...

The Nature of Energy-Depleting Thyroid Problems (NewsTarget) Millions of Americans suffer from some degree of energy-depleting thyroid problem. You may be one of the many whose sluggish thyroid problem did not show up on a lab test. This is partly because thyroid lab tests do not accurately measure...

Oprah Raises Awareness on Thyroid Issue (NewsTarget) Oprah has done an immense favor to millions of American women by helping them understand that a malfunctioning thyroid gland may indeed be part of their weight and health problems. After writing openly about her thyroid problem in the October...

Natural Vitamin E Dramatically Reduces Heart Disease A new randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled cardiovascular study evaluating natural vitamin E, synthetic vitamin C, and synthetic beta-carotene has shown that natural vitamin E reduced cardiovascular death or serious cardiovascular disease by...

China sentences ex-head of FDA to death over drug company bribes The penalty in China is death, in America it's business as usual. Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of China's FDA, was sentenced to death for accepting $832,000 in drug company bribes and for dereliction of duty. Like China, our country is in the middle...

U.S. Senate attempts damage control as House braces for onslaught (Understanding the Threat to Dietary Supplements -- Part 2, by Byron Richards) Senators were taken off guard by the public outrage over the passing of bill S.1082 with language that can be used to seriously harass dietary supplements by enabling the...

FDA acquiring new powers to suppress alternative health Part 1 of Byron Richards' "Understanding the Threat to Dietary Supplements." Your right to have free access to safe and highly effective dietary supplements is under an intense multi-pronged FDA attack. On May 14, 2007 the Supreme Court sided with...

S.1082 Update - Senate Stabs Americans in the Back; Big Pharma Maintains Monopoly on U.S. Drug Prices For approximately four days Americans lived in a delusional state that they may soon pay drug prices the same as every other country in the civilized world. Euphoria over breaking the Big Pharma monopoly turned to disgust as the chameleon, Senator Edward...

Health freedom community rallies against passage of FDA Revitalization Act of 2007 The following article is authored by Byron Richards, health freedom advocate and author. It concerns today's important vote on the FDA Revitalization Act of 2007. My comments (Mike Adams) are in red. Here's the full article...

FDA, Inc.? Food and Drug Administration to enter drug business under new "Revitalization Act" NewsTarget is reprinting, with permission, an article published today by Byron Richards, author of Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America. In this article, Richards exposes the real story behind a little-known provision in the...

A Bombshell Drops on Cholesterol Medication's Glass House It had to happen sooner or later. On October 3, 2006, after extensive review of all studies relating to cholesterol-lowering benefits by statin drugs, scientists reporting in the Annals of Internal Medicine pulled the rug out from under the current...

FDA Attacks Small Nutrition Companies (NewsTarget) On October 19, 2006, the FDA fired off twenty-four warning letters to small nutrition companies that made claims they had natural remedies to help with diabetes. At first glance, one might think the FDA was actually doing its job. With tremendous...