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Why Doctors are Idiots: 150 Years of Disatrous Advice on Children's Health (satire)

12/15/2007 - (NaturalNews Satire) With mandatory vaccines suddenly being forced onto parents by doctors and so-called "health authorities" in places like Maryland, New Jersey and Texas, you might think that doctors being full of bunk is a new phenomenon. But no, it's...

Rapid flu test could help reduce overprescription of antibiotics

2/2/2007 - (NaturalNews) New flu tests that yield rapid results could help curb the overprescription of antibiotics, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Researchers found that among flu patients, those who tested positive for...

Death sentence for medics accused of giving hundreds of children HIV

12/27/2006 - (NaturalNews) A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for a second time Tuesday, for knowingly infecting 426 children with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Since the medics were first imprisoned in 1999, 52...

Doctors prescribing antidepressants, antipsychotic medications to infants under the age of one, says psychiatrist

12/13/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to Dr. Yolande Lucire, a forensic psychicatrist based in New South Wales, Australia, doctors are giving children younger than 1 year of age prescriptions for atypical antipsychotics -- a class of narcotics used to treat schizophrenia,...

Antibiotics found useless for treating bronchitis

11/17/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to a new study from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, antibiotics should no longer be standard practice for treating bronchitis. Two physician researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University School...

Canada warns ADHD drug takers over "psychiatric events"

9/25/2006 - (NaturalNews) In the wake of two dozen reported cases of mood, personality and psychological reactions that may be linked to ADHD drugs -- including agitation, hallucinations and three suicides -- Health Canada is revising it's prescribing and patient...

Popular acne drug found to cause depression, suicide

9/19/2006 - (NaturalNews) The acne drug Accutane has been implicated in an increase in feelings of depression among adolescent users, and while the link has never been proven, researchers at the University of Bath and the University of Texas in Austin have gathered...

"Miracle" cancer drug Glivec found to cause heart cell death, heart failure

9/11/2006 - (NaturalNews) A study of targeted cancer therapy Glivec (Imantinib mesylate) found that the treatment could cause heart failure, and moreover, could indicate side effect issues for other targeted therapies. The FDA approved Glivec in May of 2001 after...

While scientists clash over the dangers of ADHD drugs, the U.S. government does nothing to protect children

9/6/2006 - Since the Vioxx scandal broke in late 2004, most Americans are all too familiar with the idea that prescription drugs can be dangerous and even deadly. But how would America react if it were to discover that a class of drugs being primarily prescribed...

Cancer patient killed by massive chemotherapy drugs administered with an automatic pump

9/1/2006 - (NaturalNews) Alberta Cancer Board official Dr. Tony Fields apologized Thursday to the family of a woman who died last week from massive overdose of the chemotherapy drug 5-fluorouracil, which led to multiple organ failure and internal bleeding. Two...

Off-label prescribing rampant as doctors give patients amphetamines, psychotropic drugs for weight loss

8/24/2006 - (NaturalNews) Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal reported that many doctors engage in "off-label" drug prescribing to help patients lose weight, which involves prescribing medications for weight loss that have not been approved by the FDA for that...

Ketek drug scandal reveals pattern of scientific fraud at the FDA

7/19/2006 - The FDA has once again been caught red-handed ignoring the dangers of a widely-prescribed drug and compromising the health of millions. Internal email messages have now surfaced about how the FDA pushed the antibiotic drug Ketek despite urgent warnings...

Psychiatry and disease mongering: Road Rage Disorder is latest spontaneously "discovered" disease

6/13/2006 - Disease mongering has reached a new level of ridiculousness with the widely-reported announcement that millions of American now have undiagnosed Road Rage Disorder, also sometimes called Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED). Desperate to scrounge up...

Off-label drug use and the sham of FDA-approved drug safety

5/23/2006 - Did you know that many drugs are used legally in the United States today for diseases and conditions they were never approved for? It's called off-label drug use, and it's a common practice that promotes the sale of prescription drugs and circumvents...

TGN1412 drug trial update: One patient may lose fingers and toes due to drug side effects

5/8/2006 - Ryan Flanagan was a healthy, 21-year-old student living in London. Like many college students, Flanagan needed a little bit of extra money, and a prescription drug trial advertised on the internet looked like just the way to get it. "He told us he...

Lying with statistics: How conventional medicine confuses the public with absolute risk vs. relative risk

5/3/2006 - Which drug would you rather take? One that reduces your risk of cancer by 50 percent, or another drug that only eliminates cancer in one out of 100 people? Most people would choose the drug that reduces their risk of cancer by 50 percent, but the fact...

Pretend medicine: Let's play doctor!

4/21/2006 - Conventional medicine, as practiced today, is actually pretend medicine. Doctors and drug companies pretend to make patients healthier by giving them drugs. The FDA pretends to protect the safety of the public. Medical journals pretend to print only...

Human medical experiments go terribly wrong in "nightmare" TGN1412 drug trial

3/15/2006 - "We told ya so" just doesn't cut it. Barely ten days after Truth Publishing warned the public about the dangers of medical experimentation on humans, a disastrous pharmaceutical experiment has left six men fighting for their lives. The scene was a...

Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1833-1965)

3/6/2006 - Introduction by the Health Ranger: The United States claims to be the world leader in medicine. But there's a dark side to western medicine that few want to acknowledge: The horrifying medical experiments performed on impoverished people and their children...

Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1965-2005)

3/6/2006 - This is part two of a two-part series on human medical experimentation. Click here to read part one and the introduction. (1966) The CIA continues a limited number of MKULTRA plans by beginning Project MKSEARCH to develop and test ways of using biological,...

TMAP, medication algorithm horrors, and the drugging of our children

2/21/2006 - In an Oct. 17, 2005 meeting, Director Charles Currie announced that the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) no longer endorses the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP). Upon hearing this news, the Government Accountability...

Pledge of Allegiance hijacked by Big Pharma (satire)

1/26/2006 - Under new laws declared by the Bush Administration, Big Pharma will begin funding public education, but schoolchildren will now be required to recite an UPDATED Pledge of Allegiance. For those who may have forgotten, here's the ORIGINAL Pledge: I...

Study shows alarming spike in prescription drug deaths at the beginning of each month

11/21/2005 - David Phillips, Ph.D., has conducted a number of studies on mortality in his career, but one of the most recent has gained significant attention, as it shows the rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs climbs roughly 25 percent at the beginning of...

Killer cancer treatment: How toxic chemotherapy kills both cancer cells and cancer patients

10/25/2005 - "If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction—possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The...

Unnecessary surgery exposed! Why 60% of all surgeries are medically unjustified and how surgeons exploit patients to generate profits

10/7/2005 - Every year millions of Americans go under the knife, but many of them are enduring great pain and shelling out thousands of dollars for surgeries they don't really need. In fact, the only people who seem to really benefit from these unnecessary medical...

The great thimerosal cover-up: Mercury, vaccines, autism and your child's health

9/22/2005 - You have probably seen your nurse insert a syringe into a large vial, extract some liquid, and then leave a substantial amount of vaccine in the original container. If you've witnessed this seemingly benign procedure, you've seen how vaccine manufacturers...

The FDA Exposed: An Interview With Dr. David Graham, the Vioxx Whistleblower

8/30/2005 - The following interview with Dr. David Graham (senior drug safety researcher at the FDA) was conducted by Manette Loudon, the lead investigator for Dr. Gary Null. This interview contains jaw-dropping insights about the corruption and crimes that take...

Leaked documents show Merck knew of Vioxx dangers, yet hid them for years

8/6/2005 - "What are the long-term benefits of your being able to bring value to the relationship with our customers?" Merck asked sales trainees in a PowerPoint slide captioned "The Payoff." "Bonus," appeared on the next slide, showing a sales representative holding...

The madness of bariatric surgery and other "modern" surgical procedures

7/26/2005 - It has now been widely reported that bariatric surgery (an aggressive form of weight loss surgery where patients' digestive organs are lobotomized) has an unintended side effect: low blood sugar. According to reports in USA Today, the New York Times,...

If the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things you might notice

7/22/2005 - 1. Your average car would cost $4.5 million, representing a 30,000% markup over cost, which is typical for prescription drugs. Automakers would justify this price by saying they needed the money to fund research and development, but in reality, most...

Physicians and bribery: a closer look at this common medical industry practice

7/7/2005 - In 2001, 2.8 billion prescriptions were filled in the United States for an average of 9.9 prescriptions per person. This statistic taken from Ultraprevention, by Drs. Mark Hyman and Mark Liponis, certainly supports their point that "drug industry prescriptions...

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