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American Doctors Busted for Fraud, Conspiracy in HIV Treatment Scam

7/1/2009 - (NaturalNews) I've often asserted that doctors exploit people for personal profit, prescribing drugs and procedures that are medically unnecessary while raking in millions from health insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid. This week, Miami doctor...

Ritalin ADHD Drug Linked to 500 Percent Increased Risk of Sudden Death in Children

6/16/2009 - (NaturalNews) Just how dangerous are the amphetamine stimulant drugs prescribed for children with so-called ADHD? According to scientific research funded by the FDA and the National Institute of Mental Health, drugs such as Ritalin increase the risk...

Drug Companies Using Third-World People as Guinea Pigs

6/4/2009 - (NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly turning to the practice of testing their drugs on Third World populations in order to keep costs down, according to a report by researchers from Duke University, titled Ethical and Scientific Implications...

Drug Company Freebies Turn Medical Students into Drug Pushers

5/27/2009 - (NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical companies routinely shower medical students with all sorts of freebies -- from notepads and ballpoint pins to clipboards and calendars – that are emblazoned with the names of prescription drugs and devices. That may sound...

Big Pharma: The Somali Pirates of Healthcare Who Hijack Your Health to Extract Profits

4/22/2009 - (NaturalNews) As the world's attention is now fixated on the Somali pirates who hijacked the Maersk Alabama ship in their quest for profits, it's fascinating to watch the circus of the American justice system attempt to enforce U.S. laws in a lawless...

Surprise Supreme Court Decision Ends Big Pharma's Pre-Emption Bid for Legal Immunity

3/5/2009 - (NaturalNews) In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against Wyeth in the Diana Levine case, setting a crucial precedent in the battle against Big Pharma. The ruling ends an important part of the Big Pharma / FDA conspiracy racket that sought...

Vaccines as Biological Weapons? Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Materials Sent to 18 Countries

3/3/2009 - (NaturalNews) There's a popular medical thriller novel in which a global pandemic is intentionally set off by an evil plot designed to reduce the human population. In the book, a nefarious drug company inserts live avian flu viruses into vaccine materials...

AstraZeneca Suppressed Information about Seroquel Link to Diabetes, Told Sales Reps to Lie

2/27/2009 - (NaturalNews) Drug maker AstraZeneca, seller of the Seroquel antipsychotic drug, suppressed clinical studies showing its drug significantly increased the risk of diabetes, say internal e-mails. As Bloomberg is reporting today (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aS_.NqzMArG8&refer=home),...

Drug Companies Discover Clever Loophole to Avoid Listing Side Effects in Direct-to-Consumer Advertising

2/5/2009 - (NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical companies have discovered a way to circumvent federal rules that require the listing of side effects in any direct-to-consumer ads: running ads that never mention specific drugs by name but merely direct consumers to a Web...

Modern Medicine, Part I: How Healing Illness Became Managing Illness

1/27/2009 - (NaturalNews) For over 6000 years, man looked first to nature to heal illness and maintain wellness. As a result of a deliberate and often sinister plan, the past century and a half has seen curing illness with nature replaced with managing sickness and...

Revealed: The "Secret Language Codes" Used by Doctors and Drug Companies to Manipulate Patients

1/22/2009 - (NaturalNews) Last year, I met a small, frail woman in Los Angeles who approached me after a speech I gave on nutritional cures. In a weak, crackled voice, she told me my speech was all wrong. There were no cures for diabetes or cancer, she said, and...

Celebrities are Smarter than "Skeptical Scientists" When it Comes to Health Literacy

12/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) The science "skeptics" are at it again, attacking the credibility of celebrities who they say demonstrate astonishing levels of scientific illiteracy. Barack Obama, Oprah, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kate Moss and Julianne Moore have all been...

Poor Families Pressed Into Vaccine Trials by Drug Companies; 12 Babies Die

12/9/2008 - (NaturalNews) Major pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has been accused of pressuring poor Third World parents into enrolling their children in experimental drug trials that have led to the deaths of at least 12 infants. The company is currently...

Bone Drugs: The Latest Skeletons in Big Pharma's Closet

12/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) Bisphosphonate bone drugs have been in the news recently, and if you look outside the mainstream media you will find that the news is not good at all. Instead of a product that actually cures illness or corrects deficiencies, bisphosphonates...

Health Ranger Offers Thirty-One Predictions for 2009 - Health, Economy, Terrorism and More

12/1/2008 - (NaturalNews) Making public predictions about the economy, terrorism, politics and health care is always risky business. There are too many variables to track with much certainty, and nobody has a crystal ball that really works. But by looking at the...

Drug Companies Ordered to Pay Alabama $114 Million in Medicaid Pricing Fraud Scheme

12/1/2008 - (NaturalNews) An Alabama court has ordered two major drug companies to pay the state more than $114 million after finding them guilty of Medicaid price fraud. State lawyers had accused GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis of charging Alabama's Medicaid program...

Drug Companies Pay "Opinion Leaders" to Push Pills During Influential Meetings, Seminars

11/14/2008 - (NaturalNews) An article published in the British Medical Journal, also known as BMJ, has revealed the extent to which pharmaceutical companies go to turn influential senior doctors into undercover salespeople for their drugs. "Key opinion leaders...

Big Pharma's New Mass-Drugging Agenda Pushes Statin Drugs for Healthy People

11/12/2008 - (NaturalNews) Drug companies used to sell products for the treatment of disease. But it didn't take long for Big Pharma to figure out that the number of diseased people is limited, and therefore so are drug profits. To bypass this problem, they began...

The Supreme Court Betrays the Public on Medtronic Preemption Case (transcript)

11/6/2008 - (NaturalNews) This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger reporting for www.NaturalNews.com . This article is a transcript of the audio from Health Ranger Report #11, available here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html Today, I'm bringing you...

Big Pharma May be Handed Blanket Immunity for All Drug Side Effects, Deaths

11/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) The Supreme Court may rule that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for dangerous or even deadly side effects from their drugs if those side effects arise from an FDA-approved use. Under a legal argument known as "pre-emption," the...

The Health Ranger Answers Common Questions About Nutritional Supplements (transcript)

9/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) The following is a transcript of a broadcast of The Health Ranger Show. You can find the downloadable audio of this program here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html What is the biggest myth about nutritional supplements?...

Drug Companies Rebuked for Withholding Clinical Trial Data Revealing Negative Results

9/2/2008 - (NaturalNews) British officials and researchers scolded the drug industry for withholding negative drug trial results after a new study demonstrated that many antidepressants offer no significant benefit over a placebo to most patients. The new study...

Drug Companies Routinely Bury Studies Showing Their Drugs Don't Work

8/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) More than 30 percent of studies conducted on antidepressant drugs go unpublished, apparently because they fail to show that the drug works as advertised, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. In addition,...

Drug Companies Push New Medications for Fibromyalgia Via Disease Mongering Campaigns

8/7/2008 - (NaturalNews) Pfizer has launched a television advertising campaign to push its medicine for fibromyalgia, even though the disease's existence is disputed by some doctors. In the ad, a middle-aged woman reads out loud from her diary, saying, "Today...

Menstruation is a Disease (And Other Ridiculous Myths Believed by Mainstream Consumers)

8/5/2008 - (NaturalNews) As I was horrified to discover upon turning on the TV in a hotel room recently, drug companies are now pushing pills that promise women a significant reduction in the frequency of menstruation. The implication, of course, is that menstruation...

Drug Companies Exaggerate Benefits of Osteoporosis Drugs to Women

8/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) Studies published by drug companies exaggerate the benefit of osteoporosis drugs to women who do not have the disease, according to a report published in the journal BMJ. Drug companies attempt to erase the distinction between osteoporosis...

Cholesterol Disease Mongering Reaches New Low with Statin Drug Push For 8-Year-Olds

7/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) In the latest example of absurd disease mongering to receive widespread media attention, the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee has announced that infants as young as two years old need to be screened for high cholesterol, and children...

The Politics of National Health Care Reform: Why no Popular Presidential Candidate can Solve Our Health Care Crisis (transcript)

7/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) The following is a transcript of Health Ranger Report #16, entitled The Politics of National Health Care Reform, which is available free of charge as an MP3 download at: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html Have you ever wondered...

Do Pharmaceuticals Make You Healthy? Health Ranger Announces $10,000 Health Challenge to Big Pharma

6/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) It is the position of Big Pharma that pharmaceuticals make people healthier. That's the whole point of taking them, of course -- to enhance your health in some way that the human body apparently cannot achieve on its own (if you believe...

Why Drug Companies Do Not Want You to Take Supplements

6/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) Supplements like Coenzyme Q10, amino acids, even a daily multiple vitamin can provide your body with natural health benefits. So why would the pharmaceutical companies have a problem with this? Think about it. If nutritional supplements...

Flawed St. John's Wort Study on ADHD Failed to Use Active Form of Herbal Extract

6/13/2008 - (NaturalNews) On the heels of shocking revelations that top psychiatric research Dr. Joseph Biederman secretly took $1.6 million from drug companies while conducting psychotropic drug experiments on children, it has been learned that Dr. Biederman is...

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