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FDA Drug Risk Evaluation employee reprimanded for mentioning dangers of diabetes drug

11/14/2007 - (NaturalNews) The former deputy director of the FDA's Division of Drug Risk Evaluation has said that she was verbally reprimanded by her superiors when she recommended that diabetes drug Avandia be labeled with a "black box" warning about congestive heart...

Cold medicine scam finally exposed after decades of harming children

11/7/2007 - (NaturalNews) Another example of outright quackery by pharmaceutical companies has finally gathered enough steam to achieve mainstream news coverage: Cold medicines are useless, say pediatricians who petitioned the FDA to ban the marketing of such products...

Bush / Big Pharma conspiracy? White House to oppose open disclosure of clinical drug trials

9/19/2007 - The White House is taking steps to kill the FDA reform legislation recently passed in the House of Representatives that would require drug companies to publicly post clinical trial results so that doctors, researchers and the public could review them....

China executes top FDA official while the U.S. does nothing to counter corruption

7/11/2007 - What's interesting about China's execution of its top FDA official (Zheng Xiaoyu) for accepting bribes from drug companies is not that China executed a corrupt official, it's that such harsh actions demonstrate, in contrast, the complete lack of action...

How the FDA is Becoming a Drug Company: Consumer Safety and Access to Natural Health Options Threatened

6/14/2007 - Under the false pretense of improved food and drug safety the FDA is re-inventing itself as a kingpin drug company. This charade has so far hoodwinked virtually all members of Congress. The Senate has already approved this FDA transformation. The House...

FDA Knew of Avandia's Dangers Nearly Five Years Ago, Memo Shows

5/23/2007 - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew nearly five years ago about the dangers associated with the diabetes drug Avandia, an internal FDA memo shows. A study released Monday by the New England Journal of Medicine showed a 43 percent increase in...

FDA acquiring new powers to suppress alternative health

5/15/2007 - 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...

FDA drug safety bill passes in the U.S. Senate; health freedom advocates outraged at betrayal of American consumers

5/9/2007 - The U.S. Senate passed the FDA "drug safety" bill today (S.1082) with a 93-1 vote. A key amendment that would have called for genuine drug safety protections for consumers -- the Grassley amendment 1039 -- was defeated by a single vote (47 to 46). The...

28 Senators vote to maintain Big Pharma monopoly over U.S. consumers; Republicans oppose free trade for medicine

5/7/2007 - On May 3rd, 2007, U.S. Senators voted on an amendment to the 2007 Prescription Drug User Fee bill that aims to reform the FDA and enhance drug safety. This amendment, known as the "Dorgan Amendment No. 990," threatened to break Big Pharma's monopoly...

Natural health community having a huge impact on Senate bill S.1082; consumers achieving important victories

5/4/2007 - We have good news to report on the Senate bill S.1082 that we've been covering all week. The grassroots efforts of citizens and advocates in the health freedom movement are making a huge impact on this legislative effort. We've already managed to delay...

FDA Revitalization Act renamed, amended and still hotly debated; floor vote is imminent

5/1/2007 - The hotly-debated S.1082 legislation sponsored by Sen. Kennedy has now been renamed the Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2007, reports Brenna Hill of the Health Freedom Foundation and American Association (www.HealthFreedom.net). The bill...

Health freedom community rallies against passage of FDA Revitalization Act of 2007

4/30/2007 - 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"

4/25/2007 - NaturalNews 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...

Analysis: Senate committee approves drug safety bill, but FDA still runs on Big Pharma money - UPDATE 1

4/19/2007 - On Monday, April 30th, the Senate is expected to vote on the FDA Evilization Act of 2007 (oops, I mean the "Revitalization Act"). This is a bill that has some good points (such as banning advertising on new drugs until they're on the market for two years)...

Americans fed up with drug industry influence, FDA corruption, reveals remarkable Consumer Reports survey

4/16/2007 - (NaturalNews) More than four out of five Americans think drug companies have too much influence over the Food and Drug Administration, and 84 percent believe that advertisements for prescription drugs with safety concerns should be outlawed, reveals a...

FDA proposes quicker patient access to unapproved drugs

12/22/2006 - (NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Monday that it will propose easier access to experimental drugs for patients with serious diseases, and allow pharmaceutical companies to charge patients for the unapproved medications. The...

FDA drug safety committee issues scathing report on agency's failure to protect public from unsafe drugs

10/10/2006 - (NaturalNews) A panel of five experts who provided drug safety advice to the Food and Drug Administration published a critique of the agency yesterday, calling into question its ability to protect the public from unsafe drugs. The experts were all...

FDA taps MIT for drug safety technology

8/18/2006 - (NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday that it will team up with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop an automated tracking system to find problems with prescription drugs and medical devices. The...

Big Pharma and profit priorities: why business ethics never trickle up

10/19/2005 - One of the things I've observed while doing public speaking, being a part of business councils and interacting with a lot of well-connected people in society, is that many people work with the pharmaceutical company known as Merck. Merck seems to be...

FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information (commentary)

10/14/2005 - Here's a report on the FDA that could only come from outside the United States. I'm reading to you from The Independent, a British newspaper, that says, "Vital data on prescription medication found in millions of British homes has been suppressed by...

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...

FDA censorship, suppression of its own scientists is routine, survey reveals

2/27/2005 - Here's information you're not supposed to know about the FDA. It was uncovered through a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request that uncovered a 2002 Human and Health Services survey asking FDA scientists questions about the agency. Their answers...

With COX-2 decision, no longer any doubt about FDA corruption and U.S. drug racket

2/18/2005 - Following the death of as many as 60,000 Americans from COX-2 inhibitors (source: British Medical Journal, author Dr. David Graham, FDA drug safety researcher), an FDA advisory panel has now voted to allow the drugs to return to the market with full...

Heavy metals warning for ayurvedic herbs is a distraction from the real threats to your health

1/26/2005 - The headlines were recently ablaze with warnings about Ayurvedic herbal products. A survey of such herbal remedies sourced from India and Pakistan found that one in five of them were contaminated with dangerous levels of heavy metals like lead, mercury...

American Medical Association calls for wholesale reforms of the FDA

1/6/2005 - There's a major development unfolding in the world of conventional medicine. As you know, I've been calling for major reform of the FDA for several years. Other pioneering doctors and natural health physicians have been voicing such calls for decades....

Governor of Illinois operates program to re-import prescription drugs from Canada

12/5/2004 - The Governor of Illinois is launching a program to allow its citizens to re-import prescription drugs from not only Canada, but other countries around the world. It's all a part of a growing grassroots effort to give citizens access to more affordable...

The FDA remains in state of denial about drug safety questions

11/21/2004 - There are two problems at the FDA. The first is that the Fraud and Drug Administration clearly puts the protection of Big Pharma profits as its primary mission, rather than protecting the public from dangerous drugs. But the second problem (and this...

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