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The epidemic of medical child abuse - and what can be done about it

8/26/2011 - The primary purpose of this article is to encourage a stronger commitment from doctors and parents to consider using safer medical care for infants and children FIRST before resorting to more dangerous treatments. One would hope and assume that doctors and parents would have a natural inclination to...

Hypnosis helps cancer patients by allowing the use of local anesthesia -- and may prevent metastasis

6/18/2011 - Is hypnosis just a trick of stage magicians or hocus pocus for gullible New Agers? Not according to new research just presented at the European Anesthesiology Congress in Amsterdam. Professor Fabienne Roelants and Dr. Christine Watremez, from the Department of Anesthesiology at the Cliniques Universitaires...

Employers start firing employees who test positive for certain prescription drugs

3/7/2011 - Companies across the United States have started including some prescription drugs in random employee drug tests, and firing workers who test positive. For example, Sue Bates lost her job of 22 years as an assembly line worker at Dura Automotive Systems after she tested positive for hyrdrocodone,...

The Bible condemns drugs and says to use herbs as medicine (Opinion)

3/4/2011 - Have you ever noticed the huge surge of desire and longing in people to get back to the natural for our healing and medicine? The FDA combined with the drug industry and the media have almost totally erased this knowledge from our minds, and worse yet from our spirits. The FDA may, someday, take the...

Alternative birthing centers reduce drug use, promote more natural births

10/31/2010 - Where you have your baby can determine how natural the birth is, says a new review in The Cochrane Library. According to an analysis of over 10,000 women from various randomized trials, those who bear children in alternative birthing centers rather than in conventional hospital rooms require less pregnancy...

Huge rise in prescription drug use among children

9/28/2010 - The use of long-term prescription drugs by children has increased four times faster among children in the past decade than among the general population, according to a report by Medco Health Solutions. More than 25 percent of all children, including almost 30 percent of those between the ages of...

Psychiatric drug use skyrockets in U.S. military

7/26/2010 - Use of prescription psychotropics has skyrocketed among U.S. military personnel in recent years, according to an investigation by Military Times. At least 17 percent of active-duty military personnel are currently taking an antidepressant, including as many as 6 percent of all deployed troops. In...

Psychiatric Drug Use of German Shooter Confirmed: Kretschmer Withdrawing from Depression Treatment

3/12/2009 - Yesterday we reported on the recent school shooting in Germany, emphasizing the link between psychiatric medications and acts of extreme violence (http://www.naturalnews.com/025826.html). From the facts that were known yesterday, it was already apparent that the shooter, Tim Kretschmer, was either...

Shootings in Germany, Alabama Underscore Violent Side Effects of Psychiatric Medications

3/11/2009 - A 17-year-old former student opened fire near Stuttgart, Germany, killing at least 16 people. The teenager was a former student at a Winnenden school, where he initiated the shooting spree. Three teachers and at least 10 students were killed by his actions. The media is reporting that Tim Kretschmer,...

Excessive Antiviral Drug Use Increases Deadly Flu Risk

1/14/2009 - If you have a serious infection, a doctor can prescribe the right antibiotic or anti-viral drug to cure you, right? Unfortunately, that widely held belief is not only inaccurate but can be downright dangerous because infectious agents are rapidly becoming resistant to drugs created to kill them. A case...

Regular Family Meals Reduces Teen Girls' Chance of Drug Use by Half

12/2/2008 - Teenage girls whose families eat meals together regularly have a 50 percent lower chance of using alcohol, tobacco or marijuana than girls from families who did not regularly spend such time together, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School and published...

Psychotropic Drug Use Soars in UK Teens

9/26/2008 - The number of children being treated with anti-psychotic drugs has drastically increased in the United Kingdom, according to a study conducted by researchers from University of London's School of Pharmacy and published in the journal Pediatrics. The increase among children in the United States is believed...

Black Americans Ten Times More Likely to be Incarcerated For Drug Use Than Whites

7/13/2008 - Black people are 10 times more likely to be imprisoned for drug offenses than white people in the United States, according to a study conducted by the Justice Policy Institute. Blacks and whites use illegal drugs at approximately the same rates, yet both arrest and sentencing tends to be stricter...

U.S. breast cancer rate falls 7 percent after HRT drug use drops

12/27/2006 - Breast cancer rates in the United States fell by 7.2 percent in 2003, a year after millions of women stopped taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs to treat the symptoms of menopause after a study showed the therapy boosted risk of the disease. A federal study released in July 2002 was halted...

Free mental health screenings designed to promote psychiatric drug use, health author says

10/6/2006 - The nonprofit organization Screening for Mental Health is offering free, anonymous mental health screenings at hospitals, colleges and mental health centers across the country today, but psychiatric drug critics say the screenings are scams designed to push prescription psychiatric drugs on the public. Screening...

Prenatal antidepressant drug use linked to 600 percent increase in life-threatening lung disorder in newborns

7/20/2006 - A study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has found that women taking antidepressants during the second half of pregnancy run six times the risk of having a child born with a life-threatening lung disorder. The study, published in the Feb. 9 issue of NEJM, found that the babies suffering...

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 the so-called "gold standard" drug safety procedures...

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