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Vermont fights the opioid epidemic by limiting prescribed painkillers

10/27/2016 - Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin is planning to combat his state's opioid problem by limiting the number of painkillers that can be prescribed. The governor's proposal is part of his strategy to address what has become a severe crisis in Vermont over the past few years. In a statement, Shumlin said: "Vermont,...

DEATH ABUNDANCE: The opioid epidemic has created a rise in organ donations

10/20/2016 - The tragic increase in overdose deaths associated with the nation's opioid epidemic is providing an unexpected benefit: a spike in the number of organs available for transplant. The percentage of organs coming from donors who have overdosed has been rising steadily over the past few years. Nationwide,...

12,000 physicians caught aiding in the opioid epidemic by violating policy while prescribing painkillers

10/18/2016 - While the federal government and naturopathic healers everywhere try to battle against the widening opioid epidemic that is affecting millions of people, a significant number of physicians, it has been discovered, aren't really assisting the effort as much as they're supposed to be. Fox News Health...

The United States has crossed the pandemic threshold in the opioid epidemic ... and Big Pharma keeps cashing in

10/11/2016 - The level of opioid abuse in the United States has reached a critical point, and appropriate action is urgently needed to tackle the problem, according to a recent op-ed piece in The Hill. Clare Waismann, a Certified Addiction Treatment Counselor (CATC) with two decades of experience treating opioid-dependent...

Zika virus now a mental epidemic of pandemic proportions thanks to mass media hysteria

8/8/2016 - Zika virus does not cause birth defects in human babies. This hoax is now officially debunked. Zika virus was discovered about 70 years ago, and since then, no deformations of human babies have ever been associated with it. Think of zika as the new swine flu, where the CDC is pushing propaganda to...

Federal government announces new plan to tackle American opioid epidemic that kills 44 people a day... yet won't stop the FDA from approving such opioids

5/25/2016 - Congress has just passed 18 bills created to address the nation's opioid epidemic, but is the government really serious about tackling the problem? Although the legislation passed overwhelmingly, there will be no funding available until 2017 for the various programs contained in the bills, and the...

Elizabeth Warren calls on CDC to combat opioid addiction epidemic by embracing medical marijuana nationwide

2/22/2016 - U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has sent a letter to the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asking the agency to look into ways to combat the growing epidemic of prescription opioid abuse, in part by examining the impact of increased use of medical marijuana as a substitute...

Overuse of electronics is causing worldwide epidemic of nearsightedness in children

1/21/2016 - Myopia, or nearsightedness, has been increasing over the past few decades among adults and is showing up more in very young children, even preschool-age kids. It is the inability to focus on objects far away or even just not nearby. Some optometrists and ophthalmologists (eye doctors) think this rising...

Just say no: FDA-approved drugs causing an epidemic among teens, while marijuana kills no one

11/1/2015 - Information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that more Americans are dying from legally prescribed drugs than from heroine and cocaine, combined (and from marijuana, of course, which doesn't kill), classifying the situation as an "epidemic." As reported by The New...

CDC caught wildly overestimating disease epidemic fatality numbers to boost vaccine sales

9/2/2015 - Arrogance and egoism run rampant within the ranks of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where deluded statistical modelers acting on behalf of the pharmaceutical and vaccine industries routinely over hype disease outbreaks like the Ebola scare (and make up fake death statistics in...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing epidemic of infant deaths in India may spread globally

1/20/2015 - An antibiotic-resistant "superbug" epidemic which is killing thousands of newborns in India may prove to have a global impact. India's infant mortality rate is staggering, accounting for nearly a third of the yearly world total. Of the 800,000 infant deaths per year in the country, around 58,000...

Johnson & Johnson says Ebola epidemic likely to last another year as pharma company looks to join in vaccine development

11/1/2014 - Viruses continue to mutate at increasing speeds as modern medicine fails to keep up with pathogens evolving stealthily in nature. It's even possible that modern medicine is to blame for the acceleration of virus mutation. Antiviral drugs typically attack one form of a virus. The virus quickly learns...

Restricting 80% of air travel from Ebola-afflicted countries would give world three extra weeks to contain epidemic, says report

10/28/2014 - A scientific assessment published back in early September warned that, if air travel from West Africa wasn't restricted, Ebola would quickly spread across the globe. Using the Global Epidemic and Mobility Model to simulate incidence and seeding events for the disease, a team of international scientists...

Separate Ebola epidemic in the Congo with up to 90 percent fatality rate doubles number of cases in one week

10/17/2014 - As West Africa continues to contain the worst Ebola epidemic in history, a completely separate outbreak has emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On September 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the number of Ebola cases in the DRC had doubled within one week, bringing...

Vermont quits hypocritical, failed War on Drugs; plans to treat heroin addiction epidemic as health issue

9/3/2014 - Vermont is taking a novel approach to its treatment of epidemic heroin addition: State officials are beginning to treat the problem as a health issue rather than continuing to pursue the failed policies of uber-drug-enforcement with little emphasis devoted to rehabilitation -- the policy approach that...

Puerto Rico declares epidemic as chikungunya virus continues to spread unabated

8/6/2014 - The Puerto Rican government declared on July 17 that the mosquito-transmitted disease chikungunya has reached epidemic proportions. Puerto Rico is only the latest country to fall prey to the disease, which has been sweeping the Caribbean since its arrival in late 2013. According to the Pan American...

Mixed messages: The obesity epidemic needs to be addressed, but first try the latest junk food craze

4/29/2014 - A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine says that, by 2030, 42% of Americans will be obese. And according to the World Health Organization (WHO), globally, more than 1 billion adults are overweight, and at least 300 million of these people are obese. With the obesity crisis...

Dementia epidemic looms as number of sufferers expected to more than triple by 2050

12/17/2013 - More people than previously thought are believed to be suffering from some form of dementia, says a new report issued by Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI). The latest estimates reveal that as many as 135 million people globally will be suffering from the disease in 2050, a 17 percent increase...

Airborne transmission: Why the superbug epidemic may be more serious that we previously thought

8/27/2013 - Those exceptionally virulent, drug-resistant bacterial strains known as "superbugs" that increasingly threaten hospital patients around the world just became a whole lot more menacing. A new study published in the journal Building and Environment reveals that the deadly critters are capable of spreading...

Prescription drug death epidemic continues: Can Big Pharma be stopped?

8/24/2013 - Death by prescription drug continues to be a major health problem in the United States, as Big Pharma remains influential and dominant in traditional medical practice. But a noted neurosurgeon and contributing CNN health expert may represent the first chink in Big Pharma's formidable armor, according...

Is GM corn responsible for causing epidemic of debilitating, inexplicable disease symptoms?

8/7/2013 - It took Caitlin Shetterly almost four years to discover why she was suffering from frequent headaches, nausea, chronic fatigue, and insomnia, among other baffling disease symptoms without an overtly identifiable cause. But what this writer and mother eventually learned about her unusual condition has...

Factors behind the growing infertility epidemic affecting millions of Americans

8/3/2013 - It seems as though everyone knows someone who struggles with infertility. It can be extremely devastating for any woman trying to conceive, when she looks at the little blue stick month after month only to see the same tell-tale negative sign. In the United States, a woman is considered to have infertility...

Epidemic of prescription drug deaths hits New York

2/27/2013 - Over the past 16 years, the rate of drug overdose from prescription opioid drugs skyrocketed seven-fold in New York City. In fact, researchers from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health call it nothing less than an "epidemic." Who are the people in New York overdosing on drugs like Oxycontin?...

Flu epidemic strikes millions of Americans already vaccinated against the flu

1/11/2013 - The USA is in an official flu pandemic panic right now, with Boston declaring a public health emergency and hospitals setting up flu treatment tents as if cities were war zones. The CDC says it's the worst flu pandemic in a decade, and it's of course urging everybody to get injected with flu vaccines. But...

Electromagnetic field intolerance - An epidemic in the making

8/29/2012 - A smartphone or a teddy bear for the baby? According to a study involving 1,650 mothers living in the UK, almost 30 percent of the moms surveyed chose a smartphone over milk or some other common form of comfort for their crying, restless, or unoccupied child. This choice of distraction can be viewed...

American fast food diet unleashes disease epidemic sweeping across Asia

7/26/2012 - Though increasingly looked down upon here in the U.S. as a sign of slothfulness and low socioeconomic status, routine fast food consumption in some parts of the world is actually considered to be culturally desirable. But as foreigners progressively adopt the American fast-food lifestyle in place of...

Opiate-based prescriptions declared an epidemic by the CDC

7/25/2012 - There has been a recent epidemic of opium-addiction that is growing fast as one of America's drug problems. The CDC says this is not coming from foreign cartels, traffickers or drug dealers, but from the pharmacy that so many visit for prescribed medicines. These opiate-based drugs include Vicodin,...

Food intolerance epidemic - Why does it happen, and can it be treated?

7/4/2012 - True food allergies are very rare, but observations and research lead to believe that there's a fast-growing number of people experiencing some type of food intolerance. Fatigue, bloating, diarrhea or other issues appear many hours after a meal. This delayed response makes it hard to know exactly what...

Unsafe Immunization Practices: Creating a Silent Epidemic in Developing Countries?

5/21/2012 - According to the World Health Organization, immunization providers are responsible for 1.3 million early deaths each year in emerging countries, due to using needles and syringes multiple times without sterilizing them. But, it doesn't stop there. Approximately 21.7 million people every year who line...

Obesity - the epidemic Big Medical loves to hate

5/4/2012 - Obesity in America is more than just an epidemic, it's the normal state of affairs. Today, 34 percent of Americans are obese (BMI of 30+), triple the 1960 percentage. The ranks of the 'morbidly obese,' or those with a BMI of 40 or more, has swelled to 6 percent, six times the 1960 rate. Another 34 percent...

How to fight the epidemic of 'picky eating' among your children

3/17/2012 - There is a dangerous epidemic in America today. It can affect anyone, starting from childhood and lasting, in many cases, for a lifetime. It is not a virus, though it can certainly lead to sickness. It is not spread through contact or breathing the same air as those infected, but rather through a mindset...

An epidemic of sleep apnea

4/15/2011 - Why didn't I learn about sleep apnea in medical school? It's because it hadn't even been described until 1965. It still hadn't made its way into my course curriculum by the mid-1970s when I was in medical school. Now sleep apnea is so common that a New York travel agent tried to argue that sleep apnea...

Vaccine Epidemic book a powerful weapon in fighting back against pro-vaccine propaganda

3/4/2011 - The freedom to think for yourself and choose whether or not to receive vaccinations is under attack. Many of those in positions of power would rather you simply keep quiet and do what you are told, even if this means blindly accepting the administration of high-risk vaccine schedules for your children...

Lyme Disease, a severe epidemic condition the medical establishment refuses to acknowledge

2/19/2011 - It is a condition that afflicts more people every year than AIDS, West Nile Virus, and Avian Flu combined, but that receives little attention from the mainstream medical establishment or media. Lyme Disease, which according to statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

New book: Vaccine Epidemic becomes best seller

2/15/2011 - In response to the increasing number of pro-vaccine books by authors such as Seth Mnookin, Arthur Allen and the prolific Dr. Paul Offit, whose books are being published at a furious rate and with an increasingly vitriolic tone, those of us who stand against vaccines and stand for person's right to refuse...

Vaccine Epidemic book advocates policy changes to ensure vaccine freedom of choice

2/13/2011 - Fresh off the presses is the hard-hitting new book Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children, which explores the safety of vaccinations and offers a balanced look at why vaccine freedom of choice is vital for...

Cholera Epidemic - Homeopathy holds healing and empowerment for the Haitian people

12/18/2010 - Homeopathy, as a system of healing, holds the possibility of significant benefit for those suffering from cholera, as well as provides health care empowerment generally for the people of Haiti. The current epidemic in Haiti is an ongoing crisis. So far, over 1,700 people have died and 72,000 have been...

China faces epidemic of diabetes after adopting Western diet

8/4/2010 - China suffers from far more cases of diabetes than previously thought, placing its diabetes epidemic on the same scale as that of the United States, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. "In the last 10 years, with the country's economy expanding quickly and people's...

Fifty Thousand Cured of Epidemic Nerve Disorder with Vitamin Supplements

7/6/2010 - The U.S. embargo of Cuba between 1991 and 1993 caused more than just economic consequences for the tiny island nation; it also caused interesting medical consequences that wealthier nations could learn from. The medical consequences of the embargo included an 'outbreak' of a painful nerve problem called...

AIDS fraud: The Marketing of an Epidemic exposed in House of Numbers exclusive film clip

5/3/2010 - The global AIDS epidemic being pushed by the AIDS industry is a fraud. Key pioneers from the industry now speak out against "the false marketing of the AIDS epidemic" in an exclusive video clip from the highly controversial documentary House of Numbers (www.HouseOfNumbers.com). Watch the clip right...

Epidemic of Vitamin D deficiency sweeping the world

3/12/2010 - There is an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency sweeping across our modern world, and it's an epidemic of such depth and seriousness that it makes the H1N1 swine flu epidemic look like a case of the sniffles by comparison. Vitamin D deficiency is not only alarmingly widespread, it's also a root cause of...

Why There is an Obesity Epidemic (Opinion)

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Hypothyroidism Reaches Epidemic Proportions, Causing Fatigue and Weight Gain

8/17/2009 - Is the average temperature of the human body still 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit? This often quoted average was determined in the nineteenth century. A more recent study has reported an average temperature of 98.2, and experts believe the decrease in body heat is the result of an epidemic of mild or moderate...

Doctors in Mexico City Cured 2009 Swine Flu with Homeopathy

8/14/2009 - Homeopathy had an amazingly high cure rate in the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in the USA. Just recently, during the 2009 Mexican Flu outbreak, a small group of Mexico City homeopathic doctors have revealed that homeopathy is up to the task again. This is good news considering that many over the counter...

Ten Homeopathic Remedies to Use during the Flu Season and Swine Flu Epidemic of 2009

5/15/2009 - Homeopathy has been very successful in treating the symptoms of flu and the Swine Flu pandemic of 2009 has been no exception. Homeopaths gather symptoms from a large population and discern what is called a "genus epidemicus". The genus is the remedy, or group of remedies, with the symptoms of most people...

Timeline: World History of Viral Pandemics: 412BC to 2009

5/1/2009 - When observing the swine flu outbreak happening today, it's helpful to have some historical context. Viral pandemics are not unusual, and talking about one isn't "alarmist." Pandemics are a regular feature of life on earth, and they occur with surprising regularity throughout world history. Wherever...

Important for Swine Flu Epidemic: Homeopathy Successfully Treated Flu Epidemic of 1918

4/28/2009 - Homeopathy was successful in treating the flu epidemic of 1918 and can provide answers to questions about the 2009 Swine Flu. Homeopathy can provide quick and inexpensive relief for symptoms of the flu. A system of medicine based on the principles of "like cures like," homeopathy uses plant, mineral...

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, Vaccines and Flu Shots

3/3/2009 - Following the breaking news today that Baxter International, Inc. (a U.S. drug company) shipped live avian influenza in vaccine materials distributed to 18 countries, it's worth reviewing a bit of history about the 1918 influenza pandemic. This provides a picture of what might have happened if the...

Why Vaccinations Harm Children: Health Experts Sound Off

2/11/2009 - What follows is a collection of quotations from naturopathic physicians, health authors, researchers and doctors on the dangers of vaccines. I assembled these quotes from a private library of health books and published them here to make this entire collection public. Here, you'll learn how vaccines...

WHO warns of high risk of global epidemic from emerging diseases

1/5/2008 - The world remains at great risk of infectious disease epidemics and pandemics, and new diseases are emerging at an "historically unprecedented" rate, according to an annual report from the World Health Organization (WHO). The report, titled "A Safer Future," says that never before have new diseases...

Global diabetes epidemic threatens to destroy indigenous populations

11/14/2006 - The global epidemic of diabetes could eventually wipe out indigenous populations around the world, according to experts at an international diabetes conference in Melbourne. Indigenous tribes in Asia, Australia, the Pacific and the Americas are suffering from type 2 diabetes (adult-onset) at higher...

Human 'Mad Cow' Could Cause Eventual Epidemic (press release)

8/28/2006 - Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or vCJD, the human form of "mad cow disease," has a long incubation period and could cause an eventual epidemic, researchers report. Reporting in the June 24 issue of the Lancet, they looked at a similar disease -- linked to cannibalism -- to better understand the...

Bird flu timeline: A history of influenza from 412 BC – AD 2006

2/6/2006 - 412 BC – Major epidemic of a disease (which, although not called influenza, probably was influenza) recorded by Hippocrates. 1357 AD – The term, “influenza,” from the Italian word meaning "influence," was coined. Popular belief at that time blamed the development of flu on the influence of the stars....

Diabetic epidemic on the rise: cases of diabetes to more than double in the United States, pharmaceutical industry drools over potential profits

5/12/2004 2:45:26 PM - The US is headed for a diabetes epidemic that could see as many as 41 million Americans suffering from full-blown diabetes if prevention measures are not put into place, announced Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. Right now, 18 million Americans have full-blown diabetes, which...

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