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Hugely-expensive Chicago homeland security program replete with failure

1/11/2012 - They say the road to hell (and financial ruin) is paved with good intentions. And so it is with a massively expensive project for Cook County, Chicago that cost taxpayers more than $45 million and has been an abject failure. The goal was to make citizens safer, but in the end, a federal probe found...

Is the fabric of industrialized society starting to unravel? Highly complex civilizations are more vulnerable to collapse

12/29/2011 - This is one of the most important trends you'll see in 2012 and beyond: Global supply lines are breaking down. The just-in-time system of deliveries on tap is deteriorating. Have you noticed how often the products or parts you need are backordered or delayed? That's what I'm talking about. Try to...

Vitamin C may be effective treatment for heart failure, scientists announce

11/14/2011 - According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), approximately 5.7 million people in the US suffer from heart failure and it takes the lives of about 300,000 Americans each year. Currently, heart failure has no cure although certain medications and lifestyle changes can help many people live longer;...

Antibiotic widely prescribed for decades has dangerous side effects which can kill

10/13/2011 - You often hear that older prescription drugs are pretty safe. After all, if countless people have been taking them for many years, doctors would know by now if they were dangerous, right? Unfortunately, that's a myth for several reasons. First, it can take decades for links between the use of a drug...

The strange pleasure of self-sabotage

9/23/2011 - Self sabotage - the lurking vulnerability behind any plan for self-improvement. Success, goals, diets, relationships, personal discipline and more crumble in the face of self-sabotage like a building rigged with precision explosives. Better yet, self-sabotage often spares you the effort of constructing...

Pine bark, CoQ10 together improve physical fitness and heart health

6/24/2011 - A new study conducted by researchers from Chieti-Pescara University in Italy has revealed that taking pine bark extract in conjunction with Coenzyme Q10 helps improve heart health in heart failure patients by bolstering blood pressure regulation, strengthening endothelial function, reducing hypertension,...

Low-carb diet may reverse kidney failure in diabetics, says new research

6/16/2011 - A new study shows that a low carbohydrate, high fat diet, used typically to treat and control seizures in children with epilepsy, may reverse kidney failure in people with diabetes. Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that the ketogenic (low carbs, high fat) diet is useful...

California's prison system near collapse as Supreme Court orders release of 30,000 prisoners

6/9/2011 - If you ever needed proof that the so-called "war on drugs" is an abject and costly failure, you need not look any further than the California penal system. The latest tragic example of this failure manifested itself in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month in which the court found that overcrowding...

Obamacare failure now evident as health care costs rise nationwide

5/18/2011 - President Barack Obama's signature health care law was supposed to accomplish a couple of things. First, it was supposed to ensure that all Americans had access to quality healthcare; and second, it was supposed to reduce overall healthcare expenditures. In a word, the law - while admittedly not...

Betrayal of a Nation: Why U.S. health authorities are keeping you vitamin D deficient and who stands to gain

4/23/2011 2:19:33 AM - Dr. Anne Looker and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently made vitamin D legend, Professor Hector DeLuca of University of Wisconsin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_DeLuca), and certain folks at big pharma very happy with her widely-reported analysis of the vitamin D status...

Vitamin D is all-natural disease fighter

4/4/2011 - Vitamin D surfaces as a news topic every few months - and with good reason. This article highlights several ground-breaking studies showcasing how important the sunshine vitamin is for our overall health and wellbeing. For twenty years, dermatologists have demonized sun exposure and told us it is...

How your medicines are killing you

2/21/2011 - It's so easy for people to take the prescription the doctor wrote to have filled. It's even easier to take a medication, hoping for a cure or relief from an illness. But there's often a trade off. Too many times, medications have side effects that range from mild to dangerous to deadly. Some people...

Vaccine philosophical exemptions: A moral and ethical imperative

2/18/2011 - It is not enough to be informed about the many problems with current immunization policy and practice. We must effectively apply that knowledge to expand our right to make informed choices. Where the rubber meets the road with vaccine rights is in the statutes and regulations that provide or restrict...

Magnesium slashes risk of sudden heart failure in women

12/28/2010 - Magnesium is an essential mineral that is required to sustain healthy blood vessels, generate cellular energy, and maintain healthy nerve and muscle function. Required to perform more than 300 critical biochemical reactions throughout the body, magnesium is especially important to heart health as it...

US life expectancy falls as failure of conventional medicine becomes obvious

12/10/2010 - U.S. life expectancy has dropped yet again, according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. While overall life expectancy slipped from 77.9 years to 77.8 years, the report uncovered a surge of deaths from chronic lower respiratory...

Statin drugs cause liver damage, kidney failure and cataracts, says BMJ

11/7/2010 - Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs significantly increase a person's risk of cataracts, muscle weakness, liver dysfunction and kidney failure, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. The study also confirmed that the drugs lower the risk of heart disease and esophageal cancer, but claims...

Human genome mapping a failure in finding cures for disease

10/7/2010 - Ten years ago, President Bill Clinton announced that the complete human genome had been successfully mapped, and Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health predicted genetic diagnosis of disease within a decade. "Over the longer term, perhaps in another 15 or 20 years," Collins said then,...

USDA failure may have helped cause salmonella egg outbreak

9/11/2010 - In yet another shocking display of incompetence and regulatory failure, the Wall Street Journal has reported that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) knew all along that one of the egg mega-farms involved in the recent recall had sanitation issues, but did not report them to the U.S....

Heart failure breakthrough: placebo controlled study shows major improvement with acupuncture

8/5/2010 - Heart failure is a progressive condition marked by a worsening of the heart's ability to pump enough blood to supply the body's needs. It is most often caused by a heart attack, years of high blood pressure or other injuries to the cardiovascular system and kills about 250,000 people in the U.S. each...

Selenium Defies FDA Mandate by Preventing and Curing Heart Failure

7/20/2010 - The FDA states that only drugs can prevent or cure disease, but fortunately the local medical authorities in areas with low soil selenium levels are taking a more effective path to the prevention and treatment of a serious heart condition. Keshan Disease, a type of heart failure that leads to an enlarged...

The total failure of modern psychiatry

6/27/2010 - Modern psychiatry went wrong when it embraced the idea that the mind should be treated with drugs, says Edward Shorter of the University of Toronto, writing in the Wall Street Journal. Shorter studies the history of psychiatry and medicine. Modern U.S. psychiatry has adopted a philosophy that...

Diabetes drugs warning: they cause heart problems

5/7/2010 - Widely used diabetes drugs appear to increase patients' risk of potentially fatal heart problems, according to a study conducted by researchers from Imperial College London and published in the British Medical Journal. Researchers examined patient and prescription records to examine rates of heart...

Confirmed Again: Healthy Diet and Lifestyle Cuts Risk of Heart Failure

4/19/2010 - A new study conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association provides new evidence that maintaining a healthy lifestyle significantly decreases a person's lifetime risk of high blood pressure and heart failure. First, researchers...

The real health reform solution: A Health Freedom Zone in America

3/29/2010 - Even as America has just been handed a "reformed" health care monopoly, most Americans by now realize that the drugs-and-surgery approach to health care is a failure. Keeping people sick and diseased so that you can pump more profits into the pharmaceutical corporations just doesn't work to keep any...

Thirty-six predictions for the world: 2010 - 2012

2/15/2010 - Ask around and you'll hear this over and over again: People are concerned about what might be coming. They're concerned about a global financial collapse, an ecological crisis and potential disruptions in the food supply. The radical weather patterns now being witnessed across the world are further...

Defibrillators Found Useless in Saving Women's Lives

1/3/2010 - There is no evidence that implantable defibrillators are able to save women's lives, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Providence Hospital Heart Institute and Medical Center and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. "Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators are being...

More Evidence Supports the Importance of Vitamin D in Heart Disease Prevention

12/24/2009 - Although the link between low Vitamin D status and chronic disease has been well known for some time, a new study has shed further light on the role of Vitamin D in cases of hypertension and congestive heart failure. Researchers from the Medical College of Wisconsin analysed genetic data from 617...

Babies Receive Heart Transplants Instead of Vitamin D Treatment

11/6/2009 - Cardiomyopathy is a rare but frequently fatal heart condition in infants and children. In many cases, doctors are unable to find the cause, and severe cases need to stay in the hospital while waiting for their last hope at life- a heart transplant. But whole teams of specialists at major medical centers...

UCS Study Says Genetically Modified Crops Have Failure to Yield

9/19/2009 - A 43-page study released by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) reveals that since the inception of genetically modified (GM or GMO) crops, no significant increases in crop yields can be attributed to them. This is directly contrary to what Monsanto and other seed-makers have often pointed out in...

Baking Soda Prevents Kidney Disease, Renal Failure and Kidney Dialysis

8/8/2009 - A recent study discovered a new use for common household baking soda. The Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) reported that a daily dose of baking soda could prevent kidney damage and chronic kidney disease (CKD) in a study entitled, Bicarbonate Supplementation Slows Progression of...

Monsanto GM Corn a Disaster in South Africa

7/27/2009 - Farmers in South Africa have reported an inexplicable failure to seed in three different varieties of corn genetically modified (GM) by the Monsanto Corporation. "One can't see from the outside whether a plant is unseeded," said Kobus van Coller of Free State province. "One must open up the cob leaves...

New Evidence: Exercise Helps Heart Disease, Increases Survival Better than Angioplasty

7/11/2009 - At the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation meeting recently held in Barcelona, Spain, new heart research was presented that shows one treatment in particular can provide remarkable help for patients with certain forms of serious heart disease. It's not a new drug or...

Lethal Consequences Result for One in Four Patients Not Shown Test Results

7/8/2009 - As many as one in four patients are not informed of abnormal medical results, with potentially fatal consequences, according to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Research headed by Dr Lawrence Casalino, chief of the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research in the...

FDA Admits Drug in Tylenol and Excedrin is Main Cause of Liver Failure in U.S.

7/7/2009 - The drug in question is acetaminophen. It`s in prescription and all too popular over-the-counter drugs including Tylenol and Excedrin. According to the FDA, taking too much will kill you and the government agency also admits this chemical is the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S. Acetaminophen...

Learn How to Keep Your Heart Healthy with Co-Enzyme Q10

6/23/2009 - Co-enzyme Q10 or CoQ10 (also known as ubiquinone) is an essential nutrient found in every cell in the human body. It plays a vital role in producing energy in the mitochondria, meaning it helps provide energy to all parts of the body. CoQ10 has been cited as producing positive effects in people with...

Fish Oil and Fatty Fish Protect Men from Heart Failure

4/26/2009 - A new study just published in the European Heart Journal concludes that eating fatty fish and the marine omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil appears to protect men from heart failure. This is important news because heart failure (also known as congestive heart failure, or CHF) is an enormous health...

Ubiquinol: Boost Energy Levels and Overall Health with Best Form of Co Q 10

4/26/2009 - Still wondering what form of Coenzyme Q 10 to take? New research findings may help with the decision. Scientists have found that the ubiquinol, the reduced form of Co Q 10, dramatically improves absorption of Co Q 10 in patients with severe heart failure compared to supplements of ubiquinone, the unreduced...

Exercise Benefits Heart Failure Patients

4/24/2009 - In the past, many heart failure patients have been put on strict bed rest. But such a sedentary existence can be miserable, and it may not be necessary. Exercise can greatly improve a heart failure patient's quality of life, and may even improve heart health, say two articles published this month in...

South African GMO Crop Failure Highlights Dangers of Food Supply Domination

4/3/2009 - Worry is building over the effects of the Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2009, otherwise known as HR 875. This is the bill currently working its way through Congress that would effectively hand over control of America's food supply to such a nefarious giant as Monsanto and its lesser counterparts...

Keep Aging Parents Happy, Healthy and Independent with Bioidentical Hormones

3/23/2009 - People caring for aging parents or just thinking about it realize that keeping them healthy, happy and active for as long as possible is ideal for everyone. Aging parents seldom want to become physically dependent on their children for care. Grown children, often referred to as the sandwich generation,...

Severe Allergic Reactions to Hair Dyes are on the Rise

3/18/2009 - As highlighted by Oprah`s spotlight, big-name hair-color company products containing the chemical PPD are still causing disfiguring and painful reactions, even death. Though there have been lawsuits in the millions of dollars, hundreds of complaint letters, and bloggers sharing pains and solutions online,...

Low-Dose Aspirin Not Answer for Heart Health

2/17/2009 - If you listen to the reigning experts from the pharmaceutical world, aspirin appears to be the cure-all for everything. Now, a new Yale University study suggests that low-dose aspirin may prevent liver damage caused by side effects of drugs, alcohol, and obesity. Specifically, aspirin reduced mortality...

Ending the Atrocities of the FDA; Life Extension Urges Immediate Petition Action for Health Freedom

2/4/2009 - What follows is a call-to-action article by William Faloon, founder of the Life Extension Foundation (www.LEF.org). NaturalNews and LEF are working together to publish this information as widely as possible, calling for urgent action to end the FDA's tyranny against the American people and the health...

Two Important Ways to Lower Risk of Heart Failure

2/3/2009 - A man who is obese and inactive can have a risk of getting heart failure which is as much as three times that of a lean and active counterpart, a study conducted at Brigham and Women`s Hospital has found. And heightened heart failure risk applied not just to obese men, but also to those who were simply...

The Failure Empire: Bob Greene Rakes It In While Oprah Fails (opinion)

1/28/2009 - This story has been removed. To learn more about nutrition and natural health, try these pages on NaturalNews and NaturalPedia: Nutrition: http://www.naturalnews.com/nutrition.html http://www.naturalpedia.com/nutrition.html Superfoods: http://www.naturalnews.com/superfoods.html http://www.naturalpedia.com/superfoods.html Nutritional...

Modern Birth Control: Blessing or Barbarism?

1/5/2009 - Throughout history women have found many interesting ways to practice birth control. There is evidence of women in ancient Rome tying a pouch around their left foot that contained a cat's liver in the belief that it would prevent pregnancy. Some would spit in the mouth of a frog three times in hopes...

Exercise Shown to Benefit Even Heart Failure Patients

12/4/2008 - Heart failure patients were once advised not to exercise, in view of the potential risk that their weakened hearts would not be able to withstand the exertions of physical activity. But someone also once said, "if you rest, you rust". And a recent study which was funded by the United States government...

Halloween Warning: Candy Made in China May be Contaminated with Toxic Melamine

10/31/2008 - This Halloween, children across the United States may be poisoned with toxic melamine, a potentially deadly chemical that causes severe kidney damage, liver damage and even death. This chemical is found in chocolates and candy products made in China, which is now embroiled in a global melamine scandal...

Flu Shots Leave Heart Failure Patients at Risk for Infection

10/24/2008 - While flu vaccines are often particularly recommended for people suffering from heart failure, those people are less protected by the vaccine than the general population, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Wisconsin and presented at the meeting of the American College...

Financial Hurricane Warning: How to Protect Yourself from the Global Financial Fallout Now Underway

9/16/2008 - This is a special financial alert for NaturalNews readers. For more than two years, I've warned readers to get out of the housing bubble, steer clear of speculative real estate, offload U.S. dollars and get out of debt. In articles published from 2005 - 2007, I warned of hyperinflation and the coming...

How to Release Fear and Motivate Yourself

9/11/2008 - Do not fear failure, failure is just a learning experience. There is really no such thing as failure; there are only results. It is on record that the inventor Edison, on being told that his fiftieth experiment to produce an electric light bulb had failed said, "No we didn't fail, we just found another...

New Study Shows Fish Oil Supplement Aids Heart Failure Patients

9/10/2008 - An Italian study recently confirmed what previous observational studies have also shown, that taking a daily supplement of Omega-3 fish oil helped to reduce deaths and hospitalizations of people with heart failure. Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard...

Merck Delayed Release of Clinical Study Revealing Failure of Vytorin Cholesterol Drug

8/18/2008 - The long-awaited release of the results from a clinical trial of Merck and Schering-Plough's cholesterol drug Vytorin has renewed allegations that the companies deliberately delayed in making the study data public. "It is easy to conclude that Merck and Schering-Plough intentionally sought to delay...

Avandia Study Shows 60 Percent Increase in Heart Failure Risk Among Diabetics who Take the Drug

7/28/2008 - Seniors who take the popular Type 2 diabetes drug Avandia have a 60 percent higher risk of heart failure than patients who take other diabetes medications, according to a new data analysis conducted by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Science in Toronto and published in the Journal of the American...

Physicians Routinely Protect Incompetent Colleagues; 45 Percent Admit Failure to Report

7/10/2008 - Nearly half of doctors fail to report colleagues who are impaired or incompetent to the proper authorities, according to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study's findings were based on survey responses from 1,662 doctors across the United States who were practicing...

Whole Grains Consumption Cuts Heart Failure Risk in Men by 29 Percent

5/5/2008 - Eating whole grain cereal for breakfast every day can reduce a man's risk of heart disease by 29 percent, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The Physicians Health Study I surveyed 21,000 U.S. doctors on their diets and health status over the course of 19 years. In this...

Bile Duct Congestion Can Lead to Intestinal Diseases and Liver Disorders

5/2/2008 - The small intestine is continuous with the stomach at the pyloric sphincter and has a length of 16–19 feet. It leads into the large intestine, which is about 3.5–5 feet long. The small intestine secretes intestinal juice to complete the digestion of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. It also absorbs...

A Silent Intruder – Do You Have Kidney Disease?

5/1/2008 - High blood pressure and diabetes are the top two causes of kidney disease, a disease that can be deadly if not caught in its early stages. According to the National Kidney Foundation approximately 20 million Americans (1 in 9 adults) have the disease and another 20 million are at risk for it. Kidney...

Men with Chronic Heart Failure Can Still Have Sex without Dying, Say Medical Researchers

3/11/2008 - Fears that men with chronic heart failure might risk their lives by having sex are overblown, and even those taking Viagra may be safe engaging in sexual activity if they are receiving the proper medical care, according to a study published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Researchers Stacy...

Review Finds the Herb Hawthorn Can Boost Heart Health

3/7/2008 - Historically, herbalists have used the herb hawthorn as a cardiac tonic and considered it valuable for improvement of cardiac weakness, an enlarged heart, angina, arrhythmias, edema, hardening of the arteries, heart palpitations, heart valve murmurs, irregular heartbeat, nerve depression and unexplained...

Coenzyme Q10 Is A Vital Energy Nutrient

2/24/2008 - Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a fat soluble compound best known for its vital function in the production of energy inside cells. It is concentrated in the part of the cell that churns out energy, the mitochondria. A lesser known function of CoQ10 may be its powerful antioxidant activity in cell membranes...

Coenzyme Q10 A Vital Energy Nutrient

2/12/2008 - Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a fat soluble compound best known for its vital function in the production of energy inside cells. It is concentrated in the part of the cell that churns out energy, the mitochondria. A lesser known function of CoQ10 may be its powerful antioxidant activity in cell membranes...

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 nothing new. Doctors have been full of bunk for...

Topics Covered at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2007

11/25/2007 - Results from various research projects were presented to the American Heart Association at their Scientific Sessions 2007 at the beginning of November of this year. This annual meeting provides a forum for attendees such as physicians, scientists, nurses, and healthcare professionals to discuss, present...

Antioxidants, bad science and failure of the press to tell the truth

8/14/2007 - Following yesterday's announcement of a new study showing the phenomenal benefits of antioxidants for preventing heart disease in women, the mainstream media rallied behind a blatantly false distortion of the study designed to convince the public that vitamins E and C are somehow useless. The popular...

Whole-grain breakfast cereal slashes heart attack risk by 22 percent

3/25/2007 - (ConsumerWellness.org) According to a 25-year study of the health and eating habits of more than 10,000 doctors, those who ate whole-grain cereals for breakfast had a significantly lower chance of developing heart failure than those who did not eat such cereals. Jump directly to: conventional view...

Reporters for Just Say ‘Know’ to Prescription Drugs Initiative Find MD’s Failure to Discuss Side Effects ‘Significantly Higher’ Than New Study Stated (press release)

11/20/2006 - UCLA head researcher says, “We were very liberal.” Actual percentage of physicians who fail to discuss risks of prescribed medication are “much higher” than 65 percent reported previously. Today, the Just Say “Know” to Prescription Drugs Campaign, aimed at getting one million people to stop and reevaluate...

Ketek antibiotic drug faces intense FDA scrutiny over liver failure reports

11/16/2006 - With reports of liver failure in a dozen patients and four associated deaths becoming public knowledge, U.S. health officials said this week that they plan to ask outside advisors if Ketek -- an antibiotic made by Sanofi-Aventis -- should continue to be allowed on the market. In 2004, Ketek was approved...

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

10/10/2006 - 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 former or current members of the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management...

Hopes for weight loss drug dashed by failure in human trials

10/4/2006 - Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. announced Tuesday that it would be putting the development of its formerly promising weight loss drug MK-0557 on hold because of the pill's failure to deliver in real-world human trials. The 10-year trial -- reported in the October issue of Cell Metabolism -- measured...

Jefferson scientists show 'miracle' cancer drug Gleevec can be toxic to the heart (press release)

9/26/2006 - Gleevec, the wildly successful poster-child of a new generation of cancer drugs aimed at specific targets in the cancer cell, can be dangerous to the heart. Not only that, but other similarly based drugs – called tyrosine kinase inhibitors – could lead to heart problems as well, say researchers at the...

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

9/11/2006 - 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 11 weeks of consideration -- the fastest review in the administration's...

Moderate exercise may delay congestive heart failure, CU-Boulder study suggests (press release)

9/7/2006 - A new University of Colorado at Boulder study involving laboratory rats that indicates low-intensity exercise may significantly delay the onset of congestive heart failure appears to have some promising implications for humans. According to Professor Russell Moore of CU-Boulder's integrative physiology...

Obesity in prostate cancer patients predicts cancer recurrence and progression (press release)

8/29/2006 - Obesity in a patient is an independent predictor of whether localized prostate cancer will progress following radiotherapy treatment, say researchers at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. In a study reported in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal...

Thiamin deficiency common in hospitalized heart failure patients (press release)

8/28/2006 - Among patients hospitalized with heart failure, about one in three has deficient levels of thiamin, although thiamin deficiency was less common among those patients who were taking vitamin supplements, according to a new study in the Jan. 17, 2006, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology....

Secrets of soil nutrition: Why the minerals in soil determine the success or failure of foods, health and civilization

8/22/2006 - In learning about nutrition, we often hear that certain foods contain a certain amount of vitamins and minerals. This is especially true in fruits, vegetables, and other produce, but very few people understand the truth about this information, which is that most of the published values about this nutritional...

Obesity tied to hepatitis C treatment failure (press release)

8/17/2006 - Obese patients who are treated for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are more likely to have a better outcome if the underlying abnormalities caused by excessive fat tissue are corrected first, according to a review published in the medical journal Hepatology. The lead author, Dr. Michael...

Automated external defibrillators prone to failure defects; may have killed hundreds

8/9/2006 - A study of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) -- lifesaving devices now ubiquitous in malls, airports and even churches -- found that unit malfunctions have caused roughly 370 deaths since their inception. According to the study, published in the Aug. 9 issue of the Journal of the American...

Implantable defibrillators save lives but may increase heart failure risk (press release)

8/3/2006 - Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) reduce the risk of sudden cardiac death but may increase the risk of subsequent heart failure in patients who live longer, according to a study published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. ...

Cancer drug Gleevec damages heart, say researchers

7/24/2006 - New research has found that Gleevec, a popular cancer drug by Novartis also called Gilvec, can cause congestive heart failure in leukemia patients. Researchers from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia conducted a five-year study of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, and found that although...

High Doses of Statins Carry Dangers, Swedish Report Says (press release)

7/14/2006 - A Swedish warning on the potential risks of using statins in high doses has triggered strong criticism from some of the top U.S. cardiologists. The timing of the debate is apt: Recently revised recommendations in the United States call for lowering cholesterol more than ever before as a way of reducing...

Common painkillers associated with increased risk of first hospital admission for heart failure (press release)

7/1/2006 - Common painkillers, such as ibuprofen, are associated with a 30% increased risk of first hospital admission for heart failure, reveals research published ahead of print in Heart. Although the overall risk is small, say the researchers, it may have a considerable impact on public health, particularly...

FDA admits children's antibiotic could cause liver failure, but allows its sale anyway

6/30/2006 - -- Though the Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic Ketek has been shown to damage the liver and sometimes cause death after a few doses, the FDA says the drug's benefits outweigh its risks and has allowed the product to remain on the market. Ketek is often prescribed to children. It has been approved to treat...

FDA enforcement efforts against drug companies in freefall failure, concludes inquiry

6/27/2006 - Representative Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, recently lead a 15-month inquiry into the Food and Drug Administration, and found that the agency's enforcement of food and drug laws has declined sharply since President Bush took over office. "Americans...

Bird flu spreading rapidly; U.S. government warns population

3/2/2006 - The news on bird flu just keeps getting worse. The virus has now reportedly jumped species and infected a cat in Germany. One infected cat by itself does not equal a pandemic, but it does demonstrate how easily this virus can jump species, potentially infecting humans in the near future. Bird flu...

Bird flu spreading rapidly; U.S. government warns population

3/2/2006 - (From BirdFluDefense.com) The news on bird flu just keeps getting worse. The virus has now reportedly jumped species and infected a cat in Germany. One infected cat by itself does not equal a pandemic, but it does demonstrate how easily this virus can jump species, potentially infecting humans in the...

Interview with Dr. Decker Weiss about Earth's Promise nutritional powders from Enzymatic Therapy

12/12/2005 - Mike: We're here today with Dr. Decker Weiss, a naturopath who also serves on the scientific advisory board for Enzymatic Therapy. Today we're talking about the Earth's Promise product line. So, thanks for taking some time to sit down and chat. Dr. Weiss: Oh, anytime. Mike: Can you give people...

Titan probe failure demonstrates pattern of quality control failures at NASA

1/30/2005 - Here is a real whopper in the history of stupid space exploration tricks. The spacecraft that recently arrived on Titan was supposed to transmit images and experimental data on two data channels: channels A and B. But as it turns out, someone forgot to turn on channel A and so only channel B was available....

Vioxx disaster shows health hazards of prescription drugs, failure of FDA to protect the public

10/4/2004 - There is a new national uproar over a prescription drug, Vioxx, which has been an extremely popular anti-inflammatory drug manufactured and marketed by Merck. Vioxx was recently pulled from the market by Merck after studies revealed the drug increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, which is the...

Heart Failure Drug Found To Have Killed Thousands, Injured Tens of Thousands; Yet Doctors and the FDA Continue To Support It

8/6/2004 - A new study conducted by the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences, a health care research organization in Toronto, has concluded that a prescription drug commonly prescribed for congestive heart failure is now responsible for an increased number of deaths of heart patients due to the drug being...

Antidepressant drug causes liver failure, kills patients, but FDA refuses to issue ban

12/11/2003 3:19:31 PM - The antidepressant drug Serzone has killed dozens of people and destroyed normal liver function in at least 90 more, according to Public Citizen, which is petitioning the FDA to ban Serzone. Of course, the FDA is reluctant to pull deadly prescription drugs off the market (even though the agency quickly...

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