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MRSA Superbug Invades Public Schools as Conventional Medicine Ignores Natural Cures

5/2/2008 - (NaturalNews) Schools in at least eight states have reported confirmed cases of students being infected with the "superbug" known as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) following the death of a 17-year old Virginia student late last year,...

U.S. hospitals plagued by surprisingly high level of MRSA superbug infections

4/18/2008 - (NaturalNews) Nearly 5 percent of patients in U.S. hospitals may have acquired a particular antibiotic resistant staph infection, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). Researchers...

Odds of Intensive Care Medication Errors Are Over One Hundred Percent

4/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) A report produced by PubMed Central states that 1.7 errors per day are experienced by patients in intensive care units (ICU). At least one life-threatening error occurs at some point during virtually every ICU stay. 78% of the serious medical...

The End of Antibiotics

3/26/2008 - (NaturalNews) Eventually antibiotics are going to be seen as one of the worst things to ever come out of pharmaceutical science because in the end, they have made us only weaker in the face of ever increasingly strong super bugs that are resistant to...

The End of Antibiotics and the Rise of Iodine as an Effective Alternative

3/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) Eventually antibiotics are going to be seen as one of the worst things to ever come out of pharmaceutical science because in the end, they have made us only weaker in the face of ever increasingly strong super bugs that are resistant to...

New Test Finds Depleted Uranium 20 Years After Exposure

1/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) Depleted uranium (DU) has been found in the urine of Gulf War vets as long as 20 years after exposure. A highly sensitive test has been developed which can detect DU even when previous screening has proven negative. This test may assist...

U.S. Hospitals Plagued by Ten Times More MRSA Superbug Infections than Previously Thought

1/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) Nearly five percent of patients in U.S. hospitals may have acquired a particular antibiotic resistant staph infection, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology...

Agricultural Antibiotics May Be the Cause of Super-Bugs

11/22/2007 - (NaturalNews) Have you been to the grocery store recently and chosen that chicken cut that is not treated with antibiotics? Or did you choose one that was treated with antibiotic, thinking all bacteria in it would be dead? According to recent research...

Hospitals rip off self-paying, poor customers with triple prices compared to insurance reimbursements

10/1/2007 - (NaturalNews) Hospitals in the United States have been charging self-paying patients, including the uninsured, vastly more for health services than they charge insurance providers and much more than the maximum costs allowed by Medicare, according to...

Why Michael Moore's SiCKO is a health care documentary every American must see

6/19/2007 - America's disastrous health care system is heaving the country head-first into near-certain economic collapse. Just about everybody's either financially strained or going broke due to spiraling health care costs: the people, the employers, state governments...

The top herbs and supplements for wound healing and post-surgical recovery

4/17/2007 - Is it any wonder everyone wants to get out of the hospital as soon as they’ve arrived? Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are dangerously common; new viruses surface with frightening regularity. Horror stories of Staph infections and amputations can make...

Fast food restaurants at children's hospitals influence parents to feed their families unhealthy meals

12/6/2006 - (NaturalNews) New research states that at least 59 of the nation's 250 children's hospitals have fast-food restaurants as part of their cafeteria operations. According to Dr. Hannah Sahud -- the lead researcher behind the new study -- that is a troubling...

U.S. hospitals fail basic hygiene standards; infections worsen

11/23/2006 - (NaturalNews) Three new studies have determined that infections in hospitals come from the unsanitary conditions in the hospitals themselves, and not from sick patients. As a result, these new studies provide evidence for experts who argue that hospitals...

Medical tourism flourishing in Philippines while U.S. health care costs skyrocket

10/31/2006 - (NaturalNews) The Health Undersecretary of the Philippines -- Jade del Mundo -- recently stated that the bustling medical tourism program of the Philippines is allowing new doors to open in the nursing field, adding that the current multi-million dollar...

Hospital food is so bad that patients won't eat it

10/17/2006 - (NaturalNews) Nearly half of patients surveyed said they had friends and family bring them something to eat while in the hospital because hospital food was so bad, according to a new report. The Food Watch group surveyed 2,240 patients in England,...

MRSA bacteria called a worse health threat than SARS or bird flu

8/21/2006 - (NaturalNews) Infectious disease experts from across the United States recently suggested that MRSA -- an antibiotic-resistant infection often acquired in hospital settings -- is a more immediate threat to public health than bird flu or SARS. A study...

Drug-resistant bacteria increasingly common in US hospitals

8/17/2006 - (NaturalNews) A new study appearing in today's New England Journal of Medicine has found that drug-resistant bacteria are now the most common cause of skin and soft-tissue infections treated in a number of hospitals across America. A team of researchers...

Medication errors harm 1.5 million Americans each year, reveals IOM report

7/21/2006 - (NaturalNews) A new report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reveals that at least 1.5 million Americans are made sick, injured, or killed every year by errors in prescribing or administering medication. The IOM report, which was requested by Congress...

Hospital Purchasing Group Signs Deal with Major Organic Food Distributor (press release)

7/20/2006 - More than 2,000 hospitals in the U.S. now have access to natural and organic foods, thanks to a deal announced today between MedAssets, a leading group purchasing organization for the health care industry, and United Natural Food Incorporated (UNFI),...

New Study Shows Need for a Major Overhaul of How United States Manages Chronic Illness (press release)

7/6/2006 - Staggering variations in how hospitals care for chronically-ill elderly patients indicate serious problems with quality of care and point toward unnecessary spending by Medicare. Lower utilization of acute-care hospitals and physician visits could actually...

Hospitals may be hazardous to your health

2/2/2006 - Here are some words of caution for those of you who have someone in the hospital or a nursing home or retirement center. You have probably already figured this out yourself, but, if not, pay attention. Don't leave your loved ones in the hospital or nursing...

Interview with Keith Moeller of American Biotech Labs on the disinfectant powers of colloidal silver

11/8/2005 - Mike: I'm here with Keith Moeller of American Biotech Labs. You have a unique colloidal silver product. A lot of people are familiar with colloidal silver, and maybe the first generation of colloidal silver products. Can you give us an introduction...

President Bush's bird flu plan fails to teach people how to really protect themselves from a global pandemic

11/1/2005 - President Bush has finally announced to the nation that we are faced with a "...potentially devastating outbreak of infectious disease." We're talking about the bird flu, of course. And the big story on bird flu is simply this: your government cannot...

Unnecessary surgery exposed! Why 60% of all surgeries are medically unjustified and how surgeons exploit patients to generate profits

10/7/2005 - Every year millions of Americans go under the knife, but many of them are enduring great pain and shelling out thousands of dollars for surgeries they don't really need. In fact, the only people who seem to really benefit from these unnecessary medical...

How to survive a flu pandemic by strengthening your immune system now

9/27/2005 - With news about the coming flu pandemic now grabbing headlines around the world, the World Health Organization is finally starting to share details about its plans for stopping the next outbreak. The World Health Organization, by the way, deserves tremendous...

Physicians and bribery: a closer look at this common medical industry practice

7/7/2005 - In 2001, 2.8 billion prescriptions were filled in the United States for an average of 9.9 prescriptions per person. This statistic taken from Ultraprevention, by Drs. Mark Hyman and Mark Liponis, certainly supports their point that "drug industry prescriptions...

Why the bird flu virus is less deadly but more dangerous

6/21/2005 - People are rather confused over news that the bird flu virus has now mutated to a less lethal, but far more dangerous, form. It seems like a contradiction: If it's less lethal, shouldn't it be less dangerous? No. The mainstream press isn't explaining...

Rising popularity of medical tourism reveals deterioration of U.S. healthcare system

4/21/2005 - Defenders of organized medicine are fond of saying that the United States has the best healthcare in the world, but I challenge that. I don't think we have the best healthcare in the world, I think we have the most expensive healthcare in the world....

The Cleveland Clinic battles with McDonald's over fast food in hospitals

1/30/2005 - One of the most ridiculous things about many hospitals and surgical centers is that they host fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Pizza Hut. Now making headlines is the heated debate between the Cleveland Clinic and McDonald's restaurants. Toby...

How to slash national health care costs by 90% through education, nutrition, and a ban on junk food marketing

12/5/2004 - Want a real solution to skyrocketing health care costs? Forget about all the so-called "cost saving" schemes dreamed up by politicians, drug companies and HMOs. All they do is create new levels of bureaucracy that don't address the real problems of why...

Hospital Superbugs Prove Deadly; Over-Prescription of Antibiotics Contributes to the Problem

8/6/2004 - One hundred people have died from superbug infections in just one hospital in Quebec over the last 18 months, says a hospital infectious disease expert. Fifty-four people died in the hospital last year, and so far this year the death toll has already...

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