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prescription drug feature articles



Confessions of a pharmacist: What Big Pharma Won't Tell You about Prescription Drug Safety (Book Review)
Published January 6 2009
Concepts: Drug Muggers, drugs, prescription drug, publishing, Suzy Cohen

Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans than Illegal Drugs
Published November 10 2008
Concepts: drugs, DEA, prescription drugs, prescription drug, heroin

Prescription Drugs More Deadly Than Cocaine, Heroin, Amphetamines
Published September 2 2008
Concepts: drugs, prescription drugs, heroin, prescription drug, cocaine

Pill-Pushing Doctor Allegedly Kills 56 Patients with Prescription Drug Overdoses
Published July 22 2008
Concepts: prescription drug, community, drugs, prescriptions

Lawmakers Examine Whether Drug Ads Are Truthful
Published July 11 2008
Concepts: drug ads, lawmakers, prescription drug, drugs, the FDA

Heparin Contamination Fiasco Reveals Dirty Secret of Drug Industry: Their Pills are Made in China!
Published May 1 2008
Concepts: drugs, pharmaceuticals, china, the FDA, Heparin


Heath Ledger Cause of Death Confirmed: Prescription Drug Toxicity
Published February 6 2008
Concepts: drugs, Heath Ledger, cause of death, prescription drug, drug toxicity

Just Say No to Prescription Drugs
Published December 4 2007
Concepts: drugs, prescription drug, prescription drugs, heartburn, dangerous drugs

Unraveling the lies about the antioxidant study on vitamins E and C
Published August 13 2007
Concepts: vitamins, nutrition, drugs, antioxidant, health

28 Senators vote to maintain Big Pharma monopoly over U.S. consumers; Republicans oppose free trade for medicine
Published May 7 2007
Concepts: drugs, United States, prescription drug, Big Pharma, prescription drugs

Americans fed up with drug industry influence, FDA corruption, reveals remarkable Consumer Reports survey
Published April 16 2007
Concepts: the FDA, drugs, drug companies, NaturalNews, Consumer Reports

The big vitamin scare: American Medical Association claims vitamins may kill you (opinion)
Published February 28 2007
Concepts: vitamins, nutrition, nutritional supplements, conventional medicine, health

Prescription drug deaths skyrocket 68 percent over five years as Americans swallow more pills
Published February 22 2007
Concepts: prescription drug, drugs, prescription drug deaths, suicide, prescription drugs

Teen prescription drug abuse on the rise, study finds
Published December 30 2006
Concepts: prescription drug, drug abuse, prescription drug abuse, illegal drugs, prescription drugs

Off-label use of blood clotting prescription drug may be killing U.S. soldiers, military doctors say
Published November 20 2006
Concepts: blood, doctors, military, off-label prescribing, prescription drug

Brand-name drug prices rise faster than inflation
Published September 21 2006
Concepts: the AARP, drugs, Ambien, Wellbutrin, Atrovent Inhaler

StopDrugAds.org: A New Website Against DTC Prescription Drug Advertising (press release)
Published August 24 2006
Concepts: prescription drug, prescription drug advertising, medical school, pharmaceutical industry, drugs

Health authorities warn buying prescription drugs is dangerous, but only on the Internet
Published August 11 2006
Concepts: drugs, prescription drugs, health, internet, health authorities

39 Health & Seniors Groups Call on Congress to End to DTC Prescription Drug Ads (press release)
Published July 24 2006
Concepts: health, prescription drug, drug ads, advertising, cancer

200+ Medical School Professors Call for End to DTC Prescription Drug Ads (press release)
Published July 21 2006
Concepts: prescription drug, drugs, medical school, drug ads, advertising

Deaths From Accidental Prescription Drug Overdose on Rise in New Mexico (press release)
Published July 17 2006
Concepts: prescription drug, drugs, drug overdose, prescription drugs, pain relievers

Prescription drug prices rise four times faster than inflation; biggest jump in six years
Published June 21 2006
Concepts: inflation, drugs, drug prices, prescription drug, prescription drug prices

Government's Medicare drug benefit program is an unmitigated disaster
Published June 15 2006
Concepts: drugs, medicare, drug benefit program, prescription drugs, Medicare drug benefit

Big Pharma scare tactics: How the pharmaceutical industry influences American consumers
Published June 2 2006
Concepts: drugs, prescription drug, prescription drugs, Big Pharma, pharmaceutical industry

NaturalNews survey results, part 2: Healthy actions = healthy results
Published April 12 2006
Concepts: health, medicine, drugs, NaturalNews, prescription drug

Shattering the false philosophy and junk science of conventional medicine
Published March 30 2006
Concepts: health, disease, drugs, medicine, prescription drug

With Tysabri decision, the FDA declares no drug is too dangerous to be FDA approved
Published March 28 2006
Concepts: the FDA, drugs, dangerous drugs, prescription drug, side effects

Conflicting media messages: How ads for pharmaceuticals and dangerous foods have infiltrated health publications
Published March 21 2006
Concepts: foods, disease, drugs, drug advertising, food

Herceptin hype: Big Pharma's new "miracle cure" for breast cancer is inferior to free, natural cures
Published March 13 2006
Concepts: cancer, breast cancer, Herceptin, Big Pharma, drugs

Positive health trends accelerated by consumer education and champions of health freedom
Published February 15 2006
Concepts: health, food, cancer, health trends, hydrogenated oils

Study shows alarming spike in prescription drug deaths at the beginning of each month
Published November 21 2005
Concepts: prescription drug, prescription drug deaths, drugs, prescription drugs, pharmacist

FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information (commentary)
Published October 14 2005
Concepts: drugs, the FDA, hemp, America, prescription drug

Where's the health in health care reform?
Published October 14 2005
Concepts: health, health care, food, disease, drugs

The raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugs
Published August 15 2005
Concepts: drugs, legal drugs, DEA, the DEA, medical marijuana

The great direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising con: how patients and doctors alike are easily influenced to demand dangerous drugs
Published July 31 2005
Concepts: advertising, drugs, doctors, America, prescription drug

If the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things you might notice
Published July 22 2005
Concepts: drugs, prescription drugs, drug companies, prescription drug, health

Nutritional products from New Chapter and other health innovators
Published July 11 2005
Concepts: health, New Chapter, cancer, food, drugs

Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists
Published July 5 2005
Concepts: drugs, prescription drugs, prescription drug, health, America

Experiment shows medical doctors to be glorified drug dealers, easily manipulated by drug companies
Published July 2 2005
Concepts: doctors, medicine, drugs, health, the FDA

Where's the health in health reform?
Published July 1 2005
Concepts: health, health care, drugs, disease, socialized medicine

Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicals
Published June 7 2005
Concepts: drugs, disease, tobacco, Big Tobacco, doctors

An overview of new health products, plant technology, superfoods and natural health research breakthroughs
Published May 22 2005
Concepts: food, health, foods, drugs, water

PYY3-36 appetite control nasal spray may be effective, yet still misused by consumers
Published April 17 2005
Concepts: Merck, Nastech, appetite control, health, appetite

St. John's Wort proven more effective than antidepressant drugs for treating depression
Published March 29 2005
Concepts: drugs, antidepressant drugs, depression, prescription drug, medicinal herbs

Alternative medicine is often practiced with the limited mindset of conventional medicine
Published March 7 2005
Concepts: medicine, alternative medicine, acupuncture, health, health outcome

The health insurance problem is not an insurance problem, it is a health problem
Published February 2 2005
Concepts: health insurance, health care, disease prevention, disease, health care reform

Many automobile accidents may actually be caused by prescription drug side effects
Published January 30 2005
Concepts: drugs, automobile accidents, prescription drugs, traffic accidents, brain fog

Patients should demand full lifetime refunds on Vioxx, COX-2 inhibitors and other drugs
Published January 16 2005
Concepts: surgical procedures, drugs, medicine, COX-2 inhibitors, Vioxx

Direct-to-consumer advertising must be banned as part of FDA reform
Published January 6 2005
Concepts: the FDA, drugs, direct-to-consumer advertising, prescription drug, prescription drugs

Acomplia drug hype reveals mythology of prescription drugs, shortcut philosophy of American culture
Published January 4 2005
Concepts: mythology, health, Acomplia, prescription drugs, American culture

How to lower high cholesterol naturally without prescription drugs
Published December 5 2004
Concepts: health, food, foods, prescription drug, drugs

Vioxx only the beginning; antidepressants and statin drugs are medication timebombs
Published October 4 2004
Concepts: drugs, statin drugs, prescription drugs, Vioxx, antidepressants

Medication recycling: prescription drug laws transform ordinary citizens into international smugglers
Published August 22 2004
Concepts: drugs, prescription drugs, medication, prescription drug, medications

U.S. pharmaceutical companies and the FDA responsible for 100 times as many Americans deaths as terrorists
Published August 19 2004
Concepts: drugs, prescription drugs, prescription drug, pharmaceutical industry, drugs from Canada

U.S. pharmacies make tragic medication mistakes that injure or kill U.S. consumers; but FDA keeps warning us about Canada
Published August 19 2004
Concepts: U.S. pharmacies, Walgreen's, Canadian pharmacies, drugs from Canada, the FDA

Vermont defies the FDA and sues to allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada
Published August 19 2004
Concepts: the FDA, prescription drugs, Vermont, prescription drug, drug racket

Elderly patients regularly prescribed dangerous medications with severe side effects
Published August 19 2004
Concepts: elderly patients, drugs, prescription drugs, elderly, prescription drug

An outspoken doctor calls the pharmaceutical industry a national fraud that promotes disease and prevents prevention
Published August 19 2004
Concepts: disease, pharmaceutical industry, drugs, health, prescription drug

Skyrocketing health care costs make U.S. employers non-competitive in the global marketplace
Published August 8 2004
Concepts: health, health care, health care costs, health care system, health insurance

If Drugs From Canada Are So Dangerous, Where Are All the Dead Canadians?
Published August 7 2004
Concepts: drugs, the FDA, prescription drugs, drugs from Canada, prescription drug

Popular Alzheimer's Drug Found to Be All But Worthless in Independent Study
Published August 7 2004
Concepts: Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's drug, prescription drugs, Alzheimer's disease, Aricept

A Public Drug Registry Would Bring Honesty to Pharmaceutical Research, But the Idea Terrifies Drug Companies
Published August 7 2004
Concepts: drug companies, drug registry, pharmaceutical industry, prescription drugs, drug trials

Heart Failure Drug Found To Have Killed Thousands, Injured Tens of Thousands; Yet Doctors and the FDA Continue To Support It
Published August 6 2004
Concepts: heart failure, the FDA, doctors, prescription drugs, modern medicine

Maryland joins list of states attempting to buy prescription drugs from Canada, but FDA-enforced drug monopoly blocks efforts
Published August 3 2004
Concepts: drugs from Canada, drugs, drug monopoly, prescription drugs, the free market

Hospital warning: medical errors kill 195,000 Americans each year, says new study
Published July 28 2004
Concepts: hospital, medical errors, modern medicine, health care system, prescription drug

How to lower your cholesterol absolutely free (no prescription required)
Published July 28 2004
Concepts: food, foods, drugs, health, lower your cholesterol

Pharmaceutical company admits to lying about the health risks of its drugs
Published July 26 2004
Concepts: the FDA, health, prescription drug side effects, dangerous drugs, pharmaceutical industry

Importation of prescription drugs from Canada rises despite FDA's best efforts to protect Big Pharma's profits in the U.S.
Published July 25 2004
Concepts: drugs, the FDA, prescription drugs, drugs from Canada, drug racket

Today's pharmaceutical industry mirrors the hyping and marketing of radioactive products in the early 1900's
Published July 21 2004
Concepts: radioactive products, pharmaceutical industry, quackery, drugs, prescription drugs

If prescription drugs are so good, where are all the healthy drug takers?
Published July 15 2004
Concepts: drugs, prescription drugs, prescription drug, health, statins

Monopoly prescription drug racket goes global with push from Bush administration, pharmaceutical companies
Published July 13 2004
Concepts: drug racket, Bush Administration, prescription drug, free trade, pharmaceutical industry

Massive medical fraud exposed: pharmaceutical company paid doctors to prescribe drugs and run sham clinical trials
Published July 9 2004
Concepts: drugs, doctors, drug companies, pharmaceutical industry, medical fraud

Mass media promotes pharmaceutical industry hype; the general public chooses easy drugs over nutrition and exercise
Published June 4 2004
Concepts: drugs, mass media, nutrition, health, pharmaceutical industry

Popularity of prescription drugs from Canada continues to grow; FDA plays role of mob boss for domestic prescription drug racket
Published May 28 2004
Concepts: drugs, prescription drugs, drugs from Canada, prescription drug, prescription drugs from Canada

Everyday herbs prove to be convenient healers; garlic proves itself against cancer and cholesterol
Published May 25 2004
Concepts: garlic, cancer, herbs, prescription drug, health

Doping up our children: antidepressant drug prescriptions for kids are skyrocketing while nutritional cures remain ignored
Published May 24 2004
Concepts: drugs, prescriptions, antidepressant drug, drug prescriptions, prescription drug

Bad medicine: antibiotic prescription drug causes woman's skin to fall off
Published January 8 2004
Concepts: antibiotic, prescription drug, drugs


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