(Natural News) In 2012, over 700 people across 20 different states were diagnosed with fungal meningitis and other infections after being given contaminated medication. This egregious error led to what was the most deadly outbreak of meningitis ever seen in the United States; 64 people died in nine different states. Now, the trial is finally […]

(Natural News) In case you haven’t heard the great news, President-elect Donald Trump is already taking aim at Big Pharma’s obscene profits. He’s announced his intention to make them (finally!) engage in competitive bidding to supply prescription medications to the federal government, which purchases over $320 billion a year in prescription drugs. (Yep, almost a […]

(Natural News) In a welcome announcement during a press conference today, President-elect Donald Trump announced a plan to shatter the monopolistic pricing of Big Pharma that has been draining literally trillions of dollars from the government for the past two decades. “Pharma has a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power,” said Trump. “There’s […]

(Natural News) New research from The George Washington University‘s School of Medicine and Health Sciences has revealed that opioids aren’t really all that they’re cracked up to be. In fact, the team of scientists found that taking opioids actually delayed healing time. In many chronic wound patients, the administration of opioid pain relievers actually reduced the […]

(Natural News) According to the CBC, an unpublished clinical trial is missing data for a third of its participants. The drug tested in the study has been prescribed for nausea in pregnancy for four decades, but its efficacy is in question. Dr. Nav Persaud thinks data from the trial should not be used because of […]

(Natural News) It’s become increasingly difficult to find the truth in modern news media, with so many of the typical outlets being biased, deceptive, manipulative and dishonest. Thus, it isn’t too surprising that the website Politifact is decisively pro-vaccine and pro-GMO. The organization says it fact checks what politicians and others with political opinions say, and then uses […]

(Natural News) Is a legal drug epidemic plaguing our nation? According to a new study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, it seems that Americans have become increasingly dependent on pharmaceuticals. In 2013, about one in six American adults reported taking at least one psychiatric drug, usually an antidepressant, sedative or antipsychotic, to cope […]

(Natural News) It’s not a statistic that will please the nation’s anti-Second Amendment, gun-grabbing politicians, but sometimes facts can be inconvenient things when you’re pushing an agenda. As reported by Zero Hedge, “Guns don’t kill people, heroin does.” For the first time ever, researchers have found that the illicit street drug has become more deadly […]

(Natural News) One of Donald Trump’s promises on the campaign trail was to lower drug prices significantly, much to the chagrin of the pharmaceutical industry that relies heavily on high-priced chemicals in order to stay in business. Trump waged war on Big Pharma quite some time ago, so it’s no wonder that they desperately wanted Hillary […]

(Natural News) (NaturalNews) Last year, hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli had his company Turing Pharmaceuticals purchase the rights to anti-parasitic drug Daraprim, and immediately jacked the price up 5,000 percent, from $13.50 a pill to an astonishing $750. It was widely viewed as a quintessential example of Big Pharma price gouging. Now, a group of […]