Medical texts described measles as a benign self-limiting childhood disease, nothing to worry about. But then the measles vaccine came out -- thus creating the Great Measles Misunderstanding.
Testing is about to begin on a drug that’s expected to prevent alcohol intoxication by replacing it with a different high. The replacement drug, iomazenil, is a benzodiazepine, a class of drugs noted for their rapid inducement of addiction and coincident decrease in the positive sensations. The testing of iomazenil is focused on..
The FDA admits Diflucan causes birth defects. When you consider that natural fungal treatments are often more effective and always safer, why would you use the drug? (Includes natural solutions for fungal/candida infections.)
Medical screening over-promises and under-delivers—dragging people with no health problems into the medical system.
The number of deaths due to Vioxx may be half a million, not the 60,000 originally and semi-officially acknowledged. Alexander Cockburn brings his incisive political analysis to show that life is treated as cheap in America.
In a bow to reality, Australia has just ended free pertussis vaccines for adults. The idea of cocooning—protecting babies from diseases by vaccinating adults—simply hasn't borne out.
The Gates Foundation is moving ahead to use the unproven microbe-cancer claim to press for ever more vaccinations around the world.
The people labeled as lunatics through psychiatry’s Diagnostics and Statistics Manual labeling are striving to take over the asylum. They’re taking part in the Occupy Movement and they’ve just held their first protest, Occupy the American Psychiatric Assocation (APA). On the fifth of May, they protested in front of the..
The absurdity of their junk science should be so humiliating that psychiatrists hide in shame. Here are the latest two studies on schizophrenia and its standard treatment.
If you think that you couldn't possibly be sucked into the "mental health" system, please read this. The woman involved was forced into treatment against her will. It has cost her everything, including her health, her career, and her independence.
As seen in the first part of Jody's story, it's easy to fall into the psychiatric system. Asking for help is all it takes. Once in it, the chances of coming out whole are almost nonexistent.
Psychiatry is destroying lives. The previous two articles tell of how one person lost her freedom and the horrific treatment she received. Here is her situation today. This can happen to anyone.
Statins are in conflict with one of the most important heart-healthy habits: exercise. The more you exercise while taking statins, the more likely you'll suffer fatal effects.
Yet again, evidence-based medicine is shown to be a lie. In this case, the standard treatment treatment for prostate cancer, radical surgery, provides no benefit, though it routinely maims.
If I want to utilize a particular type of health practice, by what right does the government tell me that I can't? Who has the right to presume to understand my needs better than I do myself?
