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.)
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.
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.
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.
You would hope that doctors would generally take the time and trouble to do some research to find out the truth about drugs. Sadly, it's usually not the case.
The tragedy of an American soldier running amok and murdering families in Afghanistan is horrific. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales has been charged with killing 17 civilians, and is now charged with those homicides. The question that must be answered is: Why did this happen?
The EU has partnered with Big Pharma & Autism Speaks to develop drugs to cram down the throats of autistics. Rather than doing honest research into its causes, money is poured into suppressing symptoms.
The research effort to prove these inherently false claims of psychiatry has been launched, and the deeper they get into it, the deeper the hole they dig. But it never gets deep enough to hide all the manure they pour into it.
The FDA has just given the go-ahead for final testing of drugs that cause bone death and nerve damage, but provide only 12.7% more paint relief for back pain. Whose side is the FDA on?
What has the FDA done to assure that Actos and Avandia can't harm anyone? They've put a warnings on them. That's all, though both drugs are known to be killers. The FDA is neck-deep in the blood of people they're tasked with protecting.
Medical trials are routinely gamed by manipulating statistics. The old adage about lies, damned lies, and statistics was never more true than in modern drug studies. This article discusses some of the tricks in plain English.
The gold standard of medical science, the randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial has never been put to the test, which is itself a most unscientific fact. There is absolutely no science behind the claims of its superiority.
Antipsychotics are prescribed to the elderly for the sole purpose of drugging them into submission. These drugs are killing them at a 60-70% increased rate. All they want to do is use ones that don't kill as much.
Big Pharma has known all along that SSRI and SNRI antidepressants don't work. An FOIA request shows that they've known all along, that most of their studies showed no benefit.
