Does anyone remember the drug Tiger Woods allegedly cavorted with his consorts on? The same drug former Rhode Island Representative Patrick Kennedy had ingested and then crashed his car when he drove to Capitol Hill to “vote” at 2:45 AM? Continue reading
Big Pharma has been accused of selling drugs that are so dangerous they cause death and drugs that cause the exact conditions they’re supposed to treat. The popular asthma drugs Symbicort, Advair Diskus, Serevent Diskus, Dulera and Foradil do both and actually warn on their labels that they cause an increased “risk of death from asthma problems.” Continue reading
There was a day when it seemed like everyone was on antidepressant “happy pills” like Prozac®, Paxil ® and Zoloft®. But then the pendulum began to swing. Patients objected to the weight gain and feelings of not being “themselves,” sexual side effects and the withdrawal symptoms. There were even reports and warnings about suicide and other “neuropsychiatric” effects. Continue reading
It’s no secret that Pharma is trying to replace its declining pill franchise with optional vaccines like the HPV vaccine, which Texas Gov. Rick Perry tried to mandate for all adolescent girls. Vaccines are expensive, can be mass marketed to vast swathes of the population and are usually immune to generic competition, pun intended. Continue reading
The horrible news from Japan continues to be ignored by the Western corporate media Continue reading
Iowa, which gave us the carnival known as the Iowa Straw Poll and artery-clogging Deep Fried Butter, will unleash another health problem, beginning Sept. 1. Continue reading
Veterans Today reported that Dr. John Howard, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, said, “There are inadequate published scientific and medical findings that a causal link exists between September 11 exposures and the occurrence of cancer in responders and survivors. The decision forms part of the first periodic review of what the James Zagroda 9/11 Health and Compensation Act will provide.” Continue reading
Global climate change is having profound effects on human health. Continue reading
Phillip Sinaikin, MD, is a Florida psychiatrist who has been in practice for 25 years. Author of Get Smart About Weight Control and co-author of Fat Madness: How to Stop the Diet Cycle and Achieve Permanent Well-Being. his new book, Psychiatryland, focuses on excesses and industry influence in the field of psychiatry. Continue reading
After being silent for more than six years, two women who say their doctor husbands died from undisclosed Neurontin risks have decided to speak out. Continue reading
The discovery that many people with life problems or occasional bad moods would willingly dose themselves with antidepressants sailed pharma through the 2000s. A good chunk of pharma’s $4.5 billion direct-to-consumer advertising has been devoted to convincing people they don’t have problems with their job, the economy and their family, they have depression. Especially because depression can’t be diagnosed from a blood test. Continue reading
In January, the government of the United States of America saw fit to seize $4.207 million in funds allocated to Cuba by the United Nations Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the first quarter of 2011, Cuba has charged. The UN Fund is a $22 billion a year program that works to combat the three deadly pandemics in 150 countries. Continue reading
Most people have enough fear of skin cancer and photo-aging to give tanning salons wide berth, pun intended. But how safe are sunscreens themselves? Weeks after the New York Times exposed the caprice in assignment of sun protection factors (SPF) last year, Sen. Charles Schumer (D- New York) called on the FDA to investigate reports that an ingredient in most sunscreens—retinyl palmitate—actually causes cancer. Continue reading
About 1 million women, according to the Cancer Prevention Coalition, work in industries that expose them to more than 50 carcinogens linked to breast cancer. Continue reading
As important as the nationalization of the commercial banks by Indira Gandhi in 1969 is the current need to nationalize healthcare—which means that private hospitals should be brought under the purview of the state. The state hospitals are generally believed to be a veritable nightmare. However, when I visited the state-run Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad fairly recently to check on an ill neighbor who could not afford corporate treatment, I was impressed by the general behavior of the young doctors and realized how much more the poor could gain by being given the opportunity of free healthcare. This hospital had the potential of being a very good hospital with a little more support from the government and the public at large. Continue reading
Can anyone remember life before Ask Your Doctor ads on TV? Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO—What to do about the radioactive poison. Continue reading
The Planned Parenthood organization is under attack from the right. With ACORN out of the way, I guess they needed to invent a new bogeyman to distract us from their failure to create all those new jobs they promised us during the 2010 campaign season. Continue reading
Tens of millions of innocent, unsuspecting Americans, who are mired deeply in the mental “health” system, have actually been made crazy by the use of or the withdrawal from commonly-prescribed, brain-altering, brain-disabling, indeed brain-damaging psychiatric drugs that have been, for many decades, cavalierly handed out like candy—often in untested and therefore unapproved combinations of drugs—to trusting and unaware patients by equally unaware but well-intentioned physicians who have been under the mesmerizing influence of slick and obscenely profitable psychopharmaceutical drug companies, a.k.a. Big Pharma. Continue reading
Major questions, that need to be addressed about osteoporotic bone and arterial calcification, have fallen through the cracks. Why have vitamin K1 (phylloquinone) and vitamin K2 (menaquinone) not been part of the discussion regarding preventive measures for osteoporosis and arterial calcification? After all, it is now known that vitamin K2 is a calcium carrier that moves calcium from the blood into bone matrix, thereby strengthening bone and preventing calcification of the arterial lining, a dreaded complication of aging . . . hardening of the arteries. Has Western medical practice become so fixated on pharmaceutical fixes that obvious nutritional remedies are missed or underplayed? Continue reading
Right around the time a 9.0 tsunami struck Japan and left in its wake the worst nuclear reactor disaster since Chernobyl, the Transportation Security Administration made public the results of its internal review that shows what they call “record-keeping errors” and miscalculations by TSA contractors. These contractor errors, as CNN reports, have prompted the agency to call for the retesting of radiation levels in full-body scanners. Continue reading
The fact that numerous firefighters and other first responders have continued to fall ill, some of them terminally, has been much discussed in the media. But the mainstream media have not raised the most pressing question: Why have first responders developed cancer and other fatal diseases that should not have been caused by the fires in, and collapses of, the World Trade Center buildings? This 9/11 mystery has still not been answered. Continue reading
The patient was overweight and had Type 2 diabetes. He was on Crestor for cholesterol, Atacand for hypertension, the proton pump inhibitor Protonix for GERD (gastro-esophageal reflux disease), Axert for migraines and Singulair for asthma. The patient was 8 years old. Continue reading
I published my own case study on the use of Strontium Citrate to treat severe osteoporosis in 2008. [1] The purpose of the present article is to document my progress with the most current Bone Mineral Density test results (May 2010), as well as update the current research literature on the use of the most common drugs prescribed for osteopenia/osteoporosis in the United States. Continue reading
The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of current published research on the mineral strontium and its purported function in preventing osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women. This mineral is available through regular medical sources in Europe and is approved for use in 21 European countries. A case study of my own journey through this morass of data and treatment options is included for comparative purposes of what happens to postmenopausal women in the United States. Continue reading
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