Category: Health Autonomy

A proposed rule would eliminate many helpful, customized natural medicines. Action Alert! Last week, the FDA released a proposal to prohibit more than a dozen natural medicines from being made at compounding pharmacies, which make customized medicines to suit the needs of individual patients. This is the latest action in a long series of maneuvers… Continue reading FDA Moves to Ban Customized Curcumin, Others

Doctors and researchers are turning over every stone to find ways to combat drug-resistant bugs—except the ones that can actually save us! Action Alert! As traditional antibiotics become increasingly ineffective against bacterial infections, researchers have been searching for alternatives. A recently published study points to one direction that doctors are heading: repurposing old pharmaceutical drugs,… Continue reading Antibiotic Resistance: Why Is Natural Medicine Being Ignored?

Organic GMOs? Under Secretary of Agriculture Greg Ibach recently told a House Agricultural Subcommittee that it may be time to start having a conversation about whether technologies such as gene editing can be used to enhance organic production. It’s no surprise, really: we’ve been saying for years now that special interests are watering down organic… Continue reading News Clips: August 13, 2019

…by Big Pharma advertisers. “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines.” Those are the words of Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. She was discussing the… Continue reading Medical Journals: Bought and Paid For

…that will cost $2.1 million. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a gene therapy drug for a form of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Novartis is pricing the drug, Zolgensma, at $2.125 million, or $425,000 per year for five years. The drug is meant to treat children under 2 years of age with SMA,… Continue reading FDA Just Approved the World’s Most Expensive Drug

A message from Dr. Jonathan Wright. Action Alert! Last month Green Medicine Newsletter reported about the latest FDA-financed attack1 on bio-identical hormones (“BHRT”). When people hear the initials “BHRT”, they think of hormone replacement for women, which include estrogens, progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA, and often melatonin, oxytocin, and occasionally other hormones that decline with time. For… Continue reading Tell FDA to Make Men’s Testosterone Therapy Even Safer!