Category: Health Autonomy

Some good news to report! Thanks to the sustained advocacy of ANH-USA members and our allies, a serious threat to folate availability has been reversed. Unfortunately, other problems with new nutrition facts rules remain unaddressed. In 2014, we told you that the FDA was proposing a backdoor ban on natural folate in dietary supplements. The… Continue reading FDA Reverses Its Folate Ban

Yet only recently the agency held that KIND snack bars couldn’t claim to be healthy because they contained too much fat. Never mind that the fats in question are the good fats we need. Last year the FDA sent a warning letter to KIND Healthy Snacks, telling them their products were advertised as being “healthy”… Continue reading FDA Backs Down on Censoring Food Label

With your help, we can defeat it once again. Action Alert! Last week we told you about an anti-supplement amendment that we think will be attached to a must-pass bill to fund the military in fiscal year 2017. We also believe this amendment will be introduced to the full Senate this week, so it is… Continue reading Anti-Supplement Amendment Coming

Big drug companies want the entire market to themselves. Action Alert! If they’re successful, the price of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy could go through the roof. And you won’t be able to get the therapy in the right form, either. In 2014, TherapeuticsMD, a drug company specializing in women’s healthcare, was granted two new patents… Continue reading Natural Hormones: New Threat

It’s the same tactic these senators used last year, and with your help we will beat it back again. Action Alert! Last year, Sens. Blumenthal (D-CT) and Durbin (D-IL) attempted to attach anti-supplement amendments to a must-pass defense appropriations bill, but were stopped by our grassroots activists and other stakeholders. It looks as if the… Continue reading Supplements: New Sneak Attack

But we can stop it now. Action Alert! For some time now we have been explaining how the FDA appears to be trying to put compounding pharmacies out of business in order to boost the profits of its major client, the pharmaceutical industry. It doesn’t seem to matter to the agency that you will no… Continue reading FDA Defies Congress, Slips Money to Hospitals, and Stiffs Consumers

Medical free speech has been set back, but plaintiffs did win some parts of the long, protracted battle. Last year, POM Wonderful petitioned the US Supreme Court to review a lower court decision that had partly sided with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The agency had tried to prevent the pomegranate juice company—and, by extension,… Continue reading Disappointing Final Outcome of POM Wonderful Case

Probably not. Compelling evidence says it is THE leading cause of death, even ahead of heart disease and cancer. A troubling report just published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) calculates that medical errors kill 251,000 Americans each year, making it the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease. This report updates… Continue reading Is Medicine Really the Third Leading Cause of Death in the US?

Discrimination against well-trained naturopathic doctors is rampant. We need your help to stop it. State-based Action Alert! Recently an association of four-year trained naturopathic doctors (NDs) in Oregon brought a class action lawsuit against an insurance provider. They allege that the insurance company conducted unlawful and discriminatory practices by arbitrarily denying payments for primary care services… Continue reading Fighting for Naturopaths