Category: Health Autonomy

Michelle Obama Wants to Get School Lunches Right

But she hasn’t yet succeeded. The recent annual conference of the School Nutrition Association (SNA), which, along with various labor unions, represents our country’s 55,000 school food workers, was sponsored by Domino’s Pizza, PepsiCo, Tyson, General Mills, and AdvancePierre Foods, a pre-packaged sandwich provider, the largest in the nation. The exhibition hall was filled with… Continue reading Michelle Obama Wants to Get School Lunches Right

Medical Student Launches Campaign Against Dr. Oz

As his popularity with Americans grows—and with it a new openness to integrative medicine—mainstream medicine is alarmed. Last year, when he was a second-year medical student, Benjamin Mazer took it upon himself to ask both the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) and the American Medical Association (AMA) to address what he… Continue reading Medical Student Launches Campaign Against Dr. Oz

Large Study Adds to Evidence that Organic Food Is Superior

It’s higher in antioxidants and lower in pesticide residues. A comprehensive new study published this week in the prestigious British Journal of Nutrition shows very clearly that how we grow our food has a huge impact. “If you buy organic fruits and vegetables, you can be sure you have, on average, a higher amount of… Continue reading Large Study Adds to Evidence that Organic Food Is Superior

What If the Government Standardized All Medical Testing?

You guessed it. Many tests essential to patients’ health would no longer be available. And the future of medicine seems to lie more and more in innovative, sophisticated, and custom testing—just what the FDA won’t like. Action Alert! Laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) are diagnostic tests developed and performed by local labs. They are widely used—thousands of… Continue reading What If the Government Standardized All Medical Testing?

FDA Proposes New Rules for Compounding

It looks to us that they’re trying to interfere with the practice of medicine. Action Alerts! The FDA has released a number of documents—draft guidances and proposed rules—that are supposed to “provide clarity” on the whole issue of compounding. These “clarifications” will severely diminish your access to many compounded medications. The new guidances may be,… Continue reading FDA Proposes New Rules for Compounding

FDA Allows Final Phase Review of Dr. Burzynski’s Lifesaving Brain Cancer Treatment to Proceed

This also means that additional patients will receive the treatment while it is being studied. It will be a Phase III study, in which the treatment is given to large groups of people to confirm its effectiveness. The patients will be split into two random groups. One group will receive just radiation therapy, and the… Continue reading FDA Allows Final Phase Review of Dr. Burzynski’s Lifesaving Brain Cancer Treatment to Proceed