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Tag: Big Pharma
The Disappearing Honeybee and More Dirty Dealing by Major Drug Companies
Natural health diets depend completely on the honeybee. Industry money infiltrates science once again, as the likeliest culprit behind the worldwide collapse of bee colonies is revealed—and it’s not what the New York Times reported!
More Crony Capitalism at the FDA
Three years ago a government report found the FDA completely lacking in scientific expertise. The agency’s response? Hire scientists from Big Pharma!
Coconut Oil and Alzheimer’s Disease
How worried should drug companies be about supplements eating into their monopoly profits? A lot—as this story will show. Please share it with anyone you know who is suffering from Alzheimer’s or is worried about it.
Keeping Your Finger on the Pulse: Other Updates
New information on medical journal ghostwriting scandal; statins and infectious disease; and stomach troubles being caused, not healed, by acid blockers.
Supplements Are Contaminated, Drugs Pure. Right? No, Wrong
Are megabucks of drug company advertising buying major media silence about shoddy practices?
Free Market Forces in Health Care
The U.S. health care industry has remained an anathema to the American economy whose strengths have historically been built on a free market system. Harvard economist Regina Herzlinger, PhD in her book Market Driven Healthcare describes why the lack of free market forces are but one of the reasons US healthcare is, in many ways,… Continue reading Free Market Forces in Health Care
Should Your Charity Dollars Be Given to a For-Profit Drug Company?
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has given a $5 million grant to a pharmaceutical manufacturer to help create a new drug for MS. No matter that the drug’s key ingredient is readily available at a lower cost elsewhere. Or that good natural health alternatives are largely ignored.
Memo to Political Leaders: When You Think Job Creation, Think Natural Health (If You Don’t, Other Countries Will)
Natural health is a tremendous growth industry. Over the next few decades, it will generate millions of jobs. Europe will get few. Asia many. What about the US?
JAMA Reports that Vitamin B6 May Reduce Lung Cancer. Will the FDA Turn Natural B6 into a Drug?
In stark contrast to Consumer Reports Health’s profoundly negative view of supplements comes a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reporting that high levels of vitamin B6 may reduce lung cancer risk.