Increase the risk of Alzheimer’s by 50%? Kidney disease by up to 50%? Unfortunately, that’s exactly what the science suggests. Over the years, we’ve written extensively about the dangers of stomach acid drugs—conventional medicine’s completely wrongheaded answer to stomach pain and acid reflux. Scientists aren’t certain what causes acid reflux, but a leading hypothesis is that it’s… Continue reading Acid Blockers Cause Brain Damage, Kidney Disease?
Tag: Dangerous Drug Effects
FDA Approves Controversial Diet Drug Despite Warning of Suicide Risk
Contrave has terrible side effects, is expensive, includes a hidden antidepressant, and barely even works. So why did the FDA approve it?
One in Five Pregnant Women Take Opioid Painkillers
And what doctors are prescribing as an alternative is just as dangerous. Action Alert!
Prescription Drugs in Prison—Watch Out
What we are looking at is a potential storm of inmate addiction, violence, and soaring federal medical costs.
Popular Antidepressant May Promote Breast Cancer
Even worse, it’s frequently prescribed to the most at-risk group: women in their 40s and 50s. Action Alert!
Are We About to Make Criminals Even More Violent?
The latest from the Department of Unintended Consequences.
FDA Approves a Dangerous New Antidepressant—for Hot Flashes!
The agency defied its own panel’s recommendation against approval because slight benefit is not worth the risk of suicide (and, we might add, addiction).
Distressing News: BPA in Mothers May Harm Newborns
It’s time to take the BPA fight to the state legislatures. Action Alerts!
Danger: Cherry-Picked Drug Studies!
Drug companies are deliberately keeping the public—and the medical community—in the dark about “unfavorable” clinical trials. Action Alert!
Are Big Pharma’s Drugs Making Your Heartburn Worse and Worse? Just Fix It with Surgery!
Now they want to cut open your throat and install a metal ring with magnets, when the best and safest natural remedies cost pennies!