Pundits have said it takes at least 100 deaths for the FDA to act regarding pulling a prescription drug from the marketplace. The playing field is far from level for risky medications versus the risks of supplements including herbs. It is of little comfort to consumers that the FDA has no written guidelines for deciding… Continue reading Risk to Benefit Ratio: when is a drug too risky to stay on the market?
Tag: Dangerous Drug Effects
Diabetes Rate Up 90% in Last 10 Years
Washington University, in a NIH-funded grant request in 2005 to study ginseng and its blood sugar modulating effects, called diabetes an epidemic. They predicted 10% of the US population would be type II diabetic within the year.
The Little Purple Pill Problem
Forbes magazine calls it “a parable of what’s wrong with health care [costs].” We think that the popular drug Nexium is a scandal for a different reason – what it does to your digestion.
AIDS drugs linked to ‘Severe Vitamin D Deficiency’
It is one of those ‘far enough ahead of your time to suffer for it medical maverick” moments. Integrative medical practitioners have long recognized because of their knowledge and use of the body’s biochemistry that prescription drugs deplete the body of certain nutrients. It’s called drug induced nutrient depletion. The side effects of medication are… Continue reading AIDS drugs linked to ‘Severe Vitamin D Deficiency’
Children Are Being Exploited to Extend Pharmaceutical Patents
Want to protect your kids from high cholesterol? Just give ’em drugs—like the new, chewable form of Lipitor. Yes, chewable. Like candy. A new Action Alert asks Congress to repeal a really rotten law that encourages this.
A Medical Maverick’s Fate
The attempt to wipe Andrew Wakefield, MD from the face of the medical community for honestly reporting his findings trying to help his patients
A Pill for Every Ill
Consumer Reports has now stated that nearly 80% of Americans prefer to take a pill for depression when presented with other options including talk therapy. Consumer Reports went on to note that in a survey of 1500 readers, they benefited equally from talk therapy as they did from antidepressant medication.
How Somebody’s Medicines May Be Making You Sicker
This week we discuss several ways prescription drugs may be making us all sicker—whether through illnesses brought on because these medicines deplete critical nutrients in our body, or because we’re unwittingly consuming pharmaceuticals in the municipal water we drink.
Acetaminophen: the Killer Painkiller
Acetaminophen (e.g. Tylenol) is linked to 50 percent of all liver failure in the United States. It can also cause eye disease, asthma, hearing loss — and death. Why is the FDA silent about the dangers of this country’s most commonly used painkiller?
Expensive, Dangerous
Evidence mounts that many of the procedures that constitute the current “standard of care” fail to promote health, are unnecessary and may put patients at greater risk. These risks increase with a standardized, one-size-fits-all form of monopoly medicine.