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Danger Drug: Banned COX-2 still available in UK

A drug that has been considered too dangerous for use in America and Canada is still freely available in the UK. more »

Viagra: Come again?

Viagra, the famed impotence drug, can cause sudden hearing loss. So far around 29 users have reported the problem to America’s drug regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is now add... more »

Aspirin: It kills 20,000 Americans every year

Common over-the-counter painkillers such as aspirin kill around 20,000 Americans every year, and another 100,000 end up in hospital as a result of taking the drug, new research reveals. more »

Flu Shots: They don’t protect the elderly, new data reveals

Flu shots for the elderly are far less effective than doctors, and governments, like to tell us. In fact, they are incapable of preventing up to half of all deaths from influenza and pneumonia in the... more »

Vaccine Damage: Parents receive $2bn compensation pay-outs

Vaccine manufacturers have paid out nearly $2bn in damages to parents in America whose children were harmed by one of the childhood jabs such as the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) or DPT (diphtheria-pert... more »

Drug Trials: Nobody checks, nobody knows

What really goes on in medical trials? Are the results really as they seem, and is the drug that is being tested as effective- and safe - as the manufacturer claims? more »

Teenage Suicides: Are antidepressants the unrecognized cause?

More teenagers are taking their own lives – but coroners may be failing to recognise that antidepressants are to blame, an expert says. more »

Drug Reactions: Deaths and serious problems triple in 8 years

The annual rates of serious adverse reactions and deaths from a prescribed drug have almost tripled since 1998. more »

Statins: Doctors ignore patients’ complaints of reactions to drugs

Does your doctor listen when you tell him that you are reacting to a drug he’s prescribed for you? According to a new study, he probably doesn’t. In fact, he rarely believes that the drug is to blame... more »

Vaccines: Now experts want to add another to the 13 we already give our children

Children in the UK may soon be offered another vaccination to add to the 13 they are already supposed to have before the age of 18. The new vaccine, which is designed to protect against chickenpox, i... more »

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3 Nov 2009 | Lynne McTaggart - Wh... (jowddty)

The poisoned generation

Perhaps the most underappreciated health scandal in modern times is the fact that, every day, we are all subjected to some 80,000 drugs—virtually all of which have not undergone a single regulat... more »

23 Oct 2009 | Health from your Gar... (bshubbard)

Your good health is down to yo...

One thing is sure in this world: only you can establish total wellness and health. Unless you want it, and are sufficiently motivated to gain it and keep it, no amount of outside support will su... more »

1 Oct 2009 | Lynne McTaggart - Wh... (jowddty)

DNA: it's not destiny

When we become ill, most of us lay the blame at the feet of our ancestors: my heart problem is like dad’s, who had a dicky ticker; I’m likely to get breast cancer because it’s what m... more »

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