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HRT: The danger drug that wasn’t, then was again

A week can be a terribly long time in medicine. Take, for example, the arguments over the safety of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), designed to ease women through the menopause. more »

Natural pain relief

A reader is eager for advice on how he can replace prescription pain medication with a natural alternative. more »

Antibiotic: It kills patients with special infection

The antibiotic Zyvox (linezolid) is killing patients whose catheters have caused an infection. more »

Keeping Mum: Drug companies claim secrecy even when laws force them to reveal bribes

Everybody knows that drug companies pay doctors – or ‘encourage’ them through gifts and inducements – to prescribe their drugs. more »

Drug Bribes: A $23 billion annual practice finally catches someone’s attention

An American charity has donated $6 million to fund a national campaign to reduce drug company influence on doctors. more »

Drug Controls: The FDA tries to get tough

America’s drug regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is finally trying to toughen up its act. more »

Author, Author: Drug companies keep the real researchers under wraps

Medical trials are a vital part of drug marketing. With a positive result, the manufacturer can press even harder to get the drug more widely prescribed. more »

Agonists: A drug group that may be a killer

There’s something rotten about a drug group known as the agonists. There are agonists for Parkinson’s disease, appetite suppression, and migraine. The ‘recreational’ drug ecstasy is also an agonist. more »

Antipsychotic: Eli Lilly suppresses data that reveals drug’s danger, papers claim

Sensitive documents that suggest the drug maker Eli Lilly has been suppressing vital safety information about its best-selling antipsychotic Zyprexa (olanzapine) have been leaked to media sources in t... more »

Drugs or Nothing: New FDA policy targets practitioners who offer an alternative

There seems to be a sea change in the enforcement policy of America’s health watchdog, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It’s targeting more alternative and complementary practitioners, and usi... 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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