The “Big C” is big cash. A whopping $100 billion are spent on noxious chemotherapy treatments each year. Yet in many cases, there is no underlining condition that actually needs to be treated. Tens of millions of people are pumped full of poison after crooked oncologists intentionally misdiagnose them with cancer. Oncologists from all corners […]

Fraud is a well stirred recipe in the U.S. corporate state. But the guilty parties are megalithic pharmaceutical companies like GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). In July of 2012, GSK was fined $3 billion dollars in criminal and civil liabilities concerning their branding and use of Paxil and Wellbutrin. It was the largest healthcare fraud settlement in history. But a company like GSK has deep pockets to pay […]

Childhood obesity has become a real public health crisis within the span of the turn of the century. Many people are left scratching their heads and wondering what has changed so dramatically between then and now? The issue has taken enough gravitas that the First Lady of the United States has engaged in political theater […]

Meningococcal disease, or bacterial meningitis, is a serious infection in the protective membranes (meninges) of the brain and the spinal cord that affects fewer than 1000 people per year in the United States. Tragically, this fast acting illness kills 10 – 15% of those infected. Additional complications can include bloodstream infections (septicemia) that may result in brain damage, learning disabilities, deafness and loss of limbs […]

What is the scientific method? Here is how the Free Dictionary defines the process: “The principles and empirical processes of discovery and demonstration considered characteristic of or necessary for scientific investigation, generally involving the observation of phenomena, the formulation of a hypothesis concerning the phenomena, experimentation to demonstrate the truth or falseness of the hypothesis, and a […]

Australia is a country and a continent with a population of roughly 23 million, compared to the US population of approximately 318 million and the UK with around 64 million inhabitants. While legalization drags on in some parts of the world, Australian lawmakers have recently legalized medical marijuana for the whole country. The bill provides […]

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial in 2010, led by Mitsuyoshi Urashima and conducted by the Division of Molecular Epidemiology in the the Department of Pediatrics at the Jikei University School of Medicine Minato-ku in Tokyo found that vitamin D was extremely effective at halting influenza infections in children. The study involved 334 children, half of […]

Make no mistake. Lead is a neurotoxin and can cause serious and irreversible damage. Children are the most vulnerable. Exposure can happen by inhalation of fumes or dust, eating paint chips, playing with contaminated toys or on contaminated land.  Lead exposure can happen by washing their hands, taking a bath, eating food cooked in contaminated water and drinking a […]

A recent analysis conducted by ProPublica undermines the long held belief that physicians who accept meals and payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies do not prescribe drugs differently. ProPublica is an investigative journalism group based in New York City. The analysis included 150,000 doctors in cardiovascular disease, family medicine, internal medicine, ophthalmology and psychiatry. […]

Let me tell you an interesting (and disturbing) statistic: When worse comes to worst, three in four physicians would readily refuse chemotherapy for themselves. Why? Because chemotherapy will kill you before cancer even could. It wipes out your immune system, leaving you vulnerable to ordinary viruses and bacteria that normally would not even cause an […]

The pharmaceutical industry has a vested interest in keeping you sick, not just with cancer, diabetes, or high blood pressure, but with any type of mental illness they can create a category for. If you’re sad, you’ll get some fluorine loaded anti depressant, or if you’re anxious, they’ll throw you a valium or Xanax. And […]

The scientific community does not rely on the anecdotal evidence that has come forward in recent years to prove that cannabis treats and even cures epilepsy. The FDA recently approved a study into researching a drug derived from cannabis plants, which conclusively proves that cannabis helps to alleviate the symptoms of epilepsy. The study included […]

Developed countries have bureaucracies that track just about everything, especially when it comes to human health. Our own federal government knows just about as much or more than our family physicians and other primary care providers. The government (and corporations) know what goods we buy, where we shop, how often we go to certain places, […]

The American Medical Association (AMA) has once again proven just how dictatorial it can be (despite merely having a professional membership base of 17% of all doctors), as it has tried to threaten progressive doctors from exercising their freedom of speech on the national stage. Apparently, despite its less than impressive hold on the entire medical […]

Pharmaceutical companies have been trying to manufacture synthetic versions of cannabis for years. Recently, a Portuguese company named Bial produced a drug designed to treat anxiety and pain by blocking process by which the human body breaks down naturally-occurring cannabinoid compounds in the body. Biotrial, a French research organization, conducted the trial of the drug […]