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 […]

If you’re searching for con artists, scammers, hucksters and quacks, look no further than your nearby local hospital. While, of course, there are doctors out there whose goal is to really help patients out, there are also those whose main intention is to force people to receive “treatments,” harmful side effects notwithstanding, just for the sake of […]

Nowadays, conventional antibiotics are often carelessly prescribed by doctors for various infections. In fact, 2010 data obtained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that a whopping 833 antibiotic prescriptions are handed out on average per every 1,000 people. To make matters worse, over-prescription and over-consumption make future infections more difficult to combat, since antibiotics […]

The UK government is now financially compensating at least 60 families in a multi-million-dollar settlement that is likely to grow, as more patients suffer from the effects of a faulty swine flu vaccine that has already caused numerous cases of brain damage among children. “The government is expected to receive a bill of approximately £60 million [$90.1 […]

As more and more people are hit by the E.coli infection in Europe, it’s quite noticeable that the mainstream media’s been downplaying the mysterious and sudden appearance of this strain of E. coli in the food supply – and the alarming fact that it’s also become magically resistant to eight different classes of antibiotics. This particular E. coli variation is […]

Designed to oversee the proper licensing and disciplining of physicians, state medical boards have been caught abusing their power to penalize alternative medicine healers who don’t fall in line with the medical establishment’s often unethical guidelines, that are generally more concerned with maintaining repeat business than they are with curing patients. Physicians of all specialties […]

An apple a day keeps statins away. That is, at least according to what a pair of health experts claim in the BMC Medicine Journal. In particular, the duo press that eating apples is just as effective at preventing heart attacks and strokes as popping statins — minus the nasty side effects of the latter. Dr. Aseem Malhotra and […]

Nearly 300 people got much more than they bargained for after visiting Baystate Noble Hospital in Westfield, Massachusetts, for what they thought was going to be a routine colonoscopy. The patients may have been exposed to several blood-borne diseases, including HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C, after medical staff failed to properly disinfect instrumentation used during […]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the first disintegrating tablet for children suffering from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – a disease that does not really exist. If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with ADHD, chances are, you wouldn’t need a disintegrating tablet in the first place. That is, at least according […]

Big Pharma has a history of glamorizing the benefits of over the counter medications while undermining the risks. Consequently, many people are left with the false conviction that the medical care system has decreased, rather than increased, the likelihood of damage to a patient. A pinnacle example of this is treatments used for heart disease, the […]

Statins, a widely prescribed drug used to lower “bad” cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease, could increase the risk of diabetes by nearly 50 percent, according to a major research trial. A six-year study from Finland involving nearly 9,000 men discovered that those prescribed statins were far more likely to suffer from poor […]

A Philadelphia man is suing Johnson & Johnson, claiming the pharmaceutical giant’s diabetes drug, Invokana, damaged his kidneys. Invokana is made by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary. The commonly-prescribed drug had only been on the market for two years before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration determined it caused “too much acid in the blood and […]

Healthy food activists rang in the New Year with an exciting victory in the fight for cleaner, healthier food, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially kicked arsenic-based animal drugs to the curb; hopefully for good. As of Dec. 31, 2015, the FDA withdrew approval for all applications of nitarsone (or Histostat), an […]

Flu shots have proven to be less and less effective in the wake of the past few flu seasons. In a stunning feat of acknowledgment, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently admitted that the 2014–15 flu vaccine was no better, setting record lows for effectiveness. The organization has admitted that the 2014–2015 […]

*The following article was written by Augustina Ursino and originally appeared on Vactruth. We wanted to update our readers on a story we recently published, titled Indiana Baby Dies in His Sleep Days after Receiving 6 Vaccine Doses. Autopsy results have revealed baby Michael Whitesell’s liver and vascular systems were congested when he passed away. […]