Philosophy is commonly seen as a discipline reserved for academics debating about questions that have little, if any, practical importance. In actuality, philosophy infests every corner of our thinking, including unsuspecting places, like what we choose to ingest. Michael Tierra puts philosophy to practice in his book The Way of Chinese Herbs, which unveils the philosophy […]

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 effects of smoking cigarettes? This one’s easy. Prolonged sicknesses. Undue anxiety. Chemically-induced depression. Bad breath. Bad teeth. Can’t laugh hard without coughing. Can’t enjoy athletic activities or working out. Shunned from public places. Waste of money. Waste of health. Need we go on? The effects of vaping? Well, it hasn’t been that long yet, […]

Humans have been using medical cannabis to treat a vast array of ailments for thousands of years. Physicians in the U.S. have used it as far back as the 1800s during which they were allowed to operate independently, free from government regulation. At that time, cannabis was one of their most commonly used medicines. By […]

If you’ve consulted a doctor for a migraine, you’ve probably only heard half the story about your mental health. Most people are told migraines are a hiccup in their make up, which they can do little, if anything about, without the assistance of drugs. In actuality, migraines are kindled by the food we choose to […]

Science is a recent enterprise to take humanity by storm. Despite its infancy, science has made rapid progress. But in order to understand where science can take us, it’s important to understand its roots, which have been been oversimplified – and in many cases, skewed – by mainstream television. Anyone looking to refresh their memory […]

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 […]

Occurrences of the mosquito-born Zika virus are escalating throughout Latin America, affecting thousands of women and their unborn babies. The disease, which was first detected in the 1940s, resembles the symptoms of dengue fever including mild fever, rash and bloodshot eyes. However, it differs vastly in that it’s linked to birth defects, resulting in a […]

Medicinal cannabis is known to help treat – and in some cases, prevent – a myriad of mental health problems, including Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease. Until recently, however, little had been known about the medicinal benefits marijuana has for migraines. According to a recent study, medical marijuana could help migraine sufferers reduce the frequency of […]

Psychiatry has never validated attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a legitimate, biological disease. Nevertheless, the myth of ADHD continues to prevail. Every year, Big Pharma diagnoses millions of children with ADHD, prescribing dangerous, expensive and mind-altering drugs. Fred Baughman, MD, exposes ADHD for what it really is in his book The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes […]

Consumers find themselves drowning in a monsoon of information about the health benefits of natural vitamins. But not all vitamins are created equal. Some vitamins work better together than others, and some vitamins, if consumed with pharmaceutical drugs, can lead to ill side‑effects. In an effort to steer through the murky waters, Alan R. Gaby […]

President Obama declared during his State of the Union Address that he’s putting Vice President Biden in charge of carrying out a multi-billion dollar “moonshot”, to cure cancer that Biden called for in wake of his son’s death. Unfortunately for Biden, and the public in general, Big Pharma has too much to lose by curing […]

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 […]