Drugs
Prescribed drugs cause 3 pct of French car crashes
Prescribed drugs are responsible for more than three percent of road crashes in France and an international system should be agreed to warn of the risks of driving on medication, scientists said on Monday. Yahoo! Health News
Scientists develop GMO plant that produces pharmaceutical drugs
(NaturalNews) Splicing and dicing natural plant compounds and patenting them for profit may be a thing of the past for drug companies, at least in terms of them having to do it manually in a laboratory. It might seem like something out of a science fiction movie, but a team of scientists from the Massachusetts [...]
New animation reveals the truth about statin drugs and their dangerous side effects
(NaturalNews) We’ve just released a new, short animation exposing the truth about the dangers of statin drugs. Called “The Truth About Statin Drugs,” this public service announcement animation quotes research published in the British Medical Journal which reveals that statin drugs cause liver dysfunction, acute kidney failure, cataracts and extreme muscle weakness, among other serious [...]
Big Pharma to begin microchipping drugs
(NaturalNews) The age of pharmaceutical microchipping is now upon us. Novartis AG, one of the largest drug companies in the world, has announced a plan to begin embedding microchips in medications to create “smart pill” technology. The microchip technology is being licensed from Proteus Biomedical of Redwood City, California. Once activated by stomach acid, the [...]
Sex, drugs more common in hyper-texting teens
A provocative new study finds that teens who text a lot are more likely to have had sex or used alcohol and drugs than kids who don’t send as many messages. Yahoo! Health News
Statin drugs cause liver damage, kidney failure and cataracts, says BMJ
(NaturalNews) Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs significantly increase a person’s risk of cataracts, muscle weakness, liver dysfunction and kidney failure, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. The study also confirmed that the drugs lower the risk of heart disease and esophageal cancer, but claims of other health benefits were unsupported. Researchers from Nottingham University [...]
LA Times pinkwashing reaches new low by pushing “preventive” chemotherapy drugs for women
(NaturalNews) Check this out: The LA Times is pinkwashing their entire website masthead with a pink ribbon set behind the word “Angeles,” which of course means “angels.” See it for yourself in this Fair Use screen shot: http://naturalnews.com/images/LATimes-PinkRibbon.jpg If that’s not enough pinkwashing, the LA Times website also has a pro-vaccine stance that may surprise [...]
Roche drugs point to personalized lung cancer care
Roche's experimental drug MetMab and its established product Tarceva showed impressive results in lung cancer trials on Saturday, highlighting how treating the disease is becoming much more focused. Yahoo! Health News
Big Pharma hired ghostwriters to distort truth about hormone replacement therapy drugs
(NaturalNews) When medical journals and journal supplements publish scientific information about drug research, you know the information has been carefully reviewed and is accurate and factual, right? Wrong. It has now been documented that Big Pharma has literally paid writers to twist the truth about bad outcomes and to sneak distorted information and marketing messages [...]
Depression can be treated with electromagnets (better than drugs)
(NaturalNews) A therapy known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), which involves inducing electromagnetic fields in the brain, may ease the symptoms of depression in hard-to-treat patients better than antidepressant drugs, researchers have found. “This study should help settle the debate about whether rTMS works for depression,” said lead researcher Mark George of the Medical [...]
