With thanks to Mercola.com:

Mercola says: This move to get BPA out of food and beverage containers is a very positive step, one that could make your food a lot less toxic. It’s about time Congress got around to it — BPA has already been detected in the urine of 95 percent of people tested, probably because it’s used so pervasively in everything from canned goods to plastic water bottles. Read the rest of this entry »

With thanks to Mercola.com:

Mercola writes: I’ve been exposing the conflicts of interest and deceit surrounding drug research since I started this Web site more than a decade ago.

In that time I’ve learned quite a bit of disturbing information about how far drug companies and their researchers are willing to bend the rules to get the results they’re after. But this example by Dr. Scott Reuben really takes the cake. Read the rest of this entry »

With thanks to The Wall Street Journal and Mercola.com:

One of the little-noticed reasons that Wyeth was attractive enough to command a $68 billion price for rival Pfizer Inc.’s planned takeover sits in a building catty-corner from the White House across Pennsylvania Avenue. That is where a special “vaccines court” hears cases brought by parents who claim their children have been harmed by routine vaccinations. Read the rest of this entry »

With thanks to Mercola.com:

If you take more than a casual look at the way the mass vaccination system in the U.S. works, you see that pharmaceutical companies marketing vaccines have a lot of clout.

It was the pharmaceutical industry that told Congress in 1982 that they were going to leave the nation without vaccines if they didn’t get liability protection but have opposed making it less difficult for vaccine victims to obtain federal compensation in the U.S. Court of Claims under a 1986 law that gave them liability protection. Read the rest of this entry »

With thanks to NaturalNews 10.2.09:

The Associated Press (AP) estimates that hospitals and long-term medical care institutions across the United States are dumping 250 million pounds of pharmacologically active drugs directly into public sewer systems each year. Read the rest of this entry »

Pharmageddon: the prescription pill epidemic

Our increasing reliance on pills has resulted in a 27 per cent rise in prescriptions written by doctors in just five years. It’s costing the NHS £10bn a year, £200m of which is wasted on drugs that are never used. Read the rest of this entry »

Glaxo Smith Klein have just published the results of their analysis of the risk of suicide, especially amongst the young, whilst taking seroxat. Read the rest of this entry »

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is a cooperative program for vaccine safety of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS is a post-marketing safety surveillance program, collecting information about adverse events (possible side effects) that occur after the administration of US licensed vaccines. Read the rest of this entry »

Mail on Sunday: Holiday malaria pills cost me my hearing 3.10.07
By NICK MAES

Note: Prosper Meniere 1799 – 1862 proved in the early 1840s that quinine caused deafness, though its use continues to the present day

Nick Maes writes: ‘As a travel writer and broadcaster, going to malarial countries is part of my business.

Over the years, I’ve been to many – Uganda’s rainforests, the islands around Zanzibar, India and South Africa are just a few.

Like all responsible travellers, I was careful to take precautions against contracting malaria and other diseases.

But my efforts to avoid illness have also been my downfall.

Despite malaria-free travelling, the side-effects from the medication have left me deaf. Read the rest of this entry »

With thanks to Reuters 2.1.08

“Some recent studies suggest that over-consumption of fluoride can raise the risks of disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland,” reports Scientific American editors.

“Scientific attitudes toward fluoridation may be starting to shift,” writes author Dan Fagin. Read the rest of this entry »