Alzheimer’s disease is a terrible illness. It is a type of dementia that causes progressive problems with memory, thinking and behavior. It is a serious, debilitating illness that is occurring at staggering rates in the elderly population. Presently, one in three seniors dies with Alzheimer’s disease.(1) Seeing someone with...
The headline in the New York Times on 2.15.13 stated, “Merck Settles Suits of Cholesterol Drug”. The article indicated that Big Pharma Founding Cartel Member Merck agreed to pay $688 million to settle lawsuits claiming that it had harmed investors by delaying the release of unfavorable study results for...
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) immunization schedule was updated in January, 2013 to recommend that a dose of Tdap vaccine be administered to all pregnant women during each pregnancy whether or not they have received the vaccine previously. This is a new recommendation. What is the...
If you are elderly, how can you increase your risk of dying? The answer is simple: Take a statin drug. Statin drugs are the most profitable drugs for the Big Pharma Cartel. Lipitor, Baycol, Zocor, and Crestor are examples of statin medications. These drugs are prescribed by doctors to...
Two days ago (6.23.12), in my blog article I wrote that 50,000 people died from taking a prescription medication that should not have been prescribed. I was talking about the COX-2 medications such as Vioxx and Celebrex. What happened with these medications is a national tragedy. You would think...
A new study in the Archives of Medicine (published online May 21, 2012) destroys the fictional theory of treating osteoporosis with bisphosphonate drugs. I have been writing and warning about the dangers of bisphosphonate drugs for years. In my book, Drugs that Don’t Work and Natural Therapies That...
The article from Reuters is titled, “Merck was ordered to pay $321 million in Vioxx probe,” (Reuters 4.26.10). The article states, “A Boston federal judge sentenced Merck & Co. to pay a $321 million criminal fine for improperly marketing its Vioxx painkiller a decade ago.” Big Pharma...
I received the latest National Geographic magazine with interest. The cover story is titled, “The New Science of the Teenage Brain.” With two teenagers at home, I was interested to read this article. Perhaps the magazine article could help to clarify what happened to my sweet children. But, that...
An article in American Medical News (May 9, 2011) stated that, in 2008, there were more than 2.7 million hospital stays and emergency room visits due to adverse drug reactions. That is a lot of people harmed by prescription drugs and that is a lot of health care dollars...
An article in the Wall Street Journal (12.28.10) was titled, “So Young and So Many Pills.” This article pointed out that more than 25% of kids and teens in the U.S. take prescription drugs on a regular basis. In 2009, prescriptions for children included: • 24,357,000 ADHS medications •...