Natural Health

What a day… this morning I reported on a recall of veterinary drugs that had not been reported to veterinarians. Today it’s a recall on Tylenol and many other Tylenol products… and they say they’ve known of the problem since 2008! Please, if you take any over the counter drugs made by Johnson & Johnson, [...]

You know I think the things the pharmaceutical industry does to humans is criminal, but what they’ve done with regard to your pets should warrant jail time. The FDA – charged with protecting us – was complicit in this crime. Read this article to see how veterinarians were not informed of a September drug recall… [...]

Are you familiar with “off-label” uses for drugs? I had never heard of it until recently, and it makes me wonder why we need the FDA at all. It seems that if a drug is approved for one use, doctors are allowed to prescribe it for other uses. The only thing “protecting” the consumer is [...]

My guess is yes, big pharm does control the FDA. Possibly because so much of the “research” done by the FDA is funded by pharmaceutical companies. And big pharm does not want the sale of natural health products cutting into its revenues. Thus my email last night held a message about a new assault on [...]

Here we go again – learning that the FDA didn’t really check the facts before they said yes to big pharm. This time it’s Vytorin in the news. The news post (link below) and the comments that follow it are pretty interesting, and also pretty scary. Just think how many people are on cholesterol lowering [...]