Natural Health

Just read the news this morning about a young woman who was experiencing anxiety. Her doctor prescribed Klonopin and then gave her free samples of Cymbalta. 5 days later she was dead. She started feeling bad the first day, but kept taking the pills; within 4 days she began talking about suicide, and the next [...]

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 [...]

Chantrix is a stop smoking drug, so as much as I don’t trust pharmaceuticals, I have to wonder if it is the drug that causes violent behavior – or the nicotine withdrawal. If you’ve ever tried to quit smoking – or have quit – you probably remember feeling just a bit hostile. Nevertheless, our newspaper [...]

I really am on a mission to bring you natural cures – good news about taking care of your health while avoiding the dangers of pharmaceuticals. But then, when I read something tucked into a small corner of the newspaper and think I haven’t heard it anywhere else, maybe I have a duty to tell [...]

This morning’s doctor column has a letter from a woman who is concerned about her Father. It seems he caught a cold a few months ago, so went to the doctor -and the doctor prescribed Prednisone. After 4 days he became delirious and nearly lost consciousness. His doctor was not concerned – he just said [...]

“That’s why they call practice,” my friend said, when I expressed horror over the phone message he’d found on his answering machine. It instructed him to call his nurse first thing in the morning, because they had just realized that the new medication they’d given him could cause his kidneys to fail. What? They prescribed [...]