Natural Health

This article about Bextra and the way Pfizer wormed out of prosecution is enough to make any patient wonder… Is the doctor giving me this prescription because it’s the right one, or because he’s being paid well to to so? The conclusion here is that paying huge fines is simply a cost of doing business [...]

Not long ago we reported on a new study that said natural remedies won’t kill you. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for prescription drugs. We’ve read a lot lately about the dangers of continuing to take a prescription for years without an adjustment. As we age our bodies change so a dosage that might [...]

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, [...]

This tale is so sad… Brittany Murphy was a talented person with much to give to the world, and she’s dead – most likely from the drugs that doctors willingly prescribed for her. But she’s not the only one. I believe it happens every day with people who aren’t celebrities. When an “ordinary person” dies, [...]

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 [...]

Just as the big banks rushed to get more of your dollars before the new legislation kicked in to prevent some of their nastiest practices, big pharm is now taking action to make sure the health bill won’t hurt their profits. While they have agreed to shave $8 Billion per year off drug costs by [...]