Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These include war, a terrorist threat, healthcare crises, epidemic crises and even a prescription drug crisis. The latter "crisis" was used by President Bush to get voter support for his massive, Medicare-funded, prescription drug handout program, which is now a national disaster. That program promised discounted prescription drugs for senior citizens, a benefit that practically no voter over the age of 65 could resist.
What we're left with is a nation that is headed down the path of financial implosion. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The term 'prescription drug' means a drug that is described in section 503(b)(1).
(vi) The term 'wholesaler'--
(I) means a person licensed as a wholesaler or distributor of prescription drugs in the United States under section 503(e)(2)(A); and
(II) does not include a person authorized to import drugs under section 801(d)(1).
(E) PERMITTED COUNTRY. |
| Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to reauthorize and amend the prescription drug user fee provisions, and for other purposes; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
TITLE __--IMPORTATION OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
SEC. X01. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2007''.
SEC. X02. FINDINGS. |
| The bill states, "...a prescription drug is neither safe nor effective to an individual who cannot afford it," and goes on to describe rigorous safety requirements that would be required by the amendment, including safety inspections and registrations as well as funding efforts to locate and shut down fraudulent internet sales of counterfeit prescription drugs.
If passed into the law, this amendment would save U.S. citizens, businesses, and government entities (local, state and federal) billions of dollars each year by allowing them to source medications in a price competitive environment. |
| Senators voted on an amendment to the 2007 prescription drug User Fee bill that aims to reform the FDA and enhance drug safety. This amendment, known as the "Dorgan Amendment No. 990," threatened to break Big Pharma's monopoly over pharmaceutical sales and allow U.S. consumers, cities, states and businesses to purchase their pharmaceuticals from safety-certified pharmacies located in Canada, Japan, the U.K. and other nations.
Americans currently pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And if pharmaceuticals are so safe, where are all the super-healthy prescription drug patients? They are nowhere to be found.
The healthiest people, by far, are those who take supplements, who engage in regular exercise, and who avoid taking prescription drugs.
Why conventional medical researchers remain nutritionally illiterate
Western medicine still doesn't "get" nutrition. They think all health effects are achieved by single, isolated chemical constituents. But nutrition doesn't work that way. |
Jacky Law
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 To ensure clinical trials serve a genuine medical need and are properly designed, conducted and reported, Angell proposed that an Institute for prescription drug Trials be established to administer the clinical trials of prescription drugs.
• The laws should be tightened so the period of exclusivity in which monopoly prices can be charged is shortened and made less flexible.
• Drug companies should be excluded from offering medical education.
• Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs should be banned. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There is no prescription drug that is as good for you as changing your lifestyle, engaging in physical exercise, and making healthier food choices to prevent chronic disease. Prescription drugs have absolutely no place as lifelong chemicals to be consumed by human beings. At best, they should only be used for short term acute disorders as stop-gap measures to help people survive while they make lifestyle changes that eliminate the underlying cause of their health problems in the first place. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in 2005 reported that the combination of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate is at least as effective as the prescription drug cele-coxib (brand name Celebrex) in treating pain caused by moderate to severe osteoarthritis of the knee. So for best results, use them together.
Glucosamine/chondroitin therapy requires patience: You may have to wait anywhere from eight to twelve weeks to see results. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 All these critical properties make exenatide an important addition to the prescription drug arsenal we have on hand to fight diabetes.
Another major, previously unknown attribute of exenatide and oral DPP-4 inhibitors is that incretins enhance insulin secretion in a glucose-dependent manner. Old-technology therapies like sulfonylureas promote insulin secretion in a glucose-independent fashion, which means they cause beta cells to secrete insulin regardless of what your blood sugar level is, be it 500 mg/dL or 50 mg/dL. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| A clinical study in Mexico compared oregano to tinidazole, a commonly used prescription drug to treat infection by the amoeba Giardia lamblia. These researchers found oregano to be more effective against Giardia than the commonly used prescription drug. Thymol and carvacrol have also been shown to inhibit the growth of bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, two bacteria that are often the cause of impetigo (an infection of the skin).
Oregano also has tremendous antioxidant activity. In one analysis conducted by the U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If it could be patented and sold as a prescription drug, it would probably be one of the most popular and exciting prescription drugs released on the market in years. The essential fatty acids in this product can lower total triglycerides, lower high cholesterol, reduce the buildup of plaque or atherosclerosis, and dramatically reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke. The innate effects of its naturally-occurring oil essentially give you healthier blood and a healthier cardiovascular system. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The majority are just prescription drug infomercials. And even in the fitness or health industries, many of those magazines are just book-sized collections of ads with a bare minimum of original content thrown in just to be able to claim there's some news inside.
This is what passes for standard journalism these days, folks. It's the news machine that's selling billions of dollars in prescription drugs, cosmetics, junk foods, protein bars, weight loss pills and useless consumer products that ultimately help no one. It's the machine of American disinformation and commerce, and it's everywhere. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Every once in a while, a prescription drug comes along that has the potential to actually help people. In this article, I will be discussing the PYY3-36 Appetite Control Nasal Spray made by a company called Nastech. This is an upcoming prescription drug product still in Phase II testing that could someday offer tremendous potential to help people lose weight. But it's not all smooth sailing yet; there are some potential dangers and pitfalls along the way. Those will be discussed here as well. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 John's Wort and other herbs in an allopathic fashion, which means they attempt to counter a disease or symptom with a chemical, regardless of whether that chemical comes from a plant or a prescription drug. Using medicinal herbs or prescription drugs in such a way is really not a healthy way to treat symptoms, disorders or diseases. The only way to achieve a high state of health is to pursue a healthy lifestyle through nutrition, physical activity, exposure to natural sunlight, strong social interaction, brain exercise, good breathing, staying away from environmental toxins, and so on. |
| Not surprisingly, those taking the herb also showed significantly fewer negative side effects compared to those taking the prescription drug.
This is a case in which the herb is not only more effective, but also safer; a fact that should not be surprising, since medicinal herbs are typically more effective and significantly safer than prescription drugs. Also, St. John’s Wort is a natural medicinal herb that has been used safely and effectively by cultures throughout the world for thousands of years. |
Dawson Church
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 Changing the institutions without changing the flawed thinking behind them results only in hastening their collapse, as was evident in the Medicare prescription drug benefit passed by Congress in 2004; it brought forward the date of Medicare's insolvency by eight years.13 Asking how to get the uninsured into the system—which is as far as most policymakers thinlc—is like asking how to cram more passengers onto a train that is already jammed, has some cars that are falling to pieces while others are trimmed with diamonds, is about to crash, and is heading in the wrong direction anyway. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Compounded estrone used by alternative practitioners is the same hormone that is used in at least two prescription conventional estrogens (Ogen and Ortho-est), with the caveat that the prescription drug has fillers, binders, preservatives, and/or excipients. These are added in order for the particular product to receive a patent; a particular individual may absorb and tolerate one form better than another.
Bio-identical estrone is also available, by prescription, from a compounding pharmacy. |
Dawson Church
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| Many have been chopped by surgery and debilitated by prolonged prescription drug use. Most of the chronic pain patients who show up at Dr. Dillard's practice or Dr. Dozor's integrative clinic have already gone through the medical mill, with no relief. I can see this changing in a few years, as patients become more aware of the benefits of alternative medicine. Holistic treatment might be the first option they choose, not the last.
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One of the great services that authors like Bernie Siegel, M.D., Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, M. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It contains ingredients that, in my opinion, are more potent and far more healing than any prescription drug on the market. Prescription drugs don't engage in any healing whatsoever -- they merely mask symptoms -- while this food bar contains ingredients that jumpstart a healing effect in your body. These ingredients can prevent a great number of chronic diseases, including cancer, diabetes, nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer's and dementia, and they can help reduce or reverse heart disease and atherosclerosis. |
Charles Barber
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 Americans are responsible for almost half of the world's prescription drug sales,47 but the disparity is even greater when it comes to CNS (central nervous system) agents. In 2006, Americans—about 6 percent of the world's population—bought about two-thirds of the world's psychiatric and neurological drugs. In 2006, 66 percent of the global antidepressant market was accounted for by the United States.48 And in 2003 approximately 83 percent of the global market for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medications was accounted for by the United States, and mainly by U.S. children. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They would love for everybody to just keep arguing over who's paying these sky-high prescription drug prices while ignoring the simple fact that prevention programs and junk food advertising bans could make prescription drugs practically irrelevant. Of course, all these drug companies say they need the money to "find a cure for cancer." What a brilliant con!
You don't need to find a cure for cancer if you stop poisoning the public with the national food supply. You don't need a cure for cancer if nobody has cancer. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| We do not need a prescription drug or surgery to fix everything. Drugs and surgeries do not address the root cause of the condition. That's why I wrote this book, so you can understand why we're dealing with so many degenerative diseases and toxic colons today. It's a combination of factors directly related to the environment to which you expose yourself. It's not just one particular toxin (such as cigarette smoke, alcohol, or fried foods) that causes disease. It's a combination of many different factors caused by too many toxins coming in and not enough going out! |
| Nearly half of all American citizens take at least one prescription drug and about one in five take three or more medications. Pharmaceutical drugs are synthetic, meaning they did not occur in nature but were manufactured. The human body doesn't want synthetic garbage pumped into it. These drugs pollute the body, suppress the immune system, and contribute to colon toxicity. It's heartbreaking to consider that pharmaceuticals have become the quick and easy solution to most health problems. Ironically, most of these "medicines" actually interfere with health. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Nonconventional approaches offer people the promise of personalized care, unhurried service, freedom from prescription drug side effects, and the potential for feeling not just physically better but also spiritually recharged.
Yet these treatments can also result in harm to the body and to the pocketbook and many are justifiably skeptical of CAM approaches because they lack the formal accountability of Western medicines. The best advice on selecting CAM treatments really comes down to being an educated consumer and knowing a treatment regimen and its provider well before participating in it. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 So you have to ask your physician if any prescription drug you are taking may prohibit the use of cayenne. This is very important.
Otherwise, cayenne, best known as the spice cayenne pepper, should definitely be used, but carefully, because it is very hot! If you use this as a spice, do not cook the pepper with the food but sprinkle it on only after cooking the food, to avoid irritation.
Hawthorn berry improves arrhythmias, angina, blood pressure, and arterial hardening. It can enhance circulation. It treats valve insufficiencies, irregular pulse, and abnormal acid levels in the blood. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Half of Americans have a health problem that requires taking a prescription drug every week, and over 100 million Americans have high cholesterol.
To make matters worse, we are leading our youth down a path of disease earlier and earlier in their lives. One third of the young people in this country are overweight or at risk of becoming overweight. Increasingly, they are falling prey to a form of diabetes that used to be seen only in adults, and these young people now take more prescription drugs than ever before.
These issues all come down to three things: breakfast, lunch and dinner. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Here’s some fascinating news in the world of medicine that really shows the drug racket -- the huge prescription drug scam taking place in this country today. Researchers sent a group of people, who said they saw the drug Paxil in a TV advertisement, into doctors’ offices. Many of these patients didn't even show signs of depression, but when they named the drug, 50 percent were diagnosed as having depression, and 55 percent were given a prescription for the exact prescription drug they named. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Interestingly, ten years after the prescription drug Fee Use Act was passed in 1992 allowing expedited drug approvals, two billion more prescriptions were written per year. Does anyone else see a cause and effect here?
That's a whopping increase by yardstick and vitally important to understand because the fourth phase of testing is supposed to take place after a drug has been approved and placed on the market. Drug companies can take their drug to market however, they are required to perform additional follow-up studies. |
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