Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  There is currently no requirement whatsoever that drug side effects noticed by doctors be reported to the FDA. The entire system of reporting is purely voluntary.
The entire paradigm of pharmaceutical medicine makes no sense. Chemicals are used to treat "biomarkers" or measurable biochemical states, yet disease and dysfunction is complex and always involved more than a single measurable number. Cholesterol drugs, for example, may artificially lower cholesterol numbers, but they completely ignore the root cause of elevated cholesterol. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  By learning about drug side effects and nutrient depletions, you'll have the tools to best approach the issue, whether treating yourself or someone else.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO LEARN
The initial chapters of this book will start with the basics:
• Chapter 1, "What You Should Know about Drugs and How They Deplete Nutrients," explains what medications really are, and how they can affect the ways in which your body absorbs and uses nutrients. | | How many of the health problems that crop up in this patient are caused by drug side effects and interactions? We just don't know, since we have no long-term studies on this.
What I have seen is that patients that have been on multiple drugs over long periods of time often show an overall deterioration in their health. Not surprising, for two reasons: 1) the drugs are gradually depleting the patient's nutrient levels, and 2) the source of the health problems have not been addressed—the drugs are only treating the symptoms. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  John's wort causes few side effects compared with drugs. drug side effects include reduced interest in sex and erectile dysfunction in men—which, ironically, are reasons to feel depressed! Occasionally, taking these drugs will lead to an increase in suicidal thoughts and behavior.
St. John's wort is widely used to treat depression in Europe, where herbs have been used medicinally for at least two thousand years, but the U.S. pharmaceutical industry has convinced most American physicians that its higher-priced drugs are superior. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Make the reporting of drug side effects mandatory. When doctors or drug companies learn about a patient experiencing a side effect, it should be mandatory to report that side effect to the FDA.
4) Require the open publication of all drug studies. Currently, drug companies hide the studies they don't want you to see, and they only publicize the (fraudulent) studies that produce the results they like. We need to change this and shine some light on the results of ALL clinical trials to let doctors, patients and everyone else examine the science for themselves. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  There are many reasons for the increased popularity of alternative medicine, including patient dissatisfaction with ineffective conventional treatments, pharmacologic drug side effects, and the high price of medications. Perhaps most important is the fact that traditional medicine has become too impersonal with the involvement of high-tech modalities and time-limited office visits.
Obviously, the medical consumer is searching for less invasive, safer, and lower cost interventions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  There's not even a ban on direct-to-consumer drug advertising -- an unjustifiable practice that's directly responsible for the huge increase in drug side effects (adverse events reporting) and drug deaths over the last few years. As I have stated on this website many times, it is no exaggeration to say that the number of Americans killed by FDA-prescription drugs each year greatly exceeds the number of Americans killed in the entire Vietnam War. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Beyond all the bribery, price fixing, corruption, dishonest advertising, monopoly prices and deadly drug side effects, underneath the whole thing it's all based on scientific fraud. We're not just talking about one drug and one study here, you see. This is the way Big Pharma routinely conducts business. It's all about getting the results they want to see, regardless of what it takes, who has to be bribed, which researchers have to be intimidated, and so on. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  For years, her long flame of red hair, which once reached her tailbone, turned scarce and thin, the fallout of her autoimmune thyroiditis, coupled with drug side effects. In the past decade she has spent almost a year and a half in the hospital during her most severe lupus flares. Although she is carefully monitored, there is little the medical establishment can offer Kathleen for her lupus and myasthenia gravis other than steroids, a healthy diet, and boatloads of rest—especially since no new U.S. |
Bill Sardi
See book keywords and concepts |  Intravenous glutathione, another antioxidant, also protects against drug side effects, especially if administered immediately before or after chemotherapy.
Selenium exhibits properties similar to the above-mentioned antioxidants. Quercetin also enhances the activity of various anti-cancer drugs.
If supplemental antioxidants do nothing more than improve the quality of a cancer patient's life, they are worth prescribing. [Nutrition and Cancer 37: 1-1 8, 2000]
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False assertions
False assertions have been made that antioxidants interfere with chemotherapy. | | Most women taking Tamoxifen are at greater risk for drug side effects than they are of experiencing any health benefit.
Another one of the hidden facts about Tamoxifen is that half of the women with advanced estrogen-positive tumors fail to respond to this drug and are removed from drug therapy. The studies don't always include these failures. [Drugs 61: 1721-33, 2001]
Current efforts to expand Tamoxifen therapy as a preventive agent for breast cancer have begun. High-risk but otherwise healthy women derive some risk reduction if given Tamoxifen. |
Hyla Cass
See book keywords and concepts | | By learning about drug side effects and nutrient depletions, you'll have the tools to best approach the issue, whether treating yourself or someone else.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO LEARN
The initial chapters of this book will start with the basics:
?Chapter 1, "What You Should Know about Drugs and How They Deplete Nutrients," explains what medications really are, and how they can affect the ways in which your body absorbs and uses nutrients.
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J. Douglas Bremner
See book keywords and concepts |  The book on every doctor's shelf, the Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), provides detailed information about drug side effects and drug interactions, but it is based on product inserts that go into packages of drugs the FDA has approved. New information obtained on the millions of patients treated with drugs after they have reached the market is not incorporated into annual versions of the PDR. |
Hyla Cass
See book keywords and concepts | | How many of the health problems that crop up in this patient are caused by drug side effects and interactions? We just don't know, since we have no long-term studies on this.
What I have seen is that patients that have been on multiple drugs over long periods of time often show an overall deterioration in their health. Not surprising, for two reasons: 1) the drugs are gradually depleting the patient's nutrient levels, and 2) the source of the health problems have not been addressed—the drugs are only treating the symptoms. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
See book keywords and concepts |  This is because real drugs often cause drug side effects which convince the user the drug is powerful—dry mouth, dizziness, sleepiness, and so forth—and thus trial participants tend to report greater change.
In these FDA submitted studies which are responsible for the antidepressant industry in America and the rest of the world, the antidepressants came out exactly as would be expected if they had no real benefit for overcoming depression. |
Death by MedicineGary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD.
See book keywords and concepts | | Reuters also reported that prior research has suggested that nearly 5% of hospital admissions - over 1 million per year - are the result of drug side effects. But most of the cases are not documented as such. The study found one of the reasons for this failure: in nearly two-thirds of the cases, doctors couldn't diagnose drug side effects or the side effects persisted because the doctor failed to heed the warning signs.
Medicating Our Feelings
We only need to look at the side effects of antidepressant drugs, which give hope to a depressed population. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Or, perhaps, how prescription drugs are good for the economy because they create new job opportunities for doctors, nurses and surgeons to treat all the dangerous drug side effects.
How much of a better deal does Taurel want than today's industry-friendly FDA, anyway? It's hard to get any more lenient on drug companies than the FDA is right now. That's why some people call the FDA the, "Federal Drug Advocates. | | Taurel also said he wants tort reform, meaning he wants caps on damages awarded to victims harmed by drug side effects. Why not just throw in blanket legal immunity for all drug companies, too? After all, they ARE trying to find the cure for cancer, aren't they?
(The following paragraph is pure sarcasm...) I agree with Taurel that we should stop talking about these negative side effects. We should also stop hassling auto manufacturers over defective brakes that get people killed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  And the third is the drug side effects reporting system. These three fundamental problems need to be addressed immediately if we are to live in a nation where we aren't killing our citizens with our own products that are actually safety approved by the government itself.
To put all this into perspective, keep in mind that prescription drugs have killed far more Americans, in fact thousands of times more Americans, than all terrorists combined. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Given that the reporting of drug side effects remains voluntary in the United States, it is possible that the actual number of people harmed by Ketek is ten to twenty times larger.
Senior FDA drug safety scientist Dr. David Graham -- best known for blowing the whistle on Vioxx -- is now recommending that the agency pull Ketek from shelves. The drug, Dr. Graham explains, is at least as toxic to the liver as three other drugs that have been pulled by the FDA. Furthermore, the FDA's original approval of the drug was based on a safety study that FDA officials knew was fraudulent. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
See book keywords and concepts | | David Kessler who was the FDA commissioner at that time estimated that only about 1% of serious drug side effects were/are ever reported to the FDA. If his estimate is even close to being accurate, then the number of suicide attempts (and actual suicides) related to just the first of the SSRI drugs is staggering. As Tracy noted, it was in February of 1990 that the suicide concern came to "public and professional attention."
Specifically, she was referring to an American Journal of Psychiatry article published by Dr. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  A Major Problem
We don't know exactly how many millions of Americans are suffering from drug-induced nutrient depletion, but we do know that there are millions of instances of drug side effects every year. Even if only 20 percent of these side effects are, in fact, the result of "stolen nutrients," it means that hundreds of thousands of Americans suffer from this misunderstood and, therefore, undertreated problem. Despite the best intentions of doctors, all the fix-it drugs in the world won't get to the root of this problem. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  You'll have direct phone lines to all the medical journals, a team of paralegals to generate legal threats, and you'll even have your own personal shredder right beside the incoming fax machines where doctors fax voluntary drug side effects reports. Help us keep dangerous drugs on the market for as long as possible, and you'll earn big performance bonuses!
Starting salary is $35,000 from the FDA, plus a $250,000 annual bonus paid by various drug companies, based on merit.
Chief Oppression Officer
Ever wanted to carry a gun? |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  Statin drug side effects list
Here's a quick list of known side effects caused by taking statin drugs. People who take statins have suffered ravaging health consequences, including permanent damage to their liver, muscles, and nervous system. Statins frequently cause people to lose their memory or feel confused. | | It's not just the pain, suffering, and deaths from drug side effects (FDA-approved, correctly used, prescription drugs kill more Americans each year than died in the entire Vietnam War), it's also the economic cost, the emotional losses, and the energy and effort wasted on a system of medicine that plainly does not work. f
Merck's Willful Disregard of Human Rights
On April 11, a New Jersey jury granted a 77-year-old New Jersey man an award after finding that Merck:
•* Knowingly withheld information about the drug's risks from federal regulators. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  You can reduce inflammation by consuming omega-3 fatty acids and reducing consumption of grains without the possible statin drug side effects of liver toxicity, and mitochondrial damage, and without the increased risk for death from other causes that is associated with cholesterol numbers that are too low.
Do Low-Fat Diets Prevent Heart Disease?
So, then, what about that famous Dean Ornish study that showed that low-fat diets reverse heart disease?
Actually, it showed no such thing. |
Joseph E. Mario
See book keywords and concepts |  The Archives of Internal Medicine reported that 28% of all hospital admissions suffer from adverse drug side effects (8,760,000 persons); of which Harvard University estimates 15 0,000 to 200,000 Americans are ki lied every year a ___t____l n a it__:__fr\ ^t/\r\-y O A A aii t»* r»_______i from mistakes suffered while in the hospital; and 10%contracted hospital infections, of whom 100,000 people die in one year. It is known that at least 50% of hospital admissionsalreadysufferfrom nutritional deficiencies, that went untreated (Archives of Internal Medicine). | | Counters drug addictions, drug side effects, and increases effects of medications (lower drug dosages); anti-aging, extends lifespan of rodents 20%. Counters lice (ripe fruit juice), and worms in pets. Noni also contains Damnacanthal, Nordamnacanthal, Carotenoids, Moridine, Terpenes, Sterols, Sitosterol, Glycosides, Alizarm,Ursolicacid,Glucopyranose,Morindadiol,Rubiadin,Morindone,Soranjidiol, Acetin Glycol-P, MM-MA-RGluco-P, Caprylic acid, Asperuloside, Chlororubin, multi-receptor activators, cofactors, many Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins including Proline and Serine, Enzymes, and Alkaloids. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  That means that an awful lot of people are suffering drug side effects without benefit. And since there were no placebo controls in STAR*D, we have no idea how many folks might have improved if they had received sugar pills instead of drugs.
So how can you determine which antidepressant is best for you? In truth, it is extremely difficult for physicians and patients to make clear decisions about safety and effectiveness when it comes to these medications. Despite all the hype from the drug companies, it is hard to prove that one type of antidepressant is better than another one. | | According to one study, if patients tell their doctors about drug side effects and if the doctors are attentive and adjust the treatment, many harmful reactions can be avoided. The investigators concluded that nearly 8 million adverse events could be prevented "if patients and their physicians communicated better and if physicians acted more reliably to address medication symptoms."26
Some time ago, I saw my doctor because of generalized but constant muscle pain unrelated to physical activity. I hurt all over, especially in my calves. Pain remedies had no noticeable effect. |
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