Medicine
New Prescription Drugs: A Major Health Risk With Few Offsetting Advantages
by Donald W. Light
June 27, 2014
Few people know that new prescription drugs have a 1 in 5 chance of causing serious reactions after they have been approved....
Psychiatric drugs do more harm than good, says expert
Peter Gøtzsche argues that most prescriptions could be stopped without causing harm, but other experts strongly disagree
By Sarah Boseley
Tue 12 May 2015
Psychiatric drugs...
Bill Gates’ Former Doctor Says Billionaire ‘Refused To Vaccinate His Children’
By Baxter Dmitry
February 7, 2018
The physician who served as Bill Gates’ private doctor in Seattle in the 1990s says the Microsoft founder and vaccine...
The Opioid Epidemic in America – Killing One Million People
The Triumph of Capital (Creating a Domestic ‘Shithole’)
By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya
The link between capitalism and drugs reaches back to the middle...
Cuban Health Care: A Good Example of Integrating Alternative Therapies
By Dr. J. E. Williams
Nov 2, 2012
At the time of the Cuban revolution, the largely rural population of the largest island in the...
Genocide by Prescription: The ‘Natural History’ of the Declining White Working...
By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya, MD
Introduction: The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of ‘premature deaths’ -...
Prescription pills are Britain’s third biggest killer
Prescription pills are Britain’s third biggest killer: Side-effects of drugs taken for insomnia and anxiety kill thousands. Why do doctors hand them out like...
Dose of Jeremy Corbyn needed to make medicines safe
By Jerome Burne
21 Sep 2015
It’s generally agreed that the NHS is not in good health but there’s no clear diagnosis. There are plenty of suggestions...
Opioid crisis trims U.S. life expectancy, boosts hepatitis C: CDC
By Julie Steenhuysen
December 21, 2017
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The opioid crisis is rippling through the U.S. healthcare system, causing a spike in rates of hepatitis...
Antibiotics: A Global Threat
Action Needed to Avoid the End of Modern Medicine
By Martin Khor
11 December 2017
As global health leaders warn that antibiotic resistance is leading to the...