U.S. pharmacies make tragic medication mistakes that injure or kill U.S. consumers; but FDA keeps warning us about Canada

Walgreen's has been ordered to pay $21 million to the family of a girl who was mistakenly given the wrong prescription drug at a Walgreen's pharmacy. The girl cannot walk or feed herself and was born prematurely. Not surprisingly, the girl is on several medications, and when one prescription was filled with the wrong drug, the girl ended up in the emergency room and, her family claims, suffered physical and mental disabilities as a result.

U.S. pharmaceutical companies and the FDA responsible for 100 times as many Americans deaths as terrorists

The FDA is getting desperate in the war to monopolize the U.S. pharmaceutical industry and prevent citizens from purchasing prescription drugs at lower prices from Canada and elsewhere. They've now invoked the "terrorism" label in the fight to suppress consumer free choice. Unbelievably, FDA commissioner Lester Crawford is now saying that prescription drugs from Canada are a threat to U.S. consumers because terrorists might be attacking us through those prescription drugs. This idea is so ridiculous as to be laughable.

An outspoken doctor calls the pharmaceutical industry a national fraud that promotes disease and prevents prevention

As pharmaceutical companies continue their march toward profitability and domination over our "modern" health care system, more and more doctors are speaking out against them. One of the most interesting and outspoken doctors is Dr. Rath. Dr. Rath, who is based outside the United States, has started the Dr. Rath Foundation, and has made it his mission to fight the ongoing dominance and influence of the pharmaceutical industry. He points out some very important and educational facts about Big Pharma that all Americans would do well to learn.

Vermont defies the FDA and sues to allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada

Vermont now joins five other states who are defying the FDA with a plan to import prescription drugs from Canada to lower the costs of prescription drugs for its state employees and retirees. In fact, Vermont has sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is seeking a court order that will require the adoption of regulations allowing Vermont's prescription drug importation plan.

Medication recycling: prescription drug laws transform ordinary citizens into international smugglers

The extreme high prices of prescription drugs for treating advanced-stage chronic diseases like cancer has turned honest, ordinary, everyday citizens into international smugglers who are ferrying surplus medications across international lines in order to provide the prescription drugs to their loved ones. That's because prescription drugs are cheaper in Canada and Europe than in United States, where the monopoly drug cartel hikes up prices as a justification for its research and development effort (but in reality, the money goes mostly to marketing and profits).

Vioxx only the beginning; antidepressants and statin drugs are medication timebombs

There's a much bigger story than you might think about the recent hoo-ha concerning Vioxx being pulled from the market. It's not just about Vioxx or Merck, the drug's manufacturer. Virtually all prescription drugs that are heavily marketed by pharmaceutical companies today are harmful to human physiology. Every drug has unintended side effects, and almost no drugs undergo thorough testing. This is one of the great misunderstood points about modern medicine -- people think that the FDA approves drugs only after they have been adequately tested on large numbers of people for several years. They think that drugs must be "proven" safe before the FDA will approve them. But this is not the case at all; in fact, the FDA is increasingly approving drugs after very short trials. I've seen drugs approved after 12 weeks of testing on a couple hundred people. That's hardly the threshold of credibility that should be required of prescription drugs before they are unleashed on the public and marketed to tens of millions of people along with instructions that tell people to be taking these for life.

How to lower high cholesterol naturally without prescription drugs

Many readers have contacted me and asked about my own cholesterol numbers. They ask, "How did you achieve LDL cholesterol of 67 without using prescription drugs?" I'm glad to see these questions. Readers should be skeptical of anyone who talks about health, and they should demand that people who teach health be healthy! It doesn’t make sense to get your health information from a person who isn't healthy. The credibility that really counts is the ability to demonstrate an outstanding level of health in your own life.

Acomplia drug hype reveals mythology of prescription drugs, shortcut philosophy of American culture

A new weight loss drug, Acomplia, is all the rage, even though it hasn’t yet been approved! People are talking about the drug with such a degree of excitement that weight loss centers say virtually every patient who comes in is asking for Acomplia.

Direct-to-consumer advertising must be banned as part of FDA reform

The next thing that should be done in reforming the FDA is to reverse some of the dangerous and poorly made decisions put in place by the FDA over the last few years. The most obvious of these is the legalization of direct-to-consumer advertising by drug companies. This decision was made in 1997 and it allowed drug companies to place ads on television, in magazines, newspapers, billboards and other media with the purported goal of "educating" consumers about prescription drugs. And yet the very premise is laughable. No reasonable person could possibly believe that drug companies should advertising prescription drugs to patients who don't have medical qualifications to even understand if they should use those drugs in the first place. The idea of pushing these drugs to patients so that they go to their doctors and request them by name is medically reckless. It has no medical basis whatsoever. It is clearly just a ploy that was approved by the FDA to financially benefit the drug companies at the expense of public health.

Patients should demand full lifetime refunds on Vioxx, COX-2 inhibitors and other drugs

Let's take a closer look at honesty in medicine. Over the last few months, the FDA and state legal authorities have been going after a company selling various supplements and herbal formulas that promised to enhance breast size. According to the news reports, these products were unproven and entirely worthless in enhancing breast size, and the company was ordered to not only stop selling the products, but to also repay customers who had purchased them.