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by Dr. Martha Collins Put the following causes of death in descending order: a. Traffic Fatalities b. Heart Disease c. Cancer d. Medical Error The correct answer is: b, c,…

DALLAS (AP) — Despite growing evidence that a link existed between the diet drugs fen-phen and fatal lung disease and heart damage, a maker of one of the drugs lobbied…

…finally on the way for solving this dilemma, or so I thought when I first noticed the headlines announcing new recommendations for pregnant moms from the Centers for Disease Control…

…disease and also with dementia attributable to an increased propensity to small strokes and cerebral infarcts (blood flow blockages).” UNC participated in the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study, a substudy…

…those numbers are underestimated. A recent article on drkoop.com states that asthma is the most common of chronic childhood diseases. According to one article, there are two factors which play…

…Leacock. The normal ups and downs of daily life are steadily being transformed by advertising into made-up diseases. We learn that these new, invented diseases must be treated with powerful,…

…no more a disease than your body’s ability to increase the number of red blood cells when you move to a higher altitude. Yet how often are the symptoms of…

…press. One quotes a health official stating that there “was no risk of the children catching smallpox.” What? Children getting diseases from vaccines that are supposed to prevent the diseases…

…in an interview published by the Center for Medical Consumers. “Overestimation of the threat by the target diseases [flu-like illness], suppression of data on possible adverse events, and exaggeration of…

…“utterly preventable” disease and his parents’ evil vaccine decision. I am going to write a letter protesting their treatment of the issue. It is an insult to the hundreds of…

…or only children does not receive this benefit. Let’s stop just for a moment here. The theory of germs tells us that germs cause disease correct? Yet if germs cause…

…Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is comprised of approximately 6,000 public health professionals dedicated to delivering the nation’s public health promotion and disease prevention programs and advancing public health science….

…to be on Hormonal Drugs!” What happens when expectations collide with reality? In the Symptom/Disease/Prevention culture, history shows that in 1998, the #1 prescription drug in the U.S. was Premarin…

…disease industry. Otherwise, it is business as usual. I browsed a few dozen articles on the news (some links below) and none seemed too alarming. Just another day reporting another…

…and those prone to autoimmune disease. Autism has been recognized as one of the most heritable of all neurological disorders and it is strongly associated with familial autoimmune disorders. Fourth,…

…diseases. According to clinical studies reported on in the article, chiropractic was shown to boost immune system function, help with secondary symptoms such as peripheral neuropathy, and provided reduction in…

…to Dorland”s Medical Dictionary (1993) toxicopathy means “any disease caused by a poison.” The same book defines poison as “any substance taken into the body by ingestion, inhalation, injection or…

…that toxins are responsible for far more of the rampant rise of chronic illness than we previously thought. Asthma, allergies, neurobehavioral disorders, increased infections, autoimmune diseases, cancer, cerebral palsy, atherosclerosis,…

…when she took her son to be vaccinated for various childhood diseases. Within a short time after being vaccinated her son lost his speech and the ability to make eye…

…bears repeating that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) advises the public that the only risk of cervical cancer is not getting a regular Pap smear. Dr. Jackson insinuates that…

…following detailed description from the Thinktwice website on how vaccines are actually made: “To begin one must first acquire the disease germ, a toxic bacterium or a live virus. To…

…the spine, and do not “treat” symptoms, illness and diseases. Straight Chiropractors believe in the principle that the body has the ability to heal itself once spinal nerve interference has…

…health officials worrying about drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus bacteria, responsible for the deaths of four children in the Midwest. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), they were the…

…waiting while they waste all that time and money on drug trials and focus groups to find just the right drug to treat this new disease, the drugs are already…

…pour in an extra $1.5 billion over the next five years, communicable diseases will all but disappear. Strangely enough, another story surfaced the same day. Seems that a couple of…

YourHealthDaily brings us an article from the Boston Globe titled “Turf Wars Ignite As Medical Specialists Reinvent Themselves” The article is focused on the rapid changes occurring in medical specialties…

…negative effects of HRT, my interest has never been in a particular drug or disease, that’s not really the point, is it. What I care about as a doctor is…

…its threat to public health.” And according to the article, Senator Kennedy feels that U.S. state and local public agencies should have improved capacity to monitor and combat infectious disease….

…for this condition, the drugs are not needed. Not only are they not needed, but antibiotic overuse poses grave risks to society. According to an ABC News article, an infectious…

…that they become educated about vaccines and infectious diseases. Zahn added, “So parents, read as much as you can. Stay informed. You’ve got to make the choices for your own…