MSM: Lives destroyed by happy pills: As our use of antidepressants DOUBLES in a decade, experts say thousands are being given dangerous drugs they don’t need

(DailyMail) – Increasing numbers of Britons are taking antidepressant drugs, with prescriptions doubling over the past ten years, according to a report this month. In 2000, there were 20 million prescriptions – this rose to 39 million last year.

While this rise is partly being blamed on the recession, experts are concerned that misdiagnosis is a major factor. Indeed, a study published recently in The Lancet found that the average GP will wrongly diagnose 16 out of every 100 patients they see with depression and anxiety. Read More Here

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(Rense) – Medically-Caused Deaths In America – An Exclusive Interview With Barbara Starfield

The American health system, like clockwork, causes a mind-boggling number of deaths every year.

The figures have been known for a decade. The story was covered briefly when a landmark study surfaced, and then it sank like a stone.

The truth was inconvenient for many interests. That has not changed. “Medical coverage for all” is a banner that conceals ugly facts. Read More Here

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(NaturalNews) – Elderly patients being executed with medicines in UK hospitals

Concern is growing that the United Kingdom’s Liverpool Care Pathway, intended to ease the comfort of patients whose death is inevitable, is being misused to railroad elderly patients onto a path toward early death. Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – Leading heart surgeon calls for ban on butter

A British heart surgeon has issued a call for a ban on butter, citing excessive consumption of saturated fats which he believes has rapidly increased the number of heart disease cases in the Great Britain. Dr. Shyam Kolvekar expressed concern that people as young as 30 years old are now getting heart bypass surgery, an issue that he believes could be remedied by switching from butter to margarine or other “healthy” spreads. Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – Pharma Planning to Dump Experimental and Controversial Vaccines in Public Schools

The golden calf of public health was smashed in this recent flu season as many in the United States outright rejected the H1N1 vaccine. Pharmaceutical companies are now holding the bag, as millions of doses of the vaccine are rotting on shelves or being discarded as hazardous waste. Or are they? The manufacturer may find it more cost effective to dump them into the arms of our public school systems. Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – Psych doctor wrote 1,000 prescriptions a week for psychotropic drugs.

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is reporting that a Miami psychiatrist has prescribed nearly 14 million pills to Medicaid patients since 2004. According to the report, Fernando Mendez-Villamil wrote about 285,000 prescriptions in just six years with a total taxpayer cost of $43 million. Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – New field of nutrigenomics reveals how what you eat now can prevent future disease

Kansas State University (K-State) researchers have joined a growing number of scientists who say a relatively new medical field known as nutrigenomics could change the future of public health forever. How? By tailoring strategies to prevent diseases before they can happen — diseases that might otherwise be in a person’s future because of his or her genetic makeup. Read More Here

(NYTimes) – F.D.A. Says Millions Got Unapproved Heart Pills

Doctors in the United States wrote more than four million prescriptions last year for nitroglycerin tablets, heart drugs placed under the tongue to reduce the chest pain angina or to stop a heart attack.

But the majority of the drugs sold had not been approved for sale, nor had their safety and effectiveness been vetted, by the Food and Drug Administration. Read More Here

(AOLNews) – New Studies Fan Flames of Corn Syrup Debate

Anyone who’s watched television this year has likely seen well-meaning but clueless high-fructose corn syrup opponents stymied when their down-to-earth friend challenges them about why they’re so opposed to a natural, harmless product.

The TV ads are part of a campaign by the Corn Refiners Association to improve the faltering image of one of America’s favorite sweeteners against claims that it is chemically different from table sugar and linked to rising obesity rates. A new study from Princeton that links high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to obesity may give the silent partner a few talking points. Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – A Health Freedom Zone in America – Mike Adams –

EU Meddling With Health Food Stores Puts 4,000 Jobs at Risk

(Express) – NEW curbs on vitamin and mineral pills by Brussels are threatening to push hundreds of UK health food stores out of business with the loss of up to 4,000 jobs. Read More Here

Casualties of War – The hell of war comes home

Marquez’s 3,500-soldier unit — now called the 4th Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team — fought in some of the bloodiest places in Iraq, taking the most casualties of any Fort Carson unit by far. Back home, 10 of its infantrymen have been arrested and accused of murder, attempted murder or manslaughter since 2006.

Drug-Induced Dementia Common in Seniors

(NaturalNews) – Many cases of senior dementia are actually caused by drug side effects and could be reversed with a change in prescription, reports the consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Citizen on its Web site WorstPills.org.

MSM: The drugs don’t work

(Guardian) – The number of people on antidepressants is soaring – we may be more miserable, but let’s swap the pills for support and care

MSM: FDA approves cancer drug for dogs, too

(SciAm) – Until now, cancer treatments prescribed by veterinarians were human-friendly formulas that hadn’t yet been tested for canine companions. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently approved the first cancer drug for dogs.