Friday, 29 March , 2024

Medicine

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...

Prince Charles: patients should wait for illnesses to clear up naturally...

By Sarah Knapton 12 May 2016 Patients need to have more patience and wait for illnesses to clear up naturally rather than demanding drugs from...