Health Action Magazine - Drug Safety
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Safety Is a Dangerous WordMost consumers of natural health products have already noticed that products are disappearing. For most it is not a crisis yet. If a product they were using disappears, they...
Health Action, Spring 2012 - 5K
"Bad" cholesterol: the unknown heart healerIf you think that "bad" or "high" cholesterol contributes to heart disease, you have been deceived by those marketing a mythical disease.
The so-called "bad" or LDL...
HANS e-News - February 1, 2012 - 5K
The Voice of Consumers on Natural Health Product RegulationPresentation to Health Canada's Natural Health Products Directorate
by the Health Action Network Society on September 27, 2011
Because of members' concerns...
Health Action, Winter 2011 - 9K
Medication and orthomolecular treatment for schizophreniaI recently received an email from HG, whose brother, age 35, has suffered from schizophrenia for the past 15 years.
HG had been researching orthomolecular treatment, but...
HANS e-News - December 1, 2010 - 2K
No Deaths from Vitamins or Minerals: StatisticsNot even one death was caused by a vitamin or dietary mineral in 2007, according to the most recent statistics available from the United States National Poison Data System...
Health Action, Winter 2009/2010 - 1K
Under the Influence of Misleading Drug AdsThe New York Times recently carried a full-page ad for one of the statin drugs. While this well-crafted ad contained factual information and a picture of Dr. Robert Jarvik,...
Health Action, Winter 2008/2009 - 3K
Clinical Drug TrialsJust about every week, an announcement is made about research concerning some sort of new treatment. In just about every case, the treatment is a drug. This does not mean,...
Health Action Magazine, Winter 2007-08 - 8K
The Cost of Drug TherapiesTreating disease with drugs poses potentially serious problems. In addition to the questionable selling practices of pharmaceutical companies, there are the realities of...
Health Action Magazine Fall 2007 - 3K
Global Health - A Word About PatentsIn my last column, I made mention of the fact that in the last 50 years, we in the Western, industrialised world have focused on patented drugs as remedies for our ills. Now...
Health Action Magazine, Winter 2006 - 4K
Anti-inflammatories Have Side-effectsPain killers are one of the most common over the counter medications sold in this country. With the recent removal from the market of the new class of CoxII inhibitors which...
Free Online Information Source for Drug-related Nutritional DeficienciesNewsTarget.com, a leading natural health news and information site, has launched NewsTarget DrugWatch, a free online resource that reveals the nutritional deficiencies caused...
HANS e-News - October 1, 2007 - 1K