Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of injury and death in the United States, with prescription drugs and heroin being responsible for more than half of those deaths, according to stat [...]
Nearly 200 lawsuits have been filed this year alone against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for birth defects caused by a chemotherapy drug prescribed to expecting mothers suffering from morning sick [...]
In a recent article by The Washington Post, they discussed research published in the scientific journal Nature that supposedly proves antioxidants actually make cancer spread faster. But ar [...]
The ever-popular statin drug may actually reduce your chances of surviving a heart attack. A study published in the journal Critical Care Medicine found that low LDL (bad) cholesterol and l [...]
The absolute greed surrounding the pharmaceutical industry has been unveiled as Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli decided to take the price of Daraprim per pill from $13.50 to $750 [...]
Shockingly, one in 10 Americans is prescribed some type of antidepressant, with those numbers reaching one in four for women in their forties and fifties, according to The New York Times. T [...]
Infectious disease specialists are up in arms about a spike in the price of Daraprim. The drug was acquired by Turing Pharmaceuticals in August, which upped the price from $13.50 a tablet t [...]
This commentary is in response to the Medicine at Gunpoint article published earlier, which revealed that conventional medicine is now resorting to kidnapping and the enlistment of gun-toti [...]
Fibromyalgia is a disorder that currently affects over 5 million Americans. It is a condition characterized by chronic muscle pain, irritable bowel syndrome, sleep disorders, anxiety and fa [...]
As a strong proponent of free market economics, I have long wondered why free markets don’t seem to be operating in the health care industry. Today, it finally hit me with great clari [...]
