The United States uses nearly 30 million pounds of antibiotics annually in food production. Livestock antibiotic use accounts for 80 percent of the total antibiotics sold in the US, and unnecessary use of antibiotics in food animals (cows, pigs, chickens, and turkeys) is a major driving force behind the rampant development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Compare this to the 6 million pounds of antibiotics ...

  Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Colombine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold’s medical records have never been made available to the public. Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he s ...

  SLIMMERS using one of Britain's most popular weight-loss pills were yesterday warned it could cause possible liver or kidney failure. Dieters could be at risk of severe illness from the fat-buster which is available over the counter on the high street, according to a new study. 
 Alli, which blocks the absorption of fat in the gut, was hailed as a wonder drug when it became available in UK pharmacies ...

  U.S. meat supplies to Russia have been banned. The Russian Federation and the United States differ in the assessment of the causes of the situation. Russia claims that the reason for the ban was the presence of ractopamine drug in US meat. America insists that Russia's actions were a response to the adoption of the Magnitsky Act by the Senate and accuses Russia of violating WTO rules. On December 7, ...

  Demonstrating the lack of concern held by regulatory agencies for public safety or public opinion as well as the increasing attempts to become compliant with Codex Alimentarius regulations, the FDA has recently expanded the amount of ionized radiation that can be used to treat unrefrigerated raw meat. As reported by Food Safety News, the two new policies decided upon by the FDA were issued in respons ...

An extraordinary paper published by a courageous doctor and investigative medical researcher has dug the dirt on 30 years of secret official transcripts of meetings of UK government vaccine committees and the supposedly independent medical “experts” sitting on them with their drug industry connections. A Freedom of Information Act filing by a doctor in the UK, has revealed 30 years of secret official docume ...

Iranian medicine has been saving the lives of Americans while the illegal US-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic have been adversely affecting the lives of many Iranian patients. A Sunday report on the website of the Wall Street Journal said the US Defense Department needs Iranian-researched and -produced medicine to treat the foreign forces in Afghanistan who get bitten by “Oxus cobras, Haly’s pit v ...

When it comes “how you’re going to die,” many people fear things like airplane crashes or shark attacks, even though statistics show that deaths from these events are very rare. Conversely, far too many people mistakenly believe that certain common aspects of everyday life are extremely safe — when, in reality, this is often far from the truth. Once such daily ritual that is far more dangerous than many peo ...

The Food and Drug Administration halted operations of the country’s largest organic peanut butter processor Monday, cracking down on salmonella poisoning for the first time with the new enforcement authority the agency gained in a 2011 food safety law. FDA officials found salmonella all over Sunland Inc.’s New Mexico processing plant after 41 people in 20 states, most of them children, were sickened by pean ...

UPDATE: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Wichita voters have rejected an initiative to add fluoride to the city's water. Unofficial results from Tuesday's vote showed 59 percent of the voters rejected the proposal. Wichita voted down similar fluoride initiatives in 1964 and 1978. 
 Opponents contend fluoridation has several negative potential side effects, and called it mass medication that would be forced on pe ...