Mercola argues that conventional medical care is a leading cause of death and that the drug-based model rests on the belief that the body needs chemicals to stay well. He urges a healthy lifestyle to minimize reliance on drugs, surgery and conventional care.
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Can a Drug Cure Alcoholism? Most Alcoholics Say No
Reporting from the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting, the column says the group reaffirmed its push to widen diagnosis as it finishes DSM-5, notes that 57 percent of the manual's authors have pharmaceutical ties, and names attendees previously investigated over drug money.
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Dietary supplements intended for erectile dysfunction recalled
West Coast Nutritionals is recalling all lots of Firminite, Extra Strength Instant Hot Rod and Libidron after FDA analysis found undeclared tadalafil. The agency warns the drug can interact with nitrates and dangerously lower blood pressure; the capsules sold online.
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The 6 Types of Pills Big Pharma Wants You Hooked On for Life
Merck agreed to pay a $321 million fine and plead guilty to a misdemeanor over illegal promotion of Vioxx, a drug tied to more than 60,000 deaths before its 2004 withdrawal. Mercola goes on to list six drug classes he says are marketed for life, from statins to antidepressants.
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Insulin, coronary angiography can kill diabetes patients
A Diabetologia study of 12,515 Swedish type 2 diabetes patients who had coronary angiography from 2001 to 2009 found mortality of 28.1 percent on insulin alone against 19.2 percent on diet alone. After adjustment, insulin alone carried a 17 percent higher death risk.
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Diabetes drugs may increase risk of cancer - Study
A Taiwanese study of 108,920 people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes found any insulin use linked to 97% higher cancer risk, glinides to 16% and first- and second-generation sulfonylureas to 8%. The third-generation drug glimepiride showed no association.
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Why Were Risky, Ineffectual Bone Drugs Approved, Some Are Asking
Merck's Fosamax cleared the FDA on a six-month review, and the bisphosphonates' dangers surfaced only after mass marketing: esophageal injury, jawbone death, irregular heartbeat, and in 2010 reports of the very fractures the drugs were meant to prevent.
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Aspirin cuts lung cancer risk - study suggests
A case-control study of 398 Chinese women with lung cancer and 814 without found those taking aspirin at least twice a week had about 50 percent lower risk among never-smokers and 62 percent lower among smokers. The lead author says the evidence is not conclusive.
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Do You Really Need That Expensive Prescription? Lawmakers Have Doubts
Citing the New York Times, the piece says drug-industry-written bills would stop insurers from raising co-pays to the point where patients stop filling prescriptions, and argues Pharma casts this “prescription abandonment” as a health problem when the loss is to its revenue.
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FDA approves new erectile dysfunction drug
The FDA approved avanafil, sold as Stendra, a PDE5 inhibitor for erectile dysfunction in the same class as Viagra, Cialis and Levitra. It is reported to work in as little as 15 minutes, with side effects like headache, flushing and nasal congestion and rare prolonged erections.
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Not manly enough? FDA get a new pill for you
The FDA approved Stendra (avanafil), a PDE5 inhibitor taken about 30 minutes before sexual activity for erectile dysfunction, which the agency says affects an estimated 30 million U.S. men. Men taking nitrates should avoid it, as the combination can drop blood pressure sharply.
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Most Recalled Type of Drug Will Surprise You
A GBI Research analysis found recalls of biologics rose sharply from 2004 to 2010, with vaccines and immunoglobulins recalled more often than any other drug class: 14 vaccine recalls and 13 immunoglobulin recalls between 2007 and 2010.
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New blood test may help diagnose depression?
Northwestern researchers led by Eva Redei tested blood from 14 teenagers with major depression and 14 without, ages 15 to 19, for a set of genetic markers. Redei says an objective lab test could allow earlier diagnosis and reduce the stigma that leaves depressed teens untreated.
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Best-Selling Drug Attacks Your Heart, Brain and Bones
Mercola argues antidepressants carry underplayed harms, citing research linking them to neck arteries about 5 percent thicker in men, an FDA alert on Celexa's effects on heart rhythm, and menopausal users facing a 45 percent higher risk of fatal stroke.
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FDA Warns: Don't Use This on Your Skin But You Can Put It in Your Mouth in Higher Doses
Dr. Mercola contrasts the FDA's warning that mercury in imported skin lighteners can damage kidneys, nerves and developing brains with the same agency's refusal to comment on dental amalgam, which he says is about 50 percent mercury.
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Bad cancer news: Cancer diagnosis raises heart attack, suicide risk
A Karolinska study following more than six million Swedes found suicide risk twelve times higher in the week after a cancer diagnosis and cardiovascular death six times higher, with the biggest increases in poor-prognosis cancers such as lung and pancreatic.
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HIV/AIDS Update - Blood Products Advisory Committee Mtg, May 15-16, 2012, In-Home HIV Test
The FDA's Blood Products Advisory Committee will meet from 8:30 a.m. to about 5 p.m. to weigh the safety and effectiveness of the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test. The notice sets deadlines for written and oral submissions and says the Gaithersburg, Maryland meeting will be webcast.
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Dangerous high blood pressure drug still given to vulnerable elderly patients
German researchers report that doctors prescribed immediate-release nifedipine to about 1 percent of elderly patients in a 260,672-person insurance dataset in 2009, though earlier studies tied the drug to higher heart attack and death risk than other blood pressure medicines.
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