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(Natural News) There’s nothing going on here. Nothing to see. Move on. Things are under control. That’s what anyone who makes an inquiry about California’s critically unstable public pension system is told. ‘We got this. No worries.’ That’s because if state government officials and pension managers were being truthful, the system would completely collapse tomorrow—instead […]

(Natural News) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is the latest government agency to be exposed for putting politics over principle after it was revealed that a top DOE scientist was fired simply for telling the truth about climate change. Reports indicate that Noelle Metting was basically canned by the Obama administration when she was […]

(Natural News) (Full disclosure: I am a huge fan of college football and the NFL. In fact, football is the only sport I follow.) The National Football League is the most profitable professional sports association in the country, but if some doctors and a growing number of Americans get their way, the sport may someday […]

(Natural News) Tens of millions of people break bones every year, and many of those who do wind up with life-changing, chronic injuries. What would it be like if an injured person could simply replace a bone that, say, had been crushed and was largely irreparable? Well, we may be on the cusp of that […]

(Natural News) Several medical researchers and scientists have been warning frequently in recent years that the so-called “superbugs” are proliferating across the world faster than modern medicine can stamp them out, due in large part to massive overuse of antibiotics. Well, another one has been discovered by researchers: a superbug described as very rare and […]

(Natural News) When someone’s life ends it is always tragic, and loved ones experience grief and loss. But it is even more tragic when a person passes away and their death could have been avoided, such as in cases of negligence, carelessness and error. That is exactly what has happened in numerous instances in the UK, […]

(Natural News) Pill-pushing is apparently a difficult job for some pharmacists, including one from Northern Ireland who reportedly killed a woman back in 2014 by mistakenly giving her a beta blocker drug for high blood pressure and heart disease rather than a common steroid for inflammation. Martin White, 45, is said to have been chronically […]

(Natural News) Responding to widespread and growing concern about heavy metals in personal care products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a new draft guidance recommending lower limits for lead in many popular cosmetic products, including lipsticks, lip glosses, lip liners, eye shadows, blushes, body lotions, and shampoos. While not binding, the […]

(Natural News) It may be the world’s largest technology giant and retailer, but many of Amazon’s workers appear to be living like they were deployed in a war zone: In tent cities. As reported by the UK’s Courier newspaper (why hasn’t an American media outlet reported on this—like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post, which […]

(Natural News) As our last defenses begin to fail, many more people might die from common bacterial infections in 2017. Each year, an estimated 700,000 people die due to untreatable drug-resistant infections, and today that number is increasing faster than anyone predicted. About 40 years ago Levy and colleagues published their landmark study showing a […]