All posts categorized with Big Pharma

(Natural News) A burning, hot sensation in your mouth isn’t the only trick chili peppers have up their sleeve. Rather than spicing up your food, German researchers found that capsaicin, or the active, hot compound in chili peppers, could stop breast cancer in its tracks. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, […]

(Natural News) Over the past few years, the United States has taken great strides towards legalizing marijuana nationwide, but we aren’t the only country moving in that direction. Around the world there is a growing push for the legalization of medical and recreational cannabis, especially as the therapeutic value of the plant becomes more widely […]

(Natural News) Alzheimer’s patients who take antipsychotic drugs have a significantly increased risk of dying early compared to those who don’t, new research out of Finland has found. An in-depth analysis of nearly 58,000 people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease between 2005 and 2011 found that those who take popular antipsychotics like Abilify (aripiprazole) or Risperdeal […]

(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) What investors had hoped would build into yet another 2.68 percent dividend yield for pharmaceutical behemoth Eli Lilly has turned into a massive financial letdown after trials of solanezumab, a supposedly promising experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, showed less than favorable efficacy in the latest clinical trials. Reports […]

(Natural News) Is a legal drug epidemic plaguing our nation? According to a new study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, it seems that Americans have become increasingly dependent on pharmaceuticals. In 2013, about one in six American adults reported taking at least one psychiatric drug, usually an antidepressant, sedative or antipsychotic, to cope […]

(Natural News) America’s opioid epidemic and the corresponding increase in the rate of overdose deaths among adults has received a lot of attention in the media lately, but the news often ignores the less obvious effects of the epidemic on “society’s most vulnerable members” – our children. A new study has been published in the […]

(Natural News) One of Donald Trump’s promises on the campaign trail was to lower drug prices significantly, much to the chagrin of the pharmaceutical industry that relies heavily on high-priced chemicals in order to stay in business. Trump waged war on Big Pharma quite some time ago, so it’s no wonder that they desperately wanted Hillary […]

(Natural News) Evil can be defined as profound immorality and malevolence. Today, one of the most evil persons to ever practice medicine is fortunately behind bars, serving 45 years in a federal prison for dosing adults and children who did not even have cancer to death with chemotherapy. If it were not for a brave […]

(Natural News) Dr. Yehuda Shoenfeld is an Israeli clincian who has been extensively studying the human immune system for more than thirty years. Some say he is at the pinnacle of his profession, and that he is at the core of its foundation. He’s written 25 textbooks on the subject — some of which are […]