By John Vibes This week, it was announced that a startup called Compass Pathways has received approval from The Food and Drug Administration to develop treatments for depression, and possibly even pharmaceuticals, with psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic “magic mushrooms.” Compass Pathways launched in…
By Alex Pietrowski Suicide is becoming as big of a public health issue as the opioid crisis. In 2016 alone over 45,000 Americans took their own lives, and the numbers are on the rise. Suicide is now the 10th leading cause of death in America…
SPECIAL REPORT By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze If the US government and the FDA have their way, Americans may soon have more access to medications and prescription drugs without having to first see a doctor. This is undoubtedly a positive step in the right direction. Unfortunately, it’s…
By Daniel Ross / Independent Media Institute For all the well-documented sources of environmental pollution—think chemical manufacturers, energy plants, mining operations and agricultural processes—there’s another major source of contamination that continues to get short shrift by those charged with protecting the nation’s waterways and the public’s health: Pharmaceuticals…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze 14 Lies/Myths That Big Pharma and Their Paid Academic Psychiatrists Teach Medical Students “A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.” – A truism attributed to Dr Joseph…
By Susan Boskey (This is the 2nd of the series: The Anxiety Epidemic. Read Part I of the series here.) Hands down the pharmaceutical industry has cornered the market when it comes to helping people overcome symptoms of various anxiety disorders. With statistical evidence of…
By Rachel Blevins Santa Cruz, CA – While the United States federal government and the Department of Veterans Affairs continue their efforts to keep cannabis from the people who need it the most, local growers are starting a movement in a state that is known…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze An Attempt to Enlighten Concerned Patients and Parents Regarding Essentia Health Duluth’s Recent Vaccine Controversy On July 23, 2018, my local Duluth, Minnesota TV news teams reported the following short bit of information that they had received from…
By ANH-USA Draconian limits on vitamin dosage amounts could be coming if the feds get their way. Action alert! That bottle of 50,000 IU, 5,000 IU, or even a measly 1,000 IU in your medicine cabinet could soon be contraband. Important entities are meeting to discuss…
By Matt Agorist Missouri — For the last several years, Johnson & Johnson has been battling multiple lawsuits — many of which they have lost — due to thousands of claims of their baby powder product giving women cancer. On Thursday, a Missouri jury handed…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze 9,080 sexually-inactive young women have to be vaccinated in order to prevent just 1 case of cervical cancer FACT: Vaccine-administering and vaccine-profiting pediatricians, physicians, nurses and/or clinics NEVER explain the pros and cons of vaccinations to parents…
By Rachel Blevins While parental consent is typically required when a student goes on a field trip or is subjected to a vision test in school, students as young 13 years old are being prescribed birth control at a public school in Washington D.C. and…
By Dylan Charles Something important is missing from the psychiatric model of ‘mental illness.’ It’s not a secret or anything, but rather more of an omission. It should be there, but by no accident it’s absent. You see, human beings are multi-dimensional. We are made…
By Daisy Luther It would be difficult to overlook the epidemic of depression that has struck the United States over the past decades. The CDC recently found that death by suicide was up more than 30% and the use of antidepressants has vaulted 65% in…
By Jon Rappoport For years, I’ve been writing about the medical system’s self-feeding mechanism: Give a patient a drug to treat his symptoms; the drug causes new symptoms, which are diagnosed as a new illness; and then new drugs are given, and those drugs cause…
ByJack Burns One veteran got so frustrated with the number of pills he had been prescribed to take on a daily basis that he decided to create a visual aid. After calculating that he took more than 9,855 prescription pills annually, he got an idea….
By Catherine J. Frompovich Oh, how prognosticating words about Monsanto apparently have come true! And people say there’s nothing to astrology! Moneywatch published online on June 5, 2018, “As Bayer Monsanto merger closes, a toxic corporate name to be retired” not quite five years after…
By Matt Agorist The Big Pharma giant Bayer has just won approval from the US Justice Department for the $62.5 billion dollar takeover of the agrichemical behemoth Monsanto. The deal, which was solidified on Tuesday, has many people on edge knowing that Bayer, a company…
By Jeffrey A. Miron New studies are helping us to fully understand America’s opiate crisis. The standard view of the opioid epidemic blames pharmaceutical companies and doctors for excessive prescribing. An alternate view blames government for outlawing or restricting access to opioids. In this view, users overdose…
By Jon Rappoport The key factor is: be a drug company. In this case, Celgene. Their drugs are Thalomid and Revlimid. They are approved for multiple myeloma, one type of cancer. Here’s the thing. Doctors can decide to prescribe drugs for uses which are not…
