By Charles Hugh Smith The rot within manifested by the pharmaceutical industry almost defies description. The theme this week is The Rot Within. America’s Pharmaceutical industry takes pride of place in this week’s theme of The Rot Within, as the industry has raised fraud, exploitation and collusion…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Sunday, October 15, 2017, CBS TV news 60 Minutes dropped a proverbial “bombshell” regarding the problems with the U.S. pharmaceutical industry and the “shills” who promote Pharma’s wares—licensed medical doctors, distributors, pharmacists, etc. If, by chance, you missed CBS’s outstanding piece…
By Jack Burns On Sunday, 60 Minutes interviewed several former U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) employees who came forward to blow the whistle, accusing several Fortune 500 drug distributor companies for the epidemic opiate overdoses. For many years, Joe Rannazzisi was the head of the…
By Alex Pietrowski Should people without depression take medication to prevent it? This is the latest question to come out of modern psychiatry, and is explored in detail in a recent article by a major news outlet. In short, they are presenting an admittedly controversial…
By Paul A. Philips More and more folks are wising up to the sad fact that our healthcare system would rather see us ill than cured. Illness means mega-bucks for Big Pharma who, in turn, give cash kickbacks to doctors and great business for hospitals……
By Catherine J. Frompovich “They know what they’ve been doing. They’ve been misrepresenting the dangers of these dangerous addictive drugs for years.” – State Rep. Gen DiGirolamo “Those pharmaceutical companies have made billions of dollars off the deaths of our children and our loved one.”…
By Era of Wisdom Merck and Co created the HPV vaccine Gardasil, the MMR vaccine, and others. During the peak of WWII, George W. Merck, president of Merck and Co was in charge of the War Research Service, the biological warfare division of the larger Federal…
By Jon Rappoport Medical News Today reports that, in 2011, there was a modest uptick in the number of prescriptions written in the US. The increase brought the total to: 4.02 billion. Yes, in 2011, doctors wrote 4.02 billion prescriptions for drugs in America. That’s…
By Alex Pietrowski If the opioid crisis is to be resolved, opioid manufacturers must somehow be held to account for criminally pushing addictive and deadly products onto the public. While some cities and states are already suing pharmaceutical companies over this, and some pharmaceutical executives…
By Alex Pietrowski Mental health in America is in decline, and while there is no one-size-fits-all reason for this, doctors and psychiatrists do offer a one-size-fits-all solution: antidepressants. The number of people who have taken antidepressants has soared some 65% in just the last 15…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Big Pharma and the medical profession are taking a lot of ‘heat’ for the opioid epidemic, and rightfully so! Opioids were unashamedly marketed to doctors who, trustingly, wrote prescription after prescription for them only to find those drugs land where they…
By Tony Cartalucci While Americans squabble over irrelevant political diversions, a revolutionary breakthrough in human healthcare has yielded its first FDA approval – a therapy that literally cures otherwise incurable leukemia. It is the first of many therapies that re-engineer human cells in living patients…
By Justin Gardner The historic Nov. 2016 ballot initiatives to legalize cannabis brought a resounding win for freedom in several states, with the exception of Arizona. There, voters narrowly rejected decriminalization, in no small part due to a massive anti-pot propaganda campaign funded in-part by…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze Ignaz Semmelweis, Galileo Galilei, Andrew Wakefield and the Semmelweis Reflex: Iatrogenesis and Big Pharma’s Lucrative Overvaccination Agendas “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” – Voltaire “If you…
By Justin Gardner As the opioid epidemic rages on, those professing to seek “solutions” are willfully ignoring one of the most promising treatments – medical cannabis. When the Comprehensive Addiction & Recovery Act (CARA) was being debated in 2016, amendments to study medical cannabis were…
By Cameron S. Bigger Listed below are four lethal connections between Big Pharma and some of our most popular consumer products, of which all consumers deserve to be made aware. Nestlé and Prometheus Therapeutics & Diagnostics Nestlé is the world’s largest food & beverage corporation,…
By Alex Pietrowski America has some serious problems, but public attention only seems to flow where the mainstream media goes. And while there certainly is reason to be concerned with the social turmoil and the general tenor of American society today, a far more dangerous…
Op-Ed by Paul A. Philips Hypocrisy in health and healthcare runs rife throughout the Big Pharma-owned and -controlled medical pharmaceutical establishment. This hypocrisy may be downright unethical. Hypocrites include those self-serving doctors who want the largest slice of the pie that they can get from…
By Claire Bernish More than 68,000 doctors received payments in excess of $46 million — in the span of just 29 months — from Goliath pharmaceutical corporations pushing opioid painkillers, researchers in a groundbreaking investigation of Big Pharma’s and the epidemic of legal and illicit…
By Carey Wedler According to a recent survey conducted by cannabis market research firm the Brightfield Group and HelloMD, an online medical cannabis community, nearly half of CBD (cannabidiol) users give up prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications in favor of the non-psychoactive substance. The survey of over 2,400 respondents found forty-two…
