By Catherine J. Frompovich “’Gee, they relied on a fraud for this application; we should deny it;’ but the FDA Commissioner granted it and put Ketek into the market”! The drug involved is the antimicrobial agent Sanofi-Aventis makes called Ketek®, which has been linked to…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze In 2015, the DEA announced its plans to place Kratom on the list of Controlled Substances (in the same scheduling level as heroin to be exact) but, amid public outcry, the agency backed off, deferring to FDA “review” and “advice.” Many optimistic Kratom…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Triclosan, and to a lesser extent, other antiseptics, have gone through a well-deserved pruning process with the FDA. But it’s not quite over yet. In 2015, the FDA determined that anti-bacterial soaps were no more effective than regular soap. In fact, triclosan –…
By Jeremiah Johnson If you are an avid believer in alternative medicine, you need to be aware of a growing concern. In January, the FDA had a press conference stressing the importance of ‘protecting public health,” and is moving to pass a policy to reduce the “increase…
By Rachel Blevins While the FDA pushes for a kratom ban a group of scientists argues that if kratom is labeled as a Schedule I drug, opioid-overdose deaths will only continue to rise. The United States Food and Drug Administration ramped up its “War on Kratom”…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze In a surprising turn of events, a U.S. federal court has ruled in favor of the public interest. Even more surprising, the court ruled against the FDA which has been pushing the approval of GE salmon for human consumption. The approval of…
By American Kratom Association Our Response to the FDA “Trick Play” Announcement Today – Today’s FDA’s “Trick Play” to Pressure DEA to Schedule Kratom Commissioner Gottlieb’s Statement Shows the FDA is Desperate to Influence Ban The American Kratom Association’s Response from Dave Herman, Board Chairman…
By Matt Agorist Close to one-third of drugs approved by the FDA are found to have safety problems, according to a research report from The Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA’s report stated that these safety issues, known as “postmarket safety events,” are “common…
By Natural Blaze “Disease awareness campaigns…are an effective way for companies to sell a disease to sell a drug.“ Why did Americans pay more than $1.5 billion a year in 2016 alone for a drug that potentially does so little, and to treat a condition…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Here is a tragic joke: Why is synthetic THC deemed safe but natural marijuana is considered dangerous? Punchline: Because the government said so. It would be funny, if this new nightmare scenario weren’t true and if the “war on drugs” didn’t result in…
By Jon Rappoport Chemo drugs are highly poisonous to begin with. But suppose, on top of that, they’re contaminated and tainted? Welcome to the FDA: the handmaiden to Big Pharma; the promoter of destructive medicines; the opponent of natural health; the agency that should have…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze After years of accusing homeopathics as being worthless placebos, the FDA is going after homeopathics as though they are dangerous materials It seems the FDA is doubling down in its wild jihad against natural and alternative health products, individual choice and anything…
By Mac Slavo The Food and Drug Administration has just approved a new pill with a digital sensor in it. It will “ensure” that patients who suffer from mental health issues take their medicine when they are told. But privacy concerns have not gone unnoticed….
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 Jack Burns As the pharmaceutical-led police state continues to lock up citizens in the United States for a plant, the World Health Organization (WHO), under the direction of the United Nations (UN), is on the precipice of declaring CBD highly beneficial. And, for the…
In Washington DC, the Congress has left for their summer recess, but that does not mean that the attack on kratom by the DEA has stopped in any way. Our lobbying team has been working feverishly to protect kratom from the latest threat in the…
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 Mike Maharrey Last month, Maine Gov. Paul LePage signed a bill into law that gives local governments the authority to enact ordinances regulating local food distribution without state interference. The new law not only takes a big step forward for food sovereignty and local…
By Jon Rappoport Welcome to the circus, boys and girls. Parades, animals, acrobats, clowns, all colluding to approve lethal drugs for public use! Watch people take the drugs and fall down, watch them carted off in colorful cars to hospitals, where the doctors will have…
By Jon Rappoport The FDA has just approved a new drug, Brineura, for a rare childhood brain-disease known as CLN2, which progresses quickly and is considered fatal. BioMarin, the drug’s manufacturer, has pegged the yearly price of the drug for a patient at an astronomical…
