Doctors and pharmacists often portray generic drugs as a great deal. They say that you’re getting the same medicine as the brand-name products, but far cheaper.
The FDA is on board, too.
Even though almost all generic drugs are made in India and China, the agency says it holds foreign plants to the same standards as U.S. drug makers.
Katherine Eban says that’s simply not true.
Mainstream doctors have known for years that they prescribe way too many antibiotics. A study by the Centers for Disease Control found they write 47 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions a year.
Physicians hand them out for minor infections that would clear up on their own. Or they prescribe them for patients with viruses. Of course, antibiotics have no effect on viruses.
You’ve probably heard of “white coat hypertension.” That’s when your blood pressure is fine, except when you go to your doctor’s office.
The mere sight of a doctor (in a white coat or not) is enough to cause stress. In turn, this gives you high blood pressure.
Now, a new study shows that the traditional white coat doctors wear can have far more damaging effects on your health.
The widely used herbicide Roundup has made headlines lately because thousands of people say it gave them cancer.
A federal jury recently ordered the maker of the chemical weed killer to pay $80 million to a 70-year-old man with cancer. The jury found that Roundup was a “substantial factor” in his illness.[i]
The World Health Organization calls glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, a “probable human carcinogen.”
Glyphosate is by far the most widely used herbicide in the U.S.
We’ve been telling you for years that statin drugs are overprescribed. Nearly 30% of Americans over 40 take them to lower their cholesterol. But mainstream doctors ignore the fact that more 75% of people who suffer heart attacks have normal or low levels of cholesterol.
And they downplay the side effects. They include muscle aches and increased risk of diabetes. They are also linked to memory loss, artery calcification, and vitamin deficiencies.
Mainstream doctors have one message when it comes to “bad” LDL cholesterol: The lower, the better.
That’s why they pump you full of statins, hoping to decrease your LDL readings as low as they possibly can.
But new research shows they may be doing grave damage to your health.
The study was published in the journal Neurology. Scientists looked at the medical records of 27,937 subjects who were enrolled in the Women’s Health Study.