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As a member of Dr. Rath's Health Alliance, you will get news about natural health and groundbreaking research in a new field, Cellular Health, that you will not receive from other sources. This information is critical to protecting your health and life.

Questions about the safety of pharmaceutical drugs are frequently in the headlines.

Many people do not realize the extent that news organizations receive their income from advertising. A substantial amount of ads in magazines are for pharmaceutical drugs because the pharmaceutical industry, as the most profitable industry on earth, invests billions of dollars in their promotion. This is not surprising. The wealth of just one company, Pfizer, is equal to that of the entire economy of Switzerland! Therefore, the news stories that are covered by mainstream news organizations are often skewed in favor of drug companies. The amount of money spent by drug companies on marketing is more than twice that spent on research.

The news you'll find here is free of pharma bias and will help you in your quest to achieve health, whether you live in California, Oklahoma, Pretoria or Kuala Lumpur.

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Research

Secret to Treating Tinnitus in Vets May Be Unlocked in Zebrafish

For millions of Americans, including thousands of Iraq War veterans, ringing in the ears is a condition that is annoying at best and disabling at worst. Now, a researcher says he hopes to find a cure in a very unusual place — a fish. [MORE]

CDC: 52% With Diabetes Have Arthritis

More than half of people with diabetes also suffer arthritis, CDC researchers find. It's not just a problem for older people. Diabetes patients aged 18 to 44 have a 27.6% chance of having arthritis — 2.5 times the 11% rate seen in the general population. [MORE]

Study: Magnesium sulfate cuts risk of CP in preemies

Giving a cheap and widely available "drug" (magnesium sulfate) to pregnant women at high risk of premature delivery cut the risk of cerebral palsy in their babies by nearly half, according to a study presented Thursday. [MORE]

Activism

Health Alert! California Proposition 65 - A Big Threat To All Vitamin Products. It Can Affect Everyone!

The California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is proposing to limit the potency of vitamin-and-mineral supplements under California's Proposition 65 as cancer-causing agents. According to this proposition all vitamin-and-mineral dietary supplements with above-RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) potencies would be essentially classified as cancer-causing agents unless proven otherwise. [MORE]

Calif Moves Toward Major Health Reforms

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The state Assembly approved a major health care reform plan Monday that will expand coverage to nearly 70 percent of the state's uninsured and require most Californians to have health insurance. [MORE]

The U.S. Is Unhappy with Its Health Care

In a freshly minted radio commercial, Republican Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani boasts, "We have the best health-care system in the world." It's an oft-heard refrain from politicians and policymakers. Patients beg to differ. [MORE]

Business with Disease

FDA Faulted over unapproved uses of medications

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August 12 - When a state trooper pulls over a speeding motorist, the officer usually writes out a ticket on the spot. When federal regulators catch a drug company peddling prescription medications for an unapproved use, it takes them an average of seven months to issue a warning, according to a draft report by congressional investigators. [MORE]

Antidepressant Scripts Up 16 Million Over 3-Year Period

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August 12 - Between 2002 and 2005, the number of prescriptions filled for antidepressant drugs increased from 154 million to 170 million, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. government. [MORE]

Anti-cancer drug extends life of liver cancer patients

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August 12 - A drug commonly used to treat kidney cancer has helped liver cancer patients live 44 per cent longer than patients given a placebo, a new study says. [MORE]

The Kiddie Cholesterol Debate

July 16, 2008 - Making decisions about your health is never easy, and things get even harder when the choices involve children. [MORE]

FDA orders Waltham firm to caution drug's users

July 16, 2008 - A Waltham pharmaceutical firm is among several antibiotic manufacturers being told by federal regulators to place a prominent "black box" warning on its drug. [MORE]

Drug Industry to Announce Revised Code on Marketing

July 16, 2008 - The pens, pads, mugs and other gifts that drug makers have long showered on doctors will be banned from pharmaceutical marketing campaigns under a voluntary guideline that the industry is expected to announce Thursday. [MORE]

FDA adds cancer warnings to J&J foot ulcer cream

July 8, 2008 - The Food and Drug Administration warned patients Friday that using large amounts of a Johnson & Johnson foot ulcer medication could heighten their risk of dying from cancer. [MORE]

Antipsychotics given for dementia pose risks: study

July 8, 2008 - Elderly dementia patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs are at three times the risk of a serious health problem or dying within a month of treatment, compared to those not given the drugs, Canadian researchers said on Monday. [MORE]

Researchers Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay

July 8, 2008 - A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at least $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007 but for years did not report much of this income to university officials, according to information given Congressional investigators. [MORE]

FDA Panel Considers Toll-Free Number for TV Drug Ads

Direct-to-consumer drug ads on television should include a toll-free phone number that would allow consumers to report adverse side effects, U.S. health experts suggested Friday. [MORE]

Drug companies defend TV ads critics call misleading

Some of the nation's largest pharmaceutical companies defended their TV advertisements Thursday from Democrats pushing for tougher restrictions on what they call misleading marketing. Executives from Pfizer (PFE), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and a joint venture between Merck (MRK) and Schering Plough (SGP) will testify before House lawmakers on three discontinued advertisements. [MORE]

Common Chemotherapy Drug Linked to Memory Problems

Treatment with a single, commonly used chemotherapy drug causes lingering memory problems and other cognitive difficulties, a common and unpleasant side effect called "chemo brain," a new study has found. [MORE]

eNewsletter

A MESSAGE FROM DR. RATH

In July 2006 the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a highly defamatory article alleging that I was standing trial in a German court for “fraud” in relation to the death of a young cancer patient. The BMJ’s article also discredited me and the effect of treatments which result from my research in the field of natural control of cancer. None of these allegations were true. [more]

TOP NEWS

The Failure of a New Cholesterol Lowering Drug in Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes. Are you one of 12 million Americans taking cholesterol lowering drugs to prevent heart disease, or are you one of 23 million people who consider taking them because the new federal government guidelines fill you with fear?

PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT

Cholesterol and Homocysteine Metabolism The first thing that comes to our mind when we hear about heart disease is almost always cholesterol. For the last few decades cholesterol has been presented as the biggest enemy of our arteries, the heart, and health in general. Is cholesterol truly the major risk factor for heart attacks and stroke?

POLITICAL NEWS

Health Alert! California Proposition 65 - A Big Threat To All Vitamin Products. It Can Affect Everyone! The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) wants to limit the potency of vitamin and mineral supplements under California's Proposition 65 as cancer-causing agents. All vitamin and mineral dietary supplements with Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) potencies would be essentially classified as cancer-causing agents unless proven otherwise ! This change to Proposition 65 is a BIG threat to all vitamins and vitamin freedom and if approved, could lead to the same threat in other states!

HEALTH NEWS

Is Cholesterol Really Bad For Your Health? Although we have become a “cholesterol –obsessed” nation, do you know that about half of the people who died of heart disease did not have a high blood cholesterol level? At the same time many people who have a high blood cholesterol level do not get heart attacks or strokes. Success of Nutrient Synergy in Controlling Cholesterol Level More than a decade ago Matthias Rath, MD – a close collaborator of two time Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling, presented a groundbreaking concept, showing that cholesterol is a symptom, not the cause of heart disease.

Q&A

Managing Cholesterol with Dr. Rath's Cellular Health Program Q: When beginning Dr. Rath’s Metavicor™ Program, can I stop taking cholesterol lowering drugs on my own?