Children Are Being Exploited to Extend Pharmaceutical Patents Want to protect your kids from high cholesterol? Just give ’em drugs—like the new, chewable form of Lipitor. Yes, chewable. Like candy. A new Action Alert asks Congress to repeal a really rotten law that encourages this. Supplements Still in Peril Over the past year, we fought four different Congressional bills that threatened your access to supplements. In this Action Alert, we need your help to educate our lawmakers, most of whom know little or nothing about existing supplement regulation or why supplements are not drugs. Cancer, Chemo, and Crony Capitalism When Medicare reduced reimbursements for oncologists in 2003, some physicians started giving their patients more expensive chemotherapy and other cancer treatments—in return for kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies, a new study has found. Visit Renowned Radio Host Deborah Ray’s New Blog Deborah Ray has been bringing quality health information to radio listeners since 1982 and has been consistently named among the top 100 most important talk radio hosts in America by Talkers Magazine. Visit her new blog on the ANH-USA website. Deborah A. Ray, MT (ASCP), Editor Craig Smith, Deputy Editor The Pulse of Natural Health. This newsletter is copyrighted material (copyright by the Alliance for Natural Health USA, 2010) but we hope you will forward, copy, or reprint it without prior authorization. Just remember to note the source, date and link to original content on the ANH-USA website -- Alliance for Natural Health USA, July 13, 2010. |
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