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Counterfeit drug sales rampant on internet

26 August 2008

Did you know that sales of counterfeit prescription-only drugs worldwide could rise to over $55 billion by 2010?  The European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines has released an important report explaining this growing problem and its risks.

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Vitamin D: as close to a magic bullet as you can get?

22 August 2008

A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that a deficiency of circulating vitamin D levels in the blood is strongly linked to increased risk of death from heart disease.  The evidence supporting vitamin D against heart disease and cancer is now unequivocal—but regulators are still keen to restrict our intake.

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Pan founder successful in the courts against the Australian TGA

15 August 2008

After five long years Jim Selim, founder of Pan Pharmaceuticals, has finally had his day in court and the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration has been forced into possibly its most publicly embarrassing recapitulation to date; to the tune of $55m with no confidentiality clause.

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UK Home Office gives green light to EU 'snooper's directive'

13 August 2008

First Germany, then Sweden and now the UK falls into line behind the 2006 EU Directive giving governments, public bodies and private investigators access to personal communications data across the whole of Europe.  Phone calls, emails, texts, internet usage, skype and VOIP calls—say goodbye to the last shreds of your privacy.

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Feature: The real story of vitamin C and cancer

07 August 2008

Tuesday 5th Aug saw yet another media frenzy over what was sold to us as breaking news.  If you were to believe the hype, then you could be forgiven for thinking that the study released from the US National Institutes of Health showing that intravenous vitamin C is effective at destroying cancer, is totally new.  It isn't and worse, the true pioneers of this research haven't even been acknowledged!

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US Cancer chief sees cell phone risks

25 July 2008

Director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers becomes the first US cancer centre director to issue a warning to his 3000 strong staff on the dangers posed by mobile phones and their potential to cause cancer.

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EU protectionism discriminates against Chinese cuisine and bendy veg

23 July 2008

ANH brings you two stories that show EU madness at work: bans on Peking ducks in London's Chinatown and a push by Europe's big agri-business countries to stick with ridiculously tight laws on the size and shape of fruit and veg that result in massive wastage while we suffer a global food crisis. Did you choose these laws? 

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Three ways to die: putting together some of the jigsaw pieces

18 July 2008

It's not comfortable to have to accept that our 'leaders' may not have our best interests at heart and much easier to tune in to the boxes that adorn our living rooms and swallow what we are fed in the media. Victoria Hardy puts some of the key pieces of the bigger picture in her article Oh My! Three Fun Ways To Die.

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Kids: the new guinea pigs of Big Pharma

18 July 2008

Last week, we heard that doctors are being told to prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs to kids as young as eight. Would you let this happen to your child? Has your doctor considered the causes of your kid's weight problem and how to manage them? What about off-label prescription risks? ANH reviews the madness and shows how kids are being used as guinea pigs.

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Global pharmaceutical industry at a crossroads

08 July 2008

A German market research company has just issued a report which confirms that the pharma industry has its back against the wall. A leading expert says the industry "does not have a vision of the future". We say—be diligent, be astute and be careful, as a cornered rat can be dangerous.

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MEP Kathy Sinnott blows whistle on EU internet surveillance plans

07 July 2008

Irish MEP Kathy Sinnott—who had campaigned for a 'no' vote in the recent Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty—has been a good friend and supporter of natural health. Now she explains how the new EU Telecoms Directive could force internet service providers to spy on the internet usage of all Europeans.

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