A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ruled that New York City’s health department does not have the legal authority to add flu vaccines to the list of mandatory shots required for young children to enter city-licensed preschools and day care centers. According to Justice Manuel Mendez, any changes to the roster of the city’s required […]
Rademenes barely made it past his second month of life. The small black kitten was on the verge of death in the street in the small town of Bydgoszcz, Poland, when a kind stranger found him and took him to an animal shelter. The vets there were considering euthanasia, but something stayed their hands. The […]
A coordinated set of enforcement actions by the Food & Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the postal service and several other federal agencies has the dietary supplement industry playing defense….and also applauding. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced its pursuance of civil and criminal […]
White-colored foods have a generally bad reputation among health conscious people, and for very good reason: many of the most toxic and nutritionally vapid foods have had all the color beaten out of them. Bleached flour, sugar, white bread, vegetable shortening are just a few that quickly come to mind. But not all white foods […]
The American Medical Association’s leadership has called for a complete ban on direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription medications and medical devices. The organization announced the move, which it says it will back with a strong lobbying campaign, at its annual policy-making meeting in Atlanta earlier this month. Drug company spending topped $4.5 billion this year, according […]
The old expression “Money’s the answer. What’s the question?” comes quickly to mind in light of a recent analysis of political lobbying expenditures.
The targeting of medical facilities, evidenced by the Oct. 3 bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan is a disturbing trend, one that runs counter to long-established humanitarian principles.
There’s a devastating but largely overlooked side-effect that threatens the efficacy of many promising cancer therapies: it is called “financial toxicity.” That’s the official new term devised by cancer researchers to describe the cost burden of medical care. There’s even a clinical tool to measure it.
With great sadness, Holistic Primary Care reports the death of Mike Katke, a true visionary in the field of natural healthcare, holistic medicine, and nutritional product development. On the evening of August 12, 2015, Mike was killed in a highway accident on US 36 near Boulder, CO, when his motorcycle struck a jeep making […]
The advertising and marketing of OTC homeopathic products will come under increased scrutiny this Fall, when the Federal Trade Commission hosts a workshop to examine shifts in the market and potential revision of regulations.
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