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Farmer Faces Jail Time over Raw Dairy Sales

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Srawmilksupptory at-a-glance

  • The trial of Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger recently began at the Sauk County Courthouse. Hershberger’s farm was targeted by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection for supplying a  private buying club with raw milk and other fresh produce.
  • Hershberger is charged with four criminal misdemeanors that could result in a jail sentence of up to 30 months Continue reading →

Lipstick Found to Contain Alarmingly High Levels of Aluminum, Cadmium and Lead

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lipstickA popular cosmetic product since time immemorial, lipstick has long been used by women in many diverse cultures to accentuate their femininity and emanate their own unique expressions of elegance and style to the outside world. But a new study released by the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) School of Public Health raises fresh concerns about the safety of using conventional lipstick products, as many of them were found to contain dangerously high levels of aluminum, cadmium, lead and other toxins.

UCB researchers tested 32 Continue reading →

Stifled by Regulation, Entrepreneurs Take Life-Saving Devices Overseas Med City News

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fundingChandra Duggirala, maker of an experimental device for type two diabetes, is on the verge of giving up.

Duggirala’s company, Novobionics, raised a small amount of funding for a noninvasive technology that mimics the effects of gastric bypass surgery. The device tricks the gastro-intestinal tract into thinking it is full, which slows the rate of nutrient absorption, Continue reading →

FDA Unveils Plan to Modernize Surveillance of Medical Devices

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SmilingDocWithCellLaptopOn Tuesday, FDA announced a plan to modernize its early warning system for high-risk medical devices through the use of a smartphone application and other health IT-related initiatives, the Wall Street Journal reports.

FDA’s current early warning system Continue reading →

How Can You Tell You’re Eating Real Chicken? And Is It Safe to Eat?

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bonelessStory at-a-glance

  • KFC recently rolled out Original Recipe boneless chicken, and is considering      eliminating on-the-bone chicken from its menu altogether. Regardless of brand, processed chicken nuggets or shaped boneless “wings” are far more likely to contain less meat and more additives and fillers
  • Scientists have been working on bioengineering “cultured” lab-grown meat  Continue reading →

Analysis Identifies Shocking Problems with Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Corn

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mcornStory at-a-glance

  • A 2012 nutritional analysis of GMO versus non-GMO corn shows shocking      differences in nutritional content. Non-GMO corn contains 437 times more      calcium, 56 times more magnesium, and 7 times more manganese than GMO corn     
  • GMO corn was also found to contain 13 ppm of glyphosate, Continue reading →

Pfizer Latest Drug Company Caught Off-Label Marketing

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PfizerThe next time you’re stuck at a convenience store behind some guy buying dozens of Powerball tickets, take pity on the poor fellow — he just may be a former Pfizer executive.

A federal appeals court recently upheld a staggering $142 million judgment against the drug giant Continue reading →

Frankenapple: Bad News No Matter How You Slice It

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toxic_appleThanks to the biotech industry’s relentless quest to control our food, McDonald’s, Burger King and even school cafeterias will soon be able to serve up apples that won’t turn brown when they’re sliced or bitten into. A new, almost entirely untested genetic modification technology, called RNA http://theconversation.com  Continue reading →

FDA Clears ResolutionMD Diagnostic Imaging App for Android

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android2Calgary Scientific announced this week that the US Food and Drug Administration had cleared its ResolutionMD software for diagnostic medical imaging on Android devices, including the Samsung Galaxy. The software is already cleared by the FDA for iOS devices and by regulatory agencies in Europe and Canada.

In early 2011 the FDA cleared a competitive offering, called Mobile MIM, Continue reading →

Oregon Set to Ban GM Salmon and Mandate GMO Labeling

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All across the country, people are rising up and demanding that the foods they eat be properly identified and honestly labeled. And the constituency of the state of Oregon is no exception, where a trio of legislative bills recently introduced would require that all genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) be properly labeled, as well as prohibit the import and sale of GM salmon, the first transgenic animal to ever Continue reading →

Zithromax and Januvia: Two Commonly-Prescribed Drugs Now Shown to Be Killing Patients

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The US FDA is investigating a potential link between a commonly used class of diabetes drugs known as DPP-4 inhibitors and pre-cancerous changes to the pancreas. Additionally, previous studies have also indicated a connection of thyroid, colon, melanoma, and prostate cancer

U.S. Dairy Industry Petitions FDA to Approve Aspartame as Hidden, Unlabeled Additive in Milk, Yogurt, Eggnog and Cream

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You probably already know that the FDA has declared war on raw milk and even helped fund and coordinate armed government raids against raw milk farmers and distributors. Yes, it’s insane. This brand of tyranny is unique to the USA and isn’t even conducted in China, North Kora or Cuba. Only in the USA are raw milk farmers treated like terrorists.

But now the situation is getting even more insane than you could have imagined: Continue reading →

Touch Your Ear and Relieve Pain

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     It may surprise you to know that around the world, medical practitioners and individuals are benefiting from a free, scientifically based and self-administered healing technique that can be learned and used safely at home by anyone.

     This powerful treatment can Continue reading →

Resveratrol Could Cure Blindness

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The cure for age-related macular degeneration and blindness could be as simple as taking a natural supplement extract derived from common grape skins. A recent review that the medical establishment refuses to publish has revealed that a unique and proprietary nutraceutical extract containing resveratrol could hold the key to literally curing age-related blindness, Continue reading →