NaturalNews.com | Today's Feature Stories - July 12, 2009

New Evidence: Exercise Helps Heart Disease, Increases Survival Better than Angioplasty

By S. L. Baker, features writer
July 11 - At the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation meeting recently held in Barcelona, Spain, new heart research was presented that shows one treatment in particular can provide remarkable...

UK Program Would Ask Patients to Rate Doctors By David Gutierrez, staff writer July 11 - The United Kingdom's Royal College of General Practitioners is launching a program to incorporate patient reviews into the once-every-five-years professional assessment that all general practitioners (GPs) in...

Children and Pregnant Women Targeted in U.S. Swine Flu Mass Vaccination Program By Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor July 10 - The U.S. government is about to unleash a sweeping new vaccination program that claims to protect people from swine flu. The vaccines, which are of course completely useless against any mutated strain of the...

Did JAMA Editors Threaten a Big Pharma Whistleblower? By David Gutierrez, staff writer July 10 - The American Medical Association (AMA) has launched an investigation into allegations that the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) used threats in an attempt to silence a professor who drew attention...

ADHD Drugs Proven Absolutely Useless for Children - Plus, They Stunt Growth By David Gutierrez, staff writer July 9 - Stimulant drugs such as Ritalin provide no long-term benefit in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to the latest findings of the ongoing Multimodal Treatment Study of...

Hospital-Acquired Superbug Infections Soar in Newborn Babies By Sherry Baker, Health Sciences Editor July 9 - It's scary enough to have a newborn baby in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) because he or she is premature or has health problems. But now there's reason to worry that many NICUs, places that are supposed...

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found in Fertilizer Could Breed More Super Bugs By S. L. Baker, features writer July 9 - Waste-water treatment by-products, also known as sewage sludge, are frequently used as fertilizer. And that means whatever this stew of sewage leftovers contains, including substances hazardous to human and...

Disease Mongering Galore: Panel Says ALL Teens Should be Screened for "Depression" By David Gutierrez, staff writer July 9 - The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has issued a new recommendation, published in the journal Pediatrics, that all children between the ages of 12 and 18 be regularly screened for the symptoms of major depressive...

How to Get Relief from Hiccups By Sheryl Walters July 9 - In the wide range of human illnesses, a case of hiccups is not that big of a deal. Much like the common cold, hiccups are common to everyone at one time or another in their life, but are not actually life threatening...

Modern Medicine Solves World Sperm Shortage (Satire) By Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor July 8 - Scientists are now claiming a breakthrough in finding a new way to create sperm. This is being hailed as an amazing medical technology breakthrough that could help treat infertility. But hold on... Is...

Flame Retardant Chemicals Found in U.S. Coastal Waters and Great Lakes By David Gutierrez, staff writer July 8 - Toxic flame retarding chemicals are found in all U.S. coastal waters and in the Great Lakes, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances. "This is a wake-up call...

Daily Dose of Broccoli Halts Ulcers and Cancer By David Gutierrez, staff writer July 8 - Eating just a few ounces of broccoli each day may significantly reduce a person's risk of ulcers and stomach cancer, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have found. In a study published in the journal...

Shocker: Medical Research Frequently Bogus By S. L. Baker, features writer July 8 - If you read research in a scientific or medical journal, especially one that is peer-reviewed, you know it is presented as accurately as possible, right? Researcher Daniele Fanelli of the University of Edinburgh...

Letter Sparks Investigation of Baxter Vaccine by New Zealand Minister of Health By Barbara Minton, Natural Health Editor July 8 - The New Zealand Minister of Health, Hon Tony Ryall, has asked the Ministry of Health officials to urgently advise him on issues raised about a "swine flu" vaccine produced by Baxter International Inc. This follows...

Celebrating Independence from the U.S. Food Supply (in Vilcabamba, Ecuador) By Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor July 7 - I didn't write a July 4th article this year. I was busy harvesting food out of my garden in Ecuador. Instead of celebrating geopolitical independence (which is what America's July 4th holiday is about, after...

New Research: Nitrates and Nitrites May Cause Alzheimer's, Diabetes and Parkinson's Disease By Sherry Baker, Health Sciences Editor July 7 - According to a new study by scientists at Rhode Island Hospital, millions of Americans could be at risk of serious and even fatal diseases because of chemicals used to fertilizer and to preserve food. Scientists...