Gary Null, Ph.D. - Death By Medicine

More about Gary Null’s new book, Death By Medicine

Death by Medicine puts the spotlight on the failures of the American medical system. Gary Null and colleagues meticulously analyzed all the published literature dealing with injuries and deaths caused by government-protected medicine. The findings are shocking. Each year:

<> Approximately 2.2 million people have in-hospital adverse reactions to prescribed drugs;

<> About 45 million unnecessary and/or inappropriate prescriptions antibiotics are taken;

<> 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed;

<> 8.9 million people are unnecessarily hospitalized each year.

And the most stunning statistic is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is nearly 800,000 each year! The American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US, higher than heart disease or cancer. The current healthcare debate ignores these health statistics, and does not encourage the real change needed to promote safe and natural medical alternatives to toxic drugs and dangerous surgeries. Health insurance costs will continue to rise as long as healthcare reform is manipulated by special interests. Pharmaceutical corporations are paying our legislators and manipulating television and radio stations, schools, and news outlets in an effort to keep the public uninformed about the state of American medicine.

Drug company representatives write articles for medical journals praising new drugs. These articles are then signed by doctors paid by the companies, though they may not be aware of the negative side effects of the medicines they’re promoting. The drugs usually approved first are the more toxic ones, even though there are safer and more natural alternative treatments which are being ignored because they don’t bring the drug companies as much money. It’s only after an avalanche of adverse affects are reported that the FDA is compelled to review and sometimes withdraw its approval. Meanwhile the death toll from these bad drugs continues to rise.

ANH calls for new paradigm in healthcare. - 
Alert to all nutritional practitioners: Are you doing enough to protect your future? The British Medical Journal’s offshoot publication, Clinical Evidence, tells us that only 13% of medical treatments have been demonstrated to be of benefit. Even leading figures in the pharmaceutical industry would seem to agree. 
  >> Alliance for Natural Health >> Organization Reports >>
http://www.naturalhealthsciencenews.org/ANH_calls_for_new_paradigm_in_healthcare

Rigged Trials: Drug Studies Favor The Manufacturer. - 
If you have often suspected that drug studies are rigged by the pharmaceutical manufacturer, you are right. "Drug studies skewed toward study sponsors," reported The Washington Post. 
  >> Orthomolecular Medicine News Service >> Opinions & Editorials >>
http://www.naturalhealthsciencenews.org/ANH_calls_for_new_paradigm_in_healthcare

Vitamin D As Radiation Protection. - 
Radiological health expert Daniel Hayes, Ph.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suggests that a form of vitamin D could be one of our body's main protections against damage from low levels of radiation. 
  >> Medical News Today >> News Stories >>
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/128693.php

Increases in imaging tests widespread: study. - 
Use of diagnostic imaging tests in the United States has increased across the board in recent years, with more patients getting the tests and more tests being ordered per patient, researchers said on Monday. 
  >> Reuters >> News Stories >>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081110/hl_nm/us_imaging_costs/print;_ylt=Auvu.g7skGHrwRf2tTumfYcR.3QA

Heartbeats may power future pacemakers. - 
Pacemakers and defibrillators of the future may generate an extra power boost from a surprising energy source: The heart itself. Using a microgenerator powered by heartbeats, a British team said on Monday their experiment produced nearly 17 percent of the electricity needed to run an artificial pacemaker. 
  >> Reuters >> News Stories >>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081110/hl_nm/us_heart_pacemaker/print;_ylt=Auvu.g7skGHrwRf2tTumfYcR.3QA

Low potassium linked to high blood pressure. - 
low potassium level in the urine correlated with high blood pressure, regardless of the level of salt (sodium) in the diet or cardiovascular risk factors. 
  >> Reuters >> News Stories >>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081110/hl_nm/us_low_potassium/print;_ylt=Auvu.g7skGHrwRf2tTumfYcR.3QA

Vitamins C, E do not cut heart attack, stroke risk: study. - 
Neither vitamin C nor vitamin E supplements cuts the risk of cardiovascular disease including heart attack and stroke in a U.S. study published on Sunday.
And a second study failed to show that taking low-dose aspirin helped prevent heart and artery disease among Japanese people with diabetes. 
  >> Reuters >> News Stories >>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081110/hl_nm/us_heart_vitamins/print;_ylt=Auvu.g7skGHrwRf2tTumfYcR.3QA

Heart Failure Hospitalizations Up Sharply. - 
Hospitalization rates for heart failure among older Americans have increased dramatically in the past three decades, an epidemic that represents a mounting burden on the health-care system. 
  >> Health Day News >> Scientific Studies >>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20081110/hl_hsn/heartfailurehospitalizationsupsharply;_ylt=AmWWoTzz62L00v3D79noV6m3j7AB

Active Young Women Need Calcium, Vitamin D. - 
Calcium and vitamin D supplements may do more than strengthen bones in older women. These vital nutrients may also help younger, active women reduce their risk of stress fractures. 
  >> Health Day News >> News Stories >>
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_71398.html