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23 September 2008
Separate battles to maintain natural health products and truthful claims have been fought in different parts of the world for decades. Key players in the Canadian natural health industry brought together leading legal and scientific experts in Toronto to discuss global and regional strategies—an international emergency task force emerged as a key output.
19 September 2008
The ANH is one of eight European organisations breaking new ground at the European Social Forum (ESF), in Malmo, Sweden (17—21 Sept 2008) to become a voice for change for the natural health industry. For the first time, the ESF is hosting a Natural Health Forum so as to give a voice to the social and human rights issues arising from the restrictive European legislative approach towards natural health.
18 September 2008
Food supplements and mobile phones seem unlikely bed partners. But the contrasting way in which risks from each is being managed in the EU would seem to suggest that something is not right—and perhaps consumer protection is a lesser priority than often claimed. The ANH appeals to the European Parliament in a bid to use the democratic process in the public interest.
16 September 2008
The Guardian newspaper v Dr Mathias Rath case has been brewing for some time. On Dr Rath's withdrawal from the court case, Ben Goldacre and his supporters have been crowing as if there'd been a court victory. This is hardly justified. We assess some of the rhetoric and assess it's role in triggering a possible silver lining.
10 September 2008
Independent Irish MEP Kathy Sinnott addressed the Irish health trade at the Rude Health Show in Dublin on the 6th September, signalling major concerns over the European Commission’s proposed approach to harmonising European laws affecting the natural products industry.
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.
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.
22 August 2008
In a bid to avoid E. coli or Salmonella outbreaks, the FDA have caved into pressure from the food processing industry to allow irradiation of spinach and iceberg lettuce. The FDA seems not one bit concerned about how this might deteriorate the crops' nutrient levels, and claimed that there was overwhelming evidence that it was safe.
20 August 2008
Hot on the tail of a study which shows how high dose intravenous vitamin C could shrink tumours in cancer-prone laboratory mice, the founder of the UK lottery, Denis Vaughan, goes public on his claim over the vitamin C therapy
18 August 2008
In an emerging health crisis in Haiti, UNICEF are advocating use of a food supplement for children, but are insistent it is regarded as a drug. This stance is presumably to avoid offending pharmaceutical interests.
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.
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.
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!
06 August 2008
Many questions have been asked of late about the accuracy and validity of the information you find on Wikipedia. Read the latest article from the Dr Rath Health Foundation and make your own mind up.
04 August 2008
Despite water fluoridation having been made illegal in 2005 through an EU Directive, it's been revealed that a 'secret' UK government report details the plan to mass medicate a large proportion of the nation's drinking water.
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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