Over recent months, many media outlets have raised issues and concerns that are increasingly critical of the "swine flu" jab (H1N1). Is there an alternative?

A federal judge has ruled that the government failed to adequately assess the environmental impacts of genetically engineered sugar beets before approving the crop for cultivation in the United States. The decision could lead to a ban on the planting of t

New studies have discovered a relationship between lack of sleep and susceptibility to colds, highlighting the delicacy of the immune system machinery.

Health care reform has produced a generous serving of little oddities, i.e., The Futile Care Law allows a corporate hospital committee to overrule families and pull the plug on granny if the hospital deems any more treatment to be "futile." Tks GW Bush.

The American public has a great and unmet need to understand the true impacts (that is, the predictable consequences) of the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, before the Senates passes its version of this dangerous bill.

Feeding burgers to young family members is equivalent to child abuse, animal rights campaigners have claimed. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) claim that heart disease, cancer and strokes are all "unequivocally linked" to eating meat.

Recently it was revealed that some of the activist agencies behind the EPA petition to regulate silver receive funding from pharmaceutical giant Merck. Now, further investigation finds that the initial revelations may just be the tip of the iceberg.

The state of Oregon should be responsible for growing medicinal marijuana, not patients or caregivers, according to the sponsors of a bill working its way through a legislative committee

Why the vaccine business has been transformed from a low-profit venture in the 1970's to one of the pharmaceutical industry's most attractive product lines today. But I thought the immunity was for the people, not the vaccine makers....how ironic.

You want to help a friend or loved one who is living with clinical depression, but you don't know what to say. Here's a few suggestions on what to say and what not to say.