If you've had questions about the FDA's role in cancer, this should give grist to your mill: the FDA and the medical establishment in general are not primarily motivated by your best interests.
Sure, they may say they are.  And they may even think they are.  But there is no denying the perverse incentive structure that keeps them making bad decisions, one after the other.
For instance, the government, in the guise of the Institute of Medicine, has conducted its first study in two decades concerning the safety of common vaccinations.  The …

Rheumatoid arthritis and the autoimmune system have long been linked, but the link has never been well understood.  Meanwhile, this disease continues to ravage, taking independence away from millions of seniors, affecting about 1% of the total U.S. population.
Could it be that everyone is looking in the wrong place?
The prevailing notion of how autoimmune illness takes place is itself rooted in outdated notions of microbial theory.  At the time, these theories limited the number of active microbes to those that could be stopped with penicillin.  Clearly, there are more disease …

It seems we're constantly hearing about new psoriasis treatments.  But are these treatments really necessary?
Psoriasis and eczema – two closely associated conditions – can be symptoms of a simple underlying cause.  And while others are spending their time and money searching for a cure to this annoying and often painful condition, you can employ these simple tricks to rid yourself of these diseases.
Modern life has brought many conveniences.  But we have paid a price.  We've seen new allergies cropping up, and many of the ingredients used in our soaps, lotions …

Over 10% of the U.S. population has eczema.  The study that gave us this information, published in Dermatitis in 2007, also found that households with higher incomes had less incidence of eczema.  But does this mean that spending more money on eczema creams can ensure better results?
Hardly.  And that's why we thought it was time to reveal the truth behind some of these creams in our first eczema cream review…
Here are a few top products, and the skinny on what makes them work, or not:

Cortizone 10.  The good news is …

Alkaline water systems carry the promise of eternal youth, curing cancer, restoring heart health, and cleaning up those pesky free radicals everyone is so worried about.
But does the miracle tonic – ionized H2O (aka electrocuted water) – measure up to its billing?
Want to buy an alkaline water system?
You'll likely meet with a slick MLM salesperson, armed to the teeth with clever sound bites on why you must have this ionizer.  They'll scare you with statistics, which may or may not be accurate, for all the ills caused by drinking deadly …