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I really get upset when I read about people being harmed by medication, especially when they are taking it for diseases that can be easily managed or cured by natural medicine – a simple change of diet, some exercise, meditation and maybe some herbal medicine or certain therapeutic superfoods. What upsets me even more is
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Medical Mistakes

by Leisa on June 24, 2010

Sitting in the hairdresser’s last week, I was reading the June issue of Madison Magazine and found an article on medical mistakes.  I wish I had asked to keep the article because I’ve tried to find a June copy from the local newsagents, but it is no longer available, and I wanted to quote some
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Naturopathic Product Classed as a Drug

by Leisa on May 19, 2010

Just last week I received a letter from Metagenics, one of the premier naturopathic supplement companies in Australia and the US, notifying me of a natural product which had been taken from being freely available for naturopath’s to prescribe, and had been classed as an S4 medication which is now only available on prescription. For years
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Herbal Remedies Can Kill

by Leisa on May 14, 2010

My goodness, what is it with the medical industry that makes them so scared of our natural approach to health that they have to use claims like this to try and frighten the public away from what we do? From ninemsn: “Herbal remedies can kill, says an Australian forensic pathologist, who warns against the “false perception”
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Another Medical Murder?

by Leisa on December 22, 2009

dailymail.co.uk:  “Today, the world lost a little piece of sunshine’: Tributes for Brittany Murphy as coroner rules out drugs death… Large stash of prescription ‘drugs found in house”… What a terribly sad thing it is when someone as young as 32 passes away – and it is even sadder that this may be another death that
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Tired Doctors Told To Drink Coffee!!@**!

by Leisa on September 5, 2009

You have got to be kidding!  This article really got my attention: “A new Queensland Health policy to combat fatigue among health workers recommends doctors drink six cups of coffee per day, according to reports. The issue of public hospital doctors’ working hours is back on the radar after doctors admitted being responsible for the
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Michael Jackson – Death by Medicine

by Leisa on June 26, 2009

I was so sad this week to learn of the death of Michael Jackson at just 50 years of age.  Even though I haven’t followed his career or music for many years – at the height of his success in the eighties, I was a teenager and a HUGE Michael Jackson fan. I had posters of him
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