AllTrials is all smiles for Big Pharma: Data transparency and the randomised, controlled trial
As pharma looks set to tighten its grip on clinical trials, new approaches are vital (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - May 28, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Alltrials Bad Pharma big pharma CER comparative effectiveness research Deadly Medicines And Organised Crime diabetes Dr Peter Gøtzsche drugs EMA europe European Medicines Agency GSK heart disease international Pharmageddon Source Type: news

ANH-Intl News Alerts: Week 20, 2014
March Against Monsanto, GM crop gets the go ahead, statins, sweet move by Tesco, labelling of irradiated food, PlantLIBRA, sugar-laden ready meals, homeopathy, glucosamine, and robobees (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - May 28, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: AustraliaFSANZ DHA Belgium confectionary Dr Verkerk ECCH EFSA EPA europe European Central Council of Homeopaths Food Standards Australia and New Zealand glucosamine GM homeopathy insectoid automatons international Irradiated Source Type: news

Pharma’s statin fightback – or dilemma?
Are generic statins getting in the way of pharma’s plans? (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - May 21, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Aseem Malhotra Astra Zeneca atorvastatin BMJ Catalyst: Heart Of The Matter cholesterol Cholesterol Treatment Trialists CTT Dr Malcolm Kendrick europe Health Insight UK international Jerome Burne John Abramson Lipitor NICE P Source Type: news

UK industry group looks the other way on EMR and mobile phone safety
Clean bill of health only possible by ignoring contradictory evidence (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - May 21, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: 3G 4G Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation AGNIR Apple iPhone BEPAG BioInitiative Report 2012 Biological Effects Policy Advisory Group bluetooth Brain tumour CERENAT computers connectivity Dr Lennart Hardell electro magneti Source Type: news

ANH-Intl News Alerts: Week 19, 2014
March Against Monsanto, no GM for Chinese army, GMO Myths and Truths, GSK scandal, bees and pesticides, sugar, eating habits, antibiotics in fruit farming (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - May 21, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Action on Sugar antibiotics apples bees Bulletin of Insectology CCD Center for Food Safety cereal CFS china chinese army Claire Robinson clothianidin colony collapse disorder Diabetologia Dr John Fagan Dr Michael Antoniou Source Type: news

Leading parent support for vaccine choice in the UK: ANH-Intl interviews Anna Watson of Arnica UK
Anna set up Arnica to promote natural immunity and support parents who question vaccination (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - May 14, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: anna watson arnica EFVV europe European Forum for Vaccine Vigilance foresight immunity international Martin Walker vaccinations Source Type: news

European Commission-mediated health claims confusion and probiotic olives
We look at the confusion emerging from EC’s €1.5 million funding of probiotic olive research seen from the perspective of the EU’s Nutrition and Heath Claims Regulation (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - May 14, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: antioxidant Bert Schwitters europe generic descriptors health claims international NHCR nutrition olive oil polyphenols olives PROBIOLIVES probiotic superfood yeast Source Type: news

ANH-Intl News Alerts: Week 18, 2014
Big Food sues over GM labelling, GM Golden Rice fiasco, obese children, Ghana says yes to herbal medicine, lack of exercise worse than smoking, undiagnosed coeliac disease rates, and male infertility (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - May 14, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health Bariatric surgery big food coeliac disease diet europe exercise Ghana gluten GM Golden Rice GM labelling GMA herbal medicine international International Rice Research Institute Source Type: news

UK Herbal Medicines Working Group: Dispensing for tradition?
Second meeting on UK herbal regulation concentrates on options for herbal products (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - May 7, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Association of Master Herbalists Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture ATCM Ayurveda europe GMP Good Manufacturing Process HCPC Health & amp; Care Professions Council herbal medicine HMPWG international ma Source Type: news

The onward march of pay-to-use social media
Overcoming the challenge of ‘Facebook Zero’ through our partnership with you – our advocates – to help save social media for social and healthcare change! (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - May 7, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: algorithms deeson creative edgerank Emily Turner europe facebook international LinkedIn networking share social media twitter Source Type: news

ANH-Intl News Alerts: Week 17, 2014
Chinese medicine pracs go legal, organics, the HPV vaccine, GM, health claims challenge, food lobbyists on the EFSA board, smart meters, the TTP, and a new report on fluoride (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - May 7, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Andreas Hahn ATCM big food CAP CEO china Chinese medicine COI conflicts of interest Consumers Association of Penang Corporate Europe Observatory Dr Liza Oates EFSA fluoride Fluoride Action Network food lobbyists GM health Source Type: news

Ingrid Eissfeldt on the madness of mainstream gluten-free bread
ANH-Intl interviews the Director of Artisan Bread Organic (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - April 30, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: allergy artisan bread buckwheat Chorleywood Bread Process europe fermentation flour gluten gluten-free Ingrid Eissfeldt international necrotising enterocolitis NHS organic pea-bread Real Bread Campaign rye spelt xanth Source Type: news

Homoeopathy haters and the RCT religion
Jerome Burne shows how anti-natural skeptics overlook the elephant in the room (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - April 30, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: comparative effectiveness research Eli Lilly europe evidence base GlaxoSmithKline GSK homeopathy international Jerome Burne Novartis RCT skeptics Source Type: news

ANH-Intl News Alerts: Week 17, 2014
Fracking, Big Pharma drug deals, ginseng, pesticides on fruit, GM labeling, and vitamin b12 campaign (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - April 30, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: big pharma drug deals drugs europe fracking fruit ginseng GM labeling international pesticides vitamin b12 campaign Source Type: news

Is the precautionary principle at risk of being eroded by Big Biotech?
As UK Commons Select Committee consultation closes today, ANH-Intl reviews the principle that many believe to have been key to slowing the uptake of GM crops in Europe (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - April 23, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: biotech Dr Arpad Pusztai EFSA Europabio europe European Food Safety Authority GM international PP precautionary principle Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini Source Type: news