{"id":1116,"date":"2011-05-11T02:02:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T02:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2014-09-27T17:59:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:59:48","slug":"the-dangers-of-the-medical-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of the Medical Industrial Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(partial reprint from DrHyman.com)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>YOUR DOCTORS THINK they make decisions based on medical evidence. But they don\u2019t! In fact, half of medical evidence is hidden from your doctors. And the half that\u2019s hidden is the half that shows drugs don\u2019t work.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that drug companies are not policed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the way they should be. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1117\" title=\"stethescope - MP900337229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/stethescope-MP900337229-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/stethescope-MP900337229-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/stethescope-MP900337229.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A drug should be proven both effective and safe BEFORE it is prescribed to millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, that often isn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n<p>Let me share with you two recent examples that highlight the dangerous collusion between drug companies and our government agency. They show why the FDA should really stand for \u201cFederal Drug Aid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First, we now know that the cholesterol-lowering drug Zetia actually causes harm and leads to faster progression of heart disease DESPITE lowering cholesterol 58 percent when combined with Zocor.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/drhyman.com\/the-dangers-of-the-medical-industrial-complex-3260\/?utm_source=Publicaster&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=drhyman%20newsletter%20issue%20#19&amp;utm_term=Get+the+story\">full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D. (partial reprint from DrHyman.com) YOUR DOCTORS THINK they make decisions based on medical evidence. But they don\u2019t! In fact, half of medical evidence is hidden from your doctors. And the half that\u2019s hidden is the half that shows drugs don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,3],"tags":[27,32,33],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-ftc-censorship","category-health-and-the-ftc","tag-big-pharma","tag-fda","tag-food-drug-administration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}