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Tips to improve a detox protocol

(NaturalNews) If you’re starting a detoxification protocol there’s a lot you can do to improve the results. Many of these tips can also be used indefinitely to help your body detoxify all day, every day, without being on a detox protocol.First and foremost, if you’re not consuming…

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Democrats block defense spending bill in Senate

Democrats blocked the fiscal 2016 defense spending bill in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, amid a fierce fight with Republicans over tax and spending policy days before a potential Oct. 1 government shutdown. The vote was 54-42, largely along party lines with Republicans voting yes and Democrats no. It meant the appropriations measure failed to achieve the 60-vote majority needed to advance to final passage in the 100-member Senate. Congressional

Exclusive: Americans overpaying hugely for cancer drugs – academic study

Americans are paying way over the odds for some modern cancer drugs, with pharmaceutical companies charging up to 600 times what the medicines cost to make, according to an independent academic study. The United States also pays more than double the price charged in Europe for these drugs – so-called tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), a potent class of cancer pills with fewer side effects than chemotherapy.     The analysis by pharmacologist

How Medicare’s 'chronic care management' payments could affect primary care

By Will Boggs MD (Reuters Health) – Medicare’s new “chronic care management” (CCM) payment program could make it more financially feasible for physicians to deliver services between visits. Under the new program, Medicare could reimburse primary care practices about $40 month for such things as medication management and communication with other doctors for patients who have two or more chronic medical conditions. CCM has the potential to organize the coordination

Volkswagen shares plunge on emissions scandal, U.S. widens probe

Volkswagen shares plunged more than 20 percent on Monday, their biggest one-day fall, after the German carmaker admitted it had rigged emissions tests in the United States, and U.S. authorities said they would widen their probe to other manufacturers. Germany, alarmed at the potential damage the scandal could inflict on its world-beating car industry, urged Volkswagen to fully clear up the matter and said it would investigate whether emissions data

U.N. investigator sees Milosevic's fate awaiting Assad

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – Justice will catch up with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad even if he remains in power under a negotiated end to Syria’s war, U.N. human rights investigator Carla del Ponte said on Monday. “Assad is the president, so let’s deal with the institution of president. “You remember in former Yugoslavia, Milosevic was president, and it was a peace negotiation at Dayton and they achieved an

GE's Immelt rules out India nuclear investment under current law

General Electric Co will not invest in atomic energy in India until accident liability laws are brought in line with global rules, Chairman Jeff Immelt said on Monday, in a setback for top-level efforts to get U.S. firms to build power stations. Speaking shortly after a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Immelt said India needed to “homogenize” its liability law with the rest of the world. With the

Apples are top fruit for U.S. kids

By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – For U.S. children and teens, more than half of total fruit consumption comes from whole fruits, most commonly apples, new survey data show. “My ultimate goal was to understand what kids are eating,” said lead author Kirsten A. Herrick of the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland. Kids’ whole fruit consumption increased by 67 percent between 2003 and 2010, according to a