Researchers have uncovered a link between a common diabetes drug and increased risk of heart failure. Their conclusion? It's hard to find a reason to keep patients on it.

Are you taking rosiglitazone for type 2 diabetes? After reading the results of a new study in the British Medical Journal on this common drug and heart failure, you're going to want to talk to your doctor about making a change.

Is whistle blowing an act of courage, betrayal or revenge? It depends on what end of the whistle you're on, and boy was Pfizer on the wrong side of that whistle this week.

It is a modern-day tragedy that millions of women in the U.S. have been scared by Merck’s powerful ad campaign to become “one less” victim to cervical cancer by getting vaccinated with Gardasil. Sadly, now an increasing number of formerly healthy girls are turning into “one more” victim of vaccine adverse reactions.

It’s like a scene from a summer blockbuster movie. In a grim moment, one official reports to another official that the (fill in the blank: monster, robot, alien, force of nature) is “unstoppable.”

That’s the word that World Health Organization officials recently used to describe the H1N1 virus. Unstoppable. And with that, the WHO and the CDC have officially started their joint campaign to ratchet up the H1N1 fear factor in earnest – preparing everyone for the moment when we’ll be called on to line up and get our H1N1 shots.

It‘s not uncommon to hear someone who takes a statin drug (like Crestor, Lipitor or Zocor) complain of muscle aches and pains. But that‘s a fairly benign trade-off, right? After all, these drugs help lower your cholesterol.

Well, not so fast. Statin drugs are far more dangerous than Big Pharma wants you to know. In fact, even those "benign" aches and pains could be much more serious than you think.

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener which, once consumed, breaks down into three components – aspartic acid, phenylalanine and methanol. Aspartame has been passed as fit to consume by more than 100 countries around the World, but there is evidence that each of aspartame’s chemical components can have toxic effects on health.

Watch an 8-year-old hit the playground and you might think he’s an entirely different species from you and me. Shouting and laughing with friends – up and down, over and all around the play sets – his energy seems boundless.

Then the bell rings and he returns to class, expected to sit still in a hard chair and give his undivided attention to multiplication tables.

When these worlds collide, you can guess what happens.

It should be headline news. That's the degree to which your safety is at stake.

But, of course, it isn't—it's buried in science news sites, with nary a mention in the mainstream medicine. Recent research out of the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy found that medication prescribers correctly identified fewer than half of drug pairs with potentially dangerous interactions.

Antibiotics have been practically miraculous. Used well, they save lives. But used too often, and there can be serious repercussions.

And we use them far too often.

The latest evidence of this is a study on children, which found that kids who get antibiotics to treat ear infections are more likely to have ear infections in the future as well.