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Based on my experience St John's Wort is a very safe and effective herb.  The problem as I see it is that the majority of products sold are not the whole herb and are not properly manufactured. Pharmacists petition FDA to restrict sale of St. John's Wort Wed, 2013-01-30 11:21 Nutrition Business Journal Brittany McNamara An unexpected citizen petition asks FDA to make the herbal mood supplement available only from behind pharmacy counters. The Pharmacists Planning Service, Inc. (PPSI) submitted a citizen petition to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) earlier this month in an attempt to make St. John’s Wort (SJW) available to consumers only when sold from behind pharmacy counters. In the petition, PPSI, a California-based non-profit focusing on promoting public health and education, stated that “switching St. John’s Wort from Herbal Dietary Supplement to behind pharmacy counter status is in the best interest of public health and safety for all U.S. consumers and patie...

STOP GMO - WRITE YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS, OBAMA, FDA NOW A virus gene that could be poisonous to humans has been missed when GM food crops have been assessed for safety. GM crops such as corn and soya, which are being grown around the world for both human and farm animal consumption, include the gene. A new study by the EU's official food watchdog, the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA), has revealed that the international approval process for GM crops failed to identify the gene. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266143/Uncovered-toxic-gene-hiding-GM-crops-Revelation-throws-new-doubt-safety-foods.html#ixzz2Ipr5SQoh TOP POSTS ON GMO FROM NATURAL HEALTH NEWS (30+) Natural Health News: Just Say NO to GMO ! Oct 25, 2012 Enjoy Your Holiday, GMO FREE. Originally published July 2010. As the Fourth of July holiday comes along this week end, here's wishing you a great time, and hope you BUY ORGANIC to avoid the risk of FRANKENFOOD . http://naturalhealthn...

"Getting a flu shot is a personal choice, although most healthcare experts recommend it. But now there's a new vaccine in town. You know that flu vaccine you're hearing about? The one that's made using an insect virus? About 150,000 doses of FluBlok are expected to hit the market at the tail end of the 2013 flu season. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the vaccine for use for 18- to 49-year-olds, saying it is different than other flu vaccines on the market because it isn't grown using eggs. This allows for much faster manufacturing. The approval came after a clinical trial of 2,300 people found FluBlok prevented the flu in about 45 percent of cases and was effective against all circulating flu viruses, not just the strains included in the vaccine. According to Protein Sciences Corporation, the Connecticut-based manufacturer, Flublok does not contain the controversial mercury-containing preservative thimerosal. "This approval represents a technolo...

Not only do these bulbs waste energy, they are a hazardous waste, and now: CFL Light Bulbs and UV Skin Cancer Risks A study funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and published in a recent issue of the journal Photochemistry and Photobiology found widespread chipping or cracking in the phosphor surface coating of nearly all the compact fluorescent bulbs they examined. These cracks allow UV rays to escape, which would have been absorbed by the phosphor coating and converted to safe, visible light. As reported in many new services, including "HealthDay, "most of the bulbs 'have cracks in the phosphor coating, probably due to the fact that the coating is brittle and has trouble making the tight bends required to make these bulbs compact," explained study lead author Miriam Rafailovich, a professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Garcia Center for Polymers at Engineered Interfaces at Stony Brook University in Stony B...