Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Dixon and Bau, british medical journal 2005: 330-455
• Bungled Insulin Production May Be Culprit in Diabetes. , March 6, 2005.
• Insulin's Other Role in Diabetes. . 5/14/2005.
• The New Insulin Analog Aspart Is Not the Almighty Solution for Insulin Allergy Takata et al., Diabetes Care 26:253-254, 2003.
Diabetes, Hypoglycemia (Hypoglycemia, Insulin Shock, Insulin Reaction) and Drug Capacity. Cox et al. Diabetes Care, 2000 23(2):163-170.
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| Egger, Smith, and Teuscher in a 1992 british medical journal (BMJ) article point out the need for better understanding and further studies of this dangerous and sudden hypoglycemia without sufficient warning.
Dr. Arthur Teuscher, a practicing clinician and Professor of Medicine in Switzerland, has written several scientific articles related to this increased risk of hypoglycemia unawareness when patients are switched to human insulin from beef or beef/ pork mixtures. Switzerland is a small country where recordkeeping is not as unwieldy as here. |
| FDA Wins Spoof Award for its "Collusion" with the Drug Industry, british medical journal 2005; 330:555, 3/12/2005.
• Reputation of the FDA in Shambles after Vioxx Scandal; Calls for Wholesale FDA Reform, , 11/10/2004.
• American Consumers Suffering as More New Drugs Debut in US, Analysis Shows, Pugh and Borenstein, Knight-Ridder, 12/18/2004.
• FDA Delays Response to Drug Suit, , Associated Press, 11/4/2004.
• "Risk-Free" Drugs Don't Exist, Business Week Online, 2/23/2005.
• Testimony of Barbara Atkinson, MD on House Bill 2355, KUMC Campus News, 3/17/2005. |
| An editorial appeared in the July 3, 2004, edition of the british medical journal entitled "Think harm always."3 Editor Richard Smith states that new students entering the medical field may need to shift their paradigm from doing the most good to doing the least harm. He also asks whether a doctor, when referring a patient to hospital, should tell his patient that there is a one in ten chance that he will experience an adverse event, and a 1 in 100 chance of dying? |
| Although appearing in highly respected publications, like New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), british medical journal, and The Lancet, these articles are actually nothing more than commercials targeted at doctors and other health care professionals. Direct advertising to doctors, presented in the guise of scientific reference, is no more credible than Madison Avenue's provocative images that entice patients to "ask your doctor about (insert name of drug)." E.R. Shell's article titled "The Hippocratic wars" appeared in the June 28,1998, edition of the New York Times Magazine. |
Melody Petersen
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 Physicians must tell their patients the truth" about Crestor, the influential british medical journal The Lancet had stated in 2003. Compared with its competitors, the journal said, Crestor has "an inferior evidence base supporting its safe use."
The erectile enhancement drug Cialis, on the other hand, could cause dangerous drops in blood pressure. A small number of patients taking it had mysteriously gone blind.
By marketing on the golf course, the drugmakers avoided federal rules that required them to tell consumers of the dangers. |
Devra Davis
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In 1967 a group of British general practitioners published a report in the british medical journal describing a man whose fingers had become stunted while he was working with levels of polyvinyl chloride believed to be perfectly safe.6 At the time one could still look on such incidents as singular occurrences. The man's employer took the position that he must have a genetic defect or some rare disease. But within a few years, many similar reports appeared of men who had worked with vinyl chloride and suffered stubbed fingers. In one case a man's jaw dissolved. |
Andreas Moritz
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 One report on a survey published in a 1996 issue of the british medical journal found that less than two-thirds of patients recalled receiving any advice from their doctors on potential side effects. Although the doctor has a moral as well as a legal obligation to inform the patient about the risks of treatment, in most cases this important step is omitted. The drug company is legally protected as long as the side effects and contra-indications are listed. This leaves it up to the patient to decide whether to take a drug. |
Charles Barber
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 British Medical Journal. "Research so far justifies antidepressants only for major depression."125 Meanwhile, the fact remains that the drugs are just not all that effective for depression in general. Arif Khan, a psychiatrist and researcher in Washington state, used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the FDA clinical trial database for antidepressant drugs, which included Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Serzone, Remeron, Wellbutrin, and Effexor. |
Dawson Church
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 Another example of the power of prayer across time comes from a study published in the british medical journal in 2001. In Israel, Professor Leonard Leibovici took a stack of hospital case histories and divided it into two random piles. The patients in these cases had all been admitted for blood poisoning. Names in one stack were prayed for, while the others were not.
On later analysis, the group prayed for was found to have a reduced rate of fevers, shorter hospital stays, and a lower mortality rate. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 The study was meant to be a spoof. The british medical journal (BMJ) had published it in the Christmas 2001 issue,1 which is generally reserved for light-hearted commentary, next to a reindeer-shaped cluster of rogue cells. But Leibovici was not joking. He was trying to make a serious point in the most graphic way he could. Leibovici had a particular affinity for mathematics and statistics, and used them repeatedly in his reviews and meta-analyses when evaluating particular procedures. |
Andreas Moritz
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 According to the british medical journal, the use of bile salts has a failure rate as high as 50 percent. In addition, many "successful" patients simply do not experience complete gallstone dissolution in their gallbladder. For the few patients who do, the recurrence rate can also be as high as 50 percent. Other dissolving agents, such as methyl tert-butyl ether, have no advantage over bile salts. Unsuccessful treatment may lead to surgery.
More recently, solvents have been directly instilled into the gallbladder by means of a small catheter placed in the skin. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 In the December 16, 2006, edition of the british medical journal The Lancet, two prominent researchers, Dr. Philippe Grandjean and Philip Landrigan, declared that the role of industrial chemicals in causing neurodevelopmental disorders in human beings represents a "silent pandemic" in modern society. Their message may be a prescient one. |
| For example, in August 2005, the british medical journal The Lancet published a metaanalysis of eight trials of homeopathy selected from 110 placebo-controlled homoeopathy trials and 110 matched conventional medicine trials. The outcome of this meta-analysis suggested that the clinical effects of homeopathy are likely to be attributable to the placebo effect. The Lancet study does not prove that homeopathy is never effective or that all its accomplishments are rooted in the placebo effect, but it does raise major questions about the plausibility of homeopathy as a mainstream treatment. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 This result was first reported in a 1992 study published in the british medical journal, The Lancet. Researchers conducting this study postulated that in patients with coronary artery disease, ischemia induced by exercise might bring about changes in myocardial energy level that would last for several days. This double-blind, placebo-controlled study used twenty men (ranging from forty-five to sixty-nine years old) who had documented chronic coronary artery disease in at least one main coronary artery and a history of angina induced by normal daily activities. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 In 1850, the british medical journal The Lancet announced the creation of a health commission for the analysis of foods.13 Suspicions about chocolate proved to be well-founded: 39 out of 70 samples had been colored with red ocher from ground bricks. Most of the samples contained starch grains from potatoes, or from two tropical plants, Canna giganta and arrowroot. The examination of chocolate seized in France showed identical results. The investigation inspired the British Food and Drug Act of 1860, and the Adulteration of Food Act of 1872. |
Charles Barber
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| So this is how slippery the slope has become:
On April i, 2006 (note the date), The british medical journal ran a story introducing a new disorder: motivational deficiency disorder, or MoDed. The article went:
Extreme laziness may have a medical basis, say a group of high-profile Australian scientists, describing a new condition called Motivational Deficiency Disorder. The condition is claimed to affect up to one in five Australians and is characterized by overwhelming and debilitating apathy. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 The London-based BMJ, formerly called the british medical journal, did not retract its contention that the documents show the antidepressant is linked to increased risk of suicide or violence.
"All we have retracted is the statement that these documents went missing," wrote acting editor Kamram Abbasi, in an e-mail to CNN.
The BMJ had written that the documents "went missing" during the 1994 lawsuit brought by relatives of victims of Joseph Wesbecker, who five years before shot and killed eight of his co-workers at a Louisville, Ky, printing plant and then killed himself. |
Charles Barber
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| And The british medical journal, which has a tradition of running humorous pieces in its April i issue, went along with it. But the joke was not universally appreciated, apparendy; a number of respectable news oudets picked up the news release and published stories of the sensational new disorder "without a hint of skepticism."55 And so the developers of MoDed proved their point: how gullible our present culture is to the claims of new diseases and their remediation.
Extreme anger is also, apparendy, a major mental illnesses. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Dosage: With regard to gestational diabetes, a study published in the british medical journal showed that women taking 100 mg of B-6 reversed the condition in twelve of the fourteen women.96
VITAMIN B-12
Thirty-nine percent of meat eaters are deficient in B-12 and up to 80 percent of vegans and live-food eaters are deficient in B-12 after six years. So it is absolutely essential that we supplement with this nutrient. Research has found that vitamin B-12 is also very helpful in maintaining proper function of the nervous system in individuals with Type-2 diabetes. |
Charles Barber
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| The british medical journal got it right: "a lot of money can be made from healthy people who believe they are sick."38
Indeed, half of all psychiatric patients are seen in (more lucrative) private practice, and almost half of all patients in private practices have symptoms that are not debilitating or profound enough to add up to illnesses. A World Health Organization study found that, in the United States, about a third of people in psychiatric treatment either met no criteria for a mental disorder or had subthreshold conditions. |
Mark Sircus
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 The british medical journal January 23,1960
Because of these studies many hospitals ceased using magnesium in their treatment of acute coronary thrombosis. The scandalous decision to use an overdose of magnesium in this study is what we would expect of the profit driven pharmaceutical business and medical industrial complex that hurts more people than it helps. |
| Reduction in blood pressure with a low sodium, high potassium, high magnesium salt in older subjects with mild to moderate hypertension. british medical journal, Vol. 309, August 13, 1994, pp. 436-40
21 Manz, M., et al. Behandlung von herzrhythmusstorungen mit magnesium. Deutsche Medi Wochenschrifte, Vol. 115, No. 10, March 9, 1990, pp. 386-90
22 Iseri, Lloyd T., et al. Magnesium therapy of cardiac arrhythmias in critical-care medicine. Magnesium, Vol. 8, 1989, pp. |
| Levy JAMA Feb 15, 1980
4 R. Peto british medical journal 1988 vol. 296 pg. 313-6
5 Source: www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/jameslO.htm
6 Source: http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/965927519.html
7 The Magnesium Solution for High Blood Pressure by Dr. Jay Cohen
8 One action of neuroprotective agents limits acute injury to neurons in the penumbra region or rim of the infarct after ischemia. Neurons in the penumbra are less likely to suffer irreversible injury at early time points than are neurons in the infarct core. |
Charles Barber
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| The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, The british medical journal) can net the "author" up to $20,ooo.83 A 1998 review of articles published in leading journals such as The Journal of the American Medical Association and The New England Journal of Medicine found that 11 percent were ghostwritten. The fact that authors were paid to write the articles for the drug companies is not disclosed to the reader. Some observers have called
*Warfarin, with its ungainly name, was surely brought to market before the naming of drugs became a sophisticated business. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 By 1924, a thoroughly documented case teport of a fatal skin cancer in a creosote worker appeared in the british medical journal, replete with a dramatic antemortem photograph of the man's right hand being eaten away by a tumor.47 This was no mere tar eruption or wart, although it had started out that way.
Even in the face of mounting medical evidence, creosote use was not curtailed. Indeed, it not only continued unabated; it actually expanded. As had occutted in England two centuries before, by 1900 lumber was becoming a more limited resource in the United States. |
Tom Bohager
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 Beard, "The Action of Trypsin upon the Living Cells of Jensen's Mouse Tumor," british medical journal A (1906): 140-141). After Dr. Beard's death in 1923, the enzyme therapy was largely forgotten.
From time to time alternative therapists have "rediscovered" Dr. Beard's work and used pancreatic proteolytic enzymes as a treatment for cancer (Beard, The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer (London: Chatto and Windus, 1911). Today this same therapy is being researched by Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, MD, who has published several studies on the effects of pancreatic enzymes on individuals diagnosed with cancer. |
Melody Petersen
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| She had also found a report in the british medical journal in December 1960 that said the sedative appeared to damage the nerves of some patients. Merrell executives had become furious with Dr. Kelsey for delaying the sale of their product as she asked them for more data to prove it was safe.
It is now estimated that thalidomide caused deformities in some eight thousand infants around the world. Thousands of other babies were so malformed that they died before they were born. Only about forty of those cases were in the United States, although there has never been an accurate count. |
| The evidence is strong that companies are getting the results they want," wrote Richard Smith, the former editor of the british medical journal in an article in 2005, "and this is especially worrisome because between two-thirds and three-quarters of the trials published in the major journals—Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, and New England Journal of Medicine—are funded by the industry ... It took me almost a quarter of a century editing for the BMJ to wake up to what was happening. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Another 1999 study, also published in the british medical journal, tested hypericum extract— one of the active ingredients in St. John's Wort—against both a placebo and a standard antidepressant (imipramine) in a randomized multi-center study involving 263 patients with moderate depression. Hypercium was more effective than the placebo at reducing depression (as measured by the Hamilton depression scores and, even more dramatically, by the Zung selfrating depression scale), and performed just as well as the drug, with notably fewer side effects. |
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