Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 An editorial in the influential british medical journal was on point in stating, "Industrial risk in poor countries is vast: exposure ranges from dangerous glues used to make shoes in shanty huts to unsafe steel smelting plants."72 The American industrialist Peter Cooper made his fortune early in the nineteenth century from glue, a market over which he held a virtual monopoly for decades. Cooper acknowledged glue manufacturing as the source of his wealth in a once famous aphorism, "If you would succeed, stick."
Cooper was a staunch supporter of an ethos of corporate responsibility. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 Wresting a small victory from this enormous defeat, Krucoff managed to get his findings published in the prestigious british medical journal The Lancet. To the public, he maintained that he was "thrilled" with the findings and that they had been misinterpreted. Krucoff s study appeared to vindicate the skeptics of prayer as a subject for scientific inquiry. The simple message appeared to be that getting someone to pray for you just does not work. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| By August 1927, the term asbestosis entered the English medical lexicon via a short announcement, carried by the british medical journal, of presentations made at the annual meeting of the Section of Preventive Medicine of the British Medical Association.29 The journal later ran as a prominent series the three papers based on those presentations.30
Soon knowledge of asbestosis was not isolated to the medical arena. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Linde K; et al. british medical journal, 1996 August 3, 313(7052):253-258.
Results of this meta-analysis involving 2 3 randomized studies, 15 of which were placebo-controlled, found that hypericum extracts proved significantly effective in the treatment of patients suffering from moderate to mildly severe depression.
Cimicifuga for Depression. Frances D. Medical Herbalism, 1995 Spring/Summer, 7(l-2):l-2.
This article reports on the successful use of black cohosh in tincture form as a treatment for depression in three different case studies. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Supported by Studies
A meta-analysis published in the british medical journal in 1996 reviewed 23 published trials on St. John's Wort involving more than 1,700 patients. The researchers, lead by Klaus Linde, M.D., reported findings that extracts of St. John's Wort were more effective than a placebo for the treatment of mild to moderately severe depression. The authors emphasized that it's not yet known whether the extracts are more effective for some types of depression than others, but that certainly looks to be the case. |
| Metformin, a drug known by its trade name of Glucophage, is often given to people with diabetes or metabolic syndrome because it helps the body utilize insulin more effectively Research published in the british medical journal and elsewhere shows that metformin is effective in helping women with PCOS achieve ovulation, and it reduces insulin concentrations and blood pressure as well. |
| One study published in the british medical journal in 2001 found that women who regularly drank a cranberry juice beverage over the course of a year had a statistically significant 20 percent reduc-
Natural Prescription for Urinary Tract Infections
Unsweetened cranberry juice: 1-2 eight-ounce glasses per day tion in the risk of getting an infection. Another study found that taking cranberry extract tablets or drinking unsweetened cranberry juice significantly reduced the number of patients having at least one symptomatic UTI per year. |
| Putting increase of urinary calcium aside for the moment, a british medical journal study in 2002 suggested that animal protein may increase the urinary excretion of oxalate, and that's something we definitely don't want. Animal protein will also likely increase the risk of uric acid stones. Moderate amounts of protein are probably fine, though all my usual precautions about factory-farmed meat still apply for other reasons, and if I were a stone former, I'd probably keep protein to a reasonable amount—say 20 percent or so—of my diet for a while.
The Magic of Magnesium
What about supplements? |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Andrew Cunningham, a zoologist with the Zoological Society of London, recently raised a red flag about new viruses emerging from global encroachment into wildlife in an essay in the british medical journal BMJ, arguing that while this has probably happened many times in the past, such viruses failed to spread because those infected lived in remote enough areas that they either died or got well before they interacted with larger human populations. In today's world, however, the increases in international trade and travel make any kind of virulent new flu outbreak an overnight global emergency. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There is an abundance of evidence available right now, published in peer-reviewed medical journals like the british medical journal, showing COX-2 inhibitors to be deadly drugs. That's not to mention the internal drug company memos and emails leaked to the press that directly acknowledge the dangers of these drugs. No reasonable person can argue that these drugs are not dangerous. Yet the FDA will no doubt claim there's not enough evidence to show COX-2 inhibitors are dangerous enough to ban them.
I find this fascinating. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Entitled, Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine, it has an interesting review by the british medical journal, posted here.)
Medical madness is still practiced today
In my view, this amounts to legalized medical murder. And the point here is that Cotton's evils are still practiced today. He was not alone, you see: thousands of surgeons are in practice today who would claim to be helping patients by slicing away their vital organs. We see it today in bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) and countless other surgical procedures. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As you'll see in the study mentioned below, published in the british medical journal, dental surgeries to remove asymptomatic wisdom teeth are pure bunk.
The key discerning factor here, by the way, is whether wisdom teeth are asymptomatic, meaning that they show no signs of disease or discomfort. Today in the UK, it is standard policy to avoid removing asymptomatic wisdom teeth. After all, if they don't hurt and there's nothing wrong, why undergo surgery to remove them? |
| In a groundbreaking report from the british medical journal, researchers who poured over thousands of studies detailing the efficacy of medical and dental procedures have concluded that many popular surgical procedures are completely worthless. Among those is one of the most common procedures performed by your dentist: the removal of so-called "impacted" wisdom teeth. According to the BMJ, this procedure may actually do more harm than good.
I don't trust dentists. I've long suspected dentists of scaring patients into undergoing unnecessary procedures in order to generate more business. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Even the former editor of the british medical journal has called the industry corrupt.
Finally, the truth is slowly starting to get out. People are beginning to see things as they are, and they're recognizing that the drug industry is out to do only one thing: generate drug company profits. It has nothing whatsoever to do with enhancing human health. Today, this position is becoming mainstream. Even doctors are (finally!) becoming more skeptical of drug companies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| REPPED: Following the death of as many as 60,000 Americans from COX-2 inhibitors (source: british medical journal, author Dr. David Graham, FDA drug safety researcher), an FDA advisory panel has now voted to allow the drugs to return to the market with full FDA safety approval. The fact that a single COX-2 drug has reportedly killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War is apparently not sufficient for the FDA to characterize it as unsafe.
With this decision, a "safety approval" by the FDA has now become meaningless. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It "may do more harm than good" says the british medical journal, after reviewing literally thousands of case studies. So the typical dentist is really just hyping a useless procedure, and if your dentist is anything like the dentist I encountered, they're also using all sorts of highly unethical scare tactics to try to force people into undergoing the procedure. That's downright evil, and yet it's a common practice among dentists in the United States.
Folks, you need to start questioning your dentist. Don't believe everything they tell you. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 An editorial in the british medical journal gave a blunt but honest answer to that question: "The stark reality is that without pharmaceutical sponsorship many journals would not survive."53
Put the experimental research on mere-exposure effect with the reality that research and non-research medical journals are filled with drug company ads,54 and we are forced to conclude that there is a daily, unconscious growth in appreciation for drugs among physicians. Many drugs save lives, fight infection or encourage healing, but there should always be a critical skepticism toward drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's authored by the former editor-in-chief of the british medical journal. Finally, I want to mention that I warned people about the suicide risk of Prozac back in 1998. Back then, the idea that antidepressant drugs could cause suicides was considered ludicrous. It was fringe information, almost conspiracy theory stuff. Today, we're learning it's 100% true. And if you don't believe me, just ask the parents of all the children killed at the Colombine high school massacre in Colorado: their killers were on antidepressant drugs. Getting the picture yet? |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| BOX #4-3
A british medical journal Editorial: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
"No country has been successful at regulating any type of direct to consumer advertising to ensure the public obtains reliable balanced information on drug benefits and risks. Repeated breaches by companies speak for themselves."1
The FDA issued four letters to Pfizer for violations related to unfounded Lipitor claims including the assertion that Lipitor could reduce heart disease and was safer than competitors' rival drugs. |
| The acting editor of the british medical journal declared that the amount of money sometimes made for allowing one's name to be used is even greater. "We know that gift authorship happens, and the nature of the gift may vary from a pat on the back and anonymity to a six figure sum [emphasis mine]."4
A Man of Honor Tests the System
Guess which articles have the greatest impact on physicians in private practice, ghostwritten or non-ghostwritten. It appears ghostwritten articles win in a big way. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 On April 22, 2004 the highly respected british medical journal, The Lancet [6], published an article that was the first meta-analysis done in a peer-reviewed journal of all available drug trials on a specific group of antidepressants. It was conducted by six British academic psychiatrists and researchers who said that, although some published studies made the newer antidepressants (SSRIs) appear effective to doctors, five studies never made public by the pharmaceutical companies who funded them showed that the benefits (if any) did not justify the risks. |
| Earlier in April 2004 another respected publication, BMJ (formerly the british medical journal) expressed the opinion that the drug-company-paid-for studies that were published downplayed the risks of these drugs and overstated their usefulness, saying, "Biased reporting and overconfident recommendations in treatment guidelines may mislead doctors, patients, and families." So deceitful is the process that Dr. |
Jacky Law
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 Dr Richard Smith, when editor of the british medical journal, highlighted some of pharma's most popular tricks:1
• Avoid testing it against another drug because it might compare badly.
A question of trust
• Test it against a small group of rivals, to show it is as good.
• Compare it with too low or too high a dose of another treatment - so the latter is less effective or has side effects.
• Report your trial's results only at the point when it comes out well. Publish the helpful 6-month results but bury the weak 12-month results. |
| According to the british medical journal, he received a standing ovation. Graham had not minced his words. He had said the American people were not adequately protected in the current regulatory set-up. He went on to cite five other worldwide drugs concerning which he said the public had reason to be concerned. Such a display of support came from scientists who would be acutely aware that to be with him was to be against those higher up the FDA chain of command.
What was the FDA to do? |
| According to the british medical journal, the Texas project started in 1995 as an alliance of pharma company representatives, the University of Texas, and the mental health and corrections systems of Texas. George W. Bush was state governor at the time and, during his 2000 presidential campaign, boasted of his support for the project and the fact that legislation he passed had expanded Medicaid coverage of psychotropic drugs.17
This latest development is an even bigger boon to companies who make antidepressants. |
| Back then, doubts could be heard about the value of bringing cholesterol down too far in people whose hearts were healthy. The british medical journal, for example, published a meta-analysis (looking at the results of several studies) of the effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs in 1992. It showed that, although coronary heart disease was significantly reduced, total mortality actually increased slightly in the treated groups.8 There were more deaths, in other words. |
| The idea of encouraging people to take more responsibility for their health is described as seminal by the british medical journal.30 In the current health-obsessed climate, it can also be seen as a stroke of such apparent political genius, one can't help wondering why no one thought of it earlier.
The truth is, it was born out of necessity. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| However, in testimony before a British Parliament health committee, David Healy testified that he believes that "at least half of articles on drug efficacy that appear in the british medical journal, the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine are ghost-written by pharmaceutical companies and that 'the most distinguished authors from the most prestigious universities' put their names to them without ever seeing the raw data [emphasis mine]."9
I sought to interview individuals at some ghostwriting agencies, but, as you might expect, they did not want to discuss their businesses. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 A recent study reported in the british medical journal Lancet has shown that omega-3 fatty acids, which create a more stable arterial plaque, are better for your heart than the omega-6 variety. We recommend that you try to increase your consumption of omega-3s at the expense of the omega-6s. In order to supply essential fatty acids, these oils must be consumed in pure liquid or supplement form and must not be subjected to heat, either in processing or cooking. Heat destroys essential fatty acids. Worse, it results in the creation of dangerous free radicals. [See antioxidants in Part One. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 John's wort and imipramine for treating depression: Randomised controlled trial, british medical journal, 321: 536-539.
42. Schmidt, B., Ludke, R., Selbmann, H.K., Kotter, I., Tschirdewahn, B., Schaffner, W., and Heide, L. 2001, Efficacy and tolerability of a standardized willow bark extract in patients with ostearthritis randomised, placebo-controlled, double blind clinical trial, Phytother. Res., 15(4): 344-350; Wheatley, D., 2001, Stress induced insomnia treated with kava and valerian, Human Psychopharmacol., 16: 353-356; Scholey, A.B. and Kennedy, D.O. |
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