Ray D. Strand
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 A study reported in the January 2, 2002, issue of the journal of the american medical association indicates that vitamin A can be harmful for normal bone function, leading to an increase in hip fractures.
Women must avoid vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy. Dosages as low as 5,000-10,000 IU are believed to have caused birth defects.10
I never recommend taking straight vitamin A in supplements. We can meet the need for vitamin A within the body by simply taking beta-carotene and the mixed carotenoids. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 JAMA kicks off two decades of cigarette advertising
The journal of the american medical association (JAMA) published its first cigarette advertisement in 1933, stating that it had done so only "after careful consideration of the extent to which cigarettes were used by physicians in practice." These advertisements continued for 20 years. The same year, Chesterfield began running ads in the New York State Journal of Medicine, with the claim that its cigarettes were "Just as pure as the water you drink... and practically untouched by human hands. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Each increment of three daily servings of fruits and vegetables equated to a 22% decrease in risk of stroke, including transient ischemic attack (Gillman et al. journal of the american medical association. 1995;273;1113).
Elderly men whose intake of dark green and deep yellow vegetable put them in the highest quartile for consumption of these vegetables had about a 46% decrease in risk of heart disease relative to men who ranked in the lowest quartile. Men in the highest quintile had about a 70% lower risk of cancer than did their counterparts in the lowest quintile. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 But the buzz on HCA faded out pretty quickly after a large study published in the prestigious but conservative journal of the american medical association showed that it didn't work so well in humans. This 1998 study found HCA had basically "no effect." But more recent research, notably by Georgetown University Medical Center professor Harry Preuss, M.D., and his colleagues, is pointing in a very different direction. And because of this new information, I now think HCA has real potential as a weight loss supplement. |
| Another study, involving more than a million people and published in the journal of the american medical association in 2004, found that men with the highest fasting blood sugar levels (greater than 140 mg/dl) were 29 percent more likely to die of cancer than those with blood sugar levels of 90 mg/dl or less. The association was strongest for pancreatic cancer. High blood sugar (greater than 125 mg/dl) almost doubled the risk for men and more than doubled the risk for women. |
Bottom Line Health
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| ER Doctors Overprescribe Powerful Heart Drugs
Karen Alexander, MD, associate professor of medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC.
The journal of the american medical association.
Emergency room doctors treating heart attack patients often fail to administer powerful clot-preventing drugs in the proper doses, according to a recent study.
One common error is overprescribing—giving a dose large enough to cause potentially dangerous bleeding, the researchers say. |
| American College of Cardiology annual meeting, Atlanta.
The journal of the american medical association.
In a study, intensive cholesterol-lowering therapy using rosuvastatin (Crestor)—a powerful (and controversial) member of the statin family of drugs—not only reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or "bad") cholesterol levels but actually reversed atherosclerosis, also known as hardening of the arteries.
THE STUDY
For the trial, 507 patients at 53 health-care centers in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia were given 40 milligrams (mg) of Crestor daily. |
| Jeffrey Linder, MD, MPH, associate physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and instructor in medicine, Harvard University Medical School, both in Boston.
The journal of the american medical association.
Despite widespread concern about the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, too many people are still receiving prescriptions for antibiotics that they don't need, according to two recent studies. |
| Loren Wissner Greene, MD, endocrinologist, New York University Medical Center, and clinical associate professor of medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York City.
The journal of the american medical association.
Breast-feeding can lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to recent research.
THE STUDY
Scientists have suspected that breast-feeding might affect the risk of developing type 2 diabetes because previous research has shown that it improves insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance. |
| Michael Tuttle, MD, endocrinologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City.
The journal of the american medical association.
The increase in thyroid cancer cases in the United States is the result of better, high-tech diagnostic tests that are picking up minuscule tumors—most of which pose no long-term threat, according to a recent study.
THE NEW NUMBERS
The number of thyroid cancers in the US more than doubled from 3.6 per 100,000 in 1973 to 8.7 per 100,000 in 2002, according to the report. |
| Robert Vorona, MD, assistant professor of sleep medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk.
The journal of the american medical association.
Asmall study has found that, on awakening, people are more mentally addled than when they are kept awake for 26 hours.
THE STUDY
To better understand this so-called "sleep inertia," study coauthor Kenneth Wright, Jr., director of the Sleep & Chronobiology Lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his colleagues gave mathematical tests to nine men and one woman several times in the hours after waking from sleep. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| High levels of homocysteine have been associated with a much greater risk for both heart disease and stroke in many different studies, including one in the prestigious journal of the american medical association in 1992. High homocysteine levels are usually treated with extra B vitamins (folate, B6, and B12; see pages 35-41), but SAMe can help as well because it plays a critical role in helping to turn homocysteine back into the benign methionine so that large amounts don't build up in the system. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Bruce Ames, a leading cancer researcher, stated in an interview with the journal of the american medical association that individuals who consume the least amounts of fruits and vegetables have twice the risk of cancer as those who consume more.13
Merely by consuming five to seven servings of fruits and vegetables daily, we can decrease the risk of almost every type of cancer by half.1'1
The absolute best defense your body has is a good diet. Nothing a doctor can prescribe will take the place of the diet your body needs to fuel and replenish itself. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Three studies from Harvard University, two of which appeared in the prestigious (though conservative) journal of the american medical association all confirmed that nuts like pecans belong in a healthy diet. One of the studies found that eating nuts may help lower the risk of type 2 diabetes. Another concluded that one of three strategies to effectively prevent coronary heart disease was a diet high in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole grains and low in refined grains. When I was in school, we were told to remember the good nuts by the acronym PAW: pecans, almonds, and walnuts. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Bruce Pomeranz in the April 15, 1998 journal of the american medical association, "cause over 100,000 deaths a year." He also states that another 2.1 million patients have serious complications because of medications.7 Nutrients carry no such dangers.
In my next book titled Death by Prescription (to be released by Thomas Nelson Publishers in 2003), I explain the inherent dangers of all medication and the pitfalls in determining potential side effects of medication. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Just a month prior, the AMA had accepted $15 million in funding from the tobacco industry. The journal of the american medical association accepted money from tobacco companies for many years while it ran their full-page advertisements in the journal. |
Ray D. Strand
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| The journal of the american medical association reported in its November 9, 1994, issue that patients who had the highest intake of the two yellow nutrients, lutein and zeaxanthine, from their diet had a 43-percent decreased risk of developing ARMD over those who had the lowest intake. Interestingly, these same benefits were not apparent with patients who had high levels of beta-carotene. Lutein and zeaxanthine are the only carotenoids that are specifically deposited within the macula of the eye. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 Bovine Somatotropin
Author's Letter to the
Journal of the American Medical Association journal of the american medical association 265:1391,1991
[In reply to a misleading article, and accompanying editorial, denying any adverse veterinary or public health hazards of rBST]
The Special Communication by Monsanto consultants Daughaday and Barbano (1) and the accompanying editorial by Grossman (2) are misleading and scientifically flawed for reasons that include the following:
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Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Catherine Deangelis, Editor-in-Chief of journal of the american medical association stated that these are in sharp contrast to actual numbers; over 80% of drug trials are funded by for-profit companies.3
The law and registry are poorly conceived and understood (purposely). Attempts to have drug companies tell all when seeking approval from FDA are meeting strong resistance from drug companies. Because they want to control data, keep their trade secrets, and ensure a "patient base" of participants in trials, the drug companies are hesitant to register. |
| Barbara Starfield2 of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health published her findings in the journal of the american medical association (JAMA). Her statistics are equally astounding (ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR):
• 12,000 — unnecessary surgery
• 7,000 — medication errors in hospitals
• 20,000 — other errors in hospitals
• 80,000 — infections in hospitals
• 106,000 — non-error, negative effects of drugs
A total of 250,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!!
The pharmaceutical corporations form the foundation for this collateral damage, and are aided by government. |
Devra Davis
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 Within two weeks of his 1959 declaration, an editorial appeared in the journal of the american medical association, calling this view into question. The editorial claimed that there were not yet enough facts to warrant "an all or none authoritative position" about the relationship between smoking and cancer.21 The promptness of the rebuttal testified to the close ties the AMA maintained with the tobacco industry for years and the deep tentacles of both groups within the government. |
| During the 1940s, he wrote editorials for the journal of the american medical association on the cancer risks of solar radiation, aromatic amines, estrogens, coal tar products, arsenic, asbestos and other environmental hazards. In 1948 he began work with the fledgling National Cancer Institute, heading its first environmental cancer section. At first this must have seemed kismet. Under Hueper's leadership, in 1950 the NCI issued a blunt pamphlet for the general public, depicting a number of avoidable causes of cancer. |
| Their work, the first large-scale case-comparison study in English linking smoking and lung cancer, was published by the journal of the american medical association on May 27, 1950.
An analysis by Morton Levin and others at the New^York State Health Department had been withheld from publication because the journal had doubted their results. But when the Graham and Wynder report came in, the journal decided to include Levin's work in the same issue. |
| Shortly after it appeared in German in 1939, Muller's dissertation was printed as an abstract in English in the journal of the american medical association. In an ideal world, this study would have profoundly altered the way people thought about the problem of tobacco. The real world, however, was on the brink of war. An addictive product that drives several major economies is not something to be trifled with. |
| In an act of considerable courage, the journal of the american medical association published a series of five papers analyzing these materials. Very few people have read all of them. They can be found on the web.29
These documents, known as the Cigarette Papers, confirmed Breslow's assertion that the firms were not alone in behaving badly.
As Allan Brandt makes clear in his authoritative new book on this subject, The Cigarette Century, the tobacco firms consistently tapped some powerful and impressive help. |
| Lynch, published yet another article in the organization's main journal, journal of the american medical association, "Toward Less Hazardous Cigarettes: Current Advances."They claimed that, thanks to the work their program had been carrying out, a major breakthrough was at hand. Modern filters, some of which they named by brand, could be smoked to yield a "tolerable risk."
When these news reports about Gori's declarations came out appearing to endorse smoking, Califano was still head of Health, Education and Welfare. He was furious. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Years of exposure to cigarette smoke can result in irreversible lung damage and for an asthmatic the problem can be exacerbated.
The journal of the american medical association has singled out tobacco as the number one culprit in causing death in America. Heart disease and cancer were listed as the nation's leading killers, but the underlying cause of death was the use of tobacco. The research found that smoking contributed to the deaths of 400 000 Americans annually—more than those caused by drug use, guns and car accidents put together. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 I have focused on the major and most respected and reliable journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, The journal of the american medical association, British Medical Journal, and The Lancet.
I have read and analyzed all of the articles in these journals as well as editorials and news articles {British Medical Journal is the best for medical news reporting) for information relevant to drug safety. Following footnotes and leads from articles in these journals to other research and reports, I have drilled deeply into drug research and outcomes. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| If that weren't confusing enough, a twelve-year study by Harvard researchers of 155,000 women (published in the November 9, 2005, issue of the journal of the american medical association) found that drinking caffeinated cola may be associated with an increased risk of high blood pressure, but— get this—the same causal relationship was not found with caffeinated coffee. In fact, the study suggested that women who drink caffeinated coffee may actually have a reduced risk of high blood pressure. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Instead, I have painstakingly researched mainstream, credible medical journals that the medical community greatly respects, such as the New England Journal of Medicine, journal of the american medical association, British Lancet, and many others.
Another reason doctors haven't accepted the nutritional supplement idea as good preventive medicine is that most practicing physicians don't fully understand the cause of degenerative diseases. |
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