| What's not so funny about Sackett and Oxman's send-up of clinical trials is that the medical journals are filled with articles that appear to have adopted their methods. Here's just one example. In a survey published in 2006 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a group of researchers from the United States and Germany looked at the results of nearly three dozen published papers on the atypical antipsychotics, powerful drugs used to suppress disordered thinking and behavior in patients with schizophrenia and other serious mental conditions. |
Bill Sardi
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 Editorials in medical journals and news reports claim Herceptin is "astounding," "jaw dropping," and "revolutionary."
"In 1991, I didn't know we would cure breast cancer, and in 2005, I'm convinced we have," said a doctor at the National Cancer Institute. In one study, 227 women developed recurrence of breast cancer after a year of chemotherapy whereas only 127 did when Herceptin was added to the regimen. These figures do not include those women who died of heart failure caused by the drug. Recurrence is one thing, survival is another. |
| The bogus study was published in the most prestigious of medical journals - the New England Journal of Medicine and its lead author was in Helskinki, Finland, where he wouldn't have to face tough questions from skeptics in the U.S. [New England Journal Medicine 330: 1029-35, 1994]
The headlines were startling, especially for dietary supplement users. The study involved male smokers in Finland, a country also known for its high consumption of alcohol. |
| So some quotations from medical journals regarding resveratrol are provided below, for your examination. Here's what the experts have to say.
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"// is urgent that more efforts be made to investigate newer therapies employing antioxidants for the chemoprevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer."
- Researchers at Taiwan University, Taipei. Lin JK, Tsai SH, Chemoprevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease by resveratrol, Proceedings National Science Council Republic China B 1999; 23: 99-106.
"Resveratrol merits investigation as a potential cancer chemopreventive agent in humans. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Drug reps
Doctors have three main sources of information about medical products: sales representatives, other doctors, and medical journals. All three of those sources provide some good data, and a lot of misinformation. The drug industry spends about twenty-five billion dollars a year marketing drugs to doctors, and its sales reps are part of that strategy. According to one study, for every dollar spent on marketing a drug to doctors, a company reaps on average more than ten dollars in sales. |
| Wennberg then wrote to the FDA himself, detailing the cases he had uncovered and citing several papers in medical journals about the drug's potentially deadly side effect. He urged the agency to remove Orabilex from the market. Again, Wennberg got no reply and the agency did nothing.
Wennberg continued to collect cases involving the drug, uncertain what to do next. Then, in November 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated, an event that left Wennberg shaken yet more determined than ever to do what he believed was right, to stop other physicians from killing patients with Orabilex. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Human Guinea-pigs
Despite the fact that respected medical journals like the Lancet, The Canadian Medical Association Journal, and the New England Journal of Medicine have all written about the hazardous effects of ultrasound use, mainstream medicine has all but ignored the negative evidence. Even the FDA has commented on the dangers of ultrasound. |
| Cancer researchers, medical journals, and the popular media all have contributed to a situation in which many people with common malignancies are being treated with drugs not known to be effective. ~ Dr. Martin Shapiro UCLA. => Except for two forms of cancer, chemotherapy does not cure. It tortures and may shorten life.
~ Dr. Candace Pert, Georgetown University School of Medicine. => Chemotherapy is basically ineffective in the vast majority of cases in which it is given. ~ Ralph
Moss, PhD, former Director of Information for Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Center. |
Bottom Line Health
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| The real failure is on the part of government agencies, such as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. medical journals and academic researchers have become dependent on drug company money and/or are vulnerable to drug company lobbying. Doctors and the public still trust these institutions to independently oversee the integrity of the knowledge that informs our medical care, when they simply are not able to do this anymore.
•We all know that cholesterol-lowering statins are widely prescribed. Are they unnecessary? |
Andreas Moritz
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| The peer-review system of medical journals, which is supposed to be the iron-gate for keeping away fraudulent medical studies, is now more than questionable, given the recent disclosures of flawed published studies.
There is more reason to be cautious about taking medical research too seriously. In 1994 and 1995, researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital surveyed more than 3,000 academic scientists and found that 64 percent of them had financial ties to drug corporations. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 The hush in U.S. medical journals was joined by the British, French, German, and Italian journals, all of which were also completely mute on the topic of artificial silk.
Meanwhile, the manufacturing sector was active. The Lansdowne mill closed, but its U.S. patent was acquired by the British viscose magnate Courtauld. It initiated American Viscose Company operations in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, late in 1910. In 1920, patent rights changed hands again, now taken over by DuPont. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Almost every media outlet maintains direct financial relationships with the same corporations they are supposed to be "objectively" covering in their content. medical journals, for example, sandwich so-called scientific studies in between full-page advertisements paid by the very companies that stand to lose (or gain) huge sums of money based on the conclusions of such studies or editorials. And in the world of medicine, the vast majority of the studies published in medical journals are authored by individuals who also maintain direct financial ties to the affected corporations. |
Michael Pollan
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 Price made some remarkable discoveries, which he wrote up in articles for medical journals (with titles like "New Light on Modern Physical Degeneration from Field Studies Among Primitive Races") and ultimately summarized in his 510-page tome, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, published in 1939.
Although his research was taken seriously during his lifetime, Weston Price has been all but written out of the history of twentieth-century science. |
| They compiled lists, many of which appeared in medical journals, of the common diseases they'd been hard pressed to find in the native populations they had treated or studied: little to no heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, hypertension, or stroke; no appendicitis, diverticulitis, malformed dental arches, or tooth decay; no varicose veins, ulcers, or hemorrhoids. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 If you're curious about how the work is going, I'm afraid you'll have to be patient a while longer; but in 2008, you should be able to find the results in medical journals. Just type "PubMed" into any Web search engine and then enter my name, and you'll be able to find the National Library of Medicine's list of articles.
So, if I am right, I will have found an explanation for some cases of what had been labeled as "medically unexplained illness"—an immune dysfunction that robs some patients of adequate rest. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Antioxidants Doing their Job
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CELL-COMMUNICATING INGREDIENTS
The ingredients in the group known as cell-communicating ingredients are getting attention for their role in helping skin function more normally. medical journals refer to these as "cell-signaling" substances—but I think "cell-communicating" is more descriptive of what they do in relation to skin care. |
| It is nowhere to be found, whether in a search of medical journals, in The International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients (INCI, a compendium of cosmetic ingredients), or in an Internet search. Glycoproteins are fairly well understood, but exactly what the Y28 designation stands for is unknown. Most likely it's a specific receptor site on the cell that this ingredient is destined for, but that's just a guess because there is no way to know (Source: Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, June 1998, pages 232-238). |
| Several companies sell effective 10% AHA lotions quite similar to this, and leaving their products on the skin works great with no problem, with the results supported by research published in medical journals!
Dr. Brandt's instructions are to rinse the Peeling Solution and then apply Step 3, the Soothing Gel (.1 ounce). This is a very well-formulated, well-packaged moisturizer with a gel texture. It contains several beneficial ingredients for skin, including lecithin, glycerin, grape seed oil, and green tea extract. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Influential medical journals are now calling for an international clinical trial medical registry. This is crucial. Right now, a pharmaceutical company can conduct a dozen trials for a new drug.. .only publish the positive-result trials... and then use those as evidence for drug approval or marketing. Drug companies should be required to register every study in a central database and publish all results so that we can judge for ourselves what to allow into our medicine cabinets. |
| A Canadian study found that 41% of the preliminary trial results that were presented as "highlights" at medical meetings had disappointing conclusions when the final findings were actually published in medical journals at a later date.
No one is advocating that researchers withhold early results from their peers or the public, however. "If there are breakthroughs in the field and new treatments that are truly showing a benefit, then we want to know about that as soon as possible, to be able to pass that on and change our practice," Giordano says. |
Jack Challem
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 Protein-Rich Foods without Saturated Fat
Over the last few years, medical journals have published dozens of studies that support the benefits of protein in treating prediabetes, overweight, or high blood fats. These studies show that people lose weight and improve their blood sugar when they follow either strict high-protein diets or more moderate diets that substitute a little more protein for a little less carb.
One concern about protein is that it contains large amounts of saturated fat; however, a protein-rich diet does not have to equate with eating a lot of saturated fat. |
Andreas Moritz
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| There are no scientific studies that appeared in medical journals (search Medline) that can back the claims made for any of their products, including Ambrotose. The only "research" that exists is the one promoted by the company and its affiliations. As of July 2007—Greg Abbott, the Texas Attorney General has charged Mannatech, Inc., its owner, Samuel L. Caster, and several related entities with promoting an illegal marketing scheme that encourages consumers to believe that its products are effective against many serious diseases. |
Hyla Cass
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 The information appears in the medical journals, but doctors are limited in what they have time to read, have little time per patient, and have had almost no training at all in nutrition in medical school. As a result, your doctor is unlikely to instruct you to supplement the prescription that he or she is handing you.
PHARMACEUTICALS TODAY: GOOD, BUT NOT PERFECT
Before the mid-1990s, consumers had enormous faith in the miracles of modern medicine. |
Melody Petersen
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 Industry scientists writing in medical journals often refer to them simply as "events." Many physicians and pharmacists prefer to call them "medical misadventures," as if someone had suffered an unlucky mishap like wandering off a path in the woods. The euphemism has helped create a false perception that these are unfortunate occurrences in the practice of medicine that no one can do anything about. Stripped of all such embellishments, these "events" are the serious injuries and deaths caused by prescription drugs. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 These stories and others like them are well documented in medical journals and books, and although they are different in detail they share a subtle commonality: the body was able to act to change its physical state. How the body was able to accomplish this is open to question, although this book offers one possible explanation. In the first example, you might be tempted to explain away the remission of MS by citing the mind-body connection, but if the woman's belief system or mind-set was the mechanism for healing, then the healing occurred without any conscious effort on her part. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It also helps get them lots of positive media coverage, given that their huge advertising budgets pay the overhead for major TV stations, newspapers, magazines and, of course, medical journals.
The U.S. remains the only advanced nation in the world short-sighted enough to allow drug companies to advertise directly to the public. The rest of the world has figured out that drug ads really aren't "public education campaigns" as the drug companies claim, and are, in fact, promotions. But here in the U.S. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 There are more than five thousand medical journals, each of which publishes twenty articles a month, meaning that there are more than 1 million articles published each year. It's impossible for anyone to read all of this, let alone a busy general practitioner or internist, or even a specialist, all of whom are often buried by insurance forms and HMO paperwork. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The entire industry, including drug companies, doctors, medical journals and the mainstream media, is twisting the facts to create the illusion that these vaccines are both safe and effective when, in reality, they are probably neither. Nor are they necessary. Cervical cancer is prevented in a hundred other ways, including adequate sunlight exposure and vitamin D consumption, supplementation with probiotics, adequate intake of selenium and zinc, increased consumption of trace minerals and iodine, regular physical exercise and many other safe, natural, non-patented strategies. |
| On top of that, drug companies heavily influence the medical journals and medical schools, and have effectively limited the entire conventional medical industry to a "drugs and surgery" approach to health, practically censoring nutritional knowledge out of existence.
Given this environment, is anyone supposed to believe we will see anything resembling honest debate or genuine science about this HPV vaccine? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Pharmaceutical medicine, as practiced today, is a grand medical hoax involving the mainstream media, the FDA, drug companies, medical journals, medical schools and even M.D.s. They've all quietly agreed to do whatever it takes to maximize profits at the expense of public health, regardless of the science or the ethics involved. So-called "evidence-based medicine" has become modern-day quackery. Statin drugs, for example, have now been proven to offer absolutely no medical benefit whatsoever to women, with zero reduction in the risk of heart attacks or strokes. |
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