David Steinman
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 Many studies published in medical journals link pesticide exposures with higher cancer and birth defect rates. Parkinson's disease is linked in studies with such exposures. Asthma, premature delivery, birth defects—these are just some of the documented results of pervasive pesticide exposure. No one wants unsafe chemicals in our food supply or in the neighborhood, including our schools (where, as I have seen in the San Joaquin Valley, they often sit beside sprayed fields). |
| Vioxx and other COX-2-inhibiting drugs have been alleged in articles in The New England Journal of Medicine and other mainstream medical journals to increase a user's risk of a heart attack.1 The use of these drugs is now being widely curtailed. Merck pulled Vioxx from the market, and the company faces billions of dollars of liability in lawsuits from patients alleging that the drug injured them.
"To Tom Newmark and Paul Schulick, the real goal for consumers ought to be to derive the benefits of the COX-2 drugs without their drawbacks," Herb Lewis told me. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Television drug ads engage in such blatant deceptions and exaggerations that even the medical journals are starting to condemn the practice. This week, the Annals of Family Medicine published an analysis of popular drug advertisements that concluded the ads essentially lie to the public about the benefits of pharmaceuticals while utterly ignoring alternative health strategies like dietary or lifestyle changes. |
Melody Petersen
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 Pediatricians in Iowa and around the country opened their mailboxes that year to find medical journals wrapped in paper printed with Max's black and white stripes. Pfizer sales representatives succeeded in getting so many pediatricians to hang small plastic replicas of Max from their stethoscopes that one physician told me a family had asked if Max was the hospital's mascot. The company had even donated a real zebra to the San Francisco Zoo and invited children to a party where the beast was welcomed and named Max.
But Pfizer had not stopped there. |
Hyla Cass
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 You don't have to go any further than the medical literature—the dozens of studies published each month in medical journals and presented at medical conferences—to see this. It just hasn't hit the mainstream's radar yet. You now have the inside scoop: when you're concerned about preventing heart disease, think reduce inflammation, not lower cholesterol.
If you chose to read this chapter, you are probably one of the millions of American adults who take a statin and/or a blood pressure-lowering drug every day. |
Melody Petersen
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| Always aware of the potential bias, they do their best to unravel the industry's studies they read in medical journals. They hesitate to prescribe the newest drugs that their patients ask about after seeing ads on TV. They prescribe drugs only when necessary and make sure patients understand all the potential risks.
Look inside a physician's waiting room to see how friendly he or she is with the industry. Are there sales brochures for drugs displayed on the tables? Are there sharply dressed sales representatives bringing lunch for the doctor's entire staff? |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 As evidenced by recent articles in mainstream medical journals, including a 2006 editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association, even conventional doctors are realizing that nondrug treatments such as nutrition, supplements, exercise, and memory training can yield safe and effective results.
Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa, founder of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, has written numerous articles and several books on brain longevity. "When we talk about the brain, there is almost a schism in the way it's looked at these days. |
| The debate goes on, and people continue to press their points at conferences, in medical journals, and even in courts of law. In June 2007, the US Court of Federal Claims in Washington, DC, heard the first of nearly five thousand pending cases filed by parents who believe their children's autism was caused by vaccination. The court will determine whether the family is eligible for compensation from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund, which has paid out nearly $750 million for other vaccine injuries since 1986. |
| I encourage you to follow this lead and request reprints of individual articles that address your area of specialization directly from the medical journals themselves. You may find yourself more open to the practice of orthomolecular psychiatry than you ever expected. For the general reader, you too will find that just reading the short summaries of some of the articles listed below will help strengthen your resolve. There is solid medical research to support many of the claims our contributing physicians have made throughout this book. |
| Using the numbers determined from a variety of sources—including medical journals and government documents, it can reasonably be assumed that the flu shot may cause 40 cases of GBS per year.
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) database reveals that the average hospital charge per person for GBS is nearly $70,000. Add another $40,000 per person for rehabilitation costs after months of paralysis. Therefore the cost to healthcare for this "rare" complication can be approximated to be at least $4.4 million. |
Andreas Moritz
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 According to several studies published in various medical journals, such as Lancet, certain antibiotics also cause gallstones. One of these is ceftriaxone, used to treat lower respiratory tract infections, skin and urinary tract infections, pelvic inflammatory disease, and bone and joint infections, as well as meningitis.
Similarly, antirejection drugs given to kidney and heart transplant patients increase the likelihood of gallstone formation. Thiazides, which are water pills used to control high blood pressure, may also bring on gallbladder disease in patients with gallstones. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 For example, if you go to the Internet and type in coenzyme Qio as a search word on the Pub Med site, you will see 1,254 published articles in various scientific and medical journals. Type in coenzyme Qio's generic name "ubiquinone," and the count rises to 5,769, most of which represent sound science-based inquiry. L-carnitine and D-ribose will bring up thousands of queries. So, I'm confused when my peers say "there's no data."
The rejection of D-ribose, L-carnitine, and coenzyme Q10 as potent, nonprescription treatment defies imagination. |
| Although hundreds of scientific papers have been published in noteworthy scientific and medical journals describing the individual roles of these naturally occurring compounds in preserving the energy health of your heart, skeletal muscle, and other tissues, you've probably never heard or read about the exciting combination of D-ribose, L-carnitine, and coenzyme Qio-
Nor are you likely to have heard about these revolutionary treatments from your doctor. Why? |
| Recent research reviews and an analysis of peer-reviewed medical journals, as well as government health statistics, demonstrate that our trusted medical model can cause more harm than good. Complications from "standard-of-care" interventions, medical errors, and overuse of antibiotics are increasing at an alarming rate. When we consider that the fourth leading cause of death in the United States is properly prescribed medications in a hospital setting, something's got to give! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Drug-pushing medical journals
Drug company advertising brings in hundreds of millions of dollars a year that fund these medical journals and pay the salaries of the editors who determine which studies the journal will and won't accept. So guess what gets into the journals? That's right -- the studies that promote prescription drugs. The benefits of these drugs are routinely exaggerated and the risks are routinely minimized.
When something goes wrong with the drug and it starts killing tens of thousands of Americans, guess what? They convene a decision panel. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 And it's in medical journals?"
"More and more natural-treatment research is appearing in major medical journals. Universities seem to be trying to make up for all the time they've lost since the 1940s—time spent ignoring or criticizing natural medicine."
"No apologies for that, are there?" Ingrid noted.
"No, and no credit given either—but back to Mr. Jangaard. Please check with Dr. Lamson's assistant for instructions about the inhaled glutathione.
Two months later, Mr. Jangaard was back. |
Hyla Cass
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| New England Journal of Medicine, describes how pharmaceutical-company-sponsored research published in medical journals is actually quite biased in their favor—and not focused on the consumers' best interests at all.
Similarly, in Overdosed America (Harper Perennial, 2005), John Abramson, M.D., an award-winning family doctor and member of the clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School, makes the point that we are using prescriptions far too often—and more for the benefit of the drug companies' bottom-line than for our good health.
Dr. Abramson doesn't stop there. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And to think: This is the junk science that gets published in mainstream, peer-reviewed medical journals! Incredible...
If you want to hear more of my thoughts about how incredibly stupid medical researchers have become today, listen to my Health Ranger Report audio podcast: http://www.NewsTarget.com/Podcasts/HRR009_56.MP3 (lo-fi MP3 format, 56kbps)
The problems with modern medicine and the mainstream media
This reporting about the link between depression and osteoporosis brings up several important concerns:
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David Brownstein M.D.
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 The lead articles in the most prestigious medical journals reported on the benefits of conventional hormones. Anyone questioning the use of conventional HRT therapy was roundly criticized.
However, when the truth finally became apparent to all, the use of synthetic hormones did not look so good. In fact, these foreign substances were found to cause a lot of serious adverse effects. How could so many intelligent people be so wrong? Why were women misled for over 25 years? |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 The reaction of the medical establishment wasn't encouraging. In medical journals and the popular press, doctors suggested that water birthing was dangerous, filled with unacceptable risks of infection and drowning. It wasn't until 1999, when Ruth Gilbert and PatTookey of the Institute of Child Health in London published a serious study showing that water birth was at least as safe as conventional methods, that all these predictions of doom and gloom were shown to be largely baseless. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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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. |
| New England Journal of Medicine, describes how pharmaceutical-company-sponsored research published in medical journals is actually quite biased in their favor—and not focused on the consumers' best interests at all.
Similarly, in Overdosed America (Harper Perennial, 2005), John Abramson, M.D., an award-winning family doctor and member of the clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School, makes the point that we are using prescriptions far too often—and more for the benefit of the drug companies' bottom-line than for our good health.
Dr. Abramson doesn't stop there. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Some of that research appeared in peer-reviewed medical journals, too. Does that mean the research was scientifically accurate and "conclusive?" Of course not. It was just plain old junk science, hijacked by a powerful corporation with a clear profit motive.
If all that sounds familiar, it's because drug companies are playing the same game with science today that Big Tobacco played decades ago: Influence the science, bury the bad news and propagandize the good news. It's the oldest play in the spin book, and Big Pharma has patterned it perfectly from Big Tobacco. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 How did Big Pharma manage to so completely hijack medical science, taking over the medical journals, FDA regulators, science researchers and medical schools? And why hasn't this been stopped? Why have these chemical crimes against children continued to be tolerated -- even encouraged! -- by the Food and Drug Administration and a Big Pharm-funded U.S. Congress? (Note of hope: There is one peer-reviewed medical journal that remains honest and publishes good medical science: PLoS Medicine, an open-source journal that accepts no advertising from drug companies... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As long as there's more money to be made, drug companies will do whatever is necessary to generate more profits, including bribing doctors, subjugating medical school curricula, committing deliberate scientific fraud, paying off medical journals, handing kickbacks to FDA decision makers, buying lawmakers, controlling the media and directing the very course of medical belief in the western world. The number of children harmed, killed or mentally lobotomized by their dangerous drugs is of no concern: The only number that counts is the share price at the end of the day. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Detailed clinical studies published in major medical journals and presented at the world's major diabetes conferences have shown PGX to: žReduce appetite and promote effective weight loss, even in the morbidly obese. žIncrease the level of compounds that block the appetite and promote satiety. žDecrease the level of compounds that stimulate overeating. žReduce postprandial (after-meal) blood glucose levels when added to or taken with foods. žReduce the glycemic index of any food or beverage. žIncrease insulin sensitivity and decrease blood insulin levels better than any drug. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Check out the Public Library of Science journals, which, as far as I can tell, are the only honest medical journals in the industry.
#5 Ban direct-to-consumer drug advertising
Drug companies whooped and high-fived each other when they convinced the FDA to legalize direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug advertising in 1997. It didn't take much convincing, actually, since the FDA guys were all getting drunk at the same party. Since then, consumers have been walloped with mostly false advertising touting fictitious benefits for dangerous drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Also notable: Cherry growers and cherry product manufacturers have been threatened and intimidated by the FDA over simply linking to scientific articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals which describe the health benefits of natural phytochemicals found in cherries.
The FDA's campaign of censorship and intimidation against nutritional supplement companies has been called "a campaign of terrorism" against U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Cigarette producers may have hoped that the public would remain unaware of studies published in medical journals. However, the dangers of smoking became widely known in 1952 when Reader's Digest published "Cancer by the Carton," detailing the dangers of cigarettes. Within a year cigarette sales fell for the first time in more than two decades.
The tobacco industry responded swiftly, engaging the medical community in its efforts. The Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC) was formed by U.S. tobacco companies in 1954. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Pharmaceutical companies, medical associations, doctors, medical journals, hospitals and numerous corrupt Congresspeople and Senators. By supporting the FDA, they condone the use of terrorism tactics against the American people and, ultimately, support the continued use of police state tactics against innocents.
You can learn more about the true history of the FDA and Big Pharma in my tell-all book, Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them. |
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