Melody Petersen
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 It is now well known that the tobacco industry hired academic scientists to sign their names as the authors of articles in medical journals that tried to refute the accumulating evidence that cigarettes were killing hundreds of thousands of Americans a year. Corporate whistle-blowers and lawsuits against the tobacco industry unearthed hundreds of internal documents that detailed the industry's covert efforts to get articles into the scientific literature that advanced its agenda. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Big Pharma now has a near-total chokehold over everything to do with medicine in the United States, from what is taught in medical schools to what's accepted as "scientific" by the medical journals. The takeover of America by drug companies is now nearly complete.
Of note, the most profitable corporations in the world -- the drug companies -- have now demonstrated majority control over the United States government. |
Melody Petersen
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| Kenneth Heil-man, wrote up reports about the women and published them in prominent medical journals to warn doctors that Detrol could cause dementia.
"Some people have a mild impairment," said Dr. Jack Tsao, one of the neurologists, "and this pushes them over the edge."
The cases of the twro Florida women were some of the early reports of how Detrol could harm the memories of those who take it. In 2005 academic researchers at Emory University in Atlanta reported similar problems. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Many key issues were not addressed, such as the FDA's legal position to prevent citizens from suing drug companies, the massive (and oftentimes illegal) off label promotion of drugs by the legion of Big Pharma sales reps, medical journals that are full of fraudulent Big Pharma promo pieces that misrepresent the safety and efficacy of drugs currently on the market, and a large percentage of doctors on the take from Big Pharma.
Big Pharma Wins Key Amendment Votes
On the final day it all boiled down to two keys votes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: When studying the actions of the FDA, the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society and the behavior of doctors, medical journals and drug companies, the phrase "evil empire" quickly comes to mind. Modern medicine is a medical racket, a drug monopoly and disease treatment scam that has been foisted upon the people of western nations (America, Canada, United Kingdom, etc.) in order to maximize corporate profits. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In medical journals and in the popular media, one of the most infamous cigarette advertising slogans was associated with the Camel brand: "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette." The campaign began in 1946 and ran for eight years in magazines and on the radio. The ads included this message:
"Family physicians, surgeons, diagnosticians, nose and throat specialists, doctors in every branch of medicine... a total of 113,597 doctors... were asked the question: 'What cigarette do you smoke?' And more of them named Camel as their smoke than any other cigarette! |
Melody Petersen
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| In the past, he said, he had always placed great confidence in the editorials he read in medical journals. He had believed that the editorialists were providing independent and expert reviews of the medications they described. Now a PR firm was on the phone, explaining that it was writing some of these editorials. Curious, he asked Edelman to send him more information about what the firm did. A packet soon arrived in the mail. It included examples of other published papers and editorials that Edelman had written for its pharmaceutical clients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But the medical journals and the mainstream media will report is at a "one percent increase."
You see how the game is played? Here's the con:
All statistics on the dangers of prescription drugs are reported as absolute risk to make the numbers seem smaller (and make drugs seem safe).
All statistics on the dangers of synthetic vitamins are reported as relative risk to make the numbers seem larger (and vitamins seem dangerous).
And this is how conventional medicine lies with statistics. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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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. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 These therapeutic protocols are evidence-based in scientific literature and clinical practice, as the many references to peer-reviewed articles and ref-ereed medical journals in this book testify.
Holistic Perspective
Naturopathic medicine approaches the patient from a holistic perspective. The role of the naturopathic physician is to support the self-healing ability of the whole being, in contrast to the symptom management we see in conventional surgical and pharmaceutical medicine, where each organ in the body has its own specialist. |
| Instead of starting from scratch with each new condition, the student can draw upon the substantial knowledge and clinical experience accumulated in these pages, as well as quickly call up the many scientific references provided from recent literature in medical journals, naturopathic and botanical medicine publications, and endocrinology textbooks.
Practicing physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals will also find this book a useful reference. |
Jack Challem
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 For more than twenty-five years, I have been reading scientific and medical journals; talking with nutritionally oriented biologists, biochemists, and physicians; and writing about how vitamins, minerals, and other aspects of nutrition can greatly improve health. I have also published original research articles in medical journals, something rare for nutrition writers. Though I am not a medical scientist, I have a solid understanding of the science behind the health benefits of nutrition and supplements. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 The message is clear: The studies published in even the most prestigious medical journals, which physicians have long relied on, are subject to corruption when it comes to psychiatric drugs. They are a biased, deceitful source of information and, sadly, few alternatives exist. The pharmaceutical companies have mostly taken over what used to be mechanisms for the dissemination of objective scientific results. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 Several case reports published in medical journals demonstrated an improvement in lupus after treatment with testosterone9 or related synthetic hormones.
Nutritional Supplements
Essential fatty acids have anti-inflammatory effects, and they might therefore help reduce some of the inflammation that characterizes autoimmune disease. In a genetic strain of mouse that spontaneously develops a lupus-like disease, supplementing the diet with omega-3 fatty acids derived from fish oil or flaxseed oil reduced the severity of the disease. |
Jack Challem
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 But despite considerable attention to homocysteine in the medical journals, most physicians see it only as a risk factor for heart disease, not as a sign of seriously impaired methylation and chemical reactions throughout the body. Furthermore, excess homocysteine is also toxic to the methylation process and to many different types of cells in the body, likely damaging brain cells and creating mutations that give rise to some cancer cells. |
Jacky Law
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 Doctors like Professor Freemantle and others cited in this book may be invaluable in highlighting the other side of the pharma story in their medical journals. But doctors have problems of their own adapting to autonomous patients and policies that aim to ensure their views are central to consultations. And as the second line of defence against an industry that would have as many people as possible on medication, they too are being judged as failing. |
Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.
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 Unfortunately, such trials need to appear in leading medical journals before the conventional medical community will take notice of the potential applications of Rhodiola rosea in modern clinical practice. Publication in major medical journals also could increase media coverage of herbs like Rhodiola rosea and thus promote their inclusion in a rational regimen of dietary supplementation for millions of consumers who are looking for ways to increase energy, reduce stress, and optimize their well-being. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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| Martin Keller, head of Brown University's Department of Psychiatry, had received $500,000 the prior year in consulting fees from the very same pharmaceutical companies whose products he praised in medical journals and had used federal funds to study. The striking thing about this story is not that it happened, but how standard the practice has become.
And what of Karen Dineen Wagner, M.D., Ph.D., as a purveyor of science and a patient advocate? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The FDA pretends to protect the safety of the public. medical journals pretend to print only rigorous, scientifically-sound research papers. Drug companies pretend to care about the lives and health of patients. Non-profit disease front groups pretend to be searching for the cure while, in reality, most of them are only searching for more ways to recruit patients into conventional medicine treatments like drugs, surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.
How do we know it's all pretend? |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 For many years, the major medical journals have been anti-vitamin. Faced with overwhelming evidence of the health benefits of nutritional supplement support, they are changing their tune.
In a rather astounding recent article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, it stated, "It appears prudent for all adults to take vitamin supplements."337 The surprising aspect of this article is that this is mainstream medicine telling the world that even basic vitamins and antioxidants can prevent serious disease. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 This conclusion came in a review of major studies published in three influential medical journals, including forty-five highly publicized studies that initially claimed a drug or other treatment worked. Subsequent research totally contradicted the results of almost twenty percent of the first studies. Here is the scary part: "Contradicted and potentially exaggerated findings are not uncommon in the most visible and most influential original research"! |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Only later did the parents learn, by reading various medical journals, that the state-of-the-art chemotherapy recommended by the doctors was proven to be ineffective for young children. Various medical journals reported that the drug Alexander was given caused seizures, dementia and death, and even caused cancer itself. This state-of-the-art chemotherapy was performed at a prestigious children's hospital.
The parents found that there were other treatments that were potentially far less dangerous but, according to FDA rules, could not be administered. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The gatekeepers are, of course, the heads of the American Medical Association and American Heart Association and people who decide what gets printed in medical journals. Meanwhile, the only organizations that can afford to conduct studies that are considered valid are the highly profitable drug companies. So, of course, the only thing that is "proven," according to organized medicine's twisted version of scientific proof, is pharmaceuticals. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 The psychiatric journals which publish a disproportionate number of articles on antidepressants and antipsychotics have many more pages of drug advertisements than the general medical journals. The American Journal of Psychiatry, the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association, will typically have over 50 pages(!) of drug ads before the articles begin. As you might suspect, they refuse to require authors who own stock in the drug companies whose drugs they research and write about to disclose these or any other financial ties. |
| Ads in medical journals from those years can still be seen in any large library, and they are convincing. Older women with disfiguring humps, X-rays of weak bones and other creative ads all proclaimed, "Avoid osteoporosis."
Of course, ads from drug companies are seen in a very different light than information coming from non-profits. When we know that a group has been organized for the sole purpose of benefitting the rest of us, we are more open to their message. So when the National Osteoporosis Foundation began encouraging estrogen use, its recommendation had great influence. |
| Research found in other medical journals makes it to popular media outlets less frequently. But there are other ways to get medical information into the mass media. Being sensational and being willing to spend lots of money on marketing can work wonders.
Promotion by Drug Companies
New York gynecologist Dr. Robert A. Wilson believed that spreading the hormone replacement message was so important that he quit his private practice, established the Wilson Research Foundation and began working on a book which he hoped would widely educate the public. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| How can you believe what is written in medical journals and magazines when the authors of the articles are being paid by drug or supplement manufacturers to say either positive things or negative things about a particular subject or product? How can you believe any scientific study when we know they are virtually all bought and paid for, directly or indirectly, from a company that has a financial interest in what the study says? |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| The British Medical Journal Controversy
The British Medical Journal is considered one of the world's most important and respected medical journals. On New Year's Day 2005, the BMJ published an article by Jeanne Lenzer which indicated that Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac, had failed to disclose documents during a lawsuit that found Prozac could increase the risk of aggressive behavior and suicide.1
Overnight tens of millions heard the story as the report was passed along by the news media. The implications for Lilly were horrendous. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| THE VALUE OF ESTRIOL
There have been several lone voices in the main medical journals pointing out the value of estriol over the years.572 As far back as 1966, the Journal of the American Medical Association published research that showed women with breast cancer had much less estriol than women without breast cancer.573 New interest in estriol research is fueled by the proven dangers of estradiol and estrone replacement therapy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| By sheer coincidence, most medical journals are also largely funded by drug money (advertising dollars from drug companies).
Non-profit disease groups: They pretend to be raising money to find the so-called "cures" for their flagship disease (breast cancer, for example), but in reality they are more interested in the business of promoting a particular disease as a way to increase disease screening, diagnosis and treatment with expensive drugs (that just happen to be made by the same companies that help fund these non-profit disease front groups). |
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