Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The recent study out of the new england journal of medicine had a headline like this: "Natural remedies don't work for arthritis." When you look at the data for mild arthritis, Celebrex and the natural remedies are about equally effective. For moderate to severe arthritis, the natural remedies are far more effective -- and the spin headline says, "Don't use natural remedies." Now, there are two things that help me figure out what's going on with that. One, it's in the new england journal of medicine, which almost never prints anything positive about natural remedies. |
Charles Barber
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 The new england journal of medicine, The Lancet, The British Medical Journal) can net the "author" up to $20,ooo.83 A 1998 review of articles published in leading journals such as The Journal of the American Medical Association and The new england journal of medicine found that 11 percent were ghostwritten. The fact that authors were paid to write the articles for the drug companies is not disclosed to the reader. Some observers have called
*Warfarin, with its ungainly name, was surely brought to market before the naming of drugs became a sophisticated business. |
Anne Harrington
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 In that year, an article appeared in the new england journal of medicine that reported the results of a follow-up study of the subjects who had participated in the Western Collaborative Group Study. When assessed at eight and a half years as already mentioned, it appeared that men with Type A traits were twice as likely to die of heart attacks as the so-called Type B men. On a longer timescale, however, the trend had failed to hold—in fact, the follow-up data showed heart disease to be modestly lower among Type A than among Type B men. |
Bill Sardi
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 In one of the three studies reported by the new england journal of medicine, 143 of 1,694 patients receiving Herceptin dropped out of the study because of adverse events. This may have skewed the results. Researchers acknowledge that "we only have an incomplete picture of the risks associated with Herceptin. The risk of heart failure was low, but this could change over time. |
| In October, these studies were finally reported in the new england journal of medicine. In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Gabriel Hortobagyi described the results as "simply stunning" and "revolutionary". He even went so far as to say that Herceptin was "maybe even a cure" for breast cancer. Naturally this comment was picked up and repeated across the world, fuelling demand for rapid access to Herceptin. The excitement is premature. It is profoundly misleading to suggest, even rhetorically, that the published data may be indicative of a cure for breast cancer. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 A weak estrogenic and antiandrogenic effect resulting in prepubertal gynecomastia in boys was linked to the use of Lavender, along with tea tree oil, in a 2007 new england journal of medicine report (Henley, 2007). The volatile oil possesses a weak potential for sensitization. To prevent toxicity, no more than 2 drops of lavender oil should be taken internally (Fetrow & Avila, 1999). Dermatitis, irritation, and phototoxicity may occur after external application of lavender, and possibly limit the concentration of lavender oil that can be applied to the skin. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 According to a 1998 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine: "There were no significant differences for overall mortality regardless of symptoms, left ventricular function, or number of diseased vessels."24
Thus, we have two large studies, in which patients were randomly assigned treatment and control categories. Both were unable to demonstrate the effectiveness of bypass surgery. Add to that the incteased risk of stroke and the cognitive decline associated with bypass surgery.
"Caveat emptor," said Fran. "Let the buyer beware."
I could only shake my head. |
| Less poetically, it might have been an editorial in the new england journal of medicine.
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To mark the beginning of the third millennium, the editors of that prestigious, Harvard-based journal, had looked back on medicine's history. We didn't take too seriously their claim that "medicine is one of the few spheres of human activity in which the purposes are unambiguously altruistic." That type of self-serving ideology is pretty typical of any profession—our own included—and easy to dismiss. |
| Two years later, in The new england journal of medicine, Moertel still maintained that 5FU had no clinical value. Yet he called for continued clinical research on the drug, offering this remarkable conclusion: "Patients and their families have a compelling need for a basis of hope. If such hope is not offered, they will quickly seek it from the hands of quacks or charlatans."
Moertel's assertion was shocking and disturbing.
"We should stop deceiving patients," another physician replied in response: "To do less is to be a charlatan or a quack. |
| According to a 2002 study published in the new england journal of medicine, the much (and, in our view, appropriately) maligned PSA test misses four of five cancers in men under age sixty, and almost two-thirds in men over that age.27 "Men are now on notice," according to the New York Times: " 'passing' the prostate screening test is no guarantee that they are cancer free."28
False positives are an issue. Every medical test, including those for screening, also has the problem of false positives—abnormal result in a normal patient.
Once again, the ECG is a good example. |
| In 2002, two articles appeared in the new england journal of medicine suggesting the removal of the Fallopian tubes and the ovaries after the childbearing years for such women.34 Not only would such surgery prevent cancer of the ovaries, which is difficult to detect, it also purportedly reduces the rate of breast cancer. |
Andreas Moritz
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 According to the new england journal of medicine, "antiinflammatory drugs (prescription and over-the-counter medications, which include Advil, Motrin, Aleve, Ordus, aspirin, and over 20 others) alone cause over 16,500 deaths and over 103,000 hospitalizations per year just in the U.S." The amount of five major painkillers sold at retail establishments rose 90 percent between 1997 and 2005, according to an Associated Press analysis of statistics from the Drug Enforcement Administration.'
Even the smallest amount of aspirin triggers at least some degree of intestinal bleeding. |
Anne Harrington
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| In 1976, the editor of the Saturday Review and well-known liberal political analyst Norman Cousins authored a highly unusual paper that was published in the prestigious new england journal of medicine. The paper was called "Anatomy of an Illness (as Perceived by the Patient)," and it was an autobiographical account of a radical experiment in self-healing that Cousins had undertaken in the 1960s. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 A study in the prestigious new england journal of medicine found that a diet with 50 g of fiber a day lowered insulin levels in the blood. And another study, by David Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D., published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that people who consumed the most fiber gained the least weight over a period of ten years.
My friend, naturopath physician Andrew Rubman, N.D., is bullish on konjac fiber. The main ingredient in konjac root is a water-soluble dietary fiber called glucomannan, which is made from mannose and glucose sugars. |
Bill Sardi
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Source: Cancer Causes & Control 7: S49-54, 1996
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This above chart was extracted directly from The new england journal of medicine 1994 report involving beta carotene supplements. Notice that the increased risk between beta carotene and placebo pills is hardly discernible, less than 1 percent. When the incidence of a disease is very low, in this case around 4 percent, any small difference will appear to be significant. The actual difference in risk for lung cancer incidence, in hard numbers, was less than 1 percent, but the relative difference was 18 percent. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Their report, which was published in the new england journal of medicine in October 2004, covered the medical records of more than 4,400 Medicaid patients, averaging 15 years per patient. Approximately 1,475 subjects suffered cardiac arrest during the study period. When the complete medication use of each subject was analyzed, researchers came up with these results:
• The rate of sudden death from cardiac causes was twice as high among patients using erythromycin compared to subjects that didn't use the antibiotic. |
| According to a report published in the new england journal of medicine (October 15, 2004), the two stents that are currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Cordis Cypher sirolimus-eluting stent and the Boston Scientific Taxus Express paclitaxel-eluting stent, have been associated with highly publicized adverse events after they were approved for marketing.
Bypass, angioplasty and stent operations are really not about preventing heart attacks per se. The obvious purpose of these procedures is symptom relief. |
| In a groundbreaking study published in the new england journal of medicine in 2002, doctors from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital showed that a simple blood test, called C-Reactive Protein
(CRP), was able to predict which patients are most likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke. CRP is a protein produced by the liver in reaction to the immune system's inflammatory response. This blood test measures the presence and intensity of inflammation in the walls of the blood vessels. |
| Strokes: According to research published in The new england journal of medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by stroke by as much as 40 percent!
Please note that the above food recommendations do not apply to all body types equally. Before you start eating these foods, verify with your body type food charts whether these foods are beneficial for you or not
SHOULD WE EAT ORGANIC FOODS?
For the reasons given below, the answer is a definite "yes. |
| The results of the very large Nurses' Health Study, published in 1995 by the new england journal of medicine, found that for HRT-using women over 60, the risk of breast cancer was 71 percent. This is a severe blow to those doctors who recommend that women take HRT forever, or for at least for ten years after the onset of menopause. In addition, one study by the American Cancer Society involving 200,000 menopausal women found that those who stay on HRT for more than 10 years show a 70 percent increase in ovarian cancer over those who use HRT for a shorter period of time. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| In an article in the prestigious new england journal of medicine, researchers from the department of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine found that a high level of homocysteine in the blood "is a strong, independent risk factor for the development of dementia and Alzheimer's disease." Homocysteine levels are easily brought back down by vitamin B12, vitamin B6, and folic acid. It is quite common for the elderly to be deficient in B12. |
| Written by someone who ought to know—the former editor-in-chief of the prestigious new england journal of medicine and a senior lecturer in the department of social medicine at Harvard Medical School. 'Nuf said.
Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat by Fran Hawthorne. A terrific and well-researched book that also happens to be a page-turner!
Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds and Bodies by Greg Critser. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| A month later, Spiegel responded in an editorial in the new england journal of medicine. One reason for the recent negative findings, he asserted, is that since his original study, "psychosocial support for patients with cancer has improved substantially." Therefore, all patients, even those in control groups, are "less likely now to be emotionally isolated during their illness." It is well-documented that the "secrecy that surrounded cancer in the medical practice of yesteryear undermined rather than enhanced the patient's well being. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 In 1956, the new england journal of medicine reported the first U.S. case of creosote-telated carcinoma.49 In 1956, Peyton Rous, a preeminent cancer researcher, confirmed that commercial wood preservatives cause cancer in laboratory mice, although he did so not as the result of an intentional experiment.50 Rathet, Rous's observations involved mice bred from a new strain, selected for their cancer susceptibility, and raised in standard (for that time) preservative-treated wooden boxes; they developed multiple types of cancer. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 When I was a medical student at Duke in 1985, I distinctly remember sitting on the front porch of my house in Durham, North Carolina, and reading an article in The new england journal of medicine that described how the Inuit people of the Arctic, who had a diet high in fish and low in other meat, had much lower rates of heart disease. That observation led to the idea that the omega-3 fatty acids in fish prevented heart disease, which naturally led aggressive marketers to try to put it in a pill or a bottle and sell it. |
| Kathy Wolski, MPH, reported in 2007 in the new england journal of medicine a 43% increase in heart attacks with Avandia compared to other treatments for diabetes. In other words, a drug given to prevent the consequences of diabetes (including cardiovascular events) actually increases them.
GLITAZONES AND WEIGHT GAIN
Weight gain is one of the most troubling side effects of medications for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Studies have consistently shown that glitazones cause weight gain. |
| Rothman and colleagues reported in the new england journal of medicine in 1995 that taking high doses of vitamin A during pregnancy was associated with an increase in birth defects, primarily deformations of nervous tissue and the heart. The risk of birth defects was increased 2.6-fold in women who took supplements that when combined with food intake provided less than double the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA). In other words, if women took any supplements, they increased the risk of birth defects. |
Ray D. Strand
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 In 1997 the new england journal of medicine reviewed several studies involving women who took estrogen replacement for more than five to ten years. The results shocked reviewers, revealing more than a 40 percent increase in breast cancer. The pharmaceutical companies quickly responded to this negative report by convincing the doctors that the benefits of HRT far outweighed the risks, often boasting that other clinical trials had shown that patients who took HRT decreased their risk of heart attacks, strokes, and Alzheimer's dementia. |
| In a 1989 issue of the new england journal of medicine, Dr. Daniel Steinberg postulated that if patients had adequate antioxidants on board to quell oxidization, the LDL cholesterol would not become bad.3
In the years since Dr. Steinberg's theory was released, hundreds of studies have been conducted in an attempt to either prove or disprove his theory.
You can appreciate why scientists and researchers met Dr. Steinberg's new theory with such enthusiasm. After all, of the approximately 1. |
| This is why I recommend supplementation of vitamin D by using the active form, D3.
The new england journal of medicine reported a study in which researchers looked at the level of vitamin D in 290 consecutive patients admitted to the medical ward of Massachusetts General Hospital. These were patients who had been normally active and were not admitted from a nursing home. Hospital staff checked their vitamin D levels and found that 93 percent were deficient. Surprisingly, those patients who were taking a multiple vitamin were also deficient in their vitamin D levels 93 percent of the time. |
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