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| Title : DIET: Diet, Chemotheraphy, and the Truth: How to Win the War on Cancer |
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| Author : Dr. Fuhrman Online |
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| Website : http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/cat-colon-cancer.html |
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| Abstract : We live in an era where the majority of Americans think that diseases strike us because of either misfortune, genetics, or unknown factors beyond our control. When serious disease “strikes,” we run to doctors and expect them to fix us with a pill. Most people have no idea that most diseases—including cancers, heart disease, strokes, and diabetes—are the result of nutritional folly. |
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| Title : DIET: Healing Power of Whole Foods |
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| Author : Patrick Quillin |
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| Website : http://nutritioncancer.com/bcnchapters/bcwnchapter_12.htm |
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| Abstract : Cancer patients often feel like a child in a wicked divorce custody battle. The oncologist tells the patient "Don't take that nutrition therapy. It is nothing more than expensive urine. And it will reduce the effectiveness of my chemo and radiation therapies." The nutritionist tells the same patient "Don't take that poisonous chemo or radiation therapy. It will do you no good." In fact, when the oncologist and nutritionist work together, both are more successful at helping the cancer patient. Nutrients make medical therapy more toxic to the tumor and less toxic to the patient.... |
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| Title : EDUCATION: Alternative therapies big business for medical schools |
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| Author : M. Paul Jackson |
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| Website : http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2.... |
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| Abstract : Once thought of as just a fad, alternative therapies have become anything but - big business.
More hospitals and medical schools are beginning to offer programs teaching alternative therapies to students, because more patients are demanding alternative treatments …
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| Title : ETHICS: British scientist challenges pharmaceutical company over research paper |
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| Author : Chris Talbot |
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| Website : http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jan2006/scie-j28.shtml |
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| Abstract : A British scientist, Dr. Aubrey Blumsohn, has criticised a major pharmaceutical company’s “unethical behaviour” for putting forward a research paper in his name without giving him proper access to the data on which the investigation was based. |
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| Title : ETHICS: Health Industry Practices That Create Conflicts of Interest |
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| Author : Troyen A. Brennan, MD, MPH; David J. Rothman, PhD; Linda Blank; David Blumenthal, MD, MPP; Susan C. Chimonas, PhD; Jordan J. Cohen, MD; Janlori Goldman, JD; Jerome P. Kassirer, MD; Harry Kimball, MD; James Naughton, MD; Neil Smelser, PhD |
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| Website : http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/295/4/429 |
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| Abstract : Writing in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association, a group of medical academics have urged doctors in hospitals to refuse taking gifts from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, because it damages the reputation of the profession. The JAMA article pointed out that drug companies alone spent US $13,000 a year per doctor on marketing activities, "the costs of which are reflected in higher drug prices." Roughly 90% of the drug industry's US$21 billion marketing budget is aimed at doctors.
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| Title : ETHICS: Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering |
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| Author : Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath & David Henry |
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| Website : http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/324/7342/886 |
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| Abstract : A lot of money can be made from healthy people who believe they are sick. Pharmaceutical companies sponsor diseases and promote them to prescribers and consumers. Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath, and David Henry give examples of "disease mongering" and suggest how to prevent the growth of this practice. |
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| Title : ETHICS: Study shows how tobacco firms recruited scientists covertly |
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| Author : Roger Dobson |
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| Website : http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/332/7537/321-a/DC1 |
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| Abstract : The tobacco industry recruited and managed an international network of more than 80 scientific and medical experts in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere in a bid to avoid regulations on secondhand smoke, a new report says. In one year, 1991, the budget for the programme for Europe alone was $3.3m (£1.9m, €2.8m). The aim of the programme was to enlist consultants who were prepared to publish research supporting the industry’s position that secondhand smoke was not dangerous and that ventilation provided a solution. These cronies are encouraged to prepare papers, participate in scientific societies with relevant areas of interest, and take active roles in scientific conferences. Where possible, they should be encouraged to provide statements or testimony for use before government commissions and information to the media. |
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| Title : ETHICS: The Cult of Mediocrity |
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| Author : Giovanni A. Fava |
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| Website : http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowPDF&Produ.... |
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| Abstract : In several European countries, research is … (in) the control of special interest groups, which disregard scientific merit and clinical value . When I asked … why he preferred to support a mediocre clinical scientist instead of a very talented researcher, he warned me about the destabilizing effects that talent could entail on academic assets… the cult of mediocrity is rapidly expanding.
The root of the phenomenon is … in the special interest groups which are the gate-keepers of corporate interest in scientific information Their members act as editors, reviewers and consultants to medical journals and nonprofit research organizations, with the task of systematically preventing dissemination of data and ideas which may be in conflict with their special interests. Antonuccio et al. provide a timely illustration of the dangers of corporate-driven, constrained clinical models in American mental health.
Mediocrity supports the power structure, which, in turn, rewards it adequately. An example may be provided by the interface between authorship, industry and science in the domain of therapeutics. Mediocre investigators would not object to ghostwriting and industry-controlled analysis of data, in what has been defined as ‘a business adopting the appearance of a science’. The industry, in turn, could reward the investigator not only in financial terms, but also in scientific prestige. It gets, in fact, its prodigal experts into leading roles in journals, medical associations and scientific meetings…
Why is talent so threatening? Because it is frequently associated with independent thinking, which undermines the power structure.
Published in: The Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Vol.74, No.1,2005 December 2004.
http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=Ausgabe&ProduktNr=223864&Ausgabe=230582 |
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| Title : MEDICAL: Another Way Hospitals Can Kill You. Top Hospitals Harming Hearts by Cooking with Trans Fat |
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| Website : http://www.cspinet.org/new/200602061.html |
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| Abstract : Eighteen of the nation's top hospitals are unnecessarily harming their faculties and staffs, their visitors, and some patients by serving foods prepared with partially hydrogenated oil-the biggest source of artery-clogging trans fat in the American diet. You can also go to this link for another write-up: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-02-06-hospital-fries_x.htm |
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| Title : MEDICAL: Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US |
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| Author : Dr. Joseph Mercola |
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| Website : http://www.mercola.com/2000/jul/30/doctors_death.htm |
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| Abstract : Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Causing 225,000 Deaths Every Year
What does the word iatrogenic mean? This term is defined as induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy. Used especially of a complication of treatment.
An estimated 44,000 to 98,000 among them die each year as a result of medical errors and 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!!
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