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November
Merck has withdrawn
its painkiller Vioxx after it was linked
to an increased risk of heart attacks and
strokes among patients who had taken the
drug for longer than a year. It has been
estimated that the drug may have killed
up to 55,000 people. Now, Dr David Graham,
a leading Food and Drug Administration
official has told a Senate hearing last
week that GlaxoSmithKline's asthma drug
Serevent, AstraZeneca's cholesterol
fighter Crestor, Pfizer's arthritis
treatment Bextra, Roche's acne treatment
Accutane and Abbot Laboratories' weight
loss drug Meridia could all have
unacceptable risks.
The FDA had approved Vioxx for use among
children just days before it was removed
from the market. Thank goodness some
members of the medical profession are
looking out for us.
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Xrays are
dangerous, so thank goodness for new
scanning techniques?
Apparently the
patient who undergoes a full-body CT (computed
tomography) scan is being exposed to a
radiation level equivalent to that from
the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. As a result up to one in 400
patients who are scanned will go on to
develop a fatal cancer. Annual
scans increase the risk to 1 in 25.
Source: Radiology,
2004; 232: 735-8
According to the
Journal of the American Medical
Association 2004; 292: 1669, CT scans
have "long been controversial
because of uncertainties surrounding
their ability to detect hidden disease".
Does that mean they're dangerous and
they don't even work for some
applications?
Finally, British
Medical Journal 2004; 329: 849-51 reports
that Helical computed tomography causes
fatal cancer in at least 1 in
1000 children, and adults who have a
thallium scintigraphy run a similar risk.
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Did anyone see the Horizon programme
on BBC2 which showed that megadoses of
vitamins are either a waste of money or
dangerous?
No mention was made of the fact that
vitamins need minerals to work. Did their
subjects have enough minerals in their
system for the vitamins to operate?
The programme said that Dr Linus Pauling
was wrong when he said that high doses of
vitamin A ward off colds. What about when
he said "you can trace every
sickness, every disease, and every
ailment to a mineral deficiency"?
What is the effect of peole taking normal
supplemental (not mega-) doses along with
minerals?
That worked for me.
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September 9th. Two countries, 2
headlines:
UK - MMR triple vaccines is safe and does
not cause autism. Hooray.
Denmark - MMR triple vaccine definitely
increases the risk of autism by 850%.
Why the discrepancy? In the UK the
Government leans on the press to toe the
line on health issues. The press were
given a government-approved study
reported in The Lancet of 5,763
Danish children over a period of 4 years.
Guess what? It generally takes 5 years
for autism to develop. The Danish story
was based on a study of 537,304 children
over a period of 5 years.
The government scientists are now working
on a vaccine for 5 different diseases.
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According to The Times,
researchers from University College
London found that 22% of GPs are
suffering from mental health problems.
These problems mostly did not arise as a
result of stress at work, but were
present before training. Is there
something about neurotic people that
makes them want to become doctors?
Extract from their website:
The
Times
WED 18 AUG 2004
Ed: 3C
Pg: 1
Word Count: 365 |
Doctors
suffering from an epidemic of
stress |
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| NEARLY a
quarter of doctors are so
stressed that they would be
listed as psychiatric cases if
they were seen by a mental health
specialist. A 12-year study to
assess doctors' vulnerability to
career burnout, depression and
disillusionment showed that... |
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July 28, 2004. Riboflavin (vitamin B2)
supplements ease migraine according to a
new report from researchers at the
University of Berlin. The Foods Standards
Agency says that supplements of
riboflavin are dangerous above 40mg a day,
with the recommended amount being just
over 1g. This is one of the vitamins
added to breakfast cereals in tiny
amounts. The researchers gave sufferers
400mg a day (ten times the FSA's danger
level) and found no adverse effects at
all, but attacks fell by a half and some
sufferers needed 35% fewer pain killers
for the attacks they did get. I have yet
to find out why the FSA is so opposed to
additives in view of the overwhelming
evidence in their favour. Report here
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| July 2004 Goat serum injections help
MS sufferers. Trials are so impressive
that hundreds of patients are being
treated on compassionate grounds. If MS
affects the optic nerve it can lead to
partial or complete blindness. Patients
given the serum report eyesight returning
to, or close to, normal. Read the Daily Mail's
report here (I'm not sure how long it
will stay online).
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| This report comes from Neways USA. It
is still called ProMega in UK if anybody's
interested in a trial at wholesale prices
(as are all products I sell) ProMass™
New study published shows CLA
reduces body fat by 9%.
ProMass, formerly called ProMega, is
Neways' concentrated Conjugated Linoleic
Acid (CLA) supplement, providing 438 mg
of CLA in each capsule. Early research
results have demonstrated that CLA can
potentially help individuals interested
in weight management decrease their
overall body fat.
In a year-long study recently
published in the highly-respected
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,
participants who took CLA supplements
experienced a nine percent reduction in
body fat as well as a two percent
increase in lean muscle mass. The
subjects of the study were all moderately
overweight but otherwise healthy; and
notably, these results were achieved
without any changes in diet or exercise
habits.
This new study was both randomized and
double blind, the gold standard for
scientific studies. This means that
participants were randomly assigned to
either the control group or one of the
two experimental groups. In addition,
neither the participants nor the nurses
administering the supplements knew who
were receiving the CLA supplements and
who were receiving the placebo. Because
of the strict scientific procedures used
in this study, the impressive results
that were recorded are very solid.
The results of this research are
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June 2004 - The Food Standards Agency
(Government health experts) warns that
oily fish contain high amounts of dioxins
and PCBs which have been linked to cancer
and damage to the unborn and to immune
systems. Pregnant women are also advised
to avoid tuna because of mercury levels (see
next item for an alternative).
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May 2004 A look into the Archives of
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (2003;
127: 1603-05) reveals that scientists at
Massachusets General Hospital have been
investigating supplements. They found
that supplements of Omega-3 fatty acids
were contaminated with mercury at levels
ranging from "undetectable" to
"negligible" whilst oil taken
directly from fish such as salmon and
swordfish contained mercury levels
ranging from "medium" to "high".
Their conclusion was that Omega-3
supplements are better for you than
eating fish.
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| May 2004 The Guardian newspaper is
running a 4-week supplement on Saturdays
beginning on the 8th about poisons in the
environment. The 1st issue was all about
bathroom/cosmetics. Watch out for more!
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The New Scientist reports that women
who are deficient in iron have poor
memories and supplements can improve them
dramatically. Click here to see the
report.
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As you may be aware the EU is trying
to ban many supplements or force them to
be reduced in potency to near-ineffectiveness.
The Conservative Party is trying to
collect a million UK online votes against
this. Please help by making your vote at vitamins . I'm not a
Conservative, but have voted.
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| April 2004 Flame retardant
chemicals are added by law to soft
furnishings in order to save lives. Those
same chemicals are now turning up in fish
and breast milk and are endangering lives.
They are said to maybe cause cancer,
thyroid dysfunction, and disruption of
brain development amongst other things.
The Marin Independent Journal reports
that a Bill is now going through the
American Senate to ban some of these
toxic chemicals.
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| New Scientist report March 2004: How
green tea can combat cancer
THE secret of green tea's anti-cancer
properties has been uncovered.
Numerous studies suggest that green
tea helps protect against a range of
cancers, including lung, prostate and
breast cancer. This has been attributed
to an antioxidant called epigallocatechin
gallate (EGCG). Now Hirofumi Tachibana's
team at Kyushu University in Japan has
shown that EGCG inhibits tumour cell
growth by binding to a receptor on cells
called 67 LR. A variety of tumours
produce abnormally high levels of 67 LR,
and the receptor is thought to be
involved in the spread of cancers through
the body.
As part of the work, the team showed
that the growth of human lung cancer
cells that have the receptor slows
significantly when they are exposed to
EGCG at the concentrations reached in the
body after drinking just two or three
cups of green tea (Nature Structural
and Molecular Biology, DOI: 10.1038/
nsmb743).
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| Still think doctor knows best? Here's
another report from New Scientist. Read more here |
| Wrong diagnoses are killing
patients |
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| 19:00 18 February 04 |
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| Many patients in intensive care units
are being wrongly diagnosed, according to
a study in a UK hospital. Some are dying
because doctors fail to spot major
conditions such as heart attacks, cancer
and pulmonary embolism. The reason,
experts say, is not incompetence but that
so few post-mortems are now performed
that doctors cannot learn from their
mistakes. Fang Gao Smith, a consultant
in intensive care medicine at Birmingham
Heartlands Hospital, and her team checked
the accuracy of diagnoses by comparing
post-mortem results with patients'
medical records. In 39 per cent of cases,
they found major problems had been missed.
The problem is not limited to one
hospital, or to the UK. Gao Smith says
her findings are consistent with other
studies done in Europe and the US. She
thinks doctors place too much faith in
sophisticated scanners when making
diagnoses, and are failing to learn from
their mistakes because fewer and fewer
autopsies are being done, both in the UK
and the US.
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