Dr. Steve Blake
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 By 1617, John Woodall, a surgeon for the british East India Company, published a cure for scurvy—lemon juice.
James Lind was another british surgeon. He wrote Treatise on the Scurvy in 1753. James Lind gave some sailors two oranges and one lemon each day, while other sailors received cider, vinegar, or other possible scurvy cures. This may have been the first scientific nutrition experiment in the history of science. He proved that fresh citrus fruit prevented and cured scurvy. By 1795, limes were standard supplements on british ships and scurvy was no longer a problem. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Nonetheless, when hormone levels among Chinese women were compared with those of british women,38 Chinese estrogen levels were only about one-half those of the british women, who have an equivalent hormone profile to that of American women. Because the length of the reproductive life of a Chinese woman is only about 75% of that of the british (or American) woman, this means that with lower estrogen levels, the Chinese woman only experiences about 35-40% of the lifetime estrogen exposure of british (and American) women. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| James Lind was another british surgeon. He wrote Treatise on the Scurvy in 1753. James Lind gave some sailors two oranges and one lemon each day, while other sailors received cider, vinegar, or other possible scurvy cures. This may have been the first scientific nutrition experiment in the history of science. He proved that fresh citrus fruit prevented and cured scurvy. By 1795, limes were standard supplements on british ships and scurvy was no longer a problem. british seamen are called "limeys" to this day because of this custom. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| Nonetheless, when hormone levels among Chinese women were compared with those of british women,38 Chinese estrogen levels were only about one-half those of the british women, who have an equivalent hormone profile to that of American women. Because the length of the reproductive life of a Chinese woman is only about 75% of that of the british (or American) woman, this means that with lower estrogen levels, the Chinese woman only experiences about 35-40% of the lifetime estrogen exposure of british (and American) women. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 In the view of Richard Horton, a british physician and editor of the prestigious medical journal the Lancet, "Journals have devolved into information-laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry."
There is a long list of ways in which companies have been known to launder clinical research. In a hilarious spoof in the british journal BMJ titled
"HARLOT pic: An Amalgamation of the World's Two Oldest Professions," respected british clinical researchers David Sackett and Andrew Oxman list at least thirteen different methods for making drugs (and devices) look better than they really are. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Further information in:
British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, british Herbal Medicine Association, UK 1983.
Hegnauer R, Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11: Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin 1962-1997.
Stone Root
See Collinsonia Canadensis
Storax
See Liquidambar Orientalis
Strawberry Leaf
See Frag aria Vesca
Strophanthus Species
Strophanthus
DESCRIPTION
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts are the ripe seeds, which have been freed from their appendages and dried. Most of the species are poisonous. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| By 1795, limes were standard supplements on british ships and scurvy was no longer a problem. british seamen are called "limeys" to this day because of this custom. Captain James Cook sailed to the Hawaiian Islands using sauerkraut for his vitamin C and lost no men to scurvy.
DISCOVERY OF ASCORBIC ACID
Until the early twentieth century, the factor in these foods that prevented scurvy was an unknown antiscorbutic (prevents scurvy) factor. In 1912, Casimir Funk introduced his theory that scurvy is due to the absence of an "anti-scurvy vitamine." This factor was named vitamin C in the 1920s. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Based on the evidence, in 2006 the british National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommended that donepezil not be used for the treatment of severe or mild Alzheimer's because its modest efficacy did not justify its side effects and expense. This naturally stirred up a firestorm of controversy, with the pharmaceutical industry arguing that NICE was advocating withholding medication from patients with severe Alzheimer's to save money for the british health-care system. |
| I have focused on the major and most respected and reliable journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, british Medical Journal, and The Lancet.
I have read and analyzed all of the articles in these journals as well as editorials and news articles {British Medical Journal is the best for medical news reporting) for information relevant to drug safety. Following footnotes and leads from articles in these journals to other research and reports, I have drilled deeply into drug research and outcomes. |
Ron Garner
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 A good example is how Mahatma Gandhi, through the power of passive resistance and standing on truth and human dignity, broke the oppression of the british Empire and its subjugation of the people of India to win independence in 1948. Gandhi used power; the british tried to use force. True power always wins in the end.
ACCESSING OUR SUBCONSCIOUS POWER
The powerhouse of our lives is our subconscious mind. Knowing how to connect to it is key to creating the life we want. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| In a hilarious spoof in the british journal BMJ titled
"HARLOT pic: An Amalgamation of the World's Two Oldest Professions," respected british clinical researchers David Sackett and Andrew Oxman list at least thirteen different methods for making drugs (and devices) look better than they really are. Their imaginary corporation, HARLOT pic (for How to Achieve Positive Results Without Actually Lying to Overcome the Truth), offers to help "the manufacturers of dodgy drugs and devices" increase market share by cooking the data. |
Mark Sircus
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 British Medical Journal 1974 vol. 1 p. 436, Lancet Vol. 2 p. 1313, R. Levy JAMA Feb 15, 1980
4 R. Peto british Medical Journal 1988 vol. 296 pg. 313-6
5 Source: www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/jameslO.htm
6 Source: http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/965927519.html
7 The Magnesium Solution for High Blood Pressure by Dr. Jay Cohen
8 One action of neuroprotective agents limits acute injury to neurons in the penumbra region or rim of the infarct after ischemia. Neurons in the penumbra are less likely to suffer irreversible injury at early time points than are neurons in the infarct core. |
Dawson Church
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 Robin Kelly, a british physician, has accumulated much of the research on the properties of microtubules. Since they are resonant structures, he asks, what is the signal with which they may be resonating? He speculates that they receive signals from the quantum field, and play a role in the communication between one cell and another, and between all cells and the quantum field. Kelly describes how, "In the early 1990s a british physicist, Sir Roger Penrose, joined forces with an American anaesthetist, Dr. Stuart Hameroff, as both were intrigued by these microtubules. |
Stacy Malkan
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 The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, we conducted a thorough internet search and found hundreds of uses of that slogan in diverse sources, including british Broadcasting Corp., a television series exploring globalization, a children's book on self esteem, a Star Wars website, a british firefighters' union and a Nurse & Midwives fair pay campaign." Nevertheless, the campaign removed the slogan at L'Oreal's request and now had a few requests for L'Oreal in return. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| By 1795, limes were standard supplements on british ships and scurvy was no longer a problem. british seamen are called "limeys" to this day because of this custom. Captain James Cook sailed to the Hawaiian Islands using sauerkraut for his vitamin C and lost no men to scurvy.
DISCOVERY OF ASCORBIC ACID
Until the early twentieth century, the factor in these foods that prevented scurvy was an unknown antiscorbutic (prevents scurvy) factor. In 1912, Casimir Funk introduced his theory that scurvy is due to the absence of an "anti-scurvy vitamine." This factor was named vitamin C in the 1920s. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the british or Americans.
4. The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the british or Americans.
5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than the british or Americans.
Conclusion: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.
I hope you see what I'm getting at.
Here's what actually happens. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| In a hilarious spoof in the british journal BMJ titled
"HARLOT pic: An Amalgamation of the World's Two Oldest Professions," respected british clinical researchers David Sackett and Andrew Oxman list at least thirteen different methods for making drugs (and devices) look better than they really are. Their imaginary corporation, HARLOT pic (for How to Achieve Positive Results Without Actually Lying to Overcome the Truth), offers to help "the manufacturers of dodgy drugs and devices" increase market share by cooking the data. |
Mark Schapiro
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 InterReg, Ltd., a british firm that provides regulatory-status reports from around the world to the automobile and other industries.27
Martha Bucknell, executive director of the Auto Dismantlers Association in California, said that she had never heard of GADSL, and had seen no changes in the content of automobiles that her membership uses to rebuild old cars or sell for scrap. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Robert Fortune, a british adventurer, pretends to be a Chinese merchant in order to learn the secrets of Chinese tea cultivation.
1869 The coffee crop in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) is decimated by fungus. Tea crops are grown as a replacement and become an important export product for this country.
Today Tea's popularity continues to grow as scientific research details the health benefits of this beverage.
Emperor Shen Nong (who lived at about the same time as Moses) believed that boiling water before drinking it was a key to continued good health. |
| These claims may at first glance seem like hyperbole, but modern research is proving that many of the early claims for tea were basically true.
The british government, taking advantage of tea's growing popularity, levied a tax on imported tea in 1660. This tax remained in place until the 1780s, although many Englishmen, having become voracious in their appetite for tea, found ways around the tax. |
| Most of the tea arriving on british shores made it there by way of the East India Company, which was chartered in 1599 with Queen Elizabeth's approval. In the early days, tea was only an incidental commodity, while silk, coffee, and spices powered this trading company. However, the English were destined to become one of the most tea-loving countries, and they soon expanded the importation of tea. By 1669, the East India Company was importing tea from China regularly. In that year, about 150 pounds of tea was shipped to England. |
Mark Schapiro
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| I was greeted by Joris Pollet, a genial Belgian who is the company's associate director for corporate external relations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, and his british colleague in the external-relations department, Lucy Hodgson. They walked me along shaded pathways reminiscent of a community-college campus—past low-slung buildings now filled with scientists, pollsters, and sales representatives, the men and women behind one of the biggest chemical users for consumer products on earth. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| A group of colonists known as the Sons of Liberty, incensed by what they regarded as excessive taxation by the british government, dressed up as Indians and emptied the cargo of tea chests from the East India Company's ships moored in Boston Harbor, a cargo that would be valued at more than $200 million today. England was annoyed. One of the officially stated purposes of the tax was to pay for the maintenance of troops to protect the colonists and to maintain order. |
Mark Schapiro
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| The company issued a statement to that effect on the Web site of its british subsidiary. That dibutyl phthalate in its Cover Girl nail polish, he said, was now being taken out of its U.S. Cover Girl formulation, though he insisted the company still does not believe the substance was dangerous. He said the switch was because "American consumers expressed a preference for the European version over our American formulation. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 That means a bad trade in an arcane and thinly traded currency derivative could potentially be offset by the sale of british government bonds, the purchase of gold futures, or the liquidation of a diverse portfolio of international stocks. In an expansive systemic crisis, however, such an approach will leave many large operators even more vulnerable, in danger of being blindsided by an unforeseen turn of events. That risk will almost certainty be accentuated by back-office systems that have failed to keep pace with the parabolic rise in volumes. |
Mark Schapiro
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| British consulting firm called TruCost. The company, headquartered in London, consults with businesses on a new set of mandates for reporting profit-loss statements for firms trading on the European stock exchanges.
In response to the corporate scandals that shook the financial worlds on both sides of the Atlantic —ENRON in the United States and the Italian firm Parmalat being among the more high-profile examples—both Europe and the United States passed new measures intended to ensure greater corporate financial accountability. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 This dubious distinction belongs to a british subject, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
SPEAKING OF SIGNS
A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
—Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle, 1907 seen more frequently in men than in women.
People with MRG will sometimes get a kissing lesion—a red, irritated spot caused when the bare spot of the tongue rubs up against the soft palate. These spots may be mistaken for cancer, but they're not. They are, however, susceptible to thrush. (See Burning, Tingling Lips or Mouth, above. |
Roberta Bivins
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 John James Garth Wilkinson's 1855 booklet War, Cholera and the Ministry of Health,29 promoting the use of homeopathy in the british war effort in the Crimea, aptly illustrates the benefits that accrued to homeopathy by its radical inclusion of women as professional colleagues. As he argued for the special feminine suitability of the practice of medicine, Wilkinson sounded themes that would have been very familiar to his audience:30
In all respects one half of medical practice belongs to Homoeopathic woman. Only note her qualities. |
| The pages of the Lancet and the british Medical Journal (BMJ) were filled with bitter diatribes against homeopathists, and indeed against their clientele—castigated as faddish, ignorant, deluded, self-indulgent, and of course, those old favourites, hysterical and hypochondriacal. And in this furnace of fear and loathing was the orthodox profession forged. The competition offered by the homeopathic system drove 'regular' practitioners?previously absorbed by the internecine warfare between elite and general practitioners—to organize and identify as one profession. |
| The response of professional bodies like the british Medical Association and the General Medical Council (GMC) ranged from blandly lukewarm to actively hostile—in testimony to a House of Lords Committee in 1999, the GMC angrily blamed 'a flight from science, fuelled by unbalanced and inaccurate articles in the media and by the unsubstantiated claims from some environmental groups'. |
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