Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If it was fear that kept doctors on board with the TIRC and its renamed version, CTR, it did not stop them from handing out research grants. The Center for Media and Democracy describes some of the early grants: "Research projects attempted to show that both lung cancer and smoking were caused by some other 'third factor,' such as a person's psychological makeup, religion, war experiences or genetic susceptibility. One research project asked whether the handwriting of lung cancer patients can reveal characteristics associated with lung cancer. |
Erich Grotewold
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 The Penn State University research project was supported by grants from USDA-NRI (2002-35318-12676) and NSF (MCB-0416425). The work in Okazaki was supported by grants from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan. S. I and A. H thanks Yasumasa Morita and Kyeung-Il Park for discussion.
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Abrahams, S, Lee, E, Walker, A. R, Tanner, G. J, Larkin, P. J. and Ashton, A. R, 2003, The
Arabidopsis TDS4 gene encodes leucoanthocyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX and is essential for proanthocyanidin synthesis and vacuole development, Plant J 35: 624-636. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Acknowledgments
This work was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health (DK55865, AG09525, ES012997) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (2004-01833). Support for this work was also provided by grants from the National Institutes of Health to the University of North Carolina Clinical Nutrition Research Unit (DK56350), the University of North Carolina General Clinical Research Center (RR00046), and the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (ES10126).
References
1. Gordon, N. (1997). Nutrition and cognitive function. Brain Dev. 19, 165-170.
2. Guesry, P. (1998). |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 First, the success rate for federal research grants for new investigators has decreased from 22.5 percent in 1998 to 16.8 percent in 2004. Second, as the result of recent restructuring, there are few toxicologists on the grant-review committees that evaluate these new grant applications. This makes it less likely that grants involving environmental toxicants will receive a high priority. These two factors combined make it very difficult to obtain and maintain funding for immuno-toxicology research. |
| Donald Larsen, a research biochemist and founding member of the National Cancer Institute, served as head of the cancer research grants program at the National Institutes of Health in 1955, he walked into medical laboratory settings every day that, world over, boasted little more than test tubes, microscopes, and Bunsen burners. As a young thirty-eight-year-old scientist in 1939, he had already become world renowned for being the first to demonstrate that cancer-causing chemicals could pass through the placenta and later cause tumors in offspring. |
| Yet to date, the National Institutes of Health has still not issued the request for researchers to submit applications for grants to investigate environmental triggers of autoimmunity.
Today, eighty thousand chemicals are registered for use in the United States and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approves an estimated seventeen hundred more a year with very little screening. We often assume that if no warning has appeared stating that a chemical is harmful, that must mean it's benign, when nothing could be further from the case. |
| Louis, and Joslin Diabetes Center were provided with Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation grants to try to duplicate Faustman's data, while Faustman, who had also applied for funding to continue her work, received none. Faustman's research hung on by its fingernails.
In 2004, the three other labs set out to test the validity of Faustman's finding that severely diabetic mice can recover on their own if researchers squelch the immune-system attack that is causing the disease through this very specific destruction of only defective T cells. All three labs followed Dr. |
| This makes it less likely that grants involving environmental toxicants will receive a high priority. These two factors combined make it very difficult to obtain and maintain funding for immuno-toxicology research. "It would take an environmentally enlightened political climate to restore research funding and cleanup efforts at levels equal to the challenge," says Gilbert. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 According to this author disclosure, Christopher has received all the following research grants (all of which are greater than $10,000 each, with the actual amounts not disclosed):
Merck/Schering Plough Partnership, Significant (>= $10,000)
AstraZeneca , Significant (>= $10,000)
Glaxo Smith Kline, Significant (>= $10,000)
Sanofi-aventis/Bristol-Myers Squibb Partnership, Significant (>= $10,000)
Schering Plough, Significant (>= $10,000)
Merck, Significant (>= $10,000)
... and all that is from just one person. |
John D. Lantos, M.D.
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 Faculty had to produce revenue, either by seeing patients or by getting grants. Academic medical centers couldn't compete with most community hospitals on the clinical side, so the measure of excellence became grants, especially federal grants, with their lucrative indirect-cost ratios. Faculty who got grants thrived. The Medical Center became a grant-supported research factory. This, of course, is no different from what would go on at most major academic medical centers. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 University scientists receive research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH is supported by money from taxes. Take the case of the COX-2 inhibitors, like Vioxx. The mechanisms of COX-2 inhibition that led to the development of the COX-2 inhibitors were discovered at a university by researchers supported by taxpayers' dollars.
In order to keep making money, drug companies are under enormous pressure to create new drugs they can patent and sell without competition for twenty years, after which patents run out and generic (cheaper) versions go to market. |
Ann N. Martin
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 In addition, The HSUS noted that Hill's will provide $30,000 annually to be earmarked for scholarships, grants, or tuition reimbursements to staff or shelters participating in the Shelter Partners program. This money will allow individuals to attend various HSUS events, including Humane Society University, The HSUS Pets for Life National Training Center, and Animal Care Expo. Hill's will also be a sponsor of the Animal Care Expo and the lead sponsor of The HSUS Pets for Life National Training Center in Denver. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| All of these, except the diabetic patient, often benefit from an inflow of corporate dollars in the form of contributions, advertising, research grants, sponsorship, and other unqualified perks. Therefore, their promotion and/or endorsement of a "wonderful new insulin" is not necessarily unbiased or fact-based, but is certainly profit-driven.
Final Thoughts on Patents
Lilly's answer to problems has always been to blame the patient and/or blame the disease. Any problems suffered by a diabetic on human insulin protocols will be attributed to the patient's noncompliance and/or negligence. |
| Who grants the required CME (Continuing Medical Education) credits for the medical profession? The ADA spends a great deal of money to gather the troops to encourage government to spend money on a cure, thus saving ADA contributions for staff activities and "educational" materials.
A quote from John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) comes to mind when considering how the ADA (and charities for other diseases) regards their clientele. "A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions [my emphasis]; and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. |
| Among such deals are payments for administering research grants; consulting contracts; royalties for patents developed using taxpayers' dollars; hefty speaking honoraria; fees for peer-reviewing journal articles; and expense-paid, industry-sponsored seminars and symposia. Not all doctors receive such perks, but the message for all is clear: Play ball with the pharmaceutical corporations; the pockets you line will be your own. In late 2005, the AMA actually paid for television advertisements promoting "the quality and care" given by medical professionals. |
Devra Davis
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 Most of his financial support came from government grants, unions and union records, and for a while from the American Cancer Society. Over two decades, teams of researchers working with Selikoff obtained detailed information on good and bad habits of men and women in the factories. Industry leaders had hoped that smoking would turn out to explain much of the risk then believed to be tied with asbestos. They were right, but in a way that worsened their case. The chances that asbestos workers who smoked would die of lung cancer did not just add up, they multiplied. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Support for this work was also provided by grants from the National Institutes of Health to the University of North Carolina Clinical Nutrition Research Unit (DK56350), the University of North Carolina General Clinical Research Center (RR00046), and the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (ES10126).
References
1. Gordon, N. (1997). Nutrition and cognitive function. Brain Dev. 19, 165-170.
2. Guesry, P. (1998). The role of nutrition in brain development. Prev. Med. 27, 189-194.
3. Mattson, M. P. (2003). Gene-diet interactions in brain aging and neurodegenerative disorders. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Sinatra and I are mystified as to why this study, which was supported by grants from the American Diabetes Association and the Minnesota, Colorado, and Nebraska Beef Councils, didn't hit front pages all across America when first published in 2004.
Meanwhile, in January 2006, the ADA released its new position statement regarding "Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2006," which stated that low-carbohydrate diets (restricted to less than 130 grams a day) aren't recommended to manage diabetes. (The LoBAG diet suggests a daily diet of 20 percent carbs, 30 percent protein, and 50 percent fat. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Acknowledgments
Supported by NIH grants R37DK039177 and R01DK059853.
References
1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and U.S. Department of Agriculture. (2005). "Dietary guidelines for Americans 2005" (6th ed.). Washington, DC.
2. Rolls, B. J. (2000). Sensory-specific satiety and variety in the meal. In "Dimensions of the Meal" (H.L. Meiselman, Eds.), pp. 107-116. Aspen, Gaithersburg, MD.
3. Rolls, B. J., Van Duijvenvoorde, P. M., and Rolls, E. T. (1984). Pleasantness changes and food intake in a varied four-course meal. Appetite 5, 337-348.
4. Rolls, B. J. (1986). |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Most of these doctors receive payments as consultants, research grants, and support for travel to conferences from drug companies. In some cases, the doctors are working as paid consultants to the same companies whose drugs are coming up for approval by their advisory committees. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 D-NJ), John Dingell (D-MI), Henry Waxman (D-CA), and others falsely proclaimed that they were doing America a favor by passing this sweeping FDA-supported legislation that grants the rouge agency more power and money, and even transforms it into a quasi drug company.
Both the House and Senate (S.1082) have made the fatally flawed assumption that the reason for so many deaths and injuries from drugs was due to the FDA's lack of resources. |
Bill Sardi
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 Linus Pauling submitted applications for research grants four times to the National Institutes of Health, all of which were rejected. Here is the timeline:
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
1926: Vitamin C is first isolated in 1926 by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. Its structure is determined in 1932 and it is synthetically produced in 1933. Gyorgyi receives the Nobel Prize in 1937 for his discovery.
1936: Plum and Thomsen inject 200 milligrams of vitamin C per day in patients with myeloid leukemia and obtain remissions in two cases.. |
| Cancer research has become a jobs program - find a real cure and it would put an end to all the research grants. After talking to cancer researchers, I started to get the idea that their objective was to stretch out their research so they could make a life-long career out of finding a cure for cancer. Somehow that cure has always been just beyond their reach. Researchers always seem to conclude there is not enough evidence to prove anything about cancer. More studies are required. It is said cancer is hundreds of diseases and nobody knows its cause. |
| Chen had secured research grants from the National Cancer Institute and prostate cancer survivor/investor Michael Milken's CaP CURE organization. Eventually an $8 million study grant from the National Institutes of Health was obtained, but the study never took place due to product quality problems. [PSA Rising, Dec. 19, 2003]
Many urologists and oncologists believed the herbal mix was prolonging their patients' lives. Over 100 studies were published, validating its beneficial effects. |
| Lifetime risk for breast cancer
The American Cancer Society and other women's health groups want to heighten the imagined risk for breast cancer to promote more donations and research grants. So they have unabashedly overstated the lifetime risk for breast cancer, and continue to overstate the risk when it is brought to their attention. Cancer groups claim there is a 1 in 8 lifetime risk of developing breast cancer, but the real risk is more like 1 in 26 for a 40-year old woman.
The lifetime figure of 1 in 8 is a cumulative figure. |
| Even the Pentagon gets involved with $249 million given in 2004 for research grants. Drug companies devote about $7.4 billion for cancer R&D. So Fortune Magazine estimated that taxes, donations, and private R & D, all totaled, in the war on cancer, piles up to $200 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars since 19711 That's a lot of money for no cures.
More tragic, virtually every cancer researcher concedes cancer is very difficult to treat and that cancer prevention programs would likely produce real declines in cancer mortality. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In other words, it is now the FDA, not God, that grants permission to conduct religious ceremony in the United States. And the FDA believes it overrides God.
Importantly, the idea of "faith" does not stand up to the FDA's so-called scientific scrutiny. So a church can never prove that Holy water actually works, or that prayer beads have any scientific merit, and therefore the FDA can declare them all to be "unscientific and unapproved" devices, further discrediting them. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| About fifty Hopkins researchers, including Kerr's group, have entered grant proposals hoping for some of the $100,000 to $500,000 grants being offered. But to get from where Kerr is now in his research to clinical trials "will take millions of dollars," says Kerr. "With the current political climate, it's not clear where that money will come from. We know that the federal government will not help. Drug companies are reluctant to step in because of patent issues—and because each of these diseases, taken individually, does not afflict a large enough number of patients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Individual citizens will also be required to engage in Wishful Thinking to stop global warming, and those Americans who refuse to participate will be branded "eco terrorists" under a little-known provision in the Patriot Act that grants FBI agents the legal right to give atomic wedgies to anyone demanding civil liberties.
Not everyone is convinced that Wishful Thinking will actually result in greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Lawmakers were quick to leap on the obvious weakness in President Bush's ambitious plan. Rep. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 Of course, it would be helpful if the FDA would at least tell us which panel members have stock, stock options, research grants, consulting arrangements and so forth with the drug companies. The FDA refuses to do so.
The FDA grants both general and specific waivers for those with financial conflicts of interest. Several general waivers were granted to Vioxx advisory committee members. A statement of a general nature is read into the record at the beginning of a meeting. |
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