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| Yes, You Can Improve Your hearing Now!
Anand Devaiah, MD, FACS, assistant professor, departments of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery and neurological surgery, Boston University School of Medicine. He is a spokesperson for the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, www. entnet.org.
One-third of Americans older than age 60—and half of those older than 75 —have some degree of hearing loss. |
Bill Sardi
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 Cisplatin is toxic to the kidney and may impair hearing. Alpha li-poic acid, an antioxidant, has been shown to prevent loss of hearing by cisplatin. [Laryngoscope 109: 1740-44, 1999] Supplemental vitamin E and the amino acid cysteine may partially prevent some of this drug's toxicity. [J Pharm Belgium 53: 87-93, 1998] Silibin, an extract from milk thistle, protects against cisplatin toxicity to the kidneys. [Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 11: 55-62, 1996] A lab dish study indicates quercetin may inhibit cisplatin toxicity. |
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| The good news: Cochlear implants and recent advances in hearing aids now make it possible for people who have severe or profound hearing loss to significantly improve their ability to hear conversation and other sounds.
Basics: Sound is picked up by the ear and transmitted to the brain through a complex pathway. Sound vibrations are collected by the outer ear, pass through the ear canal and cause the eardrum to vibrate. This, in turn, causes the vibration of three small middle ear bones. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Back in late 2004, when news of the damages caused by the drug-safety catastrophe known as Vioxx was just beginning to reach the public, Grassley led a Senate Committee on Finance hearing, calling into question the FDA's role in the Merck/Vioxx fiasco.
In his opening statement for that hearing, Grassley said, "One of my concerns is that the FDA has a relationship with drug companies which is too cozy. That's exactly the opposite of what it should be. The health and safety of the public must be the FDA's first and only concern. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 SUICIDE AND MURDER
A hearing about suicide, and a murder trial, frame our discussion. The suicide hearing:
15 September 2004—In a 15-8 vote, a panel of experts recommended that the FDA warn physicians and patients in the strongest possible terms that antidepressants fail in most cases to cure depression in children and teenagers; even worse, for every 100 patients given the drug, 2—3 will become suicidal. "We have very good evidence of harm, " said one member of the advisory panel, "and very little evidence of efficacy. |
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| Potential causes of hearing loss include...
•Ear infections, with the acute and chronic effects of such infections.
•Holes in the eardrum.
•Otosclerosis, a condition in which a bone in the middle ear becomes fixed in place and may need to be replaced or freed with surgery.
•Autoimmune diseases, such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
•Meniere's disease, an inner ear ailment marked by symptoms such as dizziness and fluctuating hearing loss. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 The purpose of inserting tubes is to allow the pressure to equilibrate on both sides of the eardrum, thereby improving hearing and preventing problems with speech development and learning. However, putting a hole in the eardrum also provides an avenue through which bacteria can enter the middle ear. In addition, recent evidence shows that the improvement in hearing lasts only 6 months and that, in the long run, putting tubes in the ears might actually make hearing worse.1 Furthermore, there is no good evidence that chronic OME causes any kind of permanent problem.' |
Mark Sircus
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 Many might have missed seeing the congressional hearing on TV,7 talking about bioterroism and hearing the blatant statement made that new vaccines, even if not yet proven safe, would be put out for use in the general population, as the threat of disease is seen to be greater than any risk that the use of these unproven vaccines might cause.
It should be noted that these policy decisions are political in nature, which are being made by politicians. The health and well-being of the public is not the main consideration. |
| Both human noise-induced hearing loss studies introduced a novel, biological, natural agent for prevention and possible treatment of noise-induced cochlear damage in humans Reduction in noise-induced temporary threshold shift in humans following oral magnesium intake. Clin Otolaryngol Allied Sci. 2004 Dec;29(6):635-41 Entrez Pubmed
41 In a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 28 patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss were treated with either steroids and oral magnesium (study group) or steroids and a placebo (control group). |
Michael Pollan
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 In fact, there have been dissenters to the lipid hypothesis all along, lipid biochemists like Mary Enig (who has been sounding the alarm on trans fats since the 1970s) and nutritionists like Fred Kummerow and JohnYudkin (who have been sounding the alarm on refined carbohydrates, also since the 1970s), but these critics have always had trouble getting a hearing, especially after 1977, when the McGovern guidelines effectively closed off debate on the lipid hypothesis.
Scientific paradigms are never easy to challenge, even when they begin to crack under the weight of contradictory evidence. |
Charles Barber
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 By simple virtue of the fact that he was spending less time on the street and more time hearing about the liabilities of crack, Rex began cutting back on his usage. In a surprisingly short time he stopped using crack altogether. And when he stopped taking crack, he started taking medications. The clinic psychiatrist put him on the antipsychotic medication Haldol.
Haldol worked like a charm. Rex is one of the lucky ones—those 20 percent of people with schizophrenia for whom the drugs seem to stop the most visible symptoms in their tracks. The "half-life" of Haldol is about a week. |
| It declined to fund research on postpartum depression but supported work on the hearing processes of crickets. Mental illness is a low priority. In 1999, for each person afflicted by illness, the government spent twelve dollars on cervical cancer for every dollar spent on bipolar disorder. For every dollar spent on schizophrenia, thirty dollars were spent on HrWAIDS.44
Unlike the psychotics, the neurotics pay cash. |
| These methods permit the observation of the brain as it is actually functioning as a mind: thinking, remembering, seeing, hearing, imagining, and experiencing pleasure or pain. Unlike earlier technologies, the total scan time is very short (one to two minutes), entirely noninvasive, and extraordinarily comprehensive: fMRI can measure brain responses at 100,000 locations. |
Anne Harrington
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 On hearing the story of this woman's medical woes, Groddeck concluded that she was a person with a deep "resistance to becoming well." He launched three months of intensive psychoanalytic-style investigation, and this gradually produced a second story, the story behind the medical symptoms. It emerged that the woman was a Christian who—in a time when anti-Semitic sentiments in Weimar Germany were on the rise—had married a Jewish man. They had two children, but for economic reasons the husband had proposed that they should have no more and the wife agreed. |
Charles Barber
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| After hearing a lecture that conjectured that the prefrontal cortex was the site of psychopathology, he decided to try out a method of destroying that part of the brain on his patients. A few years later, in 1939, while working in his office, Moniz was shot, quite appropriately it would seem, multiple times by a disgruntled former patient. Moniz was partially paralyzed for the remainder of his life. Nonetheless, for his efforts, Moniz did indeed win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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| In addition, recent evidence shows that the improvement in hearing lasts only 6 months and that, in the long run, putting tubes in the ears might actually make hearing worse.1 Furthermore, there is no good evidence that chronic OME causes any kind of permanent problem.'' Therefore, putting tubes in a child's ears may not be appropriate in many cases. Nevertheless, most "experts" still recommend using tubes, even though they admit that their opinion is not supported by scientific research}
DR. WRIGHT'S CASE STUDY
V Ve just dont want tubes put in Joshuas ears," Donna James said. |
Anne Harrington
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| Some had trouble seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting. Others had trouble walking or talking. Still others developed strange twitches, paralyses, and convulsions. And still others suffered from memory loss, while shaking uncontrollably all day long.
What all the men had in common was that they had not been obviously injured in any way, nor did any of them suffer from any evident organic disease. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Jan still remembers hearing her line ring and rushing in to pick it up.
"I think I know what you have, Jan," Dr. Spyropoulos told her, excitement accelerating his delivery. Spyropoulos had already treated a number of patients with mysterious clotting problems who'd also reported the onset of "brain fog" as a debilitating symptom. When Jan's blood work hit his desk, so did Alex's eureka moment. Jan's blood showed the precise biomarkers for an autoimmune disease known as antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, or APS, an illness he'd seen too often of late in other thrombotic patients. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 Factors that potentially make us more acid include hearing or saying harsh or bitter words, loud music and noise, being in a traffic jam, feeling jealousy or wanting revenge, hearing a baby crying, overworking and over-exercising, beginning or finishing school, going on vacation, watching scary or stressful movies, watching and listening to TV, talking on the phone for a long time, taking on a mortgage, paying bills and credit cards, etc. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 It can also decrease hearing and cause hyperactivity and seizures.27 Mercury can damage the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs and immune system.28 In its warning, the DOHMH referenced two supplements: Emperor's Tea Pill, which contained 5,400 ppm lead and 950 ppm mercury, and Hepatico Extract, which contained 1,100 ppm lead and 3,600 ppm mercury. Though the labels on both supplements claimed that the metals promoted the body's natural balance, they have been recalled and banned from shelves. |
Heather Boon, BScPhm, PhD and Michael Smith, BPharm, MRPharmS, ND
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Sudden hearing Loss
Two studies have investigated the effects of ginkgo in patients with sudden hearing loss. One randomized, double-blind trial compared two doses (120 mg vs 12 mg twice daily over 8 weeks) of ginkgo extract EGb 761 in outpatients (n=106) with acute idiopathic sudden hearing loss of at least 15 dB at one frequency within speech range occurring less than
10 days prior to inclusion in the study.150 A majority of both treatment groups recovered completely. The authors conclude that a "higher dose of Egb 761 (oral) appears to speed up and secure the recovery. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| That April night at the Toxic Waste/Lupus Coalition community awareness meeting at True Bethel Baptist Church, Rhonda Dixon Lee, sitting with members of her community whom she had known all her life, was stunned by what she was hearing. She turned to Judith Anderson and asked her, "Did I just hear what I think I heard? The city and state knew about these sites all these years? And all three of those sites sit within a mile of my home?" She had been sick, her whole family had been sick—for ten years. |
| Hearing this, Spyropoulos looked up over his notes at Jan, one thick, black brow furrowed. It was his dedication to tough cases that had earned Alex the nickname of "Dr. Spy" among patients who were grateful for his detective-like zeal on their behalf. He had a hunch, he told Jan, that she was not yet on a high-enough dose of anticoagulants. Rather than worry her by playing out possibilities, he ordered extensive blood work and, for added insurance, wrote her a prescription on the spot, upping her dose of medication. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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| In addition, recent evidence shows that the improvement in hearing lasts only 6 months and that, in the long run, putting tubes in the ears might actually make hearing worse.1 Furthermore, there is no good evidence that chronic OME causes any kind of permanent problem.'' Therefore, putting tubes in a child's ears may not be appropriate in many cases. Nevertheless, most "experts" still recommend using tubes, even though they admit that their opinion is not supported by scientific research}
DR. WRIGHT'S CASE STUDY
V Ve just dont want tubes put in Joshuas ears," Donna James said. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 A 5-year prospective study of diabetes and hearing loss in a veteran population. OtolNeurotol2006 Jan; 27(l):37-43.
Vlassara H et al. Inflammatory mediators are induced by dietary glycotoxins, a major risk factor for diabetic angiopathy. Proc Natl AcadSci USA 2002 Nov 26; 99(24):15596-601.
Wiernsperger NR Oxidative stress as a therapeutic target in diabetes: Revisiting the controversy. Diabetes Metab 2003; 29:579-85.
Zhang J et al. Hostility and urine norepinephrine interact to predict insulin resistance: The VA Normative Aging Study. Psychosom Med2006; 68:718-26. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: Those reading this right now are somewhat used to hearing this from critics of conventional medicine -- these are the people who focus on alternative medicine. But you are an M.D.?
Teitelbaum: Right.
Mike: Yet, you are saying this. I think you bring a lot of credibility to this message. What is your background?
Teitelbaum: Well, I've been treating chronic pain for over 25 years now. I'm the medical director of the Annapolis Research Center for Effective Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Therapies. Again, I have no problem with medications. I use a lot of prescriptions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: I keep hearing stories of how people are changing their diet and amazing their doctors in terms of the positive change they've been able to make. One person I spoke with had been given a prescription for a high cholesterol drug by his doctor, and was told that changing his diet alone could only lower his cholesterol 10 points. He was told he would need to be on statin drugs for the rest of his life. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But for some reason, "CAVALRY" is so frequently transformed into "CALVARY" -- even by people who are not, technically, idiots -- that no one even chuckles upon hearing it anymore.
By the way, for the record, "Cavalry" means military units who are mounted on horseback, and "Calvary" is the name of the hill upon which Jesus Christ was crucified. So if you scream, "Go Calvary!" then you are, in effect, acting as the pep squad for the people who killed Christ.
Frustrate. Note that this word has two "R" letters: one after the "F" and another after the "T. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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