Michael J. Panzner
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 So did the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, which seemed more of a cheerleader than a regulatory overseer, until investigations in 2003 and 2004 revealed a host of accounting irregularities at the two mortgage giants. Both had "smoothed" results to meet internal performance-related criteria and keep Wall Street happy.
The investigations forced the two institutions to delay earnings reports and issue restatements. In November 2005, Fannie Mae disclosed $10. |
Melody Petersen
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 Justice Department testified before Congress that the government had begun 180 separate investigations of the marketing practices of pharmaceutical companies. The investigations involved dozens of companies and hundreds of drugs.
"We are not seeing isolated instances of misconduct," Ronald J. Ten-pas, associate deputy attorney general, told a House committee in 2007, "but repeated practices within the industry that have resulted in significant losses to federal health care programs."
Some pharmaceutical executives have brushed off these facts as much ado about nothing. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 The North of England-Medical and Surgical Journal, in the statement of purpose introducing its premiere issue, had committed itself to publishing "investigations illustrative of the influence of local circumstances, particularly of the employments and the diversified moral and physical habits of society on health and disease."16
In 1831, the journal shut down after publishing only one volume. Its co-founder, Dr. James Phillips Kay, went on to publish a highly influential book, The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 It is not as if science lacks the tools for proper investigations. Rather, it seems that those promoting GM crops prefer the "don't look, don't find" strategy of avoiding problems. They even forgo basic analyses of their transgene and protein sequences, when not required.
This reveals the predominance of corporate interests over science. Companies don't want to set precedents of having to perform expensive tests on GM crops—and not finding problems promotes commercialization and helps shield companies from legal liability. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Haldane also carried out critical investigations of the toxic mechanisms behind the potentially lethal effects of increased barometric pressure. The high baromet-ric pressure problem, due to nitrogen gas that dissolves in the blood under these conditions and later is released as toxic bubbles, was critical for underwater divers and for bridge and tunnel construction workers. Among underwater divers, the condition is known as the bends. Caisson disease, the name for the same condition when it occurs in bridge and tunnel construction wotkers, has actually claimed far more lives. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Zahn P et al. investigations of homeopathic drugs derived from Hippomane mancinella and Stillingia sylvatica: A potential iatrogenic risk of cancer? In: PM 59(7):A684. 1993.
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. |
| Besides the intended stimulating effect, external applications can lead to blister and ulcer formation. investigations into mutagenicity, teratogenicity and carcinogenicity yielded contradictory results.
OVERDOSAGE
Toxic dosages lead to life-threatening hypothemias by affecting the thermoreceptors. High dosages of the drug (or the herb) administered over extended periods can bring about chronic gastritis, kidney damage, liver damage and neurotoxic effects. The treatment for poisonings proceeds symptomatically. |
| Koch A, investigations on the laxative action of aloin in the human colon. In: PM 59(7):A689. 1993.
Koch A, Metabolisierung von Aloin. Korrelation zwischen In-vitro- und in-vivo-Versuchen. In: DAZ 135(13): 1150-1152. 1995.
Park MK et al., Neoaloesin A: A new C-glucofuranosyl chromone from Aloe barbadensis. In: PM 62(4):363-365. 1996.
Shida T et al, (1985) Planta Med 51(3):273.
Tzeng SH, Ko WC, Ko FN, Teng CM, Inhibition of platelet aggregation by some flavonoids. In: Thromobosis Res 64:91. 1991.
Westendorf J, Phytotherapie: Anthranoide in Arzneipflanzen. In: DAZ 133(25):2345. 1993. |
| Koch A, investigations on the laxative action of aloin in the human colon. In: PM 59(7):A689. 1993.
Koch A, Metabolisierung von Aloin. Korrelation zwischen In-vitro- und in-vivo-Versuchen. In: DAZ 135(13): 1150-1152. 1995.
Shida, T et al., (1985) Planta Med 51(3):273.
Speranza G et al., Studies on Aloe, 12. Furoaloesone, a new 5-methylchromene from cape aloe. In: JNP 56(7): 1089. 1993.
Speranza G, Manitto P, Monti D, Pezzuto D, Studies on Aloe, part 10: Feroxins A and B, two O-glycosylated 1-methyltetralins from cape Aloe. In: JNP 55:723-729. 1992. |
| In vitro and in vivo investigations demonstrate that compounds of the rootstock of Cimifuga racemosa couple to the estrogen-receptor, however, these results must be interpreted as a blockade of the receptor.
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
¦ Climacteric complaints
Climacteric (menopausal) ailments, premenstrual and dys-menorrheic neurovegetative disorders.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. |
Michael J. Panzner
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| Despite hearings, investigations, and resignations, as well as repeated calls for their portfolios to be downsized and their capital requirements to be raised, Fannie and Freddie remain active players in both the mortgage and derivatives markets. In many respects, the situation is not unlike what happened in the 1980s, when inaction and delay—what some refer to as "regulatory forbearance"—ultimately contributed to the much higher than expected $150 billion cost of the S&L crisis. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| One of the most thorough investigations of carbon disulfide toxicity in this period was carried out in factories of Pennsylvania, where the industry remained geographically concentrated ever since it had first been established.
Dr. Alice Hamilton of the Harvard Medical School, the leading occupational physician in the United States at the time, had been calling for such a systematic investigation for years. In her memoirs, she notes how she would regularly hear of possible referrals of carbon disulfide cases, only to be stymied in her pursuit of more information by factory managers. |
Michael J. Panzner
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| Some die-hard loyalists will press hard for high-profile investigations, impeachments, and even criminal trials.
Over time, the political arena will become utterly intolerant, obstructionist, and radicalized, with many in power appealing more to the wounded spirits of those who feel victimized or disenfranchised than to those looking to make the best of a bad situation. Unfortunately, the circumstances will also create an environment ripe for the cultivation of despotic and dangerous populists, looking to misuse the collective angst and abuse a desire for strong leadership and dramatic change. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Greenhow was commissioned to carry out a number of field investigations, collecting data on respiratory diseases among a spectrum of manufacturing towns in England. On the basis of Greenhow's findings thete, Simon reported to the government:
In cotton-factories, the carding-rooms are by far the most injurious. They employ many operatives—sometimes even a third of the whole establishment. All employed in these rooms inhale a dusty atmosphere, with much cotton-fiber diffused in it. . . . |
| In my medical research, I carry out investigations of current-day health problems, such as illness among welders from metal fumes and asthma among workers in professions exposed to allergy-producing dusts. In both settings, I always encounter the same recurring phenomenon. Time and time again, I am astonished to learn that what I first believed was a novel finding in fact had already been reported by others often ten, twenty, or thirty years earlier, sometimes as long as a century or more ago. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Together, they expanded their investigations far beyond New England, looking at variations in how much medical care was being delivered in different regions of the entire country.
What they found was that medicine was all over the map, literally. If Wennberg had been using a microscope to look at medical care in New England, his team was now standing on a mountaintop looking at the entire nation, yet they were seeing precisely the same patterns he had found in Vermont and Maine. |
| As David Healy, a British psychiatrist who helped spark recent investigations into the potential dangers of SSRIs, puts it, "If you've got a very severe problem, and I treat you with a drug like Paxil, I may save your life, I may save your marriage, I may save your career. But if you don't have [a severe problem], if you've got a very mild problem, then making you a psychiatric patient, and putting you on a pill, may pose more risks than leaving you untreated. |
Bill Sardi
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 Cancer investigations 19: 649-59, 2001]
Combinations of Tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors have not been shown to be advantageous. [Forum 12: 45-59, 2002]
Since aromatase inhibitors strongly reduce production of estrogen, they may induce calcifications throughout the body. Low levels of estrogen apparently induce loss of calcium from bones which results in calcifications throughout the body, including the arteries and breast. |
| Rice bran extract from Japan
In my many investigations involving cancer cures I traveled to visit the Tsuno Foods & Rice Company of Wakayama, Japan (near Osaka). This company sends trucks to rice processing plants in Japan to pick up rice husks. From rice bran, Tsuno Foods extracts many useful nutrients such as inositol used in baby formulas, tocotrienols used in dietary supplements, ferulic acid, a natural sunscreen agent, rice bran oil (which has twice the antioxidants as virgin olive oil), and inositol hexaphosphate (called IP6), which is nature's most potent iron chelator. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 However, these investigations are often conflicting because the cancer process is not a simple process but involves multiple cellular events, many of which are likely influenced by genetic polymorphisms at the site of the target or how the agent is modified through absorption, metabolism, or excretion.
Although reactive oxygen species are integral to many cellular and biomolecular processes associated with acute coronary syndromes, the relationship to specific genetic polymorphisms has not been overly compelling and remains controversial. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| LITERATURE
Classen B, Amelunxen F, Blaschek W, Analytical and structural investigations of the mucilage of Malva species. In: PM 59(7):A614. 1993.
Classen B, Amelunxen F, Blaschek W, Malva sylvestris -Mikroskopische Untersuchungen zur Entstehung von Schleimbehaltern. In: DAZ 134(38):3597. 1994.
Papageorgiou VP, (1980) Planta Med 38 (3): 193.
Schneider K, Ullmann V, Kubelka W, Malvaceen-Schleimdrogen. Zur Bestimmung des Quellungsfaktors. In: DAZ 130(42):2303. 1990.
Further information in:
Hansel R, Keller K, Rimpler H, Schneider G (Hrsg.), Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, 5. |
Ann N. Martin
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 In later investigations in both the United States and Canada, I learned that the collars, tags, flea collars, and even the plastic bags in which the pets are wrapped, are not removed before they are shoved into the rendering vat. Deceased pets were and are being "recycled" into pet food unbeknownst to most pet owners.
In 1992, when I first notified veterinarians in Ontario as well as the general Canadian public via a live radio show explaining that euthanized pets were being sent to rendering facilities in Quebec, the public outcry was tremendous. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Many epidemiologic investigations of different designs, including ecologic [37^11], case-control [42-47], and cohort [48-54] studies, have reported positive associations between the consumption of meat, especially red meat, and prostate cancer. However, not all studies reproduced this finding [55-68]. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 Memory obtained via hypnosis has figured prominently in some investigations and court cases, including cases of alleged sexual abuse.
Sometimes these memories are real and sometimes they are false. Except in cases where there is corroborating evidence that these events actually transpired, there is no scientific way to prove that these hypnotic recollections are accurate. However, real or not, they can be traumatic when they occur. |
| His extensive work on the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics led him to the principle of complementarity: that quantum (subatomic) energy phenomena could be analyzed separately as having several contradictory properties that operate within a single intelligent framework. His investigations led him to conclude that energy at the quantum level appears to be governed by one vast thought, expressing itself as quantum energy, which then masquerades as a complex physical universe (see unifiedfield theory). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 State medical licensing boards run secret investigations to frame and "catch" doctors prescribing vitamins or alternative therapies. Those doctors are then targeted for prosecution or revocation of their medical licenses.
6) The FDA, drug companies and mainstream media routinely invent scare stories about vitamins and nutritional supplements, then publicize them in order to scare consumers away from nutritional therapies (and herd them into profitable drug treatments). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Despite lawsuits, whistleblowers and government investigations, the FDA continues to ignore its mission of protecting consumers against dangerous food and medicine products. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, recently criticized the Food and Drug Administration for failing to adequately monitor the safety of drugs after they are approved for the market, saying:
"We get press releases listing accomplishments rather than a meaningful revamping of the way things work inside the FDA. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Researchers begin using patients in VA hospitals as test subjects for human medical experiments, cleverly worded as "investigations" or "observations" in medical study reports to avoid negative connotations and bad publicity (Sharav).
The American public finally learns of the biowarfare experiments being done at Fort Detrick from a report released by the War Department (Goliszek).
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Col. E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) issues a top-secret document (707075) dated Jan. 8. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What have you found to be true in your investigations of other so-called natural products in the marketplace?
Minka: My name is Minka Robinson and I am from Santa Barbara. I am the co-founder of Golden Path Alchemy. One of the reasons we started our company and why we started the lines is because we were so disillusioned with the natural products that were on the market.
It seems like you go to Whole Foods or Wild Oats and there are all these natural products, quite an abundance, especially of facial products. |
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