Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Lie #6: ct scans (CAT scans) are perfectly safe.
Truth #6: ct scans expose patients to 1000 times the radiation of chest X-rays. Repeated exposure to ct scans raises a patient's cumulative radiation to levels experienced by many hydrogen bomb victims in Hiroshima. In addition, rigorous studies have concluded that ct scans offer no medical benefit whatsoever.
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Lie #7: The U.S. health care system is the best in the world.
Truth #7: The health of U.S. citizens is actually the worst of any industrialized nation. |
Bill Sardi
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 X-ray radiation from medical imaging and ct scans are also believed to increase the risk for cancer. A report issued by the Food & Drug Administration now suggests the risk for cancer from medical x-rays may be as much as 1 in 1,000. There are over 3 billion x-ray images taken annually in the world. Dr. Richard C. Semelka, MD, says patients receiving multiple ct scans today are being exposed to doses of radiation comparable to those given off by the x-ray machines used in the 1930s and 1940s. Cancers do not emanate from x-rays till years later. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Truth #6: ct scans expose patients to 1000 times the radiation of chest X-rays. Repeated exposure to ct scans raises a patient's cumulative radiation to levels experienced by many hydrogen bomb victims in Hiroshima. In addition, rigorous studies have concluded that ct scans offer no medical benefit whatsoever.
See http://www.newstarget.com/004060.html
Lie #7: The U.S. health care system is the best in the world.
Truth #7: The health of U.S. citizens is actually the worst of any industrialized nation. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Ultrasounds, which are safe and cheap, measure only at the heel bones. ct scans use too much radiation for screening but are good for determining the consequences of osteoporosis, like compression factors. Ultrasound and ct scans aren't well correlated with your risk of fracture, while DEXA results are. We suggest one for all women and many men if they're losing height.
YOU Tip: Learn Your Treatment Options. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Repeated exposure to ct scans raises a patient's cumulative radiation to levels experienced by many hydrogen bomb victims in Hiroshima. In addition, rigorous studies have concluded that ct scans offer no medical benefit whatsoever.
See http://www.newstarget.com/004060.html
Lie #7: The U.S. health care system is the best in the world.
Truth #7: The health of U.S. citizens is actually the worst of any industrialized nation. We pay double, triple, and even quadruple the price for prescription drugs as any other country. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Ultrasound and ct scans aren't well correlated with your risk of fracture, while DEXA results are. We suggest one for all women and many men if they're losing height.
YOU Tip: Learn Your Treatment Options. The best treatment for osteoporosis is to build peak bone mass (your bone bank) in your twenties and do weight training, but also to prevent bone loss in the first
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Even the thought of the carbonation I in colas and soft drinks makes your J bones fear their calcium will disappear into your urine. |
Devra Davis
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 While the risks of driving are well known and the subject of major public relations campaigns, those of ct scans remain secret, and those of nuclear energy or the uses of depleted uranium remain masked in mystery.
Anyone who has ever struggled with a learning disabled child understands the urge to manage the problem with medication. Children can literally bounce off the walls and furniture of their homes, injuring themselves and their caregivers. Teenagers with untreated learning disabilities tend to fare poorly in school and in the community. Often they end up in legal trouble or in jail. |
Charles Barber
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 Even when ct scans did reveal startling images in the 1970s—as did a landmark 1976 study that showed that the brains of people with schizophrenia had much larger ventricles than did "normals"—the results were received with doubt, as schizophrenia was assumed to be a psychological disease.70 As George H. W. |
| The first brain-imaging technologies, ct scans and MRI, were able to image brain structure: what the brain would look like if you could take it out from the skull and place it on a table.71 MRI had the advantage of better-quality images, and there is no need to use ionizing radiation in the brain to create the images. The resolution of MRI is superb—it yields "slices" of brain that look as if they were obtained in a postmortem pathology lab. |
Devra Davis
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| The numbers we use to estimate the chances you will get cancer from radiation come from real people who survived the atomic bombings that
Table 15-2 Radiation Risks of ct scans.24
Exam Type
Machine Setting
Relevant Organ
Approximate Equivalent Dose to Relevant Organ (mSv)
Pediatric Head CT Scan Pediatric Head CT Scan Pediatric Abdominal CT Scan Pediatric Abdominal CT Scan Chest X-ray (PA/lateral) Screening Mammogram
Unadjusted3 Adjusted15 Unadjusted Adjusted
n/a
n/a
Brain Brain Stomach Stomach Lung Breast
60 30 25 6
0.01/0. |
Anne Harrington
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 If the physical causes of our illness are not immediately obvious to the unaided senses, then people expect their doctors to use X rays, ultrasound, ct scans, laboratory analysis of blood or tissue, or surgery to look more deeply for the cause of what ails. Once the doctor can "see" what is wrong, the hope is that he or she will be able to tell the patient how to fix him- or herself: what drug to take, is what kind of surgery to have, what change in diet or lifestyle to make. |
Andreas Moritz
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 As mentioned before, most of the smaller stones in the liver are not detectable through ultrasound or ct scans. Nevertheless, careful analysis of diagnostic images by specialists would show whether some of the smaller bile ducts in the liver were dilated because of obstruction. A dilation of bile ducts caused by larger and denser stones or by clusters of stones may be detected more readily through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, unless there is an indication of major liver trouble, doctors rarely check for intrahepatic stones. |
Bill Sardi
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| The list includes: heart failure due to chemotherapy, radiation damage due to mammography and ct scans that can lead to cancer years later, the seeding of cancers into surrounding tissues due to biopsy, and following cancer surgery the triggering of growth factors that heal surgical wounds, but which also spur the growth of residual tumor cells.
Most cancer patients can't fathom the idea of rejecting cancer treatment or defying their doctor's orders, no matter how ineffective or toxic modern cancer treatment may be, for fear of having nowhere else to go. |
| Semelka, MD, says patients receiving multiple ct scans today are being exposed to doses of radiation comparable to those given off by the x-ray machines used in the 1930s and 1940s. Cancers do not emanate from x-rays till years later. This makes it difficult to attribute radiation exposure to the onset of cancer. [The Lancet 367: 1712-14, 2006]
In 1976, Drs. Irwin Bross and Leslie Blumenson of Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Laboratory estimated that, based on radiation dosage exposure, twice as many deaths as cures could result from mammographic screenings of mostly healthy women. |
| It is foolish to believe every person entering the cancer era of their lives, from age 50 on, should continually be subjected to screening radiation (X-rays, mammograms, ct scans) and invasive needle biopsies, in a futile attempt to detect cancer at its earliest stage. Paradoxically, all these screening methods only serve to increase the risk for cancer.
Among women with detected breast cancer, 88% have not spread and 12% are invasive tumors. It would take 400 years for the 16 million U.S. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Since that first ad, GE has run several others on television for its CT scanners, all of them implying, if not stating directly, that ct scans can save lives by catching disease early.
In terms of inspiring patients to ask for a scan, GE and other manufacturers got an even bigger marketing boost from the news media. In September 2ooc, for instance, Time Magazine ran a photo of a sixty-four-slice 3-D reconstruction of a heart next to the cover line "How to Stop a Heart Attack Before It Happens. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Neurological testing
Depending on how your first visit goes, the doctor may end the appointment by asking you to undergo several tests, some of which are ct scans, blood tests, and neuropsychological assessments. These imaging and blood tests are intended to identify what biological processes may be affecting your memory and other thinking abilities. The CT scan can detect tumors, blood clots, or strokes, while blood tests are designed to detect metabolic disturbances or endocrine deficiencies.
Expensive neuroimaging is the latest craze in the Alzheimer's field. |
Andreas Moritz
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 As mentioned before, most of the smaller stones in the liver are not detectable through ultrasound or ct scans. Nevertheless, careful analysis of diagnostic images by specialists would show whether some of the smaller bile ducts in the liver were dilated because of obstruction. A dilation of bile ducts caused by larger and denser stones or by clusters of stones may be detected more readily through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, unless there is an indication of major liver trouble, doctors rarely check for such intrahepatic stones. |
Andreas Moritz
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| CT scans of over 20,000 cancer patients that each of them had a lesion in a certain part of the brain that looks like concentric rings on a shooting target or like the surface of water after a stone has been dropped into it. This distortion in the brain is known as "HAMER herd". Dr Hamer, now living in Spain, found that these lesions resulted from a serious, acute-dramatic and isolating conflict-shock-experience in the patient. Whenever the conflict became resolved, the CT image changed, an edema developed, and finally scar tissue formed. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| Similarly, before the advent of CT, neurologists had no way of knowing if a patient's neurological symptoms, such as slurring of speech, difficulty walking, or cognitive deficits, were due to a stroke or a brain tumor until they went in for exploratory surgery. ct scans allowed doctors to peer inside the skull and spot tumors, or catch bleeds in time to make a difference. Time Magazine noted that medicine's new "wondrous machines" were expensive, but in the end they would save billions of dollars by eliminating unnecessary surgery and catching diseases early, when they were easier to treat. |
Devra Davis
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| Seven times more ct scans are conducted today than just ten years ago.17The leading manufacturer, Cardinal Health, is one of the twenty largest companies in the world, with revenues of more than $81 billion a year.18
New government regulations in the United States are shutting down what had been highly profitable ventures in which physicians would prescribe tests on machines they themselves owned. |
Melody Petersen
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 CT scans?can harm. Unnecessary procedures also waste billions of dollars every year. One study found that almost 40 percent of tests ordered by hospital physicians were not needed. More important, doctors can become so distracted with finding disease that they no longer have enough time for those who truly are sick.
In 1924, before the discovery of antibiotics and most of our modern-day medicines, the French writer Jules Romains wrote a three-act play titled Knock that was a telling portrait of America's future. |
| While we are swallowing too many pills, we are also undergoing unneeded surgeries, X-rays, and ct scans. The companies striving to sell us as many pills, medical devices, and hospital stays as possible have goals that conflict with a basic tenet of medical intervention: do not overtreat.
Instead, the medical marketers of the twenty-first century work by the advice given to displaymen employed by the nation's department stores in the early 1900s as they learned to seduce the masses into buying more shirts, dresses, and toys. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| If you happen to live in a region where there are lots of aggressive gynecologists and obstetricians who are performing too many hysterectomies and C-sections, or where physicians are admitting patients to the intensive care unit unnecessarily or sending them for unneeded ct scans, you risk being subjected to the dangers of too much medicine.
"Nothing has changed since our Science paper in 1973," says Wennberg. Nothing, of course, except the fact that American medicine has swelled into a behemoth industry equal in size to the entire economy of Italy. |
| It was ct scans, office visits, cardiac catheterizations. It was blood tests and hospitalizations, back surgery, chest X-rays, and knee replacements. In one part of the country, practically every woman with breast cancer was still getting a mastectomy long after clinical trials had shown that a breast-sparing lumpectomy with radiation was just as effective. In another, babies were being put in neonatal intensive care units when they didn't need it. They found that patients with back pain were 300 percent more likely to get surgery in Boise, Idaho, than in Manhattan. |
Ray D. Strand
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 He underwent all kinds of tests, including ct scans, ultrasounds, x-rays, and numerous blood tests. So you can imagine Matt's shock when no diagnosis became apparent. He was sent home with only a painkiller.
Matt had recently been reading about nutritional supplementation and decided to start an aggressive supplement program. But he did not improve very much. He still felt miserable. He felt achy all over, and he remained extremely fatigued. He finally saw a specialist who ordered a blood test called
ANA (antinuclear antibody). |
Shannon Brownlee
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| In most hospitals, patient records are routinely kept in multiple places, with ct scans and X-rays in one department and medical records in another. During handoffs of patients between one shift of nurses and the next, or when patients move between floors, critical information is regularly lost. Sometimes it seems, as in my friend's case, as if nurses and doctors don't even read a patient's chart before deciding how to treat them. Home Depot does a better job of tracking a box of nails than your local hospital does in tracking you, the patient. |
| Astonishingly enough, however, the rate of negative appendectomies probably hasn't budged in the two decades since belly ct scans became commonplace. In 2001, a surgeon at the University of Washington named David Flum published a study looking at rates of misdiagnosed appendicitis between 1987 and 1998, precisely the period when CT scanning became widely available and widely used around the country. Flum and his colleagues examined 63,790 records of appendectomies to see whether the rate of mistakes had changed over the eleven-year period. It hadn't. It was 1 c.c percent in 1987 and 1 c. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There was a 25-year study done, which looked at people who consumed the most soy products, and they followed them for 25 years and did serial ct scans. They found out that the people who consumed the most soybean products had the greatest incidence of dementia and brain atrophy.
These people are destroying their nervous system, and I talked to a lot of them who complained of severe migraine headaches. I said, "Get off the soy," and they do, and that migraine headache goes away. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Furthermore, ct scans of their abdominal areas showed significantly reduced visceral fat (abdominal fat), the type of fat around important body organs that is the largest concern for fat-associated serious disease.354
This study is important because it proves this nutrient helps metabolize the type of fat, abdominal fat, that is most associated with the onset of disease. It changes the problem of excess Cortisol and leptin resistance. |
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