Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 The California Department of Health Service and centers for disease control collected 110 cases of clove cigarette toxicity by 1984, two of which were fatal. Clove cigarettes have been reported to cause acute respiratory problems in humans that rapidly progress to hemorrhagic pulmonary edema or pneumonia (Guidotti et al, 1987). During 1984 and 1985, the centers for disease control received 11 case reports of clove cigarette smoking-associated acute respiratory system injury in adolescents and young adults; two deaths were also reported. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 According to epidemiologist Edwin Kilbourne who investigated EMS while at the centers for disease control (CDC), if this were true, then "all tryptophan products of equal dose produced from different companies should have had the same [effect]."128 Kilbourne insists that no evidence supports this. In fact, EMS investigator William Crist revealed that in every case where the origins of EMS-associated LT were identified, Showa Denko was the source. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Source: centers for disease control and Prevention) Drop the cancer rate by 10% and it's worth $5 trillion dollars to the economy. (These gains are due to increased productivity and life spans of working, contributing people.)
We know right now that vitamin D and calcium can slash cancer rates by 77 percent. Do the math on that, and you realize that sunlight and calcium could result in a $38.5 trillion boost to the U.S. economy over the next century. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 More than 200 animal studies show that BPA is toxic at very low doses, and the centers for disease control explains that it has found BPA in alarming concentrations in 95 percent of patients being tested. The Environmental Working Group (www.EWG.org) recently released a shocking report describing the very high levels of BPA contamination in canned foods at: http://www.ewg.org/reports/bisphenola/newsrelease.php
Clearly, bisphenol A is a chemical we don't want in our bodies, and infants have proven to be even more susceptible to the long-term health consequences than adults. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Indeed, one recent study funded in part by the centers for disease control and Prevention found that eating organic foods substantially lowers children's dietary exposure to organophos-phate pesticides. Investigators measured the exposure to several organophosphate pesticides in twenty-three children between the ages of three and eleven over a fifteen-day period. They had children eat a conventional, nonorganic diet for three days, followed by a five-day diet of all organic foods, and then a seven-day diet of conventional nonorganic foods. |
| According to new data from the centers for disease control and Prevention, produce accounts for 12 percent of all food-borne illnesses—a number that has been on the rise of late. Illnesses from leafy greens such as spinach and lettuce have been particularly worrisome: between 1996 and 2006, there were twenty-four such outbreaks, according to FDA records. Unlike the meat, egg, milk, and processed-food industries, the fresh produce industry is not regulated or monitored for safety by government agencies. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 That duty belongs more properly to the centers for disease control and Prevention. But so far, the US DA still holds the power to advise Americans on what they should be eating, and every five years, when it updates its advice, its guidelines end up misleading the public and betraying the science. As long ago as 1991, for example, proposed changes in the food pyramid would have relegated meat and dairy foods to lesser importance. But by the time the lobbying was finished, the USDA agreed on a misleading compromise for the new proposals that still emphasized consumption of animal protein. |
Devra Davis
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 Creech's report on this appeared on February 9, 1974, in the centers for disease control publication Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.xo With this report, Maltoni's work with animals became indisputably relevant.
The evidence continued to mount. More cases of men with angiosarcoma were found and reported to a number of other industrial governments. Peter Infante, a young public health researcher for the state of Ohio, told reporters for the NewYork Times in 1975 that babies born to people living near factories producing vinyl chloride from 1970 to 1973 had higher rates of birth defects. |
Mark Schapiro
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 The Centers for Disease Control's ongoing assessment of chemicals in the human body found phthalates in every one of its most recent test subjects; almost without exception, the highest levels were among women and children, those most vulnerable to passing along, or experiencing, its endocrine-disrupting effects.24 The National Toxicology Program also stated that it had "concern"—the second highest level of apprehension—over "the effects of DEHP exposure on development of the male reproductive tract for infants less than one year old. |
| The U.S. centers for disease control tested for 148 toxic chemicals in 2005 and discovered their presence in the bodies of "Americans of all ages."3 The scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives, published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, concluded in 2006 that in developed countries, "Clues from environmental exposure assessments, wildlife studies and animal and human studies hint [that] exposure to low-level contaminants . . . may be subtly undermining our ability to reproduce. |
Devra Davis
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| Investigations by Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician then in his second year as a public health officer for the centers for disease control, discovered that many of the children of the region were not well. Three out of every five living within a mile of the stack, in an area named Smelter town after its dominant business, had dangerously high levels of lead in their blood. This was a public health emergency. Landrigan told his bosses and anyone else who would listen that there was no doubt that this contamination came directly from ASARCO's smelter. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| According to the centers for disease control and Prevention, "Results from the 2003-2004 Na-
Leaky Gut Syndrome
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The outer sheath of a villus is in turn lined with tiny epithelial cells through which toxins may enter the bloodstream and cause disease. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Three good online resources include:
The centers for disease control and Prevention Web site offers a detailed strength-training program developed by experts from Tufts University and the CDC. Explore: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/ growing_stronger/. While this program was originally designed for older people, it could be used by anyone who's beginning a strength-training program. It provides animated photos of exercises and detailed guidelines on how to proceed.
The American College of Sports Medicine provides a free brochure called "Selecting and Effectively Using Free Weights. |
Devra Davis
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| Centers for Disease Control came in and measured soils and collected samples of dead animals. That same year, an employee of the chemical firm confessed that the still-bottom wastes Bliss had been hauling had hundreds of times more dioxin than was then legal. CDC soon figured out that the illnesses in the girls and animals had been no coincidence. The places with the most dead animals were those with the highest levels of dioxin.
In 1983 Times Beach would become the first town in the nation's history to be bought out, for more than $30 million, and evacuated by the federal government. |
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| The centers for disease control and Pre-— vention has more information about ricin at www. bt. cdc.gov/agent/ricin/facts. asp.
Injectable Osteoporosis Drug Shows Promise
Nieca Goldberg, MD, former chief, women's cardiac care, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, spokeswoman, American Heart Association, and author of The Women's Healthy Heart Program. Ballantine.
The New England Journal of Medicine.
Arecent study has found that a new, injectable drug to treat osteoporosis—denosu-mab—boosts bone mineral density and decreases the rate of bone loss in postmenopausal women. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Preventive Services Task Force (2001) and the centers for disease control (CDC) (2006) provide the following guidelines and recommendations for who should be tested for chlamydia and gonorrhea. Their guidelines are slightly different, so I have combined them for optimal recommendations. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| During 1984 and 1985, the centers for disease control received 11 case reports of clove cigarette smoking-associated acute respiratory system injury in adolescents and young adults; two deaths were also reported. The reported respiratory adverse effects included hemoptysis, bronchospasm, hemorrhagic and nonhemorrhag-ic pulmonary edema, pleural effusion, respiratory insufficiency, respiratory infection, and aspiration of foreign material (Pruitt et al, 1991; CDC, 1985). Clove affects cellular respiration as well. |
Devra Davis
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| These rocket engineers were a little different from the scientists at the centers for disease control and the
National Institutes of Health. For Clark Heath, in 1971 a young epidemiology intelligence officer in Georgia and now executive vice president of the American Cancer Society, the drumbeat of advocacy proved very convincing. "One day some of the seasoned managers from NASA marched into the CDC and set up easels which held several large overlapping diagrams with lots of charts and boxes with arrows. They had the entire war on cancer mapped out on one huge drawing. |
| Despite the lack of experience with this vaccine in young girls, the centers for disease control recommend that eleven- and twelve-year-old girls be vaccinated against HPV, much as they are vaccinated against polio, diphtheria and typhoid. But what about boys? Why are we prepared to vaccinate young girls but not young boys who can spread it? There are good reasons to think that vaccinating boys would prevent anal cancer in those who are gay, could also reduce the heterosexual transmission from men to women, and might also lower the risk of head and neck HPV-related cancers in men and women. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 One medical article that captured a great deal of interest reported that groups of people living near Lake Tahoe in the mid-1980s developed an illness that I would have labeled "chronic fatigue plus." The centers for disease control, a federally funded group of doctors and researchers who track and try to understand why disease occurs in clusters, were so interested in these mini-epidemics on the California-Nevada border that they established a research team ready to go with the next report of such a problem. But since no other cluster seemed to come soon enough, the project was abandoned. |
| There's been some fine-tuning of the case definition since 1994, especially by researchers from the centers for disease control, but the basic framework for diagnosis remains the same.
Fatigue Plus Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
For some individuals, severe and long-lasting fatigue is the only problem. Patients with fatigue alone receive the diagnosis of idiopathic chronic fatigue. But others get what I call fatigue plus. They have fatigue and other bodily complaints. Only an individual in the fatigue plus category can get the diagnosis of CFS. |
| As far as the centers for disease control (CDC) was concerned, even mild symptoms counted. Because this did not make sense to me in terms of the patients I see, I decided to develop a modification of the case definition designed to identify patients on the severe end of the illness spectrum. About 50 percent of the women we've studied in our federally funded CFS Center have what we call severe CFS. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 U.S. centers for disease control now reached unprecedented and rapidly increasing numbers among our youth. The centers for disease control and Prevention (CDC) predicts that more than one-third of American children born in the year 2000 will become diabetic. For those who are black or Hispanic, the estimate is closer to half. Dr. K.M. Venkat Narayan, a diabetes epidemiologist at the CDC, considers these estimates to be "quite conservative" and further warns that the medical community is not equipped to handle such an onslaught. And this is only the forecast for diabetes. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 This figure is dwarfed by other estimates of the overall damage done by prescription drugs outside of hospitals: in 2003, according to the centers for disease control and Prevention (CDC), there were 1.7 million emergency room visits attributable to adverse effects of medical treatments (including drugs) and surgical treatments. More than a dozen drugs that were given the FDA's stamp of approval then turned out to have dangers that led to their withdrawal. |
Elaine Magee
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 People who have a systolic pressure of 120 to 139 mm Hg or diastolic pressure of 80 to 89 mm Hg are said to have prehypertension—and that includes about 28 percent of US adults, based on results collected by the centers for disease control and Prevention (CDC) between 1999 and 2002.
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Eight Strategies to Reduce Stroke Risk
Besides the obvious healthy lifestyle habits, like exercising regularly and not smoking, what can you do? Take note of the following food-related strategies advised by the American Heart Association (AHA).
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| The centers for disease control and ™ Prevention can tell you more about safety at petting zoos at www.cdc.gov/healthypets/spot light_an_ exhbts.htm.
Child's Growth Pattern Predicts Heart Problems
David J.P. Barker, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, Heart Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland.
The New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers say they've identified a pattern of growth in children that is strongly linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular trouble decades later. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| The National Cancer Institute, the centers for disease control and Prevention, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries all fund surveillance research on who has which cancer by age, sex, race, and locale. So we know, at any given juncture, how many Hispanic women at age forty have breast cancer in New York City. Or how many sixty-five-year-old African-American men have survived prostate cancer in Florida. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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From the Department of Health and Human Services, centers for disease control and Prevention, "Physical Activity for Everyone." 2006. Available at www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/ physical/recommendations/adults.htm. means "cultivating vital energy," involves working with one's own qi, or life force. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Monosodium glutamate is described as a "mutagen and reproductive effector" by the centers for disease control in their Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances.
More and more personal care products that are labeled "organic" actually contain free glutamic acid (MSG). Soon soaps, shampoos, and other body care products will have glutamate surfactants in them, as well as products that contain hydrolyzed proteins. Much of that MSG will enter your body through the skin. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Numbers on how many Americans have each type of cancer in each state have been collected by the National Cancer Institute since 1973; the National Center for Health Statistics and the centers for disease control have collected data on cancer since the early 1900s. Yet it was only a decade ago that scientists first began to cast about for a general sense of how many Americans might be afflicted with autoimmune disease. |
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