Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| The new york times revealed that some media are being paid to report promotional material under the guise of investigative reporting. The Times also reported that other newspapers use "medical reporters," who are paid to introduce a new product. This practice gives the illusion of "educating" the public, but since it is nothing more than bought-and-paid-for advertising, the words collusion and fraud come to mind. The new york times, (May 7, 2003) says that pharmaceutical corporations use this method of "reporting" to skirt the law. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 How many journalists from the new york times and other papers have been fired after being caught making up all the facts in their articles?" Some journalists, even well known ones, will simply invent interviews with fictional sources and use that as evidence to write their stories.
Many of the stories, even in big papers like the new york times, don't involve any real fact checking; they're just based on information handed to them by the White House or corporations. The press is big on disease mongering, for example. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Strong Drug Ties and Less Monitoring, Gardiner Harriss, new york times, 12/6/2004.
• Ten Voters on Panel Backing Pain Pills Had Industry Ties, Harris and Berenson, new york times, 2/25/2005.
Chapter 7
The Medical Community—Patients Gamble with Their Lives
The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and greatest possible good. — Leo Tolstoy
Chronically 111 Patients
A person living in the United States, suffering from a chronic disease, might not realize this, but he/she is playing Russian roulette with his/her health. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 In 2003, two fellow colleagues at Joslin Diabetes Center—not on Faustman's research team—sent a letter to the new york times, which had run an article describing Faustman's work, deeming the claim that she was the first scientist to cure diabetes in mice "patently false." The researchers also apologized to patients with diabetes "on behalf of Dr. Faustman" for "having their expectations cruelly raised." Although the new york times did not publish the letter, it was posted on the Joslin Diabetes Center website and distributed by e-mail by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 He has written eleven books on his Zone technology, including the new york times number-one bestseller The Zone, and his most recent book, The Anti-inflammation Zone. A superb scientist and biochemist by training, Sears is resident of the nonprofit Inflammation Research Foundation that is conducting worldwide research on the role of diet in controlling chronic disease. His Web site, www.drsears.com, is consistently interesting and informative.
Sears was the impetus for my move from personal fitness training into nutrition. |
Bill Sardi
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 Nor was the report on the front pages of the new york times that chose instead to extol Gleevec, a disappointing anti-cancer drug that costs $2,500 for a month of treatment. Instead, the media ignored this report which said that a 5-cent pill, heralded by independent researchers, appears to be the biggest cancer breakthrough in history.
The report, published in the February 2006 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, did not reveal anything new, but rather tabulated results from scientific reports conducted over the past 40 years that public health authorities had ignored. |
Jack Challem
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 In 2006, a series of in-depth articles in the new york times described some of the economics of health care that are specific to diabetes. One in eight people in New York City has diabetes, and four hospitals there established programs to help diabetics manage their disease through diet, exercise, and blood-sugar monitoring. The programs were a remarkable success and had a high rate of patient participation, but the hospitals shut down three of the diabetes programs by the time the articles were published. The reason? |
| Junk-food companies, drug makers, surgical instrument companies, hospitals, and physicians would probably be the biggest losers.
The new york times articles pointed out that in the treatment of diabetes, insurers balked at paying $75 for a nutritional consultation, but they were willing to pay more than $300 for each dialysis treatment (due to diabetes-related kidney disease). Likewise, insurers hesitated to pay $150 for a visit to a podiatrist, whc can address diabetes-related foot problems, but the insurers would pay more than $30,000 for an amputation. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| They are the best-selling authors of Protein Power (sixty-three weeks on the new york times best-seller list) and The Protein Power Life Plan, and most recently, Staying Power: Maintaining Your Low Carb Weight Loss for Good and The Low Carb CookwoRx Cookbook. They write, coproduce, and host the PBS show Low Carb CookwoRx and can be reached at www.proteinpower.com.
1. Grass-fed beef, pork, lamb: Sources of good protein and quality fat, devoid of hormones, antibiotics, and toxins.
2. Cage-free chicken and eggs: Humanely produced, inexpensive, high-quality protein and cholesterol source. |
| Cornfield Herbicide Shows Up in American Waterways
Finally, let me offer in evidence the following: Atrazine is a powerful herbicide that, according to Michael Pollan in the new york times, is applied to 70 percent of America's cornfields. At concentrations as low as 0.1 part per billion, the herbicide will chemically emasculate a male frog, causing its gonads to produce eggs. According to Pollan, who is a superb journalist and reporter known for his detail and accuracy, traces of atrazine routinely turn up in American waterways at concentrations much higher than 0.1 part per billion. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Writing from the "editorial desk" (which clearly gives the writer more authority than a "letter to the editor") of the new york times, Topol estimated that COX-2 inhibitors were responsible for tens of thousands of heart attacks or strokes per annum. "Good riddance to a bad drug," he concluded, calling the entire story of COX-2 inhibitors "a debacle."46
That should have been the end of the story. Not so. On February 18, 2005, an advisory panel for the FDA voted unanimously that Vioxx and Celebrex can lead to serious heart problems. |
| Medical Nemesis received widespread attention and praise in the popular media. The new york times reviewer noted: "It is obvious that Ivan
Illich is on to something here____Read it and marvel at the light it sheds." Scholarly evaluation was not so positive. The John and Sonia McKinleys dismissed him as a "dilettante." Thomas McKeown wrote that Illich's book has little in common with his own, "except perhaps in the sense that the Bible and the Koran... are concerned with religious matters. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Ann Louise Gittleman is the new york times award-winning author of more than twenty-five books, including The Fat Flush Plan and Before the Change. She was one of the first authors I read when I got interested in nutrition fifteen years ago, and she and I now have a mutual admiration society. She has a unique gift for clear explanation and for motivating people, and her fans are legion. She's appeared on dozens of national television shows, including Dr. Phil and The View. Gittleman is also the developer of Ann Louise Signature Foods.
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Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| A 2004 article in the new york times relates a "joke" among cardiologists that the benefits of statins are so great that they "should be added to the water supply." The article continues:
Not only do statins greatly reduce cholesterol and lower mortality in people at risk for heart attacks, but some studies also suggest that they might help prevent or treat a wide range of ailments, including Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, bone fractures, some types of cancer, macular degeneration and glaucoma.'0
Quite a list. |
| Considering these very issues, a new york times editorial concludes: "[we] yearn for the day when there can be much wider testing of one therapy against another to identify those that work best from those that may be oversold."26
"Cardiology needs to come out of the closet," concluded Fran.
SHAM SURGERY
From the most heroic to the least: we turn to what is called "sham surgery."
The actual practice of fake surgery is not new. As far back as 1939. a surgeon developed a procedure—ligation (restriction) of the internal mammary artery—to relieve pain from angina pectoris. |
| One of the few reporters in the Kissinger entourage was James Reston of the new york times. During the trip, Reston became ill and required an emergency appendectomy at the Anti-imperialistic Hospital in Peking. The surgery was successful, but Reston was in considerable postoperative stress. As Reston later wrote, a doctor of acupuncture "inserted three needles into the outer part of my right elbow and below my knees____He also lit two pieces of an herb, which looked like the burning stumps of a broken cheap cigar. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 About thirty million of us will suffer some form of dementia, according to new york times columnist David Brooks. A somewhat greater degree of decline, clinically known as mild cognitive impairment or MCI, will affect 10 percent of the over-65 population—about 15 percent of that group will go on to develop full-blown Alzheimer's. There are now more than five million people in the United States living with Alzheimer's, estimates the Alzheimer's Association. |
| He learns about supplements and vitamins from watching Sanja Gupta on CNN or reading new york times nutrition columnist Jane Brody, an establishment apologist who seems to have never encountered an "official position" she didn't like.
The world-renowned nutritionist and former president of Tufts University Jean Mayer, Ph.D., was famously quoted as saying, "Any secretary who's been on a diet knows as much about nutrition as the average doctor in this country. |
Bill Sardi
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| Gardiner Harris, new york times, Dec. 21, 2005
Most tumors are not sensitive to the drugs
Suffering through chemotherapy is worth it — when it helps patients live longer. But many patients end up with no benefit from chemotherapy as a secondary treatment after cancer surgery. A shocking study shows that just 4% of patients undergoing chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer experienced prolonged survival. In fact, the 5-year survival for patients who elected not to undergo chemotherapy was 39%. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Toddler's Dimetapp, Triaminic Infant and Little Colds, according to a report in The new york times. It is expected that all infant cough and cold products will eventually be removed from the market. Until then, make sure to avoid any and all cough syrups and decongestants for your children, regardless of the age group. At least 123 children have lost their lives because of them since they became popular in the 1970s.
6. Alcohol—Man's Legal Drug
Much controversy has been generated around alcohol use. |
| In an article written in the new york times in August 2004, a high-profile dermatologist, Dr. Bernard Ackerman (a recent winner of the American Academy of Dermatology's prestigious, once-yearly Master Award), publicly questioned the commonly accepted assumption about the sunlight/melanoma link. According to Dr. Ackerman, who in 1999 founded the world's largest center for dermatopathology training, there is no proof whatsoever that sun exposure causes melanoma. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Fred Pescatore's latest new york times best-selling books, The Hamptons Diet and The Hamptons Diet Cookbook, combine the Mediterranean lifestyle with the preferences of Americans, emphasizing a whole-foods approach to health and weight management.
1. Macadamia nut oil: Heart-healthiest fat with high smoke point; no oxidation or trans-fatty acids.
2. Avocado: Rich in heart-healthy monounsaturated fat.
3. Alaskan sockeye salmon: Responsibly caught fish; high in omega-3 fatty acids; mercury and PCB either low or nonexistent.
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Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 Soy protein, after all, was used in Japan to fatten animals not employed in farmwork.) The new york times reported that "Atkins Nutritionals took some of the biggest financial hits" and by May 2004 had written off $53 million of unsold and expired food, sending the company into a financial tail-spin. Founded in 1989, the company began pushing soy with a vengeance soon after Dr. Atkins' death from a fall on ice in April 2003.
SOURCES: Warner, Melanie. Is the low-carb boom over? As sales growth slows, Atkins and others suffer. new york times, December 5, 2005, Section 3,1, 9. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Over the next three decades or so, he became an outspoken advocate for high-dose vitamin C, writing books like Cancer and Vitamin C, Vitamin C and the Common Cold, and the new york times bestseller How to Live Longer and Feel Better, all of which sang the praises of vitamin C for just about everything. He eventually formed the Institute of Orthomolecular Medicine in 1973, which was soon renamed the Linus Pauling Institute and is now part of Oregon State University. The institute's major areas of research include heart disease, cancer, aging, and neurodegenerative diseases. |
| Although it originated in China more than two millennia ago, it first gained popularity in the United States when a well-known and respected new york times reporter named James Reston wrote glowingly about it after it helped ease his postsurgical pain. As of this writing, more than eight million American adults have had acupuncture treatment. As practiced by licensed practitioners who undergo extensive training and are often trained in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as well, it is completely safe and quite effective for a number of conditions.
One of those conditions is infertility. |
| The new york times called the phenomenon "The Gym Wars." There was much discussion about where to go to get the best workout, about who had the best aerobics classes, about which location had the most state-of-the-art equipment, which gym had the best trainers, and so on. I remember being interviewed at the time by one of the magazines, and being asked, "Which gym is best?"
Here was my answer: The best gym is the one you actually go to.
I was reminded of this exchange the other day when I was talking to Walter Bortz, M.D. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| According to the clever new york times columnist, Maureen Dowd: "The more anxious the companies feel about profit, the more generalized the generalized anxiety get."56
This story contains a profound lesson for our book.
It is easy, and not incorrect, to blame the medical community— from pharmaceuticals to practicing physicians—for this state of affairs. Yet there is more. Another British psychiatrist posited a sociological explanation for adolescent depression. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 In his commentary, Tierney reveals his own personal bout of work-related tendonitis brought on by heavy typing, an injury that put him "out of commission" for six months. The new york times eventually invested heavily in work-site ergonomic interventions (the problem was widespread), a scenario of corrective action that he believes is just as likely to be played out for any other employee working anywhere else. He should sort mail at the U.S. Postal Service for a while. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Kilmer McCully: The Conclusion
A story was published on August 10, 1997 in the new york times Magazine entitled "The Fall and Rise of Kilmer McCully." It detailed the end of his story and offered an interesting perspective to our concerns here:
McCully reveals, briefly, the shadow of disappointment that must have loomed larger two decades ago. "Last October," he says, "the pathology department at Mass. General had a reunion and invited me, and I saw one of the people involved in my leaving the department. "Well,' he said to me, 'it looks like you were right after all' It's 20 years later. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 But soon those in the next segment up, the 54 million vulnerable individuals, who, according to the new york times, are in "households earning between the poverty line and double the poverty line," will also be submerged by the economic tsunami.
As malaise turns into full-blown depression, hiring will slow to a near standstill, and even the toughest and most unappealing jobs will be hard to find. Yet rising unemployment won't just be the result of business uncertainty and falling demand. Adding to the pressure on labor markets, as the Wall StreetJournalhas pointed out, will be 1. |
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