Mark Sircus
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 US National Institutes of Health to stanford university to study how to guard against the flu virus "if it were to be unleashed as an agent of bioterrorism". stanford university News Release 17 September 2003, (See: http://mednews.stanford.edu/ newsreleases html/2003/septrelease/bioterror%20flu.htm)
6 The resurrection of 1918 influenza has plunged the world closer to a flu pandemic and to a biodefense race scarcely separable from an offensive one, according to the Sunshine Project, a biological weapons watchdog. |
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| Restless Legs Syndrome Can Be Cured 70% Of the Time
Clete Kushida, MD, PhD, neurologist; director, Center for Human Sleep Research, stanford university, Palo Alto, CA {www.med.stanford.edii/school/psychiatry/human sleep); associate professor, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, stanford university Medical Center; and member, medical advisory board, Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation, www.rls.org. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 When academia had proved tedious to him, he'd moved on, and was presently a laser researcher at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), a gigantic farmers' market of a research site, at the time affiliated with stanford university. SRI stood like its own vast university of interlocking rectangles, squares and Zs of three-storey red-brick buildings hidden in a sleepy little corner of Menlo Park, sandwiched between St Patrick's seminary and the city of Spanish-tiled roofs representing stanford university itself. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Gerald Reavens, a physician and professor at stanford university, chose the term to describe a constellation of problems that have a common cause: insulin resistance. Through medical research, Dr. Reavens estimates that more than 80 million adult Americans have Syndrome X.3
Let's take a moment to look at the common cause of Syndrome X, the body's developed resistance against insulin.
What Is Insulin Resistance? .
Americans are infatuated with a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet, although in truth, most Americans eat a high-carbohydrate and high-fat diet. |
Bill Sardi
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 So some concerned doctors at stanford university pulled out old pathology slides from years ago (1990-92). They examined 454 old slides with a Gleason score of 6 and compared them with 814 contemporary slides (2002-04) with an actual Gleason score of 6 (that is, what they, not knowing the number given, would have assigned as a 6). When the contemporary slides' scores were revealed it turned out that the pathologists had given them an average score of 6.8. There were 2.08 deaths per 100-person years for the earlier slides, and 1.5 deaths per 100-person years for the contemporary slides. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 According to research from the department of urology at stanford university published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, sulforaphane is the most potent inducer of phase-2 enzymes of any phytochemical known to date. In one study, sulforaphane arrested human colon cancer cells. And feeding sulforaphane-rich broccoli-sprout extracts to lab rats that had been exposed to a carcinogen dramatically reduced the frequency, size, and number of the rats' tumors.
Alfalfa sprouts are a source of another important class of phytochemical, saponins. |
| According to research from the Department of Urology at stanford university published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, sulforaphane is the most potent inducer of phase-2 enzymes of any phytochemical known to date.
The Unique Benefits of Red and Purple Cabbage
Though a lot of sauerkraut is made from white cabbage, some is made from the purple kind, which has a whole other set of protective phytochemicals. Red and purple cabbage is a source of anthocyanins, pigment molecules that make blueberries blue and red cabbage red. |
Stacy Malkan
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 And if you put a lot of money into manufacturing ignorance, it can actually work," said Robert Proctor, history professor at stanford university. "We saw this in tobacco, and we've seen it in polluting industries and global warming. There are lots of people out there who'd rather have you not know what's really going on."8
The chemical industry, for instance: two notorious examples of "lying to us for years" are documented in the 2002 book Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, by historians Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| According to research from the Department of Urology at stanford university published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, sulforaphane is the most potent inducer of phase-2 enzymes of any phytochemical known to date. And in a review article from the 11th Annual Research Conference on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer from the American Institute of Cancer Research, the authors stated that "isothiocyanates are well-known protectors against carcinogenesis. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 According to Avram Goldstein, neurophysiologist at stanford university, shedding tears lights up the right side of the adult brain, and not the left. What may be inferred here is that the evocation of tears leads to childhood memories. And those memories can explain so much about current behavior. And indeed, tears are the avatar that leads to deeper brain imprints and higher level understanding. What we find clinically is that as the patient begins to cry about something in the present, she will automatically be led to childhood-related events, assuming there is no interference. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 The day I visit, a group of vets smoke and chat quietly in the sun outside the entrance to the main building, a five-story brick structure just a few miles from stanford university. One man is in a wheelchair, the lower half of his right leg missing. Inside, the hospital seems much like any other, with slightly worn chairs in the lobby and the smells of breakfast wafting from the cafeteria. Patients dressed in hospital gowns sit on benches located in an interior courtyard.
You only begin to see what's different about a VHA hospital once you are upstairs, on the wards. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 In 1973, a psychologist from stanford university published an unique experiment. Under his direction, eight normal people admitted themselves into psychiatric hospitals. Their symptom was that they were hearing voices. It was a phony complaint, but one which was diagnosed each time as schizophrenia. After admission, the "pseudo-patients" acted normally—that is, they were sane in an insane place. Despite their normalcy, the hospital staff interpreted their behavior to fit the original diagnosis. Routine disagreements were seen as deep-seated signs of personal instability. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Internal jogging' is the way Dr William Fry, a psychiatry professor at Stanford University's School of Medicine, described laughing. Laughing involves i:he same muscle activity as exercising.
It brings more oxygen into the lungs and cells and helps rid the body of carbon dioxide. It relaxes you. And, as Dr Fry observed, 'You can laugh a lot more times a day than you can do push-ups.'
Sound the letters M and N, mmmm...nnnnn..., as you breathe out long and slow. You will feel a resonance from the breathing muscles in the lower torso. These are the ones you should be using and need to develop. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 This condition, originally referred to as "syndrome X" by stanford university endocrinologist Gerald Reaven, M.D. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 CHAPTER** j
Osteoporosis
ROBERT MARCUS
Professor Emeritus, stanford university, Stanford, California
Contents
I. Introduction 853
II. The Skeleton 854
III. Adult Bone Maintenance 858
IV. Diagnosis of Osteoporosis 862
V. Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment 864
VI. Conclusion 866 References 867
I. INTRODUCTION
Osteoporosis is a global skeletal disorder of decreased bone strength in which the only important consequence is an increased risk for fracture with minimal trauma. |
Melody Petersen
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 David Burns, an adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at stanford university, when he was asked about the serotonin imbalance theory in 2003. "In fact, we cannot measure brain serotonin levels in living human beings so there is no way to test this theory. Some neuroscientists would question whether the theory is even viable, since the brain does not function in this way, as a hydraulic system."
Wrote Dr. Elliot S. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| The following remarks are from Monkeyluv by stanford university biologist and neuroscientist Robert M. Sapolsky. We see in his reported research on mice how early the critical period can be. As we shall see, not only are early childhood events important for later life, but even more important is fetal life. Sapolsky comments on how genetic influences are not the be-all-and-end-all that we sometimes believe. Life circumstances are important, but pre-birth influences can be critical. |
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| Stanford University Medical Center; and member, medical advisory board, Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation, www.rls.org.
An estimated one in 10 adults experiences some degree of restless legs syndrome (RLS), but fewer than 10% of patients who tell their physicians about their symptoms are diagnosed with RLS.
RLS symptoms are vague and hard to describe —patients use words like "tingling," "crawling" and "creeping" to explain uncomfortable sensations and/or pain in the legs and, in some cases, arms. Sensations mainly occur (or worsen) at night. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Gurkirpal Singh, a stanford university researcher, was threatened by the company and told he would "flame out" (meaning his career would be ended) unless he stopped giving "anti-Merck" lectures. This has now been revealed in a letter of complaint written to Merck by Dr. James Fries, a stanford university Medical School professor, who went on to say, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, "There is a line that you can't go across. ... It had gone over that line."
And it wasn't just stanford university, either: chief researchers at several top medical schools were being threatened by Merck. Dr. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 The phrase "Syndrome X" was first coined and described by stanford university endocrinologist Gerald Reaven, M.D., in 1988. (I'll discuss this syndrome in more detail in chapter 14.)
The Much-Maligned, Much-Misunderstood Low-Carb Trend
As you no doubt know, in the mid-1990s, low-carb dieting became a huge, nationwide craze, as sales of Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution soared. By late 2004 to early 2005, reports from members of the media and food analysts were concluding that low-carb dieting was dying out or already passe. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Gerald Reaven of stanford university. It is a syndrome of increased truncal (midsection) obesity—a waist-to-hip ratio greater than 1:1—and is defined as a cluster of symptoms that appear to occur secondarily to cellular resistance to insulin. Individuals who secrete larger amounts of insulin because the normal insulin action is impaired are predisposed to glucose intolerance, hyperinsulinemia, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. The relationship between resistance to insulin, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease has been extensively documented. |
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| Ketter, MD, chief, Bipolar Disorders Clinic, stanford university School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
Don't Blame TV for ADHD Symptoms
Tara Stevens, EdD, assistant professor of educational psychology and leadership, Texas Tech University, Lubbock.
Jess Shatkin, MD, MPH, director, education and training, and child and adolescent psychiatrist, New York University Child Study Center, New York City.
Pediatrics. |
| Example: In a stanford university study of people who had heart failure, stress declined by 22% and depression by 34% after six weeks of cardiac coherence training (CCT). CCT involves using biofeedback to control the moment-to-moment changes in heart rate.
Exercise to calm your heart: Take slow, deep breaths, and center your attention on your heart. Imagine that you are breathing in and out through your heart.. .imagine how each inhalation brings in oxygen to nourish your body and each exhalation dispels waste.
Visualize your heart floating in a lukewarm bath. |
Bill Sardi
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| But that is exactly what doctors at the Department of Urology at stanford university School of Medicine report. The Stanford doctors explain how PSA testing deceived the medical profession. In the early days, around 1987, it was reported that PSA levels were proportional to the increasing stages of tumor growth doctors could feel while conducting rectal exams on males. The surgical removal of large nodules of benign, but inflamed, prostate tissues was shown to reduce PSA levels. But since 2001, say Stanford researchers, there has been a turnaround. |
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| Beware: Deadly Asthma Inhaler
Shelley Salpeter, MD, clinical professor of medicine, stanford university, and physician, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA.
Jeffrey Glassroth, MD, professor of medicine, Tufts University, Boston.
Annals of Internal Medicine.
Fueling an ongoing controversy, a recent data review suggests that the long-acting beta-agonist bronchodilator inhalers, a popular class of asthma medications, may be dangerous.
These drugs, which are designed to help relax airway muscles and improve breathing, include Serevent and Advair. |
Melody Petersen
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| In 1997 alone, researchers at stanford university filed 128 new patents, created fifteen companies, and earned $52 million from licenses on products.
Hundreds of academic scientists, including many who had once looked at the pharmaceutical industry with skepticism, walked down from their ivory towers and into the boardrooms of corporate America. The role of the academic as referee to the drug companies' clinical trials became a minor one. And the moderating force that had kept scientific studies honest and impartial began to disappear. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 John Cooke of stanford university, who readily acknowledges that angioplasty—while it can help to relieve angina—hardly ever saves lives, and does nothing whatsoever to cure heart disease. He suggests, in fact, that about half of all angioplasties performed in the United States each year are simply unnecessary. Dr. Cooke writes: "In my opinion, it is far better, and well within your ability, to restore the health of your endothelium rather than have a cardiologist remove it with a balloon catheter. |
Anne Harrington
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 Health, stanford university Like Holland, Spiegel believed passionately in the importance of offering patients opportunities to improve their coping skills and enhance their quality of life as they learned to live with their cancer diagnosis. His own approach to that professional task had its origins in an experimental form of psychotherapy undertaken in the 1970s in collaboration with an older psychiatric colleague named Irvin Yalom. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Working with a doctor at stanford university who used diet, vitamins, and minerals, Pauling was able to control his disease, and his interest and passion in vitamin therapy was born. (By the way, Pauling lived another fifty-three years, dying in 1994.) Pauling actually coined the phrase orthomolecular medicine referring to the practice of using substances—like nutrients—normally found in the body to prevent and treat disease.
Pauling was first introduced to the concept of high-dose vitamin C by a biochemist named Irwin Stone, and at Stone's suggestion, began taking several grams a day. |
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