Charles Barber
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 What Harding found was that the recovery rate for the Maine cohort was still higher than what Kraepelin and those who followed him would have expected—48 percent—but still significandy lower than that of the patients in vermont. The ex-patients from vermont had fewer symptoms, more were working, and on a variety of measures, they were experiencing far better adjustment in the community. Upon further analysis, Harding found that the difference between the two programs, Maine and vermont, was "community integration. |
David Steinman
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 Waterbury, vermont. For several years, the company has been a leader in the effort to establish better social and environmental standards in the coffee growing industry. Visit them at www.greencentury.com
Green banking is another way of putting your money where your mouth is. Green banking, said GreenMoney Journal, "is making major strides today across the United States."46 According to the magazine, Chittenden Bank's Socially Responsible Banking Program, of Brattleboro, vermont, allows depositors to benefit conservation by lending money to local green businesses. |
Charles Barber
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| Thinking that the vermont cohort was some kind of bizarre aberration, Harding sought to find another group of patients to either confirm or disconfirm what she found. After an exhaustive search, she found a similar group of patients in Maine, who had left the Maine state hospitals. She matched each patient in vermont to a Maine patient on just about every demographic imaginable—diagnosis, age, sex, length of hospitalization, and so on. |
Devra Davis
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 He had asked whether those who had worked in computer chip manufacturing at specific plants in California, Minnesota, NewYork and vermont for at least five years between 1969 and 2001 died of diseases similar to those of the U.S. population. The answer was no. Those who had worked for IBM had greater chances of dying from several forms of cancer, including those of the brain and central nervous system, kidney cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and breast cancer. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 He alienated several powerful members of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of vermont when he pointed out that practically every woman over the age of fifty in the area around the university's hospital had been relieved of her uterus. |
Melody Petersen
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 Another example of how this works was detailed in a 2005 study by pathologists in vermont. The doctors had pored through the medical charts of fifty patients who had died in an academic medical center. They used their expertise in forensics to determine what they believed caused the patients to die and then compared their finding with what doctors at the medical center had written on the death certificate. They found that 96 percent of death certificates contained some kind of error. |
| Other states with high numbers of medicated children include New Hampshire, vermont, Michigan, and Delaware, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, which closely tracks the flow of the drugs because of their potential for addiction and abuse.
These statistics tend to feed on themselves. When numbers are released from an area of the country where prescriptions are high, officials at schools with lower numbers can be quick to believe that they have children suffering from the disorder who have not yet been diagnosed. |
| But even these vermont pathologists, who were concerned that doctors lacked the training to determine the true causes of deaths, disregarded the harm caused by prescription drugs. In one of the cases they wrote about, a patient died after the diuretic pills prescribed for congestive heart failure caused hyponatremia, a dangerous condition in which there is not enough sodium in the blood. Such an electrolyte imbalance is a known risk of diuretic treatment. The patient's doctors had listed hyponatremia as the cause of death on the death certificate. The pathologists said this was wrong. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| The photo was taken in 1937, on the slopes near his hometown of Bellows Falls, vermont, where his father managed the paper mill. A Norwegian immigrant, the elder Wennberg made his son read the plays of the great Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen. The family snow-shoed and skied in the long New England winters; Wennberg fished in the summers. When he was ten years old, the family moved to Vancouver,
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Washington, a raw Western mill town in the shadow of Mount Saint Helens. Wennberg spent his summers at Spirit Lake, on the flanks of the volcano, fishing and working at a YMCA camp. |
Charles Barber
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| Psychiatrists earn more money from drug companies than doctors in any other specialty," wrote The New York Times in reporting a story about lecture fees and gifts given to psychiatrists in vermont and Minnesota.87 And more than half of the psychiatrists involved in developing the 1994 edition of the DSM had financial ties to drug companies.88
One can argue that financial self-interest is influencing medicine to its core, in the very defining of how to practice medicine. |
Ron Garner
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 Jarvis was a country doctor in vermont in the first half of the 1900s and recorded his observations on the benefits of including acv in the diets of both humans and animals. He noted that hunting dogs, when given rations of acv with their daily feed, had more than twice the endurance, better appetites, as well as an ability to retain their weight during hunting season, compared to dogs that had not received regular acv rations. acv has many other uses besides nutritional ones. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| He installed his family on a farm just outside of Stowe, vermont, and set out to uncover pockets of medical need in the state.
Like most doctors, Wennberg assumed that the most serious problem in American health care was that many citizens were not getting enough of it. |
| At the heart of the story is New England, where he has spent the better part of his adult life, and where doctors in small towns in vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine showed him that more medicine is not necessarily the best way to improve America's health.
Wennberg, who goes by Jack, lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, just a few miles down the road from Dartmouth Medical School, where he has been a professor for thirty years. He is both a physician and a Ph.D. in public health. |
Devra Davis
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| Stafford of vermont, a Democrat and Republican, respectively.
Our task for the CRS seemed straightforward. We were to look at a dozen or so alleged episodes of pollution that hit people's homes and neighborhoods and find out what actually happened. Was anybody truly hurt? Did serious damage occur to the local environment? Who paid to fix things? Based on our findings, we were supposed to tell Congress whether or not a new law might be needed to generate funds to clean up sites, secure public safety, and assess the human and environmental damages. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| When several doctors with a particular subspecialty live in a particular region, he says, and they happen to be aggressive, then a lot of unnecessary surgery will be performed, as in Lewiston, Maine, where there were unneeded hysterectomies, and Morrisville, vermont, where doctors were doing countless tonsillectomies. In other words, he says, the supply of physicians can determine how much surgery is performed, rather than how much surgery patients actually need. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Rochester, Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 2000.
Strombeck, D.R., DVM, Home Prepared Dog and Cat Diets, Ames, Iowa:
Iowa State University Press, 1999.
Zucker, M., Natural Remedies for Cats, New York, New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Zucker, M. Natural Remedies for Dogs, New York, New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Websites
In the United States
American Board of Veterinary Toxicology. Provides addresses and various links to toxicology sites: www.abvt.org
Animal Protection Institute. An organization that informs, educates, and advocates the humane treatment ofall animals: www. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Extending his travels to the Alps, Marsh saw the Old World's degraded land as the end result of soil neglect like that he witnessed as Vermont's forests were converted into wheat fields and pastures.
Territory larger than all Europe, the abundance of which sustained in bygone centuries a population scarcely inferior to that of the whole Christian world at the present day, has been entirely withdrawn from human use, or, at best, is thinly inhabited. . . . |
Mark Schapiro
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 China is undergoing a wholesale reassessment of its environmental policies," Tseming Yang, a professor at vermont Law School, told me shortly after returning from a spring semester in 2006 teaching environmental law at Beijing University. Yang has been traveling to China regularly to help with educating a new generation in the legal principles of environmental protection. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 Bret Harte
In 1968, vermont enacted a ban on billboards and roadside advertising to protect its scenic views. According to the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, one consequence "was the appearance of large, bizarre 'sculptures' adjacent to businesses." These included a 12-foot tall, 16-ton gorilla clutching a real Volkswagen Beetie placed next to a car dealer, and a 19-foot genie holding a rolled carpet as he emerged from a smoking teapot, which was erected near a store that sold floor coverings.
Not exactly what lawmakers had intended when they had passed the measure. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Born in 1801 in the frontier community of Woodstock, vermont, George Perkins Marsh traveled extensively through the Old World and published Man and Nature, the foundational work of environmentalism in 1864. Marsh was a voracious reader who gave up law to run for Congress in 1843 and was appointed U.S. minister to Turkey five years later. With minimal duties and ample time for travel, he collected plants and animals for the Smithsonian Institution during an expedition through Egypt and Palestine in 1851 before returning home. |
Charles Barber
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| The Maine program amounted to giving the patients drugs and checking in with them every once in a while. "The vermont model was self-sufficiency, rehabilitation, and community integration. The Maine model was meds, maintenance, and stabilization," said Harding.22
Through such studies, and by listening to patients—instead of listening to Prozac—three elements of the recovery movement have been identified consistently.
First, social inclusion is critical to getting better. |
Bottom Line Health
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| We're doing this primarily as a precautionary measure to protect unborn children from unnecessary exposure to mercury," says Michael Bender, director of the Mercury Policy Project, located in Montpelier, vermont. "We're very concerned that our government is not doing what it should to protect the unborn.
"Why isn't the FDA joining Health Canada and the other countries in banning the placement [of mercury fillings] in expectant mothers?" he asks. "FDA silence over mercury is the same kind of silence our government once had for tobacco."
Still, any ban could have consequences. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 In the 1960s, 60% of children under age twenty had the operation in Morrison, vermont, but only 10% from neighboring Middlebury had the same procedure. In the 1970s, the probability of a woman undergoing a hysterectomy in Middlebury was about one-quarter by age 75, whereas in nearby Lewistown, seven of ten women had the surgery. In 1982, carotid endarterectomies were twice as common in Boston than they were in New Haven, but the rates for coronary bypass were the reverse. Hysterectomies were more common for New Haven women, but hip replacements were performed at a higher rate in Boston. |
Charles Barber
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| Rather than being told to just leave the hospital, as most deinstitutionalized patients were, the vermont patients were afforded a ten-year rehabilitation program in the community, which involved the provision of community housing, vocational programs that led to real employment, education, social supports, and individual treatment planning. These services were provided variously by psychiatrists, nurses, vocational counselors, even sociologists. Harding tracked down all but seven of the original 269 patients in the 1980s, an average of thirty years after they were admitted to the hospital. |
| Harding studied patients leaving vermont State Hospital, a state psychiatric hospital, between 1955 and i960. The 269 patients in the study were "the classic back ward cases ... diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia and deemed unable to survive outside" the hospital. These patients were the happy recipients of one of the first true deinstitutionalization programs, which was highly unusual if not unprecedented for its day. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| In the early 1970s, when Wennberg and Gittelsohn conducted a study in Maine similar to what they had done in vermont, they saw just as much variation in the rates of surgeries in different areas of that state. Two procedures in particular stood out: the hysterectomy, in which a surgeon removes a woman's uterus and sometimes her ovaries and cervix, and the prostatectomy, or removal of a man's prostate gland, which sits at the base of the penis and helps produce seminal fluid. |
Pam Montgomery
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 In early human times this must have seemed like a miracle, and, after too long a winter in vermont, the song of the first robins heralding spring is indeed a miracle. The earliest known spiral was found on a mammoth-tooth amulet dating twenty-four thousand years ago. Some suggest that the double volute spirals carved on the tooth by Cro-Magnon hunters indicate migrations of people—the comings and goings, moving from place to place with the seasons or in larger cycles—always returning to the place known to give life. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 She has a very busy practice in Brattleboro, vermont, and is the author of The Encyclopedia of Natural Healing for Children and Infants.
Kay, thirty-four years old, a new mother of just seven weeks, had recently been diagnosed with autoimmune hyperthyroidism, known as Graves' disease. Kay had been experiencing a rapid pulse, heart palpitations, anxiety, insomnia, and night sweats since a week or so after her baby girl was born. She was breastfeeding her new baby and was not interested in using the treatments offered to her by the endocrinologist. |
David Steinman
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| Pioneering totally certified organic nutritional supplements that are made all the more potent with probiotic fermentation and now farming over two hundred certified organic acres to produce natural anti-inflammatory medicines, New Chapter, of Brattleboro, vermont, is bringing the health benefits of rain forest herbs into Americans' lives. The health benefits to the nation, as more and more consumers turn to such natural medicines, cannot be underestimated; nor can the growth potential of the company. |
| In Middlebury, visit vermont Soapworks' Discount Factory
Outlet and Soap Museum and buy certified organic petrochemical-free soaps. Their stated goal is to provide you?the awake consumer—with affordable alternatives to the current petrochemical-based personal care products industry." Visit www. vtsoap. com.
Avalon Organics (www.avalonorganics.com), Dr. Hauschka (www.drhauschka.com), Lily Organics (www.Ulyorganics.com), Eco Bella (www.ecobella.com), Logona (www.logona.com), MyChelle (www.mychelle.com), Paul Penders (www.paul penders.com), Terressentials (www.terressentials. |
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