Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts |
 Sponsor and perform clinical research on how to cure and reverse the neuropathy caused by statins. 4. Perform clinical research and recommend the best drug treatments to mitigate the pain and make other symptoms of statin-induced neuropathy more tolerable. 5. Proactively offer reparation to statin users who have suffered neuropathy. The petition will be presented to the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufactuers Association and to the Medical Affairs Departments of the companies listed, as well as any additional companies that may be identified as relevant over time http://www.petitiononline. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
 Richard Wurtman is a neuroscience professor and former director of MIT's clinical research Center, and Dr. Judith Wurtman is a research scientist, director of the women's health program at the MIT clinical research Center, and author of The Serotonin Solution and Managing Your Mind and Mood Through Food. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts |
 In the past twenty years, most of the clinical research on herbal products has been conducted in Germany, France, Eastern Europe, Thailand, Japan, China, and India. Most studies are hard to access in the United States or have never been translated into English. Traditional medical systems in India and China have extensive documentation of the use of botanicals, but the use of classic Western clinical research methods in studying them has been limited. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
 That's called basic research. clinical research may be very hands-on, with patients actively involved in experiments, or it may be applied, with a researcher comparing biological samples from patients—for example, blood or muscle tissue—to those from healthy comparison subjects. In this way, scientists can discover differences that might lead to an understanding of the biology of the disease.
Another kind of clinical research consists of doing drug trials. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts |
 Aso Y, Boccon-Gibob L, Brendler CB et al., clinical research criteria. In: Cockett AT, Aso Y, Chatelain C, Denis L, Griffith K, Murphy G (eds.), Proceedings of the second international consultation on benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Paris, SCI S. 345-355. 1993
Bach D, Medikamentose Langheitbehandlung der BPH Ergebnisse einer prospektiven 3-Jahres-Studie mit dem Sabalextrakt IDS 89. Urologe [B]35:178-183. 1995
Bach D, Behandlung der benignen Prostatahypertrophie. In ZPT 17(4):209-218. 1996. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts |
| New Breast Cancer Drug Safer than Tamoxifen
Leslie Ford, MD, associate director for clinical research, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute.
B.Jay Brooks, Jr., MD, chairman, hematology/oncology, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, Baton Rouge, LA.
Lawrence Wickerham, MD, associate chairman, National Surgical and Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project and protocol officer, Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR).
Len Lichtenfeld, MD, deputy chief medical officer, American Cancer Society.
Victor Vogel, MD, MHS, FACP, protocol chairman, Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR). |
| Leslie Ford, associate director for clinical research in the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute. "We think that this gives women a real choice for addressing two of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality as they age—breast cancer and fractures."
"We now have two medicines that can be given to high-risk women to decrease their chances of developing breast cancer," explains Dr. B. Jay Brooks, Jr., chairman of hematology/oncology at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
| Clinical research criteria. In: Cockett AT, Aso Y, Chatelain C, Denis L, Griffith K, Murphy G (eds) Proceedings of the second international consultation on benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Paris, SCI S. 345-355.
Bach D, (1995) Medikamentose Langheitbehandlung der BPH Ergebnisse einer prospektiven 3-Jahres-Studie mit dem Sabalextrakt IDS 89. Urologe [B]35:178-183.
Bach D, Behandlung der benignen Prostatahypertrophie. In: ZPT 17(4):209-218. 1996. |
| AM-5 PM Tel: 601-984-2060
(on call 24 hours) Fax: 601-984-2063
MISSOURI_
SPRINGFIELD Drug Information & clinical research Services
1235 E. Cherokee Springfield, MO 65804 Mon.-Fri. 7:30 AM-4:30 PM Tel: 417-885-3488 Fax: 417-888-7788 st.joseph
Drug Information Service
Heartland Hospital West
801 Faraon St. St. Joseph, MO 64501 Mon.-Sat. 8 AM-8 PM Tel: 816-271-7582 Fax: 816-271-7590
NEBRASKA_ omaha
Drug Information Service School of Pharmacy Creighton University
2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178 Mon.-Fri. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts |
| Radiation Therapy Helps 94% of Younger Men Who Have Prostate Cancer
Andre Konski, MD, clinical research director, radiation oncology department, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia.
Durado Brooks, MD, director of prostate cancer, American Cancer Society. Cancer.
The New York Times.
Aradiation treatment that is commonly used to treat prostate cancer in men older than 55 is equally effective in younger men, according to the results of a preliminary study.
THE STUDY
In the study, Dr. |
| Andre Konski, clinical research director of the radiation oncology department at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in
Philadelphia, and his colleagues studied 84 men who underwent external beam radiation treatment for prostate cancer five years before.
They compared the outcomes of patients younger than 55 with those 60 to 69 years of age and with those 70 and older. All of the men were in similar stages of the disease.
At the five-year mark, Konski's team found no statistically significant difference in the health status of the men in the three groups. |
| Donald Garrow, a clinical instructor and a masters in clinical research fellow at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, and his team analyzed data on more than 226,000 Americans that was collected as part of the National Health Interview Survey.
Most diabetics surveyed in the study had obesity-linked type 2 diabetes, in which the body becomes insensitive to insulin. After compensating for factors that affect colon cancer risk— including age, gender, alcohol and tobacco use, and exercise—the researchers found that diabetics were 1. |
| We Debunk the 7 Biggest Cancer Myths
Gregory Pennock, MD, medical director, clinical research, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Orlando, FL. www. mdandersonorlando. org.
Despite all of the medical information in the media, many people are still misinformed about the realities of cancer. These misconceptions can prevent people from getting appropriate treatment. Here, the truth he-hind common myths about cancer...
Myth: Cancer is usually fatal. In a recent American Cancer Society (ACS) survey, 68% of respondents said that they believe the risk of dying from cancer is increasing. Not true. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
See book keywords and concepts |
 According to the esteemed group of mental-health experts that gathered in 1998 to discuss ADHD and its treatments, the NIH Consensus Development Conference Statement concluded with 21 clear, concise words: "Finally, after years of clinical research and experience with ADHD, our knowledge about the cause or causes of ADHD remains speculative. "2i
Okay, time for another recap. "After years of clinical research and experience" the top dogs in medicine are still speculating? |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts |
| Xie M, Jin ZY, Ye GH, clinical research of compound salviae miltiorrhizae injection for severe pancreatitis. Chung Kuo Chung Hsi I Chieh Ho Tsa Chih, 43:269-70, May. 1995
Zhang FC, Zheng LJ, Effects of different administration of Salvia miltiorrhiza and heparin on antithrombin IIIAg, antithrombin III: A and alpha 2-macroglobulin in patients with cor pulmonale. Chung Hsi I Chieh Ho Tsa Chih, 18:589-91, 579, Oct. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 This could create a whole new way to conduct clinical research: Track the health results in people who have taken nothing! Think of what we could accomplish in medical science by following this model -- we could test thousands of different substances by simply giving them to no one, then declaring whatever results we wish to notice!
Ultimately, that's what's going on here anyway. Researchers are simply declaring whatever they want with no real regard to scientific truth or common sense. Much of medical science today has become a self-reinforcing exercise in pro-pharma dogma. |
Shannon Brownlee
See book keywords and concepts |
 It used to be all about gathering information to improve health. Now, clinical research is aimed at gathering information that will maximize return on investment."
Given that drug and device companies are in business to sell products, not to increase medical knowledge, it's not surprising that they don't want to pay for research that might hurt the bottom line. For doctors, patients, and payers, however, this creates two problems. |
| Five years ago, he quit his practice to form the Delfini Group, which consists of Stuart and Sheri Ann Strite, a former research coordinator at Group Health with extensive experience designing clinical research protocols. Together, the two travel the country, teaching doctors to think more analytically about medical science. "Doctors have no idea how to evaluate the medical literature," Stuart says, "because they were never taught. |
| Pressed for time, physicians often skim the journals, reading only the abstracts and conclusions of articles and missing the clues buried inside that a piece of clinical research was poorly designed, or that the results were incorrectly interpreted. But even doctors who want to be more discerning, says Stuart, can't always tell the difference between a good study and a bad one, because they don't know how.
In June 2006, Stuart and Strite spent three days with a group of back surgeons in Boise, Idaho. |
| These are just a few of the questions that can only be answered if we stop leaving the job of funding clinical research to the pharmaceutical industry.
NINE The Doctor Isn't In
There was a time when Gordon Peabody thought that being a doctor was the greatest job in the world. As a pediatrician just starting out in Spokane, Washington, in the 1970s, he had colleagues he liked and respected and a full practice of wonderful parents and patients. He didn't mind going to the emergency room if one of his patients was injured, or staying up all night in the hospital with an asthmatic child. |
| We wouldn't leave clinical research to the drug industry, which has a vested interest in the outcome. Our doctors would make clear to us that they really didn't know if the PSA test would reduce our chances of dying prematurely, and that they had no idea if spinal fusion would ease the pain in our backs. Then they could help us weigh the various trade-offs before we decided to undergo a test, surgery, or treatment.
If we know anything about our current, dysfunctional system, we would also want health care that's more coordinated. |
Roberta Bivins
See book keywords and concepts |
 Thus in 1917, for example, the US medical periodical Medical Times carried a lengthy transcript of a paper on Ayurvedic medicine presented by Dr Sarat Chandra Ghose to the 1916 Eight Annual Meeting of the American Association of clinical research. The paper lauded Ayurveda's glorious past?Hindu medicine attained a very high level of perfection when the rest of the world was almost in its infancy... long before western medical science came into existence'. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |
 It has been used for thousands of years as a medicine to nourish the kidney and blood, and therefore nourish hair and treat many of problems that damage it. clinical research has found that He Shou Wu is an effective herb for promoting circulation to hair. It is available in bulk, powder, or as pills from Chinese herbalists. Take the herb daily as a supplement for three to six months or longer. Those who suffer with diarrhea or other digestive problems should consult their doctor before taking He Shou Wu. |
Steven V. Joyal
See book keywords and concepts |
 A recent study, published in Drugs and Experimental clinical research, showed that carnitine supplementation improved quality of life and life expectancy in patients who had suffered a heart attack. Another study, published in American Heart Journal, indicated improvements in survival associated with carnitine supplementation in patients with heart failure. These studies and many others support carnitine's role in protecting and enhancing cardiovascular health. |
Anne Harrington
See book keywords and concepts |
 It was possible, its advocates said, to believe that the symptoms of illness "meant" something, that bodies could speak—but to do so while still believing in statistics, modern clinical research, and laboratory physiology.
What this meant in practice was that American psychosomatic medicine focused less on holistic concepts of mind-body unity and more on exploring the effects of particular psychological factors on particular diseases. |
| The paper had two goals: on the one hand, it argued for a new understanding of placebos and their effects; on the other, it urged the adoption of a new research methodology to remove (among other things) the distorting influence of placebo effects from clinical research settings.
For Beecher, placebos were not harmless humbugs, psychotherapy by other means offered to patients who could not otherwise be helped. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |
 In clinical research it's been shown to help lower blood cholesterol, but more to the point, it's also been shown to reduce the symptoms of BPH. Four double-blind, placebo-controlled studies including 519 men and lasting from 4 to 26 weeks concluded that beta-sitosterol significantly improved urological symptoms and flow measures.
Nettles (stinging nettles) are frequently combined with other "prostate herbs" like saw palmetto and have long been believed to have a beneficial effect on prostate health. |
| A review of omega-3 functions in the retina from the National Eye Institute's Division of Epidemiology and clinical research suggests that omega-3 fatty acids play a pivotal role in protecting the retina. They should be included in any program for eye health and vision preservation. And while you're at it, take a multivitamin. An analysis of data from the Physicians Health Study shows that taking a multivitamin supplement can decrease the risk of cataracts.
Antioxidants protect cells throughout the body, not just in the eyes. And some have multiple effects. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
See book keywords and concepts |
 Clinical Evidence n his book Vitamin B-3 and Schizophrenia: Discovery, Recovery, Controversy, Dr Hoffer reviews the development of clinical research in this field, while in his book Healing Schizophrenia, he presents the case for using large doses of vitamin B-3 to treat acute and chronic schizophrenia. In his book What Really Causes Schizophrenia, Professor Foster describes the current state of our knowledge about this widespread condition. What follows is an overview of clinical data detailed in these publications. |
Charles Barber
See book keywords and concepts |
 Between 1996 and 2002, the portion of the public who distrusted information from clinical research professionals shot up, from 28 percent to 75 percent.91 The New York Times noted that by 2005, consumers seemed to be less confident in drug marketing. "A lot of the demand that the industry has created over the years has been through promotion, and for that promotion to be effective, there has to be trust," said Richard Evans, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, an investment research company. "That trust has been lost. |
Email this page to a friend
