Charles Barber
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 Harvard's mental health services have been overrun in recent years. Eighteen hundred graduates and undergraduates visit the university mental health services every year, and an additional six hundred fifty undergraduates receive therapy from the Bureau of Study Counsel. The bureau—originally founded to help students adjust to college life—has become a nearly full-time mental health center with thirteen clinicians in order to meet demand. ("This blows my mind! |
| These tool kits have been endorsed and are distributed by SAMHSA the federal government's substance abuse and mental health services administration.
Mary Ellen Copeland was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age thirty-seven. She was given pills—pills that she was told she would need to take for the rest of her life—until she developed a toxic reaction to them. She has written:
During the time I was taking the medication I could have been learning to manage my moods. I could have been learning that relaxation and stress reduction techniques and fun activities can help reduce the symptoms ... |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Bush's home state of Texas, state health services commissioner Dr. Eduardo Sanchez said, 'Half of Texas children born after the year 2000 will develop diabetes.'"
AGE AS A FACTOR
Diabetes also increases with age. It could be considered a marker of accelerated aging.
Age (years)
Figure 10: Diabetes rates in men and women ages 0-80-plus (Source: Diabetes Care, 2004, American Diabetes Association, Inc.)
Today one in five New Yorkers 65 years and older have diabetes. New York is not even the most overweight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The 50-year-old man apparently had no health insurance and couldn't afford treatment, so decided to escape to Cuba where he would be provided basic health services at no cost.
Look mommie, a half-naked Viagra bear!
An 11-year-old child recently won a Viagra bear in a game at a Red Robin restaurant in Minneapolis, reports a local TV station. The cuddly bear sported a Viagra T-shirt but no pants. (It was a HALF-NAKED Viagra bear!) The child's parents were so disturbed by the event that they popped some Prozac and warned the child, "Just say no to medication for erectile dysfunction! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Yes, we will also promote useful natural health services such as inkjet cartridge recycling services, or "plant a tree" foundations or other Earth-friendly services. Get in touch with us and let us know what you've got, and then make an incredible offer that I can pass along to NewsTarget readers, okay? That's all I ask: Make it worth my time and effort to introduce your company's products or services to my readers, and we'll all benefit while making the world a healthier, greener place to live!
Make sure you listen to this audio for health product companies: http://www.newstarget. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Instead, outside medical providers—including InterFit health services (operating the RediClinic chain), Solantic, Quick Quality Care, MinuteClinic and Take Care Health Care Systems—rent space from their brand-name landlords.
There's certainly no place for these clinics in complicated diagnoses, long-term management or even a second visit for the same problem. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 The use of juvenile detention facilities to house youth waiting for community mental health services is widespread and a serious national problem." The report was prepared at the request of California Rep. Henry Waxman, the House Government Reform Committee's top Democrat, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chairwoman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. "Thousands of youth who are in need of community mental health services are stuck in jail until these services become available," Waxman said in a statement. "This is deplorable. |
Charles Barber
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| Eighteen hundred graduates and undergraduates visit the university mental health services every year, and an additional six hundred fifty undergraduates receive therapy from the Bureau of Study Counsel. The bureau—originally founded to help students adjust to college life—has become a nearly full-time mental health center with thirteen clinicians in order to meet demand. ("This blows my mind!" said former Harvard president Larry Summers, apparently of the old school when it comes to matters of mental health, in response to these numbers. |
| The chief of Mental health services at Harvard wrote about antidepressants and attention deficit drugs in The New England Journal of Medicine: "Increasing numbers of students, and sometimes their families, request medication to provide an 'edge,' even if the students have no clinically significant impairment of functioning. They think of such drugs as safe 'brain steroids' that help to maximize performance with minimal risk, and they know the symptoms to describe in order to persuade a doctor to write a prescription. |
| Serious Psychological Distress" is a measure used by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental health services Administration. They find it highly prevalent: an average of 9 percent of Americans report having experienced psychological distress in a given year. Interestingly, psychological distress is far more common in the western and southern states (the red states, mainly) than in the Northeast and Midwest. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 One of the longtime followers of my nutrition plan is a man named Abraham Brickner, now retired, who was the Cleveland Clinic's director of health services, research and program development. Abe's mother died of heart disease when she was sixty-two. His brother had bypass surgery at the age of fifty-five and died from his heart disease a decade later. One of Abe's nephews had a heart attack at forty-five; a second nephew died from a heart attack at forty-two. Abe had his first bypass at fifty-five, and his second at sixty-five. |
Anne Harrington
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 This correlation held true even after factors such as socioeconomic status, smoking, alcohol use, obesity, physical activity, and use of preventive health services were accounted for.21 Berkman's methodology was rigorous, and her results seemed unequivocal. Other epidemiological studies, looking at other populations, would later confirm them.22 Soon there seemed to be no real room for doubt: having friends, being married, belonging to civic organizations, and belonging to a church were all conducive to healthier and longer life.
Community as "social support"
Why should this be so? |
Bill Sardi
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 Int J health services 31: 769-92, 2001] Not counting the cost of doctor's office visits, hormone replacement pills sales were nearly $2.7 billion in the United States annually. A year after the fateful announcement of health risks associated with hormone replacement, sales declined to $1.9 billion [Business Week November 5, 2004]
What will American women do now as menopause approaches and they experience all those related symptoms: night sweats, hot flashes and mood changes? |
Shannon Brownlee
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 In the 1960s, Milton Roemer, a health services researcher from the University of California, Los Angeles, coined the phrase "A built hospital bed is a filled hospital bed." Twenty years later, Jack Wennberg set out to understand how Roemer's law actually worked. Why was it that more beds led to more hospital admissions (and more cath labs led to more catheterizations, stents, and bypass surgeries) ? How were empty beds driving the clinical decisions of doctors? Weren't doctors making their decisions on the basis of the patient's needs? |
| In time, Wennberg would be recognized as the Christopher Columbus of health services research, an entirely new branch of medical science; his work would be considered "groundbreaking," "remarkable," and "revolutionary." Yet he was run out of town on a rail, as one colleague from Dartmouth puts it. He left the University of Vermont in 1973, the same year his landmark paper was published in Science, for an unpaid position at the school of public health at Harvard. |
Mark Schapiro
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 In research conducted for the Department of Health Services' Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR), Dr. Gray reported that female rats fed phthalates during pregnancy gave birth to a significantly high rate of male pups with incompletely descended testes and with an otherwise rare condition known as hypospadias—in layman's terms, an opening of the penis elsewhere than on the tip of the shaft.2 Both are symptoms of lower than normal testosterone. |
Roberta Bivins
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 The twentieth century also witnessed the rise of third-party payers and, particularly in Western Europe, national health services. In either case, a new entity obtruded itself into the doctor—patient relationship. Moreover, in the wake of the bacteriological revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and the decline of infectious disease, chronic and degenerative diseases—conditions characterized by long-term morbidity and often pain, rather than acute disease and sudden death—emerged as the major objects of medical interventions. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Coyle of the Harvard Medical School says "the way mental health services are provided to children" is one cause of the increasing numbers of prescriptions for psychotropic medications being given to preschoolers. "Many state Medicaid programs now provide quite limited reimbursement for the evaluation of behavioral disorders in children and preclude more than one type of clinical evaluator per day. Thus, the multidisciplinary clinics of the past that brought together pediatric, psychiatric, behavior and family dynamic expertise for difficult cases have largely ceased to exist. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 ADDENDUM
The rBGH Pentagon Papers
Review of confidential INADA files, the rBGH Pentagon Papers, submitted by Monsanto to the FDA, and leaked anonymously to the author in October, 1989, has confirmed evidence on a wide range of adverse veterinary effects induced by s-BGH, besides public health concerns, as I previously reported [International Journal of health services 20( 1 ):573-582,1990] but stridently denied by the FDA and industry and its academic consultants. |
| It may act "indirectly by sensitizing the breast to subsequent unrelated risk factors" such as radiation, he writes in the January International Journal of health services.
"The growth stimulation of IGF-1 has the effect of increasing risks," says Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, which releases the report today.
Not true, says Steve Sundlof, head of the FDA's center of veterinary medicine. There's more IGF-1 in human breast milk than in cows treated with BGH, he says. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 They concluded, "psychotropic drugs may not be indispensable to the success of community-based mental health services and that their extended use in aftercare may prolong the social dependency of many discharged patients." They were, in fact, made as dependent then as they are now on tranquilizers alone. It is impossible to function normally in any activity requiring energy, initiative and concentration on tranquilizers alone. Would you allow a heavily tran-quilized surgeon to operate on your heart? Two factors have made the outcome worse: (1) malnutrition and (2) tranquilizers alone. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| As detailed in a January 1996 report in the International Journal of health services, rBGH milk differs from natural milk chemically, nutritionally, pharmacologically and immunologically, besides being contaminated with pus and antibiotics resulting from mastitis induced by the biotech hormone. Most critically, rBGH milk is supercharged with high levels of abnormally potent IGF-1, up to 10 times the levels in natural milk and over 10 times more potent. IGF-1 resists pasteurization and digestion by stomach enzymes and is well absorbed across the intestinal wall. |
Jacky Law
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 Bush in April 2002 to look at how mental health services operate, also recommends treatment with the latest and most expensive drugs. 'The panel urges the elimination of the 15-20 year lag between the discovery of effective treatments and their wide use in routine patient care,' the report continues.16
Specifically, the Commission aims for integrated care that can screen, identify and respond to problems early. And it cites the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) as a model treatment plan. |
| The company would provide health services with the data as to which patient genotypes would benefit. That would be a very exciting development. The alternative is not to know, and the business is much more efficient, of course, if you are tteating ten people rather than one. But governments can't demand such things. One of the threads of the recent inquiry was that the UK government has very limited powers to persuade industry to do anything. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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| Thousands of youth who are in need of community mental health services are stuck in jail until these services become available," Waxman said in a statement. "This is deplorable. Congress must ensure that our children have access to the mental health care that they need."
Here the label "mentally ill" is sufficient to label and incarcerate them until mental health diagnosis and "treatment"— drugs—arrives. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| As detailed in my January 1996 report in the prestigious International Journal of health services, rBGH milk differs from natural milk chemically, nutritionally, pharmacologically and immunologically, besides being contaminated with pus and antibiotics resulting from mastitis induced by the biotech hormone. More critically, rBGH milk is supercharged with high levels of abnormally potent IGF-1, up 10 times the levels in natural milk and over 10 times more potent. IGF-1 resists pasteurization, digestion by stomach enzymes, and is well absorbed across the intestinal wall. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 How long were you with Contra Costa County health services?
A: Twelve and a half years.
Qj_ Were any other statistics collected during that time?
A; NIH actually carried out an extensive study. They hired 7 clerks. They brought a big trailer office, set it up on the hospital grounds, and supposedly abstracted every record of every woman delivering a baby thete for a 5-year period. They coded them as to whether they were from the Richmond Clinic with Brewer or not Brewer, the Martinez Clinic with Btewer or not Brewer, and the Pittsburgh Clinic with or without Brewer. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 National health services, and the Medical Research Council, indicated that chances of breast cancer are increased by 50 percent when on HRT.
Rather, we should be looking at the whole body, including the entire endocrine system, and following a lifestyle that encourages overall health. The Perfect Health program, starting with the five steps, will do this.
Osteoporosis can be reversed and we have seen that when the above guidelines are followed, there is marked improvement in bone density. Usually within a year, a noticeable difference can be seen. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 It still has not reduced the popularity of CAM or the number of persons seeking CAM health services. As a result, patients' grassroots campaigns have mobilized to protect freedom of treatment choice and to offset pervasive health department tactics. And they have been effective—after all, these are voters making demands to politicians. Since 1990, thirteen states have passed new laws that protect medical doctors' use of alternative therapies, and three others have promulgated regulations to the same end. |
| Americans have spent more out-of-pocket expense for CAM treatments in the last five years than they have spent out of pocket for conventional health services. And it's rocking some boats in the world.
The international drug industry, which stands to lose billions of dollars if cheaper and more effective alternatives are more widely available, has beefed up its political ties and contributions on federal, state, and international levels in an effort to stymie the access to such alternatives. These efforts to suppress access to these alternatives have not escaped notice, however. |
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