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Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee See book keywords and concepts

News & World Report, where I wrote about the latest medical breakthroughs and cutting-edge research. Like most Americans, and most medical journalists, I viewed medicine as an "epic of progress," as sociologist Paul Starr puts it, an unbroken string of discoveries, each of which improved medical care. That is, until 1999, when I began researching the breast cancer treatment known as high-dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplant, the treatment Robin Longman's doctors wanted her to try.

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs Melody Petersen See book keywords and concepts

In the past 25 years, especially in the past decade, there has been a revolution in medical breakthroughs. "We need to ask ourselves a key question," he continued. "Would we accept 1980's-era medicines in exchange for 1980s pricing? I know I would not, and I doubt sincerely that there are many in this room who would." Indeed, American medicine of 1980 has little resemblance to that of today. In 1980 the pharmaceutical industry did not promote its products on television.

Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health J. Douglas Bremner See book keywords and concepts

Like my peers, I believed that medications were a good thing, that any risks and undesirable side effects would be solved through future medical breakthroughs, continuous research, and newer drugs. I accepted that the high price of drugs was justified by the need to pay for the research to develop new ones, and that generic drugs were bad because they drained money away from research for new life-saving drugs. However, being a physician scientist, I am naturally inclined to question the evidence for any particular statement of fact.

The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention Dawson Church See book keywords and concepts

Applying the discoveries of epigenetic control of the genes, and hence cellular function, offers great potential for medical breakthroughs. It allows us to seek therapies that intervene at the level of consciousness by changing beliefs and behaviors that interfere with health. Changing energy patterns before they manifest as disease works at a level of cause that is of a higher order than matter. While metaphysicans have advocated such a focus for millennia, modern research is now giving us an understanding of the genetic changes that occur in response to changes in energy and consciousness.

Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts

If any other treatment administered in the medical system proved to be as effective and consistent as the placebo effect, it would most certainly have been heralded as one of the biggest medical breakthroughs of all times. However, the placebo effect is never or only rarely mentioned in medical textbooks. This is unfortunate because the placebo plays at least as important a role in the process of healing and recovery as an expensive drug or sophisticated medical machinery.

If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C. See book keywords and concepts

These video news releases, or VNRs, are used extensively by the food industry and drug companies to provide a steady stream of stories announcing new medical breakthroughs, and the previously unknown health benefits researchers attribute to whatever product the sponsoring client happens to be offering. By 1991, ten VNR's a day were being produced or about 4,000 per year. Today the number is much greater, although no one has an exact count.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

This often involves biotechnology, which most of us think of in terms of either medical breakthroughs or genetically altered Frankenfoods. But there is a third kind of biotechnology that may play a much larger role in our future: industrial biotechnology. The term evokes images of ultra-high-tech gene tweaking and the creation of new kinds of organisms, but in what is probably its most useful environmental application, bioengineering will help us find more effective uses for naturally occurring organisms.

Disease Prevention and Treatment The Life Extension Editorial Staff See book keywords and concepts

Cancer: Qene Therapies, Stem Cells, Telomeres, and Cytokines The media reports on many medical breakthroughs but usually issues a disclaimer stating that it will take many years before the discovery becomes part of standard practice. Interestingly, there are steps a cancer patient can take right now to gain access to this state-of-the-art knowledge. In some instances, a patient will have to travel to a research facility. In other cases, these therapies can be incorporated into a cancer treatment program utilizing existing therapeutic approaches.

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

If eradication therapies for diseases are discovered and developed, the pharmaceutical industry has an inherent interest to suppress, discredit, and obstruct these medical breakthroughs to make sure that diseases continue as the basis for a lucrative pharmaceutical drug market.

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Disease Prevention and Treatment The Life Extension Editorial Staff See book keywords and concepts

There has never been a time in history when so many medical breakthroughs have not been implemented by clinical practitioners. It is not the intention of this book to replace the advice or attention of a physician or other health care professional. Instead, our objective is to help educate both patients and physicians about the latest, most scientific methods of preventing and treating diseases and premature aging.

A report from the National Academies (2002) concluded, "Public funding of research on human stem cells derived from both adults and embryos provides the most efficient and responsible means to fulfill the promise of stem cells for achieving medical breakthroughs." Committee Chair Bert Vogelstein stated: "The stem cell debate has led scientists and nonscien-tists alike to contemplate profound issues, such as who we are and what makes us human beings." The U.S.

The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers Katharine Greider See book keywords and concepts

And prices for new drugs judged to be medical breakthroughs can't be higher than the median price for the same drugs in a comparison "basket" of six European countries and the United States. What is the median U.S. price for a breakthrough drug? Canadian officials have had to go through a certain amount of rigamarole just to wrest the appropriate figures from America's many-layered pricing scheme. During a talk in Washington, D.C., in 1999, Robert G.

Gary Null's Power Aging Gary Null See book keywords and concepts

What's more, by forestalling age-related diseases, we put ourselves in a position to take advantage of future medical breakthroughs that could result in dramatic extensions of the healthy human life span.1 The Life Extension Foundation is a group dedicated to using science to address the problems of disease, aging, and death, and the following information on the mechanisms of aging is based largely on their synthesis of what is known in this field at the present time.

Disease Prevention and Treatment The Life Extension Editorial Staff See book keywords and concepts

The Life Extension Foundation educates its members about medical breakthroughs as they develop. A review of what the Foundation has published since 1980 reveals that Life Extension has consistently been 5-10 years ahead of conventional medicine. A stark example of the failure of doctors to recognize the value of a lifesaving therapy can be seen with a drug called cimetidine (Tagamet). A study published in the British Journal of Cancer (2002) showed that when cimetidine was administered to colon cancer patients, the survival odds improved by almost fourfold.

HOW LIFE EXTENSION SAVES LIVES TODAY Since 1980, the nonprofit Life Extension Foundation has been the world leader in presenting lifesaving information about the latest medical breakthroughs. A casein-point is Life Extension's advice to take low-dose aspirin to prevent heart attacks. While mainstream doctors now advocate aspirin to prevent heart attacks, the Life Extension Foundation published hard-core evidence about aspirin's benefits back in 1983.

Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System J.D. Kleinke See book keywords and concepts

Its administrators preside over the staging area for the community's greatest dramas, a bustling facility where babies are born, traumas are quelled, medical breakthroughs are tested, new doctors are trained, and millions of people fight for their lives. The desire to participate in such dramas brought many hospital administrators into the profession in the first place. It is testament to the pressures and problems of the broader system in which our hospitals operate that so many have lost that inspiration. Running a hospital is also economically critical work.

Healing Pets With Nature's Miracle Cures Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A. See book keywords and concepts

However, many, if not most, medical breakthroughs have come about with anecdotes and empirical observation. Our scientific community demands expensive, scientific, and, at times, even cruel research before widespread use of a substance can be used. There have been a number of studies confirming the benefits of Ge-132. One study in 1984 confirmed that organic germanium restores the normal function of T cells, B-lymphocytes, antibody-dependent cell toxicity, natural killer cell activity, and a number of antibody forming cells.

Prevention's New Foods for Healing: Capture the Powerful Cures of More Than 100 Common Foods Prevention Magazine See book keywords and concepts

Filled with Folate One of the most critical medical breakthroughs of this century was the discovery that the incidence of brain and spinal cord birth defects (called neural tube defects) could be cut in half if women of childbearing age got 400 micrograms of folate a day. Asparagus is richly endowed with folate, a B vitamin that is essential for helping cells regenerate. Five asparagus spears contain 110 micrograms of folate, about 28 percent of the Daily Value (DV). If you're pregnant, you may want to take a double serving.

The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases Philip Yam See book keywords and concepts

But curing prion disease is not an economically viable proposition. "The cure for the disease will not come from a pharmaceutical company," Stanley Prusiner predicted. "It will come from a research laboratory or an academic institution funded by governments."10 A pharmaceutical firm might get involved should one of its existing chemicals prove efficacious, or if its work would bear fruit for a more lucrative disease, such as Alzheimer's disease. So, a cure will depend on the willingness of nations to commit financial resources. Treatment possibilities also raise thorny ethical issues.

Dangerous Grains: Why Gluten Cereal Grains May Be Hazardous To Your Health James Braly M.D. and Ron Hoggan M.A. See book keywords and concepts

Medical practitioners are often so overworked that many of them simply do not have the time to keep up to date on major medical breakthroughs. Even when doctors can devote some part of their busy days to studying current literature, it is literally impossible for one to keep up with the tens of thousands of international articles published monthly. For example, there are between ten and twenty thousand medical journals and newsletters published annually. The busy doctor must therefore prioritize which articles he will study.

New Choices in Natural Healing: Over 1,800 of the Best Self-Help Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine Bill Gottlieb See book keywords and concepts

Understanding the Methods of Natural Healing The Most Natural of Remedies For These, What's Old Is New rom pacemakers to birth control pills, from kidney transplants to artificial hearts, America has an international reputation for making medical breakthroughs. But even as revolutionary medical techniques continue to make the headlines, another, quieter health revolution is happening in homes across the country.

Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System J.D. Kleinke See book keywords and concepts

Sorting through today's medical breakthroughs is a big task competing for the attention of the MCOs' thousands of medical directors. This is especially difficult considering how they spend the bulk of their time, namely, coping with the day-to-day task of approving or denying payment for the basics and for last year's breakthroughs.

Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives Joseph Glenmullen, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Each time, the announcements were hailed as extraordinary medical breakthroughs. But none of the studies stood the test of time. Upon close scrutiny, all of them had to be retracted.21 Unfortunately, the retractions did not receive the same publicity, so many people are left to believe that genes have been found for a great many mental states and that more related discoveries are being proven at regular intervals. No claim of a gene for a psychiatric condition has stood the test of time, in spite of popular misinformation.

The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook James Green See book keywords and concepts

All significant medical breakthroughs benefiting humans have come from the clinical study of the disease process in human beings, and primarily through improved nutrition and hygiene. Pills Pills are globular dosages designed for oral administration. They are prepared by incorporating an herb with other material in such a proportion that a cohesive mass is formed and this in turn is molded into a desired shape. For the past several hundred years pdls occupied a place of major importance in pharmacy.

Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer Michael Lerner See book keywords and concepts

He later told Moss: "Most medical breakthroughs," [Burzynski said] with a sly touch of irony, "have happened because there was some lack of suppression by the supervisors of people doing some innovative work.". . . In addition, his private practice gave him financial independence. "If I should join them," he said, "I would do exactly what they were telling me to do, even though I would have a separate lab." When he refused their offer, these well-established cancer researchers turned against him and began to make life difficult. . . .

Attaining Medical Self Sufficiency Duncan Long See book keywords and concepts

There's no money to be made in such research, even though it might lead to many medical breakthroughs. It's a sad fact that you can't make truckloads of money marketing medications the corporation doesn't have full control over. (For US buyers, prices are inflated as high as the market will allow. US prices for medications are 50 percent higher than in Canada. A patient in Canada will get a drug for half the price he would if he had the prescription filled in the US.15) Pharmaceutical research is aimed at synthesizing new medications that will give 13 Stephen Reucroft and John Swain.

Food and Healing Annemarie Colbin See book keywords and concepts

The popular belief, encouraged by the media, is that we owe the disappearance of major epidemics of infectious diseases to medical breakthroughs, whereas in fact, the death rate from infection had already begun to drop several decades before control measures inspired by the germ theory were put into effect, and almost a century before the introduction of antimicrobial drugs.6 The incidence of cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, and typhoid declined after the introduction of clean water supplies, sewage control, general sanitation, and the pasteurization of milk.

Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control Stanton Peele See book keywords and concepts

This is not the stuff of which announcements of great medical breakthroughs of the past were made. The Catch-22 of Denial What if you are told you are an alcoholic and that you must abstain for life, and you don't agree? Then you are, according to treatment wisdom, practicing denial. Many, many people have been told they drink too much or that they are alcoholic.

The Cancer Industry Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Most medical breakthroughs," he later suggested with a sly touch of irony, "have happened because there was some lack of suppression by the supervisors of people doing some innovative work." Look at insulin, he said—discovered by a graduate student while the laboratory head was on vacation. In the backwaters of Baylor's anesthesiology department, "as far remote from cancer research as you can imagine," Stash Burzynski had received the precious gift of obscurity (Lang, 1987a). In addition, his private practice gave him financial independence.

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