Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 What I said in that article has urgent application right now, following the Omaha shooting:
A study published in the public library of Science Medicine (an open source medical journal) explored these same links in detail. (See Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law, by David Healy, Andrew Herxheimer, David B. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts |
 My friend Carol Conner s, the indefatigable reference librarian at Teton County public library in Wyoming, assured me that if a single copy existed anywhere in the world, she would find it. She did. I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I formally requested the three-volume set from the library in Belgium where it was stored. I thought I would learn how naive the world of cancer research had once been. |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |
 Founded by Trajan at the height of Roman power in the first century ad, the city supported a large public library, a 2,500-person rheater, more than a dozen bathhouses, and public bathrooms with marble flush toilets. Lowdermilk found the city housed a few hundred inhabitants living in stone buildings recycled from the ancient ruins. Abandoned for more than a thousand years, the remains of giant olive presses standing on bare, treeless slopes spoke of better days.
In Tunisia, Lowdermilk pondered rhe ruins of a 60,000-seat amphitheater, in its day second in size only to Rome's coliseum. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts |
 So wrote John Ioannidis, PhD, an epidemiologist affiliated with the University of Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece and Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, in the August 2005 issue of the journal public library of Science Medicine.
"For most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true," he stated in the study's summary. "Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 Thumbs up to Wikipedia, the public library of Science (PLoS journals) and other open-source projects that engage readers and decentralize information rather than trying to dictate it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 Check out the public library of Science journals, which, as far as I can tell, are the only honest medical journals in the industry.
#5 Ban direct-to-consumer drug advertising
Drug companies whooped and high-fived each other when they convinced the FDA to legalize direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug advertising in 1997. It didn't take much convincing, actually, since the FDA guys were all getting drunk at the same party. Since then, consumers have been walloped with mostly false advertising touting fictitious benefits for dangerous drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
| The links between antidepressants and violence are well documented
A study published in the public library of Science Medicine (an open source medical journal) explored these same links in detail. (See Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law, by David Healy, Andrew Herxheimer, David B. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 A paper published April 24, 2007 in the public library of Science journal Medicine uncovers the tactics which pharmaceutical sales representatives, commonly called "drug reps," are trained to use in promoting drugs to prescribing physicians.
"It's my job to figure out what a physician's price is. For some it's dinner at the finest restaurants, for others it's enough convincing data to let them prescribe confidently and for others it's my attention and friendship... |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |
 One such previously cited study, published by the public library of Science, is "Relationships Between Funding Source and Conclusion Among Nutrition-Related Scientific Articles," by David S. Ludwig, et al. See also Marion Nestle's Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health. Revised edition. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007). bake them into our vitamin-fortified bread. But I'm not sure we should put our faith in food science, which so far has not served us very well, or in evolution, either. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |
 The public library of Science journal Medicine in 2007 published a damning paper called "Following the Script: How Drug Reps Make Friends and Influence Doctors." In it, coauthor Shahram Ahari—a former pharmaceutical sales rep for Eli Lilly—wrote: "It's my job to figure out what a physician's price is. For some it's dinner at the finest restaurants, for others it's enough convincing data to let them prescribe confidently, and for others it's my attention and friendship ... but at the most basic level, everything is for sale and everything is an exchange. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |
 In Richmond, California, improvements, including a solar electric system for the public library, are expected to save the city more than $9.5 million over the next twenty years. In West Sacramento, California, at the U.S. Postal Service's Processing and Distribution Center, CES installed the nation's largest nonmilitary federal solar power installation, among other energy efficient improvements. The improvements are expected to reduce the facility's power use by more than one-third and its annual electricity purchases by $615,000. |
Bruce H. Lipton
See book keywords and concepts |
 In an editorial in public library of Science Biology where the Stanford research was published, chimp researcher, Frans B. M. de Waal of Emory University, wrote: ".. .even the fiercest primates do not forever need to stay this way." [deWaal 2004]
In addition, no matter how many National Geographic specials you've watched, there is no dog-eat-dog imperative for humans. We are at the top of the predator/prey food chain. Our survival is dependent on eating organisms lower in the hierarchy, but we are not subject to being eaten by organisms higher in the chain. |
David Wolfe
See book keywords and concepts |
 If you do not have a computer, Internet access is available at any public library.
30. Educate yourself. Saturate your mind (see Lesson 25: Saturation Point).
Read, listen to audio tapes, watch DVDs and videos about natural, raw plant-food nutrition. Discuss the idea with others. What you think about, comes about. If you would like to read other books on eating raw plant foods, browse our online Internet catalog: www.rawfood.com
Or contact Nature's First Law by calling 888-729-3663. We are here to make it easier for you to eat organic plants. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |
 From the public library of Science (PLoS) Medicine Journal (Vol. 2 Issue 12, December 2005), authors Jeffrey R. Lacasse and Jonathan Leo reach the following conclusion about antidepressant drug advertising:
A recent study by Kravitz et al. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |
 The virtual public library of Science has received top-quality rankings for its free journal offerings, and is being joined by numerous other innovative publishers.
Society at large benefits from the growing pool of public goods: a body of knowledge about software, culture, and science; a physical pool of libraries, schools, hospitals, universities, and transportation infrastructure; a social pool of communities, nongovernmental organizations, and networks. The more knowledge we have access to, the richer we are. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |
| Meanwhile, medical journals are so corrupted by advertising that honest observers of the industry are starting the study the degree of influence between drug companies and medical journals. In a public library of Science Medicine Journal article entitled, "Advertising in Medical Journals: Should Current Practices Change?" Authors Adriane Fugh-Berman, Karen Alladin and Jarva Chow state:
Publishing is expensive, and medical journals obviously need a business model to be sustainable. |
| In a study published in the public library of Science (PLoS) Medicine journal authored by Joanna Moncrieff and David Cohen, it is concluded that there is no evidence showing that antidepressants or any other drugs produce long-term elevation of mood or other effects that are particularly useful in treating depression. (July 2006, Volume 3, Issue 7)
Lipitor, one of the world's top selling drugs, has been targeted for two lawsuits. |
| By accepting only advertisements for drugs and medical devices, medical journals have accepted an exclusive and dependent relationship with pharmaceutical companies," said a team of Georgetown researchers in a paper to be published in the public library of Science (PLoS) Medicine on May 2,2006.
<** In a strong show of opposition to advertising for prescription drugs, 211 professors from U.S. medical schools endorsed a statement that "direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs should be prohibited. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
See book keywords and concepts |
 Run by the San Francisco based not-for-profit public library of Science, the new journal's editorial board boasts some of the biggest names in global health care. By challenging the status quo, disentangling from drug company influence, and promoting mote independent medical information, this journal is helping show the way forward for all of us.
Challenging and questioning the status quo is the first step for anyone concerned about the selling of sickness. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
See book keywords and concepts |
 That study, available for viewing in the Physicians 'Desk Reference (a copy of which can be found in any public library), reports that among patients taking 15 mg of Zyprexa per day, 20% developed "parkinsonism events" which also included tremors, a shuffling walk, slowed movements and a relatively expressionless face. (Many patients receive prescriptions for doses of30-40 mg per day.)11 Even at the lower 10 mg per day dose, 14% develop some kind of parkinsonism events.
Those numbers are higher than they should be. Why? |
H. Winter Griffith, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
 Information sources are your doctor, your nurse, your pharmacist, this book, other books in your public library and the Internet.
• Keep an up-to-date list of all the medicines you take in a wallet or purse. Include name, dose and frequency.
• Don't take drugs prescribed for someone else—even if your symptoms are the same.
• Keep your prescription drugs to yourself. Your drugs may be harmful to someone else.
• Tell your doctor about any symptoms you believe are caused by a drug— prescription or nonprescription—that you take.
• Take only medicines that are necessary. |
Elaine Feuer
See book keywords and concepts |
 It is interesting to note, however, that the Dallas public library has a copy of Human Nutrition, Report No. 1, A Survey Of Research On Human Nutrition, which detailed the moneys spent by the federal government on human nutrition research in 1968-69. But while Report No. 1 revealed that the federal government allocated approximately $30 million to human nutrition research, it did not discuss or evaluate the benefits of nutrition. The Dallas public library has no record of Benefits From Human Nutrition Research, Report No. 2. |
Attaining Medical Self SufficiencyDuncan Long
See book keywords and concepts |
| Using the resources on the Internet and public library (more on these later) as well as checking with other health experts can be a good way to garner the information you
'Ibid need for an informed decision. You may also want to contact the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (1-800-358-9295) and ask for a free copy of Questions To Ask Your Doctor Before You Have Surgery.
The catch to this is that you don't want to spend too much time reaching your decision if you're facing a major medical problem. |
| Contact the American Board of Medical Specialties at 1-800-776-2378 or look up the information in the Directory of Medical Specialists, at your public library.
Another level of skill is required for a surgeon to become a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). You can determine this by checking the surgeon's listing in the phone book or elsewhere; if he has "FACS" after his name, he passed a thorough evaluation of both professional competence and has been determined to have good ethical standards. |
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
See book keywords and concepts |
 Boston public library.
The chairman opened the meeting by providing an overview of the issues at hand:
Chairman Church: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities opens its public hearings today with an inquiry into a case in which direct orders of the President of the United States were evidently disobeyed by employees of the CIA. It is the purpose of this hearing ... to illuminate the need to make certain in the future that Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies perform their duties in ways which do not infringe upon the rights of American citizens. |
Attaining Medical Self SufficiencyDuncan Long
See book keywords and concepts |
| The Federation of State Medical Boards (1-817-868-4000) can give you the phone number for the state agency with this information; Public Citizen's Health Research Group's Questionable Doctors (in your public library or from 1-202-588-1000) will be another source of additional information.
The Surgery Team
Surgeons don't work alone. They're part of a team. For this reason once you locate a good surgeon, it doesn't hurt to be sure the hospital has a good success rate for the type of surgery you're undergoing. Ideally the rate of success should be as good or better than that of other hospitals. |
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
See book keywords and concepts |
| The following week back from the west coast, and on tour in New York, I stopped in the public library to look up Roy Ash in Who's Who. The business executive and co-founder of Litton Industries, Inc., in Beverly Hills, California, had directed the military megacontractor from 1953 to 1972. In 1969, instead of the NSC directorship, Nixon appointed him chairman of the President's Advisory Council on Executive Organizations, on which he served until 1971. Then he was elevated to the rank of "Assistant to the President of the United States. |
| On further research in New York public library, I learned that both had received law degrees. Califano received his from Harvard in 1955—the year Kissinger submitted his Meaning of History for his Ph.D. What's more, all three had served in the army during the war.
From 1964 to 1965, Haig served as Deputy Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army, and as Deputy Secretary of Defense of the Army while Califano was at the Pentagon as Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of the DOD. |
| A search through Sloan Foundation's annual reports, on file in Manhattan's New York public library, revealed nine ghastly and incriminating reasons that, most incredibly, tied all the elements of my investigation together. |
The Editors of PREVENTION
See book keywords and concepts |
 Call your local tourism or visitors' bureau, chamber of commerce, or public library for schedules and meeting points.
Make a habit of hiking. Who says walking has to be done on level ground? Hiking uses the same skills as walking, with the bonus of burning many more calories. The Sierra Club has chapters nationwide, and you can check local bulletin boards or the Internet for an informal hiking group near you.
Befriend a beagle. Walking a dog adds a whole new dimension of fun to your daily constitutional. If you're dogless, borrow your sister's schnauzer. |
Email this page to a friend
