Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The People's Surveillance
There's also something else happening in society today that might have a chance of helping us all win back our freedoms: People-powered surveillance and the YouTube phenomenon!
YouTube is amazing. That's where regular people can post videos of things they've video recorded in society. The police hate YouTube because it puts them on the record beating innocents, tasering students, and violating people's civil rights.
Watch how the police assault this woman with a taser: http://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Tom Bohager
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 According to one theory, patrolling cells of the immune system provide continuing bodywide surveillance, spying out and eliminating cells that undergo any malignant transformation. Tumors develop when this surveillance system breaks down or is overwhelmed by the sheer number of cells that have become malignant.
APPENDIX D
THE HISTORY OF ENZYME THERAPY
The history of enzyme therapy is fascinating. At times it is similar to a classic mystery—small clues over many years reveal the true identity and functionality of enzymes. |
Devra Davis
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 They also evaluated the rates of reported birth defects and used data obtained from the CDC Congenital Malformations surveillance Report to estimate expected rates. Among the ninety-six live births, eighteen (19 percent) were reported to have had congenital abnormalities. The investigators attempted to correct for recall bias by using a conservative risk estimate. |
| For those with known or suspected exposures in the workplace or environment, why not establish what are called "medical surveillance" programs to look for the ones who are ill? We know that there are some illnesses where early treatment can keep people from early deaths. A smart outfit that has put a dangerous product on the market should be interested in systems that would reach out to people at risk and help them. |
| Medical surveillance would remove the hazard and work with those who've been exposed with the goal of keeping people healthy."
Of course, even if we set up such a system and found ways to pay for it, we have to live with what cannot be undone. The systems currently in place to understand and control toxic substances do not work well enough. The penalties mandated by the Toxic Substances Control Act, requiring that anyone having knowledge that an activity threatens public health or safety has to report it, had just the opposite effect. |
| This approach may back us all down from a precipice, to a point where people who are going to get increasingly sick will have a chance to be helped through medical surveillance programs set up to find them before their illness is too far advanced.
A leading tort lawyer commented on this idea with guarded enthusiasm. "In my twenty years of work, not once have I had a client who was glad they had me as a lawyer because they had this really awful cancer they just were thrilled about. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 In a post-marketing surveillance study, 2,016 women (40-65 y) with a Kupperman Index of 20 were treated with an isopropanol extract of Cimicifuga racemosa. Changes of subjective symptoms of menopause were evaluated at the start and at the end of 4, 8, and 12 weeks of treatment. Based on weighted symptom scores, hot flashes, sweating, insomnia, and anxiety decreased significantly. Kupperman Index decreased, on average, 17.64 points (P(.001). Thus, the extract was found to be effective in the alleviation of menopausal symptoms (Vermes et al, 2005). |
| In a postmarketing surveillance study, single-dose-administration of highly dosed St. John's wort was studied in 4,337 patients with depressive symptoms over a 12-week period. States of mental and physical health were documented using the SF-12-sumscore as a measure for quality of life. Physicians and patients rated efficacy and tolerability. Results showed that SF-12-sumscore improved significantly. About 80% of the physicians and patients judged the efficacy and safety of the drug as "good" or "very good". |
| Treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia: Results of a surveillance study in the practices of urological specialists using a combined plant-based preparation (Sabal extract WS 1473 and Urtica extract WS 1031). Fortschr Med 113:37-40. 1995.
Schoettner M, Gansser D, Spiteller G. Lignans from the roots of Urtica dioica and their metabolites bind to human sex hormone binding globlin (SHBG). Planta Med 63:529-532. 1997.
Sokeland J, Albrecht J. Combination of Sabal and Urtica extract vs. finasteride in benign prostatic hyperplasia (Aiken stages I to II). |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 The ten-page pamphlet Clara Gives Benzol the Run Around'tells the story of Clara Carelittle, an assembly-line worker who is not compliant with her scheduled medical exam for benzene surveillance. "I've got a date with Jim tonight. I won't have time for my hair-do if I go to the doctor for that examination. I'll skip it. Once won't make a difference."27 Clara was being dangerously short-sighted, we quickly learn:
Clara was on her first job, cementing crepe rubber soles in a shoe factory. Every 2 weeks, the factory doctor and Miss Fairly, the nurse, examined the girls in Clara's room. |
Bill Sardi
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 With a test that is not sensitive enough to detect many symptomless cases, current TB surveillance programs amount to "practicallynothing,"says Broxmeyer. World health authorities agree there is a need for a more sensitive test to detect TB. [J National Medical Association 97: 394-96, 2005]. Broxmeyer implicates yet another bacterium in the TB-family,
Paratuberculosis bovis, as the primary culprit in meat that is linked with mad cow disease. Broxmeyer provides a list of authoritative reports on the link between bacteria and disease at http://www.medamericaresearch. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Ongoing surveillance of the pregnancy can alert the woman to any medical problems as early as possible.
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When finally we understand premenstrual syndrome (PMS), we will have gone a long way toward understanding the interplay between the cultural, physiologic, and emotional factors that regularly affect women's lives during the premen-struum. A huge piece of work will have been done toward improving women's health.
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Roberta Bivins
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 Imperial authorities knew that enforcing such intimacy surveillance posed endless risks of cultural offence. At the same time, focusing on individual bodies threatened some programmes that were popular with powerful interests in India—expensive programmes of urban sanitation, for example, initially intended to create healthier cities by removing miasma. Like Pettenkofer's dramatic swigging of germs, the debates between these groups were explicitly intended for public consumption?and they extended well into the twentieth century. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Since the overall funding for the FDA did not increase at 3% per year, the FDA had to actually cut funding for surveillance and research of approved drugs.
The change in law had another interesting result: The boundaries among the drug companies, the FDA, and doctors became increasingly blurred. FDA officials sometimes move to jobs in the pharmaceutical industry, which means they may not want to burn their bridges with industry. |
| However, after planning a study with Roche, the acting head of FDA Drug surveillance concluded in 2002 that such a study could not be blinded because patients would know from the side effects (like skin dryness) what they were on and that therefore the study should not be performed. At that time the FDA knew of 173 cases of suicide from its MedWatch Program. Assuming that 1% of cases get reported, that would mean 17,300 cases of suicide.
My study of the effects of Accutane on brain function using brain imaging was first presented in November 2004. |
| The authors concluded that "this modest effect does not justify prescription of antibiotics at the first visit, provided close surveillance can be guaranteed."3
Another study of 315 children ages six months to ten years showed that unless there was high fever, more than 37.5°C (99.5°F), or vomiting, the antibiotics had no effect on pain. And they did not help the children sleep through the night, even three days after the start of the treatment.4 A metaanalysis of all studies showed that 60% of children treated with a placebo had no pain after twenty-four hours. |
| In the United States, the FDA's Office of Epidemiology and surveillance identified twelve cases of acute liver failure, resulting in four deaths, and an additional twenty-three cases of acute, serious liver injury in patients taking telithromycin up to April 2006. Since other antibiotics can be used instead of Ketek, I do not recommend its use.
CHLORAMPHENICOL
Chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin), which inhibits protein synthesis in bacteria, has a mechanism of action and side-effect profile that set it apart from other classes of antibiotics. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| The medical grunt work necessary to determine this is referred to in the trade as surveillance. This work can have all the added bells and whistles of the new CDC emerging pathogens program, but its core attribute is systematic, on-the-ground information gathering.
On 3 October 2001, the New York Times ran an article in its Living Arts section on the history of popcorn: "An Old-Fashioned, Versatile Treat."2 On the same day, the Wall Street Journalreported an outbreak of lung disease among workers in a Jasper, Missouri, popcorn factory.3 This outbreak involved no simple pneumonia. |
Tom Bohager
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| Tumors develop when this surveillance system breaks down or is overwhelmed by the sheer number of cells that have become malignant.
APPENDIX D
THE HISTORY OF ENZYME THERAPY
The history of enzyme therapy is fascinating. At times it is similar to a classic mystery—small clues over many years reveal the true identity and functionality of enzymes. In more modern times, enzymes have been the subject of studies on digestive issues, cancer, immune support, inflammatory issues, and many other debilitating diseases. |
Ray D. Strand
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 This greatly improves the tumor surveillance of our immune system.
Vitamin C
Dr. Linus Pauling has been influential in making everyone aware of the importance of supplemental vitamin C and its ability to enhance the immune system. Although we are still arguing whether massive doses of vitamin C are helpful for the common cold, the enhancing effects on the immune system are fairly well established. Vitamin C has been shown to improve the function of the macrophages.4 This significantly improves the first line of defense against bacterial infections. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 That's why diseases like cancer become more common as we age—they grow because we have decreased surveillance (and decreased protection) in our bodies. The issue of immunity really comes down to how we manage all the foreign invaders coming at us. We already know that bacteria are responsible for ulcers and a lot of reflux, and viruses are linked to cervical cancer (and, most likely, prostate and bladder cancers). Interestingly, it's not in an invader's best interest to actually kill us, since that would leave it homeless and vulnerable and unable to reproduce. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Baker and Kaprio both believe that studies that have shown a strong association between
Michael Thun, MD, vice president, epidemiology and surveillance research, American Cancer Society. British Medical Journal. specific genes and a higher risk for cancer may be biased.
However, they note that certain genes may increase the risk for very specific types of cancer—for example, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which doctors know are strongly linked to breast cancer. But genes that encourage cancer in general are less likely, they say. |
| Michael Thun, vice president of epidemiology and surveillance research at the American Cancer Society. "The things we know that are bad for you are bad for you in so many different ways that they won't become OK just because you're less susceptible to one or another disease," he says. Most of the genetic changes that cause cancer happen during your lifetime, not at birth, he adds.
A pivotal study of cancer in twins also suggests that genes are not the key culprits in this disease. |
| If any abnormalities are found, patients can then enroll in a more formal surveillance program. "Your chances are better because it's at an earlier stage," she adds.
"If people have reflux symptoms, they really do need to see their doctors because, many times, an upper endoscopy can detect things very quickly. Then you can treat it aggressively to try to prevent the progression. It's not 100%, but it's the best that we have at this point," says Brooks.
..Q For more information on esophagus can-— cer, visit the American Cancer Society at ummj.cancer.org. Click on "Choose a cancer topic. |
| Michael Thun, MD, vice president, epidemiology and surveillance research, American Cancer Society.
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Nieca Goldberg, MD, former chief, women's cardiac care, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, spokeswoman, American Heart Association, and author of The Women's Healthy Heart Program. Ballantine.
The Journal of the American Medical Association.
American Heart Association statement. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 A recent 2006 study—the largest surveillance effort on diabetes in youth conducted in the United States to date—found that 1 in 648 children and young adults under the age of nineteen now has type 1 diabetes—a staggering number. Worldwide studies confirm that even in babies and children aged four and under, rates have been increasing by 6 percent a year.
Knowing that, each year, so many children are being born who will develop type 1 diabetes has been a unique motivator for researchers to identify at-risk children in time to stop the disease in its tracks. |
| From the very start of the campaign, the National Influenza Immunization Program ran a well-organized surveillance system, monitoring for adverse side effects. Within the first two months, concerns from that early warning system began to emerge. More than ten states reported cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome in individuals who had been vaccinated recently. The relationship was so profound that the vaccination program stopped cold on December 16, 1976. By January 1977, more than five hundred cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome had been reported as a direct result of the vaccine. |
| The National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries all fund surveillance research on who has which cancer by age, sex, race, and locale. So we know, at any given juncture, how many Hispanic women at age forty have breast cancer in New York City. Or how many sixty-five-year-old African-American men have survived prostate cancer in Florida. |
Devra Davis
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| After Hyattsville I would go to Bethesda, to the National Cancer Institute on the growing campus of the National Institutes of Health, to beg and plead for the release of reports on cancer cases then being provided to the national surveillance Epidemiology and End-Results from about 10 percent of the country. SEER had begun listing all cancer cases that occurred since January 1, 1973, in Connecticut, Iowa, New Mexico, Utah and Hawaii, as well as in Detroit and San Francisco-Oakland. The next year Atlanta and the thirteen counties of the Seattle-Puget Sound area were added. |
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| Michael Thun, vice president of epidemiology and surveillance research at the American Cancer Society says, "This is by far the most definitive study showing that a concerted effort to reduce fat intake to 20% of total [calories] over an eight-year period did not reduce the incidence of breast or colorectal cancer in these women. But it's unlikely to end the debate completely."
It is possible that a diet that is lower in particular types of fat might be beneficial. |
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