Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| One of the primary missions of our colleges and universities has historically been to produce unbiased research and share results among the scientific community This mission has been compromised by the influx of corporate dollars. universities now compete for pharmaceutical funding, and consequently have prostituted their works for the almighty dollar.
If the medical professionals who leave these "hallowed halls" have not been well-corrupted by the time their medical training is complete, ample opportunity remains after graduation. |
Charles Barber
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 The McKnight Foundation, supported with money from the 3M Company, has funded brain research centers at the universities of Florida, Miami, and Alabama, as well as scholars at universities all over the country. Neuroscience is one of the principal areas of focus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the endowment of which is $16 billion (derived from the 1985 sale of Hughes Aircraft to General Motors). |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Government Food for Peace Program, major universities and countless other organizations and universities were taking up the battle cry to eradicate world hunger with high-quality protein. I knew most of the projects firsthand, as well as the individuals who organized and directed them.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations exerts considerable influence in developing countries through their agriculture development programs. Two of its staffers6 declared in 1970 that ".. . |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Laboratories, including those at some respected universities and colleges, are expert at setting up a study so that the results will back up whatever the label or advertisements say a product can do. One important thing that many consumers and physicians aren't aware of, and this includes lots of physicians who are involved in these bogus studies, is the question, "Under what conditions were the studies performed?" Maybe it takes some experience even to ask. For example, in a skin-care study, the subjects participating often begin by washing their face and then stripping it clear with alcohol. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Investigators were looking for a 20% decrease in Western Ontario and MacMaster universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) pain score from baseline to week 24. Compared with the high rate of response to placebo (60.1%), rates of response were just 3.9 percentage points higher for glucosamine (p=0.30), 5.3 percentage points higher for chondroitin (p=0.17), and 6.5 points higher for the combination of the two (p=0.09). |
Alex Vilenkin
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 He made gifts to several universities, Tufts included, to facilitate antigravity research. The only condition of the grant was that a monument with Babson's inscription be erected on campus.
The wacky monument was a source of embarrassment for the Tufts administration and inspired numerous pranks by the students. It would occasionally disappear, only to reappear where it was least expected. Once it was found blocking the entrance of the trustees and the president at the commencement. |
Melody Petersen
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 They sharply reduced funding to Iowa's three public universities, causing a spike in tuition and fees between 2001 and 2005 of more than 60 percent.
"Iowa used to pride itself on providing high-quality, affordable education," the editorial board of The Des Moines Register wrote in 2006, when a study determined that an average student at Iowa State would graduate with almost thirty thousand dollars in debt. "It's no longer affordable."
Some education officials said they feared that the high tuition costs were leading some young Iowans to skip college altogether. |
| And the universities should fire professors who say they are the authors of papers that were actually written by ghostwriters working for the industry. Students are expelled for plagiarizing another's work. Professors should suffer the same consequences.
Some medical researchers have called for the government to create a national scientific agency that would pore through the industry's clinical trial reports, throw out the biased research, and determine what drugs actually work. Such an agency, designed in the right way, could transform America's medical system. |
| Public schools and universities should scrutinize any group offering to educate students about health or screen them for medical problems. The public should also be wary of health fairs or conferences sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry. The money for these events comes from companies' marketing departments. At the same time, legislatures should question the appropriateness of the financial grants the industry gives to state health departments and the agencies that operate the Medicaid program. |
| The pharmaceutical companies build their laboratories on the campuses of public universities. They recruit patients for clinical trials at shopping malls and county fairs. On network television, the plots of prime-time shows revolve around brand name prescription drugs, at times at the suggestion of marketers at a pharmaceutical company.
The medicine promoters have turned what were once normal life events—menopause, despair from a divorce, anxiety caused by a workaholic boss—into maladies that can be treated with a pill. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Groundbreaking studies by three major medical universities have revealed a previously unsuspected culprit: insufficient sleep. These studies determined that sleep-deprived people (those who sleep less than the 7.9 recommended hours) may be ravenously hungry, and worse, that they may crave the richest, mostfat-producingfoods. People who routinely sleep 5 hours a night or less are at the greatest risk for elevated weight gain. The mechanism involves two hormones—ghrelin and leptin—that play an important role in regulating appetite. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Lands, a retired professor of biochemistry at the universities of Michigan and Illinois and an expert on the metabolism of fats.
What to Do, What to Do?
The best response to mercury warnings, obviously, is to stay away from the fish that are known to be the most contaminated (which includes, unfortunately, canned albacore tuna, though not canned light tuna). Keep your eyes open for the reports of consumer advocate groups who often sound the alarm way in advance of government agencies (a good place to start is with the Environmental Defense Networks' Oceans Alive Web site, www.oceansalive. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 In 2001, a group of researchers from Harvard and Brown universities published a study that looked at the medical records of nearly four thousand Medicare patients from 1 7 3 hospitals located in five states. Some of the patients had undergone a balloon angioplasty; others had had bypass surgery. The researchers wanted to know if the treatment given to this randomly chosen group of Medicare patients was appropriate, according to the set of rules that heart specialists have worked out. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Unfortunately, the medical research institutions and universities that publish these studies do not have the budget to hire a sales force to go out into the field to educate physicians. Consequently, most doctors continue to remain unenlightened regarding the science behind the safe treatment option of bio-identical hormones. how bio-identical progesterone kick-starts weight loss at a cellular level
Bio-identical progesterone neutralizes estrogen dominance, thereby kick-starting weight loss at a cellular level. Here's what happens.
First, progesterone eliminates the hypothyroid condition. |
Bottom Line Health
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| To combat leptin resistance, I have developed a fat-resistance diet based on cutting-edge research at premier institutions such as Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller universities. Eating the proper foods can eliminate chronic inflammation and reprogram the body's weight-loss mechanisms.
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY FOODS
The focus of the diet isn't calorie control. The idea is to eat foods that supply anti-inflammatory nutrients. A major problem of most weight-loss diets is the use of artificial sweeteners and fat substitutes to reduce calories. |
Anne Harrington
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 This new basis was found in the decision to emphasize the potential compatibility of TM with scientific thinking and practices, to attempt to make inroads with scientists in universities rather than with pop stars.
The new outreach effort worked: conferences were organized, and scientists came. |
Joseph Campbell
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| And so, while husbands are worshiping at their boyhood shrines, being the lawyers, merchants, or masterminds their
11 G6za Rdheim, The Eternal Ones of the Dream (New York: International universities Press, 1945), p. 178.
12 C. G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation (translated by R. F. C. Hull, Collected Works, vol. 5; New York and London 2nd edition, 1967), par. 585. (Orig. 1911-12, Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, translated by Beatrice M. Hinkle as Psychology of the Unconscious, 1916. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Lands, a retired professor of biochemistry at the universities of Michigan and Illinois. No one is more concerned about mercury than me, and while I recommend you avoid it, it's nice to know that selenium can help mitigate at least some of the potential effects of this dangerous, neurotoxic metal.
I think taking a 200 meg supplement of selenium every day is one of the most sensible things you can do. Many high-quality multiple supplements contain this much, or you can take it as a stand-alone pill. The very best food source is Brazil nuts, which are high in calories but a selenium bonanza. |
| The trials, conducted by the National Institute on Aging (NLA), are taking place at no fewer than twenty-nine different medical centers and universities across the United States. The results of the trial, "A Multi-Center, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Therapeutic Trial to Determine Whether Natural Huperzine A Improves Cognitive Function," should be available soon.
We don't know the exact cause of Alzheimer's disease. |
Melody Petersen
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| With their hoards of cash, the companies have readily handed money to patient groups, hospitals, universities, medical schools, physician societies, government agencies, and just about any organization they want on their side. Harvard, for one, has a lecture hall named for Pfizer in a building named for Mallinckrodt, another company.
The industry's cash-filled coffers have given it a stranglehold on medical science. Most of the nation's best academic medical minds have at some time been on the industry's payroll as consultants. |
Charles Barber
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| The blame here, in my view, ultimately lies with the doctors and the universities, not the big drug companies. For all their tawdry manipulations, the drug companies are only doing what corporations are supposed to do in this system—make a profit at virtually any cost. Unlike the doctors, the drug companies have taken no Hippocratic oath and generally make few claims to act in the public's best interest. Casting ultimate blame on the drug companies is a little like blaming a wolf for attacking a deer. |
Jacky Law
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 Conflicts are perhaps inevitable, said Dr John Yates of the US Scripps Research
Institute and a member of the global advisory council (known as the Human Proteome Organization or HUPO) which coordinates the work, adding that these are the responsibility of the universities to sort out.32
Universities must survive in a commercial world and private money is usually something of a godsend. Vice-rector at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, Professor Jean Dominique Vassalli, sees no conflicts of interest now or in the future. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Research Provides Proof That Sugar Dependency
Is Real
Although the research is still in its embryonic stages, a group of revered, veteran scientists at universities and institutions throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe are reporting on laboratory-controlled animal behavior that sheds new light on the overpowering attraction exerted by dessert or "highly palatable" sweet foods.
Internationally renowned neuroscientist Bartley G. Hoebel, Ph.D., a Princeton University professor, is at the forefront of this research. |
Charles Barber
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| As Tom Wolfe put it, those echoes you heard in the middle of the night in the late 1980s and early 1990s were the sounds of departments of psychiatry and psychology in universities all across the country taking down their placards and putting up new ones, saying Departments of ATewropsychology and Neuropsychiatry. |
Roberta Bivins
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 But medical research found a home too in industry, in universities, and in governmental organizations of various types, ranging from public health laboratories to military installations. 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. |
| Crucially and distinctively, many medical students have the opportunity to study acupuncture and other alternative therapies within orthodox universities or medical schools?0 per cent of US medical schools offered some training on complementary and alternative therapies by 2000, and the University of Exeter in the UK has a chaired professor in Complementary and Alternative Medicine. And as Sagli and others have documented, access to the underlying alternative medical theories plays a substantially greater part in all of these modes of transmission. |
Charles Barber
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| Many factors of course have contributed, but the key to all of them has been the direct effect of the filtering into public consciousness, in simplistic and often misunderstood form, of the effects of a revolution that has taken place in academic psychiatry in the last twenty years— the ascendancy and now complete dominance of biological psychiatry, or neuropsychiatry, in universities across the country. All of this has contributed to a new public image of psychiatry as a real branch of medicine and a bona fide science built on white-coated certitude. Finally, psychiatry is Big Science. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The truth is, most new drugs are developed through basic science research conducted in universities and not in drug-company laboratories. University scientists receive research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH is supported by money from taxes. Take the case of the COX-2 inhibitors, like Vioxx. The mechanisms of COX-2 inhibition that led to the development of the COX-2 inhibitors were discovered at a university by researchers supported by taxpayers' dollars. |
Mark Sircus
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 Manuela Malatesta and colleagues in the universities of Pavia and Urbino in Italy, showed that mice fed on GM soya experienced a slowdown in cellular metabolism and modifications to liver and pancreas.31 Researchers are reviving fears that GM food damages human health and certainly would not be indicated for children or people with diabetes.
Diabetic Neuropathy
Diabetic neuropathy, a complication of both Type I and Type II diabetes, is probably the most common complication of the disease.32 Studies suggest that up to 50% of people with diabetes are affected to some degree. |
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