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Alternative Medicine in the News
March 2010 edition 64
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Greetings!
Two good news items from Abha Light -
1) This Sunday, 21 March and Monday, 22 March, at 9 pm, Citizen TV, Kenya will do spotlights on Abha Light and our College
2) The Abha Light College team are the contributing editors for the April edition of the HPathy.com e-zine. So check it out at the beginning of April at Hpathy.
Enjoy!
Didi
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Case study: Problems with removing the contraception Norplant
http://www.wddty.com
[Didi's comment: I get lots women in clinic with similar stories. Homeopathy goes a long way to sort them out]
When my husband and I decided not to have any more children, we
agreed to have a Norplant fitted under the skin of my arm by my family
doctor.
Once the Norplant rods were implanted, I suffered
increasingly heavy periods, sometimes bleeding for up to 30 days, with
only a four-day break. At one stage, my blood loss was so excessive
that I fainted and had to be taken to hospital. The hospital's
specialist recommended that the Norplant be removed immediately by my
GP.But when my doctor tried to remove the Norplant, he couldn't find
it. Soon after, a representative from Roussel, which manufactures the
contraceptive (Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories in the US), told my doctor
that if he couldn't remove the Norplant, no one from the drug company
could, either. Roussel told me that a Dr Walling in Boston been
specially trained to remove the device. They asked him to travel to
England to remove the implants, so that they could observe him.
At
my doctor's surgery Dr Walling gave me a local anesthetic and managed
to extract four of the capsules, but a fifth one broke and only half
could be removed. The rest of the implants couldn't be found. By this
time, I had four small incisions and a two-inch scar along my arm. Now
it appears likely that I'm going to have to undergo major operation
under general anesthetic to locate and remove the missing capsules,
plus plastic surgery to minimize the scarring. And this is six months
after doctors decided that I should have this contraception out
immediately! Roussel's patient guide states: "Norplant can be removed
at any time during the five years, just make an appointment with your
doctor or clinic." J B, Nottingham (initials changed).....
If any
other British women have problems with Norplant, Freeth Cartwright Hunt
Dickins Solicitors (Willoughby House, 20 Low Pavement, Nottingham, NG1
7EA) are handling multiple cases of litigation against Roussel.
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Scientists reveal negative impact of Roundup Ready GM crops
Five studies published in the October 2009 issue of The European Journal of Agronomy
reveal the negative impacts of using Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, a
formula developed specifically for the company's line of genetically
modified (GM) "Roundup Ready" crops. The papers, which were not
released in the United States, offer a solid indictment against GM
crops and the plight of using the Roundup herbicide.
Robert
Kremer, a microbiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Agricultural Research Service, co-authored one of the five papers and
offered insight into their premise during an interview with The Organic
& Non-GMO Report, a monthly newsletter that offers recourse in
addressing the challenges of fighting GM foods.
Kremer and his
colleagues began studying the effects of Roundup on soil back in 1997.
They found that the herbicide was causing an increase in parasitic
colonization at the roots of Roundup Ready soybeans and corn. They also
observed an increase in fungal growth that leads to sudden death
syndrome (SDS) in the plants.
Glyphosate, the active ingredient
in Roundup, is systemically changing the soil composition in the fields
where it is used, leeching from plant roots into the ground. It is also
disrupting the normal microorganism balance on plants and in soil,
spurring the growth of harmful bacterial colonies that are destroying
the beneficial ones.
According to Kremer, the most apparent
disruption by glyphosate is observed in rhizobia, a type of bacterium
that fixes nitrogen in the soil. Glyphosate's toxicity inhibits
rhizobia from enriching soil with nitrogen, preventing plants from
receiving this necessary element.
Despite claims to the
contrary, Roundup can deeply penetrate soil and threaten groundwater
supplies with contamination. Depending on a particular soil's
composition, glyphosate can leech rather quickly into soil and
potentially run off into nearby streams and rivers.
The Roundup
system has also caused a significant increase in aggressive "super"
weeds that are resistant to glyphosate. These weeds have been popping
up in fields all over the country where GM Roundup Ready crops are
grown, growing increasingly more virulent every year. Genetic engineers
continue to develop stronger herbicides to combat them but the weeds
keep getting stronger and more resistant.
Genetic modification
of food crops is not only unsustainable but it threatens to unhinge the
entire agricultural system. Roundup and other herbicides are altering
and destroying soil nutrients, beneficial microbes, and other delicate
components necessary to grow food.
While many farmers are
interested in moving away from using GM crops in favor of more organic
methods, it is often difficult for many of them to make the conversion.
Sources for this story include:
http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articl...
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Onions are
brilliant at absorbing toxins
Onions are
brilliant at absorbing toxins, bacteria and even paint fumes from the
air. If you put a cut onion in
a room while painting, for example, you will later find paint between the layers
of the onion. If you're suffering from an illness - or want to protect yourself
from a flu or other virus - put an onion in a room. The next day you would find
traces of virus inside the onion. As one woman described it:
"I contacted pneumonia and needless to say I
wasveryill...I came across an article that said to cut
both ends off an onion, putoneend on a fork and then place the forked end into
an empty jar...placing thejar next to the sick patient at night. It said
the onion would be black inthe morning from the germs...sure enough it
happened just like that...theonion was amess and I began to feel
better."
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Big Pharma researcher admits to faking dozens of research studies for Pfizer, Merck
(NaturalNews) It's being called the largest research fraud in
medical history. Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer's
speakers' bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of
research studies that were published in medical journals.
Now
being reported across the mainstream media is the fact that Dr. Reuben
accepted a $75,000 grant from Pfizer to study Celebrex in 2005. His
research, which was published in a medical journal, has since been
quoted by hundreds of other doctors and researchers as "proof" that
Celebrex helped reduce pain during post-surgical recovery. There's only
one problem with all this: No patients were ever enrolled in the study!
Dr. Scott Reuben, it turns out, faked the entire study and got it published anyway.
It
wasn't the first study faked by Dr. Reuben: He also faked study data on
Bextra and Vioxx drugs, reports the Wall Street Journal.
As a result of Dr. Reuben's faked studies, the peer-reviewed medical journal Anesthesia & Analgesia was forced to retract 10 "scientific" papers authored by Reuben. The Day
of London reports that 21 articles written by Dr. Reuben that appear in
medical journals have apparently been fabricated, too, and must be
retracted.
After being caught fabricating research for Big
Pharma, Dr. Reuben has reportedly signed a plea agreement that will
require him to return $420,000 that he received from drug companies. He
also faces up to a 10-year prison sentence and a $250,000 fine.
He
was also fired from his job at the Baystate Medical Center in
Springfield, Mass. after an internal audit there found that Dr. Reuben had been faking research data for 13 years. (http://www.theday.com/article/20100...)
Business as usual in Big Pharma
What's
notable about this story is not the fact that a medical researcher
faked clinical trials for the pharmaceutical industry. It's not the
fact that so-called "scientific" medical journals published his
fabricated studies. It's not even the fact that the drug companies paid
this quack close to half a million dollars while he kept on pumping out
fabricated research.
The real story here is that this is business as usual in the pharmaceutical industry.
Dr.
Reuben's actions really aren't that extraordinary. Drug companies bribe
researchers and doctors as a routine matter. Medical journals routinely
publish false, fraudulent studies. FDA panel members regularly rely on falsified research in making their drug approval decisions, and the mainstream media regularly quotes falsified research in reporting the news.
Fraudulent research, in other words, is widespread in modern medicine.
The pharmaceutical industry couldn't operate without it, actually. It
is falsified research that gives the industry its best marketing claims
and strongest FDA approvals. Quacks like Dr Scott Reuben are an
important part of the pharmaceutical profit machine because without
falsified research, bribery and corruption, the industry would have
very little research at all.
Pay special attention to the fact that the Anesthesia & Analgesia
medical journal gladly published Dr. Reuben's faked studies even though
this journal claims to be a "scientific" medical journal based on peer
review. Funny, isn't it, how such a scientific medical journal gladly
publishes fraudulent research with data that was simply invented by the
study author. Perhaps these medical journals should be moved out of the
non-fiction section of university libraries and placed under science fiction.
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Finally - how an apple a day keeps the doctor away
03 March 2010
It's taken a few hundred years, but scientists have finally figured out
why it is that an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
An apple - and, indeed, oats and nuts, too - is rich in soluble fibre,
which boosts the immune system. Scientists are recognising that many
diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, are related to
inflammation, and apples transform cells into anti-inflammatory ones
that can accelerate healing.
While health authorities recommend we eat around 25 to 35 grams of
fibre a day, they don't point out that you need a mix of both soluble
and insoluble. Insoluble fibre is found in whole wheat and green, leafy
vegetables such as spinach, and it helps aid digestion. (Source: Brain,
Behavior, and Immunity, 2010; doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2010.01.015).
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Hormone replacement therapy now linked to cataracts
In
fact, as the years passed and rates of breast cancer soared in women
who took HRT, the truth began to be revealed. HRT didn't protect health
at all. In fact, it caused breast and ovarian cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/027617_H...), upped heart attack risk and was even linked to brain shrinkage (http://www.naturalnews.com/025371_w...).
Now
it turns out there's yet another danger from HRT. New research headed
by Birgitta E. Lindblad, MD, of Sundsvall Hospital in Sweden and just
published in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy
of Ophthalmology, provides evidence that taking HRT causes cataracts.
This is no minor potential side effect, either, because vision problems
can be devastating. The eye's lens becomes cloudy and stiff when a
cataract develops, sometimes making it difficult to read, drive or even
see facial expressions clearly.
The eight year prospective study
of over 30,000 postmenopausal women compared the cataract status of
women who had taken HRT to those who had not used the hormones. The
results? The research subjects who were taking or who had ever
taken HRT had significantly higher rates of cataracts so severe they
had to be removed. Those who drank and also took hormone replacement therapy appeared to be at an even greater risk of serious cataracts.
"If
future studies confirm the associations we found, increased risk for
cataract removal should be added to the list of potential negative HRT
outcomes," Dr. Lindblad said in a statement to the media.
The
research team documented that 4,300 cataract removal surgeries were
performed in research study participants between 1997 and 2005. In
women who had ever taken HRT, the risk for cataract removal was
increased by 14 percent. For current HRT users, the increase in risk
soared even higher to 18 percent when compared with women who never
used HRT. What's more, the longer a woman took HRT, the more the risk
for cataracts increased. For decades, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was pushed by the
medical establishment as a kind of youth elixir that offered all sorts
of remarkable benefits. Take the hormones Big Pharma concocts from
pregnant horses' urine and chemicals and middle-aged and older women
would supposedly have better sex lives, fewer wrinkles, protection from
heart attacks and no more hot flashes. Only, it was all a huge myth.
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Heat therapy kills cancer cells, scientists prove
http://www.wddty.com
17 March 2010
In February 2009, WDDTY told its subscribers that heat treatment is a
proven way to kill cancer - and now researchers have demonstrated it in
laboratory trials.
Cancer cells were altered in one therapy that involved a sustained heat
of 43 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes - and the cells started to die
when they were exposed to a burst of heat therapy of 50 degrees Celsius
for one to two minutes. At that level, there was permanent tissue
damage to a prostate tumour, and which led to necrosis, or cell death.
The laboratory experiments have been carried out at the Hashemite
University in Jordan.
In the WDDTY report, other experiments have demonstrated that cancer
cells can be killed when exposed to temperatures of 42 to 43 degrees
Celsius. (Source: AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in
Cancer Research, March 7-10, 2010).
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Diabetes magic bullet doesn't work - it's back to a good diet
http://www.wddty.com
17 March 2010
The latest 'magic bullet' drug therapy for diabetes and heart disease
doesn't work - which suggests that a good diet is still one of the best
ways to treat these diseases.
Researchers have given the thumbs down to the anti-hypertensive (high
blood pressure) drug Diovan (valsartan) and the anti-diabetes drug
Starlix (nateglinide). The two drugs - which are often given in
combination - could not reduce the risk of heart problems, and Diovan
was only marginally successful in slowing the development of type II
diabetes, the 'lifestyle' disease.
Lead researcher Robert M Califf from Duke University School of
Medicine, commented: "This is a sobering confirmation of the need to
continue to focus on lifestyle improvements."
Type II diabetes affects around 150 million people around the world,
and is often a precursor to heart problems. It is known as a 'lifestyle
disease' because it is invariably brought on by eating processed and
'fast' foods.
(Source: New England Journal of Medicine, 2010; 0: NEJMoa1001121). |
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