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 "In 1991, congress mandated the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate 'unconventional medicine'. The NIH opened its Office of Alternative Medicine in 1992, but budgeted only a paltry $2 million for its operations?.02 per cent of its budget for research on therapies then used by an estimated 35 per cent of American citizens. After a bitter and protracted battle with congress, that budget was increased to $50 million in the late 1990s—still less, as one dermatologist pointed out, than was spent on toenail fungus alone."- Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
 "The president of the United States appoints the FDA commissioner, congress directly supervises the agency, and both the president and the congress are eager to stay in favor with the enormously wealthy and powerful pharmaceutical industry. Furthermore, when Prozac was going through the final approval process, the president and the vice president were especially responsive to the needs of the drug's manufacturer, Eli Lilly."- Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
 "It was totally unexpected when in the summer of 1933 Gamow was informed that he had been appointed to represent the Soviet Union at the prestigious Solvay congress on nuclear physics in Brussels. He was overjoyed, but had no idea what to make of it. The explanation came on arrival at the congress. When Gamow did not show up in Rome, Niels Bohr got concerned and wanted to see his old friend. He asked the French physicist Paul Langevin, a member of the French Communist Party, to use his connections to arrange Gamow's appointment to the Solvay congress."- Alex Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes (Get the book.) |
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Mike Millikin's Green Car congress is the best single source for news on hybrids, hydrogen cars, alternative fuels, and related topics. It's one-stop shopping for the automotive eco-geek. as
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Opposite, left: Hydrogen refueling station. Opposite, right: Honda's experimental home fueling station could provide heat and electricity for a home as well as fuel for a hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicle."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
| "As a Lancet editorial of 1895, reporting on the Indian Medical congress of the preceding year, observed,
Crombie [President of the Medical Section of the Indian Medical Congress] concluded his excellent address with an appeal to his medical hearers in Calcutta not to allow France and Germany to remain in the van of bacteriological research, but to make more careful study of the cases which came under their observation in India ... what is wanted is... work by trained experts in properly equipped laboratories to supplement the clinical work of medical officers...." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
 "In 2005, Rosero-Bixby traveled to France to present his findings to a group of his peers at a world congress on population studies. A subset of the demographers at the congress study long-lived populations, and many attended Rosero-Bixby's talk. They listened attentively, but few seemed to trust his findings: Infectious diseases and political instability are known to shorten people's lives in Central America. How could these demographers be expected to believe that any of the region's populations could outlive their counterparts in more developed countries?"- Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) |
 "At the Pharmaceutical Marketing congress in 2002, corporate drug executives provided more details on how they selected their physicians. Eric Pauwels, an executive from Bayer, led a panel discussion on "Pre-launch Marketing Strategies" before a room packed with pharmaceutical marketers. Among the panelists were Andrea P. Bruell, the director and global commercial leader at Johnson & Johnson, and Libby Keating, U.S. marketing director at AstraZeneca."- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "In fact, of the nation's twenty-one most important drugs introduced between 1965 and 1992, fifteen were developed using knowledge from federal-funded research, according to a report in 2000 by the Joint Economic Committee of congress, then headed by Republican senator Connie Mack. Among the drugs mentioned by that report was the cancer drug cisplatin. It was discovered by researchers at Michigan State University and tested in patients with testicular cancer with the help of millions of dollars from taxpayers." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "Because of the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act (DSHEA) passed by congress in 1994, weight-loss and other supplements are not regulated by the FDA, are not required to demonstrate efficacy for the conditions for which they are promoted, and are not even required to prove that they contain what they claim to contain."- J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
| "It was not long after Glaxo turned Zantac into the bestselling drug in the world that investigators in congress noticed the new aggressiveness among the industry's marketers. In December 1990 Senator Edward M. Kennedy held a two-day hearing on the industry's promotional practices. Witnesses described one case after another in which the companies had lavished physicians with gifts and cash or manipulated the public's impression of their products through secretive public relations tactics.
The star witness at the hearing was David C." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "O ne came in 1978, during the presidency of Jimmy Carter, when the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of congress, reported that about 100 ingredients in cosmetic products were "suspected carcinogens" based on a list compiled by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health in its
Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances. At least twenty-four other ingredients were suspected of causing birth defects and twenty were identified as adversely affecting the human nervous system."- Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Congress, federal regulatory agencies (particularly the Food and Drug Administration [FDA], Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], and Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA]), and even more importantly, the public, with well-documented scientific information on how to avoid causes of cancer, other than pointing to lifestyle faults. That information exists, but remains buried in government and industry files and in scientific literature that is relatively inaccessible to the general public." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
 "Elsevier International congress Series, Vol. 1297, pp. 217-227. Elsevier.
73. Matkovic, V., Ilich, J. Z., Andon, M. B., Hsieh, L. C, Tza-gournis, M. A., Lagger, B. J., and Goel, P. K. (1995). Urinary calcium, sodium, and bone mass of young females. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 62, 417-425.
74. Palacios, C, Wigertz, K, Martin, B. K, Jackman, L., Pratt, J. H., Peacock, M., McCabe, G, and Weaver, C. M. (2004). Sodium retention in black and white female adolescents in response to salt intake. J. Clin. Endocrin. Metab. 89(4), 1858-1863.
75. Wigertz, K, Palacios, C, Jackman, L. A., Martin, B. R., McCabe, L."- Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "In "Perspectives in Cystic Fibrosis, Proceedings of the 8th International Cystic Fibrosis Congress" (J. M. Sturgess, Ed.), pp. 125-136. Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Toronto. 68. Corey, M., McLaughlin F. J., Williams, M., et al. (1988). A comparison of survival, growth, and pulmonary function in patients with cystic fibrosis in Boston and Toronto. /. Clin. Epidemiol. 41, 583-591. 69. Pencharz, P. B. (1983). Energy intakes and low-fat diets in children with cystic fibrosis. J. Pediatr. Gastroenterol. Nutr. 2, 400-402. 70. Borowitz, D., Baker, R. D., and Stallings, V. (2002)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Advocacy and public health groups are also calling on the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, and congress to work together with industry to develop a new set of rules governing the marketing of food and beverages to children—rules that take into account the full spectrum of advertising and marketing practices across all media and apply to all children, including adolescents [210]. Marketing efforts need to serve the health of children rather than undermine health [210]. C." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "If voluntary efforts related to children's television programming are unsuccessful in shifting the emphasis away from high-energy and low-nutrient foods and beverages to healthful foods and beverages, then congress should enact legislation mandating the shift." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
| "Justice Department testified before congress that the government had begun 180 separate investigations of the marketing practices of pharmaceutical companies. The investigations involved dozens of companies and hundreds of drugs.
"We are not seeing isolated instances of misconduct," Ronald J. Ten-pas, associate deputy attorney general, told a House committee in 2007, "but repeated practices within the industry that have resulted in significant losses to federal health care programs."
Some pharmaceutical executives have brushed off these facts as much ado about nothing. " - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
| "Nor did congress or the Carter Administration take up the challenge and push through legislative reforms to advance consumer protection. And nothing much has changed over the three decades since, except that the health threats have multiplied and the cosmetics and personal care industry has grown much wealthier and considerably more powerful and skillful at sabotaging attempts to educate consumers about the safety of what they put on their bodies.
The FDA's regulatory failure is further detailed in several of my books, including the The Safe Shopper's Bible." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
 "Their findings were presented to the First International congress of Microbiology in Paris in 1930, under the title The Influence of Cooking Food on the Blood Formula of Man.1
White blood cells, also called leukocytes or immune cells, are a component of blood and part of the body's immune system that help defend the body against infections or foreign materials. The conclusion of Dr."- Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) |
| "Michel had attended the world congress on population studies, and he told me about Rosero-Bixby's paper. He said that Rosero-Bixby had struck him as a good scientist whose data had perhaps been dismissed too quickly. I made a deal with Michel. If he'd examine Rosero-Bixby's data and validate it, I'd find the money to finance an investigative trip.
After our initial conversation, Poulain contacted Rosero-Bixby, explained our work in other Blue Zones around the world, and said we were interested in searching for a Blue Zone in Costa Rica. Would he work with us? He agreed." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) |
| "Another reason why our confidence has been shaken is the common defense drug companies use against charges of drug toxicity: "It was approved by the FDA." congress has even proposed legislation relieving drug companies of liability in cases that involve drug-safety problems if the drug has been approved by the FDA. The FDA is so paralyzed by politics and its desire to balance scientific advancement, commerce, and safety that it could be letting down its guard. For instance, Daniel Troy, the chief counsel for the FDA under George W." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Part of the bill stipulated that funding by congress for new drug evaluations had to increase by 3% per year. 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." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
 "As a result of these studies, congress became concerned with the effect of the fluoridation program and began hearings on the subject in 1977. The US Public Health Service tried to allay Congressmen's fears by presenting data that refuted Drs. Burke and Yiamouyiannis' studies. But the USPHS' study was seriously and flagrantly flawed, a fact addressed in the course of the hearings: it contained significant mathematical errors and left out 80-90 percent of the data pertinent to the issue."- Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.) |
| "After a bitter and protracted battle with congress, that budget was increased to $50 million in the late 1990s—still less, as one dermatologist pointed out, than was spent on toenail fungus alone.14 While European governments had a head start in addressing the rising tide of interest in heterodox medicine, they showed little more enthusiasm for funding scientific research into its efficacy or modes of operation." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
 "Armed with their document, the leadership of nass approached congress, with the result that the ahcpr guidelines program was rendered defunct along with the ahcpr. It was to be reborn as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (ahrq), funding studies of the quality and distribution of services but less of their effectiveness and nothing about practice guidelines.
Since then, nearly every industrial country has chimed in with their version, many the product of a task force assembled by a professional organization. Notable is New Zealand's, first appearing in 1999 ( |
 "He was perceived as showing vision and optimism, and he hit upon a dramatic symbol for that vision by promising, in a special message to congress in May 1961, that the United States would land men on the moon before 1970. Americans expected that such an achievement would be remembered for centuries, marking as it would humankind's first escape from its planet of origin. Kennedy was viewed as the incarnation of the national optimism and of the strength of the stock market: "Wall Street has a simple description for the phenomenal strength of stock prices, "The Kennedy Market.'"- Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The Monetary Policy Report that was submitted in conjunction with Alan Greenspan's testimony before congress in July 199712 argued that there was a noticeable negative correlation between the ten-year bond yield and the price-earnings ratio since 1982. Indeed, there did appear to be a relation between interest rates and the price-earnings ratio. In fact, between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s, interest rates were rising and the price-earnings ratio was declining. Between the early 1980s and the late 1990s, when Greenspan spoke, interest rates were falling and stock prices were rising." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Shiller Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SY All Rights Reserved Library of congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shiller, Robert J. Irrational exuberance / Robert J. Shiller.?nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-12335-7 (alk. paper) 1. Stocks—United States. 2. Stock exchanges—United States. 3. Stocks—Prices—United States. 4. Real property—Prices—United States. 5. Risk. 6. Dow Jones industrial average." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Then Frederico Alfonso Pezet addressed the Sixth International Geographical congress in Lima in the same year. His subject was El Nino. In front of a large and learned audience he said: "I wish, on the present occasion, to call the attention of the distinguished geographers here assembled to this phenomenon, which exercises, undoubtedly, a very great influence over the climate conditions of this part of the world."1 El Nino thus entered the world of international science." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
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