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"For example, if you go to the Internet and type in coenzyme Qio as a search word on the Pub Med site, you will see 1,254 published articles in various scientific and medical journals. Type in coenzyme Qio's generic name "ubiquinone," and the count rises to 5,769, most of which represent sound science-based inquiry. L-carnitine and D-ribose will bring up thousands of queries. So, I'm confused when my peers say "there's no data." The rejection of D-ribose, L-carnitine, and coenzyme Q10 as potent, nonprescription treatment defies imagination." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Recent research reviews and an analysis of peer-reviewed medical journals, as well as government health statistics, demonstrate that our trusted medical model can cause more harm than good. Complications from "standard-of-care" interventions, medical errors, and overuse of antibiotics are increasing at an alarming rate. When we consider that the fourth leading cause of death in the United States is properly prescribed medications in a hospital setting, something's got to give!" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Although hundreds of scientific papers have been published in noteworthy scientific and medical journals describing the individual roles of these naturally occurring compounds in preserving the energy health of your heart, skeletal muscle, and other tissues, you've probably never heard or read about the exciting combination of D-ribose, L-carnitine, and coenzyme Qio- Nor are you likely to have heard about these revolutionary treatments from your doctor. Why?" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Your doctor may be particularly interested in the book's bibliography, because all of the scientific material in this book has been derived from research that was reported in respected and well-known medical journals. Another thing that's very important is to not imply to your doctor that you fully expect him or her to heal your child, insofar as this book contains reports about many children who have been healed. In fact, not all children can be healed. Some, sadly, don't even improve very much, no matter how hard everyone works. This is simply reality." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The research skills I had learned as a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow served me well in critically reading articles in medical journals. Occasionally I would take out a pencil and calculator to do the arithmetic when the findings were confusing or their importance was not clear. And that is what I did with this study. Over the course of this six-year study, 4.5 percent of the patients who took the placebo had strokes, compared with 3.7 percent of the patients who took Pravachol. The ratio between 4.5 percent and 3.7 percent provides the relative risk reduction of 19 percent." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Harriet Martineau, a noted author, traveller, political essayist, and in the later years of her life, invalid and mesmerism enthusiast, reflected in her controversial Letters on Mesmerism: The systematic disingenuousness of some medical journals on this subject, and the far-fetched calumnies and offensive assumptions with which it is the regular practice of a large number of the Faculty to assail every case of cure or relief by Mesmerism, looked very much as if they were in conflict with a powerful truth, and as if they knew it." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"She explained in an interview with the LA Times on August 9, 2004 that she had no choice after writing an expose about how drug company leaders manipulate clinical trials and about their influence on medical journals, doctors and government agencies. Her book is called The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. Drug companies are being sued so much for their toxic products that the FDA, their partner in drug proliferation for all practical purposes, enacted a "Final Rule." In an article on www.naturalnews." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"That observation gained the attention of the fda, the mainstream medical journals, and the lay press. However, the reader of Worried Sick is wary of the expression of a result as a relative risk. Of the 671 patients on the 800 mg daily dose, twenty-three suffered death from cardiovascular causes or a nonfatal heart attack, stroke, or heart failure. That was the fate of seven of a similar number taking a placebo pill. So the additional absolute risk is slightly over 2 percent over the course of three years in a population with a mean age of about sixty." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "Major medical journals (jama, New England Journal of Medicine, and others) have public relations departments that forewarn the press of an upcoming newsworthy article, many of which are displayed online before they are in print. Nearly all of this advantages some producer or purveyor and spells harder times for some other. And we, the gullible, swallow any drivel or babble that we are told relates to health. We are far less gullible when it comes to the pronouncements by our politicians, or by those hawking other wares." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Among the several 3-foot-high stacks of patients' charts, test results, consultants' notes, medical journals, and junk mail was the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), from November 24, 1999. I noticed an article about Celebrex and one about Vioxx, the latest drugs for arthritis pain. Each article presented the results of a study sponsored by the drug's manufacturer claiming that the drug was significantly safer than older anti-inflammatory medication, which was available in much less costly generic form." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The response of the leading medical journals was to promulgate and publish as a consensus document a detailed guideline for the declaring of potential conflicts of interest and the specifying of the role of each author in the conduct of the trial (for example, Ann Intern Med 135 (2001): 453 - 56). As a frequent author, I can tell you that this is a confusing exercise. For example, if in a future publication I reference Worried Sick, am I to declare a conflict of interest since this monograph is a source of royalty income?" - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Medical doctors are even complaining about this situation in medical journals, as in an article published in 1994 in JAMA, "Errors in Medicine." Author Dr. Lucian Leape calculated the 0.1% failure rate at intensive care units to be comparable to two unsafe planes landing at O'Hare Airport a day, 16,000 pieces of mail lost in the post office per hour or 32,000 checks deducted from the wrong bank account every hour! If six jumbo jets a day were crashing, wouldn't there be an outcry and a boycott of airlines until the situation was fixed? The report by Null et al." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Drug reps Doctors have three main sources of information about medical products: sales representatives, other doctors, and medical journals. All three of those sources provide some good data, and a lot of misinformation. The drug industry spends about twenty-five billion dollars a year marketing drugs to doctors, and its sales reps are part of that strategy. According to one study, for every dollar spent on marketing a drug to doctors, a company reaps on average more than ten dollars in sales." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Price made some remarkable discoveries, which he wrote up in articles for medical journals (with titles like "New Light on Modern Physical Degeneration from Field Studies Among Primitive Races") and ultimately summarized in his 510-page tome, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, published in 1939. Although his research was taken seriously during his lifetime, Weston Price has been all but written out of the history of twentieth-century science." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"If you're curious about how the work is going, I'm afraid you'll have to be patient a while longer; but in 2008, you should be able to find the results in medical journals. Just type "PubMed" into any Web search engine and then enter my name, and you'll be able to find the National Library of Medicine's list of articles. So, if I am right, I will have found an explanation for some cases of what had been labeled as "medically unexplained illness"—an immune dysfunction that robs some patients of adequate rest." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "It's worth explaining what this means, since you're liable to see many references, in ads for prescription drugs and in medical journals, to drug trials of this kind. Sick people tend to feel better when receiving treatment of any kind. A century or more ago, medical researchers learned that giving patients even a sugar pill—one that looks identical to the drug being tested but has no real effect— could make some patients feel better. So in order to figure out how effective a new drug is in reducing symptoms, researchers compare its effect against that of a placebo: a sugar pill." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The multiple urges to image are so great that doctors ignore a mountain of data available in the medical journals telling them that many of the tests they are ordering are failing to help their patients. For instance, according to the American College of Radiology, patients with uncomplicated low-back pain (meaning there are no signs of serious disease, such as cancer) should not receive imaging studies. Not only is the image a waste of time and money, but it often leads to unnecessary back surgery." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"They compiled lists, many of which appeared in medical journals, of the common diseases they'd been hard pressed to find in the native populations they had treated or studied: little to no heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, hypertension, or stroke; no appendicitis, diverticulitis, malformed dental arches, or tooth decay; no varicose veins, ulcers, or hemorrhoids." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Wennberg then wrote to the FDA himself, detailing the cases he had uncovered and citing several papers in medical journals about the drug's potentially deadly side effect. He urged the agency to remove Orabilex from the market. Again, Wennberg got no reply and the agency did nothing. Wennberg continued to collect cases involving the drug, uncertain what to do next. Then, in November 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated, an event that left Wennberg shaken yet more determined than ever to do what he believed was right, to stop other physicians from killing patients with Orabilex." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Mercola points out there are "hundreds of articles published in top medical journals claimed to be written by academic researchers that are actually written by ghostwriters working for agencies which receive large amounts of money from pharmaceutical companies to market their products. These are the very journals medical professionals rely on when determining treatment options." Most of the studies done to prove drug effectiveness are funded by the drug companies themselves, which is like letting the fox guard the chickens. Can you spell conflict of interest?" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Rather, they represent a single example of the kind of thing that routinely afflicts the medical journals: complex findings, which are reported by academics with conflicts of interest, who portray the results in a way that obscures risks and plays up benefits. The authors of the drug therapy article tell readers right on page 436 that naproxen is just about as effective at reducing pain as the expensive new drug. That much is plain. The paper doesn't hide the fact that there were double the cardiovascular events in the group taking Vioxx." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Before long, drug companies themselves acquired and published medical journals, pouring their proprietaries through the funnel of official medical publications to disperse through doctors. They also lavished advertising dollars on independent medical journals, becoming their fiscal anchor. By the turn of the century, only one out of 250 medical journals relied solely on subscription revenues from its professional constituency.28 The nascent drug industry joined forces with the American Medical Association, and it was into this turbulent setting that Dr. George Henry Simmons came to the AMA." - Kenny Ausubel, When Healing Becomes A Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"Cancer researchers, medical journals, and the popular media all have contributed to a situation in which many people with common malignancies are being treated with drugs not known to be effective. ~ Dr. Martin Shapiro UCLA. => Except for two forms of cancer, chemotherapy does not cure. It tortures and may shorten life. ~ Dr. Candace Pert, Georgetown University School of Medicine. => Chemotherapy is basically ineffective in the vast majority of cases in which it is given. ~ Ralph Moss, PhD, former Director of Information for Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Center." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"This conclusion came in a review of major studies published in three influential medical journals, including forty-five highly publicized studies that initially claimed a drug or other treatment worked. Subsequent research totally contradicted the results of almost twenty percent of the first studies. Here is the scary part: "Contradicted and potentially exaggerated findings are not uncommon in the most visible and most influential original research"!" - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"There are no scientific studies that appeared in medical journals (search Medline) that can back the claims made for any of their products, including Ambrotose. The only "research" that exists is the one promoted by the company and its affiliations. As of July 2007—Greg Abbott, the Texas Attorney General has charged Mannatech, Inc., its owner, Samuel L. Caster, and several related entities with promoting an illegal marketing scheme that encourages consumers to believe that its products are effective against many serious diseases." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Research found in other medical journals makes it to popular media outlets less frequently. But there are other ways to get medical information into the mass media. Being sensational and being willing to spend lots of money on marketing can work wonders. Promotion by Drug Companies New York gynecologist Dr. Robert A. Wilson believed that spreading the hormone replacement message was so important that he quit his private practice, established the Wilson Research Foundation and began working on a book which he hoped would widely educate the public." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"The peer-review system of medical journals, which is supposed to be the iron-gate for keeping away fraudulent medical studies, is now more than questionable, given the recent disclosures of flawed published studies. There is more reason to be cautious about taking medical research too seriously. In 1994 and 1995, researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital surveyed more than 3,000 academic scientists and found that 64 percent of them had financial ties to drug corporations." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Editorials in medical journals and news reports claim Herceptin is "astounding," "jaw dropping," and "revolutionary." "In 1991, I didn't know we would cure breast cancer, and in 2005, I'm convinced we have," said a doctor at the National Cancer Institute. In one study, 227 women developed recurrence of breast cancer after a year of chemotherapy whereas only 127 did when Herceptin was added to the regimen. These figures do not include those women who died of heart failure caused by the drug. Recurrence is one thing, survival is another." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Right Stuff-Wrong Era McCully reported his homocysteine theory in several medical journals in the late sixties and early seventies and was initially welcomed with great enthusiasm. Dr. Benjamin Castle, the chief of his department, fully supported Dr. McCully and showcased his work to a prestigious panel of experts. But by the mid-seventies, the homocysteine theory had lost most of its momentum. Dr. Castle retired, and the new chief of the department asked Dr. McCully to seek his own research funding or to leave. His lab was moved into the basement." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

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