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"Several clinical studies have shown impressive results. One study demonstrated that when the lemon balm cream was used on patients with an initial oral herpes infection, or cold sore, not a single recurrence occurred. Not one patient using the cream developed another cold sore. The cream was also shown to be effective in reducing the healing time in cases of genital herpes.24 Another study, a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial, used a standardized topical cream (active ingredient: 1 percent Lo-701—dried extract from Melissa officinalis L." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Provides information for the general public and patients on research, clinical studies, news, and events." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Since 2003 there have been about ten clinical studies on black cohosh, and all were positive," according to Gail Mahady, Ph.D., an associate professor of pharmacognosy at the University of Illinois and one of the principal authors of the black cohosh monograph for the World Health Organization. One of the best-known commercial products containing a standardized extract of black cohosh is Remifemin, which seems to have an excellent track record in helping with hot flashes. The company's website (www.remifemin." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Several clinical studies support the link between the vaccinations and asthma. For example, in a study in England, 10.7 percent of children who received a pertussis vaccination developed asthma, compared to 2 percent of children who didn't receive it. In America, a large epidemiological study showed that children vaccinated with DTP were twice as likely to develop asthma as those who weren't. The vaccinations, though, are not the only source of toxicity among kids with asthma, just as they are not the only source of toxicity among children with autism and ADHD." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"More than a dozen clinical studies have used dietary fiber supplements for weight loss, most with positive outcomes. When you take fiber supplements with water before meals, the water-soluble fiber binds to water in the stomach, making you feel full and less likely to overeat. Fiber supplements have also been shown to enhance blood sugar control and insulin effects and even to reduce the number of calories the body absorbs. A study in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine found that a diet with 50 g of fiber a day lowered insulin levels in the blood." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"It offered a first-person account of Benson's scientific odyssey toward the discovery of the response; it represented the response as an emergent product not of the counterculture but of the world of stress research, clinical studies of heart disease, and modern medicine; it provided a plain-talking discussion of the physiological evidence for the existence of the response; and it gave readers a step-by-step guide to the practice of the response. Finally, the book went to great pains to dissociate meditation from its Eastern associations." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Supporting clinical studies abound. Supplements can play an important role in improving hormone metabolism in your liver and bowels. The symptoms of PMS, which according to Chinese medicine, are due to a stagnant liver (discussed in chapter 3), respond well to herbal supplements, glandular extracts, and vitamins and mineral supplements. It is always preferable to obtain vitamins and minerals from your food; but often, despite the best intentions, great foods may not be enough. As you age, your digestion and ability to absorb nutrients deteriorate." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"The scientific principals behind Soladey have been around since the 1970s and Soladey has now been sold in Japan for a few years—where it sells two million brush units and five million replacement heads every year. clinical studies on the effectiveness of Soladey technology to remove dental plaque have been conducted at Osaka Dental University, Nippon Dental University, Nihon University and the University of Saskatchewan in Canada." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "In a total of eight clinical studies, several independent research groups have confirmed that these chemicals have significant anti-tumor properties and selective toxicity against various types of cancer cells without harming healthy cells. Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, has conducted a great deal of research on these chemicals called acetogenins, much of which has been funded by The National Cancer Institute and/or the National Institute of Health (NIH). Thus far, Purdue University and/or its staff have filed at least nine U.S." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"In particular, a class of agents called "atypical antipsychotics"—Risperdal, Clozaril, and Zyprexa are the best known—had been shown in early clinical studies to be far superior to the Haldols and the Thorazines. Overnight, it seemed, almost all patients were converted to these new drugs, as well as new-generation antidepressants and mood stabilizers. It was not at all unusual for my clients to be taking three, four, five, or six different types of psychiatric drugs in a given day—a combination not unlike the number of street drugs many of them had once been addicted to." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "It is also disconcerting that many FDA standards for clinical studies are surprisingly flimsy. The FDA allows studies to recruit what are called "samples of convenience," the result of which is that often patients in studies bear little resemblance to those who will actually take the drug once it is on the market.46 "Samples of convenience" typically means those patients who are relatively easy to recruit—college students are the classic example. People with severe and persistent mental illness are of course difficult to recruit." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"When the manufacturer of Paxil performs nine clinical studies on the treatment of adolescents for depression and finds that Paxil is no more effective than placebos and, in fact, significantly increases the frequency of "emotional lability" (including suicidal thoughts and attempts), it's no problem. The company publishes one study that shows a benefit, fails to publish the other eight, and markets away. When British drug authorities spill the beans? No problem." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Its proponents occasionally grabbed the spotlight of the medical periodicals with unusual case studies, and more rarely, clinical studies in hospitals. One 'quack' practice associated itself with acupuncture: Baunscheidt-ism, used most famously to treat male sexual dysfunction and involving the use of a spring-loaded array of blades or needles and an irritating ointment applied to the site of puncture to create an eruptive rash." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Clinical studies have shown that it increases joint mobility for up to 60 percent of the people who take it. CMO is an all-natural oil found in certain animals like cows, whales, mice, and beavers. Harry W. Diehl, Ph.D., a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, first discovered it in 1972. It has been used in a lot of arthritis research over the last 25 years. It works by inhibiting the production of certain inflammatory compounds in the body." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In both laboratory and clinical studies, constituents of green tea, namely polyphenol E (poly E) and epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), have been effective against HPV-infected cervical cells and lesions. The mechanisms involved appear to be apoptosis, cell cycle arrest, modification of gene expression, and antitumor effects.68- 69 A clinical study confirms these findings in patients through the use of either topical application via a poly E ointment and/or oral ingesrion via a poly E or an EGCG capsule." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"But there is more than epidemiology to link omega-3 levels and heart disease: clinical studies have found that increasing the omega-3s in one's diet may reduce the chances of heart attack by a third.1' What biological mechanism could explain these findings? A couple of theories have emerged. Omega-3s are present in high concentrations in heart tissue where they seem to play a role in regulating heart rhythm and preventing fatal arrhythmias. Omega-3s also dampen the inflammation response, which omega-6s tend to excite." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Drawing on GSK's proprietary files that to this day have never been made public, my report examined many issues including the actual rates of Paxil-induced suicidality in the company's adult clinical studies. The case against GSK was eventually "resolved" to the satisfaction of the Lacuzong family. GSK denied and continues to deny all of the allegations of negligence in developing and marketing Paxil. Although the amount was not disclosed, my impression is that a substantial amount of money was involved in the resolution of the case." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "To begin with, we don't have any rest-of-your-life clinical studies. In fact, the typical psychiatric-drug study lasts only four weeks, maybe six at the most. Why? One reason is that psychiatric drugs are so ineffective and cause so many adverse effects that many, if not most, patients drop out before the study can last four to six weeks! It is a constant lament in psychiatry that most patients stop taking their drugs after a few weeks or months, and then drop off the psychiatric radar screen." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Episodes of medication madness can often be traced to starting the drug or to changing its dose, and the madness usually abates once the drug is stopped. In clinical studies involving challenge, dechallenge, and rechallenge we have seen patients develop obsessive suicidality while taking an antidepressant, lose it when the drug is stopped, and reexpe-rience it when the drug is restarted. Similarly, few of our cases displayed any bizarre or criminal acts before taking the medications and none displayed them after recovering from them." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The implications of this mechanism for cancer research, treatment, and prevention are promising and are currently being examined in clinical studies. Companies such as NaturalTmmunogenics offer silver preparations to promote health. Sovereign Silver?claims to be the first "true silver hydrosol" with the smallest panicle size ever produced at .8 nanometers. In fact, the particles in this formula are so small, they are actually measured on the picoscale." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "Centre for Preventive Medicine, in Boca Raton, Florida, conducted one of the early clinical studies to examine the scientific validation of RM-10 when used for a wide range of immune-related maladies, including cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, bronchitis, and allergies. Among Dr. Zoll's patients was a 14-year-old boy with brain cancer. He had been treated with an aggressive program of chemotherapy, and his blood counts had dropped precipitously. But when Dr. Zoll added RM-10 to his treatment regimen, "the boy's blood counts stabilized" within months, notes Dr. Zoll." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "The early clinical studies showed positive results for the approximately 70 patients who participated. "Beljanski was right after all. The RNA was giving DNA new information, rejuvenating the DNA, and enhancing the relative well-being of the biological organism," said Dr. Grutsch. "ReaLBuild was clearly helping the patients to maintain their platelet counts. There was no way around the outcome. This product was helping our patients in a meaningful way to get through their chemotherapy. They had all sorts of cancer including breast, pancreatic, colon and lung cancers." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "CLINICAL CASES In excess of 160 clinical studies support the efficacy of systemic enzyme therapies. In July 1993, Dr. Michael Friedman, then associate director for the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program at the National Cancer Institute, invited Dr. Gonzalez to present selected cases from his practice as part of an NCI effort to evaluate non-traditional cancer therapies. As noted in his interview, Dr. Gonzalez presented 25 patients with poor prognosis or terminal illness who had either enjoyed long-term survival or tumor regression while following his program. After the session, Dr." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Although registration of all clinical studies may seem like a simple and obvious way to improve the benefit that society derives from medical research, the drug companies, through their trade organization PhRMA, have stated: "Sponsors [of clinical research] do not commit to publish the results of every exploratory study performed, or to make the designs of clinical trial protocols available publicly at inception, as in a clinical trial registry." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "And it warned that the "precious objectivity" of the clinical studies that were being published in their journals was being threatened by the transformation of clinical research into a commercial activity. The editors said that the use of commercially sponsored clinical trials "primarily for marketing .. . makes a mockery of clinical investigation and is a misuse of a powerful tool." Medical scientists working on corporate-sponsored research, the editors warned, "may have little or no input into trial design, no access to the raw data, and limited participation in data interpretation." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "In any event, t le systematic inclusion of unrepresentative patients in clinical studies ma' be good for the profits of the commercial sponsors of the studies (at leas : in the short term), but it is not good for the people who will receive care based on this distorted "science.' GETTING OUT WHILE THE GETTING IS GOOD Even when studies are designed to enroll the right mix of patients, make fair comparisons between drugs, and measure valid end points, there is still no guarantee th it they won't be prematurely stopped." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, in preparing a report on recommended treatments for depression, reviewed 315 clinical studies evaluating medications and found a grand total of three trials on subsyndromal depression worthy of review. Their conclusion: Clinicians who "choose to generalize efficacy data from adult patients with major depression" two other kinds of patients, such as those with subsyndromal depression, or children and adolescents "should do so with care."127 In the last decade and a half, doctors have clearly not used care with antidepressants. " - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Based on the company's clinical studies, federal regulators had agreed that Neurontin could be sold to treat epilepsy, but only in limited cases. The company could promote it only as a second medicine for epileptics who had not been able to control their seizures with their first medication. Regulators did not want patients taking just Neurontin. That would be dangerous because the drug had not reduced the number of seizures in most volunteers in the company's clinical trials. In fact, the company had found that 5 to 10 percent of the epilepsy patients taking the drug actually got worse." - 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.)

"Controlled clinical studies by Dr. Paul Yanick (Pasadena, U.S.A.) have confirmed Dr. Morter's findings and recorded that intracellular assimilation of nutrients is significantly decreased when the anabolic pH is below 6.8.5 ACIDITY As the body moves into an acid condition, called acidosis, this sets the stage for cellular changes. Cells start adapting to the changing environment, and as a result begin to change form and function. When this process has continued long enough, symptoms of dis-ease begin to develop in the body. Symptoms of Body Acidosis6 Beginning symptoms include: Acne ?" - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

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