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"One of the most amazing discoveries was the excellence of the medical libraries in all the medical schools we visited. When I found complete sets of medical journals in English in the Peking Union Medical Library (all allergy journals and the Journal of Immunology) I made it a point to check for the same periodicals in the other medical libraries we visited. 1 found the same completeness in these libraries. I asked one librarian how these libraries were maintained during the Cultural Revolution, when it is alleged that many historical records were destroyed." - Theron G. Randolph, An Alternative Approach to Allergies (Get the book.)

"Your life has purpose, and part of that purpose is to continue to help others, just as you have done in the past with your family and with your work in libraries." Beth reaches over to hold her mother's hand as the doctor continues. "Fran, I'd also like to suggest that with your verbal strengths, and your experience as a librarian, you enroll in a research project I have started, in which you will teach young kids from the inner city to read." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Repeating Histories In 1985, when I was on sabbatical in Oxford, England, I had the opportunity to study the history of diet and disease at some of the great medical history libraries in the Western world. I made use of the famous Bodlean Library in Oxford and the London libraries of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. In the quiet recesses of these marble-lined sanctuaries, I was thrilled to find authors who wrote eloquently on the topic of diet and cancer, among other diseases, over 150 years ago." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"The researchers coined a new term for the special group of neurons that forms each of our libraries of possibilities. These cells are called mirror neurons. While the first studies were done with monkeys, new research shows that humans have what is described as an even "more elaborate" system of mirror neurons.7 And it appears that they're activated in two different yet related types of circumstances: 1. First, they become active when we perform a particular action, such as walking on a balance beam. 2." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"The pharmaceutical industry did not always spend so much time and money on pushing its corporate marketing agenda into the nation's libraries of medical research. The companies' strategy of using clinical trials and scientific publications to market their medicines became predominant only in the last twenty-five years. Executives realized that scientists and their data, if properly managed, could be a marketing force like no other, far more powerful than the most expensive advertising campaign." - 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.)

"Unfortunately this book is not included in the collections of the two most extensive libraries in the Western world, and thereby cannot be studied. A routine search that I conducted in the Library of Congress showed that only four titles about Keely, and not written by him, are in the possession of the American libraries today. A consultation of the British libraries delivered only a handful of pamphlets written by Bloomfield-Moore." - Theo Paijmans, Free Energy Pioneer: John Worrell Keely (Get the book.)

"The vast corporate libraries of secret studies raised serious questions about the ethics of the pharmaceutical industry's scientific methods. Scientists have a duty to share both the negative and positive results of the studies they perform. If they disclose only positive studies, they have told only half the story. Results of the positive studies may be overturned when they are combined with trials that showed the drug did not work or had harmed its human volunteers." - 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.)

"When I found complete sets of medical journals in English in the Peking Union Medical Library (all allergy journals and the Journal of Immunology) I made it a point to check for the same periodicals in the other medical libraries we visited. 1 found the same completeness in these libraries. I asked one librarian how these libraries were maintained during the Cultural Revolution, when it is alleged that many historical records were destroyed. I was told that Premier Chou En-lai had told the librarians to lock the medical libraries and keep them locked until told otherwise!" - Theron G. Randolph, An Alternative Approach to Allergies (Get the book.)

"Many organisations and centres conduct regular classes and much more detailed information about t'ai-chi can be sourced from local community groups, libraries or telephone books. Chi Traditional Chinese philosophy talks a great deal about eft/ or qi, an innate energy force or power flowing through the body which encourages and stimulates all living creatures. T'ai-chi is based on the belief that illness stems from eft/ moving too slowly or too quickly, resulting in imbalances of energy in particular areas of the body." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Reproducible product-ion tandem mass spectra on various liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry instruments for development of spectral libraries, Rapid Comm Mass Spectrom 18: 1447-1454. Bovy, A., de Vos, R., Kemper, M., Schijlen, E., Pertejo, M. A., Muir, S., Collins, G., Robinson, S., Verhoyen, M., Hughes, S., Santos-Buelga, C, and van Tunen, A., 2002, High-flavonol tomatoes resulting from the heterologous expression of the maize transcription factors genes Lc and CI, Plant Cell 14: 2509-2526. Bylka, W., Franski, R., and Stobiecki, M." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"Hospital Libraries Many major metropolitan hospitals have special libraries specifically designed for patients interested in educating themselves about their condition. Others have libraries for their medical staffs that patients can use, although some, quaintly, require a patient to have his physician's permission to research his own disease. Some hospital cancer centers even have libraries devoted specifically to resources for cancer patients, including books, articles, video- and audiotapes, and community resources." - Michael Lerner, Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer (Get the book.) "Medical School Libraries Medical school libraries provide you with a wealth of information on cancer treatments at virtually no cost, except for photocopying. Often it is possible to do the same kind of computerized literature search described above. You simply ask the medical reference librarian to perform the search for you. You can then go to the stacks for the articles of interest to you. libraries have the added advantage of having medical texts as well as journal articles." - Michael Lerner, Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer (Get the book.)

"Through the fantastic information available to all of us through the internet, libraries and transformed individuals we now have the ability to create a whole new paradigm of health, wealth, happiness, success, prosperity and possibility! It is my goal, in this book, to bring you up to speed on key transformational technologies, especially in the area of nutrition, now available to us all. Throughout these pages we are going to participate together in an opening of opportunities that everywhere surround us." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"There must have been thousands of such books, whole libraries of them, in the royal courts of the Classic cities, but all disappeared with the Classic Maya Collapse of the 9th century, or in the bonfires of the Spanish Inquisition. The most beautiful of these surviving folding-screen books is the Dresden Codex, very late pre-Conquest in date, but with Classic-style calligraphy and with much astronomical and other material passed down through the centuries from the Classic period. Thanks to the remarkable breakthrough made in the 1950s by the Russian epigrapher Yuri V." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.) "Sophie was a stickler about "going to the sources," and she spent many hundreds of hours in the libraries of America and Europe, tracking down all possible references to chocolate—and vast amounts of time in my own Mesoamerican library. Her idea of heaven was working in an ancient library like her beloved Biblioteca Angelica in Rome, turning the pages of 400-year-old books in the search for chocolate data. Sophie had a genuinely scientific background: she was the daughter of the noted Russian-American geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, and she had a doctorate in anthropology." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"You'll find books about allergy and MS in libraries and natural-food stores." "Food allergies don't cause MS, do they?" "No, but controlling them certainly helps many people with MS feel better. I know many people who tell me the wrong food or foods brings back or worsens symptoms." "Mother tells me I had mild eczema when I was 2 or 3. That's allergy-related, isn't it?" "Yes. A history of allergy makes it more likely that allergy testing and treatment will be helpful for your MS symptoms." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"I made use of the famous Bodlean Library in Oxford and the London libraries of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. In the quiet recesses of these marble-lined sanctuaries, I was thrilled to find authors who wrote eloquently on the topic of diet and cancer, among other diseases, over 150 years ago. One such author was George Macilwain, who wrote fourteen books on medicine and health. Macilwain was born and raised in Northern Ireland. He later moved to London where he became a prominent surgeon in the early 1800s." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"It does not mean stealing books from libraries. Pedophilia means the excessive (sexual) love of children. It does not mean having sex with them, although that is what people generally have in mind when they use the term. Because children cannot legally consent to anything, an adult using a child as a sexual object is engaging in a wrongful act. Such an act is wrongful because it entails the use of physical coercion, the threat of such coercion, or (what comes to the same thing in a relationship between an adult and a child) the abuse of the adult's status as a trusted authority." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"Material Connexion is the world's largest resource of information about new materials—from yarn made of seaweed and cellulose to sheets of crushed almond shells—with libraries in major design centers like New York, Bangkok, and Cologne. Its most compelling industrial curiosities aren't always space-age: the Italian company Cor-po Nove makes a stinging nettle fiber that updates Napoleonic technology." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Existing libraries of ancient writings and illustrations, passed down for centuries, were destroyed by Spanish priests and the Aztec's many enemies. In their conquest, the Spaniards treated the Nahuatl-speaking Aztec people, and the surrounding tribe of the Mexica, like animals. The enslavement and slaughter that followed plunged the land into centuries of darkness and drove all the surviving native spiritual traditions (including the Toltec) deep underground. Toltec wisdom, veiled in secrecy, survived as oral knowledge for centuries." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"On the basis of the historicla facts I have outlined, available in libraries and bookstores throughout the world in the English language, it is unfortunate that leading contemporary psychiatric geneticists such as Gottesman, Faraone, Tsuang, McGuffin, Farmer, and Kendler, who have written about the history of their discipline, have not come clean about the role that the founders of psychiatric genetics played in supporting massive forced eugenic sterilization programs and the murder of mental patients, and in helping lay the scientific groundwork for Nazi genocide." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"First Avenue, Suite 205 Seattle, WA 98104 Phone: (206) 623-2520 Library Resources Initial literature search sources should include local university libraries that are linked through the ILL (Inter-Library Loan) program, which provides copies of articles from other institutions. Many libraries also have technical research services that can access online databases such as MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine). Private research firms also perform this service. libraries can provide citations and abstracts of articles, and also full-text document retrieval." - Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien, The Encyclopedia of Popular Herbs (Get the book.)

"Locate a Facility Computers that link into health information are located in medical school libraries, hospital libraries, large city libraries, other schools, and at various governmental agencies. The On-line Search Even though it is possible to set up a search over the telephone and receive the results in the mail, if at all possible it is best to be present for the on-line search. "On-line" means that you are directly linked to the computer and can ask questions, change topics, and see answers immediately as they print out." - Peggy O'Mara, Vaccination The Issue of Our Times (Get the book.)

"I discovered more than my family history while reading in these august, history-laden libraries. I found out that scholars have been arguing over the nature of health for centuries, even millennia. Almost 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a dialogue between two characters, Socrates and Glaucon, in which they discuss the future of their cities." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"By visiting libraries and bookstores and contacting health organizations that focus on cancer, you should be able to find a number of comprehensive, up-to-date books that provide additional information about alternative treatments. Once you have a better idea of the therapy or therapies that would best serve your needs, contact educational organizations and patient-referral services that provide information on these treatments. (See Part Three, remedies and therapies, for further information about alternative treatments." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Of the remaining, 14 were in foreign journals, "not readily available in agricultural libraries."That left eight studies, three of which "reported substantive concerns about GM crops."4 Pryme and Lembcke "Although very many have voiced their opinions both in the popular and scientific press there is only very limited data published in peer reviewed journals concerning the safety of GM food.5 It would seem apparent that GM food regulation is currently based on a series of extremely insufficient guidelines. . . ." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"I have never seen it cited, and other than my own copy, I have been able to identify only two copies held in major libraries. This should not be all that surprising. The report's cover is clearly marked in a printed, underlined subtitle, For Private Circulation Only Recognition of the environmental threat resulting from the chemical contamination of freshwater rivers goes back considerably further than awareness of the threat of ocean discharges. Indeed, freshwater pollution was a stimulus for the formation of some of the earliest public action forerunners of modern environmental groups." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"I have also combed the historical and modern scientific literature available in libraries throughout the U.S., such as the C.G. Lloyd collection on fungi at the Lloyd Library, the Boston Medical Library, and several University of California libraries, as well as a number of European libraries. I am grateful to the library staffs of these institutions for their invaluable help and insight. A work of this complexity is, by necessity, a team effort. I want to express my heartfelt thanks to Michael Miovic, our super-editor, who has worked with us since 1988, until going on to medical school." - Christopher Hobbs, Medicinal Mushrooms: An Exploration of Tradition, Healing, & Culture (Herbs and Health Series) (Get the book.)

"Then also burn the libraries and art galleries,' he demands, 'make cordwood of the musical instruments, pulp the musical scores, erase Shakespeare, Beethoven, and Goethe, and the Beatles too, because all these - or at least fairly good substitutes - can be re-created.' Unlike, of course, Boyd's forest dragon or the golden toad - the former under great danger, the latter already gone for ever, thanks to climate change. Nor is the loss of biodiversity just an aesthetic concern." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Others have libraries for their medical staffs that patients can use, although some, quaintly, require a patient to have his physician's permission to research his own disease. Some hospital cancer centers even have libraries devoted specifically to resources for cancer patients, including books, articles, video- and audiotapes, and community resources. The staffs of these libraries are available to help patients with their research. Many are also equipped for a fee to do computer literature searches on the more specialized questions you may have." - Michael Lerner, Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer (Get the book.)

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