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"Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, states: "Drug companies have become vast marketing machines wielding nearly limitless influence over medical research, education and how doctors do their jobs." There are volumes of solid, credible clinical trials and medical studies that validate the safety and efficacy of bio-identical hormone therapies. Unfortunately, the medical research institutions and universities that publish these studies do not have the budget to hire a sales force to go out into the field to educate physicians." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Mar 15, 1993 National Health and medical research Council (NHMRC): Prevention of neural tube defects: results of the medical research Council Vitamin Study, MRC Vitamin Study Research Group. Lancet; 338(8760): 131-137. 1991 National Health and medical research Council (NHMRC): Revised statement on the relationship between dietary folic acid and neural tube defects such as spina bifida. J Paediatr Child Health; 30:476-477. 1994 Nguyen TT, Dyer DL Dunning DD et al: Human intestinal folate transport: cloning, expression, and distribution of complementary RNA. Gastroenterology; 112(3):783-791." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"It's not news that medical research has become big business, often with billions of dollars on the line. The problem is that the search for scientific truth is, by its very nature, unpredictable, and this uncertainty is hardly optimal from a business point of view. There is far too much at stake to leave this process to the uncertainties of science. In this context, the role of the drug and medical-device companies has evolved so that their most important products are no longer the things they make. Now their most important product is "scientific evidence." This is what drives sales." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In fact, our bodies can treat the milk like an invader, and cur immune system attempts to fight it by producing antibodies. medical research has shown that in susceptible children, early exposure to cow's milk increases the instance of diabetes. Surprising? It shouldn't be. In addition to the above, unless you buy organic milk, the milk you're drinking is tainted with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), antibiotics, and other chemicals." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "While this is debatable in adults, for children, nothing could be further from the truth. medical research has shown that everything, from academic and athletic success to driving skills, is adversely affected by lack of sleep. When I do checkups, I sometimes joke with the older kids and say things like, "How much sleep does an eight-year-old or a ten-year-old or a twelve-year-old need? Let me tell you how you'll know. If you're tired, you need more sleep." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"In 2006, Beck was awarded the Albert Lasker Clinical medical research Award for his insightful work; this award is often a step to a Nobel prize. Both Beck and Ellis have written books for the layperson that are well worth reading. In contrast to psychoanalysis, CBT has an endpoint: improved daily function for depressed and anxious people. By simply recognizing that his or her beliefs may be contributing to depression, a patient may find the depression beginning to fade, or at least becoming easier to deal with." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "One clue is if he or she is engaged in medical research; a critical quality for success in research is curiosity. A doctor who also conducts research will view you through a research lens. You may seem interesting just because your case is a little more difficult to solve. What you say to such a physician may spark ideas that he or she can put to the test in the laboratory; or perhaps the doctor/researcher is already conducting research to which your case lends itself." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The article was positioned as advice for doctors, but how is it that a summary of treatments for general anxiety disorder in the bible of medical research simply left out exercise? It's a case of what I would call clinical blindness. The mounting research on the neurological and psychological benefits of exercise seems to be hidden in plain sight. Interestingly, it was the cardiologists who spoke up. The NEJM published a letter from doctors Carl Lavie and Richard Milani of the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"The process of developing new blood vessels, animal model An animal sufficiently like humans in its anatomy, physiology or response to a pathogen to be used in medical research in order to obtain results that can be extrapolated to human medicine, antibacterial Destructive to or inhibiting the growth of bacteria, antibody A protein with a specific structure designed for an antigen; tags an antigen to help the immune system identify and destroy it; can be produced due to first exposure or can be made from memory of a previous exposure." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, the medical research institutions and universities that publish these studies do not have the budget to hire a sales force to go out into the field to educate physicians. Consequently, most doctors continue to remain unenlightened regarding the science behind the safe treatment option of bio-identical hormones. how bio-identical progesterone kick-starts weight loss at a cellular level Bio-identical progesterone neutralizes estrogen dominance, thereby kick-starting weight loss at a cellular level. Here's what happens. First, progesterone eliminates the hypothyroid condition." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"You would think that there would be a mechanism in place to ensure that our medical care was based upon a solid foundation of medical research. The United States was actually the first country to implement just such a program, known as health technology assessment, in 1975. Since then, most of the other industrialized nations have established formal mechanisms to determine the optimal use of new medical technologies and to protect their citizens from unproven or wasteful innovations." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In this book I focus primarily on estrogen and progesterone because both medical research and my experience prove that they play the starring roles in any hormone-related weight-gain drama. healthy hormone function from puberty to thirty When a woman begins to menstruate until she is approximately thirty years old, her ratio of estrogen to progesterone is optimal. In this ideal scenario, estrogen does the following for her: • Develops the sex organs and secondary sex characteristics such as breasts and pubic hair. • Maintains the menstrual cycle." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"One must additionally make a distinction between medical research and clinical medicine. They do not necessarily correlate. medical research, whatever it chooses to study, plays by certain rules. Clinical medicine, on the other hand, tends to be less objective and often follows diagnostic and therapeutic trends despite the lack of evidence to support their validity." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"Emotional Stress When you are fired up emotionally, you're putting a torch to your arteries. medical research has repeatedly documented the danger of anger, chronic stress, and the negative emotional states associated with depression and social isolation. We have clearly seen the heavy toll that psychological status and emotions take on patients. These are hidden risk factors rarely addressed by doctors. For instance: • Chronic anger contributes to high blood pressure and heart enlargement. Acute situational anger can promote clot formation." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"First, a sad paradox. medical research has become more laboratory oriented in the last fifty years. To be sure, this shift has produced some impressive results. But at the same time, human biology is not exclusively mechanical, and there are limits to what the laboratory can accurately study. The laboratory study of infectious diseases has been magnificent—it is very straightforward. But its very success has deflected attention from the influence of emotions. As a result, medical research has failed abysmally in many areas. The evidence is everywhere you look." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"Thus, finding one that is aware of the newest medical research as well as the latest information about herbology or nutrition is not feasible. Pharmaceutical companies—for the purpose of developing and marketing drug products—finance a significant amount of today's medical research. Particularly in the United States, there is a dearth of good studies on the usefulness of herbal agents and other natural substances. Since these agents exist in natural form, they are not patentable, and thus of little interest to the profit-oriented pharmaceutical industry." - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"Once again, medical research helps us understand why. Studies show that opening up new options leads to positive emotions and optimism, which have healthy biochemical and energetic effects. Specifically, they reveal that optimistic patients return to activity sooner after surgery. Plus their coronary arteries are more resistant to the development of dangerous thickenings, and their offspring are born with healthier birth weights. On the other hand, feeling stuck is associated with pessimism, which one animal research study called learned helplessness." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"While we advise prudent caution when combining fish oil or any other drug or nutritional agent with Coumadin, medical research indicates the two are compatible. In one study, 610 patients who underwent successful coronary artery bypass surgery were randomized to receive Coumadin or aspirin, with or without 10 grams of fish oil per day. Supplementation did not increase the risk of abnormal bleeding, but interestingly it decreased the incidence of vein graft closure after one year by 25 percent—a superb benefit. Fish oil might actually decrease gastrointestinal tract bleeding risk." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Our second goal was to make my over-the-counter bio-identical progesterone cream and other products more widely available, committing a percentage of website profits to support medical research in the field of bio-identical hormone replacement. To date, I have been overwhelmed by the positive response of many of my physician peers, as well as interested and 201 educated healthcare consumers. I am grateful that The Natural Hormone Institute of America is meeting a very real need." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"The other area of medical research involves antifibrinolytic agents. There are other fibrin deposition diseases such as keloids (excessive growth of scar tissue) and pulmonary fibrosis that serve as fibrin disease models. Researchers are beginning to look at medications that reduce the growth and deposition of fibrin for treatment of fibroids. There are no significant investigational trials underway at the present time. The newest nonmedical technique being used to treat fibroids is high-intensity focused ultrasound." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"THE VALUE OF EXPRESSING YOUR FEELINGS In 1989, what is now considered landmark medical research noted the physical benefits of expressing all varieties of emotions. Women with metastatic breast cancer were divided into two groups, one that participated in weekly support groups, the other getting only standard cancer therapy. "The sessions became a time and a place for women to express some of their deepest fears," explained head researcher Dr. Spiegel. One participant referred to her fear as "that sense of waking up at three in the morning with an elephant sitting on your chest." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "Eve's belief that healing is facilitated by stories is well-substantiated by medical research. At the University of Maryland in Baltimore, researchers showed that laughter elicited by funny stories is linked to the healthy function of blood vessels, dilating the inner lining to improve blood flow. Humorous stories have been shown to reduce anxiety, stress, and tension, and to improve judgment, understanding, and perception. They also augment sociability and interpersonal interaction." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "But only now is twenty-first-century medical research substantiating what our grandmothers told us, and what the ancients have known for ages: positive attitude benefits your health. Scientists currently report that happiness (many researchers call it "positive affect") not only precedes good health, but is a root cause of good health. You may not be totally surprised that scientists can now prove happiness correlates strongly with behavioral and mental health benefits, such as higher pain thresholds, better adherence to treatments, and healthier life choices like diet and exercise." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"According to medical research, secretions of the DNA's powerful anticancer drug, Interleukin II, drop under physical and mental duress and increase again when the person becomes relaxed and joyful. Low secretions of Interleukin II increase the incidence of cancer in the body. However, people are generally not under severe stress all the time. Therefore, most cancers vanish without any form of medical intervention and without causing any real harm. Right at this moment, millions of people are walking around with cancers in their body without having a clue that they have them." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"And most significandy, in 2006, Aaron Beck won the Albert Lasker Clinical medical research Award. The Laskers have been called America's Nobel Prize, or the pre-Nobel Prize. Since 1967, no fewer than seventy-one Lasker honorees have gone on to win the Nobel Prize, most within two years of receiving the Lasker. Aaron Beck was the first scientist working in the area of psychotherapy to be so honored. The British government and National Health Service are considering making a major investment in CBT." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"More recently, medical research has found that a properly balanced vegetarian diet may in fact be the healthiest diet. This was demonstrated by the over 11,000 volunteers who participated in the Oxford Vegetarian Study which for a period of 15 years analyzed the effects of a vegetarian diet on longevity, heart disease, cancer, and various other diseases." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"John Harley, a transplanted West Virginian whose dry, quick humor and deep smile wrinkles soften his exacting edge, today manages a research staff of two hundred as chief of the Arthritis and Immunology Research Program at the Oklahoma medical research Foundation (OMRF). Most days he can be found more or less racewalking through the halls of his research institute as he moves between his research lab, teaching classroom, and the hospital, often shadowed by a handful of students and an assistant towing a cart full of files." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"But as government support for medical research started to decline, scientists and universities were forced to look for alternative sources of support for their research. The medical industry was more than willing to step in and lend a helping hand. Universities had no choice, and researchers' attitudes about commercial funding changed. Government funding continued to decline so that by 1990 almost two-thirds of requests for research funds from the NIH were not granted." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"It may also help to think of our growing understanding of the association between common viruses and autoimmune disease in the context of what is happening today in medical research in general. For centuries, scientists failed to recognize that pathogens played a role in a whole range of what were deemed to be noninfectious diseases. Up until the late twentieth century, health professionals believed that cancers and such chronic diseases as peptic ulcers were probably caused by a combination of genetics, diet, stress, and other lifestyle factors." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The ideal of "well-ordered science" (a phrase coined by philosopher Philip Kitcher in his book Science, Truth, and Democracy) is often replaced in commercially sponsored medical research by the ideal of profit-maximizing science. Dr. Andrew Bodnar, a senior vice president at Bristol-Myers Squibb, summarized this issue when he told the New York Times, "In a science-driven organization, the notion of marketing versus science is really a false dichotomy." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

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