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"These bonus samples can really come in handy. Ask your doctor or the nursing staff or office manager about the samples on hand. You may receive a week's supply or more for free. Note: Always check the expiration dates on any samples! • Unadvertised Pharmacy Price "Cuts" If you or a family member has a chronic illness that requires medication, and your health plan is rather stingy on drug reimbursement, there are ways to stretch your medication dollar." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"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.)

"In the study, Khanna and his colleagues looked at 14 samples of normal breast tissue and 14 tissue samples from patients with breast cancer. They examined the expression of different genes in tissues and lymphocytes—a form of white blood cells in lymph glands—from the breast cancer patients and controls. Specifically, they examined the expression of a protein known to play a role in cellular differentiation and proliferation, called peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor, and other proteins released during inflammation, known as chemokines and integrins." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "Biopsy samples from the lower part of the colon lining and blood samples were analyzed at the start of the trial and at the end of the 30-day supplementation period. Patients in the fish oil groups exhibited a significant decrease in tissue arachidonic acid (omega-6) and increase in tissue EPA and DHA. Concurrently, patients on fish oil experienced a significant decline in the number of abnormal cells in their colon lining compared to the placebo group." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Ask your doctor or the nursing staff or office manager about the samples on hand. You may receive a week's supply or more for free. Note: Always check the expiration dates on any samples! • Unadvertised Pharmacy Price "Cuts" If you or a family member has a chronic illness that requires medication, and your health plan is rather stingy on drug reimbursement, there are ways to stretch your medication dollar. Some people opt for mail-order drug delivery to cut costs, although these customers lose the benefit of interacting with a pharmacist who can answer questions or warn of side effects." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Free samples and Off-Label Use -Amother drug marketing statistic that jumps out is the $16.4 billion spent on the free samples distributed to physician's offices. This is reminiscent of dope dealers who get people hooked by giving them a free high. PhRMA's position on free samples is that it "gets patients started on therapy right away or helps physicians optimize dosing on the choice of drug before committing to a particular course of treatment." Drug company sales representatives are trained to peddle drugs to physicians." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Five of what are known to be the most toxic chemicals humans have created were found in 100 percent of all samples (OCDD, a dioxin, styrene, 1,4-dichlorobenzene, xylene, and ethylphenol—extremely toxic chemicals from industrial pollution that may cause harmful changes in your liver, heart,lungs,and nervous system). Nine more chemicals were found in 91 to 98 percent of the samples, including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, DDE (a breakdown product of DDT, the pesticide banned in the United States since 1972), three dioxins, and one furan." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Still another contaminant found in half of the cord blood samples was triclosan, an antibacterial ingredient in toothpaste, deodorants, antibacterial soaps, and cosmetics. Lab studies on rats have shown that triclosan is toxic to normal liver enzymes. Of equal concern, triclosan persists in the environment and in our bodies, accumulating as it is passed up the food chain, and contributes to reduced resistance to antibiotics. Commenting on these findings, a toxicopathologist and expert on the fetal effects of chemicals, Dr." - 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.) "As a clear illustration of how easily the chemicals a mother uses on her skin end up in her fetus, consider these findings: An analysis of umbilical cord blood samples taken from twenty-seven European volunteers, in a 2005 study conducted by Greenpeace International and Britain's WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund), detected eight groups of contaminants. (1) These included fragrances used in perfumes and personal care products, and synthetic musks, used to replace natural aromas in cosmetics, hand creams, perfumes, and soaps." - 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.) "The most commonly used phthalate, DEHP, was found in twenty-four of the twenty-seven samples. The report referred to numerous studies which, in the words of the researchers, "have shown a correlation between premature breast development in girls younger than eight years old and the concentrations of the phthalate DEHP in their blood. Other research suggests that exposure to some phthalates affects the sexual development of baby boys at exposure rates currently seen in the U.S." - 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.) "Triclosan was mentioned previously this chapter as one of the contaminants found in umbilical cord samples collected by Greenpeace International and Britain's WWF. Surveys in Sweden have also found triclosan in the breast milk of 60 percent of women. Triclosan interacts with free chlorine in tap water and degrades under sunlight to produce chloroform. It also produces a class of persistent, highly toxic, carcinogenic chemicals known as dioxins (16 ) ?an ingredient in the Agent Orange defoliant used by the U.S. in the Vietnam War." - 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.)

"At first Miedema explained he was looking at paint samples. Later he confessed to searching for pills. Police said Miedema also confessed to breaking into another home several times to steal medication. In August 2005 he pleaded guilty to burglary, theft, and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. A judge required him to serve thirty days in jail. The forty-eight-year-old championship coach said he had become addicted to the painkillers after his doctor prescribed them for pain in his hip. Other crimes have been far 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.) "The companies could no longer distribute samples of an unapproved drug to doctors for experimental purposes as Merrell had done with thalidomide. The law also required drug companies to tell regulators about the injuries and deaths that had been blamed on their products. It became illegal to keep these reports hidden in corporate file drawers. In addition, the law forced the companies to change their promotional tactics. No longer could they only describe the expected benefits of a drug in their advertisements, which were then directed only at physicians." - 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.)

"Californian geographers Karen Frey and Larry Smith spent three years between 1999 and 2001 trekking across remote parts of western Siberia to take nearly a hundred samples of 'dissolved organic carbon' from streams and rivers. Once the water samples were analysed in the laboratory, a clear pattern emerged: Frey and Smith discovered that watercourses draining defrosted peat-land had far higher carbon counts than rivers running over still-frozen permafrost areas." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Then, in another UCLA study, blood samples from 26 postmenopausal women with breast cancer participating in a 13-day program at the Pritikin Longevity Center and Spa that included exercise and a low-fat, high-fiber diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains revealed a 20 to 30 percent increase in tumor-cell death at the end of the program. More needs to be known and tested along this front, admittedly, but there's no question that this is very exciting!" - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Another 20 percent contained tiny bits of Cardizem, a popular medicine used to control hypertension. Some samples were tinged not just with one prescription drug but with a cocktail of several. The scientists found the vestiges of the prescription drugs downstream from wastewater treatment plants in Des Moines, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, and seven other Iowa cities. The active chemical ingredients in the pills had gone through the bodies of the humans who took them and then flowed from toilets into the sewers." - 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.)

"Blood samples from 117 men who developed prostate cancer were compared to samples from a control group of 233 men. The study found a protective effect with the alpha-tocopherol fraction of vitamin E. However, of greater significance was the finding that men with the highest levels of gamma-tocopherol had a five-to-one reduction in the risk for developing prostate cancer as compared to those with the lowest levels. Also noted was that the statistically significant protection offered by high levels of selenium and alpha-tocopherol occurred only when gamma-tocopherol levels were also high." - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"The seed vault in Fort Collins, Colorado, contains the country's primary agricultural insurance plan: nearly five hundred thousand samples of germplasm, many cryogenically preserved in temperature controlled tanks of-196°C liquid nitrogen. There are more than 1,400 seed banks around the world. Such institutions, often founded or staffed by amateur enthusiasts, play an enormous role in conservation efforts. Older varieties will be used to breed crops that can keep up with global warming, mutating pests and other threats." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "I make it a point to go see a gnarled, gnomelike fellow at my local market who gives me samples and tells me when to eat what and points out bruised fruits that actually have more sugars. Without someone on the inside, it's a gamble. It's hard to know what's in season, so get to know your greengrocer. For me, summer means melons, peaches, plums and berries—I don't touch them the rest of the year. (Contra-seasonal fruits sold in the winter from the Southern Hemisphere still aren't tasty enough." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Similarly, when a civil war erupted in Georgia in 1993, the area's seed bank was destroyed, but not before eighty-three-year-old conservationist Alexey Fogel managed to flee through the Caucasus mountains bearing 226 subtropical fruit samples, including the town of Sochi's complete lemon collection. Others have sacrificed their lives to protect genetic resources. When Nikolai Vavilov's repository was on lockdown during Hitler's siege of Leningrad, peanut specialist Alexander Stchukin and rice collector Dmitri Ivanov chose to perish of starvation rather than eat the precious seeds." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"And that doesn't include the cost of the drug samples the reps left. It is difficult for doctors to avoid dealing with sales reps. They are usually pleasant people who are convinced that they are providing a useful service. They are also experts in the art of getting doctors' attention: finding a place to sit or stand from which eye contact with the doctor cannot be avoided, starting their sales pitch when the doctor comes within view, and skillfully creating situations in which the only way to contain their influence is to be uncomfortably and blatantly impolite?often in front of patients." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "They come bearing free drug samples and many enticing gifts. I, too, have accepted some of their offerings. A Swiss Army penknife bearing the name of a now forgotten antihistamine was irresistible. Drug companies were very generous in donating medicine for my medical trip to the Amazon, with no strings attached. Once, I accepted a $ 1000 grant to fund a small trial of alternative healing in my office. (I wanted to see if these services would help my patients, but I didn't feel right charging for therapies that I wasn't sure would be effective." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "For example, more interaction with pharmaceutical company marketing people, as well as having drug samples on hand, increases the likelihood that doctors will prescribe newer, more expensive drugs and fewer generic drugs. The more a doctor sees a sales rep, the less likely the doctor is to identify false claims about the drug, and the greater the doctor's tendency to prescribe more drugs overall. Doctors who interact with drug companies are also about 15 times more likely to request that drugs manufactured by specific companies be stocked in hospital pharmacies." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "It's easy to keep track of how many doctors meet with each rep; how many offices accept samples; how many offices load up on trinkets (pens, notepads, coffee cups, calenders, clocks, and wall posters that broadcast the message that commercialism is okay); and how many docs can be rounded up for an "educational" dinner meeting. But most important, the drug companies purchase from local pharmacies individual doctors' prescribing information, so they know exactly what we prescribe, and can precisely measure the effect of their reps' office calls and enticements." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"I sat next to Suzuki and began plying him with questions, beginning with why he took Kamada's blood samples. When compared to Americans of the same age, "we have found that the blood of male and female centenarians seems to have higher levels of sex hormones," Suzuki said. "So is that why people are taking these hormonal supplements?" I asked, thinking about DHEA supplements, precursors to sex hormones (androgens and estrogens), which some believe can slow the effects of aging. "Yes, but it doesn't work that way. The supplements are not the same as the hormones your body generates." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"It was then that a crew of scientists dropped probes off the sides of bridges and waded into the murky currents to collect samples of the receding water. Tests of their specimens amazed them. They found traces of painkillers, antibiotics, antihistamines, and blood pressure medications, all of them lingering remnants of pills swallowed by the residents of cities upstream. The scientists had found striking evidence of just how extensive Iowans' use of prescription drugs had become." - 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.)

"He had amassed droves of minerals and elements from calcium to potassium to zinc, and he had samples of environmental chemicals and toxins. He then attempted to match energetic aspects of the contents of each ampoule to various acupuncture points on the body, using himself as the guinea pig. All acupuncture points are connected via channels of energy, called meridians, which can zigzag around the body connecting to various organs and body tissues. In TCM, there are twelve main meridians and 365 acupuncture points along those meridians." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"More recently, researchers have been able to diagnose eating disorders from hair samples. Indeed, the quality, quantity, and color of our hair can all be signs of our physical well-being. No wonder hair is said to be a barometer of health. SIGN OF THE TIMES In ancient Egypt, both men and women shaved their heads and wore wigs. Priests, however, had to remove each and every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. STARTING AT THE TOP HAIR TEXTURE CHANGES Hair is made up mostly of dead protein (keratin), but that doesn't mean it's supposed to lie there listlessly." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Two large, ten-year prospective studies of samples of the elderly population of many European countries were undertaken to explore this association. Dietary intake and other lifestyle attributes were monitored to see if there was an association with longevity. In both, educational attainment was the only surrogate measure for ses. In both, the more closely the elderly adhered to the diet, the longer they lived (Trichopoulou et al. 2005; Knoops et al. 2004)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The Government protested that subjects for the trial would be hard to find, and instead handed the samples over to the medical profession for experimental use. In other words, while willing to assess the drug for its potential within a western framework, the Government had no interest in sanctioning the system from which it emerged, the practitioners who used it, or their culturally specific patterns of use. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the orthodox doctors who eventually performed the trial reported the powders inefficacious." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

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