| One well-known researcher who feels the too-clean theory can't possibly fully explain today's rising rates of autoimmune disease is DeLisa Fairweather, PhD, a young assistant professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health Sciences Division of
Toxicology and a protege and co-author with Noel Rose of many scientific papers on viral-induced autoimmune disease.
In the doorway of her office, Fairweather apologizes for the state of disarray. |
| Today Rose, a genteel seventy-nine-year-old whose generous smile spreads nearly as wide as his signature bow tie, serves as director of the Center for Autoimmune Disease Research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of public health. Back then, Rose considered himself fortunate to receive an invitation from Ernest Wltebsky and his immunology team at the University of Buffalo to serve as a junior faculty member. Part of the appeal of moving to Buffalo was the fact that Witebsky was the scientific grandson of Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation's food supply, cosmetics and products that emit radiation.5 The key words in this description of the agency's mission are "protecting the public" and "assuring safety." After celebrating 100 years of service to our country, the FDA cannot predict the long-term effect of any drug, nor can the agency guarantee the safety of the drugs they approve. |
| Once you are on the site, click on "Safety Information," which will take you to the archives of all safety alerts, recalls, market withdrawals, public health advisories and safety-related drug labeling changes for the past ten years. There is also an online process for anyone who wants to report serious problems with a drug, or you can print out the "no postage required" FDA Form 3500 and mail in your report. |
| But my interest in protecting the public health is strong and unyielding. My suggestion is that short of outlawing tobacco products completely, tobacco companies should be banned from doing any form of advertising in any marketing medium, and the tax on this product should be the absolute highest possible to discourage people from becoming addicted to this horrific, mass-murdering product.
People should understand the risks they are taking by participating in this form of slow suicide. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We always have and always will cooperate closely with those whose task it is to safeguard the public health. For more than 300 years tobacco has given solace, relaxation, and enjoyment to mankind. At one time or another during those years critics have held it responsible for practically every disease of the human body. One by one these charges have been abandoned for lack of evidence.
Regardless of the record of the past, the fact that cigarette smoking today should even be suspected as a cause of a serious disease is a matter of deep concern to us. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 In 1991, I assembled a blue-ribbon faculty nationally known and respected for their expertise in cardiology, nutrition, pathology, pediatrics, epidemiology, and public health for the First National Conference on Lipids in the Elimination and Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease. During two days of presentations in Tucson, Arizona, these scientists were challenged to develop what they felt constituted the optimal diet for health, one least likely to develop coronary artery disease. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 And just as the manuscript for this book was being submitted, researchers at the Harvard School of public health examined twelve different previously published studies to try to find some trends. The results, published in Cancer Epidemiological Biomarkers and Prevention in February 2006, noted that while no associations were observed for intakes of specific dairy foods or calcium and ovarian cancer risk, "A modest elevation in the risk of ovarian cancer was seen for lactose intake at the level that was equivalent to three or more servings of milk per day. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Even so, a team of researchers, statisticians, public health experts, and economists had flocked to Wennberg. Together, they expanded their investigations far beyond New England, looking at variations in how much medical care was being delivered in different regions of the entire country.
What they found was that medicine was all over the map, literally. If Wennberg had been using a microscope to look at medical care in New England, his team was now standing on a mountaintop looking at the entire nation, yet they were seeing precisely the same patterns he had found in Vermont and Maine. |
| He is both a physician and a Ph.D. in public health. Above the fireplace in his living room hangs a photograph of him as a small boy, bundled in a heavy jacket, with short wooden skis strapped with leather bindings to his feet. Peeking out from under a woolen cap with flaps over his ears, Wennberg smiles shyly for the camera—his head enormous on his little boy's body. The photo was taken in 1937, on the slopes near his hometown of Bellows Falls, Vermont, where his father managed the paper mill. |
| A former emergency physician with a degree in public health, Kizer knew he had to perform major surgery on the VHA quickly, or it would be dead.
His first step was to decentralize management. Kizer and his top managers carved the country into twelve regions, giving each region its own budget, authority, and performance goals. The regions were left to reorganize their own hospitals, and they were rewarded for hitting performance measures that were set by Washington and are even today continually being ratcheted upward as the system gets better. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Beard JL: Iron deficiency anemia: reexamining the nature and magnitude of the public health problem. J Nutr; 13L568S-580S. 2001 irolin RE, Gorman JH, Gorman RC et al: Prophylactic iron upplementation after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a prospective, buble-blind, randomized study. Arch Surg; 133:740-744. 1998
Bruner AB, Joffe A, Duffan AK: Randomized study of cognitive effects of iron supplementation in non-anemic iron-deficient adolescent girls. Lancet; 348(9033):992-996. 1996
Campbell NRC, Hasinoff BB: Iron supplements: a common cause of drug interactions. Br J Clin Pharmacol; 31(3):251-255. |
| David Heber, MD, PhD, FACP, FACN
Professor of Medicine and public health Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition and UCLA Botanical Research Center David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, CA
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Medicinal Parts: The medicinal part of the plant is the dried flowering herb, usually with the roots removed.
Flower and Fruit: The plant has 6 to 10 brick-red flowers in the leaf axils, which arc up to 2. |
| Lumpkin M. public health Advisory: Risk of drug interactions with St. John's Wort and indinavir and other drugs. Feb 10, 2000. Accessed at: http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/advisory/sjwort.htm. (cited 2/10/2000).
Mai I, Kruger H, Budde K, et al: Hazardous pharmacokinetic interaction of Saint John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) with the immunosuppressant cyclosporin. Int J Clin Pharm Thera 38(10):500-502. 2000.
Mai I, Stormer E, Bauer S, et al: Impact of St. John's Wort treatment on the pharmacokinetics of tacrolimus and mycophnolic acid in renal transplant patients. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of public health and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has said, "No research has ever shown that people who eat more eggs have more heart attacks than people who eat few eggs."
The second point has to do with the demonization of saturated fat in general. Yes, saturated fat raises cholesterol, but it raises both the good and the bad cholesterol. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Real science is about the search for truth and an understanding of the laws of nature, but modern medical science (conventional medicine) is little more than a search for profits at the expense of public health. It has nothing whatsoever to do with genuine science. And as the public wises up to this, the future of conventional medicine doesn't have a prayer.
After the collapse of Western medicine, real health care will inevitably end up returning to its roots: The healing power of nature. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| On April 4, 2000, the Harvard School of public health issued a press release titled "Higher Intake of Dairy Products May be Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk." And in October 2001, a paper called "Dairy Products, Calcium, and Prostate Cancer Risk in the Physicians' Health Study" appeared in the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition. Its conclusion: "These results support the hypothesis that dairy products and calcium are associated with a greater risk of prostate cancer. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| The son of a professor at Harvard Business School, Fisher grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and got both his undergraduate and medical degrees at Harvard before heading west to the University of Washington's school of public health. It was there that Fisher began studying Wennberg's early research and resolved to work with him. On a winter day in his office at Dartmouth, Fisher tells me he came there "motivated in part by a sense that if we could get our hands around the unnecessary, wasteful stuff in medicine, we might be able to help the poor and the uninsured. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| A research report published in the Journal of Nutrition in 2001 showed that the theaflavins in black tea and the catechins in green tea are equally effective as antioxidants, and a study by the Netherlands National Institute of public health and the Environment found a connection between drinking black tea regularly and reducing the risk of stroke. Researchers looked at data from a study examining the health benefits of foods that are high in flavonoids and phytonutrients with antioxidant benefits. |
| In one landmark study in the May 1, 2002, American Journal of Epidemiology, researchers from the School of public health at Loma Linda University examined more than 20,000 relatively healthy people over six years. High daily intakes of water (five or more glasses) were associated with significantly lower risk for fatal coronary heart disease events, even after adjusting for smoking, hypertension, and body mass index. That's a pretty powerful study. |
Devra Davis
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 Over his long career, Sir Richard weighed in on nearly all important questions surrounding public health aspects of cancer. In a 1968 report with a physician from Kuala Lumpur, Doll reviewed deaths from cervical cancer in British Columbia and the rest of Canada and found no evidence that the decade-long screening program had saved lives or that medical technologists were as reliable as doctors in providing services.25 In fact this paper did show a drop in deaths from cervical cancer in younger women, but it was not judged sufficiently convincing at the time. |
| The book was intended as a public health call to arms. But with the war finally under way, the only arms of concern to most people were those that could provide for national defense.
Despite his run-ins with DuPont, Hueper found some receptive colleagues in mainstream medicine for a while. During the 1940s, he wrote editorials for the Journal of the American Medical Association on the cancer risks of solar radiation, aromatic amines, estrogens, coal tar products, arsenic, asbestos and other environmental hazards. |
| The answers to these questions are not straightforward, but can best be determined by taking a careful look at the controls under which public health research began to evolve just after these trials ended. While science prides itself on being open and free and vital to democratic societies, scientific studies on matters of tobacco and industrial hazards have been anything but.
Under the guise of protecting trade secrets and in the name of national security, public access to scientific research has been a guarded enterprise. As a Chinese proverb notes, a way of looking is a way of not looking. |
| Four centuries ago some observant physicians laid down the basic foundations of public health research. By the 1950s, some scientists had developed a program aimed at training physicians to recognize and reduce risks from workplace and environmental hazards. How do scientists today go about figuring out the hazards of work or the world around us for our health? We do pretty much what Agricola, Ramazzini, Pott and Roffo did. We look around. |
| It is obvious, therefore, that the control of occupational carcinogenesis—and even to a great extent of cancers stemming from more indefinite environmental agents, if and when they are discovered—is a public health problem of considerable magnitude. This is made even more apparent by the scope of a control program that has been proposed by Dr. Wilhelm C. Hueper, head of the new environmental cancer section of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Hueper, one of the world's leading experts on occupational cancer, has studied the problem in the U.S. and elsewhere for many years. |
| I was talking with Devra Breslow, an accomplished public health researcher, about the small town of Donora, Pennsylvania, where we had each spent some time as children. Donora was a proud little steel-making town of coal-darkened skies and streets as steep as rooftops. "It's hard for anyone to appreciate how tough life was," she was saying. "The mills ran 24/7, every day of the year."
We were sitting in the lovely sunlit garden of her house in the West-wood section of Los Angeles, enjoying tall glasses of iced tea. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Harvard School of public health, dozens of studies show beneficial associations between eating fruits and vegetables high in carotenoids and less cardiovascular disease, not to mention less prostate, lung, stomach, colon, breast, cervix, and pancreatic cancer.
Why Your Mom Was Right about Carrots
Put carrots in the column labeled "things mother was right about after all." Carrots really are good for your eyes. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Judy Carman, a former senior epidemiologist for the government of South Australia, describes the difficulties from a public health perspective.29 "The first problem is to recognize that there is a new health problem in the community. Without full animal testing, we don't even know which diseases to look for in people." If GM crops created a new disease, it would not have an established surveillance system. In fact, most existing diseases do not have any effective surveillance systems in place, making it hard to identify a change. |
Mark Schapiro
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 I myself had a strand of hair analyzed for mercury, at a booth sponsored by the Harvard School of public health during a conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists —and discovered it was on the low end of high concern.
It was a season for getting acquainted with our bodies' synthetic cocktail, and the evidence in our blood tells the story: we are marinating in a chemical soup. Chemicals, it turns out, are being tested—on us, in real time. Bio-monitoring enables us to understand how we are the "blind" in this grand experiment, an experiment in which there is no comparative "control. |
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