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Webinar: The Origins of Vaccines

February 18th, 2010 | Posted by Fred Bloem, MD in Vaccinations - (93 Comments)

From MedicalVoices.org (February 17, 2010):

The Origins of Vaccines
Jennifer Craig, Ph.D., BSN, MA, D.Hom. [Canada] [Host: Sherri Tenpenny, DO]

Dr. Craig will look at the history of how vaccination in the West began, from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in 1718 to Edward Jenner’s experiments in the late 1700s and early 1800s.  Medical voices from the past immediately opposing vaccination will include those of Charles Creighton MD, MB, and Walter Hadwen, M.D., who will tell us their thoughts on “cowpoxing”. The idea that cowpox pus ever prevented smallpox will be challenged with clearly defined tables to dispel any notion that smallpox was eradicated by a vaccine.

Dr. Craig holds a doctorate in medical education and a bachelor of science in nursing.  Dr. Craig has held the position of associate professor at the University of British Columbia medical school.  Before earning her doctorate, she was a ward sister (head nurse) in England when everyone knew who was in charge!  Dr. Craig is now a writer. Her book Jabs, Jenner and Juggernauts: a Look at Vaccination was published in 2009.

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Webinar: Vaccines and Shaken Baby Syndrome

February 17th, 2010 | Posted by Fred Bloem, MD in Vaccinations - (76 Comments)

From MedicalVoices.org (November 18, 2009):

Is the Killer the Parent or the Doctor? Vaccines and Shaken Baby Syndrome
Harold Buttram, MD [USA] [Host: Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH]

Dr. Buttram has written medical legal reports on over 100 cases in defense of parents or caretakers accused of Shaken Baby Syndrome or non-accidental injury since his first SBS case in 1999. Dr. Buttram has testified as an expert witness in court in over 30 cases.

Dr. Buttram is a 1958 graduate of the Oklahoma School of Medicine and is board qualified in environmental medicine since 1989. Much of Dr. Buttram’s later practice included work in the care of autistic children and related disorders, largely following the program sponsored by the Autism Research Institute.

The slides start at 04:25.

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Webinar: What Medical Literature Actually Reveals About Vaccinology

February 17th, 2010 | Posted by Fred Bloem, MD in Vaccinations - (92 Comments)

From MedicalVoices.org (November 23, 2009):

Laurette Janak, scholarly and parent medical researcher [Host: Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH]

Parents are often told the adverse reaction their child has had to a vaccine is fully coincidental. This dedicated mother reveals the published scientific literature that supports the validity of her child’s multiple adverse reactions to vaccines. If you have been told, “it is all a coincidence”, then this talk is for you.

Topics to be covered include vaccine-associated ear infections, strep, mitochondrial dysfunction, immune-overload, childhood cancer and the effect of celiac disease upon Hepatitis B vaccination.

Laurette has twice presented at the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential on the topic of folic acid, brain function and the impact of mercury exposure. She has also testified before the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Laurette and Jill James, PhD have studied biochemistry in autistic children and demonstrated the effectiveness of using supplements targeting the folate, methylation and transulfuration pathways, the results of which were published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Laurette has presented at Autism One conferences on multiple occasions on children who have a dual diagnosis of Down syndrome and autism and their unique vulnerability to vaccine injury. She and Dr. James have presented on the biochemistry of parents of children with autism and discussed the health implications this has for the parent. Laurette has also presented on how parents can research medical literature to find published scientific studies relating to their children’s health concerns. Laurette has contributed two articles published in the international magazine The Autism File. Laurette’s main goal as a parent researcher is to empower other parents with information.

The initial part of the webinar is black (no slides). The slides start at 03:18.

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Webinar: How to Legally Avoid Vaccines

February 7th, 2010 | Posted by Fred Bloem, MD in Vaccinations - (186 Comments)

This webinar was conducted by Dr. Mayer Eisenstein on July 20, 2009. Dr. Eisenstein who is both a physician and an attorney explains in detail the legal issues related to vaccines. This is a must watch webinar to all who are concerned about vaccines and vaccine safety.

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Do Bioidentical Hormones Have Side Effects?

February 1st, 2010 | Posted by Fred Bloem, MD in Hormone replacement therapy - (61 Comments)

Many people are afraid of the therapeutic use of hormones, even when topic is bioidentical hormones. Bioidentical hormones are plant derived (usually from soy or yam) and they are prepared in compounding pharmacies. As such, they are considered pharmaceutical preparations. Most are only available by prescription.

Bioidentical hormones are also classified as drugs in the sense that they are chemical substances that are used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being.

This is where it may get confusing. Almost everybody wants to avoid using drugs unless absolutely necessary. One of the reasons is that many drugs have side effects. Some will create chronic dependency, and patients may experience withdrawal symptoms when attempts are made to stop the drug. Although some drugs may effect cure of an illness, many only suppress certain symptoms or physical signs without eliminating the underlying causes or supporting the body’s innate ability to heal.

How does this apply to bioidentical hormones? I believe there is a difference between bioidentical hormones and most other drugs because the former are biochemically exactly the same as the hormones that the human body makes. For that reason the molecules cannot be patented.

Most other pharmaceutical drugs are not normally found in or produced by the human body. Their biochemical structure is unique and patentable. Because they are foreign to the human body they will almost always have side effects to some degree. A possible explanation is that the body’s metabolic and enzymatic systems are not prepared to handle  these foreign molecules.

For example, even a well known over the counter drug such as acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin) has side effects which include the development of stomach ulcers and allergic reactions.

I believe that the various chemicals and hormones that the human body makes do not have side effects and that the same is true for bioidentical hormones. The human body contains water and sodium chloride, and synthesizes estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, prostaglandins, and many other chemicals. Does water have side effects? Of course not! However, it is possible to experience SYMPTOMS of an excess or deficiency of water or any other chemical that the human body makes. Examples are symptoms of thirst and physical symptoms of dehydration or water intoxication. These are NOT side effects of water.

Likewise, I believe that bioidentical hormones are among the safest pharmaceuticals that a physician can prescribe. Although I don’t believe that a patient may experience side effects from using bioidentical hormones such as estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone, I do believe that patients may experience symptoms of deficiency or excess of these hormones.

Although I don’t believe that bioidentical hormone therapy has side effects, I do want to emphasize that this type of treatment needs to prescribed carefully. Patients need to be monitored for symptoms of  hormone deficiency and hormone excess. Laboratory testing needs to be performed to ensure optimal results and patient safety.

The layperson may see no difference between drug side effects and the symptoms and signs of hormone deficiency or excess. However, to the experienced clinician the difference is usually quite evident and steps can be taken to optimize therapeutic balance and to protect the patient’s health and well-being.

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Does Estrogen Have Side Effects?

January 26th, 2010 | Posted by Fred Bloem, MD in Hormone replacement therapy - (81 Comments)

This is a response that I posted to an online message board in response to somebody’s claim that “estrogen can have some awful side effects”.

Why would the human body make estrogens (estradiol, estriol, and estrone) if they have side effects?

The link that [...] provided refers to women who participated in the Women’s Health Initiative and who received PremPro.

It is very important understand that these women did not receive bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT). Instead they were POISONED with a combination of estrogens from horses (the Premarin component of the PremPro) and medroxyprogesterone acetate (the Provera component of the PremPro). None of these non-bioidentical chemicals are naturally found in the human body.

Needless to say that it is not surprising that these women had an increase of heart disease, breast cancer, blood clots, and stroke, causing this arm of the study to be aborted in 2002.

Unfortunately, many doctors and women still don’t understand this and continue to believe that these women suffered adverse reactions because of “hormone replacement therapy” or “HRT” even though these women did not receive any human hormones.

I have not seen any such adverse reactions in all my years of using properly balanced and monitored bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.

Estradiol, progesterone, and all the other hormones play an essential role in the human body, so I am not surprised that hormone replacement therapy could be helpful for women with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

As a matter of fact, many mood disorders in women are related to hormonal disorders and I have seen marked improvements in women using BHRT.

Fred Bloem, MD

— In …@yahoogroups.com, [...]> wrote:
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> Estrogen can have some awful side effects :-
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> http://www.estrogen-replacement-side-effects.com/html/effects.html
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> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:47 PM, <…> wrote:
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> > Estrogen in the Fight Against Schizophrenia
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> > ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2010) — Many American women are prescribed estrogen
> > to combat the negative effects of menopause, such as bone loss and mood
> > swings. Now, new evidence from a Tel Aviv University study suggests that
> > hormone replacement therapy might also protect them — and younger women –
> > from schizophrenia as well.
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> > Prof. Ina Weiner of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Psychology and her
> > doctoral student Michal Arad have reported findings suggesting that
> > restoring normal levels of estrogen may work as a protective agent in
> > menopausal women vulnerable to schizophrenia. Their work, based on an animal
> > model of menopausal psychosis, was recently reported in the journal *
> > Psychopharmacology.*
> >
> > *Continued at
> > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100120112212.htm

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Know the TRUTH about the Government Health Care Bill H.R.3200 – Key Points

January 24th, 2010 | Posted by Fred Bloem, MD in Old News - (7 Comments)

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Safer Removal of Amalgam “Silver” Fillings

January 20th, 2010 | Posted by Fred Bloem, MD in dentistry - (86 Comments)

For more information go to the website of the International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology.

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NLM Censors Nutritional Research – Medline is Biased

January 15th, 2010 | Posted by Fred Bloem, MD in Nutrition - (75 Comments)

From orthomolecular.org:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 15, 2010

NLM Censors Nutritional Research
Medline is Biased, and Taxpayers Pay for It

Comment by Andrew W. Saul
Editor-In-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

(OMNS, January 15, 2010) Did you know that there are “good” medical journals, and that there are “naughty” medical journals?

No kidding. The good journals are easy to access on the internet through a huge electronic database called Medline ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed ) This wonderful, free service is brought to you by the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. In other words, by you. By your tax dollars. Generally it is money well spent, until you go searching for megavitamin therapy research papers. Then you will find that you can’t find all of them. That is because of selective indexing.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) proudly describes itself as “the largest medical library in the world. The goal of the NLM is to collect, organize and make available biomedical literature to advance medical science and improve public health.”

Hmm. Collect. Organize. Make available. Improve public health.

So, after over 40 continuous years of publication, why is the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine NOT indexed by Medline?

And what are the consequences of such exclusion? In a nutshell, it stops the public from using their computers to learn about all of the scientific research and clinical reports demonstrating the effectiveness of megavitamin (orthomolecular) therapy. It also greatly hampers professionals from seeing pro-vitamin studies. Have you ever wondered why your doctor simply does not know about vitamin therapy? Well, wonder no longer. He or she can’t read what isn’t “collected,” electronically indexed, or otherwise “made available” to them. If the vast majority of journals indexed by Medline are pharmaceutical-friendly, and yet nutritional research is censored, what can you expect?

Your taxes should not be used to fund censorship in a public library, especially the largest medical library on the planet. It is un-American.

Of course, Medline doesn’t censor everything nutritional. Here is a current example of some research that Medline does in fact choose to index:

PIZZA PREVENTS HEART ATTACKS

Gallus S, Tavani A, La Vecchia C. Pizza and risk of acute myocardial infarction. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2004 Nov;58(11):1543-6.

“Some of the ingredients of pizza have been shown to have a favourable influence on the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, there is no single explanation for the present findings.”

PIZZA PREVENTS CANCER

Gallus S, Bosetti C, Negri E, Talamini R, Montella M, Conti E, Franceschi S, La Vecchia C. Does pizza protect against cancer? Int J Cancer. 2003 Nov 1;107(2):283-4.

“We analyzed the potential role of pizza on cancer risk, using data from an integrated network of case-control studies. . . Pizza appears therefore to be a favorable indicator of risk for digestive tract neoplasms in this population.”

But be careful of that olive oil:

Wong GA, King CM. Occupational allergic contact dermatitis from olive oil in pizza making. Contact Dermatitis. 2004 Feb;50(2):102-3.

MORE PIZZA

Here is my all-time favorite: yet another article that Medline actually is indexing. It is not even from a medical journal. I am not making its mile-long title up, either. It is there at Medline, right now, just a few clicks away from you:

Simon HB. “My husband subscribes to Harvard Men’s Health Watch, but I read it even more than he does. I hope you can help us resolve a disagreement. He wants to have pizza two to three times a week for his prostate, but I don’t think it’s a healthy food. Who is right?” (Harvard Men’s Health Watch. 2003 Jun;7(11):8.)

Evidently the very name “Harvard” is enough to get your foot inside the Medline door. That, or “everything but anchovies.”

Oddly enough, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has not published a single article on pizza. At least not so far. Maybe if it did, it would make the cut at Medline.

On the other hand, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has a review board including medical doctors, university faculty, and hospital-based researchers. Since 1967, it has published over 600 papers by renowned authors including Roger J. Williams, Emanuel Cheraskin, Carl C. Pfeiffer, Bernard Rimland, Abram Hoffer, and Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. You should be able to access abstracts (concise summaries) of these papers, instantly and for free, via Medline.

Well, you can’t.

To contact the US National Library of Medicine/Medline and tell them what you think: custserv@nlm.nih.gov

“The National Library of Medicine refuses to index the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, though it is peer-reviewed and seems to meet their criteria.” (Psychology Today, Nov-Dec 2006)

NOTE: Four decades of papers from the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine are now online for you to read, Medline or no Medline, at http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/ The JOM Archive is a free service with no advertising.

(Andrew W. Saul taught nutrition, health science and cell biology at the college level. He is the author of Doctor Yourself and Fire Your Doctor! and, with Dr. Abram Hoffer, co-author of Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone and The Vitamin Cure for Alcoholism. Saul is featured in the documentary film Food Matters. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.)

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