Institute for Complementary Medicine Newsletter, March 2004

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Dear Colleagues

 

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the news features below to the ICM Online Journal.

 

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with their summaries. Click on the links to go to the full article.

 

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Michael Endacott, Director

Simon Best, MA, Editor

 

March 2004 Edition

News

a.. British Register opens division for Homotoxicology

b.. DoH publishes Consultation document on herbal and acupuncture statutory

regulation

c.. Advice to avoid sun should be modified, says cancer expert

d.. New milk boasts high levels of melatonin

e.. Blood pressure reduced in breast-fed babies – and those measured at home

 

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News Feature

Public statement by Dr Andrew Wakefield

In view of the ongoing controversy surrounding the1998 Lancet publication of Dr

Andrew Wakefield’s findings concerning a possible link between the MMR vaccine

and autism in children, and the public retraction of the original conclusions by

13 of the 14 original authors recently published in the Lancet (March 5th), the

ICM publishes the following public statement issued recently by Dr Andrew

Wakefield.

 

 

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Public interest

The decision to publish the first two articles in this issue, despite

their strong commercial element, particularly in the second, has been made on

the basis of the significance of the reported science and research to both

practitioners and the public. Normally, this Journal does not publish articles

that are focussed on the promotion of a product but in each of these articles

the Director and Editor concluded that the benefit of the general information to

practitioners working with so many of the conditions mentioned was held to

outweigh the normal imprimatur against commercial promotion.

 

Needless to say, the ICM does not necessarily endorse any of the products

mentioned and readers are encouraged to satisfy themselves as to their

expectations before purchasing any of the products.

 

 

Articles

Heralding a new philosophy of cancer:

Reassessing Koch's reagents and the potency of melatonin

by Roger Coghill, MA (Cantab.), C Biol MI Biol, MA (Environ. Mgt)

 

Roger Coghill runs Coghill Bioelectromagnetics Research Laboratories near

Pontypool, S Wales (01495 752122), and has been involved in research into the

health effects of electromagnetic fields for some 23 years. As well as writing

several books on this and related subjects and lecturing nationally and

internationally, he leads one of the few independent laboratories in the UK

pioneering new approaches to protection from EMF health hazards.

 

Nuturing the foundation of health

by Simon Ranger, Managing Director, Seagreens

 

Five years ago, inspired by the nutritional profile of wild Arctic seaweeds,

Simon Ranger, who had previously run his own multi-award-winning advertising

company, set out "to get a gram of the most nutritious seaweed into the everyday

British diet".

 

Accordingly, he set up an Anglo-Norwegian joint venture to sell dried granules

of organic quality seaweed through shops, supermarkets and manufacturing as a

convenient food ingredient. Seagreens® is the result.

 

Classical and Modern Homoeopathic Medicine

In the fourth, final part of his major article on homotoxicology, Professor

Michael Kirkman, C.I.Biol, Director of Academic Affairs UKGB International

Society of Homotoxicology and ICM Adviser in Homotoxicology, compares classical

and modern homoeopathy and assesses the involvement of the Bystander Reaction.

 

 

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Reviews

The Natural Way to Beat Depression

by Dr Basant Puri and Hilary Boyd, Hodder and Stoughton (Mobius), London,

2004. £10.99, pb. ISBN 0 340 82496 4.Reviewed by Kate Neil.

Kate Neil runs the Centre for Nutrition Education in Bracknell, Berks,

offering courses to degree level in nutrition, and also edits The Nutrition

Practitioner peer-reviewed journal that has recently been re-launched.

 

 

Health Effects from Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields

National Radiological Protection Board, Didcot, Oxon, 2003. £28.50 (or

free download www.nrpb.org ), ISBN 0-85951-528-1.Reviewed by Simon Best

This is an expanded version of a shorter review that appeared in the

latest issue of The Ecologist. Simon Best also edits and publishes the quarterly

news report Electromagnetic Hazard & Therapy

www.em-hazard-therapy.com

 

 

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Conferences

ICM Seminar - Systems of Medicine and Healing

 

May15th, 2004, Geological Society, Piccadilly, London. 10.00 – 16.45

 

Medicinal Plants and Energy Medicine

 

May 16 Regent's College, Acland Building, Meeting Room H, Regent's Park, London,

NW1 4NS.

 

Menopause Andropause - Life Pause

 

April 3rd, 2004. The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1M 8AE

 

The Natural Trade Show

 

March 14-15: Brighton Metropole.

 

Back Pain: The science and the service

 

15 March. Clinical Education Centre, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester

 

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