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WHAT DOCTORS DON’T TELL YOU - E-NEWS BROADCAST No.35 - 15 May 03

 

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FOOD INFECTIONS: Start taking them seriously

 

We all know that gastrointestinal infections such as salmonella and

campylobacter from contaminated food can be very nasty. In a few cases they can

be fatal.

 

But they are much nastier, and more tenacious, than any of us realized, and

could have an effect on our health up to a year after we were infected. New

research from Denmark has gone as far as to claim that a food infection could be

fatal 12 months later.

 

The researchers, from the Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen, looked at the

progress of 48,857 people after they had a food infection, and compared them

with 487,138 who had not been infected. They found that those infected were

three times as likely to die within a year as those in the healthy group, after

taking into account other factors. This was a trend that also emerged six

months after infection.

 

Not only can these infections have a serious long-term effect, they could also

be far more dangerous in the immediate term.

 

So if you ever get a food infection, take it seriously. Seek out a herbal

remedy, such as berberine, or a homeopathic nosode, to treat it.

 

(Source: British Medical Journal, 2003; 326: 357-60).

 

 

 

USELESS ANTIBIOTICS: The superbugs are winning the day (and the berbs are being

banned)

 

 

 

The day of the superbug, resistant to every kind of antibiotic, gets ever

nearer. Researchers have been assessing the effectiveness of the antibiotic

cirpofloxacin in intensive care units in the USA for the past decade-and it

makes for worrying reading.

 

They have found that in the six years until 2000 it declined from an 86 per cent

effectiveness to just 76 per cent-and the researchers lay the blame squarely at

the door at persistent antibiotic overuse.

 

Within the intensive care setting, the most common antibiotics are the

fluoroquinolones, commonly prescribed for the treatment of urinary tract

infections and pneumonia.

 

As with food infections, there are good herbal remedies to treat these

problems-but we forgot, they're banning them, aren't they?

 

(Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003; 289: 885-8).

 

 

 

SARS? WHAT SARS? A new panic required, please

 

A very short paragraph appeared in one of the UK national papers the other day;

so small, in fact, that only the keenest-eyed would have spotted it.

Apparently, it said, the SARS epidemic has been a bit over-stated. There have

been four cases, none fatal. Oh well. Anyone out there got a new scare for us?

 

 

 

SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD. Especially when it's a doctor trying to say

it

 

Readers of an earlier Enews broadcast will have read our coverage of some

Practice Notes for consultants that revealed, all things considered, and

weighing up the pros and cons, that doctors were, possibly, human.

 

A new study goes further, and suggests that doctors make mistakes. In fact,

says the research, mistakes are inevitable.

 

Most of us had already reached the mindset that doctors are human, and that

mistakes will happen. Often our concerns turn more to the way that mistakes are

handled.

 

The researchers compared the reactions to mistakes of doctors and patients.

Doctors, for instance, felt that errors should be disclosed only in cases where

there was harm caused, unless the harm was " trivial " , an interesting term that

was not defined.

 

Patients wanted the doctors to show compassion, whereas the doctors felt they

had to be professional. Finally patients wanted to hear that golden word

" sorry " , something that the doctors felt was going too far.

 

(Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003; 289: 1001-7).

 

 

 

DRUGS SALES RISE. And the bestseller isn't even required

 

Drug sales in the USA continue to rise. Last year they grew in the States by 12

per cent to $220bn. The bestsellers remain the cholesterol-lowering statins,

described recently by Dr Mathias Rath as " just another marketing story of the

pharmaceutical industry " .

 

Rath is an interesting man. He worked closely with Linus Pauling and researched

with him the benefits of high-dose vitamin C. Rath, who lives in Germany, is

now one of the leading campaigners in Europe against the EU directives that look

to close down nutritional and alternative medicine.

 

In a recent interview Rath stated: " If high cholesterol would damage the blood

vessel wall it would so everywhere along the long pipeline of our blood vessel

system. This system would clog everywhere and not just in the heart or in the

brain. In other words, we would also get infarctions of the nose, the ear, the

knees, elbows, fingers and any other organ in the body. This is clearly not the

case.

 

" Then I discovered that cardiovascular disease is essentially unknown in the

animal world, whereas amongst human beings it is a leading cause of death.

Animals manufacture their own vitamin C, which is required to produce the

reinforcement molecules of our body and its blood vessel system called collagen.

 

" We human beings cannot produce a single molecule of this vitamin and frequently

get too few vitamins in our diet, exposing our blood vessel system to weakness

and to the development of deposits. "

 

The remedy? High-dose vitamin C. Oh yes, we forgot. They're banning that too.

 

(Sources: British Medical Journal, 2003; 326: 518; and

www.dr-rath-health-foundation.org).

 

 

READERS' CORNER

 

Anyone here speaka da English?

Here's an amusing take on medical research, courtesy of an Enews reader:

 

In Japan, the fat intake in the average Japanese diet is very low and the heart

disease ratio is lower than in North America and the UK.

 

 

However, in France, the average fat intake is very high, and yet, the heart

disease ratio is lower than in North America and the UK.

 

In India almost no one drinks red wine and the heart disease ratio is lower than

in North America and the UK.

 

In Spain, everybody drinks too much red wine and the heart disease ratio is

lower than in North America and the UK.

 

In Algeria, the average sexual activity ratio is very high and the heart disease

ratio is lower than in North America and the UK.

 

In Brazil, everybody has sex like crazy and the heart disease ratio is lower

than in North America and the UK.

 

In Austria, adults smoke 2 packs of cigarettes per day, on average, and the

heart disease ratio is lower than in North America and the UK.

 

Conclusion: Drink, eat, smoke and make love all you want. It's speaking English

that kills you.

 

 

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