Healthy Update - October 9, 2007

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Vol. XVII, Issue 12 -- October 9, 2007

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HEART ATTACK: IT MAKES YOUR DOCTOR PROUD

When doctors were asked to rank a range of 38 diseases based on the

prestige they felt the illnesses were viewed by the medical profession,

heart attack was right there at the top. This was followed by leukaemia,

spleen rupture, brain tumour and testicular cancer. Fibromyalgia,

anxiety neurosis, hepatic cirrhosis, depressive neurosis, schizophrenia

and anorexia were at the bottom of the prestige rankings. There's a

serious element to the poll. It suggests that nervous and 'mental'

problems are not taken seriously by the medical establishment -

something that a sufferer may already have noticed.

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ANNUAL CHECK-UP: IT'S A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY, SAY DOCTORS

The annual medical check-up - enshrined for decades as a cornerstone of

preventative care - is a waste of time and money, doctors now admit.

Tests shouldn't be carried out routinely. Instead, they should be

ordered only if the doctor has a good reason to do so.

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DRUG TRIALS: NOBODY CHECKS, NOBODY KNOWS

What really goes on in medical trials? Are the results really as they

seem, and is the drug that is being tested as effective - and safe - as

the manufacturer claims? In truth, we have no way of knowing, because

nobody is testing the testers. A recent survey discovered that the FDA

has inspected just 1 per cent of medical trials that were carried out

between the years 2000 and 2005.

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