Tighter regulation of medical devices needed.

July 20, 2005

Dear Friends,

We have often lamented in this list that medical devices/procedures/drugs are

more often than not hastily pushed into the market without long term study. Now

the Institute of Medicine Committee in the US has raised this point in a recent

study. Health activists and medical ethicists have long been campaigning on this

issue. As time rolls by the horrors and shortcomings of modern medicine and its

reductionist short term approach are becoming more and more apparent.

It is sad that even after realising the consequences people are not able to

breach the vicious cycle. This is due to the intense fear psychosis being

created in the minds of the patients and their relatives by mainstream doctors.

Moreover patients who have undergone major surgery, have installed mechanical

devices, are heavily dowsed with " cocktail " drug prescriptions, have had

radiation and chemotherapy sessions often find it very difficult to change their

mode of treatment even as they realise that the approach to their disease has

been defective. The severe withdrawl effects encountered also prevent people

from discontinuing the misguided mode of treatment. Most psychiatric patients

are so hooked to dangerous mood altering drugs and sedatives that they cannot

possibly do anything to ameliorate their condition. In the US the amount of

prescription drugs consumed is so huge that all water sources have been

contaminated. Prescription drugs have become an environmental hazard !!!!

Today we see many peculiar diseases whose origin remains a mystery. Even the

medical community suspects that these diseases may be the outcome of improper

medical interventions. Overall it can be said that we have committed a very

grave error by discontinuing indigenous habits, diets and medicines which have

been tested for their efficacy by thousands of years of use.

Recently there have been reports of an ethnic population in the West being more

prone to various diseases. This can be attributed to adopting a very different

lifestyle and diet. Similiar reports have come from China, Phillipines,

Indonesia, India and other eastern countries suggesting that hasty introduction

of many foreign habits have had a very severe repurcussion on the health of the

population. As Todd has suggested in various mails, traditional diets and

indigenous methods of healing should never be disregarded.

Read the Reuter article at:

Regards,

Jagannath.

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