Vitamin prescriber hunted while cancer drug pushers make merry.

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VITAMINS: Campaigner faces court battle

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Health campaigner Dr Matthias Rath is in court in Hamburg to face charges that

he falsely advertised his vitamin pills as a cure for cancer.

At the heart of the dispute is the efficacy of his Cellular Medicine, which

Rath maintains is the key to health and disease in a nutritionally malnourished

world. Some also see it as yet another assault by the pharmaceutical industry

on nutritional medicine.

Germany's medical authorities began the action against Rath following the

death of a 9-year-old boy, Dominik Feld, from bone cancer in 2004.

Rath had been treating the boy with Cellular Medicine, while his parents had

stopped all chemotherapy treatment, and refused to allow surgeons to amputate

one of the boy's legs.

The parents maintain that Dominik never had cancer, but died following a

series of mistakes by doctors while treating him.

Rath has been a persistent thorn in the side of conventional medicine in

Europe for many years, and his is a voice that the authorities would dearly love

to gag.

 

 

DRUG CO ENTERTAINING: You dispense the drugs, we’ll dispense the wine

 

If you're a cancer specialist, you know you'll never go hungry – thanks to the

drug companies that supply the expensive cancer drugs.

The latest example of lavish wining and dining comes from Australia where the

pharmaceutical giant, Roche, recently entertained a group of oncologists to a

series of lavish dinners that followed a 'rigorous' day of 'education'.

One of the meals averaged nearly £1,000 ($1,920) per head, which goes way

beyond Australia's code of conduct for 'reasonable' hospitality.

Roche's beneficence is hardly unique. One cancer specialist in Australia says

that lavish entertaining is still common practice for doctors who prescribe

expensive drugs.

Roche, which is based in Switzerland, last year reported annual sales of

SFr35bn and profits of SFr7bn, while sales of its cancer drugs rose by an

extraordinary 42 per cent in just one year.

Another glass of '61 Chateau Lafite, anyone?

(Source: British Medical Journal, 2006; 333: 169).

 

 

 

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