WHAT DOCTORS DON'T TELL YOU

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· AMALGAM FILLINGS: Not as safe as they first thought

· CHEMOTHERAPY: I've started so I'll finish

· PAINKILLERS: Merck is back with another `safe' drug

· HOW TO SPOT A STROKE: Three simple tests to perform

· BULLYING DOCTORS: It's how they were taught

 

 

AMALGAM FILLINGS: Not as safe as they first thought

 

 

Just how safe are the amalgam dental fillings in your mouth?

Researchers who recently gave the fillings an `all-clear' have now

admitted that only those with a few fillings – and so have a low

exposure to mercury – are safe.

 

Even so, anyone with amalgam fillings increases their chances of

oral lichen planus, a chronic inflammatory disease, from the mercury

vapours.

 

And there is a good evidence to show that the various forms of

mercury emitted by fillings also affect the immune system and

eventually the nervous system.

 

Other studies have shown that metal toxicity reduces the IQ levels

in children by four points, and can severely affect their verbal

skills.

 

So how much is too much? According to the study that proclaimed

amalgam as safe, children who had been given just one filling

weren't showing any impairment in psychological or nervous

functioning after five years.

 

But the results of those who had more fillings are still being

analysed, they admit.

 

And, of course, there are other environmental factors also to take

into account. If your overall toxic load is compromising your

immune system, then you may fall foul of a chronic health problem.

And an amalgam filling is just another thing that adds to the toxic

weight we carry around.

 

(Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006; 296:

1461-3).

 

 

 

CHEMOTHERAPY: I've started so I'll finish

 

 

 

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first report of a trial

for chemotherapy to treat cancer. And, on such an auspicious

occasion, it's good that we remind ourselves of chemotherapy's

impressive past.

 

It evolved from the use of poison gas during both the world wars.

Gas warfare killed 91,000 soldiers, and invalided another 1.25

million, in World War I, including one sulphur mustard attack in

1917, which claimed 14,278 casualties in very short time.

 

And so the use of sulphur mustard continued, by the Italians against

the Ethiopians in 1936, and in an accidental explosion at Bari

during World War II, which consigned a thousand soldiers to a slow

and agonising death.

 

After the Bari attack, doctors noticed that the victims' white blood

cell count dropped alarmingly, and wondered whether nitrogen mustard

might have some medical use.

 

The rest, as they say, is history.

 

(Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006; 296:

1518-20).

 

 

 

 

 

PAINKILLERS: Merck is back with another `safe' drug

 

 

 

How to succeed in business, lesson 439: Tenacity and persistence.

This lesson's case study is drug company Merck. The company is

currently fighting the world's largest civil action suit over its

COX-2 painkiller Vioxx, which is being blamed for causing heart

failure, sometimes fatal. So far, the courts seem to agree with the

patients and their families.

 

Undaunted, Merck is pressing for approval of another COX-2

painkiller, Arcoxia (etoricoxib). It points to the results of

several trials, known as the Multinational Etoricoxib and Diclofenac

Arthritis Long-Term program (MEDAL), that suggest the drug is as

safe as diclofenac, another painkiller, and didn't increase the risk

of heart failure.

 

But Dr David Graham, the `whistleblower' at the Food and Drug

Administration (FDA), which is considering the licence application,

claims that Merck is not playing fair.

 

The MEDAL study is " well-known to be especially poor at identifying

safety risks between drugs, thereby stacking the deck in favour of

its drug " , he says.

 

In fact, Voltaren (diclofenac) is known to increase the risk of

heart attack.

 

OK, so let's move on to lesson 440, When Tenacity and persistence

isn't enough. . .

 

(Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, early release

article, posted 12 September 2006).

 

 

 

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HOW TO SPOT A STROKE: Three simple tests to perform

 

 

 

Here's one of these useful health tips that makes E-news so

invaluable - how to know if someone has had a stroke. The

information has been supplied by a nurse, and it's something that is

well worth repeating, and sending on to friends.

 

If you suspect someone has had a stroke, get him to perform three

simple functions. Ask him to:

 

1. smile

 

2. raise both arms

 

3. speak a simple sentence

 

If the victim has trouble with any of these, call an ambulance

immediately. Early treatment could prevent long-term brain damage.

 

(Source: our thanks to Ian Diamond Organics, an organic box scheme

that operates in Westchester, Putnam and Fairfield counties, in New

York state. See: http://www.diamondorganics.org/)

 

 

 

 

 

BULLYING DOCTORS: It's how they were taught

 

 

 

Ever wondered why doctors tend to bully and belittle you? It's

because they had just the same treatment dished out to them while

they were at medical school.

 

A study of 2,800 students from 16 medical schools in America were

asked about their experiences – and 42 per cent said they had been

harassed, and 84 per cent reported being belittled. As a result,

they suffered poor mental health and had low career satisfaction.

 

And then, to top it all, you walk into the surgery. . .

 

(Source: British Medical Journal, 2006; 333: 682-4).

 

 

 

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