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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 15, 2010

 

 

NLM Censors Nutritional Research

Medline is Biased, and Taxpayers Pay for It

 

 

Comment by Andrew W. Saul

Editor-In-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

 

 

(OMNS, January 15, 2010) Did you know that there are " good " medical

journals, and that there are " naughty " medical journals?

 

 

No kidding. The good journals are easy to access on the internet through a

huge electronic database called Medline (

_http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed_ (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed) )

This wonderful, free service is

brought to you by the US National Library of Medicine and the National

Institutes of Health. In other words, by you. By your tax dollars. Generally

it is money well spent, until you go searching for megavitamin therapy

research papers. Then you will find that you can't find all of them. That is

because of selective indexing.

 

 

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) proudly describes itself as " the

largest medical library in the world. The goal of the NLM is to collect,

organize and make available biomedical literature to advance medical science

and improve public health. "

 

 

Hmm. Collect. Organize. Make available. Improve public health.

 

 

So, after over 40 continuous years of publication, why is the Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine NOT indexed by Medline?

 

 

And what are the consequences of such exclusion? In a nutshell, it stops

the public from using their computers to learn about all of the scientific

research and clinical reports demonstrating the effectiveness of megavitamin

(orthomolecular) therapy. It also greatly hampers professionals from

seeing pro-vitamin studies. Have you ever wondered why your doctor simply does

not know about vitamin therapy? Well, wonder no longer. He or she can't read

what isn't " collected, " electronically indexed, or otherwise " made

available " to them. If the vast majority of journals indexed by Medline are

pharmaceutical-friendly, and yet nutritional research is censored, what can you

expect?

 

 

Your taxes should not be used to fund censorship in a public library,

especially the largest medical library on the planet. It is un-American.

 

 

Of course, Medline doesn't censor everything nutritional. Here is a curre

nt example of some research that Medline does in fact choose to index:

 

 

PIZZA PREVENTS HEART ATTACKS

Gallus S, Tavani A, La Vecchia C. Pizza and risk of acute myocardial

infarction. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2004 Nov;58(11):1543-6.

 

" Some of the ingredients of pizza have been shown to have a favourable

influence on the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, there is no single

explanation for the present findings. "

 

 

PIZZA PREVENTS CANCER

Gallus S, Bosetti C, Negri E, Talamini R, Montella M, Conti E, Franceschi

S, La Vecchia C. Does pizza protect against cancer? Int J Cancer. 2003 Nov

1;107(2):283-4.

 

" We analyzed the potential role of pizza on cancer risk, using data from

an integrated network of case-control studies. . . Pizza appears therefore

to be a favorable indicator of risk for digestive tract neoplasms in this

population. "

 

 

But be careful of that olive oil:

 

Wong GA, King CM. Occupational allergic contact dermatitis from olive oil

in pizza making. Contact Dermatitis. 2004 Feb;50(2):102-3.

 

 

MORE PIZZA

 

Here is my all-time favorite: yet another article that Medline actually is

indexing. It is not even from a medical journal. I am not making its

mile-long title up, either. It is there at Medline, right now, just a few

clicks

away from you:

 

Simon HB. " My husband s to Harvard Men's Health Watch, but I read

it even more than he does. I hope you can help us resolve a disagreement.

He wants to have pizza two to three times a week for his prostate, but I

don't think it's a healthy food. Who is right? " (Harvard Men's Health Watch.

2003 Jun;7(11):8.)

 

Evidently the very name " Harvard " is enough to get your foot inside the

Medline door. That, or " everything but anchovies. "

 

Oddly enough, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has not published a

single article on pizza. At least not so far. Maybe if it did, it would make

the cut at Medline.

 

On the other hand, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has a review

board including medical doctors, university faculty, and hospital-based

researchers. Since 1967, it has published over 600 papers by renowned authors

including Roger J. Williams, Emanuel Cheraskin, Carl C. Pfeiffer, Bernard

Rimland, Abram Hoffer, and Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. You should be able

to access abstracts (concise summaries) of these papers, instantly and for

free, via Medline.

 

 

Well, you can't.

 

 

To contact the US National Library of Medicine/Medline and tell them what

you think: _custserv_ (custserv)

 

 

" The National Library of Medicine refuses to index the Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine, though it is peer-reviewed and seems to meet their

criteria. " (Psychology Today, Nov-Dec 2006)

 

 

NOTE: Four decades of papers from the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

are now online for you to read, Medline or no Medline, at

_http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/_

(http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/) The JOM

Archive is a free service with no advertising.

 

 

(Andrew W. Saul taught nutrition, health science and cell biology at the

college level. He is the author of Doctor Yourself and Fire Your Doctor!

and, with Dr. Abram Hoffer, co-author of Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone

and The Vitamin Cure for Alcoholism. Saul is featured in the documentary

film Food Matters. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine.)

 

 

Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine

 

Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight

illness. For more information: _http://www.orthomolecular.org_

(http://www.orthomolecular.org/)

 

The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and

non-commercial informational resource.

 

 

Editorial Review Board:

 

Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D.

Damien Downing, M.D.

Michael Gonzalez, D.Sc., Ph.D.

Steve Hickey, Ph.D.

James A. Jackson, PhD

Bo H. Jonsson, MD, Ph.D

Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D.

Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, Pharm.D.

Erik Paterson, M.D.

Gert E. Shuitemaker, Ph.D.

 

 

Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D.,

Editor and contact person.

Email: _omns_ (omns)

 

 

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