Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine now online: Nutritional Medicine, thus PubMed-Medline deliberately unaware

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JOURNAL OF ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE NOW ONLINE

**Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, February 29, 2008 *

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(OMNS February 29, 2008) The archives of the /Journal of Orthomolecular

Medicine/ are now posted online. Past issues from 1967 through 2002 are

available for downloading, at no charge, here

<http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/index.shtml>

" 36 years of important material is now freely available to everyone, "

said J. , Executive Director of the Toronto-based

International Schizophrenia Foundation, which publishes the /Journal/.

The /Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine/ has led the way in presenting,

in advance of other medical journals, new health concerns and treatments

including niacin therapy for schizophrenia and coronary disease; vitamin

C for cancer; and the nutritional treatment of behavioral disorders, and

drug and alcohol abuse. The /JOM/ was also the first medical journal to

publish papers on the nutritional treatment of allergies, autism, and

AIDS. /JOM/ published pioneering research on candiasis in 1978, mercury

amalgam toxicity in 1982, and chronic fatigue syndrome in 1988. The

/Journal/ has published over 100 papers on nutritional medicine and

cancer, and over 400 articles on schizophrenia and other psychiatric

illnesses. /JOM/ is peer-reviewed.

The /Journal/ was founded in 1967 as the /Journal of Schizophrenia/, and

subsequently titled the /Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry/ until

1986. Nobel Laureate Linus ing authored 9 papers in the Journal from

1970-1992. It was ing that gave nutritional medicine the name

" orthomolecular. " Says JOM Editor-in Chief Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD: " In

1968, Dr. ing proposed the term orthomolecular (1,2) which we

recognized as the correct word to define the total interest in

nutrition, clinical ecology, and the use of vitamin and mineral

supplements. All the pioneers in orthomolecular medicine have reported

their findings in this journal. It thus represents a unique source for

these earlier and current studies which provide a basis for the

increasing growth of nutritional medicine. "

*ONLINE, BUT NOT ON MEDLINE *

Curiously, after over 40 years of continuous publication, /JOM/ is still

not indexed on MEDLINE. There are about 5,000 other journals indexed by

the taxpayer-funded U.S. National Library of Medicine, and over 700

million MEDLINE searches each year. Not one of those searches found a

single paper from the /Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine/. (3)

In 2006, /Psychology Today/ wrote: " The National Library of Medicine

refuses to index the /Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine/, though it is

peer-reviewed and seems to meet their criteria. " (4)

MEDLINE does, however, index material from /Newsweek, Consumer Reports,

Reader's Digest/ and /Time magazines/.

Those who may feel think this is irregular may wish to contact the

National Library of Medicine's Deputy Director, Betsy L. Humphreys, at

the National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38, Room 2E17A, 8600 Rockville

Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 or email betsy_humphreys@...

or humphreb@...

The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine archives, numbering over 600

papers, are posted and topic-searchable here

<http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/index.shtml>

*References:*

(1) Orthomolecular Psychiatry: Varying the concentrations of substances

normally present in the human body may control mental disease

<http://www.orthomed.org/pauling2.html>; Orthomolecular Psychiatry

<http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/MM/B/B/J/Q/_/mmbbjq.pdf>; The Linus ing

Papers <http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/MM/B/B/J/Q/>

(2) On the Orthomolecular Environment of the Mind: Orthomolecular Theory

<http://www.orthomed.org/pauling.html>

(3) Medline Bias: Update <http://www.doctoryourself.com/medlineup.html>

(4) Psychology Today, Nov-Dec 2006. Nature's Champions

<http://psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=20061101-000002 & page=4>

*Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine*

Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to

fight illness. For more information, see here

<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.

Harold D. , Ph.D.

Steve Hickey, Ph.D.

Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.

Bo H. Jonsson, MD, PhD

Levy, M.D., J.D.

Paterson, M.D.

* W. Saul, Ph.D., Editor and contact person.

Email: omns@... *