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1. Heating Breast Tumors DURHAM, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New technology has helped a growing number of women have their breast cancer detected early and treated while the cancer is still small. But for those whose cancer is diagnosed late, treatment can be a long and difficult road. Now hot water can make the road a little smoother. Barbara Link does what she can to keep her garden healthy, but her own health wasn't nearly as easy to control. She tells Ivanhoe, "It was a large tumor and for awhile they seemed to say it was growing before their eyes." full article: http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=3938 ************************************************************** A MUST READ!!! 2. Human Herpesvirus 6: An Emerging Pathogen la Campadelli-Fiume, Prisco Mirandola, and Menotti University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Infections with human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), a ß-herpesvirus of which two variant groups (A and are recognized, is very common, approaching 100% in seroprevalence. Primary infection with HHV-6B causes roseola infantum or exanthem subitum, a common childhood disease that resolves spontaneously. After primary infection, the virus replicates in the salivary glands and is shed in saliva, the recognized route of transmission for variant B strains; it remains latent in lymphocytes and monocytes and persists at low levels in cells and tissues. Not usually associated with disease in the immunocompetent, HHV-6 infection is a major cause of opportunistic viral infections in the immunosuppressed, typically AIDS patients and transplant recipients, in whom HHV-6 infection/reactivation may culminate in rejection of transplanted organs and death. Other opportunistic viruses, human cytomegalovirus and HHV-7, also infect or reactivate in persons at risk. Another disease whose pathogenesis may be correlated with HHV-6 is multiple sclerosis. Data in favor of and against the correlation are discussed. full article: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no3/campadelli.htm ************************************************************** 3. FROM: MISINFORMED CONSENT 13 Women Share Their Stories About Unnecessary Hysterectomy By Lise Cloutier-Steele http://www.redflagsweekly.com/features/2002_july22.html ************************************************************** 4. More Psychology Claptrap About Diseases That Are Difficult To Diagnose By Regush http://www.redflagsweekly.com/scream/2002_july22.html ************************************************************** 5. The Continuing Unethical Conduct of Underpowered Clinical Trials [Author Information] D. Halpern, MSCE; H. T. Karlawish, MD; A. Berlin, ScD Despite long-standing critiques of the conduct of underpowered clinical trials, the practice not only remains widespread, but also has garnered increasing support. Patients and healthy volunteers continue to participate in research that may be of limited clinical value, and authors recently have offered 2 related arguments to support the validity and value of underpowered clinical trials: that meta-analysis may "save" small studies by providing a means to combine the results with those of other similar studies to enable estimates of an intervention's efficacy, and that although small studies may not provide a good basis for testing hypotheses, they may provide valuable estimates of treatment effects using confidence intervals. In this article, we examine these arguments in light of the distinctive moral issues associated with the conduct of underpowered trials, the disclosures that are owed to potential participants in underpowered trials so they may make autonomous enrollment decisions, and the circumstances in which the prospects for future meta-analyses may justify individually underpowered trials. full article: http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v288n3/abs/jsc20133.html ************************************************************** 6. FDA does it again! The FDA withholds information from pregnant women on mercury-contaminated fish, citing "focus groups" as justification http://www.ewg.org/reports/FocusPocus/es.html *************************************************************** 7. BOTOX INVASION THE RUSH IS ON - SOME THINGS YOU DEFINITELY NEED TO KNOW By Regush http://www.redflagsweekly.com/Thursday_report/2002_july18.html *************************************************************** 8. GM genes found in human gut Vidal Wednesday July 17, 2002 The Guardian British scientific researchers have demonstrated for the first time that genetically modified DNA material from crops is finding its way into human gut bacteria, raising potentially serious health questions. http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/0,2763,756666,00.html *************************************************************** 9. Britain recognizes Gulf War syndrome is real By Birchard LONDON – A British appeal tribunal has ruled that Gulf War syndrome is real and was caused by active service during the war. Ministry of Defence doctors have maintained there was no such sickness, meaning that thousands of soldiers were unable to qualify for army pensions. http://www.medicalpost.com/mdlink/english/members/medpost/data/3827/51B.HTM ************************************************************** 10. Amgen's Aranesp To Be Approved For Cancer Patients THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (The Los Angeles Daily News) -- U.S. regulators are poised to approve Amgen Inc.'s Aranesp to treat cancer patients stricken with anemia -- a move that enlivens competition with a similar drug marketed by and . http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/EMIHC000/333/333/352712.html ************************************************************** 11. Report: Thousands die needlessly from hospital infections CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- About 103,000 deaths were linked to hospital infections in 2000 -- a figure 14 percent higher than government estimates -- and nearly 75 percent of the deaths were preventable, the Chicago Tribune reported. http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/07/20/deadly.infections.ap/index.html ************************************************************** 12. Health care sick: Study Provided by: Sun Media Written by: STEPHANIE RUBEC OTTAWA -- Making a doctor's appointment is a pain for Canadians who are waiting too long for health care, according to Statistics Canada. StatsCan found that one in five Canadians in need of medical care in 2001 had trouble contacting a health-care provider and had to wait too long for treatment. The survey also found that Canadians needing specialized care faced the most hurdles, and that 12% of Canadians still didn't have a family physician. The survey is the latest to focus on the problem-plagued Canadian medical system and its need for more doctors, nurses and other medical professionals. Swann, spokesman for Health Minister Anne McLellan, said new money tagged for equipment and primary health care in September should alleviate the problems. GETTING WORSE http://chealth.canoe.ca/health_news_detail.asp?news_id=3990 ************************************************************** 13. Are silver dental fillings safe? ~ MSNBC Are silver dental fillings safe? Your Environment drills into the controversy By Francesca Lyman Anyone who has ever had a tooth cavity has probably seen a dentist who drilled it and packed it with a "silver" filling. But how many patients know what¼s in that silver? And whether it could have consequences for your health? PAINED FOR years by fatigue, aches, severe allergies and other chronic ills, Lydia Bronte never suspected that the cause of her problems might be something in her teeth. http://www.msnbc.com/news/599087.asp?0si=-#BODY ************************************************************** Inspiration............. 14. The Benefits of Breast Cancer by Marcia ..............Eight years after my first operation, my current boyfriend discovered a sizable mass in my right breast extending into my arm pit. Further tests determined that the previous lump was not a metastasis of the melanoma, but was in fact breast cancer...................Having had breast cancer has made my life fuller and richer. These are the benefits I have derived from having breast cancer. http://www.resiliencycenter.com/stories/story14.html 15. What Do You Do After You Fall? Suzanne Somers' Story .........."Today," she says, "I see all negatives as opportunities. Everything that has happened to me has been a lesson. A wasted life is one in which lessons go unheeded. People who live such lives are the people who give up, who choose to be victims. I didn't give up. I am not a victim, and that is my proudest accomplishment." http://www.resiliencycenter.com/stories/story10.html *************************************************************** I have read all of Dr. Pearsall's books and highly recommend then to everyone. 16. The Heart's Code Dr. Pearsall, Ph.D Dr. Pearsall is a neuropsychologist andbr clinical professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has a highly developed understanding of phychoneuroimmunology, modern physics, phychophysiology and cardiology along with the ancient wisdom of the Hawaiian ancestors, the Kahuna (medicine men and women). Dr. Pearsall began research in 1993 on "energy cardiology" a mergence of physics and cardiology. "Energy Cardiology" opens the field in the relationship between information, energy, and mind/body medicine. This study came as a result of his own experience as a patient.