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WHAT DOCTORS DON'T TELL YOU - E-NEWS BROADCAST No. 68 - 05 Feb 2004

Please feel free to email this broadcast to any friends you feel would

appreciate receiving it.

ANTIDEPRESSANTS: They don't work (but don't tell anyone)

You'd think it is enough of a scandal that doctors are prescribing

powerful antidepressants to two-year-olds, but now we're told that one

pharmaceutical suppressed findings that the drugs weren't even working.

It's been announced this week that GlaxoKline, the UK's largest

drug company, avoided publishing the data because it was concerned the

findings would affect its lucrative adult market for the drug.

Two major clinical trials, codenamed protocols 329 and 377, tested

Seroxat (paroxetine) on a group of children and adolescence with major

depression and found that the drug was no more effective than a placebo,

or sugar pill.

Despite these findings, GlaxoKline was also aware that the drug

caused suicidal tendencies, especially among the young.

The full findings of the studies, which were carried out in 1998, came

to light only last spring when the UK regulator, the Medicines and

Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, banned the drug for use among

children because it was ineffective and unsafe.

The revelation is but the latest twist to a scandal that is worrying

regulators in the UK and the USA. America's drug watchdog, the Food and

Drug Administration, has finally agreed to review the practice of

prescribing antidepressants to children. The drugs are not in any event

licensed for use among children, but doctors are free to prescribe them

if they feel it is an appropriate therapy.

As we outlined in Enews 58, around 2 per cent of all youths in the USA

are prescribed an antidepressant. This unlicensed usage increased by

400 per cent between 1988 and 1994 alone.

The FDA has conceded that the drugs are more likely than placebo to

cause suicidal thoughts, although nobody knows how many children have

attempted or committed suicide while taking an antidepressant.

We recall an encounter we once had with Dr Stuttaford, the

medical correspondent for the London Times. " The trouble with you (What

Doctors Don't Tell You and all like us), " he said, " is that you don't

realize that when you have a sharp sword (an effective drug), some heads

will be cut off (there will be adverse reactions). " It appears that

blunt swords can also decapitate, too.

(Sources; The Guardian, 3 February 2004; Journal of the American Medical

Association, 2003; 290: 1033-41).

X-RAYS CAUSE CANCER: But then, they always have

X-rays cause 700 cases of cancer every year in the UK, around 5700 in

the USA, and a total of 18,500 cases overall in 15 developed countries,

a new study has found.

Cancer risks per cumulative x-ray exposure range from just 0.6 per cent

in Poland and the UK, and up to 3.2 per cent in Japan, the highest. The

USA has a cancer risk of 0.9 per cent.

The findings, made by Oxford University, should come as no great

surprise. Radiation is a known carcinogen, and medical x-rays represent

14 per cent of total radiation exposure. A study produced back in 1981

confirmed that 0.5 per cent of all cancer deaths in the USA were caused

by x-rays.

Despite that early warning, x-rays have been increasingly used, and it's

doubtful just how many are necessary. It's been reckoned that 30 per

cent of chest x-rays are of no medical benefit, but are carried out as a

routine procedure.

Doctors were quick to reassure the public that x-rays are essential, and

that there benefit far outweighs any cancer risk. " We have very strict

regulations to make sure we are only giving x-rays and CT examinations

to those who need them, " said Prof Dixon of Addenbrooke's

Hospital in Cambridge.

So let's hope that, after these latest findings, they start sticking to

them.

(Source: The Lancet, 2004; 363: 345-51).

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The two-day intensive will equip you with the skills you need to reach

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VITAMIN BAN: EU 0, Consumers 1

European legislation that seeks to reduce the range of nutritional and

alternative healthcare products available in the UK is to be reviewed by

the European Court of Justice.

If the European court rules that the European Commission has overstepped

its authority, the ban, due to be implemented by August 2005 as the Food

Supplements Directive, may be overturned.

The first step was taken last Friday (30 January) at the High Court in

London where Mr Justice s agreed with the arguments presented by

the Alliance for Natural Health and by trade organizations. He said

that application to the European Court should be made without delay.

The Food Supplements Directive seeks to control the sale of 5,000

vitamin and mineral products currently sold in shops in the UK, the

Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland. It would impose strict controls,

similar to those currently in place in France and Germany.

This test case has wide-ranging implications, and could determine the

level of power that the Commission has over individual member states and

their own local laws.

Poem Of The Week

There was a little girl,

Who had a little curl

Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good

She was very, very good,

And when she was bad

She was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

(Source: Private Eye, 6 February 2004)

READERS' CORNER

Hysterectomy and menstrual bleeding: Our article last week about the way

medicine uses hysterectomy as a 'cure' for heavy menstrual bleeding

generated a mixed response. One reader didn't see it as a problem, and

has frequently asked her doctor to remove her womb and ovaries to stop

her own heavy menstrual cycle, but he won't perform the operation, even

privately. " I would love to have myself 'spayed'. It doesn't seem to

hurt dogs much and it would mean an end to my misery every month, " she

writes. Before she finds a 'spay-friendly' surgeon, she might consider

the views of another reader who was able to cure her heavy periods with

iron supplements.

Chronic Fatigue: One sufferer of chronic fatigue says she believes the

cause of that and ME is an underactive thyroid. Have others found the

same?

Amalgam fillings: One woman wants to have her amalgam fillings removed.

She lives in Jerusalem, and isn't sure she can find a dentist who can

carry out the procedure. Can't she go to her doctor to remove one every

fortnight or so, she asks? Most definitely not! Only an experienced

dentist familiar with the technique should carry out amalgam filling

removal. In the wrong hands the procedure can leak enormous amounts of

mercury into the system, so undoing any good that would otherwise have

been achieved. Keep looking!

Schizophrenia: One reader, responding to an earlier article about

schizophrenia, says there is a great website for all sufferers and their

families. It's: www.truehope.com.

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