Under the Influence — Doctors and Prescription Drug Firms

Today’s news, both political and financial, is filled with tales of greed and corruption. Vested interests ensure that earmarks litter important legislation. The lust for a quick profit and lax regulation have led to bank closures. Wall Street and Capitol Hill are now awash in finger-pointing by consumers whose investments are worth a fraction of […]

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Chelation TACT Trial Announces that Enrollment Has Temporarily Ceased

The investigators and institutions that have been participating in the National Institutes of Health Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) have temporarily and voluntarily suspended enrollment of new participants in the study. The lead TACT investigator, Gervasio Lamas, M.D., of the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, received a complaint from an outside party […]

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Surviving Cardiac Arrest May Depend on Where You Live

Conventional Medicine Ignores the Science behind Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death with Fish Oil The U.S. has waged a five-decade war on heart disease thanks to the information gleaned  from the Framingham Study and the studies that followed it. That war has been dominated by the use of prescription drugs, surgery, and procedures that include angioplasty […]

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Nutrition Business Journal’s CAM Report Offers Detailed Analysis on the $39.5 Billion Complementary Alternative Medicine Services Market

Research and Markets has coverage of the Nutrition Business Journal’s “Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Practitioner Supplement Sales Report 2007.” The CAM Report 2007 presents detailed analysis on the $39.5 billion (yes, that’s “billion” with a B) complementary and alternative medicine services market and $1.7 billion practitioner channel supplement market in the U.S.

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