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May 18,
2002
EDITOR’S NOTES: Two Of The Big Stories On The Health Frontier This week’s New Frontiers (NF) first looks at one of the great battles looming in the health arena: Big Pharma VS the dietary supplement industry. The skirmishes will grow into large battles as the big line is drawn deeper in the sand. At stake are huge profits and a global perspective on how illness may be prevented and treated. Many millions of people are likely to become involved in this new type of war. For many, a very basic freedom is at issue: the freedom to choose their own regimens for health. Dr. Mathias Rath’s scientific work, which we highlight in this edition of NF, represents a basic challenge to Big Pharma. And he is most certainly running against the grain. Also in NF this week, is a scientific report on chemical intolerance, one of the big issues of this new century. In time, the scientific focus on specific toxic insults will be viewed with a much more open mind and will rival the attention now being given to microbes as triggers of disease. There will be greater appreciation of the idea that each dynamic human being is in constant interaction with his/her environment. Blocking progress towards understanding a wide range of bodily changes (and symptoms) is the dominant and foolhardy medical view of the individual as a static entity.
May 11, 2002 EDITOR’S NOTES: Change - Much Too Slow For Comfort Automobile accidents are somehow treated as inevitable. Estimates are given prior to holiday weekends much like the estimates of how much money the latest blockbuster movies will make. The Great Horror Commonplace strikes again. In the U.S., for example, 42,000 people lost their lives on the roads last year. About 3 million people were injured. Two articles from the British Medical Journal point out that traffic fatalities remain a huge public health issue. On the cancer front, the article by Ralph Moss points to the neglect of an intriguing cancer therapy. That therapy, however, paved the road for some of the approaches used today to boost the body’s immune system.
May 4, 2002 EDITOR’S NOTES: NEW HAZARDS AND OLD ONES STILL HAUNTING US One of the biggest health stories thus far this year is TOXIC MOLD. It will likely take a number of twists as new evidence comes in about related health problems. This is also a major area for litigation. Which means that all of this bears watching. And maybe health issues involving the home will get better media play. The study referred to in "NEW HOME HAZARD" should certainly keep us on our toes. Older issues, which appear to have been kept under wraps, might also get more public airing, such as the extraordinary comments you'll find in "SHOCKING REPORT". This is a RFW package of stories that will hopefully make you more aware of some disturbing problems that are emerging.
April 27, 2002 EDITOR’S NOTES: New Ideas About Microbes It’s microbes this week in New Frontiers — and one theme that you will discover is that challenges to medical orthodoxy can pay off dramatically. This has certainly been the case in the extraordinary H Pylori story. Will other unorthodox views of the microbial world also lead to important discoveries? Be skeptical but why close the door to the possible? Read on.
The Two Faces Of H Pylori By Charles Marwick The Importance Of Challenging Medical Orthodoxy By Nancy A. Lynch, Ph.d
April 20, 2002 ON THE ABYSMAL FUTURE OF MEDICINE There is some strong self-criticism in medicine as the "Selling Sickness" And "Evidence-Based Medicine" articles reveal in this edition of NEW FRONTIERS. Is this just a passing breeze? Or can we expect medical journals to continue to, at least occasionally, publish strong evidence that mainstream Medicine is in dire need of a shake-up. The alliances Medicine has fashioned with the drug industry are now out-of-control and pose a major threat to public health. And while it doesn’t take much of an intellect to figure out why these alliances are damaging to the public, many doctors still don’t get it. Maybe that’s because they understand full well that their financial future and career opportunity structure require that they toe the line. Our REDFLAGS ALERT this week features an unsettling publication about the threat of herbicides.
April 13, 2002 EXPLORING "NEW FRONTIER" NEW FRONTIER is a special Saturday section of RFW that will examine innovative ideas — and often those that also encounter resistance from entrenched interests. Some stories will focus on trends on the "frontier" and their potential impact on how we think about health, science, politics and the arts. Other stories will focus on pioneers who challenge orthodoxy. And sometimes RFW will issue "alerts" about how ideas, which may appear novel and important and become widely distributed, particularly on the internet, may turn out to be incomplete and misleading, if not inaccurate.
About Surviving A Heart Attack Alone
News can
travel very quickly across the internet - and it can become difficult
to dislodge. Medical information that appears new and noteworthy and
authoritative can sometimes be false - either a hoax or simply
misinformation based on anecdotal information or speculation. Since at
least 1999, information has been circulating on the internet, offering
advice - called COUGH CPR - on how to survive a heart attack when
alone. We point you to some counter information that hopefully will
set the record straight. |
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