Paul M. Cook said:
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Quoted message said:In article <y5Q7f.16009$Io4.7733@trnddc06>,
Paul M. Cook said:
You presented not one fact. You provided an emotional reaction to a
fact.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:The fact being that the AMA suppressed a cure for ulcers for 20 years
because it would have had a direct and severe impact on the drug
industry.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Even in the 1980s the cure rate from the treatment being employed in
Australia was in the 10s of thousands and nobody fied from taking
bismuth
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:and a common antibiotic. Yet the AMA stonewalled.
Paul
That's interesting. How do you know this?
It's been around since I first read it 21 years ago. It's not new, it was
almost a scandal. The AMA capitulated finally and allowed limited trials.
It was only when the trials produced exceptional results that they finally
approved the therapy. And this is just one example of many. How many
people had to endure a medical condition that was treatable? Why did it
take 20 years for the treatment using common and proven safe (also very
cheap) drugs to be approved? Public safety has to be preserved sure but
this was just ridiculous.
There is nothing in the literature about this. I have been around for
56 years and doing research with physicians and hospitals for 33 of
them. Find this anywhere and prove it. If it was so scandalous, why
isn't it written up anywhere in the medical literature?
http://www.tallpoppies.net.au/cavalcade/warren.htm
The above article is about the Aussies who cultured Helicobacter
pylori in 1982. Within 5 years of this, and further experiments by
them, the idea had been thoroughly tested & treatment patterns
changed. You are completely misinformed and incorrect in your claims.
First of all, the AMA cannot "suppress" anything. It is a professional
organization with no legal enforcement powers whatsoever. The AMA does
not "allow" clinical trials. These "trials" as you call them, are
done at hospitals, universities, pharmas, and other places that have
business or academic interest in the field of medicine.
Quoted message said:There is the case of an invention that safely removed plaque from the walls
of severely clogged arteries. It required a simple surgical procedure very
much like an angioplasty (which itself is not entirely safe) but it is
permanent in that it removes the plaque by turning it into a loose
suspension using high frequency sound and then suctioning it away. It was
shelved by the FDA and the AMA without reason and some researchers insisted
it was because the drug companies were pushing and lobbying against it
because it would have affected sales of their plaque reducing drugs.
The AMA does not shelve anything. The FDA can deny approval to a
procedure, certainly, though with your usual inaccuracies and
broad-stroke description, you are making no sense.
By the way, it is only recently that statins have been proven to
reduce plaque, so what drugs are you talking about the drug companies
trying to protect at some time in the past?
Ultrasound is certainly used to visualize plaque. The whole thing you
are talking about is absurd. Nothing removes plaque in any
"permanent" way. If lifestyle and pre-disposition still exist, it can
re-deposit. Of course angioplasty is not entirely safe. Neither would
your suctioning system. You go into heart arteries & you have an
inherently dangerous procedure.
Quoted message said:
Then we have the case of marijuana. Here is a plant that has proven medical
benefits. It treats glaucoma, it alleviates severe nausea in chemo
patients, it has been shown to be an effective anti-depressant, it has
helped cure fibromyalgia, it has shown promise in helping patients with
chronic pain syndrome. And the list goes on. Yet it is not even considered
as a potential therapy because everything it does is also done by incredibly
expensive drugs already on the market many of which do no perform nearly as
well as marijuana does. The drug companies have the most lobbyists in
Washington and this is no coincidence.
No one doubts the efficacy of marijuana in certain medical cases you
twit. The Feds will not allow it to be reclassified. Go smoke a big
one & perhaps the clarity will come to you in a pipe dream.
Boron
