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Through the HMDI News section we will bring you the latest-breaking news in medicine, focusing especially on integrative strategies for health. When a particular health concern is at issue, such as the H1N1 virus, we’ll offer a Sinatra Solution.
Hot off the Presses in 2012:
February is "American Heart Month," Feb.1st
Each year since 1963, each U.S. President officially proclaims February to be “American Heart Month.” Although American Heart Month coincides with Valentine’s Day (which, next to Christmas, is the largest card-selling holiday in the U.S.), its primarily purpose is not the celebration of romantic love. Rather, Congress designed American Heart Month to be a means of promoting awareness of heart and blood vessel (cardiovascular) diseases (also generally referred to as heart disease) as a nationwide problem, and of generating support for “essential” solutions to this problem.
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Ask Your Senators and Representatives to Speak Up about Supplements, Jan 31st
[ANH-USA's] Action Alert is simple: Ask your senator or representative to make a one-minute floor speech opposing the FDA’s plan to sweep many supplements off the shelf and make the ones that survive much more expensive...The comment period for the NDI Draft Guidance is now closed, and the FDA will be reviewing all the comments they have received. During this period, [ANH-USA] wants to make the Draft Guidance such a hot-button political issue that FDA will be forced to take notice and will address the public’s serious concerns.
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Experts Rebuke The Economist for Misrepresenting Cell Phone Risks, Jan. 6th
Experts in public health, oncology, neurosurgery, electronic engineering, toxicology, cardiology and epidemiology from the United Kingdom, USA, Finland, Sweden, Australia, Austria and the Slovak Republic published a critique on December 28, 2011 of an opinion piece published in The Economist (9/3/11).
- Read The Economist opinion piece, “ Worrying about Wireless. ”
- Read the expert critique: "The Economist—and the Truth About Microwave Radiation Emitted from WirelessTechnologies."
In their critique, the experts say The Economist failed to provide critical information about the emerging public health issue related to cell phones and wireless technologies and that it owes its readers a better accounting of the science.
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Cancer Pioneer Under Attack by Texas Medical Board, Jan. 3rd.
Medical maverick, Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, PhD, who has helped cure terminal cancer patients with a non-toxic gene-targeted cancer therapy he developed, is, yet again, under attack. After a decade-long attempt to revoke the cancer pioneer’s medical license, which resulted in a Texas Supreme Court victory for Burzynski in 1996, the Texas Medical Board will again take Burzynski to trial on April 11, 2012. If the Board succeeds, the Burzynski clinic will likely be shut down, patients will suffer and the possibility of FDA-approval for Burzynski’s revolutionary cancer therapy, called antineoplaston treatment, will be lost.
Click here to also download, personalize and send (via email, fax or regular mail) letters opposing the upcoming prosecution to the Texas Legislative Oversight Committees and Texas Governor and 2012 Presidential candidate Rick Perry. Alliance for Natural Health (ANH-USA) has also provided a letter you can personalize and email to the to protest the Board’s actions.
Gov. Perry has recently been scrutinized in the press for his ties to pharmaceutical companies like Merck. While not directly accusing Dr. Burzynski of any offenses, Gov. Perry appointed many members (including heads) of the Texas Medical Board, as well as the Texas legislature committees which oversee the Board. After trying to take away the doctor’s medical license in the 1980s by accusing him of breaking a nonexistent law, the Texas Medical Board is now charging Burzynski with the off-label use of FDA drugs.
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Click here to also download, personalize and send (via email, fax or regular mail) letters opposing the upcoming prosecution to the Texas Legislative Oversight Committees and Texas Governor and 2012 Presidential candidate Rick Perry. Alliance for Natural Health (ANH-USA) has also provided a letter you can personalize and email to the to protest the Board’s actions.
Gov. Perry has recently been scrutinized in the press for his ties to pharmaceutical companies like Merck. While not directly accusing Dr. Burzynski of any offenses, Gov. Perry appointed many members (including heads) of the Texas Medical Board, as well as the Texas legislature committees which oversee the Board. After trying to take away the doctor’s medical license in the 1980s by accusing him of breaking a nonexistent law, the Texas Medical Board is now charging Burzynski with the off-label use of FDA drugs.
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