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A case of medically unjustified treatment with multiple mega doses of vitamin C with thyroid hormones that caused serious adverse reactions in a woman by Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati
Abstract: Christine, a 40-year-old white female, suffered suddenly from a fatigue syndrome in August 2000. Her blood and urine analyses, chest x-ray, and abdominal ultrasound exam were normal. She consulted with several physicians who treated her symptoms and she made progressive recovery in her health. In February 2003, she felt that she had about 80% of her energy back and she was working full time. However, she consulted with a physician in California to get her full energy back and he recommended a detoxification treatment plan with high doses of vitamin C, glutathione, minerals, and vitamins. He gave her 39 intravenous injections of vitamin C (10-35 g per injection), glutathione (0.4-2.0 g per injection), calcium, and other vitamins for about 10 months. In addition, he also treated her with therapeutic doses of levothyroxine and cytomel for more than a year, although she had normal thyroid functions.
Christines clinical record indicates that she suffered from symptoms of hypercalcaemia and calciurea as a result of her treatment with vitamin C and calcium. The treatment with thyroid hormones also aggravated her condition and she became 100% disabled. I have not found any medical justification for the use of detoxification agents or the treatment with thyroid hormones in this case. Christine's blood, urine, and hair analyses revealed that she was not exposed to chemicals at her workplace or home or ingested toxic chemicals. In addition, Christine's blood thyroid hormones levels were within the normal range and she was not suffering from hypothyroidism.
Note: This isolated case illustrates a practitioner's failure to appropriately utilize vitamin and drug products in the practice of medicine. It does not reflect in any way on the safety or on the appropriate use or levels of use of vitamin or drug products in a patient needing them. Dan Burton, Congressman representing the 5th District of Indiana, in a Congressional hearing reported, "106,000 people die a year from prescription drugs, ... with just 16 deaths reported last year [from using a dietary supplement]." [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1235–1243] |
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A missed case of poisoning with arsenic by Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati
Abstract: Christine, a 40-year-old white woman, suffered from acute gastrointestinal pain, diarrhea, malaise, and fatigue shortly after receiving oral herbal treatment and drank eight glasses of clear liquid in a clinic in California. On October 19, 2004 between 1540 and 1730, she was given Uro-well herbal supplement prescribed by her physician as a kidney-cleansing agent. Christine was transported by ambulance to the Stanford Emergency Department (SED) at approximately 1930. She was treated with activated charcoal orally and N-saline by IV. An electrocardiogram test showed that she developed sinus tachycardia. Christine's blood test was negative for alcohol and her urine test was negative for the use of illicit drugs. The treating physicians did not order screening tests for the presence of heavy metals and arsenic in blood and urine, even though, she stated that a poison might be the cause of her symptoms.
Christine was released from SED after ten hours of admission. However, she continued to suffer from abdominal pain, fatigue, vomiting, and diarrhea for several weeks. A 24 hour-urine sample was collected and analyzed for arsenic on day 26 post-her hospitalization on October 19th. It revealed a significantly high level of arsenic (270 µg arsenic per 24 hour urine collection). Christine's arsenic background level in urine was 18 µg arsenic per day. Furthermore, analysis of the Uro-well herbal supplement revealed arsenic level of 25 ppm, which is five-time, the maximum permissible level of arsenic (5 ppm) in herbs set by the American National Institute of Standards and Technology. My investigation revealed that the exposure to a toxic level of arsenic by ingestion is the likely cause for Christine's acute symptoms developed on October 19th. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1244–1250] |
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Analysis of causes that led to the development of vitiligo in Jeanett's case with recommendations for clinical tests and treatments by Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati
Abstract: At the age of two years, Jeanett developed vitiligo within days of receiving her first MMR vaccine and the fourth injection of DTaP and IPV vaccines. Furthermore, at five years of age, she developed many more unpigmented spots on her body with acrofacial vitiligo, following receipt of the second injection of MMR and the fifth injection of DTaP and IPV vaccines. Jeanett's susceptibility to developing adverse reactions to vaccine was notable a few hours after birth following receiving her first injection of the hepatitis B vaccine. Furthermore, the intensity and the frequency of her adverse reactions to vaccines were significantly increased following receipt of more doses of hepatitis B, DTaP, IPV, Hib, and MMR vaccines. Jeanett's health condition during her second year of life, when she was not given any vaccine was better than during her first year of life, when she received several vaccines.
It is likely that the MMR vaccine induced the depigmentation of Jeanett's skin through local and systemic autoimmune reactions. Synergistic actions between the MMR vaccine and other vaccines given to Jeanett could also be involved in causing the depigmentation of her skin. I believe that Jeanett should not receive any vaccine in the future. Vaccines probably will aggravate her present illness and trigger more illnesses. Jeanett was treated with corticosteroids ointment but the steroid did not help in stopping the depigmentation of her skin. Recommendations for clinical tests and treatment plans are presented in this report that I believe will help Jeanett's pediatrician to better monitor and treat her vitiligo. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1251–1262] |
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Dental amalgam beneficence - first do no harm - by G. Scott Crowther
Abstract: Dental amalgam restorations typically consist of 50% mercury, 35% silver, 13% tin, 2% copper, and a trace of zinc. Today, there is a growing body of scientific research that indicates the dose of mercury released by the amalgam causes harm to every exposed person and developing fetus. Therefore, it is reasonable and conservative to believe that the dose of mercury released from an amalgam is a poison.
Because amalgam constituents are substantially equivalent to devices that existed in interstate commerce prior to the May 28, 1976 enactment of the Medical Device Amendments in the United States, the federal Food and Drug Administration permits them to be marketed under regulatory controls. State dental boards commonly adopt the American Dental Association's Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct (ADA Code) as an ethical standard for all dentists in their state. The ADA Code does not address some aspects of classical biomedical ethics and it contains a veracity aspect. Their combined effect: (1) discourages amalgam removal for health reasons, and (2) in a circuitous way, allows for amalgam installation.
To discourage the amalgam and other products like it from entering the market place, state policies or statutes that allow for dental restoration removal for health reasons are needed. The policies or statutes need to allow for aspects of autonomy, beneficence, and justice that are not addressed by the present ADA Code. The suggested policy or statute will inspire enterprise and result in a phase out and eventually the ban of the amalgam and amalgam-like products from entering the market place. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1263–1275] |
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The use of urinary porphyrins analysis in autism by Dan Rossignol
Abstract: The analysis of urinary porphyrins promises to provide substantial insight into treating autism. Previous methods to determine body burden of toxic metals relied on a chelation challenge. However, the urine porphyrins test is more effective than a chelation challenge in determining toxic metal body burden because it measures the effects of those metals on the body. Specifically, certain metals, particularly toxic metals such as mercury, lead, and arsenic, inhibit different enzymes in the porphyrin pathway for the synthesis of heme and, thus, cause different and specific porphyrin patterns (or "profiles") in the urine, the analysis of which can help determine which metal is involved, and to what degree. The higher the toxic metal exposure and body burden, the higher the porphyrins are elevated in the urine. In humans, certain urinary porphyrin profiles appear to directly reflect mercury body burden and neurobehavioral deficits.
This article reviews one recent prospective study of 115 children with autism who demonstrated porphyrinuria when compared to 119 control children, including a mean increase of 2.6-fold (p < 0.001) in coproporphyrin. The elevation in coproporphyrin also correlated with the severity of autism and was consistent with mercury exposure and burden. A subgroup of these autistic children underwent oral chelation therapy with meso-2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), which resulted in a significant reduction in mean urinary coproporphyrin and precoproporphyrin (p = 0.002). Another prospective study on 37 autistic patients confirmed that the severity of autism was directly correlated to the degree of porphyrinuria. The interpretation of the urinary porphyrin profile is reviewed, as are important differences found in males versus females. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1276–1281] |
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Critical assessment of an FDA letter concerning a Citizen Petition specifying actions against Thimerosal-containing drugs by Paul G. King
Abstract: The review that follows this introductory letter is a critical assessment of an FDA letter, date-stamped "SEP 26 2006," to CoMeD regarding FDA Docket Number 2004P-0349/CP1, a Citizen Petition filed seeking to compel the FDA and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take certain actions against Thimerosal-containing drugs until the federal government can prove the safety of such Thimerosal-containing drug products in a manner that complies with 21 CFR 610.15(a) and 42 U.S.C. 300aa-27(a)(2). CoMeD and the petition signers received the complete letter, which is being reviewed, at some time on 28 September 2006.
In general, to clearly differentiate between the assessment comments and those of the letter CoMeD received, when the letter's printed statements are quoted, they are quoted in an italicized "Times New Roman" font followed by the reviewers, remarks in indented text written in a "News Gothic MT" font. Quotes from general reference articles and documents will, in general, be presented in an "Arial" font; federal laws, statutes and court decisions will be quoted in a "Lydian" font.
Overall, this critical assessment established that the FDA letter failed to address the issues raised in the CoMeD Citizen Petition and, instead, addressed issues not raised in the CoMeD Citizen Petition—issues that the FDA created. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1282–1370] |
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BioEnergetic assessment and its benefit in addressing and determining underlying factors pertaining to PDD/ADD/ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders by Millicent Holliday
Abstract: This article looks at the part BioEnergetic Assessment, or EAV (Electo Acupuncture According to Voll) technology, has to play in assisting par-ents and practitioners to unravel the complex causative factors impacting our children today. It also investigates potential causative factors behind numerous pediatric conditions like asthma, otitis media, gastrointestinal disturbances, dermatological issues, as well as the onslaught of neuro-developmental issues. Millicent Holliday, a Registered Nurse and Certified Traditional Naturopath, takes a step-by-step look at some of the known side effects of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine. Ms. Holliday currently works in the field of BioEnergetic Medicine and utilizes this state-of-the-art technology to assist her in energetically determining underlying causative factors impacting not only children but adults as well. Once cause has been energetically isolated she can quickly and painlessly energetically determine a recommended supplementation protocol that is specific to the needs of the individual. Her close integration with pediatric neurodevelopmental specialists, occupational therapists and medical doctors spe-cializing in the field of environmental medicine provides a balanced and integrated approach that often yields profound resolution to numerous health conditions, particularly those impacting our pediatric community. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1371–1374] |
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Review—Thimerosal and autsim: a renewed issue by Ali Saber Mohamed
Abstract: Autism was and still is an unresolved tragedy in the fields of pediatrics and psychiatry, with an apparent increased incidence and prevalence rates—reaching what is called an "autism epidemic." Etiologically, genetics is the field of extensive investigation with clear evidence of multiple susceptibility genes on different chromosomes. But, epidemics can not be explained by genetics, so environmental factors are considered a more logical explanation. Such factors include childhood vaccines, especially the measles component of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, and vaccine preservatives, namely Thimerosal because of its mercury content. In this review, different views are presented about the issue of Thimerosal and autism. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1375–1377] |
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Fake science and bogus bioethics: medical research frauds against premature babies by H. Peter Alef
Abstract: The epidemic of baby-blinding retinopathy of prematurity continues because of several blatantly rigged clinical trials. Misled neonatologists withhold life-saving breathing help from premature babies because of one eugenics-inspired fraudulent study from fifty years ago that was never replicated but was used to disguise a euthanasia program designed to eliminate preemies with a wrongly postulated "genetic" blinding defect. Their so contaminated doctrine prevents them from acknowledging the real cause of the blinding which is the lighting that they have specified for the intensive-care nursery. The mandated fluorescent lighting concentrates much of its energy in the most eye-damaging wavelength region and thereby creates a steady stream of preemie customers who need expensive patch-up treatments. The effort to deny this embarrassing reality have led to further rigged studies that mocked science and abused patients. None of the bioethicists informed about these unethical practices spoke out against them; and the relevant medical U.S. government agencies have helped with the cover-up. The continuing longevity of the baby-blinding research frauds exposes the myth of the often-touted mechanism of self-correction in science and confirms the reality of strong error-preserving factors in the medical culture that undermine the credibility of all clinical research reports. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1378–1389] |
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How mercury was absolved: creativity, collusion and censorship by Jeffrey Allen Trelka
Abstract: Thimerosal and the Occurrence of Autism, Negative Ecological Evidence from Danish Population-Based Data by Madsen et al. was hurriedly published in the September 2003 issue of Pediatraics and was considered a "well-designed epidemiological study" by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Vaccine Safety Review (VSR) Committee at its February 9, 2004 meeting. The study appears to be curiously absent of mechanisms typically associated with good scientific effort. This narrative details concerns regarding Madsen et al. such as their changes in participant selection methods, mid-study expansion of cohort populations, and changes in diagnostic grouping. These concerns were formulated in a letter to the Editor-in-Chief of Pediatrics. They were not addressed, and the letter was never published. The following is an update of the concerns addressed in the letter to Pediatrics. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1390–1392] |
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The Buteyko breakthrough by Peter Kolb and Juan Manuel Martinez Mendez
Abstract: Chronic hyperventilation is a multi-pathogenic condition characterized by low carbon dioxide and bicarbonate in the body. It results from habitually breathing more air than the body needs for it to function properly. Since its discovery in all patients with Da Costa's syndrome by Sir Thomas Lewis in 1916, it has remained ignored by mainstream medicine. The profound biochemical disruptions caused by chronically low carbon dioxide in the body can result in, or contribute to, an array of apparently unrelated symptoms and disorders. Around 50 years ago, Buteyko joined the movement to have this condition placed firmly on the medical map by developing a regimen for reversing it. The success of recent clinical trials using Buteyko's therapy for asthma has given the hyperventilationists a much needed boost and has shown that even they may have underestimated the significance of chronic hyperventilation as a cause of disease. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1393–1397] |
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Editorial—Mercury and autism in the United Kingdom by John Stone
Abstract: John Stone presents compelling evidence of high-level collusion between the CDC, the WHO, and British health officials in an epidemiological study presented at the 2004 IOM and subsequently published in Pediatrics. Information acquired from public sources and through Freedom-of-Information-Act (FOIA) requests in both the U.K. and U.S. suggest, among other things: a) the study was compromised by undisclosed conflicts of interest from its inception, b) the study made a knowingly false claim about the equivalence of the mercury burden in the WHO and the UK routine-vaccination schedules, c) the database used in the study was, at best, weak, and d) the authors deliberately excluded confounding evidence that clearly established the autism rate rose when the schedule was changed in the UK in 1990. Hopefully, after reading this and the preceding narratives, the reader will understand something of the length U.S.A. and U.K. authorities and the journal Pediatrics appear to have gone to keep the truth from the public. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1398–1405] |
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Editorial—How Pediatrics validated erroneous British mercury data by John Stone
Abstract: John Stone presents more compelling evidence of high-level collusion between the CDC, the WHO, and British health officials over an epidemiological study presented, without independent peer review to the 2004 IOM committee and subsequently published in Pediatrics. Information acquired from public sources and through Freedom-of-Information-Act (FOIA) requests in both the U.K. and the U.S.A. suggest: a) the study was compromised by undisclosed conflicts of interest from its inception, b) the study made a knowingly false claim about the equivalence of the mercury burden in the WHO and the UK routine-vaccination schedules, c) the database used in the study was, at best, weak, and d) the authors deliberately excluded confounding evidence that clearly established the autism rate rose when the schedule was changed in the UK in 1990. When all this substantiation was presented to Pediatrics the journal declined to publish the evidence. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1406–1410] |
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Why case-control studies showed no association between Suddent Infant Death Syndrome and vaccines by Valentina A. Soldatenkova
Abstract: Several case-control studies have frequently been cited to support the notion that vaccinations are not a risk factor of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). However, their findings are neither confirmed nor refuted by valid comparisons of incidence of SIDS in vaccinated infants to that reported in never vaccinated infants. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1411–1413] |
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An investigation of infant deaths following initial hepatitis B vaccination based on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 1992-2002 by Valentina A. Soldatenkova and F. Edward Yazbak
Abstract: Purpose: To examine Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and hepatitis B neonatal vaccination. Results: 170 reports related to neonatal hepatitis B vaccination were filed with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) during 1992-2002. Of the 38 death reports, 29 were unexplained; 24 were classified as SIDS in the United States National Vital Statistics, and 4 were attributed to unknown causes. Conclusion: A systematic review of neonatal SIDS and other unexpected infant deaths following the initial dose of hepatitis B vaccination should be undertaken at the international level. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1414–1421] |
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Gulf War Illness classifications and changes in subjective health among Reserve Component veterans who had deployed to the Persian Gulf by Walter R. Schumm, Anthony P. Jurich, Farrell J. Webb, Stephan R. Bollman, Earl J. Reppert, Diane Sanders, and Carlos S. Castelo
Abstract: Data from 644 Reserve Component Persian Gulf War veterans were analyzed to compare changes in subjective health with classification status as having Gulf War Illness (GWI) by either the Centers for Disease Control definition or a slightly modified version of the Kansas (Steele, 2000) definition. Recall bias has sometimes been cited as a reason to challenge the validity or meaningfulness of self-reports of illness, including Gulf War illnesses. If recall bias, as a random variable, was entirely responsible for variance in self-reports of illness or subjective ratings of personal health, then associations between self-reported ratings of personal health and GWI classifications based on systematic evaluation of health symptoms and conditions should be minimal, even non-significant. However, our results indicated relatively strong associations between both current subjective health and changes in subjective health since the first Persian Gulf War with GWI classifications. Associations between GWI and subjective health are only slightly lower for health issues recalled during the war than for current health issues, suggesting minimal changes in any impact of recall bias over different retrospective time periods. Nevertheless, such associations were far from perfect. Small percentages of veterans with GWI symptoms reported having both excellent health currently and before the war, while others not classified with Gulf War illness did report either currently poor subjective health or substantial declines in subjective health. Because classification of GWI depends on having symptoms in multiple areas, veterans whose symptoms are more concentrated may be among those overlooked by current GWI classifications and yet among those veterans who report declines in personal health status. Implications for the search for causal factors responsible for the health problems of many Persian Gulf War veterans are discussed. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1422–1425] |
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Summary--Regressive autism, ileal-lymphoid nodular hyperplasia, measles virus, and MMR vaccine: summary of published studies offering evidence for linkages by David Thrower
Abstract: This note summarizes clinical evidence for the link between (1) autism and a novel form of inflammatory bowel disease; (2) inflammatory bowel disease and measles virus; and (3) measles virus and vaccination with MMR. Also some of the other wider safety concerns over MMR are considered. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1426–1431] |
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Poisoning due to antimony and cadmium: disguised as autism diagnosis by Lois Smith
Abstract: I am sharing the story of my daughter, Toni Marie, who experienced adverse reactions to vaccines and then regressed. Toni was exposed to an unusual source of antimony and cadmium. When this was removed, she experienced drastic improvements in her health and abilities. It is plausible that environmental toxins play a role in autism. There are obviously a number of factors that could play a significant role in autism diagnoses, including antimony. Antimony, used in flame retardants (as antimony trioxide) since the 1980's, has tripled in use and the area of application is so close to our children—from pajamas to car seats to crib mattresses—it is everywhere that our children spend the majority of their time.
I believe in the 1980's, when this mass rush to make sure everything and anything was flameproof began—again as with mercury—we forgot to do the basic math (and insure safety). All sofas, automobiles, airplanes, pajamas, upholstery are now chemically treated and the requirements are only getting stricter—leading to more chemicals on top of the already existing heavy amounts. [©Medical Veritas, 2007 Apr; 4(1):1432–1434] |
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The Natural Medicine Guide to Autism by Stephanie Marohn |
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