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Posted June 16, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A review of drug trials conducted between 1966 and 2010 reveals modern drugs are not much more effective than the inactivate placebo pills they are compared against. In many instances, doctors would save the growing budget for health care costs by prescribing sugar pills.
Investigators reporting in the journal Health Affairs say drugs tested between 1966 and 1990 were about four times (400%) better than placebo pills. By 2001 that figure dropped to 36% better than placebos.
In some placebo/drug comparison trials, study subjects are given placebos prior to the study and if they respond positively they are eliminated from the study. If that didn’t take place, the difference between placebos and would be nil.
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Posted June 13, 2013: by Bill Sardi
You read Dr. Paul A. Offit’s denunciation of vitamin pills in The New York Times (Don’t Take Your Vitamin, June 8, 2013) and you have no doubt left in your mind – the vitamin pill makers must be hiding thousands of dead bodies. Why beta carotene increased the death rate among smokers in Finland in 1994 and that fact was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.
In all, Dr. Offit refers to five published studies, which in his mind, prove vitamin pills unequivocally represent death in a bottle, might as well have a skull and crossbones printed on their labels and the public should be warned away from them.
Only for Senator Proxmire in the 1970s bending to the demands of vitamin fanatics that vitamin pills now remain beyond the reach of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), says Dr. Offit. Why the FDA would like to wrap their hands around those irresponsible vitamin extremists that peddle thousands of unproven potions and pills if they were permitted to do so, claims Dr. Offit.
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Posted June 10, 2013: by Bill Sardi
The disclosure by a popular Hollywood actor that his throat cancer was likely caused by transmission of the human papilloma virus (HPV) during oral sex has led to a resurgent call for sexually active young people to be vaccinated against HPV. HPV also leads to cervical cancer in females. Only a small percentage of young women have undergone vaccination against HPV. Led by vaccine companies, an effort for States to coerce or mandate students in schools via legislation to be vaccinated against HPV is evidence of fascism in modern medicine.
What goes unsaid is that the vaccine only protects against two virulent strains of HPV while there are over 30 viral strains transmitted during sexual contact. Vaccines are ineffective on that score alone.
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Posted June 1, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Modern medicine doesn’t consider Vicki Oliver’s experience to exist except to explain it away as a possible placebo effect.
Vicki Oliver, 74-year old resident of Mesquite, Nevada, plagued with years of battling what she was first told was ulcerative colitis and then later by another physician as Crohn’s disease, likely had been dealing with a common vitamin deficiency disease that now plagues modern societies.
Vicki’s life had been taken over by daily bouts of abdominal cramps followed by urgent trips to the bathroom. Bowel movements were frequent, up to 20 times a day. Vicki’s only relief came when she would stop eating altogether. If she wanted to travel outside her home, she had to forgo food consumption.
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Posted May 26, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Every once in a while some brave investigator charts a new course for modern medicine. For various reasons this one is not likely to become the new paradigm and supplant the reigning cholesterol theory of heart disease. But a recently published landmark paper posits a long overlooked hypothesis which gleans evidence from statin cholesterol-lowering drugs themselves. It convincingly points those health practitioners who embrace science over commercial gain in a direction away from cholesterol as a measure of arterial health.
Leo R Zacharski MD, a medical and scientific board member of The Iron Disorders Institute, writes a seminal paper entitled “THE STATIN-IRON NEXUS: ANTI-INFLAMMATORY INTERVENTION FOR ARTERIAL DISEASE PREVENTION in the April issue of The American Journal of Public Health.
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Posted May 19, 2013: by Bill Sardi
The announcement was too slick. The news media rolled it out, heralding 37-year old Angelina Jolie’s bravery in disclosing her decision to have her breasts prophylactically removed solely based upon detection of a mutated BRCA gene that posed a high future risk for breast cancer maybe two or three decades in her future.
It was coordinated with simultaneous press releases from Ms. Jolie’s female breast surgeon at the Pink Lotus Breast Center and an appeal before the Supreme Court by a biotechnology company to uphold its patent application involving the BRCA gene.
Was this serendipity or a well-orchestrated public relations campaign to persuade fearful women to undergo needless care? Is the Supreme Court ready to rule against the applied-for BRCA-gene patent by a biotech company in the face of hordes of women who may feel the highest court in the land is insensitive to their fears?
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Posted May 15, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Read the shocking report of women, as young as age 21, who are having both breasts removed solely because they have a gene mutation. They do not have breast cancer:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2324362/Angelina-Jolie-mastectomy-Why-4-women-chose-preventive-breast-cancer-surgery-like-Angelina.html
One of Hollywood’s goddesses, and undeniably one of the most beautiful women in the world, Angelina Jolie has announced she underwent double mastectomy surgery in February of this year. Knowing that what Hollywood stars do the public copies — expect a parade of double mastectomies to follow.
Similarly in 2005 when Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue announced she was undergoing cancer treatment, hundreds of thousands of women scheduled screenings, an unexpected outcome that was dubbed “the Kylie effect.”
CNN News anchor Zoraida Sambolin has also jumped on the bandwagon and announced she is undergoing a double mastectomy.
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Posted May 5, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Even the chairman of the department of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic is disturbed by the Food & Drug Administration’s late Friday night approval of a combination drug intended to reduce circulating cholesterol levels. The FDA approved Liptruzet (Zetia + generic Lipitor, chemically known as Ezetimibe and Atorvastatin) that lowers cholesterol but has not been shown to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease or death, a fact its maker does not dispute. This newly approved drug will sell for about $5.50 per pill or $2007/year. Lipitor is the historically best-selling statin cholesterol drug whose patent expired in 2011. Zetia works by reducing cholesterol absorption from foods while Lipitor interferes with the liver’s natural production of cholesterol.
This development is quite surprising given that the FDA said it is going to pay more attention to what are called “primary end points” in drug approvals, such as mortality, rather than just factors that correlate with but may not cause disease. Or in some circumstances there may be drugs that address relevant measures of disease, but over-inhibition of inflammation or blood sugar or blood pressure, for example, obviously can be problematic.
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Posted April 24, 2013: by Bill Sardi
What a day to launch a health radio show! I’m positioning the show to be skeptical (not cynical) of modern medicine’s many self-acclaimed successes and I don’t need to make up any sensationalist headlines to make my point. Lo and behold, a number of damning reports are published on the very same day the Bill Sardi Health & Wealth Show is launched on KLAV 1230 AM (Las Vegas)!
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Posted April 17, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Modern medicine’s often repeated mantra is that dietary supplements are unproven and therefore cannot make any claim they prevent, treat or cure any disease like FDA-approved drugs do. But who can believe that only synthetically made patentable molecules exclusively cure diseases? Most people know vitamin C cures scurvy, vitamin D prevents rickets, vitamin B1 reverses beri beri, vitamin B12 remedies pernicious anemia, but no dietary supplement company can make those claims on their label because their product hasn’t been tested for that purpose. And it’s not like food fortification has eliminated these vitamin deficiencies. In fact, most Americans suffer the consequences of these nutrient deficiencies over their lifetime.
And while the FDA and other health agencies chase down side effects for dietary supplements they are helping Big Pharma hide all their negative clinical trials that have never been published. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have needlessly died as even doctors cannot access information about a drug’s failures. Yet FDA-approved drugs smugly claim they are safe and effective while dietary supplements are unproven.
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