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Posted August 23, 2011: by Bill Sardi
The announcement was overshadowed by the gloom and doom surrounding the world economies. While the stock market was tumbling and the price of gold soaring, University of Pennsylvania researchers were reporting the first full remissions from leukemia (cancer of the blood) by activation of patients’ own white blood cells (T-cells, produced in the thymus gland).
The announcement came on the heels of a newly reported survey showing cancer is the most feared life-threatening disease over Alzheimer’s, stroke or heart attack.
Sluggish white blood cells (aka lymphocytes) were extracted from the patients’ own blood and genetically reprogrammed to attack roaming cancer cells. The full scientific report can be viewed here.
A number of prior attempts to employ genetically engineered T-cells had been unsuccessful. But the recognition that a type of T-cell (CD8) has a high capability to recognize, intercept and destroy malignant cells, has been the impetus that led to this most recent discovery.
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Posted August 22, 2011: by Bill Sardi
To the editor
Editor: Paul Dacre
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK
From: Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc. San Dimas, Ca. USA
I am writing to complain about an apparent false story released in your publication 3 days ago, according to Google’s log. The report refers to a study that is a decade old. It was reported in Science Magazine in June 15, 2001 and fully rebutted in that same publication on September 14 of that same year. The report, entitled “Vitamin C Cancer Fear” is a total falsehood as it has recently been confirmed that mega-dose vitamin C, given intravenously, is totally non-toxic, transiently creates hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) that selectively kills cancer cells and does not harm healthy cells, and then converts to harmless non-toxic H2O (water). The University of Pennsylvania study was conducted in a lab dish while doses of vitamin C up to 10,000 milligrams had already been tested in humans and found to be non-toxic to DNA. Why has the DAILY MAIL chosen to re-publish a story that is not news and that has been thoroughly dismissed as junk science a decade ago? (See referenced story, referenced reports below)
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Posted August 9, 2011: by Bill Sardi
In 2009 a deadly flu virus was supposedly sweeping the nation after starting in Mexico. But early on the story didn’t ring true. The President had just returned from a short trip to Mexico a month earlier when the French President was in Mexico City along with the President of Mexico to christen the opening of a French vaccine plant there. Suddenly a flu outbreak in a small village in Mexico was getting attention as it spread across the US-Mexico border. But there were no flu deaths in the village where it all began. The people in the village said they had been ill for some time from air pollution generated by nearby pig farms, not from the flu. And why was Homeland Security practicing drive-in delivery of flu vaccines in Texas months prior to the outbreak?
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Posted August 7, 2011: by Bill Sardi
With release of a report from the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, that low blood levels of vitamin D are more common among NFL football players who suffer muscle injuries, there is no better time to talk about vitamin D and sports with the release of Dr. John Cannell’s newest book, entitled ATHLETE’S EDGE: FASTER, QUICKER, STRONGER WITH VITAMIN D (www.vitamindsportsbook.com).
Readers will get the instant impression that this fully-illustrated 318-page book will make an impact, not just on individual athletes but also on entire sports the way performance-enhancing drugs did for baseball, but this time, it’s a natural (and legal) molecule that is involved.
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Posted August 6, 2011: by Bill Sardi
No one knows now whether Pfizer, which is panned as “the world largest research-based pharmaceutical company,” will have a more storied past or a more storied future. That’s because sometimes the downfall of such a huge success story in American business may be more gripping than an account of how Pfizer developed and marketed so many blockbuster drugs. The $68 billion drug giant is headed for a momentous downfall, and this is sure to gain continued attention in business news columns worldwide in the coming months ahead.
Pfizer’s treasure chests of new drugs are now empty. No genie is about to uncork a surprise molecule from its R&D pipeline that will generate billions of dollars to counter anticipated losses as Pfizer’s prized drug patents expire.
Pfizer’s CEO, who was once known as the maven who re-invented McDonald’s hamburger franchises, was commissioned to re-invent Pfizer. When Jeffrey Kindler first became CEO at Pfizer nearly a decade ago he faced what is tantamount to a corporate spill over a waterfall as its prize drug, Lipitor, faced eventual patent expiration. But that was years away.
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Posted August 5, 2011: by Bill Sardi
One can view the cozy relationship between government and industry in the recent overdue disclosure by the US Department of Agriculture that a major supplier of turkey meat was the source of Salmonella infections that have sickened 76 Americans and killed one. The meat itself was produced and shipped begnning in February 2011. Pressure had been building on USDA to identify the source of the contaminated meat, and after 1 death had been reported, USDA said it would identify the source “very soon.”
The outbreak began in March of 2011 but the source was not identified till 6 months later and then the USDA announced a recall of 36 million pounds of turkey meat, but only after 1 death had finally been reported. Effectively, there is likely to be little economic consequences for the supplier, only public embarrassment, because most of the contaminated meat has likely been cooked and consumed.
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Posted August 4, 2011: by Bill Sardi
Bill Sardi responds to proposed FDA guidelines that would plunge dietary supplement industry into catastrophic decline
San Dimas, CA (July 28, 2011) – Efforts to comply with newly proposed FDA guidelines for New Dietary Ingredients would likely plunge the growing multi-billion dollar dietary supplement industry into unprofitability, result in the disappearance of thousands of dietary supplements from store shelves and would more than quadruple the retail price of vitamin pills, says Bill Sardi, president of Knowledge of Health, Inc, and supplement industry watchdog.
According to Sardi, compliance with the proposed New Dietary Ingredient guidelines recently published by the Food & Drug Administration would roughly require eight years of all the profits generated by dietary supplement sales to pay for initial safety testing.
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Posted August 2, 2011: by Bill Sardi
Don’t expect allergists to address that question. A resolved allergy problem is not a returning customer. Chronic allergies feed the allergy care system where these problems are generally treated by avoidance or as a drug deficiency.
So why do some kids have food allergies and others don’t? While modern medicine takes decades to figure this out, there are some hints in the medical literature as to why.
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Where have all the patentable synthetically-made blockbuster drugs gone?
Long-time passing.
Where have all the patentable synthetically-made blockbuster drugs gone?
Long-time ago.
Where have all the patentable synthetically-made blockbuster drugs gone?
Gone to patent graveyards everyone.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Big Pharma is about to be dismantled as pharmaceutical patents expire, representing $78 billion in sales. Thirteen drugs including Lipitor, the cholesterol-lowering drug, Plavix, the blockbuster blood thinner, and Nexium, the designer acid blocker/heartburn remedy, will become generic drugs by 2015, says an article in Managed Care magazine.
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