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by Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, originally published at Orthomolecular.org The German word for "quicksilver" was "quecksilber". American dentists shortened it to "quack" to describe the amalgam-hucksters. Quick-silver Associates write "It is sobering to realize that the original "quacks" were dentists who advocated the use of mercury amalga...
Didn't take much of a fortune teller to predict the attack on the philosophical vaccine exemption in California, which I did in the April 2011 Newsletter.  But it's here, right now in California. A week ago Bill AB2109 was proposed: AB2109 was introduced on February 23, 2012 by Assembly Member Richard Pan, a Democrat physician. Thi...
Medline Obsolescence By excluding the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and certain other journals from its Medline/PubMed indexing services, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) has limited doctors’ access to information. At one time, limits were understandable; only 239 journals were indexed when Medline first went online in 1971. Me...
About 170 years ago our ancestors forced the repeal of licensing laws which had created a monopoly over the practice of medicine for orthodox physicians. Ordinary people, farmers, artisans, tradesmen and others got together and forced politicians to act on their behalf. They were tired of bloodletting, and harsh medications like mercury compounds...
Policosanol comes from the wax of sugar cane, as pictured above. There is a little known natural extract of plant waxes known as policosanol, extractable from sugar cane, yams, and beeswax, which has been giving some of the more profitable drugs on the market a biomedical beating since it was first investigated in clinical trials by the Cubans ...
Oddly enough, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has not published a single article on pizza. At least not so far. Maybe if it did, it would make the cut at Medline. by Andrew W. Saul Editor-In-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service The National Library of Medicine Censors Nutritional Research Medline is Biased, and Taxpaye...
Evidence-based medicine requires evidence before medicating. Fluoridation of water is not evidence-based. It has not been tested in well-controlled studies. Fluoridation of public water is a default medication, since you have to deliberately avoid it if you do not want to take it." ~ Andrew W. Saul Editorial by Andrew W. Saul, Orthomolecula...
Yogis, writers, tailors, hair cutters, software engineers, carpenters, baristas… For many of these people, wrist pain is the bane of their existence. Ask, and most will tell you they have carpal tunnel. However, in a high percentage of cases, this ubiquitous diagnosis for workplace-induced wrist pain is false. Most people whose jobs cause or w...
Top Vitamin D Papers of 2011 Dosage Recommendations and Clinical Applications by William B. Grant, Ph.D. (OMNS April 10, 2012) The biggest vitamin D story in 2011 was the report on dietary reference intakes for calcium and vitamin D from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) [1]. This report was prepared during a two-year process by 14 nutrit...
(Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, June 11, 2012) by Steve Hickey, PhD, Andrew W. Saul, PhD, and Robert G. Smith, PhD (OMNS June 11, 2012) There is a global tendency to popularize pharmaceutical industry pseudoscience that harms patients and prevents health. Far from being critical, the media are easily taken in by corporate medicine. Two r...

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