ByHealthy MangoScandal of scientists who take money for papers ghostwritten by drug companies. Doctors named as authors may not have seen raw data Scientists are accepting large sums of money from drug companies to put their names to articles endorsing new medicines that they have not written – a growing practice that some fear is putting…
In my article “How Vitamin C Improves Health” I mentioned that a large intake of vitamin C has value in helping to control the common cold, influenza, hepatitis, schizophrenia, and other diseases. Only a brief mention was made of cancer. Interest in the prophylactic and therapeutic use of vitamin C against cancer is now so…
The United States Patent Office delayed issuing a patent on the Wright brothers’ airplane for five years because it broke accepted scientific principles. This is actually true. And so is this: Vitamin B-3, niacin, is scientifically proven to be effective against psychosis, and yet the medical profession has delayed endorsing it. Not for five years,…
My dad and his angina It was a bit odd to have a conversation with my 67-year-old father about his sex life. “I’m on this medicine, Andrew,” he said. “It’s for angina. My doctor sent me to a heart specialist, and they both agreed I have to take it. The problem is that it causes…
Dr. Rath is the scientist who discovered the close connection between cardiovascular disease and the sailor’s disease scurvy: The common denominator of both health conditions is the instability of the blood vessel wall due to impaired supply of micronutrients to millions of cells of the vascular wall. On May 4, 2002, Matthias Rath, M.D. world…
WASHINGTON – The rate of serious muscle damage reported in patients who took AstraZeneca Plc’s cholesterol drug Crestor was six times higher than with similar medicines, a consumer group said on Thursday. The findings by consumer group Public Citizen contradicted a statement by the Food and Drug Administration last week that the risks of muscle…
Published in January’s issue of Life Sciences (74(7):855-62), the double-blind, placebo-controlled study demonstrated that 58 participants with high blood pressure medication were able to cut their dosage of prescribed medication in half when they supplemented with the French maritime pine tree bark extract Pycnogenol. High blood pressure patients can significantly reduce their prescription medication by…
High daily levels of vitamin B6 may reduce the risk of getting colon cancer by 58 percent, claims a new study from Harvard Medical School. The research, published in the May 4 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, builds on other studies that have already indicated a strong preventive effect from the…
The Flaxseed (Linseed) oil diet was originally proposed by Dr. Johanna Budwig, a German biochemist and expert on fats and oils, in 1951 and recently re-examined by Dr. Dan C. Roehm M.D. FACP (Oncologist and former cardiologist) in 1990. Dr. Roehm claims: “this diet is far and away the most successful anti-cancer diet in the…
Dr. Johanna Budwig is known and highly respected around the world as Germany ‘s premier biochemist. In addition, Dr. Budwig holds a Ph.D. in Natural Science, has undergone medical training, and was schooled in pharmaceutical science, physics, botany and biology. In all courses, this brilliant scientist excelled. She is best known for her extensive research…
Dr. Linus Pauling alerts the world to the cause of heart disease: a chronic vitamin C deficiency. He was the holder of 48 honorary Ph.D.s, the world’s only 2-time unshared Nobel prize laureate, and the founder of modern chemistry. Dr. Pauling was unequivocally certain that too little vitamin C leads to elevated cholesterol levels, especially…