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Dear Readers,
Greetings!
Welcome to this issue of the Optimum Health Report. I hope you are enjoying reading this as much as I enjoy writing it. If you do, please share it with your friends. Our numbers are growing. Have a great week. - D.I. Minkoff, MD
Did You Ever Think Your Scars Could Be Making Your Body Sick?
We know that the body controls itself through very tiny electrical current flows. These flows go from the brain to every organ and back. The flows may be transmitted through nerves, or they may be transmitted through tiny light emissions from cell to cell. The nerve communications are relatively slow. The second method is very fast (like the speed of light). - D.I. Minkoff, MD read more ...»
Casualties of Drug Research You Haven't Heard About, That Could Make Your Blood Boil...
In February, a 19-year-old co-ed was one of 25 healthy patients who volunteered to be in a drug study to earn some extra money for her college tuition expenses. She had no history or clinical signs of depression, yet she hanged herself in the Eli Lilly research lab at Indiana University Medical School, where she had recently been taken off a larger than normal dose of a new antidepressant during a clinical trial.
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Doctors Without Borders
With financial ties to nearly two dozen drug and biotech companies, Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff may hold some sort of record among academic clinicians for the most conflicts of interest. A psychiatrist, a prominent researcher, and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Nemeroff receives funding for his academic research from Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Wyeth-Ayerst-indeed from virtually every pharmaceutical house that manufactures a drug to treat mental illness. - Shannon Brownlee read
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FDA, Veal Sellers Ok On Hormone
The Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday a compromise deal with the veal industry that allows the sale of calves that had illegally been given synthetic testosterone to make them grow faster, so long as 63 days have passed since they received the hormone implants. -By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY learn
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Ever Heard the Expression, "Say no to Drugs?" It's the Joke of the Century
We are the most drug oriented and drug addicted society in history. Go look in your medicine cabinet. How many different drugs do you see?
Here is a quote from an article that tells it like it is: - D.I. Minkoff, MD learn
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