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ISSUE #No.3, March, 2010

THE SWINE FLU FIASCO: A SAGA OF GREED AND FRAUD

Also Included In This Issue: The Controversial Close Connections Between Dr. Chan And "Dr. Flu". WHO's Board Of Advisory Experts And Their Numerous Conflicts Of Interest. The FDA, Centers For Disease Control And"Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?", Those Who Do Not Learn The Lessons Of History Are Doomed To Repeat Them KEYWORDS: Flumist, Tamiflu, Albert Osterhaus, 100,000 bird droppings, H5N1, ESRI, SARS, SAGE, THL, Pandemix, the Pharma Mafia of vaccine makers, "Who Will Protect Us Against The Protectors?", Donald Rumsfeld, Legionnaire's Disease, The Great Swine Flu Massacre, Spanish flu, Julie Geberding, PhRMA

ISSUE #No.2, February, 2010

HOW VALID ARE SELYE’SDISEASES OF ADAPTATION

Also Included In This Issue: The Alarm Reaction And The General Adaptation Syndrome, The Diseases Of Adaptation  From Pathology To Philosophy And Publicity?, How Some Of Selye's Critics Responded To His Concept Of Stress,How Will Hans Selye Be Remembered In 2036 And Beyond? KEYWORDS: The Stress of Life, Jousuf Karsh, Norman Cousins, garlic pills, Walter Cannon, Jim Henry, George Thorn's test, Frank Engel's axle wheel grease, Dwight Ingle's "permissive" effects, the role of "conditioning", Franz Halberg and circadian rhythms, John Mason, allostasis, altruistic egotism, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

ISSUE #No. 9, September, 2010

STRESS, CHOLESTEROL, FATS AND YOUR HEART

ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS ISSUE: Why Saturated Fat And Cholesterol Do Not Cause Coronary Heart Disease, Why The Cholesterol→Coronary Disease Dogma Has Persisted, Why Stress Is Much More Important Than Cholesterol Or LDL, The Pathophysiology Of Stress Induced Coronary Heart Disease. KEYWORDS: MONICA, Ancel Keys, Framingham, MRFIT, association vs. causation, relative vs. absolute risk, cholestyramine primary prevention trial, Walter Cannon, Hans Selye, Diseases of Adaptation, James Herrick, Uffe Ravnskov, Kilmer McCully, Rudolph Virchow, Chlamydia pneumoniae, Prinzmetal's angina, Robert Jarvik.

ISSUE #No. 8, August, 2010

BOB ADER ON PLACEBOS & PSYCHOSOMATIC DISEASE

ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS ISSUE: The Birth Of Psychoneuroimmunology And Its Skyrocketing Growth, Engel's Biopsychosocial Model, Psychosomatic Medicine And Stress, Has Psychoneuroimmunology Research Resulted In Any Clinical Benefits?, Why Do You Believe That Placebo Effects Are Conditioned Responses?, Some Ader And Selye Parallels Psychoelectoneuroimmunology? KEYWORDS: Ivan Pavlov, Nicholas Cohen, George Solomon, psychoimmunology, Brain, Behavior and Immunity, psychosomatic disease, H. pylori, tuberculosis, psoriasis, Karen Olness, Hans Selye, subtle energy communication.

ISSUE #No. 7, July, 2010

STRESS FROM DECEPTIVE & DEADLY DRUG PROMOTIONS

ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS ISSUE: Prilosec's Perils Prevented By Planning, Promotional Hype And Perjury, Legal Lapses, Marketing Machinations And The Purple Pill Predicament,Osteoporotic Fractures, C. difficile And Other Infections, Esophageal Cancer. Envoi: Putting The Purpose of Pharmaceutical Promotion In Proper Perspective KEYWORDS: Plavix, Claritin, Clarinex, little "purple pill", PPIs Prevacid, Protonix, histamine blockers Tagamet, Zantac, Pepcid, Shark Fin project, Nexium- the "new" or "healing" purple pill, patent extensions, class action suits, Prilosec OTC, Vimovo, Axanum, Prevacid, Zegerid, Black Box Plavix warning, Kilmer McCully, Grant Rodkey

ISSUE #No. 6, June, 2010

WHY ARE DRUG COMPANIES NOW SELLING SICKNESS?

ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS ISSUE: Why We Spend Much More On Health Care But Are Sicker And Die Earlier, How Merck's Fosamax Converted The Worried Well Into Paying Patients, Confusing Osteopenia, Osteoporosis And Bone Density With Risk For Fracture, Is There More Hope Or More Hype For Osteoporosis On The Horizon? KEYWORDS: Pharmacracy, osteomalacia, osteopenia, Bone Measurement Institute, The Bone Measurement Act, Actonel, Boniva, Reclast, ONJ, phossy jaw, Aredia, Zometa, biphossy jaw, Evista, SERM, Prolia, Forteo, alendronate, CBD/PTH, PEMF bone growth stimulators, vibrating platforms and astronauts, Pulsed Signal Therapy

ISSUE #No. 5, May, 2010

WHY TIMING IS EVERYTHING: A CHAT WITH FRANZ HALBERG

ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS ISSUE: The Thorn Adrenaline Test And Counting Eosinophils in Boston and Minneapolis, Circadian Rhythms, MESOR Hypertension, Chronobiology And Chronotherapy, Rhythm Effects On Weight Gain, VVAs,VVDs And VVSs. KEYWORDS: William Best, Frederic Bartter, The Vanishing Physician-Scientist?, Linnaeus, "Halberg's paranoia"and circadian desynchronization, chronomes, Terukazu Kawasaki, dipping classification, treating hypertension by calcium and sodium supplementation, prehypertension, John Merrill, self-ambulatory monitoring.

ISSUE #No. 4 April, 2010

STRESS, HEALTHY AGING & CLUES FOR LIVING TO 100

ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS ISSUE: Healing Waters, The Fountain Of Youth And Elixirs Of Life And Longevity. Sir Robert McCarrison's Hunzas And The Search For Shangri-La, Alexander Leaf's Travels To Confirm And Explain Centenarian Claims, To Life, To Life, L'Chaim And Why Ashkenazi Jews Tend To Live Longer. KEYWORDS: Methuselah gene, Alexander the Great, "The Wandering Jew", Paracelsus, Ponce De Leon, David Copperfield, James Hilton, "zest for life", stable lifestyles, Milano and INDY genes, "founder effect", pogroms and the Holocaust", CETP, humanin, IGF-1, sirtuin, genetic testing scams

ISSUE #No. 1 January, 2010

REMEMBERING HANS SELYE AND THE BIRTH OF "STRESS"

Also Included In This Issue:The General Adaptation Syndrome And The "Diseases Of Adaptation", Hooke's Law, Strain, Le Stress, La Stresse, Pathos, Ponos And Stressor, Selye's Symbolic Shorthand System And Surgical Innovations, Life At Selye's Institute Of Experimental Medicine And Surgery In 1951. KEYWORDS: "They all just looked sick", Johns Hopkins "sardine period", "A Syndrome Produced By Diverse Nocuous Agents", Encyclopedia of Endocrinology, Nobel Prize for cortisone, the "O.K. rule" for intercourse, The New Yorker Magazine, "The Renaissance in Endocrinology", AMA Glandular Physiology And Therapy textbook.

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