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Severe hair loss induced by anthrax vaccine and reversed by the treatment with zinc by Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati
Abstract: Air Force Master Sergeant suffered severe hair loss from the scalp and face a few weeks after receipt of his fifth dose of anthrax vaccine. He also suffered from a reduction in his eyesight, insomnia, headaches, involuntary twitches of the right arm muscle, and memory loss. In addition, he felt chronically tired, had hot and cold flashes on his head, and cold flashes on the back of his neck. My investigation of this case revealed that hair loss and serious systemic illness have also been reported by some other individuals who received anthrax vaccine and other vaccines. Differential diagnosis was used to evaluate the medical evidence in this case to identify the causes of illness and hair loss. Treatment with zinc gluconate at a dose level of 60 mg zinc per day for a few months subsequently led to the complete reversal of hair loss in this case. It is plausible that vaccines induced a stage of zinc deficiency by activating the immune system and increased the utilization of zinc. Zinc is an essential element required for hair metabolism and the activation of the immune system. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):159–162] |
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Anthrax vaccine and Gulf War illness symptoms in Captain Jean Tanner's Dover Air Force Base Survey by Walter R. Schumm
Abstract: Air Force Captain Jean Tanner surveyed 252 members of her unit at Dover Air Force Base in 2000 to attempt to study the unusual symptoms being reported by a large number of her unit members, symptoms she believed to be related to their anthrax vaccinations. Her data are evaluated in terms of classifications for Gulf War illness used by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and by Steele (2000). Even assuming that her non-respondents had no symptoms whatsoever, nearly nineteen percent of the unit would have been classified as having Gulf War illness by the CDC definition. Levels of illness were associated with outcomes, including seeking treatment, disability, submission of vaccine reaction reports, and exemption from further anthrax vaccinations. Had Tanner used even relatively small control groups of unvaccinated subjects, it is likely she would have detected significant differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated subjects, unless a third factor, such as large scale spraying of the base with insecticide, were responsible for symptoms observed in both groups. The results cast doubt on the safety of at least the lots of anthrax vaccine that were used at Dover Air Force Base at that time. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):163–165] |
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How "adequate and well-controlled" was the "clinical trial" of a human anthrax vaccine, 1955-1959? by Walter R. Schumm and Robert L. Brenneman
Abstract: In late 2003, the Brachman et al. (1960, 1962) field study of an earlier anthrax vaccine became the basis for an FDA regulatory determination that the currently licensed vaccine is effective against B. anthracis strains, regardless of the route of exposure. Here, the Brachman et al. (1962) field study was reexamined in terms of the validity and completeness of its experimental design. Numerous limitations with respect to the trial's experimental design were either discovered or reaffirmed. Some of these limitations have never been explained satisfactorily for more than 40 years. In conclusion, our review indicates that Brachman et al.'s (1962) experimental design actually fell far short of being able to demonstrate, conclusively, the efficacy of the anthrax vaccine in humans, especially with respect to protection against inhalation anthrax. Any claim that the early trial of the vaccine was truly "adequate and well-controlled" must depend upon a consideration of only very limited information about the numerous weaknesses of that trial's experimental design. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):166–170] |
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A statistical reanalysis of Brachman et al.'s 1962 study of a human anthrax vaccine by Walter R. Schumm, Robert L. Brenneman, Bari Arieli, Suzanne Mayo-Theus, and Jahrael Muhammad
Abstract: In late 2003, the Brachman et al. (1960, 1962) field study of an earlier anthrax vaccine became the basis for an FDA regulatory determination that the currently licensed vaccine was effective against B. anthracis strains, regardless of the route of exposure. Here, the Brachman et al. (1962) field study is reexamined statistically, analyzing the vaccine's effectiveness as a function of risk levels, levels of vaccination status, types of anthrax infection, mill locations, and two study components (total versus experimental groups). Fisher's Exact Tests were used to compare the vaccine and non-vaccine groups because Fisher's Exact Tests are more accurate than the traditional chi-square tests, especially when cell sizes or probabilities are small. Numerous limitations of the trial were discovered or reaffirmed. Even taking both cutaneous and inhalational anthrax into account, we found that the vaccine's protective effects were not statistically significant (p < 0.05) in 75% of the mills studied. We found no evidence for the effectiveness of incomplete vaccinations, although design or reporting flaws in the original study mitigated against finding such evidence. The reanalysis of Brachman et al. (1962) does indicate that the anthrax vaccine may help provide some marginal protection against cutaneous anthrax infection; however, cutaneous anthrax is seldom fatal and usually easily cured with antibiotics. The data do not provide statistically significant evidence of protection against inhalation anthrax. In conclusion, our reanalysis indicates that Brachman et al.'s (1962) data actually fell far short, as had actually been long acknowledged by leading anthrax experts until some time after 1999, of demonstrating the efficacy of the anthrax vaccine in humans, especially with respect to inhalational anthrax infection. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):171–178] |
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Analysis of causes that led to baby Robert Benjamin Quierello's respiratory arrest and death in August of 2000 by Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati
Abstract: Brian Herlihy is a 32-year-old, white man accused of and arrested for killing Baby Robert by vigorous shaking in August of 2000. Robert was a 4½-month-old infant who suffered from respiratory arrest while at Brian's apartment on the morning of August 2, 2000. That day, Robert's mother arrived at Brian's apartment shortly after 0900 and asked him to watch the baby for a short time. He had cared for the baby on five occasions in the past for a few hours per day. On August 3, 2000 Brian was arrested based on verbal communications between the treating physicians and the police while the baby was still alive in the hospital. The treating physicians told the police that the baby was suffering from injuries caused by shaking. Baby Robert died August 10, 2000. I evaluated the medical evidence in this case using differential diagnosis. My findings clearly show that baby Robert died as a result of adverse reactions to medications and vaccines that were given to him by the healthcare providers. Brian Herlihy is innocent and should be released from prison. Also, the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome is a theory that should be re-evaluated and is not supported by science in this case. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):179–200] |
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Analysis of causes that led to baby Alan Ream Yurko's cardiac arrest and death in November of 1997 by Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati
Abstract: In November of 1997, Alan R. Yurko was accused of, and arrested for, killing his son, the 2½-month-old baby Alan Ream Yurko, by vigorous shaking of the head. Mr. Yurko was convicted by a jury in 1999 and sentenced to spend his life plus ten years in prison. I evaluated baby Alan's case by reviewing the baby's medical records, H & E stained tissue sections of Alan's organs obtained at the time of autopsy, the autopsy report, Francine's medical record during her pregnancy with Alan, the trial document and testimonies of expert witnesses, and related published medical literature. I used differential diagnosis to evaluate the contribution of causes and the synergistic actions among these causes that led to the cardiac arrest, apnea, subdural bleeding, and death in this case. I determined that baby Alan died as a result of adverse reactions to vaccines and medications that were given to him by the healthcare providers and his father is innocent. Furthermore, the shaken baby syndrome theory is not supported by science and should be re-evaluated. A better understanding of the biological mechanisms of various medications and vaccines well help to save infant lives and protect vital resources in regard to the caretakers. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):201–231] |
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Analysis of causes that led to the bleedings in the subdural spaces and other tissues in baby Alan Ream Yurko's case by Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati
Abstract: Careful review of the medical evidence in baby Alan Ream Yurko's case clearly shows that death was the result of adverse reactions to vaccines and medications administered by healthcare professionals instead of Shaken Baby Syndrome on the part of the parent as initially determined. The tissue bleedings were caused by the baby's treatment with heparin following an episode of respiratory/cardiac arrest. The medical examiner and other physicians who evaluated this case failed to consider heparin's ability to cause bleeding in tissues and also overlooked the role of the adverse reactions to vaccines in the baby's health problems. The report presents descriptions of the clinical data and other medical literature explaining the pathogenesis of the baby's illness that support the above conclusions. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):232–238] |
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The polio vaccine: a critical assessment of its arcane history, efficacy, and long-term health-related consequences by Neil Z. Miller
Abstract: Polio is a potentially dangerous viral ailment. To combat this disease, researchers developed two polio vaccines (inactivated and live) grown in cultures made from monkey kidneys. Beginning in the 1950s, these vaccines were administered to millions of people in the United States and throughout the world. Officially, the polio vaccine is considered safe and effective, and has been credited with singularly reducing the incidence of this disease. These tenets are not supported by the data.
A cancer-causing monkey virus—SV-40—was discovered in polio vaccines administered to millions of people. SV-40 has been found in brain tumors, bone cancers, lung cancers and leukemia. SV-40 is transmitted through sexual intercourse, and from mother to child in the womb. Monkeys that were used to make polio vaccines were infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a virus closely related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the infectious agent associated with AIDS. Some researchers question whether HIVs may simply be SIVs "residing in and adapting to a human host." Polio vaccines also contain calf serum, glycerol and other parts of the cow that may have been infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, a fatal brain-wasting ailment that some researchers link to Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), its human equivalent.
Current disease reduction techniques that emphasize short-term gains over long-term health consequences need to be reevaluated and discontinued while new and safer health paradigms are researched and implemented. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):239–251] |
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Ongoing caffeine anaphylaxis: a differential for mental illness by Ruth Whalen
Abstract: Caffeine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), sensitizes, causes masked allergic response, anticholinergic effects and other biochemical abnormalities. When the disorder is wrongly diagnosed and an allergic patient continues ingesting caffeine, the patient suffers ongoing caffeine anaphylaxis fight or flight toxicity, chronic allergic response. Ongoing caffeine anaphylaxis alters homeostasis by increasing neurotransmitter and hormone output, causes cerebral vasculitis, breaks down cell walls, generates cerebral toxicity, toxic dementia, rhabdomyolysis, hyperglycemia, ataxia, adrenal exhaustion and other physical disorders. This article discusses the majority of biochemical abnormalities accompanying ongoing caffeine anaphylaxis and relating to mental illness. The author suggests that physicians look for signs of caffeine anaphylaxis before diagnosing and stigmatizing patients with symptoms of mental illness with a mental disorder. Ongoing caffeine anaphylaxis is a physical condition confused with and diagnosed as mental illness. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):252–260] |
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Digestion-gut-autism connection: the Specific Carbohydrate Diet by Elaine Gottschall
Abstract: In many cases, children with neurological issues such as autism and seizure disorder are also experiencing symptoms of chronic constipation, periods of diarrhea, abdominal pain, and indications of intestinal bacterial and fungal overgrowth. More and more parents and clinicians are beginning to connect the function of the gut with the brain and are finding that correcting digestive imbalances by altering the diet can lead to significant overall improvement in the child's mental and physical health and in several cases reduce or even eliminate aberrant behavior and seizure activity. An alphabetized table of foods allowed on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) are given in Appendix 1 of this mansuscript. Several representative case histories are presented in Appendix 2. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):261–271] |
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Linkage: multiple sclerosis and ionizing radiation by Walter B. Eidbo and Merle P. Prater
Abstract: This article is a report of a wide ranging study that has delved into concerns about multiple sclerosis (MS) and ionizing radiation with findings that show strong potential causality relationships between exposure to ionizing radiation and MS.
The research is based upon MS county by county prevalence data from National Multiple Sclerosis Society state chapters as related to several factors: county home radon concentration measurements of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; nuclear bomb test fallout areas; counties and regions in close proximity to or downwind from U.S. Department of Energy weapon production facilities; and to other sources of background radiation.
Results are also discussed that relate to studies by Swedish and Norwegian health scientists; in Sweden, work concerning x-rays; in Norway, the finding of strong geophysical relationships between high MS prevalence and radon. Historical and other background information about MS and related characteristics of ionizing radiation are also covered. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):272–276] |
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Raw milk—history, health benefits and distortions by Ron Schmid
Abstract: Cows had a pervasive influence on colonial America, literally saving the Jamestown colony and sustaining the early settlers and the movement West. But by 1900, America's cities had a "milk problem" caused by contaminated raw milk from "distillery dairies." One solution was pasteurization; the other was the certification by medical doctors of carefully produced raw milk. A large body of scientific research and clinical experience clearly established the health benefits of raw milk from grassfed animals, but a pervasive campaign of deliberate lies and innuendo about raw milk contributed to the loss of millions of small farms and led to the general unavailability of raw milk today.
Francis Pottenger's life and work serves as an example of the outstanding research that demonstrated beyond any doubt the superior nutritional value of raw milk as compared to pasteurized. Pottenger's work was viciously attacked in an article published in 1984 by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA); the authors used logical tricks to completely distort Pottenger's findings.
The demise of small farms and raw milk is the result of a concentration of wealth and power that began in colonial times, when an untitled aristocracy was granted control of America's land and economy. Today, a corporate and government elite has extended control to the nation's food supply (and medical system). The reversal of this situation is a political problem. Widespread availability of raw milk from grassfed animals could help solve many of the problems the nation faces, including the health care crisis. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):277–284] |
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Fat facts, fads and fallacies by Alan D. Clark
Abstract: Fatty acids play an enormous role in health maintenance. While the chemical classification and vocabulary of fats is well elucidated, albeit unwieldy, the benefits and harms of this dietary group has only recently begun to be uncovered with the help of impartial research. Trans fatty acids, introduced to replace supposedly harmful saturated fats, may be responsible for much of our society's cardiovascular disease. Efforts to remove this source of injury will take years, but public education is just around the corner. The essential fatty acids, particularly the omega-3 group, have a multitude of disease modifying benefits which should make dietary supplementation a high priority. Saturated fats have been largely mis-represented by Industry. In contrast, legitimate research over the last 2 decades has slowly outlined the real benefits of naturally occuring palm oils, once considered taboo. Patients will soon benefit from this new paradigm as physicians teach the fats of life. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):285–292] |
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Editorial—Mercury in vaccines: institutional malfeasance and The Department of Health and Human Services by Medical Veritas Editorial Staff
Abstract: A historical perspective of the use of Thimerosal, which contains ethylmercury, in vaccines is presented. Despite the availability of evidence that mercurial compounds are toxic, public health institutions have ignored the evidence dating from the 1930s and have instead authorized acceptance of Thimerosal as a so-called "preservative." Removal of Thimerosal from several childhood vaccines in the United States was not accomplished until after the turn of the century. In its report on Thimerosal, the Institute of Medicine in 2001 commented: "The presence of mercury in some vaccines can raise doubts about the entire system of ensuring vaccine safety, and late recognition of the potential risk of Thimerosal in vaccines may contribute to a perception among some that careful attention to vaccine components has been lacking."
The CDC has a responsibility to protect the health of the American public. If there were any doubts about the neurological effects of ethylmercury in vaccines on children—and there were substantial doubts—the prevailing consideration should have been how best to protect children from potential harm. However, it appears that protecting the industry's profits took precedence over protecting children from mercury damage. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):293–303] |
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Editorial—An "American Mystery Disease"? by Paul G. King
Abstract: In the 1950's, Japan had a "localized" incident where the discharge of mercury-containing waste into Minimata Bay led to the poisoning of tens of thousands to perhaps 200,000 or more of the Japanese people with the compound "methyl mercury" into which the food chain had converted and, in fish, stored the mercury from that waste.
The adults and children consuming the fish were slowly poisoned; fetuses were aborted, and breast-fed babies were poisoned by their mother's milk.
Initially, the Japanese called the problem the "strange" disease and the people who had it were blamed and shunned.
The government and the company responsible for dumping the waste both proclaimed their innocence. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):304] |
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Editorial—The best medicine money can buy? by Paul G. King
Abstract: This essay discusses government and industry control and coercion in the development, regulation, and prescription of the "treatment centric" medicines available today in the United States. It recommends a course of action to restore a truly "cure centered" system to the nation's people.
Problems with today's medicines are identified, and several concrete examples are given that establish the validity of the essay's premises. The inordinate societal influence wielded by the pharmaceutical industry is discussed, exposing the industry's methods of increasing greed-driven profits while using government to revise our laws and statutes, excusing any liability for past, current, and future egregious "public health and safety be damned" decisions.
In closing, a set of actions are defined that are necessary to restore our medicine system to the "cure centered" approach to which the purchasing public is entitled. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):305–312] |
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Commentary by Gary S. Goldman
Abstract: Dr. King's editorial highlights the important point that healthcare is more concerned about treating illness rather than curing it. There seems to be more profit in treating the symptoms of illness, rather than in understanding the causes, thereby preventing their occurrence and lessening the need for cures.
Vaccines, instead of contributing to "cures" may, in part, contribute to the ongoing cycle of disease and treatments. While many see vaccines in terms of a positive cost-benefit, the deleterious effects of vaccines are rarely ever documented as such, and adverse effects are only infrequently reported. A passive national reporting system exists called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), but it is admittedly incomplete with an estimated 10% or fewer cases reported. At least some cases of SIDS and SBS (Shaken Baby Syndrome), upon closer scrutiny, have been determined to be the result of vaccine-related deaths. Difficult neurological conditions such as ADD, ADHD and the more serious disorder called autism, are increasingly being seen as attributable to Thimerosal, a mercury "preservative" used in several childhood vaccines through year 2000 and even beyond. When we consider that in the past 10 years autism has increased over 800% in school children aged 3 to 21 years, manifesting in 1 in 166 children (or impacting 1 in 68 families), this is a most sobering fact that is claimed by healthcare to be a "mystery". When we factor in vaccine-related deaths and a $1 million cost to raise each autistic child, this dramatically impacts the cost-benefit equation and should require intense investigation. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):313–314] |
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Forum: Caffeine Allergy by Faith Elkins, Donald Farver, Ivan L. Rolim, and Georgia Janisch
Abstract: Medical Veritas has published on pages 252-260 of Volume 1, Issue 2 a manuscript by Ruth Whalen entitled, Ongoing caffeine anaphylaxis: a differential for mental illness which presents an informative and complete summary of the action of caffeine in the body and some of the consequences. A. Hoffer, MD, PhD, FRCP(C) comments, "It supports my view which I have had for many years that too many are suffering from caffeine overdose. As a rule I advise all my patients to decrease their coffee to zero if they can, but never to have more than one or two cups daily. I recall one of my patients who drank forty (40) cups of coffee each day and suffered from severe chronic anxiety. Compounding the toxic effect was the sugar she added to each cup. Schizophrenics do drink too much and this is often encouraged by the hospital and the coffee machines in their lobbies. I know of one patient who consumed thirty (30) cups daily and needed 30 milligrams of haldol merely to overcome the effect of the caffeine. When the coffee was stopped the dose of medication was decreased sharply. The family estimated it cost them US $2000 each year to pay for the coffee and the drug needed to counteract the effect of the coffee."
We now present four experiences of individuals as they each recall how their lives were personally affected by caffeine allergy; how the drugs used to treat mental illness were ineffective, and the change that occurred after finally discovering they were sensitive to caffeine. [©Medical Veritas, 2004 Nov; 1(2):315–322] |
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The Untold Story of Milk: Green Pastures, Contented Cows and Raw Dairy Foods by Dr. Ron Schmid |
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Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health through Diet by Elaine Gottschall |
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