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Leaving well alone: a natural approach to the third stage of labor by Sarah J. Buckley
Abstract: Medical management of the third stage of labor—the time between birth of the baby and birth of the placenta—has become routine in recent times, especially the use of 'active management of the third stage' to prevent postpartum hemorrhage. This paper critiques the components of active management (use of an oxytocic drug to contract the new mother's uterus; early clamping of the baby's cord; controlled cord traction to deliver the baby's placenta) from the perspective of both mother and baby.
In particular, the author presents evidence that early cord clamping deprives the newborn baby of up to 50% of blood volume; possible health sequelae are discussed. The research on early clamping and effects such as jaundice and polycythemia are presented and critiqued.
For the mother, factors in modern obstetric care that contribute to the risk of postpartum hemorrhage are discussed. These include interventions such as induction, epidurals, forceps and caesarean surgery. The components of active management and their effects on the mother are critiqued from a physiological and hormonal perspective.
The author argues that third stage will be optimized through attention to the physiology and especially the psycho-hormonal aspects of this unique time. Recommendations include freedom for the mother to choose her position for birth and delivery of the placenta; ensuring a warm, private and undisturbed atmosphere for the first meeting of mother and baby; delayed cord clamping until delivery of the placenta; and not separating mother and baby. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):492–499] |
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Review—Birth brain injury: etiology and prevention—Part I: Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and cerebral palsy by George Malcolm Morley
Abstract: Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE) is a birth brain injury that precedes the development of Cerebral Palsy (CP). Visualized on MRI scanning, the lesions of HIE are infarcts resulting from deficient generalized perfusion of brain tissue. Birth asphyxia/hypoxia is the widely assumed cause of this brain injury, however, HIE may occur without significant hypoxia. Hypovolemia/hypovolemic shock, is evident in the great majority of HIE newborns. Cord compression prior to birth pools fetal blood in the placenta and immediate cord clamping finalizes the hypovolemia. Heart failure (hypovolemic shock) follows.
Retraction respiration—pulses of negative intra-thoracic pressure—pulls venous blood into the heart and, with hypotension, pulls arterial blood into the thoracic aorta from peripheral arteries. Circulation in the heart and lungs is maintained at the expense of perfusion of all peripheral organs, including the brain. Prolonged deficient perfusion of the actively metabolizing areas of the brain (basal ganglia and cerebral cortex) results in infarction.
Thus, the primary pathology in HIE/CP cases is massive blood loss into the placenta, not hypoxia. HIE/CP can be avoided by not clamping the cord and resuscitating all babies with the placental circulation intact. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):500–506] |
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Review (Continued)—Birth brain injury: etiology and prevention—Part II: The premature child and cesarean section deliveries by George Malcolm Morley
Abstract: The physiological transition from placental life support to neonatal independence incurs massive changes in anatomy and physiology. Placental respiration is maintained until the lungs are functioning and cord closure is finalized only after an optimal blood volume is provided by placental transfusion (PT). Premature cord clamping can incur major injury.
The circumstances of premature birth and Cesarean section birth increase the risk of major blood loss from premature cord clamping. The smaller the preemie, the larger the portion of feto-placental blood volume is in the placenta, and larger amounts of PT are required to establish function of the preemie's lungs and other vital organs during transition from placental life support. The germinal matrix is extremely active metabolically providing neurons for growth of the cerebral cortex and is extremely vulnerable to ischemic damage resulting from inadequate PT.
At cesarean birth, especially if it is elective and the uterus is not contracting, the factors that effect PT (uterine contraction and gravity) are absent, and they may be reversed. If the neonate is held above the mother's abdomen, blood may flow down the vein into the placenta that is further distended in the flaccid uterus by the arteries; the result is massive blood loss. The resultant hypovolemic shock may be compounded by persistent fetal circulation and multi-organ dysfunction, retraction respiration and brain infarction. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):507–512] |
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Review (Continued)—Birth brain injury: etiology and prevention—Part III: Concealed and clandestine trauma by Eileen Nicole Simon and George Malcolm Morley
Abstract: Hypoxia and hypovolemia produced by experimental birth asphyxia in primates can affect memory ability and development of the adult brain; in humans, hypovolemia produced by ICC and the resultant infant anemia is strongly correlated with behavioral and learning disorders in children, the degree of anemia being proportional to the degree of mental deficiency.
Autism comprises a major portion of these disabilities and is epidemic. Autism occurs more frequently after complicated or difficult births that indicate the use of ICC. The clinical features of autism indicate lesions of the auditory, speech and language areas of the brain to be fundamental. Hypoxic-ischemic birth injury to the inferior colliculi (part of the auditory circuit) could account for the later development of autism.
Mercury toxicity from vaccines as a cause of autism is controversial and is still under investigation; mercury accumulation in brain nuclei already damaged by hypoxia-ischemia (in the same manner that bilirubin accumulates in dead tissue but does not stain living tissue) may have led researchers to attribute the damage to an incidental finding and miss the real cause.
There is considerable evidence that the autism epidemic will end when the current custom of clamping functioning umbilical cords ends. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):513–520] |
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Exposure to anthrax vaccination and pyridostigmine bromide (PB) tablets as associated with geographic location during the First Persian Gulf War by Walter R. Schumm, Anthony P. Jurich, Farrell J. Webb, Stephan R. Bollman, Earl J. Reppert, Carlos S. Castelo
Abstract: Data from over 600 Reserve Component Persian Gulf War veterans were analyzed to assess associations between anthrax vaccination, receipt of pyridostigmine bromide tablets, gender, ethnic minority status, ground force status, and rank with geographic location during the months of January and March 1991. Substantial associations were detected. Veterans who had deployed forward on land were more likely to report anthrax vaccination, use of pyridostigmine bromide tablets, to be ethnic minorities, to be females (in selected areas), and to be ground or land forces (Army or Marine Corps assets). Substantial associations were also found between anthrax vaccination and use of PB tablets with being a member of land/ground forces. Furthermore, anthrax vaccination was strongly associated with use of PB tablets. Use of PB tablets but not anthrax vaccination was associated with being near the suspected Khamisiyah nerve agent plume. Implications for future multivariate research into potential causes of Gulf War illnesses are discussed. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):521–525] |
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ADD-ing it up: soy infant formula, ADD/ADHD, and manganese toxicity by Kaayla T. Daniel
Abstract: Manganese is an essential trace mineral, but high levels are neurotoxic to newborns. Infants fed soy infant formula ingest as much as 80 times more manganese per day than those who are breast fed. Although healthy toddlers, children and adults exposed to excess manganese can usually eliminate most of it, infants cannot because their immature livers are not fully functional. At the same time, their growing brains and other organs are highly susceptible to damage from neurotoxins. This article reviews research showing that neonates exposed to the high levels of manganese present in soy formula are at increased risk for neurodevelopmental abnormalities, including an impaired ability to make the neurotransmitter dopamine and damage to the substantia nigra, caudate, putamen and globus pallidus areas of the brain. These findings suggest that soy infant formula is a likely contributor to the epidemic of ADD/ADHD and other cognitive and behavioral disorders.
This paper is a slightly revised and updated version of Chapter 21 from my book The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food (Publisher: NewTrends Publishing, Inc. (March 10, 2005); ISBN: 0967089751). [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):526–529] |
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Vaccine induced autoimmune Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM) in children by Jane Lukshis
Abstract: Pharmaceutical companies and health agencies within the U.S. government assure medical consumers that vaccines are safe and the benefits far outweigh the risks. Yet the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) receives 11,000 reports of serious adverse reactions, including death, to vaccines annually. The FDA estimates that less than 10% of serious adverse events are reported. Grieving parents of otherwise healthy children who have died from unexplainable causes following mandatory vaccinations have rallied together forming advocacy groups questioning the safety of vaccines. In recent years the components of vaccines, some of which are known to be carcinogens and neurotoxins, and their unknown long-term effects on children, have many wondering if vaccines may be a contributing factor to the increase in chronic childhood illnesses. This review of the literature investigates the possible relationship between the increasing number of childhood vaccines and concomitant increase in incidence of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus in children throughout the world. The biological mechanisms involved in the human immune system are not fully understood. While the evidence remains inconclusive to accept or reject a causal relationship, the hypothesis is plausible and warrants further investigation. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):530–534] |
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Mercury toxicity: genetic susceptibility and synergistic effects by Boyd E. Haley
Abstract: Mercury toxicity and intoxication (poisoning) are realities that every American needs to face. Both the Environmental Protection Agency and National Academy of Science state that between 8 to 10% of American women have mercury levels that would render any child they gave birth to neurological disorders. One of six children in the USA have a neurodevelopmental disorder according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet our dentistry and medicine continue to expose all patients to mercury. This article discusses the obvious sources of mercury exposures that can be easily prevented. It also points out that genetic susceptibility and exposures to other materials that synergistically enhance mercury and ethylmercury toxicity need to be evaluated, and that by their existence prevent the actual determination of a "safe level" of mercury exposure for all. The mercury sources we consider are from dentistry and from drugs, mainly vaccines, that, in today's world are not only unnecessary sources, but also sources that are being increasingly recognized as being significantly deleterious to the health of many. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):535–542] |
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and related illnesses: A case history supporting subacute mercury poisoning or "micromercurialism" by Richard F. Miller
Abstract: The immunological findings in CFS patients have now been explained, especially chronic T-cell activation as the result of TH2 cell production in difference to TH1 cell production. Significant depletion of the sulfhydryl-containing(-SH) amino acid, L-cysteine and the sulfhydryl-containing(-SH) tripeptide, glutathione, concentrations are explained by the body's attempt to excrete the mercury introduced by vaccination and/or diet, resulting in competing T-cell processes not able to downregulate each other. Once these sulfhydryl-containing (-SH) amino acid/tripeptide concentrations are returned to normal, the TH1/TH2 ratio will normalize and said chronic TH2-cell activation would cease. Low selenium levels have also explained by the formation of potentially hydrophobic mercury selenides and this further explains the elevated mercury levels seen in organs like the brain, liver and testicles. The interruption of metabolic pathways, such as carbohydrate metabolism leading to Diabetes Mellitus II in select CFS patients, has also been elucidated and evidence presented which support the influence of heavy metals like mercury playing a significant role. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):543–548] |
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Vaccination and autoimmunity: reassessing evidence by Marc Girard
Abstract: The autoimmune risks of vaccines seem frequently overlooked. Whereas most available vaccinations are supposed to produce long-lasting immunity, the fact that they can also produce long-term detrimental immune effects seems to be ignored as evidenced by the short duration of safety studies during development. Likewise, whereas it seems natural to simply rely on surrogate markers, such as antibodies, to demonstrate vaccine efficacy, the levels of evidence required to acknowledge adverse effects is far higher. Reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) are deemed more conclusive when reassuring than when suggesting significant toxicity. As a result of these blatant biases in clinical and/or epidemiological research, experts on autoimmunity and vaccine critics are limited to demonstrating theoretical mechanisms because evidence in practice is lacking.
Known as the bias of the selective assessment, this unbalance in the demonstration of the benefits as compared to the risks is the bete noire of evidence-based medicine. Therefore, when readjusted to the demonstrative level normally viewed as sufficient in clinical research in general and in vaccine science specifically, the corpus of data on the autoimmune hazards of vaccines appears certainly more impressive than generally recognized and calls for further research, for an overall reassessment of the benefit/risk ratio of vaccines including multiple vaccinations. Because vaccines are now aimed at preventing diseases which may be quite rare, the Hippocratic principle of prudence is more than ever a very topical issue. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):549–554] |
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Shoulder Dystocia (SD) and Brachial Plexus Palsy (BPP): cause and prevention by George Malcolm Morley
Abstract: The current definition of shoulder dystocia is inconsistent. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' (ACOG's) Practice Bulletin Number 40 on shoulder dystocia has two pseudo definitions: (1) failure of the shoulders to deliver spontaneously, putting both mother and fetus at risk for injury; and (2) failure of the delivery attendant to deliver the anterior shoulder by gentle downward traction, thus requiring additional obstetric maneuvers. Shoulder dystocia is caused by impaction of the anterior shoulder behind the pubic symphysis. ACOG does not define any cause for brachial plexus palsy; however, moderate or severe downward head traction is implied to be injurious.
A downward tilted pelvis is the major cause of anterior shoulder arrest; it is usually relieved or prevented by McRoberts' position. The mother then spontaneously delivers the shoulders. This is postural shoulder arrest and is not true shoulder dystocia (SD).
Failure of the mother in full hip flexion to deliver the shoulders spontaneously is true shoulder dystocia. Various maneuvers are available to correct this situation; all supplement physiological delivery forces and movements that do not increase traction on the brachial plexus. Resuscitation of the child must be pre-planned.
Brachial plexus injury is a traction injury caused by pulling the head and neck down and away from the shoulder. Nerves may be bruised, stretched, torn or ruptured; nerve roots may be avulsed from the spinal cord.
SD is largely preventable by delivering all patients in McRoberts' or equivalent position. Brachial Plexus Palsy (BPP) is avoidable by never applying head traction at any delivery and using maneuvers to deliver the shoulders that avoid any tension on the brachial plexus. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):555–561] |
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Reflections of brain-body functioning by Sally Goddard Blythe
Abstract: The presence of primitive and postural reflexes at key stages in development provide reliable indicators of maturity in the functioning of the Central Nervous System. Primitive reflexes are tested routinely at birth and in the first few weeks of postnatal life but are not re-assessed at a later age as a matter of course. This paper examines the functions and effects of three primitive reflexes, explaining how abnormal primitive reflexes can predispose a child to allergy, anxiety, coordination problems and subsequent learning and behavioral challenges including inattention. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):562–566] |
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Analysis of causes that led to Eliza Jane Scovill's cardiac arrest and death by Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati
Abstract: My review of the medical evidence presented in this case and the pertinent medical literature clearly shows that Eliza Jane's death was not caused by Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia (PCP) as alleged by the medical examiner, or any other type of pneumonia. Eliza Jane's lungs did not show an inflammatory response to medically justify a diagnosis of pneumonia. Pneumonia is a term that refers to inflammation and consolidation of the pulmonary parenchyma.
Eliza Jane's death resulted from an acute allergic reaction to amoxicillin, which caused severe hypotension (due to the leakage of significant amount of fluid outside the blood vessels), shock, and cardiac arrest. The autopsy revealed that she had pericardial and pleural effusion and ascites. In addition, her organ weights (lungs, heart, liver, and kidneys) were increased significantly. The weight of Eliza Jane's lungs, heart, liver, and kidneys were 184%, 131%, 121%, and 146% of the expected average normal weight for her age, respectively. Also, her liver was significantly enlarged and the hepatocytes show micro-and macrovesicular steatosis. Amoxicillin has been known to induce immune mediated toxic changes in the liver.
Eliza Jane suffered from an upper respiratory tract infection for about three weeks prior to her death on May 16, 2005. My investigation indicates that her respiratory infection was probably caused by Human Parvovirus B19 (HPVB19) infection. HPVB19 has been known to cause upper respiratory tract infection, encephalitis, and aplastic anemia in children and adults. Eliza Jane had non-specific microscopic lesions in the brain consisting of microglia and multineucleated giant cells. These lesions could be caused by HPVB19. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):567–581] |
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Detoxification: The link to life by John H. Hicks
Abstract: As the American population becomes sicker, detoxification is a missing link to improved health. Metabolic dysfunctions and environmental insults present a challenge to detoxification. The prevalent practice in medicine today is to offer medications that address symptoms but not root causes. Symptoms may give ambiguous information as to cause of disease. Without addressing root causes and imbalances, further imbalances may be caused by the measures given to address symptoms. Our present "medication-for-symptoms medical system" is no longer acceptable. As it has been said that genes only create possible predisposing issues, and that if the "right" stimuli is never encountered then the problem is only theoretical, then, too, we must apply this idea of environmental insult to the medical treatments we employ: Any detoxification protocol must be undertaken with due diligence, ensuring that the patient's body will be able to handle the possible consequential effects of a given detoxifying agent's action upon other physiological pathways and systems. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):582–588] |
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Power of Truth Rally, July 20, 2005 at Washington, D.C. by Barbara Loe Fisher
Abstract: Mothers and fathers of vaccine injured children, we have gathered here today to stand shoulder to shoulder with each other in a united call for our Government to tell the American people the truth about vaccine risks. And we are making history. Because we are standing up and giving notice that we are not going to allow our children, who have no voice and have no choice, to be written off as necessary sacrifices in a war on disease that has left far too many bodies on the field.
We know that it doesn't have to be like this. We know that, if public health officials and drug companies would care more about protecting the life of every child than protecting a tragically broken mass vaccination system, so many of our healthy children would not continue to be hurt by vaccines that are supposed to keep them well. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):589–590] |
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Opening address: Power of Parents Rally, Oct. 8, 2005 at Washington, D.C. by Barbara Loe Fisher
Abstract: We are here today on behalf of tens of thousands of families of vaccine injured autistic children to appeal to pediatrician members of the American Academy of Pediatrics to change their policies and protect children from being harmed by vaccines.
Members of the American Academy of Pediatrics: we ask you to listen to the mothers and fathers who describe to you how their bright, healthy children regressed after vaccination and became totally different children physically, mentally and emotionally.
We ask you to open up your hearts and see the suffering of our children, who have no voice and have no choice except the voice and choice we, their parents, give to them. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):591] |
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Power of Parents Rally, October 7-8, 2005 by Jennifer Smith
Abstract: When I first decided to attend the Power of Parents rally on October 7-8, 2005 in Washington DC, I had no idea what to expect — and to be sure, I was not disappointed. Had the rally been last year, cross country travel would have been unthinkable; my then 3 year old son, Ryan, was simply too severe and too sick for me to even contemplate such an endeavor. But after a year of intense biomedical intervention, Ryan has now begun to thrive, and so I decided to invite a friend and go. As a side note, the sad reality is that the numbers in attendance at national rallies will never reflect our true numbers across the world; most of the children are too severely affected for the parents to consider travel for a few days. The reality of autism (what I believe in most cases to be mercury poisoning by another name) has also left many families penniless, teetering on the brink of financial ruin. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):592–593] |
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Interview with Dr. Mary Megson: diagnosing and treating developmentally delayed children by Mary Megson and Teri Small
Abstract: Autism may be a disorder linked to the disruption of the G-alpha protein, affecting retinoid receptors in the brain. There are retinoid receptors in cells all over the body. They are in the nucleus of cells; many times a hormone or other messenger will give a signal to a receptor in the cell wall, which then conveys it through another protein called a G-protein; it is then carried out in the center of the cell. So they help translate, in genetic terms, the message that's given to the cell at the edge of the cell—at the cell wall. Autism may be caused by inserting a G-alpha protein defect, the pertussis toxin found in the DTP vaccine, into genetically at-risk children. This toxin separates the G-alpha protein from retinoid receptors. Those most at risk report a family history of at least one parent with a pre-existing G-alpha protein defect, including night blindness. Natural Vitamin A may reconnect the retinoid receptors critical for vision, sensory perception, language processing and attention.
Bethanechol mimics acetylcholine. It gives secretory function back to the gut in that it stimulates muscles around the pancreas and the gall bladder to get everything in the gastrointestinal tract like enzymes to improve food digestion. It gives normal movement of the gut wall, which helps in peristalsis especially if the individual is constipated. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):594–601] |
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Interview with Dr. Barbara Brewitt: the fundamental role of cell signaling in healing and relevance to autism by Barbara Brewitt and Teri Small
Abstract: Cell signaling provides the fundamental information the body needs to heal itself. Cell signaling underlies all mental and physical activities including repair and regeneration processes at the cellular level. Complex disorders are involved with autism and other pediatric developmental disorders, including HIV. Similarities between autism and HIV are discussed. Autism disorders involve damage to basic defense and developmental systems including nervous, immune, endocrine and biological. A unified approach to treating these DNA, RNA, gene and cell signaling disorders is to identify and support for basic foundations the body has established for healing. Use of oral and topical cell signaling natural medicines provides the body with what it needs, in safe and low enough concentrations, to potentially evoke healing and repair without stimulating adverse side effects such as further toxicity or lactic acidosis. Cell signaling involves growth factors normally found in the body at very low concentrations. Cell signaling natural medicines are one way to talk to the body using normal, natural, signal transduction pathways that are initiated when G-proteins are turned on via growth factor cell receptors. G-proteins act as a universal on/off switch that are frequently damaged by mercury or other toxic heavy metals. Growth factors are one of the methods the cell has evolved to use for repair of G-protein and cell membrane damage. Cell signaling treatment approaches are discussed in this phone interview from the perspective of science, clinical study efficacy, HIV study results on infected children in South African subsistence living settlements and case study reports. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):602–612] |
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Interview with Sally Goddard Blythe: reflexes—intra-uterine, primitive, and postural by Sally Goddard Blythe and Teri Small
Abstract: This interview discussed the role of primitive and postural reflexes in development of the central nervous system. Primitive and postural reflexes are present at key stages in development. An individual's reflex profile reflects maturity in the functioning of the central nervous system and can be used to evaluate possible causes of presenting developmental difficulties, provide indications of appropriate remedial intervention and measurements of change before, during and after intervention. Methods of assessment and types of remedial intervention developed at The Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology (INPP) in Chester, UK are discussed in relation to specific learning disabilities, sensory processing problems and autistic spectrum disorders. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):613–627] |
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Interview with Dr. Arthur Krigsman: evaluation and treatment of gastrointestinal pathology, common in children with autistic spectrum disorder by Arthur Krigsman and Teri Small
Abstract: The majority of children with autism spectrum disorders have gastrointestinal symptoms, the most common of which is diarrhea. Other symptoms include abdominal pain, constipation, growth failure, vomiting, and chronic gastroesophageal reflux. It is believed that the bowel disease present in children with autism contributes to many of the cognitive problems that these children experience, at the very least impeding their ability to maximally benefit from the many behavioral interventions available. When endoscopy is performed in ASD children with unexplained chronic gastrointestinal symptoms, a pattern of diffuse lymphonodular hyperplasia and multifocal non-specific acute and chronic enterocolitis emerges. These findings have been noted in the entire course of the gastrointestinal tract, from the esophagus to the anus. Potential consequences of this gastrointestinal pathology include brush border enzyme deficiency and malabsorption. Dietary components can exacerbate the inflammation. Treatments aimed at reducing the degree of inflammation in the GI tract is often successful in reducing the amount of abdominal pain experienced by the child which translates into more normal sleep patterns and improved in the educational environment and during therapies. Common treatments broadly include restrictive diets, anti-inflammatory medications, digestive enzyme supplementation, antibiotics, and probiotics. Individual patients may additionally benefit from anti-reflux therapy and conventional treatments to treat ongoing constipation. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):628–636] |
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Interview with Dr. Paul Harch: the application of hyperbaric oxygen therapy and chronic neurological conditions by Paul Harch and Teri Small
Abstract: Introduction: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) remains a controversial and misunderstood therapy, especially when applied to chronic neurological conditions and autism. This interview explores the science behind these applications. Methods: HBOT is defined as a pharmaceutical and its pharmacologic effects are reviewed in the context of the author's historical application of HBOT to neurology, including autism. Results: HBOT has a powerful drug effect in acute brain injury through inhibition of the acute inflammatory reaction of reperfusion injury (the injury caused by return of blood flow after blood flow interruption—e.g., cardiac arrest at birth, near-drowning, etc.) The author's successful use of HBOT in divers with delayed treatment of brain decompression sickness led to the application to other types of chronic brain injury, including autism. HBOT is suggested to have common pharmaceutical actions on the pathology of chronic brain injury, including autism, that are reinforced by the author's proof of effectiveness in an animal model of chronic traumatic brain injury. Some of the author's 25 autistic patients seem to have significant birth insults that contributed to the diagnosis of autism. HBOT appears to be effective for these insults years later. Other physicians are now duplicating the author's findings in autism. There appears to be no identifiable body of information on HBOT in combination with chelation therapy. Conclusions: HBOT appears to be effective in the treatment of autism. The pathological targets of treatment are unknown at this time. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):637–646] |
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Hypothesis—How mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy works and why it is good for our children by Julie A. Buckley
Abstract: Physicists figured out years ago that a gas under pressure is more likely to dissolve into liquid—in mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy, the gas is oxygen and the liquid is blood. But under pressure, oxygen doesn't only hook up to red blood cells (the "traditional" way oxygen is delivered to tissues), it also dissolves into the plasma. When that plasma circulates near dormant or injured tissue such as an encephalopathic brain, a bruised muscle, a sprained tendon, or a surgical wound, the oxygen in the plasma can and does dissolve further into the damaged area than the oxygen that's attached to the red blood cell in that "traditional" delivery system. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):647] |
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Hypothesis—"The Connection" Subluxation and Autism by Matthew Gianforte
Abstract: Today, autism rates are higher then ever before. Children all across the United States are suffering with the symptoms of autism, ADD, and many other "spectrum disorders." While parents are doing everything they can to get their children the help that they need, very few are aware of the need for good spinal health.
Spinal health is critical. The nerve center that controls the entire body is located in the spine. It is where interaction between the brain and all the organs takes place. If there is interference, referred to as subluxation, due to birth trauma, or some other injury, the brain cannot communicate with the body correctly. When a baby has undetected nerve interference, followed by toxins received through vaccines and the environment, the brain simply cannot communicate with the organs in the body to tell them what to do with those toxins. The buildup of these toxins exemplifies the varying symptoms of Autistic Spectrum Disorders, depending on the degree to which a child's nervous system is functioning. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):648–650] |
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Commentary—Food Matters by Betsy Hicks
Abstract: The rapid decline in food quality in the United States has strongly contributed to the increase of diabetes, celiac disease, immune disorders, and developmental disabilities. The presence of chemical preservatives, food coloring, high fructose corn syrup, aluminum, and arsenic in chicken feed are some examples of insidious and dangerous food ingredients. Americans' excessive ingestion of carbohydrates, nutrient depleted soil, misinformation about the benefits of dairy and soy, and a lack of trustworthy information from the FDA further jeopardizes the quality of Americans' diets. Children with developmental disabilities, especially, are suffering due to an ignorance of nutrition. Yet traditional medicine continues to look to the pharmaceutical direction when treating illness without any consideration of diet. Medical doctors receive little dietary training, and it usually does not include education with regard to the consequences of newly "advanced" preservatives, excitotoxins and pesticides. We cannot control all external environmental exposures, however we can make educated choices in our food that will improve our health, behavior, and brain functioning. We must turn to food for healing and suspect food in illness. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):651–652] |
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Commentary—Holiday every day for Pharma under the Bush Administration by Evelyn Pringle
Abstract: A December 21, 2004 report by the watchdog group Public Citizen provides information that explains why it's been a holiday every day for the pharmaceutical industry, since George W. Bush took office.
Thirteen pharmaceutical industry executives or lobbyists rank among Bush's "Rangers" and "Pioneers," the honorary titles given to those who have raised at least $200,000 or $100,000, respectively, for one of Bush's presidential campaigns, according to Public Citizen, "Together, these pharmaceutical industry super-fundraisers have raised at least $2.2 million for Bush."
This report also provides details concerning TeenScreen, the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), and other programs, including Medicaid, the National Institute of Health (NIH), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) riddled with conflicts of interest. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):653–666] |
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Commentary—Survey on vaccinations in Europe: adverse effects, epidemiology, laws, and EFVV proposals by Francoise Joet, Xavier Uriarte, Juan Manual Marin
Abstract: In 1998, during the Biocultura trade fair in Barcelona, members of the Spanish group Liga para la Libertad de Vacunaciones met with members of the French association ALIS. They were aware that the Catalan group of doctors Grup Medic de Reflexio sobre les vacunes, had already initiated an investigation into the adverse effects of vaccinations and had begun collecting data. They felt strongly that this valiant project deserved attention and expansion so they decided to join forces for this purpose.
A Franco-Spanish alliance was therefore formed. As time went by, the alliance grew to include all the European countries where the two founding associations already had established relationships with groups and people prepared to work on this same issue.
In 1999, a venue was chosen for meetings and the structure was determined for a European forum researching the vaccination issue. Since then, the group has gathered every July for an annual meeting in the town of Yenne in France. The project was initially called Strasbourg 2004, later to become the European Forum for Vaccine Vigilance (EFVV).
Over a six-year period, the EFVV conducted a study of the secondary effects of vaccinations, using a questionnaire translated into five languages, which was made available to health practitioners and members of the public.
The analysis of the collected data is published in a report, available in five languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch), and also on a CD which contains our complete work in all five langauages. The report shows that, contrary to official information, secondary effects of vaccinations are much more frequent, serious, numerous with successive vaccinations, responsible for the onset of new and more complex degenerative pathologies (fibromyalgia, diabetes, autism, many different auto immune illnesses ...), and usually dismissed by medical staff, remaining unreported.
Reprinted with permission from European Forum for Vaccine Vigilance (EFVV). © Copyright 2005, European Forum for Vaccine Vigilance (EFVV), www.efvv.org. All rights reserved.
Medical Veritas® Editorial Note: Please be advised that this is a "Report" and not a sophisticated epidemiological study. The intention of the report was to raise awareness, through the words of the people who shared their cases and experiences, that many thousands of people experience a decline in their health closely associated with vaccination. The aim was not to create a rigid table of specific ailments that could be attributable to one specific vaccine or another, but more so to bring into the light the fact that vaccinations destabilize immune systems in a wide variety of ways. The issues the authors were looking at were not simply those of "Which vaccines cause which problems?" (which is what scientists expect from studies of vaccine reaction), and the report was not generated from the standpoint of statisticians. The authors were questioning the politics behind vaccination, the fact that laws differ tremendously throughout Europe, the fact that in some countries Human Rights seem forgotten where vaccination is concerned, and that babies can die within a few hours or days of vaccination, or adults' health can be so devastated by vaccines that they have to be medically retired, but the system is set up so that vaccination is never brought to account. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):667–702] |
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Critical assessment of CDC's "Questions and answers: Thimerosal-containing influenza vaccine" by Paul G. King
Abstract: The review that follows is a critical assessment of the information published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) entitled, Questions & Answers: Thimerosal-containing influenza vaccine, published at http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/thimerosal .htm on September 22, 2005, (and included in Appendix C) which I visited as a part of my research in this area on September 25, 2005.
In general, to clearly differentiate between my assessment comments and those of the author, the author's printed statements are quoted in a bold or regular Arial font followed by this reviewer's remarks in a Times New Roman font.
Should anyone find any factual misrepresentations in this reviewer's remarks, then this reviewer requests that the factual error along with the scientifically sound and appropriate facts that prove your point to this reviewer so that this reviewer can learn from you, incorporate that new knowledge into his understanding, and, where indicated, correct the draft. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):703–720] |
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Editorial: Reformulating the principles of Hippocrates by Marc Girard
Abstract: Whereas reproducibility is a crucial criterion of scientific method, modern medicine is increasingly dependent on clinical trials or epidemiological investigations which, by their very nature and cost defy this criterion: you cannot reproduce a clinical trial based upon specific moments in the life of a selected population, and it is most often impossible for independent researchers to do long-term follow-up studies of epidemiological investigations that involve thousands of people.
In addition, and contrary to the "hard" data in physics, chemistry or biology, data in clinical research is "soft": as objective as data may be, the meaning of the results are dependent upon the experts that interpret them. [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):721] |
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Parent Forum: Autism—Road towards recovery by Jan Westcott and Jennifer Smith
Abstract: Autism is treatable. Through the sustained efforts and devotion of parents, doctors, and researchers, children on the autism spectrum are moving forward on the road towards recovery.
From Gordon's Story:
Then: "...Gordon Westcott is 7 years old. He was diagnosed with regressive autism and a leaky gut when he was 5 years old....Gordon was severely affected."
Now: "Gordon has done marvelously even starting later than many children ... Gordon is now able to take part in conversations both with adults and other children. He can play with toys imaginatively by himself and with his brothers and close friends... all the things we have been working on are coming together and Gordon can apply what he is learning to real life situations. Every parent needs to maintain hope, read as much as they can, and keep moving forward, because autism is treatable."
From Ryan's Story:
Then: "Just before Ryan's third birthday, he received the devastating diagnosis, DSM-IV autism — severe to moderate."
Now: "Ryan is 3 months shy of his fifth birthday... Psychologists and his teachers now say he won't qualify for autism or developmental delay." [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):722–731] |
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Book Excerpt—Reactive Attachment Disorder in Children Previously Neglected or Abused Prior to Adoption by Lark Eshleman
Abstract: Attachment disorder is a treatable condition in which there is a significant dysfunction in an individual's ability to trust or engage in reciprocal, loving, lasting relationships. An attachment disorder occurs due to traumatic disruption or other interferences with the caregiver-child bond during the first years of life. It can distort future stages of development and impact a person's cognitive, neurological, social and emotional functioning. It may also increase the risk of other serious emotional and behavioral problems. Some traumatic events include: abandonment/loss of family; neglect; abuse; physical illness, including malnutrition and physical problems such as recurring ear infections or other painful medical conditions; and inadequate group care/out-of-home care. A baby being adopted may have come from a situation where the baby was prematurely separated from the birth mother and/or in a situation of long-term deprivation where the baby's needs were not able to be met. In these instances the child's innately trusting nature can be damaged. The reactions can become programmed into the child's brain and become part of the child's intrinsic neurological makeup. In the early days with an adopted child, the adoptive parent must make sure that parent and child are not separated, the child is not frightened, and the parent is seen as the ultimate protector of the child's safety and security. For the child's neurological system to begin to heal and work properly again, the child must first experience the feeling of total trust.
The following is an excerpt from Becoming a Family: Promoting Healthy Attachments with Your Adopted Child. • Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing • ISBN: 1589792602 [©Medical Veritas, 2005 Nov; 2(2):732–737] |
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A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention, and Recovery by Christina Adams |
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Autism Spectrum Disorders by Chantal Sicile-Kira |
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Vaccine A: The covert government experiment that's killing our soldiers and why GI's are only the first victims by Gary Matsumoto |
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The Wonderful Century by Alfred Russel Wallace |
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