Medical developments from around the world

Fruits and Vegetables Can Cure Cancer
According to Natural News, a non-profit website dedicated to individual empowerment, a raw diet with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables could be a powerful adjunct to cancer therapy. Jay Kordich, known as the ‘father of vegetable juicing’ attributes consumption of raw foods to overcoming bladder cancer. One of his followers, John Kohler, has been on raw diet, mainly on juices. “Not only did he survive his spinal meningitis, but he also lost weight and is living life more healthfully than ever,” writes Mike Adams in Natural News.
 
Medical Tests and Interventions To Avoid
* Avoid inducing labour or C-section before 39 weeks, unless there is a medical reason to terminate pregnancy before the 39th week. Routine delivery before that is unhealthy for the baby, according to the American Obstetricians Association.

* Avoid routine annual pap smear test. One cannot predict the future from one test.

* Avoid CT scans to evaluate minor head injuries as each CT scan gives as much radiation as 100 chest X-rays.

* Avoid stress echocardiography as it does not give any additional information.

* Tight control of blood sugars, especially in the elderly, is dangerous. Do not repeat the blood sugar tests frequently.

* Avoid routine electro-encephalography for recurrent headaches. Clinical evaluation is good enough.

* Avoid drug treatment of acid reflux. Most of the drugs used could be dangerous. Raw green plantain could be a good antidote.

* Avoid lipid profile tests. They are expensive and provide little benefit.

* Avoid mammograms which are otherwise called ‘scammograms’. They do more harm than good. The false negative and false positives in mammograms are 30% and 89%, respectively.

* Prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing has been officially banned in the USA. Please do not get your PSA test done as its specificity and sensitivity are less than 50%. Hence, whether it is positive or negative, it does not matter.

* Avoid routine colorectal cancer screening. Nearly 71% of the so-called cancers are NOT cancers at all. This has now been admitted by the American Cancer Institute.

India Is a Fertile Ground for Drug and Vaccine Testing
India has become a hotbed of pharmaceutical fraud, as unscrupulous Western drug giants use India’s poor as human guinea pigs in their unethical and inhumane clinical trials. Clinical research organisations are big brokers who recruit Indian doctors and hospitals to do these trials as they are now almost banned in the West.

If the reader wants to know the truth about these trials, s/he should read a wonderful book titled Truth about Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do about It’, authored by Marcia Angell, former editor of New England Journal of Medicine. She was the editor for 20 years. Her book is a great revelation for the novice. We have obliging doctors in India who help the drug giants to get what they want—for a good price!