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Old 06-08-2006, 12:35 AM
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America, the richest country in the world, has a health care system that is the most expensive and least cost effective in the world. The reason? Well, pure greed is a start. But there are other problems.

In the last week, the news has been on the 25th anniversary of the HIV epidemic, and all the new cancer drugs in the pipeline.

I once read a story on the Net where a reporter referred to HIV scientists as the most arrogant group of people he had ever met. I guess he had never been around a bunch of oncologists. And I thought I had a big ego.

Ego aside, the problem with both HIV and cancer research is an inability to see the "little things". The "little thing" that interests me the most is the role of prostaglandins, such as PGE2, in the growth of cancer cells and development of various immune dysfunctions. When drugs such as ibuprofen and indomethacin, a powerful anti-inflammatory drug used to treat gout, can also be effectively used to treat chronic and acute diseases, you have to wonder why our health care costs are so high...and the treatment protocols so ineffective?

Because no one is listening. This information is all documented in the scientific literature, but there is no incentive to implement this information into current medical protocols. I know that HMO doctors are not allowed to vary their treatment protocols without fear of reprisal. It's sad because the patients are the ones that suffer. I will give you a great example, in a following Blog, of a very expensive cancer drug that can be completely replaced with ibuprofen or preferably indomethacin. That essay will shock and offend you.

Medicine in the US works less and less as the costs continue to increase. This is why so many people, including those with medical insurance, are flocking to alternative medicine practioners. Unfortunately, many of them are quacks, but that is another story.

These medical issues are discussed both in our Blog Archives and our current Natural Medicine Blog.

Stay tuned...

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The "perfect storm" is brewing that will bring Official Medicine to its knees. I just hope there are a sufficient number of dedicated medical professionals still available who will turn their attention to natural medicines and prove that they REALLY work.
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Old 06-08-2006, 10:43 AM
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�This information is all documented in the scientific literature, but there is no incentive to implement this information into current medical protocols. I know that HMO doctors are not allowed to vary their treatment protocols without fear of reprisal.�

These two sentences pretty much some the whole problem. We know what to do, but we are afraid to do it.
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