Preclinical Study Published in Nature Medicine Shows Anti-LINGO-1 Antibody Promotes Remyelination
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Biogen Idec announced today the publication of findings from a preclinical study reporting that the anti-LINGO-1 antibody can promote spinal cord remyelination and axonal integrity, suggesting a potential role as a treatment for multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system .

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Stem cell trials raise multiple sclerosis hopes
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Only 77% wash hands after using the toilet
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Pharmos's painful ride back
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Medical system is leading cause of death and injury in US

this article is here
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/10/29/medical_system_is_leading_cause_of_death_and_injury_in_us.htm
and a different chart is here
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/medicine/usamed/deaths.htm
Shocking statistical evidence is cited by Gary Null PhD, Caroly
Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD and Dorothy Smith PhD in
their recent paper Death by Medicine - October 2003, released by the
Nutrition Institute of America.
"A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review
journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine
frequently causes more harm than good. The number of people having
in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2
million. Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of
unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20
million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of
unnecessary antibiotics. The number of unnecessary medical and surgical
procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. The number of people
exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million. The
total number of iatrogenic deaths shown in the following table is
783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading
cause of death and injury in the United States. The 2001 heart disease
annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251.
Health Care expenditures in the US have reached 14% of the Gross
National Product and a staggering $1.6 trillion in 2003. No wonder, one
might be tempted to say. With such an appalling record of efficacy and
such an unbelievable death rate for the treatments routinely
administered, the current medical system can only be said to be in great
need of deep reform.
Certainly it would appear more urgent to investigate the rationale,
efficacy and relative cost-effectiveness of pharmaceutical medicine than
to legislate restrictive rules for supplements of vital nutrients, as
most governments and some international organisations are doing in these
times.

The Nutrition Institute of America
October 28, 2003
Deadly Medical Mistakes Exposed

New York, New York - New information has been presented showing the
degree to which Americans have been subjected to injury and death by
medical errors. The results of seven years of research reviewing
thousands of studies conducted by the NIA now show that medical errors
are the number one cause of death and injury in the United States.
According to the NIA's report, over 784,000 people die annually due
to medical mistakes. Comparatively, the 2001 annual death rate for heart
disease was 699,697 and the annual death rate for cancer was 553,251.
Over 2.2 million people are injured every year by prescription
drugs alone and over 20 million unnecessary prescriptions for
antibiotics are prescribed annually for viral infections. The report
also shows that 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures
are performed every year and 8.9 million people are needlessly
hospitalized annually. Based on the results of NIA's report, it is
evident that there is a pressing need for an overhaul of the entire
American medical system.
The findings, described as a "revelation" by Martin Feldman, MD,
who helped to uncover the evidence, are the product of the first
comprehensive studies on iatrogenic incidents. Never before has any
study uncovered such a massive amount of information with regard to
iatrogenesis. Historically, only small individual partial studies have
been performed in this area.
Carolyn Dean, MD, a physician and author who also helped to uncover
the findings said, "I was completely shocked, amazed, and dismayed when
I first added up all the statistics on medical death and saw how much
allopathic medicine has betrayed us."
The Nutrition Institute of America is a not-for-profit,
non-partisan organization that has been enlightening the public on
health issues for nearly 30 years.
For more information, contact David Slater, President of NIA at
(646) 505 - 4660 x 155.
Alternatively contact: Richard Polonetsky (646)-505-4660 x171