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Drugs

Abramson, John, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine. How pharmaceutical companies distort medical knowledge, mislead doctors and compromise your health, Harper Perennial, 2005

Angell, Marcia, The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It, Random House, 2004

Deyo, Richard and Donald Patrick, Hope or Hype – The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises, Amacom, 2005

Healy, David, Let Them Eat Prozac, New York University Press, 2004

Kassirer, Jerome P., On the Take: How Medicine’s Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health, Oxford University Press, 2005

Law, Jacky, Big Pharma: How the World’s Biggest Drug Companies Market Illness, Constable & Robinson, 2006

Medawar, C. and A. Hardon, Medicines Out of Control? Antidepressants and the Conspiracy of Goodwill, Askant, 2004. Available from www.socialaudit.org.uk/
60403162.htm

Moynihan, Ray and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How Drug Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients, Allen & Unwin, 2005

Servan-Schreiber, David, Healing without Freud or Prozac: Natural Approaches to Curing Stress, Anxiety and Depression Without Drugs, Rodale International Ltd, 2004

Walker, Martin J., Dirty Medicine, Slingshot Publications, 1993

Walker, Martin J., and Robert Schweizer, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy, Slingshot Publications, 2006

Walker, Martin J., ‘The Brave New World of Zero Risk: Covert Strategies in British Science Policy’, downloadable from www.zero-risk.org

Motor Neurone MND

2. Zhu S, Stavrovskaya IG, Drozda M, et al. Minocycline inhibits 176

cytochrome c release and delays progression of amyotrophic lateral 177

sclerosis in mice. Nature 2002;417:74–8. 178

3. Sugai F, Yamamoto Y, Miyaguchi K, et al. Benefit of valproic acid in 179

suppressing disease progression of ALS model mice. Eur J Neurosci 180

2004;20:3179–83. 181

Myelin

1. Barkovich - 2000

2. Lehninger - 1968

3. Loring - 2007

Whole Body Vibration Technology - Resources:

Barry, Patrick L. quot;Good Vibrations: A New Treatment Under Study by NASA-funded Doctors Could Reve rse Bone Loss Experienced by Astronauts in Space.” Science @ NASA Web site, Nov. 2, 2001.

Bone Density:

Clinton Rubin, Robert Recker, Diane Cullen, John Ryaby, Joan McCabe,and Kenneth McLeod4JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCHVolume 19, Number 3, 2004Published online on December 22, 2003; doi: 10.1359/JBMR.0301251?2004 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research

Kawanabe K., A. Kawashima, I. Sashimoto, T. Takeda, Y. Sato, and J. Iwamoto, (2007). “Effect of whole-body vibration exercise and muscle strengthening, balance, and walking exercises on walking ability in the elderly.” Keio Journal of Medicine. 2007 Mar. 56(1): 28-33.

Verschueren, S., M. Roelants, C. Delecluse, S. Swinnen, D. Vand erschueren and S. Boonen. “Effect of 6-Month Whole Body Vibration Training on Hip Density, Muscle Strength, and Postural Control in Postmenopausal Women: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study.” Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Vol. 19, March 2004, pg. 352-359.

Circulation

Kerschan-Schindl K, Grampp S, Henk C, Resch H, Preisinger E, Fialka-Moser V, Imhof H. (2001). Whole-body vibration exercise leads to alterations in muscle blood volume. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. PMID: 11380538 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Lohman EB 3rd, Petrofsky JS, Maloney-Hinds C, Betts-Schwab H, Thorpe D. The effect of whole body vibration on lower extremity skin blood flow in normal subjects. Department of Physical Therapy, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA. PMID: 17261985 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Aging and Geriatric Care

Bautmans I, Van Hees E, Lemper JC, Mets T. (2005) The feasibility of Whole Body Vibration in institutionalised elderly persons and its influence on muscle performance, balance and mobility: a randomised controlled trial [ISRCTN62535013]. PMID: 16372905 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Paralysis

John G. Gianutsos, PhD, Liisa C. Oakes, BA, Vincent Siasoco, MD, Stacy Appelblatt, MS, PT, Juliana Hamel, MS, PT, Joan T. Gold, MD (2001) “Motor rehabilitation of spinal cord dysfunction by means of whole body vibration” (NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY)


 

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