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Health and Disease

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Diabetes
HIV and AIDS
Influenza (swine flu/bird flu)

Cancer a Redox Disease
Cancer cells are universally disturbed in their electronic energy balance, an understanding that potentially revolutionises cancer therapy and prevention
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 12th April 2012

Non-transgenic Mosquitoes to Combat Dengue
New research shows how a common symbiotic bacterium can stop the dengue virus multiplying in the mosquito host, making hazardous and inefficient transgenic mosquitoes obsolete
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 12th March 2012

Transgenic Mosquitoes Not a Solution
All attempts at controlling the spread of diseases by transgenic mosquitoes are ineffective, inefficient, costly, and hazardous to varying degrees
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 7th March 2012

Regulation of Transgenic Insects Highly Inadequate and Unsafe
USDA set a dangerous precedent for a permissive regulatory regime over environmental releases of transgenic insects that is now adopted across the world
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 22nd February 2012

Outbreak E. coli not Exclusive to Humans
Erroneous claim of EFSA exposes the underlying inadequacies of current surveillance systems especially in the face of rampant horizontal gene transfer and recombination
Prof. J. Cummins 1st August 2011

Viruses and Virus Nucleic Acid Contaminate Many Vaccines
Risks of cancer and creation of new pathogens should not be underplayed by regulators
Prof. Joe Cummins 13th December 2010

Can GM Mosquitoes Eradicate Dengue Fever?
A risky strategy experimented on humans without informed consent, and based on data from unpublished studies
Prof. Joe Cummins 8th December 2010

Genetic Approaches to Controlling Malaria Mosquitoes
A dangerous remedy that may bring malaria back worse than before
Prof. Joe Cummins 9th June 2010

Time to Eradicate Malaria?
Malaria has declined significantly worldwide thanks to combination therapy based on artemisinin and the use of insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets; this has raised hopes for eradicating the disease by developing additional drugs and vaccines and the release of transgenic mosquitoes, but is it wise?
Prof. Joe Cummins 7th June 2010

Yes! to Organic Medicine
The failure of conventional medicine based on the obsolete mechanistic model has prompted the search for better sciences for life, and the revival of an ancient paradigm of holistic theory of health and organic medicine.
Dr. Omboon Vallisuta 17th March 2010

New Evidence Links CaMV 35S Promoter to HIV Transcription
The controversial promoter in all GM crops does enhance multiplication of disease-causing viruses; yet another reason why [1] GM is Dangerous and Futile (SiS 40)
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 15th June 2009

Malaria Vaccine Trials Raise Concerns over Risks to Infants
Clinical trials of malaria vaccines on infants raise serious concerns over the safety of multiple vaccinations of the very young
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 16th March 2009

AIDS vaccine: Efficacy, safety and ethics
A review of laboratory and clinical studies over the past decades since the identification of AIDS disease raises serious questions over the efficacy, safety and ethics of current vaccines against AIDS
Drs. Veljko Veljkovic, Nevena Veljkovic, Sanja Glisic and Mae-Wan Ho 29th July 2008

Calcium Deposits and Heart Disease
Prof. Joe Cummins speaks on a health issue closest to his heart
Prof. Joe Cummins 2nd July 2008

Sex Hormones and City Life
Is it safe to douse cities with synthetic pheromones?
Prof. Joe Cummins and Sam Burcher 16th May 2008

More on Science and Scientist Abused
Dr. Erina Ermakova, senior scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, whose work we featured was approached by an editor of Nature Biotechnology to co-author an article describing her work. This turned out to be a scandalous attempt to destroy her reputation and discredit her work. Below is the first press coverage in Switzerland. The matter is still unresolved, so please circulate widely and write your own letter to Nature Biotechnology
Roland Fischer 12th November 2007

Actonel, Dog that Did Not Bark in the Night
Data suppression and manipulation, victimisation of scientist, abuse of science and more.
Prof. Peter Saunders 1st November 2007

Desk Top Drug Discovery
How a radical idea that molecules intercommunicate at long distances can speed up drug discovery and cut costs
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 8th February 2007

Green Tea Against Cancers
More evidence emerges on green tea and cancer prevention though it is hard to pin down the molecules involved
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 24th January 2007

Fluoride in Tea
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho replies
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 22nd January 2007

Green Tea, The Elixir of Life?
Two cups or more of green tea a day for reducing risks of heart disease, cancers, Alzheimer's, obesity, arthritis, diabetes, infections, malaria, AIDS …
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 18th January 2007

Actonel: Drug Company Keeps Data from Collaborating Scientists
Osteoporosis is a serious condition in which the bones become fragile. It affects about 3 million people in the UK; most common in post-menopausal women, but younger women and men can be affected as well
Prof. Peter Saunders 26th May 2006

WHO Registry of Clinical Trials
A new proposal to register clinical trials is having an effect on drug companies’ disclosure of trial information, but it is still not enough
Prof. Peter Saunders 24th May 2006

Post Mortem on the TGN1412 Disaster
Prof. Peter Saunders raises a number of key questions on the way the drug trial was conducted
Prof. Peter Saunders 23rd May 2006

Warnings on FDA Approved Monoclonal Antibody Drugs
This is a compilation of safety information on monoclonal antibody drugs already approved by the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration), most of them posted on the FDA website
Prof. Joe Cummins 12th April 2006

Drug Trial Catastrophe & Safety of Secretly Tested Pharm Crops
A monoclonal antibody drug tested in a clinical trial made all six healthy volunteers violently ill, yet transgenic crop plants with similar drugs are being tested in secret locations and the unsuspecting public are being exposed without their knowledge or consent
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 10th April 2006

London Drug Trial Catastrophe – Collapse of Science and Ethics
An unconventional member of a new class of drugs, all known to have caused serious side effects including deaths, has been approved for clinical trial based solely on unpublished animal tests
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 7th April 2006

Unraveling AIDS
The Independent Science and Promising Alternative Therapies - Announcing an important new book from ISIS
ISIS 15th December 2005

No to Fluoridation
The "mass medication" of UK's drinking water with a listed poison will cost London's health authorities alone more than £21 million.
Sam Burcher 7th January 2005

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