February 28, 2012
Genomics as a Final Frontier, or Just a Way Station
Abigail Zuger in The New York Times:
The medical world is holding its breath, waiting for the revolution. It will be here any minute. Definitely by the end of the decade. Or perhaps it will take a little longer than that, but seriously, it’s right around the corner. More or less. That’s the genomics revolution, with its promise of treatment focused on the individual rather than the group. At last, patients will be more than the product of their age, sex, ethnicity, illnesses and bad habits; treatments will be aimed like a laser at their personal genetic particulars, and if those genes are not quite what they should be, then those genes will be fixed. Over the last few years, various breathless visions of this therapeutic future have been written out for public admiration. A particularly readable and comprehensive version can be found in Dr. Eric J. Topol’s new book, “The Creative Destruction of Medicine.”
Dr. Topol, a cardiologist and researcher at the Scripps Research Institute with the energy of 10 (if his prose style and his honor-laden biography are any indication), dispenses in short order with our current population-based medical strategies. They are wasteful and inexact, he points out, often marginally beneficial to the group and downright harmful to the individual. He presents an array of far better ideas, a few now actually being practiced in rudimentary form. These include pharmacogenomics, in which specific genes that govern responses to medications are routinely assayed, and cancer treatments that probe tumors for specific genetic targets rather than relying on standard chemotherapy. But that’s not all: Dr. Topol also points out that soon a person’s precise genetic data will be augmented by an extraordinary wealth of other digital data (provided by, say, the continuous monitoring of blood pressure, pulse and mood, and a variety of ultra-precise scans). The outcome will be nothing short of a new “science of individuality,” one that defines individuals “at a more granular and molecular level than ever imaginable.”
More here.
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Here are the scientists and medical doctors to pay attention to, not the ignorant propagandists mentioned in this worthless article:
Dean Burk, Ph.D., Otto Warburg, M.D., Ph.D. Nobel Prize Medicine, 1931, Linus Pauling, Ph.D., Nobel Prizes 1954 Chemistry, 1962 Peace, Fred Klenner, M.D.
The criminals in the U.S. F.D.A. have not even studied vitamins at high doses since there is no money for the corrupt Pharmaceutical companies from medicine based on vitamin prevention is there?
Dean Burk, Ph.D., a genius level biochemist, proved with others in 1969 that Vitamin C at high doses kills cancer cells without harming normal cells. This information has been criminally ignored by the authorities.
After almost 60 years of study, Otto Warburg proved the prime cause of cancer by about 1960 as respiratory impairment to living cells over a long period of time, but the criminal cancer generals have criminally ignored and lied about his findings based on experiments and facts in the laboratory, not false genetic speculations.
Linus Pauling with others proved that high dose Vitamin C therapy can be successfully used for advanced cancer patients.
Joseph Gold M.D. developed a cheap but virtually non toxic substance hydrazine sulfate in 1968 which has been scientifically tested from the Soviet Union to UCLA but the criminals in the FDA have lied and obstructed it for decades:
www.hydrazinesulfate.org.
Fred Klenner, M.D. from Duke University used high dose vitamin C for decades to cure everything from dangerous poisonous snake and insect bites to polio to relieve suffering of burn patients and a host of other medical problems while other doctors kept their heads in the sand lest they be shut down by the virtual dictatorship criminal F.D.A. It is likely the ignorant authors promoted in this worthless article in the NYTimes have not even read any of the above accomplishments in medicine. Here is the seminal article on vitamin C by Fred Klenner, M.D. published in 1971: http://www.nutri.com/wn/klenner.html
The only thing the negligent criminals in the U.S. F.D.A. do is re invent the wheel by studying vitamin C at trivial doses of milligrams to prevent scurvy, a problem that has been solved for decades.
This failure of government dupe non scientists to embrace the miracle vitamin C some 40 years ago is explained by a five letter obscene word: MONEY. Simply, there is no money for them or the corrupt pharmaceutical companies by treating patients with inexpensive and readily available but effective and safe substances like hydrazine sulfate, Vitamin C or essential fatty acids to increase oxygen transfer across cell walls to prevent cancer as documented in this book with hundreds of references:
“The Hidden Story of Cancer” by Brian Peskin and Amid Habib, M.D., Pinnacle Press, Houston, TX.
The criminals in the FDA have blood on their hands.
Winfield J. Abbe, Ph.D., Physics
Posted by: WJAbbe | Feb 28, 2012 12:19:55 PM
Modern (a week or so ago) ;) data tell us that "99 percent of the functional genes in the body are microbial ... exchanging messages with genes inside human cells ... microbes cohabitating our body outnumber human cells by a factor of 10, making us actually 'superorganisms'" (The Human Microbiome Congress 2012).
I guess that, at any one time, there must be tens of thousands of books on the conveyor belt heading toward us at mechanical speeds, while the money men in that contraption resist any new discoveries, suddenly moving toward us at light speed.
At least until a certain "number of book sales" threshold of the old collector's item books has been met?
Posted by: Dredd | Feb 28, 2012 4:28:12 PM
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