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 .p16 [[ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM197705192962013 | N Engl J Med 1977;296:1167-1168 ]] May 19 (not 26) 1977, Laetrilomania
 .p17 Judge rules alternatives adequate . p18 Joey dies 1980 July 10, !McQueen dies 1980 Nov 7
 .p18 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Moertel | Charles Moertel ]] teams at Mayo, UCLA, Sloan-Kettering study 178 cancer patents on laetrile and high dose vitamins
  . no stabilization or improvement, median survival 4.8 moths, "... not justified", FDA bans laetrile in 1987
 .p21 Fringe group [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Federation | National Health Federation ]] criticised by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Cancer_Society | American Cancer Society ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackwatch | Quackwatch ]]
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 .p25 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Oz | Mehmet Oz ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dr._Oz_Show | Dr. Oz Show ]]
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 .p94 Ch 4 Fifty-One Thousand New Supplements: Which Ones Work?  .p94 Ch 4 Fifty-One Thousand esotheliomaNew Supplements: Which Ones Work?

Paul Offit Books

Do you Believe in Magic?

The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine

Paul A. Offit, M.D. - Multco Hollywood 615.5 o328d 2013

  • p1 42%/6000 hospitals offer some form of alternative therapies
  • p2 Pfizer acquired Alacer megavitamins (Emergen-C)

  • p3 M.D. wife Bonnie Fass-Offit

  • p3 benign Cutaneous Blue Ne .vus syndrome mimics malignant melanoma, fools most dermatologists

  • p4 loss of cartilage beneath kneecap, surgery and 1 year recovery
  • p4 enlarged prostate, most men with prostate cancer die of something else first, while surgery is brutal
  • p5 Chiropractic manipulations can lead to injuries, acupuncture to infection, some megavitamins increase cancer risk

  • p7 Introduction: Saving Joey Hofbauer
  • p7 laetrile

  • p7 1977 Oct 5 neck lump in 7yo Joey Hofbauer, ome swollen lymph gland
  • p8 Cancer of lymph glands, radiation and chemotherapy 95% chance of recovery
  • p11 laetrile "treatment" by psychologist Michael B. Schachter

  • p13 after six months of unconventional treatments, Joey had 17 swollen lymph glands, liver damage (megadose vitamin A), possible cyanide poisoning
  • p14 Laetrile Robert BradfordJohn Birch Society

  • p15 William D. Kelley Clinic Mexico Steve McQueen (smoker, asbestos exposure in the marines) pleural mesothelioma died age 50

  • p16 N Engl J Med 1977;296:1167-1168 May 19 (not 26) 1977, Laetrilomania

  • p17 Judge rules alternatives adequate . p18 Joey dies 1980 July 10, McQueen dies 1980 Nov 7

  • p18 Charles Moertel teams at Mayo, UCLA, Sloan-Kettering study 178 cancer patents on laetrile and high dose vitamins

    • no stabilization or improvement, median survival 4.8 moths, "... not justified", FDA bans laetrile in 1987
  • p21 Fringe group National Health Federation criticised by American Cancer Society and Quackwatch

  • p25 Ch 1 Recovering the Past: Mehmet Oz and His Superstars
  • p25 Mehmet Oz Dr. Oz Show

  • p47 Ch 2 The Vitamin Craze: Linus Pauling's Ironic Legacy

  • p65 Ch 3 The Supplement Industry Gets a Free Pass: Neutering the FDA
  • p94 Ch 4 Fifty-One Thousand esotheliomaNew Supplements: Which Ones Work?
  • p111 Ch 5 Menopause and Aging: Suzanne Somers Weighs In
  • p128 Ch 6 Autism's Pied Piper: Jenny McCarthy's Crusade

  • p140 Ch 7 Chronic Lyme Disease: The Blumenthal Affair
  • p163 Ch 8 Curing Cancer: Steve Jobs, Shark Cartilage, Coffee Enemas, and More
  • p173 Ch 9 Sick Children, Desperate Parents: Stanislaw Burzynski's Urine Cure
  • p197 Ch 10 Magic Potions in the Twenty-First Century: Rashid Buttar and the Lure of Personality
  • p223 Ch 11 The Remarkably Powerful, Highly Underrated Placebo Response
  • p241 Ch 12 When Alternate Medicine Becomes Quackery
  • p253 Epilogue: Albert Schweitzer and the Witch Doctor: A Parable

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