CLWS Notes: Here is the “official” review of the 2008 Medicine Week Congress held in Baden-Baden last November. We are anticipating another very exciting program this year. Occidental Institute has organized a full day of English language lectures that will be incorporated as an official part of the Medicine Week and will be listed in their catalog. This is a unique and historic opportunity for English speaking practitioners to participate in the training and educational programs of this world famous Biological Medicine Congress. Review of [...]

Points of Interest Yet another warning and “beware”! I recently received my latest issue of the Colloidal Silver Update. Here are a few excerpts from that newsletter for your immediate attention: Ever since the FDA wrote their infamous “Final Ruling” on colloidal silver back in 1999, they have been relentlessly pushing the notion that silver is “ineffective” as an anti-microbial or infection-fighting agent. But now, a new crop of bureaucrats are actually questioning whether or not silver works too good, and might eventually pose a danger to our nation’s [...]

Web Watch Submitted by Dr. Justin Morais, Singapore, February 2009 STROKE:Remember the 1st Three Letters: S.T.R. My nurse friend sent this and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, and we could save some folks lives. Seriously! Please read: STROKE IDENTIFICATION During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall – she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics). She said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new [...]

Web Watch Submitted by our own Esther Treitl, November 2008 (no source available) The food additive MSG (Mono-Sodium Glutamate) is a slow poison. MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as ‘Natural Flavoring’. MSG is even in your favorite coffee from Tim Horton's and Starbucks coffee shops! I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic, and so did a friend of mine, John Erb. He was a research assistant at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and spent years working for [...]

OIRF Invited to Participate in Medicine Week, 2009 Recently Occidental Institute has been invited to organize and sponsor one full day of English language lectures during the 2009 Medicine Week Congress in Baden-Baden, Germany. This program would be integrated into the full Med-Week program and listed in the catalog. All who have followed (or participated in) the activities of our many Biological Medicine group tours to Germany will be familiar with the Medicine Week Congress. We have received a very positive response from most of the speakers we contacted [...]

Web Watch “While working for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, I monitored two major projects for FDA, in addition to other product investigations. These projects concerned Pesticides and Chemicals in Foods, and Illegal Drug Tissue Residues in Animals. I worked closely with sister federal and state agencies, oversaw contract compliance, and was coordinator and lead investigator on projects involving FDA, EPA and USDA. The toxicology, histology and biochemistry of aspartame (aka: NutraSweet, Equal, etc.) is neurotoxic. The aspartame components injure the blood-brain barrier, allowing easy passage, and will [...]

Stand by for Designer Pain Pills From NewsMax/October 2008 In the not-too-distant future, the pain reliever you take may be fine-tuned to your body. Dr. Dennis Patin, an associate professor of clinical anesthesiology at the University of Miami Medical School, says future pain medications will be tailored to work within the genetic roadmap of each person. “We’ll use samples of blood or body tissue to identify how a person metabolizes a drug, and what medication . . . is precisely best for an individual,” he asserts. This approach, known [...]

Web Watch Article Submitted by Dr. Brian L. MacCoy, September 2008 12 Babies Die During Vaccine Trials in Argentina At least 12 infants who were part of a clinical study to test a pneumonia vaccine have died in Argentina over the course of the past year. The study was sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, and uses children from poor families. According to the Argentine Federation of Health Professionals, the families are “pressured and forced into signing consent forms”. The vaccine trial is still ongoing despite the denunciations. In Informational [...]

Web Watch Article submitted by Dr. Brian L. MacCoy, September 2008 Remedies as Placebos: A Double-Edged Sword: “I do not believe and have never taught that homeopathy is the only way to heal people or the best way for everyone. But the usual argument that remedies are merely placebos cuts both ways. In the first place, it is plain wrong, since the method also has an impressive track record in the treatment of animals, newborn babies, and comatose patients, for whom the influence of suggestion is presumably negligible. Second, [...]

Web Watch Article Submitted by Dr. Sir Zenon W. Gruba, September 2008 Understanding the “L-Form” Bacteria Targeting the Cause of Inflammatory Disease In 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a paper stating, “Infectious agents have emerged as notable determinants, not just complications, of chronic diseases. To capitalize on these opportunities, clinicians, public health practitioners, and policymakers must recognize that many chronic diseases may indeed have infectious origins.” Multiple studies have shown that when Beta-lactam antibiotics are applied to wild-type bacteria in a Petri dish, small [...]