An Update on News and Views

In substantiation, information is provided about the treatments and successes of several well-known M.D.s. A catchall buzzword increasingly used is energy 

Additionally, Robert N. Proctor has written The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1999). Among the items reported is that Nazi scientists were the first to link smoking and cancer. Other policies and discoveries that predated the rest of the world were healthier workplaces, restrictions against asbestos, pesticides, and food additives, as well as improvements in diet and lifestyles. (Nevertheless, there are reports that Hitler was addicted to sugar and sweets.) This contrasts sharply with the unmentionable atrocities of inhuman medical experiments and the death camps. 

Ralph Moss s name continues to surface with regard to innovative cancer treatments. For instance, he was interviewed by Lily Giambarba Casura in the January 1998 issue of the Townsend Letter for Doctors Patient. Among other things it was mentioned that Moss s newsletter The Cancer Chronicles has been switched entirely over to the Internet, and in fact Moss has written Alternative Medicine Online A Guide to Natural Remedies on the Internet (Equinox Press, Brooklyn, NY, 1997). This takes some of the chore out of searching the Internet for information about cancer, for instance. 

A review of the cancer situation according to the medical establishment was carried in the November 7, 1997, issue of Science, published by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS. Consisting of both news items and technical articles, it is in many ways a review of the same, as indicated on the editorial page. A criticism leveled in this issue of Science is that there has not been a sufficient emphasis on chemoprevention. Nevertheless, within all the commotion, the indication is that some important work is going on — if it can only be carried to fruition, that is, to a cure. 

Another news item confirms that animal studies are of limited value, in that humans and animals react differently to drugs. It is the old story that in vitro results cannot necessarily be translated to in vivo results, which in turn cannot necessarily 

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