Pfizer’s cover-up on antihypertensive drugs

Recently the Swedish Television (November 11th) as well as the PBS television network (November 13th, as a follow-up on their Frontline program ”Dangerous Prescription”) reported about the ALLHAT project, a comparative study of antihypertensive drugs, led by professor Curt Furberg of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina. The ALLHAT study (Antihypertensive and [...]

Are dentists free to write about mercury fillings?

An op-ed article about dental amalgam written by a dentist, Mark Breiner, in the Connecticut Post in July this year has led to a lawsuit concerning free speech matters.

Muscle pain syndromes: Hypersensitivity and treatment

Issue no 6 (vol. 7) of Current Pain and Headache Reports, to be published in December 2003, has several interesting articles on muscle pain syndromes such as fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome. K.G. Henriksson (at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Sweden) has written a review, ”Hypersensitivity in muscle pain syndromes”, presenting research regarding [...]

Totalförbud av kvicksilver utreds

Regeringen beslutade idag att ge Kemikalieinspektionen i uppdrag att utreda hur ett totalförbud mot hantering av kvicksilver i Sverige kan utformas. Enligt miljökvalitetsmålet Giftfri miljö ska varor så långt det är möjligt vara fria från kvicksilver före utgången av 2003. Ett totalförbud i lagstiftningen med tidsbegränsade undantag skulle bättre motsvara miljökvalitetsmålet än dagens reglering. Redan [...]

EU Commissioner tests for toxins in her blood

Environment Commissioner Wallström announced on 6 November that 28 chemical substances had been found in her body, illustrating the urgency of the EU’s radical review of its chemicals policy. Her blood contained a number of PBDEs (penta-BDE and octa-BDE), PCBs, and organochlorine pesticides, such as DDT. Read more at: ”Presence of persistent chemicals in the [...]

Enteroviruses in muscle tissue in CFS patients

A study made at Imperial College in London found an association between impaired muscle energy metabolism and the presence of enteroviruses in muscle biopsies from CFS patients. The article, Lane RJ, Soteriou BA, Zhang H, Archard LC, ”Enterovirus related metabolic myopathy: a postviral fatigue syndrome” (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2003 Oct;74(10):1382-6. ) is presently in [...]