Second Opinion articles from August 1992

Second Opinion archives from August 1992

The quiche of death. (animal rights and dietary animal protein)
August 1, 1992... I was at a party when a friend handed me a nutrition book and said with a sneaky grin: "These people have honored you with a half-page writeup. Should I read it to the other guests?" I noticed the author credits, Harvey and Marilyn Diamond,...

Are inhalant drugs killing asthmatics?
August 1, 1992... Some common asthma inhalers contain a form of drug that may be contributing to the high number of asthma deaths worldwide, according to a British researcher. Glaxo, the makers of Ventolin, one of the more popular inhalers, says it...

The religion of science.
August 1, 1992... You probably thought the Flat Earth Society was defunct but you're wrong. You'd be amazed how scientifically ignorant a large proportion of the population really is. If we are comparable to Britain, and I think we probably are,...

Antihistamine poisoning.
August 1, 1992... While the FDA raids the offices of excellent physicians of integrity, such as Dr. Jonathan Wright, the drug companies are allowed to promote and sell outlandish products that have no rational therapeutic justification. Dr. Wright...

AIDS-II: you heard it here first.
August 1, 1992... When AIDS-II was being discussed a few years ago, the experts said it probably didn't cause AIDS like the better understood }{IV virus. We told our readers this would probably be proven wrong and the disease would prove to be essentially...

Pushing mammography screening.
August 1, 1992... American radiologists, with the encouragement of the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society, have spent the last ten years convincing women that they should get a mammogram after the age of forty. We have been...

Keepers of the pill till. (pharmacists)
August 1, 1992... Pharmacists have an image with the American people higher than almost any other profession. I don't know exactly why and I don't know if it is deserved or not. I remember back in the '70s when I would call a pharmacist and order a...

"60 Minutes" gets into a food fight. (health aspects of monosodium glutamate)
August 1, 1992... It looked like an ordinary Monday morning but there was "60 Minutes" waiting in the anteroom of the processed food industry. They were calling on the Glutamate Association, the representative of the food processors who use the flavor...

NCI retreats from food project. (National Cancer Institute)
August 1, 1992... The National Cancer Institute, through a grant from the Food and Drug Administration, has been studying in animals the anti-carcinogenic properties of garlic, flaxseed oil, licorice and citrus. Flaxseed oil, like fish oils, is high in...