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...control many diseases. Irwin Stone, a California-based biochemist, regards vitamin C as a magic bullet that not only can help man avoid scurvy but can serve as a treatment for cancer, heart disease and schizophrenia. Nobel-prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling has advocated large doses to prevent or cure the common cold. Dr. Wilfrid Shute, a Canadian cardiologist, believes that proper use of vitamin E can aid in treatment of damaged hearts. Others recommend vitamin E for hypertension and rheumatic fever; some claim that it will promote sexual potency...
...page 72). But some of Davis' claims, as well as those of her fellow vitamin advocates, are still unproved. Doctors can find no conclusive evidence that vitamin C in large doses prevents heart disease or effectively treats cancer. Vitamin C's function as a cold cure is also uncertain. Its safety-if taken in quantities hundreds of times greater than the recommended daily requirement of about 60 mg.-is questionable. Though deficiencies of vitamin E will produce the symptoms of muscular dystrophy in rats, doctors are not yet convinced that such symptoms may exist in humans. "Vitamin...
...absolutely wrong? Even after your short exposure to this question, you should have learned that these are highly complex matters on which competent scientists can legitimately differ. In this case, where there is no question as to the safety of the product or as to its efficacy (it cures the people it purports to cure) or as to the fact that it does mitigate a well-known side effect of tetracycline therapy (reduction of the growth of monilial organisms) and where the only question is the clinical significance in certain patients of this reduction of monilial growth, the issue...
...recommendations are not based on any new scientific research but on a detailed review of available scientific evidence and on interviews with experts and addicts. "The ideal solution," conclude the authors, "would be a cure for opiate addiction. But no such cure exists, nor is there one on the horizon-and there exist no clues as to where such a miracle cure might be found. Methadone maintenance is not a panacea. But it frees addicts from the heroin incubus" and can turn "a majority of heroin addicts into law-abiding citizens...
...wouldn't look good to the boys back at the Bureau of the Budget to see a sizeable contribution to Angela's defense fund in their annual audit. So, with their financial deficits of half-a-million dollars each that future government grants could do a lot to cure, the Urban League and the NAACP were forced to low-profile on the issue of Angela Davis...