New Article Published in Modern Health News. org Finds US Health Care Slipping, Prevention More Important than Ever
The results of a private journalistic inquiry conducted by Modern Health News. org concludes that valid preventative treatments are being turned down by federal authorities, and could be the major contributor to the poor state of US health care. The results of a private journalistic inquiry conducted by Modern Health News. org concludes that valid preventative treatments are being turned down by federal authorities, and could be the major contributor to the poor state of US health care.
Boise, ID (PRWEB) April 15, 2008
The results of a private journalistic inquiry conducted by Modern Health News. org concludes that valid preventative treatments are being turned down by federal authorities, and could be the major contributor to the poor state of US health care.
America reportedly has the best health care in the world including some of the best educated and most talented physicians, plus dazzlingly sophisticated medical technology. But despite this, we don't have the best health care system. This underscores the need to prevent disease before it sends one to a hospital or ER. However, some non-pharmaceutical, scientifically proved natural medicines used and approved in Europe appear to be suppressed by government agencies here in the USA.
What evidence supports first, slippage in America's health care ranking and two, possible suppression of certain natural medicines?
The fact American health care is headed south is supported by a recent World Health Organization analysis of the world's entire health care systems. WHO employed five performance indicators to measure health systems in its 191 member states, and found that France provides the best overall health care followed among major countries by Italy, Spain, Oman, Austria and Japan.
The U. S. health system spends a higher portion of its gross domestic product (GDP) than any other country yet ranks 37th (out of 191 countries) according to its performance, according to the WHO report.
There are many reasons for the fact the US lags so far behind in terms of its health care system, not the least of which is the fact that so many people who suffer from preventable illnesses don't have access to suitable health care. Some simply lose their coverage when a job ends or are under-insured.
Consider:
44.8 million Americans are without health insurance according to 2005 U. S. Census Bureau estimates.
16 million people are under-insured.
18,000 people die prematurely each year because they lack health coverage, according to the Institute of Medicine.
What are those who lack basic coverage or who are under-insured to do? One thing they can do is try to prevent illness by getting and staying fit, eating right and possibly taking a few choice supplements.
These are measures most mainstream doctors promote. But the story shifts when it comes to certain natural drugs.
Back in the 1980s a company in California headed up by a well known biophysicist began importing and promoting an herbal drug for arterial disease called PADMA 28. This natural medicine had been tested extensively in Europe including five double-blind studies conducted at major universities in Poland and published in various peer reviewed journals. The Swiss equivalent of the U. S. FDA found the proof of PADMA's efficacy so compelling for treating blockage of arteries in the lower extremities, referred to as peripheral arterial occlusive disease in medical parlance, that they approved it as a drug.
But here in the US, PADMA did not enjoy the kind of support it did in Europe. Following extensive publication and promotion of its merits, the California-based company that introduced it was challenged by federal authorities to prove the claims they were making. The firm's scientific representatives provided the government agents with over 365 pages of lab tests, published studies and such.
The government's response?
They admitted the evidence was compelling but, by this very token, PADMA28 was essentially an unapproved drug. The company was issued an ultimatum: Put it through the FDA's approval process, or change the name and their advertising. Since the drug approval process would entail spending millions of dollars the firm didn't have, they opted to change the name and their PR track.
"It is not very surprising that the American health care is more concerned about money than health." said Dan Morgan, leading the investigation.
Today, this herbal drug -- which has been shown to lower cholesterol and triglycerides substantially, relieve angina and peripheral arterial occlusive disease, and even bolster the immune system -- is largely unknown and unsung. At least compared to FDA approved drugs for managing cholesterol and treating angina, some of which cause disconcerting side effects (PADMA 28 has none of any significance).
Thankfully, companies such as Pacific BioLogic ( http://www. pacificbiologic. com/Circulationframe. html (http://www. pacificbiologic. com/Circulationframe. html)) and Weller Health ( http://www. wellerhealth. com/shop/index. php? main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=3 (http://www. wellerhealth. com/shop/index. php? main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=3)) have kept PADMA28 alive here in the USA. Pacific BioLogic calls their PADMA product "Adaptrin", while Weller has dubbed theirs "Heartrol".
With America's health care ranking slipping steadily and so many citizens going under-insured or not insured at all, prevention becomes critical. Diet, exercise, and use of certain supplements are a given. The bad news is that there appear to be some scientifically proved products that can make a big difference in terms of preventing or treating certain human ills, but like PADMA28 are seemingly suppressed. The good news is that many of these are still around, although their scientific pedigrees are watered down and their original names are sometimes changed.
Next time you look for a preventative treatment, do your research. You really should not rely on television commercials that promote well funded, federally approved synthetic medications and treatments. See if there is an alternative medical company that promotes foreign products of merit. These may actually be more effective and less expensive than conventional treatments. For instance, a couple of major US based companies that import foreign medicines such as NutraCAM< ( http://www.nutracam.com (http://www.nutracam.com)) and native remedies (http://www.nativeremedies.com (http://www.nativeremedies.com)) make a point of selling scientifically validated natural and alternative products, many of which are regularly prescribed by mainstream medical practitioners in europe (germany and switzerland especially).
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