yestolife.org.uk - integrative medicine, great info site

new_direction

I just found this site. It offers a huge list of alternative/complimentary medicine and where it can be found.

http://yestolife.org.uk/
http://yestolife.org.uk/lifedirectory.php

 

leggo

I just finished reading Bryony's story. Unbelievably sad. I don't know how anyone could read that and not cry. We just had our first precedent-setting judgement here in Canada. A young girl was being forced back into chemotherapy by the hospital. Parents wanted to pursue their native traditional medicine. The parents won. The blow-back from this case has been nuts, but I'm sure it will have a huge effect on the future of cancer treatments. People are fed up with conventional treatments. There HAS to be something better. At least with the site you referenced, there's another option for a reliable CAM protocol. Good on th UK. 

abigail48

I don't cry but I'd like to see bryony's story people are fed up. so the cancer hospitals & the pharmaceudical companies need to spend their research money & their donations on television advertising

leggo

Abigail, people being fed up is my own commentary. It doesn't have anything to do with her story. If you click on the link, there's a picture of a beautiful young lady. Click on that and you can read what she went through. Horrible.

I couldn't agree more about the advertising. Pharma companies spend billions on advertising their latest, greatest drug. Lately, it seems it's more to point out the myriad of side-effects. They've turned into a joke. Take this for your arthritis, but oh yeah, we better mention it might cause lymphoma. Frickin' ridiculous. I hate to make the comparison because the drugs are serious business but it's so like Microsoft. We'll roll out this new thing, let people try it out and find the bugs for us so we don't actually have to complete our jobs. Ugh. Shiggles for an operating system, but for drugs, outrageous. F'd up world.

abigail48

& I still think the cyst in my rt breast turned tumorous after a dentist shot one exray at a front tooth with no lead apron right to that cyst. & radiation is always a temptation because it's at first anyway painless

leggo

Abigail, I don't personally think what's going on in your breast an effect of an x-ray, but then again, what do I know. I know people have looked at me funny when I've given my own theory about why I ended up with breast cancer. Ultimately, nobody knows. Having said that, I really really wish you'd have that checked out by a doctor. Who knows? Maybe they can do something to make you, at the very least, more comfortable. I don't think it would hurt to ask. I truly understand that you're leary, but maybe, just maybe, they can help. Sometimes something as simple as an antibiotic can take the edge off a festering infection, even when it's cancer itself causing it.

new_direction

About advertising and Pharma business I can recommend this documentary; the men who made us spend; http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zxm9b

It tells the story how drugs are invented and sold using peoples fear as motivation for buying. How to make people aware of problems and dangers they didn't knew existed...

leggo

Thanks new. I'll give it a watch. Do you know off hand which episode is about the pharma companies? No biggy if you don't. I can find it myself too.

new_direction

it's the second. Don't know if also the third - haven't seen that one yet.

new_direction

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20j8as_the-men-who-made-us-spend-episode-2_creation

leggo

Want a laugh? I just checked Netflix so I could watch on the big screen. Got excited when I saw "The men who...." when I did a search. Turns out it was that horrible movie "The men who stare at goats." George Clooney bugs the pants off me.

leggo

Thank you! Will watch now. 

new_direction

Haven't seen that one - but maybe the title is the most fun about it

leggo

That is a really cool series. I always thought the only redeeming quality of Pharma was that they actually conduct clinical trials (at the very least, sketchy ones) before launching a medication. Ha! So sleazy...and a drug that can have such adverse effects on the liver yet!!! I was also shocked by how much they made on ranitidine. Good example of how they piss their money away on advertising instead of important research. Geezus.

A couple of things I found hilarious....we can always count on the "vain" to keep the economy going and 50 Cent is a genius. Who knew? I remember watching some doc about consumerism years ago and Marilyn Manson, of all people, was the smartest man in the room when he was talking about fear=consumption. Wish I could find that doc again to share. Marilyn Manson set me straight! 

On a lighter note, I have to admit I almost caved to advertising. ALMOST bought a Kia Soul when this ad came out. I'm a sucker. 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e8sMeO9h_yI

Thanks again for the link new. I enjoyed watching.

new_direction

haha, made me smile. I feel like that hamster when I work out.

Not that this is in any way amusing. It's hard to combine ethics and business, i guess.
Advertising to the public is not the biggest problem. Pharmacy sponsored Holidays etc to doctors are a big turn off.
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/health/pharmacy-companies-pay-doctors-to-lecture-teach-and-do-research

please post if you find that Marilyn manson doc. I only know one of his songs, and I can still "hear" it when i think back to highschool. LoL.

leggo

Isn't it the truth. I was waiting in my GP's office the other day for my turn. He's the kind of doc who takes forever with his patients so I was in there for at least an hour and a half. The pharma rep was there before I came and he asked numerous times when he could meet with the doctor and his receptionist, bless her heart, said patients come first. He got a lttle pissy. Finally, my turn and just to be nice, I told the doctor if he wanted to meet with the rep, it'd be ok, I'm in no hurry. He just laughed and said they'd be closing their office tonight with him in it. I love my doctor. He can't be "bought".

So sorry, my memory failed me. The doc was "Bowling for Columbine", which I'm sure everyone has seen. Here's the Marilyn Manson clip anyway.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1NOFSOeOBsk

new_direction

thank you for the link

My oncologists' only fault is his disregard towards time schedules. I have often called before going to the hospital to ask how late he was.