This posting makes me extremely angry . Goverments control the actions their people by pointing a gun to their heads . They should not be allowed to control the actions of their peopleo by being allowed to deny them medecine > I would recommend that you consult a competent medical doctor > prior to taking any medication Get real ! Iin my day, at school only those that were UNABLE to do maths went off to college to study at lot of jargon latin names so they could pretend they knew something . I could fill a book with the catalogue of the shear ignorance I have personally met . The chief reason for these goverment licensed lakey's ignorance is that they have no incentive to discover the truth and a cure . Money and personal prestige is their goal . and that the quality of that > medicine must be beyond doubt. > Get real again . Nothing is beyond doubt . Sure I have slightly more confidence in a governmenmt licence medecine than in one that is not government licenced . > ______________________________________________________________ > > U.N. to probe medicine sales over the Net > > http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cta474.htm > > GENEVA - The U.N. health agency said Monday it would launch an > investigation into sales of medicine over the Internet. > > The World Health Organization said it would act promptly to > implement a resolution passed earlier Monday by the 191-nation > governing body saying it was "particularly concerned that > advertising, promotion and sales through the Internet may lead to > uncontrolled across-the-border trade of medical products." > IT is already here and thank God they are powerless to stop it . > Such Internet medicine may be "unevaluated, well get evaluating it ! unapproved of course it is unapproved since governments are in charge of approval . I get UK approved Madopar . If anyone in the USA, where I belierve it is not approved , wants to try some let me know and I will post some to them . unsafe there is no 100% safety in anmything in life certainly not medecine . What is important is to use it sensibly . or > ineffective Since every human being is unique it is impossible to predict with any certainty whether a medecine will work in a particular case . Even if these tab bought over the internet is just a lump of chalk the placebo effect alone is more effective than nothing . , or used inappropriately," doctors have little control over how medication is used . I reduced my medication from 4 tabs to two recently because of dyskeneasia my doctor does not know since I have not seen him for 9 months . I recently saw a neuro for my 6 monthly check up . His response was change to the CR form and use only 2 tabs a day ! He is not going to see me for another 6 months so he will not be in anyway following whether his prescription works . I have seen a different neuro each time on the last 3 visits to hospital . said the resolution passed > without opposition by the World Health Assembly, which is holding > its annual meeting. > > The resolution expressed concern that Internet sales of medical > products "may present a hazard for public health as well as the > individual patient." > > It singled out fears about "misleading or fraudulent product > information," as well as health risks because of a lack of > individual counseling. > > The assembly noted that there was an increased use of the Internet > to gather information and shop for products, including medication. > > It said it was possible that the Internet, appropriately used, might > contribute to better health care and make medicine and information > about it more readily available. > > Besides sites that sell medicine, the World Wide Web abounds with > "home pages" that answer health questions, and provide lists of > doctors, hospitals and health insurance plans. > > The assembly urged member countries to collect information on the > Internet sales. > > WHO spokesman Philippe Stroot said a panel would meet in September to > review the data and prepare to report back to the assembly next year. > > The panel will be made up of national and international enforcement > agencies; consumer groups; the pharmaceutical industry, and experts > in ethics, legal matters, marketing and communication. > > The resolution had broad backing from European nations, the United > States, Japan and other countries. > > By The Associated Press > At present I am conducting a personal assessmentas to whether the "snake oil" NADH does me any good bought over the internet . I am also trying electrical nerve stimulation with a machine bought over the internet . Future studies include the" snake oil", human growth hormone and magnetic nerve stimulation . I am still looking for a supplier of human growth hormone . I see in the news today that the chiease swimming team was found with the banned somatropin which sound like human growth hormone . One minute the government wants us to believe these substances are both ineffective and dangerous and the next minute they want to cry"foul" when someone else uses them effectively . I remember a recently a government medical spokesman on the government controled mass media saying that the reason AZT was not available was there was no evidence that it was effective. ( gays and junkies go away and die ) Even more recently I saw a report of how AZT was helping mothers with AIDS have babies without AIDS because it reduced the mothers viral load .( It is worth helping babies inspite of the cost of AZT) . The point of this posting is that the governments agenda is to " manage " the disease with as little cost as possible . In my case in the UK , here is your L-dopa go away . The government appointed and paid neuros do not want to see me for at least 6 months and preferably never . My agenda is to get cured and I will try any" snake oi"l that I feel might work and the internet is my only source of "snake oil " I am waiting for further imformation on Sonic Hedgehog and GDNF . When this treatment becomes available my present intention is to get it approved or unapproved . I cannot get the snake oil " from my doctor although he admitted after many discussions that I probably know more about PD than he does , he defers to the opinion of the neuro . I gave up with them after the last big argument that involved whether L-dopa had beneficial effect foe hydrocephalus induced PD . I had information from the internet that it did. Last night I was watching TV and someone came on and predicted that the job of being a doctor would soon disappear . A few weeks ago in the New Scientist there was an article trying to defend the role of the doctor in view of all the information available on the internet . The role of the doctor as the medical policeman is redundant . There is too much information on the internet . Curl up aand die ? NEVER . I shall continue postings on how I get on with my various" snake oils" . > -------------- > > > > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/ _/ > _/ John S. Walker _/ > _/ Publisher, CSS Internet News (tm) _/ > _/ (Internet Training and Research) _/ > _/ PO Box 57247, Jackson Stn., _/ > _/ Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8P 4X1 _/ > _/ Email [log in to unmask] _/ > _/ http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker _/ > _/ _/ > _/ "To Teach is to touch a life forever" _/ > _/ On the Web one touch can reach so far! _/ > _/ _/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > > peace Alastair ( [log in to unmask] )