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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Institutes of Health. In other words, by you. By your tax dollars. Generally it <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>is money well spent, until you go a-searching for megavitamin therapy <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>research</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> papers. Then you will find that you can't find all of them. That is <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>because</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> of selective indexing. Medline chooses journals to index based on <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>criteria</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> that they publish but will not discuss.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>As evidence, here is a copy of my recent letter to them:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
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style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>To: <custserv@nlm.nih.gov><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Subject: Listing or Indexing of a Journal<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
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style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I have used Medline for years, and it is a truly invaluable research tool. I <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>have observed that the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i>, continuously <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>published since 1967, is not indexed, listed nor otherwise cited or available <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>on</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Medline. May I ask what would perhaps disqualify this particular <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Journal from inclusion in the Medline database?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Here is the reply I got back from the National Library of Medicine:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Dear Dr. Saul:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"The Literature Selection Technical Review Committee makes decisions <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>about</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the inclusion of journals in Medline. Our Fact Sheet with <span
class=SpellE>FAQs</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(Frequently Asked Questions) about inclusion in MEDLINE and thus in <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PubMed</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> will be found at this URL: <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/j_sel_faq.html">http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/j_sel_faq.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"A more specific Fact Sheet for journal selection will be found at this <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>different site:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html">http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html</a> .<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Thank you for your interest in our National Library of Medicine products."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(Clerk's name, deleted by the Newsletter)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>NIH Contractor<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Customer Service<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>National Library of Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>8600 Rockville Pike<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Bethesda</span></st1:City><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, <st1:State w:st="on">MD</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">20894</st1:PostalCode></span></st1:place><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="mailto:custserv@nlm.nih.gov">custserv@nlm.nih.gov</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The following text was appended to the response I received:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the largest medical library in <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> world. The goal of the NLM is to collect, organize and make available <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>biomedical literature to advance medical science and improve public <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>health</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I see. Collect. Organize. Make available. Improve public health. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>So, AFTER 39 CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF PUBLICATION, why is the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</span></i><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> NOT indexed by Medline?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial'>(For more on Medline bias, please also look at <a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/medlineup.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/medlineup.html</a> )<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>NOTE: All issues of the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> from <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>1994 through 2001 are now online for you (and the world's search <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>engines) to find and read, Medline or no Medline, <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>at <a href="http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/">http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/</a> The remaining twenty-five <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>years prior to 1994 are planned to be posted, also for free reading, <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>within</span></b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> the next year or so.<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Although a similar leading-edge nutrition-friendly journal, Medical <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Hypotheses, is indexed, the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> is not. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>This decision is the work of a National Library of Medicine "Literature <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Selection Technical Review Committee," which apparently declined to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>comment</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>What are the consequences of such exclusion? In a nutshell, it stops the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>public from using their computers to learn about all of the scientific <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>research and clinical reports demonstrating the effectiveness of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>megavitamin</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> (orthomolecular) therapy. It also greatly hampers <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>professionals</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> from seeing pro-vitamin studies. Have you ever wondered <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>why</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> your doctor simply does not know about vitamin therapy? Well, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>wonder</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> no longer. He or she can't read what isn't "collected," electronically <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>indexed</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, or otherwise "made available" to them. If the vast majority of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>journals indexed by Medline are pharmaceutical-friendly, and yet <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>nutritional</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> research is censored, what do you expect?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>My website, book (<a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html</a> ) and this <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Newsletter are</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> not called Doctor Yourself for nothing. We have no choice. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>If we want to know, we have to learn for ourselves. Your taxes should be <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>helping you do so, and not paying a closed-doors bureaucracy to decide <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>what should (or should not) be "collected" and "made available" to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"<span
class=GramE>improve</span> public health."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Here is a current example of vital research that Medline does in fact <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>choose to index:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PIZZA PREVENTS HEART ATTACKS<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Gallus S, <span
class=SpellE>Tavani</span> A, <span class=SpellE>Vecchia</span> CL. Pizza and risk of acute myocardial <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>infarction</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. <span
class=SpellE>Eur</span> J <span class=SpellE>Clin</span> <span class=SpellE>Nutr</span>. 2004 May 12.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"OBJECTIVES: Pizza eating has been <span
class=SpellE>favourably</span> related to the risk of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>cardiovascular</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> disease, but the data are limited. To evaluate the potential <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>role of pizza consumption on the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>we</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> considered data from an Italian study. DESIGN: We conducted a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>hospital-based case-control study on 507 cases of nonfatal AMI and 478 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>controls</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Milan</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place>, between 1995 and 1999. RESULTS: The <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>multivariate odds ratios were 0.78 for occasional, 0.62 for regular and 0.44 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>for</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> frequent eaters. The estimates were similar across strata of age, sex, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>smoking</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> and other major covariates. CONCLUSIONS: Some of the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>ingredients of pizza have been shown to have a <span
class=SpellE>favourable</span> influence on <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> risk of cardiovascular disease. However, there is no single explanation <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>for</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the present findings. Pizza may in fact represent a general indicator of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Italian <span
class=GramE>diet, that</span> has been shown to have potential cardiovascular benefits."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>If that impressed you, you will also surely want to know about this:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PIZZA PREVENTS CANCER<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Gallus S, <span
class=SpellE>Bosetti</span> C, <span class=SpellE>Negri</span> E, <span
class=SpellE>Talamini</span> R, <span class=SpellE>Montella</span> M, Conti E, <span
class=SpellE>Franceschi</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>S, La <span
class=SpellE>Vecchia</span> C. Does pizza protect against cancer? <span
class=SpellE>Int</span> J Cancer.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>2003 Nov <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>1<span
class=GramE>;107</span>(2):283-4.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"We analyzed the potential role of pizza on cancer risk, using data from an <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>integrated network of case-control studies conducted in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region> between <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>1991 and 2000. Cancer sites were: oral cavity and pharynx (598 cases), <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>esophagus (304 cases), larynx (460 cases), colon (1,225 cases) and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>rectum</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> (728 cases). Controls were 4,999 patients admitted for acute, non-<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>neoplastic</span></span></span><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> conditions to the same hospital network as cases. Odds ratios <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>for regular pizza consumers were 0.66 (95% confidence interval, CI = <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>0.47-0.93) for oral and pharyngeal cancer, 0.41 (95% CI = 0.25-0.69) for <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>oesophageal</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, 0.82 (95% CI = 0.56-1.19) for laryngeal, 0.74 (95% CI = <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>0.61-0.89) for colon and 0.93 (95% CI = 0.75-1.17) for rectal cancer. Pizza <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>appears therefore to be a favorable indicator of risk for digestive tract <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>neoplasms</span></span></span><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> in this population." <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>But be careful of that olive oil, mate! Of course, this particular Medline-<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>approved entry is not from <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Wong</span></st1:City><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <st1:State w:st="on">GA</st1:State></span></st1:place><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, King CM. Occupational allergic contact dermatitis from olive oil <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>in</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> pizza making. Contact Dermatitis.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>2004 Feb<span
class=GramE>;50</span>(2):102-3. (Department <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>of</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Dermatology, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Royal</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Liverpool</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Hospital</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Liverpool</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>MORE PIZZA<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Here is my all-time favorite: yet another article that Medline actually is <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>indexing</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. It is not even from a medical journal. I am not making its mile-<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>long</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> title up, either. It is there at Medline, right now, just a few clicks away <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>from you: <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Simon HB. My husband subscribes to Harvard Men's Health Watch, but I <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>read</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> it even more than he does. I hope you can help us resolve a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>disagreement</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. He wants to have pizza two to three times a week for his <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>prostate</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, but I don't think it's a healthy food. Who is right? (Harvard Men's <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Health Watch.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>2003 Jun<span
class=GramE>;7</span>(11):8.)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>In fact, when I did a search at Medline for "pizza," I got 435 responses. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Man, there is scientific argument over literally anything.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I am proud (as well as relieved) to be the first to tell you that the Journal of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Orthomolecular Medicine has not published a single article on pizza. At <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>least</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> so far. Maybe if it did, it would make the cut at Medline.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Medline also indexes an item entitled:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>"I am a 71-year-old diabetic, and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I've had trouble with my erections for seven or eight years. At first the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>problem</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> was mild, but it's been getting worse. My doctor gave me a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>prescription</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> for Viagra, but it didn't help. I tried two pills at once without any <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>luck</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, but I did get a mild headache. Can I use three pills?"<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(Harvard Men's Health Watch.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>2003 Sep<span
class=GramE>;8</span>(2):8.)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Surely the very name "Harvard" is enough to get your foot inside the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Medline door. That, or "everything but anchovies."<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> has a review board of medical <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>doctors</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> and university- and hospital-based researchers. Since 1967, it has <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>published</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> over 600 papers by renowned authors including Roger J. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Williams, Emanuel Cheraskin, Carl C. Pfeiffer and Nobel prize winner <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Linus Pauling.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>(<a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_JOM.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_JOM.html</a> ) You <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>should be able to access abstracts (concise summaries) of these papers, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>instantly</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> and for free, via Medline. Well, you can't. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Perhaps you'd like to write to Medline and tell them what you think: <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="mailto:custserv@nlm.nih.gov">custserv@nlm.nih.gov</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>And when you are done with both your pizza and your Viagra, would you <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>please share any letters you may receive with me at <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="mailto:drsaul@doctoryourself.com">drsaul@doctoryourself.com</a> ?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>[This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>NEWSLETTER, Vol. 4, No. 14, June 20, 2004, revised 2006. It is archived at <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n14.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n14.txt</a> ] <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Part 2: <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>JUST WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT, ANYWAY?<o:p></o:p></b></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The Smithsonian Institution's United States National Tick Collection, with over one million <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>tick</span></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> specimens, makes it, quite understandably, the world's largest. <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>On the other hand, the world's largest medical library, the U. S. National Library of Medicine, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>does</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> not see fit to index the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Why?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Is it really a matter of funds? The National Museum of American History is <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>spending $18 million to "clean and conserve" the 1814 "Star Spangled <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Banner" flag that flew over <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Fort</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">McHenry</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. (<i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Smithsonian </i>magazine, June <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>2004, p 59.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>That's eighteen MILLION dollars.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>What, exactly, would be the cost to index one additional medical journal?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> government lets the U.S. Forest Service sell the public's forests to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>private</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> lumber corporations at a $2 billion annual loss to the taxpayer. This <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>is, of course, the same government that gave the nuclear power industry <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>over $40 billion since 1948, according to the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Multinational Monitor <o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(<a
href="http://multinationalmonitor.org/">http://multinationalmonitor.org</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Medline is self-described as "the <span
class=SpellE>NLM's</span> premier bibliographic database <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>health</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> care system, and the preclinical sciences.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>MEDLINE contains <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>biomedical journals . . . The database contains over 12 million citations <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>dating</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> back to the mid-1960's."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Just how hard would it really be for the National Library of Medicine to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>electronically index one more scientific journal on Medline, for the public's <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>benefit</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Doesn't the government owe the public full disclosure of all new <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>nutritional research that can help people, including what is published in the <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</span></i></b><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>?</span></b><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Politicized science and research <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>cover-ups</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> hurt citizens. The <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U. S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> General Accounting Office has stated that <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>over 500,000 Americans were "used as subjects in Cold War era radiation, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>biological and chemical experiments sponsored by the federal government," <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>often</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> without their consent. (Scripps Howard News Service, 29 Sept, 1994.) <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>There is a terrible price to pay for secret agendas, selective science and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>information</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> suppression.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Medline, which formerly only went back to 1966, now provides an additional <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>two</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> million citations from medical journals all the way back to 1951. While in <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>itself good news, it also more than suggests that the national Library of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Medicine has the funding, personnel and capability to index the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of <o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Orthomolecular Medicine</span></i><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> without further ado. The availability of "Old <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Medline," as it is nicknamed, now means that references to hundreds of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>scientific papers by vitamin discoverer Roger J. Williams, niacin psychiatrist <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Abram Hoffer, Professor of Oral Medicine Emanuel Cheraskin, and twice <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Nobel prize-winner Linus Pauling can now be electronically tapped from <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>everywhere they published, for the last 55 years. . . with one conspicuous <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>exception</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Every word they ever wrote in the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Medicine</span></i></b><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> remains excluded from indexed cyberspace. <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>One can not help but wonder why an author's work is significant if published <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>in</span></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> one journal, but not even worth mentioning if published in another.<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine's Medline and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Old Medline collectively form one of the world's truly splendid research tools. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Going back to 1951 is a good idea. Why stop there? What about 36 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>consecutive years' worth of the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i>, as well <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>as</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the current research it continues to publish even as you read this?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>As public libraries should be free to rich and poor alike, so public access to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>scientific</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> knowledge should not be screened or censored. Science is neither <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>a</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> guild nor a members-only club. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Or at least it shouldn't be any longer.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>TELL IT TO THE BOSS<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Many Newsletter readers have already written to Medline and received <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>useless</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> answers from government contractors.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Well then, let's write to the top man.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The Executive Editor of Medline is Mr. Sheldon Kotzin. His email address is <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="mailto:kotzins@mail.nlm.nih.gov">kotzins@mail.nlm.nih.gov</a> .<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Please send him a polite email requesting that he please include the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal <o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>of</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'> Orthomolecular Medicine</span></i><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> in the MEDLINE database and index.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Talking points:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>*The <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> has been published for 36 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>consecutive</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> years.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>* It has an editorial review board of physicians and university researchers.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>* The <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal</i> has published papers by prominent scientists, including twice <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>* Electronic indexing makes health information readily accessible to libraries <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>and</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>* Medline indexes over 4,800 journals, and has funds to reach all the way <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>back</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> to 1951.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>*Why, exactly, is the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> excluded?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>*Courteously ask for action, and for a response.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I would very much appreciate it if you'd send me a copy of Mr. <span
class=SpellE>Kotzin's</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span class=GramE><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>replies</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. My email is <a
href="mailto:drsaul@doctoryourself.com">drsaul@doctoryourself.com</a> . <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>[This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>YOURSELF NEWSLETTER, Vol. 4, No. 15, July 5, 2004. It is archived at <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n15.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n15.txt</a> ]<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>NOTE: All issues of the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> from <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>1994 through 2001 are now online for you (and the world's search <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>engines) to find and read, Medline or no Medline, <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>at <a href="http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/">http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/</a> The remaining twenty-five <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>years prior to 1994 are planned to be posted, also for free reading, <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>within</span></b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> the next year or so.<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Part 3: <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>UPDATE ON MEDLINE<o:p></o:p></b></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial'>(For more on Medline bias, please also look at <a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/medlineup.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/medlineup.html</a> )<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>A special thank-you to all the many Doctor Yourself Newsletter readers <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>who took the time to write to the National Library of Medicine to request <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>that the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> be included in <span
class=SpellE>MEDLINE's</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span class=GramE><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>electronic</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> index. MEDLINE is like a "Google" of medical publications. I <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>believe everyone should have internet access to all health research, not <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>just</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> some of it.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The next question is, exactly who is deciding what you may or may not <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>read</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Most letters that readers sent to <span
class=SpellE>MEDLINE's</span> Executive Editor, Sheldon <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Kotzin, received a form reply from a clerical assistant, saying only that:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Mr. Kotzin has received your recent email regarding the re-review of the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</span></i><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> for inclusion in MEDLINE. The <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>National Library of Medicine uses an advisory committee to recommend <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>journals</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> to be indexed in MEDLINE. This journal will be scheduled for <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>review</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> at the next advisory committee meeting."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>There are genuine problems with this quickie form-letter response. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>First, it does not tell us exactly why the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal </i>was previously refused. It <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>is</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> merely a promise of a re-review, whatever that may consist of. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Second, who are the people on the mentioned advisory committee who <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>actually</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> perform the review? Who, exactly, are the persons empowered to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>decide for you what you may or may not access on MEDLINE, a taxpayer-<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>supported service of the US Department of Health and Human <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Services/National Institutes of Health? <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Third, what are the names, and professional qualifications (and professional <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>affiliations) of the "Literature Selection Technical Review Committee" <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>members</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>? <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Fourth, how are they selected, and who selects them?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Fifth, what are the specific grounds, particular to the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of <o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Orthomolecular Medicine</span></i><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, that have previously disqualified it from inclusion <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>in</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Medline?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Are these petty, pesky questions, or do interested citizens have a right to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>know</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>To date, NOT EVEN ONE Newsletter reader has reported a meaningful reply to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>these</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> questions. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Why? Is there some kind of secret? <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>It may be time to take this case to a higher level: the U.S. Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I ask you to please email your Congressperson and Senators, respectfully <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>requesting</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> that they help you get real answers to your real questions.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>It is easy to do, you know. Just go to <a
href="http://www.congress.org/">http://www.congress.org</a> (or <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/">http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/</a> ) and type in your zip code. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Then, click the email link under your Senator's and Congressman's name, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>and</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> select "Compose Your Own Letter." This is fast and, for sending email, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>free</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>To speed things further, you can cut and paste the letter I today sent to my <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Senators and Congressman, editing as you see fit. For the email letter's <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Subject," I typed in "Seek Response from Federal Agency."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Dear Hon. _________________<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I would very much appreciate your assistance in obtaining answers to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>questions I have directed in writing to a Federal agency, but without <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>success</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I am interested in finding out why the National Library of Medicine has not <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>responded adequately to my inquiry as to why it has not chosen to index a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>particular</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> medical journal. To me, this seems like a reasonable inquiry. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Because I and many other citizens are interested in nutrition therapy, I <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>think the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> (which has been published <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>for 36 consecutive years) should be included in the <span
class=SpellE>NLM's</span> MEDLINE <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>electronic</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> index. However, it is not.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I wrote to MEDLINE, specifically to the Executive Editor, Mr. Sheldon <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Kotzin. All I received was a form reply, which I think is an unsatisfactory <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>response</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>My questions are:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>What are the specific reasons that the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>has been excluded from <span
class=SpellE>MEDLINE's</span> index by a "Literature Selection <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Technical Review Committee"?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>What are the names, qualifications, and professional affiliations of the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>members of the NLM/Medline "Literature Selection Technical Review <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Committee"?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Who appoints these members to the Committee?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>When will they conduct a public hearing?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The NLM says of itself, "The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>largest</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> medical library in the world. The goal of the NLM is to collect, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>organize and make available biomedical literature to advance medical <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>science</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> and improve public health."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>It seems odd to me that the world's largest medical library does not see fit <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>to</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> index the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i>. It seems even odder that <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the NLM/MEDLINE Executive Editor did not provide satisfactory answers <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>to</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> my questions. I think detailed, individual reasons for Medline's excluding <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>a</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> particular journal should be public information. I am a taxpayer. I have <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>asked a senior member of a federal office for information and that <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>information</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> has so far been denied to me. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Your reply would mean a great deal to me. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(end of suggested text)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PLEASE LET ME KNOW what your representatives and senators offer to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>do</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. I would welcome a copy of all responses that you receive emailed to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>drsaul@doctoryourself.com .</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>NOTE: All issues of the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> from <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>1994 through 2001 are now online for you (and the world's search <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>engines) to find and read, Medline or no Medline, <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>at <a href="http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/">http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/</a> The remaining twenty-five <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>years prior to 1994 are planned to be posted, also for free reading, <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>within</span></b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> the next year or so.<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> </span><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>[This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>NEWSLETTER, Vol. 4, No. 16, July 20, 2004. It is archived at <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n16.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n16.txt</a>
]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Part 4: <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>MEDLINE'S INDEX AND "THE" INDEX<o:p></o:p></b></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The Roman Catholic Church of centuries past was soundly criticized for <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>creating</span></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> an Index of books that good people should not be reading.</span></b><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> That <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>archaic and highly questionable tradition unfortunately lives on even today, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>but</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> in secular form. Now there is an official "Index" of permitted scientific <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>publications</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. It is the world's largest, with tens of millions of individual <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>listings</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. And this Index is not located anywhere near the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vatican</st1:place></st1:country-region>, but <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>rather</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Let's be fair: the Church has freely admitted it was wrong to restrict <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>scientists</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> such as Galileo. On the other hand, to this day, <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>an unelected <o:p></o:p></b></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>committee at the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> National Library of Medicine still decides for you <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>what</span></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> you may and may not have access to. This, at the world's largest <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>medical library</span></b><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, smack in the heart of in the Land of the Free and Home of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Brave.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>And the process is all done in secret. You are not allowed to communicate <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>with the committee members who decide in your place what you want to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>be</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> able to access, worldwide, on the electronic index called Medline.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>THE CLOISTERED COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Many Newsletter readers report receiving a form letter from Medline that <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>said, in part, that<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"If the (journal review) meeting were open to the public, word could <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>circulate about a committee recommendation before a final determination <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>was</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> made by the Director, NLM. Public knowledge about a journal <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>reviewed and not recommended could caste unfair doubt on the quality of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> journal. . .<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>While names of review committee members are public <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>information (Editor's note: And we have them, further below), NLM never <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>discloses</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> names of primary and secondary reviewers for specific journals. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Observers could obtain that information and it could affect the openness of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>discussion and might result in contact with specific reviewers after the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>meeting</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. It is <span
class=SpellE>NLM's</span> policy to prevent unnecessary contact with specific <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>reviewers</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>." <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>There it is: no one is supposed to communicate with review committee <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>members, because of the looming specter of the exercise of unfair <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>influence</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. Remember, now, everybody: unfair influence is OK for drug <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>companies</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, who bankroll studies printed by medical journals. And yes, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>those</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> are indexed on Medline. But don't YOU try to get your two cents in. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Lobbying is for those with millions.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>But we have more votes than they do.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I really do think we have to make this whole matter public. Some readers <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>are already writing emails to their Congressperson and Senators, as <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>suggested</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> in my last Newsletter. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(<a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n16.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n16.txt</a> ) I am looking forward to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>seeing</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the replies. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Questions being asked of your elected officials include, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>* Why the secrecy? Why is an unelected "advisory" committee making <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>decisions, in private, about what the public has access to on the National <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Library of Medicine's tax-funded Medline service?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>* How objective, or biased, are NLM advisory review committee members <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>whose</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> credentials and training are primary medical? <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>* How many experienced orthomolecular (nutritional-therapy) scientists are <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>on</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the NLM advisory review journal committee? Is there even one? If not, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>why</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> not?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I think the whole idea of a select small group, an elite, an oligarchy, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>running a public library service, needs to be seriously and repeatedly <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>questioned</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>IS THE <span class=SpellE>NLM's</span> COMMITTEE "STACKED" AGAINST A MEGAVITAMIN <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>JOURNAL?<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I think few, if any, of the committee members appear to be <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>especially</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> favorably oriented towards vitamin therapy. This is the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal's</i> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>problem</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>: a stacked deck. But this is also everyone's problem: these <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>appointed experts are deciding what the public may and may not see on <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Medline. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>All advisory/review committee members are appointed by the director of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> National Institutes of Health. I have no doubt as to either their <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>intelligence</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> or their dedication. I do question their individual and collective <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>qualifications to review and judge objectively on a journal that specializes <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>in</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> high-dose nutrition therapy. Think about it: Would you have a committee <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>of very well educated, hard working music and art professors decide if <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>JAMA</span></i><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'> and the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New England Journal of Medicine</i> were worthy of inclusion <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>in</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Medline? <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Therefore, let us take a look at the reviewers' professional qualifications <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>and affiliations, to try to ascertain which of them have orthomolecular <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(<span
class=GramE>megavitamin</span>) experience or have published any orthomolecular papers. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Do you think I am harping excessively on this? Well, keep in mind that <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>these persons, listed below, are to review and either pass or reject an <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>orthomolecular nutrition journal, which their committee has already, and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>repeatedly</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, rejected from the Medline index. Is there any reason to think <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>any</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> of the reviewers may be biased?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Let's see.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>WE REVIEW THE REVIEWERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(whose names are all publicly posted at <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.csr.nih.gov/Roster_proto/members.asp?cid=100753&Title=Literature+Selection+Technical+Review+Committee&ABBR=LSTR">http://www.csr.nih.gov/Roster_proto/members.asp?cid=100753&Title=Literature+Selection+Technical+Review+Committee&ABBR=LSTR</a> )</span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>CHAIRPERSON: <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>SHEPRO, DAVID, PHD<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY & SURGERY<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, MICROVASCULAR RESEARCH<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>BOSTON</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">UNIVERSITY</st1:PlaceType></span></st1:place><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(The committee chair has authored 213 papers which are listed by <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Medline. None appear to be on orthomolecular subjects.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>COMMITTEE MEMBERS:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>BRANDT, CYNTHIA<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>A , MD <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, CENTER FOR MEDICAL INFORMATICS<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>YALE</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">UNIVERSITY</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">SCHOOL</st1:PlaceType></span></st1:place><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> OF MEDICINE<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(Dr. Brandt's work is listed in Medline 46 times. I found no orthomolecular <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>papers</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>CHEN, JINKUN, DDS, PHD<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PROFESSOR OF GENERAL DENTISTRY<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>DIVISION OF ORAL BIOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>DENTISTRY<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>SCHOOL</span></st1:PlaceType><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> OF <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">DENTAL</st1:PlaceName> MEDICINE, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">TUFTS</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">UNIVERSITY</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(Because Chen is a common name, Medline has a large number (literally <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>thousands</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>) of returns for a "Chen J" search. None that I saw were <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>orthomolecular</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>DELCLOS, GEORGE L., MD <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>DIRECTOR, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">SOUTHWEST</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">CENTER</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> FOR OCCUPATIONAL AND <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>UNIVERSITY OF <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">TEXAS</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">HEALTH</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">SCIENCE</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">CENTER</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(25 Medline listings; none appear to be orthomolecular.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>DOUGLAS, JANICE G., MD <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PROFESSOR<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>MEDICINE, PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS, PHARMACOLOGY<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>CASE</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">WESTERN RESERVE</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">UNIVERSITY</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">SCHOOL</st1:PlaceType></span></st1:place><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> OF MEDICINE<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(227 Medline listings since 1968. None appear to be orthomolecular.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>FREY, JOHN J., MD <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PROFESSOR AND CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(51 Medline listings since 1973. None appear to be orthomolecular.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>KAPLAN, JERRY, PHD <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>UNIVERSITY OF <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">UTAH</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">SCHOOL</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> OF MEDICINE<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>("Kaplan J" is a common name; I saw no orthomolecular papers.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>MANNING, PHIL R., MD <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE EMERITUS<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>UNIVERSITY</span></st1:PlaceType><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> OF <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA</st1:PlaceName></span></st1:place><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(Close to 50 papers; none appear to be orthomolecular.) <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>MCCLURE, LUCRETIA W. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>COUNTWAY LIBRARY OF MEDICINE<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>HARVARD</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">MEDICAL</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">SCHOOL</st1:PlaceType></span></st1:place><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(23 papers on Medline; none appear to be orthomolecular.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>SHARPS, PHYLLIS<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>W, PHD <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR; DIRECTOR, MASTER'S PROGRAM<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>SCHOOL</span></st1:PlaceType><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> OF <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">NURSING</st1:PlaceName></span></st1:place><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>JOHNS</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">HOPKINS</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">UNIVERSITY</st1:PlaceType></span></st1:place><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(8 papers listed on Medline; none seem to be orthomolecular.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>SIEGEL, VIVIAN<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>SAN FRANCISCO</span></st1:City><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><st1:State
w:st="on">CA</st1:State></span></st1:place><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(19 papers listed on Medline; none appear to be orthomolecular.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>SOEHNER, CATHERINE B. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>HEAD, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING LIBRARY<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>UNIVERSITY</span></st1:PlaceType><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> OF <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">CALIFORNIA</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">SANTA CRUZ</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(One listing on Medline, which does not appear to be orthomolecular.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>STERNBERG, ESTHER M., MD<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>(6/30/2007)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>DIRECTOR, INTEGRATIVE NEURAL IMMUNE PROGRAM<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(93 papers indexed on Medline; none appear to be orthomolecular.) <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>TOM-ORME, LILLIAN, PHD<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>(6/30/2006)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">HEALTH</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">RESEARCH</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">CENTER</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>DEPT. OF FAMILY & PREVENTIVE MEDICINE<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>UNIVERSITY</span></st1:PlaceType><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> OF <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">UTAH</st1:PlaceName></span></st1:place><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(3 papers listed on Medline; none appear to be orthomolecular.) <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>WEISSMAN, NORMAN, PHD <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PROFESSOR, HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>UNIVERSITY</span></st1:PlaceType><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> OF <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">ALABAMA</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">BIRMINGHAM</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(At least 20 papers listed on Medline; none seem to be orthomolecular.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>SCIENTIFIC REVIEW ADMINISTRATOR:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>KOTZIN, SHELDON<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICES DIVISION<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>BETHESDA</span></st1:City><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><st1:State
w:st="on">MD</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">20894</st1:PostalCode></span></st1:place><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(Medline's editor has 15 papers of his own on Medline; none seem to be <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>orthomolecular</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>.) <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Based on what I saw, with Medline's own listings as my source, <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>the <o:p></o:p></b></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>National Library of Medicine's Medline journal review Advisory Committee <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>appears to contain **not one single member** with orthomolecular training <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>or</span></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> experience. <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Not one, out of all 15 of them.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Some jury, eh? <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>If anyone feels I have erred in my conclusions, I invite corrections for, and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>especially letters from, any member of the committee who feels that they <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>have</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> not been accurately represented above.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>There was once another "Index" that stood for over four hundred years. It <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>was created and perpetuated specifically to control thoughts, ideas, and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>reading</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> material. It was part of a clandestine power-process that Medline <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>would do well to avoid emulating in any way, shape or form: The <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Inquisition.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>"The Congregation of the Inquisition was initially charged with drawing up <o:p></o:p></span></i></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>a</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'> complete list of forbidden books. This list, the first general one, was <o:p></o:p></span></i></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>published</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'> in 1559. . . The last edition of the Index was that of 1948; it was <o:p></o:p></span></i></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>abolished in 1966 . . . During the proceedings against Galileo in 1633, his <o:p></o:p></span></i></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World was placed on <o:p></o:p></span></i></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'> Index, where it remained until 1824."</span></i><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> (Albert Van <span
class=SpellE>Helden</span>. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Congregation of the Index; 1995. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/c_index.html">http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/c_index.html</a> )<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>From Socrates to Orwell to every home computer user on Earth, free-<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>thinking</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> people everywhere rebel at the very idea of thought control. There <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>is</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> little difference between freedom of speech and freedom of literature. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>But if people cannot find it, they cannot read it. If they cannot easily find it, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>they</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> can not easily read it. These days, you don't have to burn literature; <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>just</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> make it hard to access.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Here are non-Medline links to some online <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>FREE FULL-TEXT <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>JOURNAL of ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE</i> PAPERS. <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Read and decide for yourself if they are worth indexing by your tax-supported <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Linus Pauling on Mental Illness <a
href="http://www.orthomed.org/pauling2.htm">http://www.orthomed.org/pauling2.htm</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(and also at <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.com/library/articles/orthotheory.shtml">http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.com/library/articles/orthotheory.shtml</a> )<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Linus Pauling Defines Orthomolecular Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.orthomed.org/pauling.htm">http://www.orthomed.org/pauling.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Principles of Orthomolecular Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.orthomed.org/kunin.htm">http://www.orthomed.org/kunin.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Orthomolecular Case Histories<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.orthomed.org/wund.htm">http://www.orthomed.org/wund.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Nutritional Influences on Aggressive Behavior<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.com/library/articles/webach.shtml">http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.com/library/articles/webach.shtml</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>High Blood Pressure and Chelation<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.com/library/articles/hyper.shtml">http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.com/library/articles/hyper.shtml</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Abram Hoffer on the Megavitamin Revolution <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.com/library/articles/hoffer.shtml">http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.com/library/articles/hoffer.shtml</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>(and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>also at <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.1/Jom-ed2.htm">http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.1/Jom-ed2.htm</a> ).<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Abram Hoffer on Humphry Osmond<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.org/humphry.pdf">http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.org/humphry.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Linus Pauling and Matthias <span
class=SpellE>Rath</span> on Heart Disease<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.1/Jom-lp1.htm">http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.1/Jom-lp1.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Schizophrenia<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.1/Jom-hk1.htm">http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.1/Jom-hk1.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Lowering Health Costs with Nutrition<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.2/Jom-dh1.htm">http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.2/Jom-dh1.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Abram Hoffer on Vitamin C Deficiency <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.3/Jom-ed2.htm">http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.3/Jom-ed2.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The following Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine papers and reviews are <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>posted at my website:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Why Vitamin C Megadoses<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/cathcart_thirdface.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/cathcart_thirdface.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Vitamin C Therapy <a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/mccormick.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/mccormick.html</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/levy.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/levy.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Vitamin E Therapy <a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/evitamin.htm">http://www.doctoryourself.com/evitamin.htm</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/estory.htm">http://www.doctoryourself.com/estory.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Vitamin D <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/dvitamin.htm">http://www.doctoryourself.com/dvitamin.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Gerson Therapy<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonbio.htm">http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonbio.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Arthritis<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/JOM1.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/JOM1.html</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Vitamins and Children <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/smith1.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/smith1.html</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Why Vitamin Supplements <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/replace.htm">http://www.doctoryourself.com/replace.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Fluoridated Water Risks <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoride_cancer.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoride_cancer.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Thyroid Problems <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/thyroid.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/thyroid.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Caffeine Problems <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/caffeine_allergy.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/caffeine_allergy.html</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/caffeine2.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/caffeine2.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Background and history of the Journal<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_JOM.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_JOM.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>[</span><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>NEWSLETTER, Vol. 4, No. 17, August 5, 2004. It is archived at <a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n17.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n17.txt</a> ]<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>NOTE: All issues of the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> from <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>1994 through 2001 are now online for you (and the world's search <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>engines) to find and read, Medline or no Medline, <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>at <a href="http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/">http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/</a> The remaining twenty-five <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>years prior to 1994 are planned to be posted, also for free reading, <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>within</span></b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> the next year or so.<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Part 4: <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>ANOTHER MEDLINE UPDATE<o:p></o:p></b></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Your tax-supported National Library of Medicine still does not see fit to index the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>peer-reviewed</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i>. But look here and marvel at <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>what they DO choose to index:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Time </span></i><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>magazine. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Yes, <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Time</i>. Hardly a peer-reviewed medical journal, now, is it?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Believe it or not, there are no fewer than 1,260 indexed articles on Medline just <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>from</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Time </i>magazine. Here: see for yourself what your taxes pay for. Go to Medline <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(<a
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi</a>) and do your own two-second <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>search for "time magazine news" (but when you do so, leave out the quotation <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>marks</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>).<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>That was fun, now, wasn't it?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Are your ready? Let's try <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>NEWSWEEK!</i><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I got 1,136 Medline responses for <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Newsweek</i>. How about you?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Ah, <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Newsweek</i>: the very epitome of biomedical scholarship.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>How do <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Time </i>and <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Newsweek</i> get indexed by Medline? Well, that's easy: by <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>meeting the standards of their Technical Review Committee, whose members were <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>all named in a previous Doctor Yourself Newsletter <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(<a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n17.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n17.txt</a> ). My readers have been told, by <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Medline Executive Editor Sheldon Kotzin or one of his assistants, that the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>standards for inclusion in Medline are quite exacting and are posted at <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html">http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html</a><span
class=GramE> </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Let's look at them. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>There seem to be eight "Critical Elements" for Medline indexing:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>1) Scope and coverage: "Articles predominantly on core biomedical subjects." <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(<i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Time</i> and <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Newsweek</i>, who cover everything from Michael Moore to Madonna, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>hardly</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> fit this criterion.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>2) Quality of content: "Scientific merit of a journal's content is the primary <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>consideration</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>." (Nor do they meet this requirement.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>3) Quality of editorial work: "External peer review." (I am unaware that <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Time</i> and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Newsweek</span></i><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'> are peer-reviewed, but then I confess that I did let my subscriptions <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>lapse once . . . )<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>4) Production quality: "Should be printed on acid-free paper." (OK, I concede that <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Time</span></i><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'> and <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Newsweek</i> do use wonderful, really wonderful paper.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>5) Audience: "MEDLINE and Index <span
class=SpellE>Medicus</span> are intended primarily for those in the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>health professions: researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>students</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>." (I've seen <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Time</i> and <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Newsweek</i> in airports, Social Security offices, locker <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>rooms</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, buses and bars.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>6) Types of content: "Reports of original research. Original clinical observations. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Statistical compilations." (<i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Time</i> and <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Newsweek</i> contain precious little academic <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>research</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> material. I taught biology, nutrition and health science at the university <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>level</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> for nine years. None of my colleagues ever spoke of submitting their original <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>papers</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> to either <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Time </i>or <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Newsweek</i>. I wonder why not?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>7) Foreign language journals; and 8) Geographic coverage: <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Time</i> and <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Newsweek </i><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span class=GramE><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>certainly</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> meet those requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>So do <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Cosmopolitan</i> and <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Playboy</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>CATEGORICALLY SPEAKING<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The National Library of Medicine/MEDLINE allows for "four broad categories of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>journals":<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>1. Research journals<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>2. Clinical or practice journals<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>3. Review journals<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>4. General or all-purpose journals<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>But neither <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Time</i> nor <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Newsweek</i> are journals at all.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I furthermore submit that neither <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Time </i>nor <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Newsweek</i> meet the standards set by <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) or the Council of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Science Editors (CSE).<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(<a
href="http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/services/draft_approved.cfm">http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/services/draft_approved.cfm</a> ).<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>It appears that at the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE, the rules they apply <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>to</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> others evidently do not apply to themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>ENOUGH IS ENOUGH<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I decided to file a formal complaint with my Senator.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Dear Hon. Senator Clinton,<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I would very much appreciate your assistance in obtaining some real answers to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>specific questions I have directed in writing to a Federal agency, but without a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>satisfactory</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> response.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I am interested in finding out why the National Library of Medicine has not <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>responded adequately to my inquiry as to why it has not chosen to index a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>particular</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> medical journal. To me, this seems like a reasonable inquiry. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Because I and many other citizens are interested in nutrition therapy, I think the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</span></i><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> (which has been published for 36 consecutive <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>years</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>) should be included in the <span
class=SpellE>NLM's</span> MEDLINE electronic index. However, it is <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>not</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I wrote to MEDLINE, specifically to the Executive Editor, Mr. Sheldon Kotzin. I <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>received</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> a nonspecific reply, which I think is an unsatisfactory response.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I already know that the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> has been excluded <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>from <span
class=SpellE>MEDLINE's</span> index by a NLM "Literature Selection Technical Review <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Committee," and that the committee characteristically does not make its reasons <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>public</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. There is also no public hearing.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>However, as a taxpayer, whose taxes help fund NLM and help pay Mr. <span
class=SpellE>Kotzins</span>' <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span class=GramE><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>salary</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, I wish to know why, exactly, this particular Journal was excluded. In other <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>words</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, which individual itemized standards were not met? And, which ones were in <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>fact</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> met? I do not want to be referred to a list of standards and left to guess what a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>committee</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> decided behind closed doors; I wish to see a <span
class=SpellE>scoresheet</span>, so to speak.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I also do not wish to be told that this process is all some sort of a secret. The NLM <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>says of itself, "The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the largest medical library <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>in</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the world. The goal of the NLM is to collect, organize and make available <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>biomedical</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> literature to advance medical science and improve public health."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>That includes my family's health. I think detailed, individual reasons for Medline's <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>excluding</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> a particular journal should be public information. I have asked a senior <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>member of a federal office for information and that information has so far been <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>denied</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> to me. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Your assistance would mean a great deal to me. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(end of letter)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>No response from the Senator yet. (As of November, 2006 still no response from Senator Clinton, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>after</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> multiple telephone and written requests.) <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Don't you love it when your taxes have to be paid on time, but it takes forever to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>get</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> a response from the people whose salaries your taxes pay for?<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<pre><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>[This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>NEWSLETTER, Vol. 4, No. 21, October 5, 2004. It is archived at <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n21.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n21.txt</a> ]<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<pre><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Part 5: <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>THE DOCTOR YOURSELF **MEDLINE COMEDY CONTEST**<o:p></o:p></b></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The Doctor Yourself Newsletter is soliciting your entry for the most <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>ridiculous, unscientific, or just plain goofy article currently to be found on <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE. It's so easy to play: just go to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi</a> and start searching for any <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>foolish</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> topic of any kind that you wish. The weirder the better. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>For example: In the "Search <span
class=SpellE>PubMed</span> for" box, type in "flatulence" and you <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>will</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> get 1,233 indexed citations.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Honestly, this is like shooting fish in a barrel. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>When you find a real <span
class=SpellE>doozy</span>, cut and paste the entire citation into a plain <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>text email (no attachments will be accepted) and send it to me (limit five <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>submissions</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> per reader) to <a
href="mailto:drsaul@doctoryourself.com">drsaul@doctoryourself.com</a> . So I find it in my <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>non-MEDLINE indexed email Inbox, please use MEDLINE COMEDY <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>CONTEST as your message subject heading.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The Doctor Yourself Newsletter's "Winner Selection Technical Review <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Committee" will then meet behind closed doors, and without telling you <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>anything about the actual scoring process, will decide which entry is the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>winner</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(Did you get the joke? If not, please look at <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html">http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html</a> or do a quick search for <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Medline JOM" using the search box near the top of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/">http://www.doctoryourself.com</a><span
class=GramE> </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Seriously, this really is a contest, and here is the grand prize: my last copy <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>of "Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C: The Clinical Work of <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Frederick</st1:place></st1:City> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>R. Klenner, M.D." by Lendon Smith, M.D. The reader submitting what we <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>judge to be "The World's Most Absurd Medline Citation" will, if he or she <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>resides in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> or <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>, receive this authoritative 68 page <span
class=SpellE>megadose</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span class=GramE><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>vitamin</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> C booklet absolutely free by first class mail. (If an overseas reader <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>wins</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, it's coming by boat, so don't wait up.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>While there will be only one actual prizewinner, favorite runner-up entries <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>will</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> be published in the Newsletter. This contest ends when the next <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Doctor Yourself Newsletter is sent out, or when the feds shut me down, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>whichever</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> comes first.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>So join the fun! Search MEDLINE <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(<a
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi</a> ) today! After all, your taxes <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>pay</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> for it.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Officers, staff, review committee members and editors at the National <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Library of Medicine are not eligible for entry. No particular legal reason; it's <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>just</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> an arbitrary decision on our part.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>What's that? You detect <span
class=GramE>a certain</span> sarcasm in my tone? I fail to see why. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>There is nothing at all funny about the world's largest medical library <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>arbitrarily refusing to index certain scholarly information for professional <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>and</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> public access. For instance<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>: the following papers by twice-Nobel-prize <o:p></o:p></b></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>winning Linus Pauling are not on Medline simply because they happened <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>to</span></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> be published in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Rath</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> M, Pauling L. Solution To the Puzzle of Human Cardiovascular <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Disease: Its Primary Cause Is Ascorbate Deficiency <span
class=SpellE>ading</span> to the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Deposition of <span
class=GramE>Lipoprotein(</span>a) and Fibrinogen/Fibrin in the Vascular Wall. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, <span
class=SpellE>Vol</span> 6, 3&4th Quarters, 1991, p 125.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Pauling L, <span
class=SpellE>Rath</span> M. An Orthomolecular Theory of Human Health and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Disease. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, <span
class=SpellE>Vol</span> 6, 3&4th Quarters, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>1991, p135.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Rath</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> M, Pauling L. <span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Apoprotein</span></span><span class=GramE>(</span>a) Is An Adhesive Protein. Journal of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Orthomolecular Medicine, <span
class=SpellE>Vol</span> 6, 3&4th Quarters, 1991, p139.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Rath</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> M, Pauling L. Case Report: Lysine/Ascorbate Related Amelioration of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Angina Pectoris. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, <span
class=SpellE>Vol</span> 6, 3&4th <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Quarters, 1991, p 144.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(If you note carefully, you will see that all four of the above Pauling articles <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>appeared</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> in one single volume of the Journal. We would not want word of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>THAT to get <span
class=GramE>out,</span> now would we. And there's more: )<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Rath</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> M, Pauling L. A Unified theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Leading the Way To the Abolition of This Diseases As A Cause for Human <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Mortality. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 7, First Quarter <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>1992, p 5.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Rath</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> M, Pauling L. <span
class=SpellE>Plamin</span>-induced Proteolysis and the Role of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Apoprotein</span></span></span><span class=GramE><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>a), Lysine and Synthetic Lysine Analogs. Journal of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 7, First Quarter 1992, p 17.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Pauling L. Third Case Report on Lysine-ascorbate Amelioration of Angina <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Pectoris. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 8, Third Quarter, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>1993, p 137.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Hoffer A, Pauling L. Hardin Jones <span
class=SpellE>Biostatistical</span> Analysis of Mortality Data <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>for A Second Set of Cohorts of Cancer Patients with A Large Fraction <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Surviving At the Termination of the Study and A Comparison of Survival <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Times of Cancer Patients Receiving Large Regular Oral Doses of Vitamin <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>C and Other Nutrients with Similar Patients Not Receiving these Doses. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, <span
class=SpellE>Vol</span> 8, Third Quarter, 1993, p 157.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Why are these papers by Linus Pauling not indexed by the amply <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>taxpayer-funded</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> National Library of Medicine? It is not because the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>subjects</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> are uninteresting. Nor is it because Pauling coauthored them with <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Matthais</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <span
class=SpellE>Rath</span>, M.D., since the following papers ARE indexed on Medline. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Same authors; same topics. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Rath</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> M, Pauling L. Immunological evidence for the accumulation of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>lipoprotein(a) in the atherosclerotic lesion of the <span
class=SpellE>hypoascorbemic</span> guinea <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>pig</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. Proc <span
class=SpellE>Natl</span> <span class=SpellE>Acad</span> <span class=SpellE>Sci</span> U S A. 1990 Dec<span
class=GramE>;87</span>(23):9388-90. PMID: 2147514 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>[<span
class=SpellE>PubMed</span> - indexed for MEDLINE]<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Rath</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> M, Pauling L. Hypothesis: <span
class=GramE>lipoprotein(</span>a) is a surrogate for ascorbate. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Proc <span
class=SpellE>Natl</span> <span class=SpellE>Acad</span> <span class=SpellE>Sci</span> U S A. 1990 Aug<span
class=GramE>;87</span>(16):6204-7. Erratum in: Proc <span class=SpellE>Natl</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Acad</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <span
class=SpellE>Sci</span> U S A 1991 Dec 5<span class=GramE>;88</span>(24):11588. PMID: 2143582 [<span
class=SpellE>PubMed</span> - <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>indexed for MEDLINE]<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Pauling L, Herman ZS. Criteria for the validity of clinical trials of treatments <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>of</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> cohorts of cancer patients based on the Hardin Jones principle. Proc <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Natl</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <span
class=SpellE>Acad</span> <span class=SpellE>Sci</span> U S A. 1989 Sep<span
class=GramE>;86</span>(18):6835-7. PMID: 2780542 [<span class=SpellE>PubMed</span> - <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>indexed for MEDLINE]<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Pauling L.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
class=SpellE>Biostatistical</span> analysis of mortality data for cohorts of cancer <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>patients</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. Proc <span
class=SpellE>Natl</span> <span class=SpellE>Acad</span> <span class=SpellE>Sci</span> U S A. 1989 May<span
class=GramE>;86</span>(10):3466-8. PMID: <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>2726729 [<span
class=SpellE>PubMed</span> - indexed for MEDLINE]<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I think it is absurd that Medline, which has indexed 116 papers by Linus <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Pauling, excludes equally valuable work of his due to where it first <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>appeared</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>For my readers who think I've harped on this issue long enough, you can <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>unsubscribe</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> by returning this email to me (with the headers intact, please).<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>For my readers who think I have just begun to fight, you are correct. The <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>emperor</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> has no clothes. The National Library of Medicine/MEDLINE is <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>biased</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>[This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in a DOCTOR YOURSELF <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
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<pre><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Part 6: AND AWAY WE GO!<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Yes, Here Are the <b
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>MEDLINE COMEDY CONTEST!<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
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"Courier New"'>CAUTION: This portion of the Doctor Yourself Newsletter is rated PG-13 for <o:p></o:p></span></i></pre><pre><i
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"Courier New"'>Strong Suggestive Scientific Content. Parental Guidance is Recommended. <o:p></o:p></span></i></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Thanks to all for filling this wonderful grab bag. OK, OK! No more! The contest <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>is now officially over, and the winning Medline citation will be announced . . . in <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>our</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> NEXT issue.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I really did learn a lot from Ed Sullivan.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Rules Reminder: In a case when more than one reader sent in the same entry, the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>one</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> received first gets consideration. And remember: Our decision is final, secret, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>and</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> arbitrary. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Just like MEDLINE.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>And yes, these papers are all indexed by your taxpayer-supported National Library <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>of</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Medicine.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Heated socks maintain toe temperature but not always skin blood flow as mean <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>skin</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> temperature falls. <span
class=SpellE>Aviat</span> Space Environ Med. 2003 Aug<span class=GramE>;74</span>(8):891-3.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Treatment techniques for the recycling of bottle washing water in the soft drinks <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>industry</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. Water <span
class=SpellE>Sci</span> <span class=SpellE>Technol</span>. 2004<span
class=GramE>;50</span>(2):107-12. Ramirez <span class=SpellE>Camperos</span> E, <span
class=SpellE>Mijaylova</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Nacheva</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> P, Diaz Tapia E.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Bite mark or bottle top? J Forensic <span
class=SpellE>Sci</span>. 2004 Jan<span class=GramE>;49</span>(1):119-21. James H, <span
class=SpellE>Cirillo</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>GN. Forensic <span
class=SpellE>Odontology</span> Unit, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Adelaide</st1:PlaceName>, SA 5005, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"An alleged assault was reported by a 42-year-old female, with initial medical <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>examination</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> revealing an apparent bite mark on the right buttock. <span
class=SpellE>Odontological</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>examination, including visual assessment, full history and photographs showed <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>that</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the injury did not meet the class characteristics of a human bite. Subsequent <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>digital overlay production showed that the injury pattern was consistent with a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>corrugated</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> bottle top. This case highlights the need for careful assessment of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>injuries</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> alleged to be caused by human teeth."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Animal waste: the smell of success or the stench of trouble? Herrick JB. J Am Vet <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Med Assoc. 1995 Jan 15<span
class=GramE>;206</span>(2):162-3.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The eyebrow frown: a salient social signal. Tipples J, Atkinson AP, Young AW. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Emotion. 2002 Sep<span
class=GramE>;2</span>(3):288-96.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Seven experiments investigated the finding that threatening schematic faces are <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>detected</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> more quickly than <span
class=SpellE>nonthreatening</span> faces. Threatening faces with v-shaped <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>eyebrows (angry and scheming expressions) were detected more quickly than <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>nonthreatening</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> faces with inverted v-shaped eyebrows (happy and sad <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>expressions</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>). In contrast to the hypothesis that these effects were due to perceptual <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>features unrelated to the face, no advantage was found for v-shaped eyebrows <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>presented</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> in a <span
class=SpellE>nonfacelike</span> object. Furthermore, the addition of internal facial <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>features (the eyes, or the nose and mouth) was necessary to produce the detection <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>advantage</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> for faces with v-shaped eyebrows. Overall, the results are interpreted as <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>showing that the v-shaped eyebrow configuration affords easy detection, but only <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>when</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> other internal facial features are present."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>J Vector Ecol. 1998 Dec<span
class=GramE>;23</span>(2):186-94. Olfactory responses and field attraction of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>mosquitoes</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> to volatiles from Limburger cheese and human foot odor. Kline DL.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>A study of diurnal variation in wrinkles on the human face. Arch <span
class=SpellE>Dermatol</span> Res. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>2004 Aug 20. <span
class=SpellE>Tsukahara</span> K, <span class=SpellE>Moriwaki</span> S, <span
class=SpellE>Hotta</span> M, Fujimura T, <span class=SpellE>Kitahara</span> T. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"We recently evaluated diurnal variations in facial skin elasticity and thickness <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>and reported a decrease in skin thickness and an increase in skin elasticity in the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>afternoon</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> compared with the morning. This phenomenon may be associated with <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> effect of gravity on dermal fluids. There have been no reports on the diurnal <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>variation</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> in wrinkles on the face, and we now describe such a study. . .<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>results of skin thickness and skin elasticity were in agreement with those of our <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>last</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> study. Swelling tended to occur in the morning due to the effects of gravity <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>during</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> sleep. Therefore, wrinkles may be swollen in the morning. Furthermore, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>repeated movements of the face due to changes of facial expression may gradually <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>increase</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> wrinkle formation and depth from the morning to the afternoon."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Patterson S.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Windy babies. Med J <span
class=SpellE>Aust</span>. 1966 Mar 19<span class=GramE>;1</span>(12):506-8. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Jones FA.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
class=SpellE>Burbulence</span>. A fresh look at flatulent dyspepsia. Practitioner. 1967 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Mar<span
class=GramE>;198</span>(185):367-70. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Wigs, laughter, and subversion: Charles Busch and strategies of drag <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>performance</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. J <span
class=SpellE>Homosex</span>. 2004<span class=GramE>;46</span>(3-4):35-53. <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Niles</st1:place></st1:City> R. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"This paper examines the strategies of drag performer/ playwright Charles Busch. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>His performance aesthetic is explored and shown to be subversive even though its <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>initial</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> impulse is to entertain. Basing my arguments on the work of Judith Butler, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Elin</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Diamond, and others, I argue that drag queens like Busch can not only <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>entertain but also make audiences question and criticize through drag's power to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>create a <span
class=SpellE>Brechtian</span> alienation effect and historicize the subject . . . By examining <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the performance of Busch and his fellow actors, I demonstrate how a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>contemporary relevancy is achieved by having the roles played by a female <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>impersonator</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> whose acting choices are filtered through a gay sensibility. The <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>ongoing dialectic between spectator and performer creates a historicized moment <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>in performance that underscores the gender dynamics in unexpected and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>stimulating</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> ways."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Respiration. 2004 Jan-Feb<span
class=GramE>;71</span>(1):104. Chin stimulation: a trigger point for <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>provoking</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> acute hiccups. <span
class=SpellE>Todisco</span> T, <span class=SpellE>Todisco</span> C, <span
class=SpellE>Bruni</span> L, <span class=SpellE>Donato</span> R. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Psychophysiology. 2004 Mar<span
class=GramE>;41</span>(2):281-7. Staring at one side of the face increases <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>blood</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> flow on that side of the face. Drummond PD, <span
class=SpellE>Mirco</span> N.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"To investigate the effect of observation on blushing, an experimenter sat next to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>28 participants and looked closely at one cheek while the participant sang <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(<span
class=GramE>embarrassing</span>) or read aloud (not embarrassing). Increases in cheek temperature <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>were</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> greater on the observed than the unobserved side during both tasks. Changes <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>in cheek temperature were symmetrical when the experimenter sat next to another <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>23 participants and looked straight ahead, as well as when the experimenter stared <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>at one side of the participant's face through a glass window while the participant <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>sang</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. However, increases in <span
class=SpellE>cutaneous</span> blood flow were greater on the observed <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>than</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the unobserved side of the forehead during singing. These findings suggest <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>that staring at one side of the face triggers an <span
class=SpellE>ipsilateral</span> increase in facial blood <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>flow</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Int</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> J <span
class=SpellE>Obes</span> <span class=SpellE>Relat</span> <span class=SpellE>Metab</span> <span
class=SpellE>Disord</span>. 2001 Apr<span class=GramE>;25</span>(4):590-2. Thinness and body shape <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>of</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Playboy centerfolds from 1978 to 1998. <span
class=SpellE>Katzmarzyk</span> PT, Davis C.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Pers</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Soc <span
class=SpellE>Psychol</span> Bull. 2004 Sep<span class=GramE>;30</span>(9):1186-97. Playboy Playmate curves: <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>changes in facial and body feature preferences across social and economic <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>conditions</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. <span
class=SpellE>Pettijohn</span> TF 2nd, <span class=SpellE>Jungeberg</span> BJ. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Past research has investigated ideals of beauty and how these ideals have <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>changed</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> across time. In the current study, facial and body characteristics of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Playboy Playmates of the Year from 1960-2000 were identified and investigated <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>to</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> explore their relationships with <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> social and economic factors. Playmate of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the Year age, body feature measures, and facial feature measurements were <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>correlated</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> with a general measure of social and economic hard times. Consistent <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>with Environmental Security Hypothesis predictions, when social and economic <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>conditions were difficult, older, heavier, taller Playboy Playmates of the Year with <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>larger waists, smaller eyes, larger waist-to-hip ratios, smaller bust-to-waist ratios, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>and</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> smaller body mass index values were selected. These results suggest that <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>environmental security may influence perceptions and preferences for women <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>with</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> certain body and facial features."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>J <span
class=SpellE>Clin</span> Psychiatry. 1995 Feb<span class=GramE>;56</span>(2):56-9. <span
class=SpellE>Rhinotillexomania</span>: psychiatric disorder or <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>habit</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>? Jefferson JW, Thompson TD.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"BACKGROUND: Conditions once considered bad habits are now recognized as <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>psychiatric</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> disorders (<span
class=SpellE>trichotillomania</span>, <span class=SpellE>onychopagia</span>). We hypothesized that nose <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>picking is another such "habit," a common benign practice in most adults but a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>time-consuming, socially compromising, or physically harmful condition <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(<span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>rhinotillexomania</span></span>) in some. METHODS: We developed the <span
class=SpellE>Rhinotillexomania</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Questionnaire, mailed it to 1000 randomly selected adult residents of Dane <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>County, Wisconsin, and requested anonymous responses. The returned <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>questionnaires were analyzed according to age, sex, marital status, living <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>arrangement</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, and educational level. Nose picking was characterized according to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>time involved, level of distress, location, attitudes toward self and others regarding <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the practice, technique, methods of disposal, reasons, complications, and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>associated</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> habits and psychiatric disorders. RESULTS: Two hundred fifty-four <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>subjects</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> responded. Ninety-one percent were current nose pickers although only <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>75% felt "almost everyone does it"; 1.2% picked at least every hour. For 2 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>subjects (0.8%), nose picking caused moderate to marked interferences with daily <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>functioning</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. Two subjects spent between 15 and 30 minutes and 1 over 2 hours a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>day</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> picking their nose. For 2 others, perforation of the nasal septum was a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>complication</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. Associated "habits" included picking cuticles (25%), picking at skin <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(20%), biting fingernails (18%), and pulling out hair (6%). CONCLUSION: This <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>first population survey of nose picking suggests that it is an almost universal <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>practice</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> in adults but one that should not be considered pathologic for most. For <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>some</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, however, the condition may meet criteria for a disorder-<span
class=SpellE>rhinotillexomania</span>."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Sud</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Med <span
class=SpellE>Ekspert</span>. 2004 Jul-Aug<span class=GramE>;47</span>(4):38-40. [The role of carrier-object in <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>investigations of cigar-butts] [Article in Russian] [No authors listed]<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"A comprehensive series of experiments was undertaken to find the reasons why <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the cigar-butt stuff, removed from accident places for investigation at forensic-<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>biological</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> laboratories, affects different sera. A number of such reasons were <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>established</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. Methods are suggested to eliminate the cigar-butt impact with the aim <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>of ensuring the most accurate results while determining the group adherence of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>saliva</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> on the cigar-butts."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Psychophysiological</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> responding during script-driven imagery in people reporting <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>abduction</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> by space aliens. <span
class=SpellE>Psychol</span> <span class=SpellE>Sci</span>. 2004 Jul<span
class=GramE>;15</span>(7):493-7. McNally RJ, <span class=SpellE>Lasko</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>NB, Clancy SA, Macklin ML, Pitman RK, Orr SP.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>[No authors listed] Coca-Cola Space Can undergoes successful test by cosmonauts <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>onboard</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Soviet space station Mir. AIAA Stud J. 1992 Winter<span
class=GramE>;29</span>(4):14-5. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Hong CY, <span
class=SpellE>Shieh</span> CC, Wu P, Chiang BN. The spermicidal potency of Coca-Cola <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>and</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Pepsi-Cola. Hum <span
class=SpellE>Toxicol</span>. 1987 Sep<span class=GramE>;6</span>(5):395-6. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span class=SpellE><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Spina</span></span></st1:City><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <st1:State
w:st="on">MB</st1:State></span></st1:place><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. "...Nothing beats stamp collecting..." (Dr. Alan <span
class=SpellE>Drinnan</span>). TIC. 1979 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Aug<span
class=GramE>;38</span>(8):12-5. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Total infarction of the penis caused by entrapment in a plastic bottle. <span
class=SpellE>Urologe</span> A. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>2004 Jul<span
class=GramE>;43</span>(7):843-4. [Article in German] <span class=SpellE>Maruschke</span> M, <span
class=SpellE>Seiter</span> H.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>An objective evaluation of the waterproofing qualities, ease of insertion and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>comfort</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> of commonly available earplugs. <span
class=SpellE>Clin</span> <span class=SpellE>Otolaryngol</span>. 2004 Apr;29(2):128-<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>32. Chisholm EJ, <span
class=SpellE>Kuchai</span> R, <span class=SpellE>McPartlin</span> D.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Earplugs are commonly recommended to protect the middle ear from water in <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>patients</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> with exposed middle ears. This study assessed the waterproofing <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>qualities</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, ease of insertion and comfort of six commonly available earplugs. Ten <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>subjects (20 ears) were assessed by placing a pre-weighed neurosurgical <span
class=SpellE>pattie</span> in <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span class=GramE><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>their</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> cleaned ear canal under microscope guidance. The subjects underwent a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>standardized</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> head wetting regime. The outer ear was dried, earplug and <span
class=SpellE>pattie</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span class=GramE><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>removed</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> and <span
class=SpellE>pattie</span> reweighed. The difference in weight was calculated. The <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>subjects were also asked to score the difficulty of insertion and comfort of the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>earplugs</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> on a visual analogue scale. The results show a significant difference in <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> waterproofing qualities of the various types of earplugs. Cotton wool with <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>petroleum</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> jelly was the most effective (P < 0.001). It was also the easiest to insert <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>and</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the most comfortable for the subject (P < 0.001)."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Tickle.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>J Am <span
class=SpellE>Acad</span> <span class=SpellE>Dermatol</span>. 2004 Jan<span
class=GramE>;50</span>(1):93-7. <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Selden ST</st1:address></st1:Street>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Tickle is a familiar sensation that may have two components: a light or feather-<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>type noxious sensation termed by Hall and <span
class=SpellE>Allin</span> as <span class=SpellE>knismesis</span>, and a heavy or <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>laughter-associated</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> sensation termed <span
class=SpellE>gargalesis</span>. Studies on the sensation of tickle <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>have</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> generally been on one sensation or the other, but not on both. . . <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>It is unclear why some skin sites are more ticklish than other sites. . . " <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The four 'Vs' for foot care. Vaseline, vegetable shortening, vinegar and Vicks <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>VapoRub</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. Adv Nurse <span
class=SpellE>Pract</span>. 2004 Jun<span class=GramE>;12</span>(6):67-70, 84. <span
class=SpellE>Kelechi</span> TJ, Stroud S.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Using current on-line carcass evaluation parameters to estimate boneless and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>bone-in</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> pork carcass yield as influenced by trim level. Berg EP, Grams DW, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Miller RK, Wise JW, Forrest JC, <span
class=SpellE>Savell</span> JW.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"The objective of this study was to develop prediction equations for estimating <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>proportional carcass yield to a variety of external trim levels and bone-in and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>boneless</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> pork primal cuts. Two hundred pork carcasses were selected from six <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> pork processing plants and represented USDA carcass grades (25% USDA <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>#1, 36% USDA #2, 25% USDA #3, and 14% USDA #4). Carcasses were <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>measured (<span
class=SpellE>prerigor</span> and after a 24 h chill) for fat and muscle depth at the last rib <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(LR) and between the third and fourth from last rib (TH) with a Hennessy optical <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>grading</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> probe (OGP). Carcasses were shipped to <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Texas</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">A&M</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, where <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>one</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> was randomly assigned for fabrication. . . Total dissected carcass lean was <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>used</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> to calculate the percentage of total carcass lean (PLEAN). Lean tissue <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>subsamples</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> were collected for chemical fat-free analysis and percentage carcass <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>fat-free</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> lean (FFLEAN) was determined. <span
class=SpellE>Longissimus</span> muscle area and fat depth <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>also</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> were collected at the 10th and 11th rib interface during fabrication. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Regression equations were developed from linear carcass and OGP measurements <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>predicting</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> FLC of each fabrication point. Loin muscle and fat depths from the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>OPG obtained on warm, <span
class=SpellE>prerigor</span> carcasses at the TH interface were more accurate <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>predictors of fabrication end points than warm carcass probe depth obtained at the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>last</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> rib or either of the chilled carcass probe sites (probed at TH or LR). Fat and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>loin muscle depth obtained via OGP explained 46.7, 52.6, and 57.1% (residual <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>mean square error [RMSE] = 3.30, 3.19, and 3.04%) of the variation in the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>percentage of BI-FLC trimmed to .64, .32, and 0 cm of <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class=SpellE>s.c</span>.</st1:place></st1:State> fat, respectively, and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>49.0, 53.9, and 60.7% (RMSE = 2.91, 2.81, and 2.69%) of the variation in the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>percentage</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> of BL-FLC trimmed to .64, .32, and 0 cm of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on"><span class=SpellE>s.c</span>.</st1:State></st1:place> fat, respectively. Fat <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>and loin muscle depth from warm carcass OGP probes at the TH interface <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>accounted for 62.4 and 63.5% (RMSE = 3.38 and 3.27%) of the variation in <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PLEAN and FFLEAN, respectively. These equations provide an opportunity to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>estimate pork carcass yield for a variety of procurement end point equations using <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>existing</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> on-line techniques."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Kool-Aid colitis. N <span
class=SpellE>Engl</span> J Med. 1990 Apr 5<span class=GramE>;322</span>(14):1012. Sack J.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Effect on tipping of barman drawing a sun on the bottom of customers' checks. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Psychol</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> Rep. 2000 Aug<span
class=GramE>;87</span>(1):223-6. <span class=SpellE>Gueguen</span> N, <span
class=SpellE>Legoherel</span> P. <span class=SpellE>Laboratoire</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>GRESICO, IUT de <span
class=SpellE>Vannes-Departement</span> TC, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><span class=SpellE>Universite</span> de Bretagne-<span
class=SpellE>Sud</span></st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Previous research has demonstrated that a pleasant drawing (a smiling face) on a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>restaurant</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> bill increased the number of tips left by clients. A similar experiment <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>was carried out using a drawing of the sun since it is known that tips increase on <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>sunny</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> days. The experiment was carried out in local bars and involved clients who <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>have</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> ordered an espresso coffee. Analysis showed that the drawing of the sun led <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>clients</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> to leave a tip more frequently than when this drawing is not present. The <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>size</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> of the tip left was also higher. The hypothesis of the creation of a positive <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>frame</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> of mind by this stimulus is discussed."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(Publication Types: Clinical Trial; Randomized Controlled Trial)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Health <span
class=SpellE>Foodserv</span> <span class=SpellE>Mag</span>. 2000 Winter<span
class=GramE>;10</span>(1):12. Espresso kiosks can be profitable <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>addition</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> to hospital foodservice. Myers M. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Espresso maker's wrist. <span
class=SpellE>Shusterman</span> D. West J Med. 1990 Jun<span class=GramE>;152</span>(6):721-2. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Comment in: West J Med. 1990 Dec<span
class=GramE>;153</span>(6):664-5. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Characterization of particles in cream cheese. J Dairy <span
class=SpellE>Sci</span>. 2004 Sep;87(9):2854-<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>63. <span
class=SpellE>Sainani</span> MR, <span class=SpellE>Vyas</span> HK, Tong PS. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Cream cheese is used as a spread and as an ingredient in many food applications. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>A gritty or grainy <span
class=SpellE>mouthfeel</span> is an undesirable textural defect that occurs in cream <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>cheese</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. However, the factors that cause the textural defect are not well <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>understood</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. The objectives of this study were to isolate and characterize particles <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>from</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> cream cheese and to study the effect of particles on cheese texture. Particles <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>were isolated by washing cream cheese with water first at 25 degrees C and then <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>at</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> 50 degrees C repeatedly 4 to 5 times. The size of these particles was determined <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>using</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> a particle size analyzer. . . Smooth cream cheese with only 5% (wt/wt) <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>added</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> particles was perceived as significantly grittier than the control sample. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>This experiment also revealed that the perceived grittiness increased with increase <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>in</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> amount and size of particles."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Tooth-brushing epilepsy with <span
class=SpellE>ictal</span> orgasms. Seizure. 2004 Apr<span class=GramE>;13</span>(3):179-82. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Chuang</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> YC, Lin TK, <span
class=SpellE>Lui</span> CC, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Chen</st1:City> <st1:State
w:st="on">SD</st1:State></st1:place>, Chang CS.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"We report a 41-year-old woman with complex reflex epilepsy in which seizures <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>were</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> induced exclusively by the act of tooth brushing. All the attacks occurred <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>with a specific sensation of sexual arousal and orgasm-like euphoria that were <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>followed</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> by a period of impairment of consciousness. <span
class=SpellE>Ictal</span> EEG demonstrated two <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>events of epileptic seizure that were provoked after tooth brushing for 38 and 14 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>seconds</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, respectively. . . Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed right <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>hippocampal</span></span></span><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> atrophy. We suggest that tooth-brushing epilepsy, especially with <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>sexual <span
class=SpellE>ictal</span> manifestations, may provide insight into the cerebral <span
class=SpellE>pathophysiology</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>at</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the right <span
class=SpellE>temporolimbic</span> structure."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>How about that!<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>[This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>NEWSLETTER<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>(</span></span><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Vol. 4, No. 22, October 20, 2004. It is archived at <a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n22.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n22.txt</a> ]<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>MEDLINE COMEDY CONTEST: <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>MORE ENTRIES THAT WOULD NOT FIT INTO OUR LAST ISSUE<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Ear Nose Throat J. 2003 Sep<span
class=GramE>;82</span>(9):702-3. A different type of 'glue ear': report <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>of</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> an unusual case of prominent ears. Purcell EM, O'Neill AC, Regan PJ. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Prominent ears is a condition that can cause extreme psychological distress in <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>young</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> people. This cosmetic deformity can be corrected by <span
class=SpellE>otoplasty</span>, an <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>outpatient surgical procedure that is associated with a high rate of patient <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>satisfaction</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. We report the unusual case of a teenage boy who had repeatedly <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>applied <span
class=SpellE>cyanoacrylate</span> adhesive ("superglue") to his <span
class=SpellE>postauricular</span> skin in an <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>attempt</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> to pin back his prominent ears. This case of "glue ear" was ultimately <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>resolved by successful <span
class=SpellE>otoplasty</span>, although the residual effects of the glue <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>resulted</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> in delayed healing of the surgical wound."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> PMID: 14569706 [<span
class=SpellE>PubMed</span> - indexed for MEDLINE] <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Percept Mot Skills. 1993 Apr<span
class=GramE>;76</span>(2):577-8. The Easter bunny in October: is it <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>disguised</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> as a duck? <span
class=SpellE>Brugger</span> P, <span class=SpellE>Brugger</span> S. Department of Neurology, University <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Hospital <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Zurich</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"The ambiguous drawing of a duck/rabbit was shown to 265 subjects on Easter and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>to</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> 276 subjects in October. The ambiguous drawing, though perceived as a bird by <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>a</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> majority of subjects in October, was most frequently named a bunny on Easter."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PMID: 8483671 [<span
class=SpellE>PubMed</span> - indexed for MEDLINE]<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Appetite. 2004 Feb<span
class=GramE>;42</span>(1):63-9. Increasing the portion size of a packaged snack <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>increases</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> energy intake in men and women. Rolls BJ, Roe LS, <span
class=SpellE>Kral</span> TV, <span class=SpellE>Meengs</span> JS, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Wall</span></st1:City><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <st1:State w:st="on">DE</st1:State></span></st1:place><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Results from this study demonstrate that short-term energy intake increases <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>with</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> increasing package size of a snack." <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Golly, I didn't see THAT <span
class=GramE>coming,</span> did you?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Dis</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <span
class=SpellE>Manag</span>. 2003 Winter<span class=GramE>;6</span>(4):191-7. Meals at medical specialty society annual <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>meetings</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>: a preliminary assessment. La Puma J, <span
class=SpellE>Schiedermayer</span> D, Becker J. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Little is known about how meals are chosen for medical meetings. We surveyed <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> annual meeting planners for 20 major specialty societies. Thirteen (65%) <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>responded</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>; all were currently planning their next meeting. Attendance in 2000 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>was</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> reported at 113,477 physicians, with 2 million planned meals and snacks. No <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>physician was named as responsible for food choices; the meeting planner and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>staff were primarily responsible for deciding what food to serve, excluding <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>exhibit</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> halls. Twelve (92%) respondents rated "available budget" as the most <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>important</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> factor. . . .(N)o specific nutritional guidelines could be identified <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>by</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> any planner. . . (<span
class=GramE>and</span>) soda pop was offered at each break."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Perhaps this serves to explain why we get such grand nutritional advice from our <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>doctors</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Is this next one intriguing enough to get on Animal Planet?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Psychol</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. <span
class=SpellE>Sci</span>. 2004 Jul<span class=GramE>;15</span>(7):437-41. How dogs navigate to catch Frisbees. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Shaffer DM, <span
class=SpellE>Krauchunas</span> SM, Eddy M, <span class=SpellE>McBeath</span> MK. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Using micro-video cameras attached to the heads of 2 dogs, we examined their <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>optical</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> behavior while catching Frisbees. Our findings reveal that dogs use the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>same viewer-based navigational heuristics previously found with baseball players <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(i.e., maintaining the target along a linear optical trajectory, <st1:place
w:st="on">LOT</st1:place>, with <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>optical</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> speed constancy). On trials in which the Frisbee dramatically changed <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>direction, the dog maintained an <st1:place
w:st="on">LOT</st1:place> with speed constancy until it apparently <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>could no longer do so and then simply established a new <st1:place
w:st="on">LOT</st1:place> and optical speed <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>until</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> interception. This work demonstrates the use of simple control mechanisms <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>that</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> utilize invariant geometric properties to accomplish interceptive tasks. It <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>confirms a common interception strategy that extends both across species and to <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>complex</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> target trajectories." <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PMID: 15200626 [<span
class=SpellE>PubMed</span> - indexed for MEDLINE] <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Here is a duly Medline-indexed item straight from the Journal of the American <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Medical Association:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>JAMA. 2003 Oct 1<span
class=GramE>;290</span>(13):1683-4 A piece of my mind. Reflections while listening <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>to</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the <span
class=SpellE>Glazunov</span> Saxophone Concerto. <span class=SpellE>Comerci</span> GD Jr. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PMID: 14519690 [<span
class=SpellE>PubMed</span> - indexed for MEDLINE] <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>J <span
class=SpellE>Gastroenterol</span> <span class=SpellE>Hepatol</span>. 2001 Mar<span
class=GramE>;16</span>(3):349-51. A case of inability to belch. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Tomizawa</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> M, <span
class=SpellE>Kusano</span> M, Aoki T, <span class=SpellE>Ohashi</span> S, Kawamura O, <span
class=SpellE>Sekiguchi</span> T, Mori M. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"A 22-year-old man was unable to belch. He could sense <span
class=SpellE>intraesophageal</span> gas, but <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>had</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> no chest pain. An upper gastrointestinal X-ray series and <span
class=SpellE>endoscopic</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>examination</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> showed no abnormalities. Esophageal <span
class=SpellE>manometry</span> showed normal <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>relaxation of both the upper and lower esophageal sphincters with primary <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>peristalsis</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> during deglutition. However, bolus injection of air into the middle <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>esophagus</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> failed to initiate the belch reflex." <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>And, though his fate is still unlearned, this gentleman's case is now and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>forever immortalized<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>on MEDLINE as "PMID: 11339431," along with the rest of the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>lot</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER is very, very proud of MEDLINE'S academic <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>grandeur, coupled with its demonstrated commitment to sidestep nutritional <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>medicine</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. In evidence for our first assessment, the readers of this Newsletter <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>have presented a whole pile of MEDLINE-indexed research time-wasters in addition <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>to</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the ones you just read, above. As for our second criticism, several previous <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Newsletters addressed the growing scandal surrounding <span
class=SpellE>MEDLINE's</span> anti-vitamin, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>anti-orthomolecular bias: <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n14.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n14.txt</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n15.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n15.txt</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n16.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n16.txt</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n17.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n17.txt</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(If you are unacquainted with this controversy, please consider reading the Newsletters in order.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>SO WE DECIDED TO HAVE SOME FUN<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Yes, friends: late at night when the National Library of Medicine was closed, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>intrepid NEWSLETTER readers have been electronically searching MEDLINE high and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>low</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. They unearthed a <span
class=SpellE>motherlode</span> of carefully indexed nonsense.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Thus armed, the arbitrarily appointed Doctor Yourself Technical Review Committee <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>met</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> in the strictest secrecy, near the juicer in my kitchen. In so doing, we <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>sought (with the exception of the juicer) to emulate the modus operandi of your <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>taxpayer-funded</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> United States National Library of Medicine. For after all, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>MEDLINE is in fact self-described as "the <span
class=SpellE>NLM's</span> premier bibliographic database <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>health</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> care system, and the preclinical sciences."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>So, we thought, why not model on the scholarly best our nation has to offer?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Now, culled from more than 4,800 biomedical journals and over 12 million <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>citations</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, may I have the envelope, please.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(Drum roll.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>OUR GRAND PRIZE WINNER for the MEDLINE COMEDY CONTEST is:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>JUDITH ARNOLD, of <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kansas</st1:place></st1:State>, for her submission of this splendid example of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>MEDLINE'S commitment to comprehensiveness:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Olfactory responses and field attraction of mosquitoes to volatiles from <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Limburger cheese and human foot odor. Kline DL. J Vector Ecol. 1998 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Dec<span
class=GramE>;23</span>(2):186-94.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Olfactory responses of female <span
class=SpellE>Aedes</span> <span class=SpellE>aegypti</span> (Linnaeus) to various odor stimuli <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>were</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> studied in a dual-port <span
class=SpellE>olfactometer</span>. Responses (i.e., the percent of ca. 75 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>available female mosquitoes in flight chamber entering each <span
class=SpellE>olfactometer</span> port) <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>were studied toward clean conditioned air (control), human foot skin emanations <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>(collected on socks by wearing them for three days), human hand, and Limburger <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>cheese</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. Mean percent response was greatest to the human hand (80.1%), followed <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>by</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> the human worn sock (66.1%), Limburger cheese (6.4%), and control (< 0.1%). <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>In field studies the worn sock alone attracted very few mosquitoes but a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>synergistic response occurred to the sock + carbon dioxide baited traps for most <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>species of mosquitoes in six genera (<span
class=SpellE>Aedes</span>, Anopheles, <span class=SpellE>Coquillettidia</span>, <span
class=SpellE>Culex</span>, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span class=SpellE><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Culiseta</span></span></span><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>,</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> and <span
class=SpellE>Psorophora</span>). This synergistic effect persisted even when the socks <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>were</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> exposed to environmental conditions for eight consecutive days. Limburger <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>cheese alone did not attract mosquitoes to traps compared to <span
class=SpellE>unbaited</span> traps, and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>there</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> appeared to be a slight repellent effect for most mosquito species."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>PMID: 9879074 [<span
class=SpellE>PubMed</span> - indexed for MEDLINE]<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I would like to emphasize that, like most of the studies on Medline, this <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>particular one represents genuine research, competently conducted by a bona fide <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>scientist</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. The point the NEWSLETTER seeks to make is this: if Medline indexes <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>what might quite fairly be called "unique" studies, it should certainly also <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>index Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling's papers that were published in the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</span></i><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> (listed at <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n21A.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n21A.txt</a> ).<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>But MEDLINE has steadfastly refused to do so. For years. In fact, for decades. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>And we have written proof.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>LET'S LOOK AT THE SCORE<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I now have in front of me what many NEWSLETTER readers have written to Medline <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>for, and have until now been denied: the actual judging <span
class=SpellE>scoresheet</span> for the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine's</span></i><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> previous appraisals by the NLM/Medline <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"Literature Selection Technical Review Committee."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal </i>was previously reviewed in 1989 and again in 1993. Medline uses a <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>point scale of zero to 5, with five being the highest recommendation for <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>indexing</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, and zero being the lowest.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>On February 2, 1989, the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> received a 0.0 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>rating</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>On March 4, 1993, the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal </i>again received a 0.0 score.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>This, by the way, was after <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>JOM</i> had published no fewer than six papers by Linus <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Pauling.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>One cannot escape the significance of these 1989 and 1993 NLM reviews that found <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>ABSOLUTELY NO VALUE WHATSOEVER to the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i>. After <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>all</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>, "0.0" is not merely a low mark. "0.0" represents an absolute dearth of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>merit</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>. And "zero point zero" states it so flatly as to leave no room for <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>alternate</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> interpretations.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>On June 8, 2000, <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>JOM</i> received a 1.5 rating. Out of five, not nearly high enough <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>to</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> qualify for indexing.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>By then, the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal </i>had been published for 30 consecutive years. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>The most recent review, June 6, 2002 brought <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>JOM</i> a rating of 1.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Out of five.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>In this last evaluation, Medline's review committee specifically indicated that <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> had "little importance to researchers"; <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"little importance to clinicians"; "little importance to educators"; "little <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>importance to allied health professionals"; "little importance to policy <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>makers</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>"; and, incredibly, "little importance to students."<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>As a former college instructor (9 years with the State University of New York), <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>I rebel against the very notion that any committee should decide for students <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>what</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> they may or may not learn about. <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>You cannot study what you cannot find; you <o:p></o:p></b></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>cannot</span></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> find what is not indexed. <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Information censorship is unscientific, immoral and unjust.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>We are now awaiting the results of Medline's promised late October 2004 review. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Shall we be optimistic or realistic?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>It will likely be a while before <span
class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>JOM's</i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> </i>2004 Medline review results come in. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Until then, because to me there is something so compelling about smelly socks <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>and cheese, my last copy of Dr. Lendon Smith's Clinical Guide to the Use of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Vitamin C, like a Limburger-crazed MEDLINE mosquito, will presently be winging <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>its</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> way to <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Kansas</st1:State></st1:place>, to Judith Arnold, our Grand Prize Winner. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Congratulations!<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>And, a big <span
class=GramE>THANK</span> YOU to all my readers who inundated me with their entries. Loved them!<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>[This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>NEWSLETTER, Vol. 4, No. 23 for November 5, 2004. It is archived at <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n23.txt">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n23.txt</a>
]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>POSTSCRIPT:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>In early 2005, the results of
the October 2004 review were made available. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Medline had once again rejected
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>JOM.<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<pre><span style='font-family:Arial'>(For more on Medline bias, please also look at <a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/medlineup.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/medlineup.html</a> )<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>MEDLINE BIAS: AN INTERNATIONAL
INCIDENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Medline’s
refusal to index the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine is now news across
the hemispheres. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A
Norwegian magazine has published articles on the controversy. Canadian Member
of Parliament the <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hon. James
<span class=SpellE>Lunney</span> ( <a href="http://www.jameslunneymp.ca/">http://www.jameslunneymp.ca</a>
) has written a formal and detailed demand for <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>explanation</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> to the US National Library of Medicine. And now, the prestigious
British Medical Journal has<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>published a letter about Medline bias both
online <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>( </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'><a href="http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/331/7531/1487#124851">http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/331/7531/1487#124851</a>
) and in the print journal as well. This has <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>had</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'> the curious result that Medline now indexes Medline bias. (Hickey S.
Censorship of medical journals. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>BMJ. 2006
Jul 1<span class=GramE>;333</span>(7557):45. PMID: 16809720) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>For more
on the story, we turn to the author of the BMJ letter, Steve Hickey, PhD, of
the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Biology,
Chemistry, and Health Science at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Manchester</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Metropolitan</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
who writes: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>“Currently, Medline does not
index a number of important medical and scientific journals. These <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>include the Journal of
Orthomolecular Medicine; Fluoride (the journal of the International Society
for <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fluoride Research); the Journal of
Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (the journal of the British <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Society for Ecological Medicine
and associated medical societies in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>);
and the <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Journal of the American Physicians
and Surgeons, formerly Medical Sentinel (journal of the Association <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>of</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'> American Physicians and Surgeons). These publications share a common
feature: they each <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>represent</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'> an alternative viewpoint to the current medical paradigm. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>“Andrew Saul and I have
investigated the Medline indexing process and have discovered that indexing <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>relies</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'> on a selected group of experts. This implies that the indexing
process could be biased towards conventional journals, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>simply</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'> by selecting panel members with a particular viewpoint. This indexing
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>process also produces anomalies in
the other direction: Time magazine and Readers' Digest, for <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>example</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>. Apparently, Medline deems these popular magazines to be more
relevant to medical <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>research</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'> than the serious journals listed above. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>TWO IMMEDIATE ACTION STEPS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1) <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>“If you do not agree with the
exclusion of one or more of these journals, or if you consider that <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Medline should publish clear,
complete and definitive criteria on the requirements for journals to be <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>indexed (which should be met by
all currently indexed journals), please email us at <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="mailto:medlinebias@yahoo.com" target="_blank">medlinebias@yahoo.com</a>
or </span></i><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a
href="mailto:drsaul@doctoryourself.com">drsaul@doctoryourself.com</a></span></i><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>. Please state your name and qualifications, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>if</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'> you are a physician, scientist or medical professional. If you are a
concerned member of the <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>public</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>, we value your opinion and would also like to hear from you. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2) “Make an online rapid
response to this BMJ article by going to <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/extract/333/7557/45-a?eletter"
target="_blank">http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/extract/333/7557/45-a?eletter
</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>and be heard now.”</span></i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<pre><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>[This article originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER, Vol. 6, <span
class=GramE>No</span>. 7 for July-August, 2006. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>It is archived at <a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v6n7.rtf">http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v6n7.rtf</a> ]<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></b></span></pre>
<p style='tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>MEDLINE</span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>,
to this day (February 2007) still steadfastly refuses to index the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<pre><span style='font-family:Arial'>For more on Medline bias, please also look at <a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/medlineup.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/medlineup.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<p style='tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>If you’ve had enough, and
want to do something about it, please email the author at <a
href="mailto:drsaul@doctoryourself.com">drsaul@doctoryourself.com</a> .<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<pre><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>NOTE: All issues of the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i> from <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>1994 through 2001 are now online for you (and the world's search <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>engines) to find and read, Medline or no Medline, <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>at <a href="http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/">http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/</a> The remaining twenty-five <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>years prior to 1994 are planned to be posted, also for free reading, <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
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normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> the next year or so.<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre></td>
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