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Greenfield RH. An OK for MSM for osteoarthritis. Altern Med Alert 2005;8(10):118-119.
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Greenfield RH. Big Pharma--Sounding the alarm(a). Altern Med Alert 2005;8(10):119.
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A evidence review conducted in 2004 by health and human services' (HHS) agency for healthcare research and quality found that melatonin supplements, which people often take for problems sleeping, appear to be safe when used over a period of days or weeks, at relatively high doses and in various formulations.
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Claims that melatonin can slow or reverse aging are very far from proven. Studies of melatonin have been much too limited to support these claims and have focused on animals, not people.
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Greenfield RH. Stress doesn't cause cancer (but it might kill you). Altern Med Alert 2005;8(10):119-120.
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A growing body of literature describes an association between packed red blood cell (pRBC) transfusions and nosocomial infections.1,2 Shorr and colleagues set out to add to this by investigating the relationship between pRBC transfusions and bloodstream infections (BSI) in a large heterogeneous population of ICU patients.
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In this meta-analysis, Quiroz and colleagues attempted to identify all English-language reports published since 1990 that included at least 3 months of follow-up in patients clinically suspected of having pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), whose CT angiograms were negative and who did not receive anticoagulant therapy.
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The majority of deaths in American ICUS involve withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining therapy. When such decisions are considered, patients are typically unable to communicate for themselves and, therefore, family members may become the decision-makers.
