DR. W. GIFFORD-JONES: Why don’t we send a planeload of Medi-C Plus to China? - The Bakersfield Californian

DR. W. GIFFORD-JONES: Why don’t we send a planeload of Medi-C Plus to China? - The Bakersfield Californian
Bill and Melinda Gates Released Their Annual Letter for 2020. Here Are 3 Major Takeaways - Inc.
Dr. Janet Wolter Grip dead: Rush University Medical Center oncology ‘legend,’ teacher - Chicago Sun-Times
Govt rejects propaganda against polio vaccine - The Express Tribune
DR. W. GIFFORD-JONES: People are dying needlessly of coronavirus - The Bakersfield Californian

Posted: 10 Feb 2020 10:12 AM PST

One of my sons has been in the travel business for years. Today he said, "We've canceled all of our tours to China due to the coronavirus scare." I replied, "That's unfortunate, but if we don't send tourists just now, perhaps we should be sending Medi-C Plus. I've been arguing for years that high doses of vitamin C is a lifesaver in boosting immune system performance." The question arose: What would I do if a family member contracted the coronavirus?

Last week, several university professors and international viral disease experts reported ways to treat coronavirus infection. Their unanimous opinion was that high doses of intravenous vitamin C would be effective in controlling infection.

In China, many people have decided to use Chinese remedies to treat a dangerous and potentially lethal virus. Chinese dispensaries report they're running out of honey suckle, the dried fruit of the weeping forsythia, eupatorium, and patchouli. And other pharmacies have been cleaned out of a variety of Chinese herbs.

Apparently Chinese authorities have authorized the use of these remedies to treat coronavirus. It may be that this medication does ease some of the symptoms associated with the infection, but people are still dying.

There is a great irony in this situation. The majority of vitamin C sold in North America is imported from China! Medi-C Plus is no exception. There is no concern about the quality of the product. Assured Naturals, a manufacturer in Vancouver, uses sophisticated spectrometry to detect one billionth particle of lead or mercury contamination in imported material. If detected, the product is destroyed.

The other irony? Medi-C Plus powder is available in North America and helps to build up immunity, offering protection in the event coronavirus strikes. But vitamin C is not being used in China for the same purpose. (See my website for the dosage schedules I suggested last week.) Medi-C Plus and other brands are available in health food stores in Canada or through Amazon in the U.S.

I hope that coronavirus infection will soon subside. But I doubt this will happen quickly and more North Americans will die needlessly. This is a tragic and unconscionable situation for several reasons.

"Credite rebus" (believe the facts) is the answer to the coronavirus, but the facts are being ignored. I'm not an expert on viral diseases. But last week's article shared the opinions of international authorities that high doses of intravenous vitamin C is an effective treatment.

I say this with great reluctance. But if a family member of mine died due to coronavirus infection, after a doctor refused to use IVC, I would challenge his or her treatment in a court of law. I would win. Credible research cannot be ignored.

The fact is that people are still dying of other viral diseases, such as influenza and pneumonia, because IVC is still a taboo treatment within the medical establishment.

Discussion of the coronavirus continues in the media. But I have not heard mention of the therapeutic value of intravenous vitamin C.

History has already proven the naysayers wrong. Dr. Frederick R. Klenner, a U.S family doctor, did it in 1950 when he treated 60 polio patients with IVC and none developed paralysis. Yet when he presented these cases at an international medical meeting, no one listened.

All this reminds me of Sir Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England. During a heated discussion he remarked to his parliamentary critics, "In the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken?"

Bill and Melinda Gates Released Their Annual Letter for 2020. Here Are 3 Major Takeaways - Inc.

Posted: 10 Feb 2020 09:57 AM PST

It's hard to believe, but it's been 20 years since Bill and Melinda Gates created their Gates Foundation, one of the biggest and most impactful philanthropic organizations to emerge from the tech industry.

From a focus on global health to improving the climate, education, and gender equality, there were plenty of things Bill and Melinda Gates had to say in this year's annual letter.

A Focus on Global Health

According to the Gateses, 86 percent of children around the world currently receive basic immunizations. And their goal is to get those immunizations to the remaining 14 percent. However, they note that actually getting those immunizations to those children will be extremely difficult.

Those efforts have paid off: vaccinations have saved 14 million lives around the world, according to the foundation. A single vaccination also used to cost $3.65. It now costs less than $1 to vaccinate children.

But they acknowledge their work is far from done. They plan to continue to invest in HIV/AIDS treatment and making it easier to prevent the spread of the virus. But the work doesn't stop there, according to Bill Gates. And the Gates Foundation will also tackle other major health concerns.

"Along with our investments in vaccines and HIV, we will continue to support progress on other diseases, like malaria, tuberculosis, and polio (through our partnership with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative," Bill Gates wrote. "We'll fund new advances in family planning and maternal and newborn health, and we'll explore new ways of preventing the scourge of malnutrition."

Education

Trying to improve education has proven to be one of the biggest challenges facing the Gates Foundation, according to the Gateses. But their work is far from done.

They said that they plan to continue to invest in education and have so far awarded $240 million grants for 30 networks of schools that aim at improving graduation rates and postsecondary opportunities for African American, Latinx, and low-income students.

"Each network includes eight to 20 schools and is focused on a goal of its choosing--for example, helping freshmen who aren't "on track" to graduate get themselves on the right path," Bill Gates says. "The first year of high school is a critical moment. A freshman who fails no more than one course is four times more likely to graduate than one who fails two or more. Being 'on track' in this way is more predictive of whether that student will graduate than race, wealth, or even test scores."

Looking ahead, the Gateses say they want their foundation to not focus on a "one-size-fits-all" solution for schools. Instead, they want to find the right solutions based on each school's unique needs.

Gender Equality

Melinda Gates began her discussion on gender and why it matters to much to her with powerful words: "The data is unequivocal: No matter where in the world you are born, your life will be harder if you are born a girl."

It's against that backdrop that the Gates Foundation is working towards improving gender equality around the world. Melinda Gates said in her discussion that "the world has refused to make gender equality a priority." And she wants the Gates Foundation to address that problem.

To do that, she said, she wants to up the pace at which women take on positions of leadership across government and business. She also wants to eliminate barriers to entry for women entering the workforce.

"We need to be deliberate about galvanizing a wide range of partners to play a role in changing society's norms and expectations--not just the activists and advocates who are already leading these conversations, but consumers, shareholders, faith leaders, entertainers, fathers, and husbands," Melinda Gates wrote.

Published on: Feb 10, 2020

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Dr. Janet Wolter Grip dead: Rush University Medical Center oncology ‘legend,’ teacher - Chicago Sun-Times

Posted: 10 Feb 2020 02:04 PM PST

All around the United States and beyond, there are physicians who refer to themselves as "WTMs" and "WTWs."

Wolter-Trained Men and Wolter-Trained Women. Dr. Janet Wolter used the term to remind her medical students she'd taught them to be astute observers grounded in cutting-edge medical knowledge.

It was a call to excellence and a reminder to buck up when days were long and tough cases abounded, said Dr. Philip Bonomi, who recalls the pride he felt when she informed him: "Bub, you're a WTM."

"She was a legend," said Dr. Ruta Rao, medical director of Rush University Cancer Center. "She really led the way for generations of women she's taught. Even the men bragged about it. She was not just a leader in breast cancer patient care but breast cancer research."

Dr. Wolter, 93, a professor at Rush University Medical Center, died Feb. 4 at her home in Lake View.

A Cubs fan, "She could see Wrigley Field from her back office window, and that pleased her greatly," according to a stepson, Jeffrey Grip.

Young Janet grew up in River Forest, the daughter of a meatpacker. In a seventh-grade essay, relatives said she wrote of her determination to be a doctor. She went to Oak Park and River Forest High School and finished Cornell College in three years.

At the University of Illinois College of Medicine, "In my class of 165, 21 were women," she once told Rush, "but the next year when everybody came back from the war, it went down to four women and 161 men."

Dr. Janet Wolter was often one of the few women in the room in the early days of her medical career.

After graduating from medical school in 1950, she trained at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Duke University Hospital, then joined a polio ward at the University of Illinois Hospital.

In a 2016 essay for the medical humanities journal Hektoen International, she captured the mid-1950s scourge of polio, describing a unit filled with the rhythmic whooshing of iron lungs.

"We bought canister vacuum cleaners (some of the first) and an electrician who worked with us took them apart and reversed something (the brushes?) so that they blew instead of sucking," she wrote. "This offered the patient a supply of constant positive pressure . . . and could even be run off of a cigarette lighter in a car. I had an old convertible at the time, and with the top down, a carefully maneuvered Hoyer lifter, a vacuum cleaner plugged into the dashboard and a nurse riding shotgun, we managed to take a number of these terribly confined individuals for a spin along Lake Michigan."

In the early 1960s, she began working at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital with Dr. Samuel G. Taylor, "one of the first oncologists in the world," according to Bonomi, Rush's director of hematology-oncology.

Back then, "It wasn't even called oncology," Dr. Wolter said in a Rush oral history. "If the surgeon couldn't remove the tumor, that was it."

In addition to breakthroughs in chemotherapy and hormone treatment, "She led some of the clinical trials that are shaping the way we treat breast cancer patients today," Rao said.

"You get a lot of satisfaction from being part of the answer," Wolter once told Rush.

She was the first woman president of the medical staff. When she retired, she was the Brian Piccolo Chair of Cancer Research.

"She was an incredible doctor," said Joy Piccolo O'Connell, widow of the Chicago Bears running back for whom the Piccolo center was named. "She was warm, kind and definitely a pioneer."

Dr. Wolter would give patients her home phone number.

"They never abused it, and it meant so much to them," she said in the oral history.

She was no-nonsense, though. She once told a cancer patient she'd found out was hitting the tanning booth, "If you're going to do that, then don't come back to see me."

In 1973, she married Carl M. Grip, a dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology and head of the South Side Planning Board. He died in 1995.

Dr. Wolter's home was painted in some of her favorite shades of yellow. She was a gourmet who turned out exquisite salmon mousse, buche de Noel and croquembouche, a cream puff-studded Christmas tree.

If conversation at a dinner party was flagging, relatives would ask her to tell jokes.

"She knew — my best guess is — about 10,000 jokes," Grip said. "If you gave her a topic or subject, she would just regale you."

She loved opera, including "Nixon in China," "Tosca" and "Don Giovanni."

Dr. Wolter is survived by three stepsons, a niece, three nephews, seven step-grandchildren, eight step-great-grandchildren and five grandnieces and grandnephews.

A memorial service is planned for 11 a.m. Feb. 29 at the Cathedral of Saint James, 65 E. Huron St.. She sang in the choir there for decades.

Govt rejects propaganda against polio vaccine - The Express Tribune

Posted: 10 Feb 2020 01:45 PM PST

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DR. W. GIFFORD-JONES: People are dying needlessly of coronavirus - The Bakersfield Californian

Posted: 03 Feb 2020 12:15 PM PST

Why "needless" deaths from this threatening virus? Because doctors, health authorities, hospital administrators and politicians have not read history. Not even the Chinese! Last week, several members of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service were asked, "How would you treat the coronavirus?" Here are opinions of experts who study the potential of nutrients to fight disease.

Dr. Andrew W. Saul, an international expert on vitamin therapy, says, "The coronavirus can be dramatically slowed or stopped completely with the immediate widespread use of high doses of vitamin C. Bowel tolerance levels of C taken in divided doses throughout the day, is a clinically proven antiviral, without equal."

Saul adds, "Dr. Robert F. Cathcart, who had extensive experience treating viral diseases remarked, 'I have not seen any flu yet that was not cured or markedly ameliorated by massive doses of vitamin.'"

Professor Victor Marcial-Vega of the Caribe School of Medicine responds, "Given the relatively high rate of success of intravenous vitamin C in viral diseases and my observation of clinical improvement within two to three hours of treatment, I strongly believe it would be my first recommendation in the management of the coronavirus."

He adds, "I have also used intravenous vitamin C to treat patients with influenza, dengue fever, and chikungunya, for 24 years."

Dr. Jeffery Allyn Ruterbusch, associate professor at Central Michigan University, says, "I believe all of us agree on the greatly increased benefits of vitamin C when people are placed under any stressful condition."

Dr. Damien Downing, former editor of the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, writes, "Swine flu, bird flu, and SARS, all developed in selenium-deficient China. When patients were given selenium, viral mutation rates dropped and immunity improved."

Several other authorities agreed that high doses of vitamin C, along with 3,000 IU of vitamin D, and 20 milligrams of zinc, was a good combination to help fight viral diseases. And Drs. Carolyn Dean, and Thomas Levy, both world authorities on magnesium, stressed that the mineral is involved in 1,000 metabolic reactions and that maintaining adequate levels improves immunity. Another overriding opinion was that few people know that high doses of C increase immunity and destroy viral diseases.

This information is not new. During the great polio epidemic of 1949-50, Dr. Frederick R. Klenner, a family physician in North Carolina, treated 60 polio patients with high doses of intravenous vitamin C. None developed paralysis. This discovery should have made headlines around the world, but Dr. Klenner's news fell on deaf ears.

Later, Klenner proved that high doses of C could also be effective as treatments for meningitis, pneumonia, measles, hepatitis and other viral and bacterial diseases. Even the bite of a rattlesnake. Again only scorn from the medical profession.

What does this mean to North Americans? Patients with a diagnosis of coronavirus should be given intravenous vitamin C, and it will save lives. The problem is that most doctors still refuse to believe IVC is effective.

I'm not your doctor. But my family and friends know to visit a health food store and stock up on Medi C Plus, a powdered form of vitamin C that I developed which allows for high doses to be easily consumed and which contains needed lysine and magnesium. Vitamin C pills will do, but you must swallow many of them.

Start taking 2,000 mg twice a day to build up immunity. If flu symptoms develop, take 2,000 mg every hour up to bowel tolerance, and see a doctor. Large doses of C cause loose stools. But better to sit on a toilet than under a gravestone.

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