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HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Center for Health Communication

Jay A. Winsten, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Center Director

Highlights from this week's issue of Harvard's World Health News

(www.WorldHealthNews.harvard.edu):

Herbal Remedies Turn Deadly for Patients

(The Washington Post) -- " When a medical checkup indicated trouble with his

prostate gland, Meyer decided to try a natural remedy. Ignoring his

wife's skepticism, the southern Arizona man went out and bought an herbal

supplement promoting 'prostate health.' Murray Berk, a Long Island garment

buyer, did the same thing when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer...The

two men wound up taking the same herbal remedy, a substance called PC-SPES.

Today both men are dead...Batches of PC-SPES, it turned out, had been

improperly mixed with pharmaceuticals, including an anti-inflammatory drug,

an artificial estrogen considered so dangerous it was pulled from the market

years ago, and a blood thinner that in high doses is used as rat

poison...The BotanicLab disaster offers a detailed case study in how

dangerous herbal remedies can be hyped on the Internet, embraced by

desperate patients and legitimized by research institutions in ways that put

lives at risk. "

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HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Center for Health Communication

Jay A. Winsten, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Center Director

Highlights from this week's issue of Harvard's World Health News

(www.WorldHealthNews.harvard.edu):

Herbal Remedies Turn Deadly for Patients

(The Washington Post) -- " When a medical checkup indicated trouble with his

prostate gland, Meyer decided to try a natural remedy. Ignoring his

wife's skepticism, the southern Arizona man went out and bought an herbal

supplement promoting 'prostate health.' Murray Berk, a Long Island garment

buyer, did the same thing when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer...The

two men wound up taking the same herbal remedy, a substance called PC-SPES.

Today both men are dead...Batches of PC-SPES, it turned out, had been

improperly mixed with pharmaceuticals, including an anti-inflammatory drug,

an artificial estrogen considered so dangerous it was pulled from the market

years ago, and a blood thinner that in high doses is used as rat

poison...The BotanicLab disaster offers a detailed case study in how

dangerous herbal remedies can be hyped on the Internet, embraced by

desperate patients and legitimized by research institutions in ways that put

lives at risk. "

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HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Center for Health Communication

Jay A. Winsten, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Center Director

Highlights from this week's issue of Harvard's World Health News

(www.WorldHealthNews.harvard.edu):

Herbal Remedies Turn Deadly for Patients

(The Washington Post) -- " When a medical checkup indicated trouble with his

prostate gland, Meyer decided to try a natural remedy. Ignoring his

wife's skepticism, the southern Arizona man went out and bought an herbal

supplement promoting 'prostate health.' Murray Berk, a Long Island garment

buyer, did the same thing when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer...The

two men wound up taking the same herbal remedy, a substance called PC-SPES.

Today both men are dead...Batches of PC-SPES, it turned out, had been

improperly mixed with pharmaceuticals, including an anti-inflammatory drug,

an artificial estrogen considered so dangerous it was pulled from the market

years ago, and a blood thinner that in high doses is used as rat

poison...The BotanicLab disaster offers a detailed case study in how

dangerous herbal remedies can be hyped on the Internet, embraced by

desperate patients and legitimized by research institutions in ways that put

lives at risk. "

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HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Center for Health Communication

Jay A. Winsten, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Center Director

Highlights from this week's issue of Harvard's World Health News

(www.WorldHealthNews.harvard.edu):

Herbal Remedies Turn Deadly for Patients

(The Washington Post) -- " When a medical checkup indicated trouble with his

prostate gland, Meyer decided to try a natural remedy. Ignoring his

wife's skepticism, the southern Arizona man went out and bought an herbal

supplement promoting 'prostate health.' Murray Berk, a Long Island garment

buyer, did the same thing when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer...The

two men wound up taking the same herbal remedy, a substance called PC-SPES.

Today both men are dead...Batches of PC-SPES, it turned out, had been

improperly mixed with pharmaceuticals, including an anti-inflammatory drug,

an artificial estrogen considered so dangerous it was pulled from the market

years ago, and a blood thinner that in high doses is used as rat

poison...The BotanicLab disaster offers a detailed case study in how

dangerous herbal remedies can be hyped on the Internet, embraced by

desperate patients and legitimized by research institutions in ways that put

lives at risk. "

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