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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 15, 2010

NLM Censors Nutritional Research

Medline is Biased, and Taxpayers Pay for It

Comment by W. Saul

Editor-In-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

(OMNS, January 15, 2010) Did you know that there are " good " medical journals,

and that there are " naughty " medical journals?

No kidding. The good journals are easy to access on the internet through a huge

electronic database called Medline ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed ) This

wonderful, free service is brought to you by the US National Library of Medicine

and the National Institutes of Health. In other words, by you. By your tax

dollars. Generally it is money well spent, until you go searching for

megavitamin therapy research papers. Then you will find that you can't find all

of them. That is because of selective indexing.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) proudly describes itself as " the largest

medical library in the world. The goal of the NLM is to collect, organize and

make available biomedical literature to advance medical science and improve

public health. "

Hmm. Collect. Organize. Make available. Improve public health.

So, after over 40 continuous years of publication, why is the Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine NOT indexed by Medline?

And what are the consequences of such exclusion? In a nutshell, it stops the

public from using their computers to learn about all of the scientific research

and clinical reports demonstrating the effectiveness of megavitamin

(orthomolecular) therapy. It also greatly hampers professionals from seeing

pro-vitamin studies. Have you ever wondered why your doctor simply does not know

about vitamin therapy? Well, wonder no longer. He or she can't read what isn't

" collected, " electronically indexed, or otherwise " made available " to them. If

the vast majority of journals indexed by Medline are pharmaceutical-friendly,

and yet nutritional research is censored, what can you expect?

Your taxes should not be used to fund censorship in a public library, especially

the largest medical library on the planet. It is un-American.

Of course, Medline doesn't censor everything nutritional. Here is a current

example of some research that Medline does in fact choose to index:

PIZZA PREVENTS HEART ATTACKS

Gallus S, Tavani A, La Vecchia C. Pizza and risk of acute myocardial infarction.

Eur J Clin Nutr. 2004 Nov;58(11):1543-6.

" Some of the ingredients of pizza have been shown to have a favourable influence

on the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, there is no single explanation

for the present findings. "

PIZZA PREVENTS CANCER

Gallus S, Bosetti C, Negri E, Talamini R, Montella M, Conti E, Franceschi S, La

Vecchia C. Does pizza protect against cancer? Int J Cancer. 2003 Nov

1;107(2):283-4.

" We analyzed the potential role of pizza on cancer risk, using data from an

integrated network of case-control studies. . . Pizza appears therefore to be a

favorable indicator of risk for digestive tract neoplasms in this population. "

But be careful of that olive oil:

Wong GA, King CM. Occupational allergic contact dermatitis from olive oil in

pizza making. Contact Dermatitis. 2004 Feb;50(2):102-3.

MORE PIZZA

Here is my all-time favorite: yet another article that Medline actually is

indexing. It is not even from a medical journal. I am not making its mile-long

title up, either. It is there at Medline, right now, just a few clicks away from

you:

Simon HB. " My husband subscribes to Harvard Men's Health Watch, but I read it

even more than he does. I hope you can help us resolve a disagreement. He wants

to have pizza two to three times a week for his prostate, but I don't think it's

a healthy food. Who is right? " (Harvard Men's Health Watch. 2003 Jun;7(11):8.)

Evidently the very name " Harvard " is enough to get your foot inside the Medline

door. That, or " everything but anchovies. "

Oddly enough, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has not published a single

article on pizza. At least not so far. Maybe if it did, it would make the cut at

Medline.

On the other hand, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has a review board

including medical doctors, university faculty, and hospital-based researchers.

Since 1967, it has published over 600 papers by renowned authors including

J. , Emanuel Cheraskin, Carl C. Pfeiffer, Bernard Rimland, Abram Hoffer,

and Nobel Prize winner Linus ing. You should be able to access abstracts

(concise summaries) of these papers, instantly and for free, via Medline.

Well, you can't.

To contact the US National Library of Medicine/Medline and tell them what you

think: custserv 'at' nlm.nih.gov

" The National Library of Medicine refuses to index the Journal of Orthomolecular

Medicine, though it is peer-reviewed and seems to meet their criteria. "

(Psychology Today, Nov-Dec 2006)

NOTE: Four decades of papers from the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine are now

online for you to read, Medline or no Medline, at

http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/ The JOM Archive is a free service with no

advertising.

( W. Saul taught nutrition, health science and cell biology at the college

level. He is the author of Doctor Yourself and Fire Your Doctor! and, with Dr.

Abram Hoffer, co-author of Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone and The Vitamin

Cure for Alcoholism. Saul is featured in the documentary film Food Matters. He

is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.)

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