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4 days ago
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President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) Writes, ‘Let's Make America Healthy Again'
TUCSON, Ariz., June 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) project is a monumental task, writes Erika L. LeBaron, DO., M.S.N., in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. LeBaron, current president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), practices family medicine with an osteopathic and integrative approach in Manassas, Va. The role of food and medicine must be addressed as a start. Factory-made foods look and taste good, but health and nutrition are not their focus, she states. In contrast to allopathic medicine, she explains, osteopathic medicine does not primarily emphasize medications and surgery, but rather the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit. Disease is seen as the body being at dis-ease vs. at ease or in balance. In the late19th century, allopathic medicine accepted the concept of monomorphism, that a particular germ creates a specific disease, as taught by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. However, two of their contemporaries believed that the inner condition of the body was more important than the germ itself. Antoine Bechamp formulated the pleomorphism theory, which held that germs have many forms and theorized that disease is a condition of one's internal environment (terrain), Dr. LeBaron writes. When her patients ask about vaccines, she discusses the germ theory vs. terrain theory. Vaccines are not the answer to health. She points to data from a pediatric practice showing that patients who were unvaccinated or had fewer vaccines were healthier in the long run than those patients who had more vaccinations. For treating disease, pharmaceuticals are not the only option, she writes, citing examples of physicians who successfully treated COVID patients without drugs. The key lesson, she writes, is that 'every patient is unique, and we must treat the patient not the disease. We must take a root-cause analysis and whole person approach to care, not a pharma/industry guideline or protocol.' The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943. Contact: Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110, janeorientmd@ in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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6 days ago
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Severe Allergic Reactions post Vaccination Discussed in Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
TUCSON, Ariz., June 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Severe allergic reactions involving a cytokine storm can follow vaccination for respiratory viruses such as influenza or COVID-19, writes Irene Mavrakakis, M.D., in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. A possible treatment is cromolyn sodium, which prevents the release of histamine and other inflammatory mediators from immune cells called mast cells. It is often used in asthma. Dr. Mavrakakis presents a case history of a patient with latex allergy who experienced a severe reaction to an influenza vaccination. For years after this, she experienced frequent episodes of life-threatening anaphylaxis. Eventually these were eliminated by a strict diet, latex avoidance, and medications including cromolyn sodium. This type of reaction involves a type of serum antibody called immunoglobulin E (IgE), Dr. Mavrakakis explains. Repeated exposures to triggering allergens can lead to increased IgE responses and very severe reactions. Specific studies have demonstrated the production of IgE anti-influenza virus antibodies in the vaccinated. This raises the possibility that repeated exposure from annual vaccination could intensify allergic responses and immune reactivity, she suggests, also pointing out the paucity of evidence for the benefit of repeated shots. Implementing comprehensive immune profiling, including markers such as histamine, IgE, tryptase, and eosinophils, could help identify patients predisposed to severe inflammatory reactions, she states. She also recommends: (1) study of longitudinal changes in IgE and other immune markers in vaccinated populations; (2) evaluation of the potential for cross-reactivity between influenza and coronavirus antigens, possibly exacerbating immune responses; and (3) clinical trials to assess the effectiveness of allergy treatments, including cromolyn sodium and other mast-cell stabilizers, for managing cytokine storms related to respiratory virus vaccinations. The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943. Contact: Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110, [email protected]
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6 days ago
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Severe Allergic Reactions post Vaccination Discussed in Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
TUCSON, Ariz., June 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Severe allergic reactions involving a cytokine storm can follow vaccination for respiratory viruses such as influenza or COVID-19, writes Irene Mavrakakis, M.D., in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. A possible treatment is cromolyn sodium, which prevents the release of histamine and other inflammatory mediators from immune cells called mast cells. It is often used in asthma. Dr. Mavrakakis presents a case history of a patient with latex allergy who experienced a severe reaction to an influenza vaccination. For years after this, she experienced frequent episodes of life-threatening anaphylaxis. Eventually these were eliminated by a strict diet, latex avoidance, and medications including cromolyn sodium. This type of reaction involves a type of serum antibody called immunoglobulin E (IgE), Dr. Mavrakakis explains. Repeated exposures to triggering allergens can lead to increased IgE responses and very severe reactions. Specific studies have demonstrated the production of IgE anti-influenza virus antibodies in the vaccinated. This raises the possibility that repeated exposure from annual vaccination could intensify allergic responses and immune reactivity, she suggests, also pointing out the paucity of evidence for the benefit of repeated shots. Implementing comprehensive immune profiling, including markers such as histamine, IgE, tryptase, and eosinophils, could help identify patients predisposed to severe inflammatory reactions, she states. She also recommends: (1) study of longitudinal changes in IgE and other immune markers in vaccinated populations; (2) evaluation of the potential for cross-reactivity between influenza and coronavirus antigens, possibly exacerbating immune responses; and (3) clinical trials to assess the effectiveness of allergy treatments, including cromolyn sodium and other mast-cell stabilizers, for managing cytokine storms related to respiratory virus vaccinations. The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943. Contact: Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110, janeorientmd@ in to access your portfolio
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02-06-2025
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The Worsening Pandemic of Gambling Highlighted in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
TUCSON, Ariz., June 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gambling addiction is worse than substance abuse in many ways, including suicide rates, writes Andrew Schlafly, Esq. in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. A Swedish study estimated that the rate of suicide is 15 times higher among gamblers than in the general population. Physical health problems result from gambling, including hypertension, cardiovascular disease, sleep difficulties, and peptic ulcer disease, Schlafly states. Pathological gambling has also been linked to frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Psychiatric harm includes the onset or worsening of major depressive episodes, anxiety or substance use disorders, and intense feelings of shame, rash decision-making, and deceptive conduct, he adds. Roughly half of Americans are engaged in gambling now, he estimates. In 2023, $49 billion was spent on table games and slot machines. Extreme addiction to gambling afflicts about 5 percent of the population, and the rate is higher for young adults. Relatively few—typically less than 10 percent—of addicted gamblers ever seek help to overcome their habit, he reports. 'It is no longer necessary to travel to a casino to lose one's life savings,' he writes. Gambling as tailored by artificial intelligence (AI) to individual weaknesses is invading the cell phones of everyone, including teenagers particularly vulnerable to this addiction, he warns. Since the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Murphy v. NCAA, 39 states have legalized sports gambling. By 2021, $57.2 billion was wagered annually on sporting events alone. Today, hundreds of suspicious sports performances annually have been correlated with unusual betting activity, Schlafly states. Gambling may become even more prevalent as a clever new way around state regulation of gambling percolates through the courts: a way to bet on event contracts, which is federally regulated in a very permissive way by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This includes betting on elections outcomes, which could rope in many more people, and make more corruption inevitable. The Major Questions Doctrine is a legal mechanism that conceivably could help limit the spread of this madness, Schlafly suggests. The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943. Contact: Andrew Schlafly, (908) 719-8608, Aschlafly@ or Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110, janeorientmd@
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02-06-2025
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‘Stealthy' Endocrine Effects of the COVID Vaccine Discussed in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
TUCSON, Ariz., June 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Endocrine effects that may result from vaccination are deceptively subtle at their onset. Hence, robust and sensitive pharmacovigilance is needed to discover them, writes Jane Orient, M.D., in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. As of Mar 20, 2023, more than 13 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered worldwide. Vaccine proponents argue that with such huge numbers of vaccinations, a clear signal for endocrinological complications should be detected by current vaccine surveillance. This has not occurred, but not necessarily due to the absence of adverse endocrine events, Dr. Orient writes. There are two approaches to surveillance, she explains: the adverse events of special interest (AESI) method and organ systems-based surveys. The AESI approach focuses on a few events selected based upon their severity, biological plausibility, and previous association with vaccines. Organ systems-based surveys examine systematically any potential side effects that could affect vital organs. The article summarizes the major vaccine safety monitoring systems, including: the U.S Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the EU's EudraVigilance System, the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), V-safe, and the Biologics Effectiveness and Safety System (BEST). These systems rely on the AESI approach due to its low cost and simplicity. However, this method is neither sufficiently robust nor sensitive to detect subtle signs of initial endocrine side effects, Dr. Orient writes. 'In fact, one can argue that overreliance on this method can guarantee that virtually none of the endocrine complications of COVID-19 vaccine will be detected.' Induction of autoimmunity is a well-recognized mechanism for vaccine adverse effects. The cause of many endocrine conditions, including diabetes mellitus and thyroid, adrenal, and pituitary diseases, involves autoimmune mechanisms as well. Unsurprisingly, there are published case series and reviews demonstrating association between vaccinations and endocrine disorders, Dr. Orient states. Those phenomena are overlooked by the AESI approach because it lacks needed sensitivity. 'A potential disaster of yet undetected endocrine side effects of the vaccine is likely unfolding surreptitiously,' she concludes, and 'clinicians need to have a high index of suspicion for this problem in their patients.' The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943. Contact: Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110, janeorientmd@
