24,000 medications on the market of which no therapeutic efficiency

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>

> " Lecture of Dr. Matthias Rath, M.D.

> In Augsburg-Gersthofen

>

> http://www.drrath.com/menue/documents/uk/lecture-augsburg.html

>

> Dr. Rath is the protoge of Linus Pauling

> MD, Nobel Laureate

>

> (excerpt)

>

> But first the facts. It is less than a year ago that the AOK, one of

> the biggest health insurance companies in Germany, published the

> following article in their periodical of April 1998:

>

> " According to the German Ministry of Health there are some 24,000

> medications on the market of which no therapeutic efficiency, no

> healing properties, have been proven. 24,000 medications, that is over

> 98% of all currently marketed medicines. These are prescribed, sold

> and taken by the millions but they have no proven effect. Yet the

> National Health Service has to pay for them. "

>

> The situation is no different in Holland, Britain, France and other

> European countries.

>

> A second fact you should remember is a notification by the Journal of

> the American Medical Association of April 15th, 1998: It was

> established by an extensive study that the:

>

> Side effects of medication are now the fourth largest cause of death

> in the industrial world, after heart infarction, stroke and cancer.

>

> According to data of the German Medical Association of April 18th,

> 1998, each year 8.000 people in Germany die of the serious side

> effects of medication and over 100,000 fall seriously ill.

>

> Let me recap:

>

> Only one thing has been proven of 98% of currently world-wide

> available pharmaceutical preparations: that the serious side effects

> of these pills cause new diseases with epidemic proportions, that are

> the fourth largest cause of death after heart infarction, stroke and

> cancer. "