From ray at tomes.remove.biz Wed Feb 15 16:50:10 2006 From: ray at tomes.remove.biz (Ray Tomes) Date: Wed Feb 15 16:56:04 2006 Subject: [Cardiovascular-research] Announcement: Cycles Research Insititute Discussion Forum Message-ID: Announcement: Cycles Research Insititute Discussion Forum. Cycles Research Institute (http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.org/) is a division of Foundation for the Study of Cycles (http://www.foundationforthestudyofcycles.org/) and runs the Cycles Research Institute Discussion Forum. To use the cycles forum please go to http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.org/bulletin.html and read the information there about how the forum operates and from there get directed to the forum itself. Anyone may read the messages in the forum but must register to be allowed to post. Please no SPAM to the forum - we delete it all anyway. Some background on the Foundation for the Study of Cycles "Our mission is to discover, understand, and explain the true nature and origin of cycles, thereby solving the mystery of recurrent rhythmic phenomena, as has been observed in both the natural and the social sciences, and while so doing, to instruct others, and to apply this new knowledge for the greater good of all life." * First, to discover the causes and conditions for already observed and cataloged cyclic and rhythmic behaviors. * Second, to classify discovered causes and conditions with the physical sciences. * Third, to incorporate these causes and conditions into the mainstream of modern scientific theory and knowledge. Edward R Dewey studied data from hundreds of different disciplines and concluded that there are no fields of study in which the time series do not have cycles present. For example, there is a list of reported cycle by period at http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.org/indexlength.html or by time series name at http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.org/indexname.html with each containing more than 1000 cycles determinations. Dewey then concluded that ... "..., insofar as cycles are meaningful, all science that has been developed in the absence of cycle knowledge is inadequate and partial. Thus, if cyclic forces are real, any theory of economics, or sociology, or history, or medicine, or climatology that ignores non-chance rhythms is manifestly incomplete, as medicine was before the discovery of germs." - Edward R. Dewey (Cycles Magazine July 1967) For an excellent summary of the results of decades of cycles research please see Dewey's "The Case for Cycles" at http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.org/dewey/case_for_cycles.pdf Ray Tomes http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.org/ From shope at anet.net Mon Feb 20 13:55:18 2006 From: shope at anet.net (Sharon Hope) Date: Mon Feb 20 14:06:02 2006 Subject: [Cardiovascular-research] Statin Memory Loss misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's - People's Pharmacy Message-ID: <3NqdnR1Nk44JjWfeRVn-sg@comcast.com> Excerpts from the People's Pharmacy column, see the full column at: http://www.peoplespharmacy.org/archives/editorial/are_cholesterol_drugs_linked_to_memory_loss.asp Are Cholesterol Drugs Linked to Memory Loss? February 13, 2006 "Recently we heard of another disturbing experience. Michael Kirk-Duggan was a retired professor of business law and computer science. He was diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's disease that was progressing very rapidly. He went to his 50th college reunion with a sign around his neck that said, "I'm Mike. I have Alzheimer's disease." At his youngest daughter's wedding, he did not recognize people he had known more than 20 years. His decline made it clear that he would need long-term nursing care. But then he read our column about statins and memory problems. With his doctor's awareness, he discontinued the Zocor he had been taking. Although it took many months, he gradually regained his memory and cognitive ability. He is back to reading three newspapers a day and is sharp as a tack. A complete neurological workup showed no signs of Alzheimer's disease." Part of the introductory text: "Can cholesterol-lowering drugs affect memory? That is a question we have wrestled with for nearly six years. It started when we received a letter from a woman who complained that several months after starting on Lipitor she was "having trouble remembering names and coming up with the right word. At dinner once I said, 'Please pass the elephant' though I wanted the bread." We didn't know what to make of this concern because we could find nothing in the medical literature connecting statin-type medicines like Lipitor to memory loss. Before long, however, letters started pouring in." We became alarmed when we received this story: "I am a retired family doctor and former astronaut. Two years ago at my annual astronaut physical at Johnson Space Center (JSC) I was started on Lipitor. Six weeks later I experienced my first episode of total global amnesia lasting six hours. They couldn't find anything wrong with me so I suspected Lipitor and discontinued it. "Other doctors and pharmacists were unaware of similar problems. Believing it must have been a coincidence, I restarted Lipitor a year later. After six weeks I landed in the ER with a twelve-hour episode of total global amnesia. I am more convinced than ever of a Lipitor relationship." The astronaut-physician is Duane Graveline, M.D. In response to his experience, we heard from other readers who had suffered episodes of total global amnesia while taking Lipitor, Zocor or similar drugs. Total global amnesia is a temporary but frightening loss of memory. Dr. Graveline forgot that he was a physician or an astronaut and didn't even recognize his wife. He has summarized his experiences in a new book called "Statin Drugs: Side Effects and the Misguided War on Cholesterol" (available on the Web at: www.spacedoc.net). ========= Other People's Pharmacy columns on the topic can be viewed at: http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/CMS/search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=statin+memory&Search=Search Are Cholesterol Drugs Linked to Memory Loss? http://www.peoplespharmacy.org/archives/editorial/are_cholesterol_drugs_linked_to_memory_loss.asp Newspaper Columns, Editorial February 13, 2006 Can cholesterol-lowering drugs affect memory? 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