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From: rick@neuro1.UUCP (Rick Gray)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Aluminum pans-a health risk?
Message-ID: <531@neuro1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 06:32:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 06:32:36 1985
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Organization: Neurophysiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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 In article <2015@ukma.UUCP> wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) writes:
 >The first indication that aluminum was a serious brain toxin came to
 >light back when kidney dialysis first started.  The first series of
 >patients all turned into vegetables after about 6 months of dialysis.

The January 1985 _Scientific American_ has a good review article
on Alzheimer's disease (Alz.) by Richard J. Wurtman.  It covers 
6 models of the disease and the evidence supporting and 
contradicting each of them.  One model is that aluminum salts MAY
contribute to the development of Alz.  It is pointed out that
some of the symptoms of dialysis-associated dementia are not present
in Alz.  The conclusion of the section on toxic models (based on this 
and other evidence in the article) is "It is possible that aluminum 
cannot by itself give rise to the clinical and pathologic indicators
of the disease but that its presence contributes to their appearance
in people exposed to another causative factor".

 >...  The same people are still around who, for economic and
 >political reasons, are trying to cover up the data.  

How dare they cover up information by hiding it in magazines sold in
practically every drug store and super market in the country?!  Not
to mention hiding it in medical journals in libraries!

 >...                                  Those of you who are willing to
 >give them that power over you are welcome to continue to support the
 >"Medical/Pharmaceutical Complex" with your bodies and your $.  The
 >rest of us have got to get busy gathering data to make up our own
 >minds.  

Good idea!  Let me know how your experiments turn out.  

-- 
Rick Gray				
Program in Neuroscience			uucp: {ihnp4!shell,rice}!neuro1!rick
Baylor Col. Med., Houston

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