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The World Health Organization predicts clinical depression will be the No. 1 cause of disability worldwide by 2020. About 20 percent of those who have depression approximately 4 million Americans suffer from a particularly severe form of the disease known as treatment-resistant depression. As a psychiatrist who specializes in the study and treatment of those with severe mood disorders, I have seen firsthand the devastating toll the disease takes on the lives of these patients. In February, however, the Committee on Medicare and Medicaid Services made a preliminary ruling against funding a new Food and Drug Administration-approved therapy for treatment-resistant depression called vagus nerve stimulation. A final decision is due by early May. If the initial recommendation is endorsed, the decision will lead to needless suffering by patients and their families, significant unresolved illness and tragic deaths by suicide. Failure to reimburse severely depressed patients for this procedure would be shameful. I have been intimately involved in the study of vagus nerve stimulation. The therapy involves surgically implanting in the chest a small stimulation device similar to a cardiac pacemaker. Through wires that run under the skin to the vagus nerve in the neck, the device delivers pulses that trigger changes in the brain. Originally approved to treat epilepsy, the device was approved in 2005 by the Food and Drug Administration to treat severe depression that did not improve with other therapies. Current studies and safety data support using vagus nerve stimulation to treat depression in patients after multiple other therapies have failed to improve their conditions. These patients are the “sickest of the sick” and deserve our help. It’s difficult to emphasize strongly enough the degree of suffering and imminent life-threatening nature of this virulent brain disease. Even the general medical community has little understanding of the degree of torment experienced by these patients and their families. They deal with failed treatment after failed treatment, the incapacity to maintain work and family roles, suicide attempts and psychiatric hospitalizations that recur year after year. Many of these individuals literally spend more than half of their lives incapacitated by depression. From 2000 to 2003, I was the principal investigator at St. Louis University’s School of Medicine of a clinical trial on the effectiveness of vagus nerve stimulation for patients who have treatment-resistant depression. I was very impressed by what I observed: Of the 10 subjects we enrolled in the trial all of whom had suffered depression for more than 15 years four had complete resolution of their symptoms of depression. Even more amazing, all of these patients remain depression-free to this day, five years later. Any practitioner who deals with people with treatment-resistant depression will tell you that such a positive outcome is unheard of: Typically, those with treatment-resistant depression either do not respond to a therapy, and those who do certainly don’t sustain the response. This treatment worked better than any other therapy I ever have observed in this group of severely depressed patients. Of course, not everyone who might want this therapy should get it. Vagus nerve stimulation should be given only to the sickest of the sick. I would propose that candidates for this therapy should have tried six or seven other treatments without success; the current FDA recommendation is four. Additionally, failure to respond to such aggressive treatments as monoamine oxidase inhibitors and perhaps electroconvulsive therapy also could be considered as criteria for eligibility. But if nothing else works and after the most careful scrutiny from their psychiatrists patients should be eligible for vagus nerve stimulation, and Medicare should pay for it. Any other decision by the Committee on Medicare and Medicaid Services would represent discrimination against people with brain disease and would bring needless suffering to those who already are suffering enough. Dr. Charles Conway is an assistant professor of psychiatry at St. Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Charles Donovan was a patient in the FDA investigational trial of vagus nerve stimulation as a treatment for chronic or recurrent treatment-resistant depression. He was implanted with the vagus nerve stimulator in April of 2001. 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I guess what bothered me most about the whole skin treatment process as a child, was that not one doctor asked me what I wanted to do and what kind of treatments I would be comfortable trying. They talked to my mother and ignored me like I was some kind of deaf-mute. I felt used as they dispensed the latest and greatest treatments that they knew of, occasionally doing a regime of antibiotics, steroids, creams and lotions containing urea and things that stung, along with bowel cleansings and hospitalizations. Because of how I was treated, I feel its important to allow children to be a part of their treatment protocols, so I spend a lot of time during my consults listening to the children tell me what they think. I take pride in knowing that when given a choice of who they want to go see for their ailments, often children will tell their parents they want to consult me (either in person or by phone.) They know that I will empower them to choose techniques they feel will help them, and they like it when they can communicate with their parents more effectively about what they are thinking. I found as a young adult that I was more accurate in listening to my body about what it liked than the doctors and their allergy tests were. Gee, when a kid almost vomits at the smell of hot dogs or gags on their cream of wheat, its a pretty good sign there is a problem with the food . . . The body is rejecting it. I remember one food elimination trial where I was only allowed to eat rye-tack for a week in an attempt to clear out my body for some allergy testing. I think it was harder on my mom than it was on me to tell me I couldnt eat with the rest of the family. Wouldnt you like another piece of rye-tack? Shed ask with a pained look on her face. I cant even imagine what it would be like to see your own child get stuck with 40-50 needles for the testing process they used to do for allergies. These days they do allergy testing using blood. I do it through tapping into the bodys energy field with a process called muscle testing. Fortunately I grew out of some of my food allergies, but I now manage allergies to sulfites, nitrates, MSG, antibiotics, phenol, formaldehyde, squirrels, guinea pigs, nuts, peppers (which cause fibromyalgia signs), pollens, environmental toxins, paints, petrochemicals, herbicides, pesticides, fungicides and who knows what else. These allergies show up in a variety of ways in my system, but the easiest symptoms to control are the skin symptoms. In general, here is what Ive found works best for skin symptoms such as psoriasis, eczema, acne, dandruff and ringworm: 1. Bathe and wash your hair daily: Up to 30% of all the toxins we produce in our bodies are expelled through the skin. During heavy pollen times, its best to shower before you go to bed to wash off the pollens from your hair, as huge amounts of pollens stick to your hair. If we dont bathe daily, we are loosing the battle. Using dechlorinated, soft water is the best choice. Bathing is easy to do for humans, but lets face it . . . its difficult to give your pet a bath every day. We can only do the best we can with them with diet and supplements. 2. Eat for your blood type: This is an excellent choice of treatment for allergies, arthritis, autoimmune diseases and for acid stomach syndrome (also known as GERD.) See: www.dadamo.com 3. Add Udos Choice Oil blend capsules or the Udos Choice bulk oil to the diet. See: www.udoerasmus.com 4. Support the adrenal glands with products such as Drenamin and raw adrenal glandulars. Manage stress and cut back on stimulants such as sugar, coffee, tea and sodas. 5. Support the liver by eating lots of raw and cooked dark green vegetables. 6. Treat the underlying viral or parasitic core causes of psoriasis with homeopathics, appropriate immune builders and wormers. 7. Increase dietary zinc. I most often recommend raw, hulled pumpkin seedsabout one tablespoon per day, but I also dispense a lot of Standard Process Labs Zinc Liver Chelate supplement. 8. Change your pillowcases often. As the pollens get on your pillow from your face and hair, you smash them into your nose and face making your body even more sensitive to them. If you wake up in the morning all stuffed up, you might also want to toss those pillows into a hot clothes dryer once a week for 20 minutes to get the pollens, molds and dust mites out of them as well. Some pollens can travel up to a couple miles, so it doesnt make sense to get rid of some plants and trees from your yard when your neighbors wont be getting rid of theirs. 9. Use a Neti Pot: A neti pot is a nasal cleansing pot that looks like a little tea pot which you fill with mildly salty water. You run the water in one nostril and out the other. Sounds really gross and Ive never tried it, but many of my clients with sinus allergies swear by this item. 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By James Allen Offshore instruments of asset protection no longer belong in the realm of the wealthiest individuals with high paid financial advisors. Thanks to the internet and globalization of financial markets, there are plenty of firms that can help just about anyone “go offshore”. What follows is a brief introduction to some of the most popular tools of offshore asset protection and how they can be used by online business people and internet marketers like yourself to protect and grow your business. 1. Offshore Trusts An offshore trust is a very simple agreement that helps put some distance between you and your hard earned assets. A trust is simply a legally binding agreement between two parties - the grantor and the trustee. The grantor “grants” control over specified assest and property to the trustee, who is then responsible for them. Beneficiaries are listed in the trust, who will “benefit” from the assests being entrusted. Often this is in the form of receiving the assets upon the death of the grantor, or by receiving the profits generated by the assets listed. The main point is that this agreement helps separate the grantor - you - from these assets in a legal sense, making it more difficult for someone to take them from you. By moving the trust offshore, there is an added layer of protection. If you’ve ever worried about a frivolous lawsuit destroying all you’ve worked for in your internet business, this is certainly a form of asset protection you’ll want to look into. 2. Offshore Incorporation There are many benefits for the internet marketer who chooses to incorporate offshore. 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