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Check it out yourself at: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USFDA/bulletins/3763aa7

Phillips is another story that has been back pedaled for the last 4 years. The harm done is under reported! FDA is a bias agency which is not working in the best interest of US citizens. Always a dollar short and a day late.

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How many were being used during the Covid crisis was in the millions, and may very well attributed to the health issues!

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I just checked it out, but it seems like you did not. "Devices Recalled in the U.S.: 1,468" - So, not "millions "

And the software "Ambient State" error -

"As a result of the short circuit, the ventilator may switch to “Ambient State.”

During the ‘Ambient State’ the ventilator will alarm and display the following on the screen:"

And mechanical ventilation will be interrupted - triggering alarms, etc.

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I cannot agree more, and thank for sharing your knowledge and wisedom.

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Thank you!

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I recently had a friend who was told because they garden they should get the tetnaus shot (no cuts or injuries to indicate this might be good) and while there they were encourages to get their DPT shot updated (why not?) I am appalled.

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Lying by Pfascist Big Pharma?

As Capt. Renaud said in Casablanca, "I'm shocked. Shocked! To find gambling going on in this place"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME

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Excellent. Thanks

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Thomas - Apparently you have no idea what a PubMed / NLM citation represents, because NIH has nothing to do with Rippe's "seminal research paper" - which is actually just a brief discussion piece in a fouth-tier journal - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine - which is ranked in the bottom quintile for one and five year Impact Factors in its field.

Zero research. Zero seminality.

Did you just have the urge to use the word "seminal" regardless of context?

"There is a seminal research paper that all medical professionals should read and reread. It is published on the NIH site and was from 2017 but ignored by mainstream medicine because ... "

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My opinion. Of course, we ignore the negative role of factory processed foods in the medical field, it fuels our bloated healthcare system. Most research is bias and in favor of Big Pharma, the name of the game is $$$$. Read Dr. Angella's book on the fraud.

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You digress, as is typical.

It is not "opinion" that this paper was;

Not published at NIH website

Had no NIH affiliation, not even funding.

Not a research paper - It's an EDITORIAL

An insignificant journal (by all recognized metrics).

Written by a solo practitioner ....

Your propensity to mischaracterize your sources and often just ignore their irrelevancy is impressive.

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Following contributed to the article and it was on the NIH/PubMed site. I have quoted the citation, which has been dropped.

Balazs I Bodai, MD, FACS; Therese E Nakata, STAR Provider, CWFPBN; William T Wong, MD; Dawn R Clark, MD, FACOG;

Steven Lawenda, MD, ABFM; Christine Tsou, MD; Raymond Liu, MD; Linda Shiue, MD; Neil Cooper, MD;

Michael Rehbein, MD, FACP; Benjamin P Ha, MD, ABFM; Anne McKeirnan, MD, FACOG; Rajiv Misquitta, MD;

Pankaj Vij, MD, FACP; Andrew Klonecke, MD; Carmelo S Mejia, MD; Emil Dionysian, MD, FACOS; Sean Hashmi, MD, FACM;

Michael Greger, MD, FACLM; Scott Stoll, MD, FABPMR; Thomas M Campbell, MD Perm J 2018;22:17-025

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From Sage Journals Metrics for AJLM

https://journals.sagepub.com/metrics/ajl

This journal is included in the following abstracting and indexing databases:

CABI: Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases

CABI: CAB Abstracts

CABI: Dairy Science Abstracts

CABI: Global Health

CABI: Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series A

CABI: Review of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants

Clarivate Analytics: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts (in CAB Abstracts Database)

NISC

PubMed Central (PMC)

SCOPUS

SafetyLit

World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts (in CAB Abstracts Database)

For this journal:

Impact Factor = 1.9

5-Year Impact Factor = 2.4

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Your original citation here was to the introductory editorial of Volume 11, Issue 5 of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (published in 2017). The articles in that issue originate at/from the late October 2016 meeting of the American College of Lifestyle in Naples, FL.

A few of them look worth reading.

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It was "at the NIH/PubMed site" the same way your name and phone number were at the White Pages when those were a thing. The way that pretty much every film made gets listed AT IMDB. These are indices or directories.

NLM hosts the PubMed databases.

You pulled that citation down, it seems.

Here is the citation at Sage Publications:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1559827617700597

1.Rippe JM. Lifestyle Medicine: Evidence, Education, and Practical Applications. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. 2017;11(5):368-370. doi:10.1177/1559827617700597

Here is the citation at PubMed:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30202356/

Rippe JM. Lifestyle Medicine: Evidence, Education, and Practical Applications. Am J Lifestyle Med. 2017 Mar 24;11(5):368-370. doi: 10.1177/1559827617700597. PMID: 30202356; PMCID: PMC6124945.

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It was published at NIH! Today it is not! Why? I buy into this you don't. Why?

According to a 2017 article published in The Permanente Journal, lifestyle medicine is a relatively new subspecialty that focuses on the prevention of chronic diseases rather than their treatment 1. The article highlights that most chronic illnesses, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes, are the result of lifestyles fueled by poor nutrition and physical inactivity 1. The authors argue that by ignoring the root causes of disease and neglecting to prioritize lifestyle measures for prevention, the medical community is placing people at harm 1.

The article also describes the powerful effect of lifestyle medicine on modern instigators of premature disability and death 1. The authors recommend vital changes to a disastrous course and believe that lifestyle medicine should become the primary approach to the management of chronic conditions and their prevention 1.

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That's all great but my first comment criticized your completely incorrect characterization of this editorial - as "There is a seminal research paper that all medical professionals should read and reread. It is published on the NIH site and was from 2017 but ignored ...."

Not from NIH or affiliated with NIH in any way - not even for funding

Not a research paper. An EDITORIAL.

Seminal only in that you needed to use that word.

Low impact because it seems they had nothing knew to say.

Ignored? The subject? Hardly. Mainstream media loves this stuff.

Ignored? This editorial and journal issue? Maybe - probably.

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PubMed is managed by the National Library of Medicine which is an agency of NIH

NLM runs the database - backend and frontend.

This article never appeared in an NIH publication. The citation would indicate if it had.

Here is the citation at the publisher's website:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1559827617700597

Rippe JM. Lifestyle Medicine: Evidence, Education, and Practical Applications. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. 2017;11(5):368-370. doi:10.1177/1559827617700597

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Well done right on.

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Impressive, very impressive.

We are indeed lucky to have you on our side, good buddy.

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Thanks! We need one voice that rises above the babble of the deranged!

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