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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS DR HULDA CLARK'S COSTLY LEGAL BATTLE at happened to Dr Royal Raymond Rife, Dr Stanislaw Burzynski and other pioneers in medicine has finally hap- pened to medical research scientist Hulda Clark, PhD, ND. As many NEXUS readers will know, Dr Hulda Clark has helped thousands of peo- ple around the world cure themselves of many ailments and diseases. Her approach is to remove exposure to solvents and to remove parasites from the body. On 20 September, Dr Hulda Clark was arrested in San Diego. She was subse- quently held in a prison in Santee, waiting extradition to Indiana where she is charged with practising medicine without a licence—a class C felony with a penalty of two to eight years in prison. The patients in her clinic in Mexico— most of them terminally ill, but getting bet- ter under Dr Clark's supervision—had to be sent home to try to do the protocols on their research ethics committees. Trials should be registered, he argued, to inform patients, clinicians and other decision-makers about trials in which they could participate, to prevent costly research duplication and to promote multicentre trial collaboration. "A substantial problem remains," he said, "because studies with disappointing or neg- ative results are less likely to be submitted for publication." Dr Chalmers presented several examples of such biased underreporting of research. A randomised trial of the class-I anti- arrhythmia drug lorcainide with acute myocardial infarction, carried out in 1980, remained unreported for 13 years. The increased death rate in the lorcainide group was thought to be a chance finding, and the use of class-I antiarrhythmic drugs general- ly increased. "At the peak of their use in the late 1980s," said Dr Chalmers, "it was estimat- ed that class-I antiarrhythmic drugs given to people with heart attacks were causing between 20,000 and 70,000 premature deaths every year in the United States alone. This yearly total of deaths is of the same magnitude as the total number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War." Dr Chalmers welcomed the launch of an online register of randomised, controlled trials (www.controlled-trials.com) but warned that the comprehensive registration of planned, ongoing and unpublished con- trolled trials is unlikely to happen "unless there is legal clout". (Source: British Medical Journal 3/9:939, 9 October 1999, www.bmj.con/cgi/content/ full/3 19/7215/939/a) fter 547 days in prison, Ed McCabe was released and transferred to a halfway house in Miami, Florida, on 6 October 1999. Ed McCabe is the man who publicised oxygen therapies in North America and in many countries around the world through public talks and his book, Oxygen Therapies: A New Way of Approaching Disease. In the spring of 1997, the United States Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service launched an inquiry into Ed, putting his life under a magnifying glass. He was arrested on 7 April 1998. Please send correspondence to: Ed McCabe, c/o 9845 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138-2350, USA. (Source: Oxygen Therapies website, www.oxytherapy.com) CALL FOR REGISTER OF ALL CLINICAL TRIALS ‘ailure to report the results of ran- domised trials constitutes scientific and ethical misconduct, according to Dr Iain Chalmers, director of the UK Cochrane Centre. Dr Chalmers and the editors of the British Medical Journal and the Lancet have called for an international register of all clinical trials to be established. Dr Chalmers said that "prospective regis - tration and public access to the results of all randomised trials should be required by organisations responsible for protecting the public". These organisations should include drug licensing authorities and own. Dr Clark was escorted from prison on 4 October and arrived in Indiana on 6 October at 2.30 am. A hearing was held at 9.00 am and bail was set at US$10,000. Dr Clark was offered a plea bargain with a fine if she pleaded guilty, but she pleaded not guilty. The trial will be held on 2 February 2000. (Source: Dr Clark Research Association, 8135 Engineer Road #2748, San Diego, CA 92111, USA, tel 1800 220 3741 [toll-free in US], fax +1 [858] 565 0058, website www.freedrclark.com/) pea i WE Cap Fix Atha a : ee Se { Ameena MAGE [ bawKeR, De r —_——— raicw FOOD CHAIN FILTH For at least six months in the cattle feed factory at the Caillaud plant in northern France, excrement from staff toilets was plumbed into the production line. Between August 1998 and March 1999, 15 to 20 tonnes of human and other sewage sludge was mixed each week into feed for chick- ens, pigs and sheep. Workers revealed last week that blood from carcasses was also swept into the stinking swill. "Every time they clean the filters, the smell is so bad that it makes you want to vomit," said Bernard Guillard, a 52-year-old worker at the factory in Javené, Brittany. (Source: The Sunday Times, London, 31 October 1999, www.sunday-times.co.uk) 8 - NEXUS McCABE CLOSER TO FREEDOM DECEMBER 1999 — JANUARY 2000