Journal Club

Upcoming Meetings

April 13, 2004 Jon D Kaiser, MD, and expert discussants George M Carter and Henry Sacks, MD, PhD The HIV Micronutrient Study: A double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial of specific micronutrients to enhance immune function in HIV(+) people.
There is no recommended reading for this meeting.

Past Meetings
ROSENTHAL CENTER JOURNAL CLUB 2002-2004

February 19, 2004 Lilli B Link, MD, MS and expert discussant Ann Tighe, RD PhD Raw Food Diet: latest fad or healthy eating?
Articles: Smith TK et al. Effects of brassica vegetable juice on the induction of apoptoses and aberrant crypt foci in rat colonic mucosal crypts in vivo. Carcinogenesis. 24:491-5, 2003.
Kaartinen, K, et al: Vegan diet alleviates fibromyalgia symptoms. Scand J Rheumatol. 20:308-313, 2000

January 22, 2004 John V Campano, Esq. and Janice Lunde, Esq CAM and the Law
Article: Eisenberg DM, Cohen MH et al: Credentialing complementary and alternative medical providers. Ann Int. Med. (Dec 17) 2002; 137:965-73.

November 13, 2003 Deborah Goldberg, MD Fibromyalgia, a Study of Health Care Costs
Dobkin, PL, de Civita M, Bernatsky S, Kang H, Baron M. Does phsycological vulnerability determine health-care utilization in fibromyalgia? Rheumatology 2003; 42: 1-8.October 16, 2003 Mishaela Rubin, MD Interpreting Animal Data on CAM Research Questions

Register TC; Jayo MJ; Anthony MS. 2003. Phytoestrogens Do Not Prevent Bone Loss in Postmenopausal Monkeys. J. of coinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 88: 4362-4370.

September 18, 2003 Mary E. Northridge, Ph.D., M.P.H. Weighing Scientific Evidence
Horrobin, David F. 2001. Something rotten at the core of science? Research Update, Trends in Pharmacological Sciences 22, No 2.

May 14, 2003 Janet Mindes, Ph.D. - Mind-Body Effects and Cancer
Moyad MA, Pienta KJ. Mind-body effect: insulinlike growth factor-1; clinical depression; and breast, prostate, and other cancer risk-an unmeasured and masked mediator of potential significance. Urology 2002; 59 :4-8.

April 16, 2003 Connie Park, MD, Ph.D. Nocebos & Placebos
Articles:
Cannon WB. "Voodoo" death. American Anthropologist, 1942;44(new series):169-181. Am J Public Health. 2002 Oct;92(10):1593-6; discussion 1594-5.

Sternberg EM. Walter B. Cannon and "Voodoo' Death": a perspective from 60 years on. Am J Public Health 2002 Oct;92(10):1564-6

Moerman DE, Jonas WB. Deconstructing the placebo effect and finding the meaning response. Ann Intern Med. 2002;136:471-476.

Kaptchuk TJ. The placebo effect in alternative medicine: can the performance of a healing ritual have clinical significance? Ann Intern Med. 2002; 136:817-825.

March 26, 2003 Advising Cancer Patients about CAM. Dawn Hirshman, MD - see flyer
Weiger WA, Smith M, Boon H, Richardson MA, Kaptchuk TJ, Eisenberg DM. Advising patients who seek complementary and alternative medical therapies for cancer. Ann Intern Med. 2002; 137: 889-903.

February 19, 2003 RCTs: methodological issues - see flyer.
Zezhen Jin, Ph.D., Asst. Prof. of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
Vickers AJ, Altman DG. Analysing controlled trials with baseline and follow up measurements. BMJ 2001; 323: 1123-4.

November 20, 2002. Is the Environment Making us Fat? Andrew G. Rundle, Dr.P.H., Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
Baillie-Hamilton PF. Chemical toxins: A hypothesis to explain the global obesity epidemic. J Altern Complementary Med 2002; 8: 185-91.

Jobst KA. You are what you eat: stress, survival anxiety, the environment, and chemical" obesogens" (editorial). J Altern Complementary Med, 2002; 8: 101-102.

October 16, 2002. Legal Obstacles to Integrating CAM and Conventional Medical Practice. John V. Campano, Esq.,.Associate Vice-President, Risk Management, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Cohen MH, Eisenberg DM. Potential physician malpractice liability associated with complementary and integrative medical therapies. Ann Intern Med 2002; 136: 596-603.

September 18, 2002. A Clinical Trial of Acupuncture for Cocaine Addiction. Herbert Kleber, M.D.
Margolin A, Kleber HD. Avants SK, et al. Acupuncture for the treatment of cocaine addiction:randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2002; 287: 55-63.

June 19, 2002 Andrea Troxel, Sc.D., of the Biostatistics Core.
Leibovici L. Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: randomized controlled trial. BMJ 2001;323:1450-1.

Thornett AM, Hettiaratchy S, Hemsley C, Hopkins J, Brownnutt MJ, Price CI, Lagnado M, Schwartz SA, Black SL, Leibovici L. Effect of retroactive intercessory prayer. BMJ 2002;324:1037 ff.

Dusek JA, Sherwood JB, Friedman R, et al. Study of the Therapeutic Effects of intercessory Prayer (STEP): study design and research methods. Am Heart J 2002;143:577-84.

Prayer, Health and Statistics. Richard Sloan, Ph.D.
Leibovici L. Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: randomized controlled trial. BMJ 2001; 323: 1450-1451.

Thornett AM, Hettiaratchy S, Hemsley C, Hopkins J, Brownnutt MJ, Price CI, Lagnado M, Schwartz SA, Black SL, Leibovici L. Effect of retroactive intercessory prayer. BMJ 2002; 324: 1037

Dusek JA, Sherwood JB, Friedman R, et al. Study of the Therapeutic Effects of intercessory Prayer (STEP): study design and research methods. Am Heart J 2002; 143: 577-584.

May 1, 2002. Chaos and CAM. Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D.
Ary L Goldberger, "Non-linear dynamics for clinicians: Chaos theory, fractals, and complexity at the bedside." Lancet 347, no 9011 May 11, 1996: 1312-1314.

March 19, 2002. Research Methodology in CAM. Judith S. Jacobson, Dr.P.H., Deborah B. Goldberg, M.D., and Annemarie Colbin
Tonelli MR, Callahan TC. Why alternative medicine cannot be evidence-based. Acad Med 2001; 76: 1213-1220.

Bell IR, Caspi O, Schwartz GER, Grant KL, Gaudet TW, Rychener D, Maizes V, Weil A. Integrative medicine and systemic outcomes research. Arch Intern Med 2002; 162: 133-140.

January 30, 2002. Psychosocial support for breast cancer patients: critiquing the data. Judith Jacobson DrPH, Dept. of Epidemiology
Goodwin PJ, Leszcz M, Ennis M, Koopmans J, Vincent L, Guther H, Drysdale E, Hundleby M, Chochinov HM, Navarro M, Speca M, Hunter J. The effect of group psychosocial support on survival in metastatic breast cancer. N Engl J Med 2001 Dec 13;345(24):1719-26

Spiegel D. Mind matters -- group therapy and survival in breast cancer. N Engl J Med 2001 Dec 13;345(24):1767-8
Spiegel D, Bloom JR, Kraemer HC, Gottheil E. Effect of psychosocial treatment on survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer. Lancet 1989 Oct14;2(8668):888-91

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