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If you eat a ham sandwich for lunch, just hope that your office doesn't spring a random drug test when you get back. You're likely to fail. According to Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, a ham sandwich may be enough to show a positive test for androgens, which are male sex hormones that are banned in some sports. When three volunteers ate 10 ounces each of pork from an uncastrated boar, their urine samples showed positive tests for androgen supplements within 10 hours of the meal. The values returned to normal a day later.

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Gene Therapy Update

The CAM community has been aware of 53 vaccines for some time now. These vaccines have long been available at, among other places, the very unorthodox International BioCare (IBC) hospital in Tijuana, Mexico. It is impossible to make any conclusive statements regarding the efficacy of these vaccines, however.

Meanwhile, in the US, Introgen has a product called Advexin which is very similar to the Chinese product Gendicine. It too is under regulatory review by the FDA for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and it may be approved within the next year or two. Relations between Introgen and the Chinese company, SiBiono, have been rocky at times, but in the end, insiders say, Introgen may wind up licensing Gendicine for US distribution (Red Herring 2006). Advexin has yet to win approval from the FDA and the company's stock (NASDQ-INGN) is trading near its historic low.

Two UK-based companies also have their own cancer-targeted gene therapies in the pipeline. Oxford BioMedica's drug MetXia is now in phase II clinical trials for pancreatic cancer, while the London-based Ark Therapeutics' gene therapy product, CerePro, has completed phase III trials for brain cancer; the results are under review by the European Medicines Agency.

Toxicity Concerns

However, progress in this field has not been smooth. Although the growth-oriented Chinese government has speeded up the introduction of Gendicine, safety concerns have led authorities in the US and Europe to slow the development of gene therapy. This burgeoning field suffered its first major setback when Jesse Gelsinger, an 18-year old with the rare liver condition ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency, died while participating in a University of Pennsylvania gene therapy clinical trial in September 1999. His death was a direct result of the gene therapy: he had a severe immune system reaction and suffered fatal multi-organ failure. That was only the beginning of gene therapy's troubles. Congressional hearings, sparked by his death, revealed that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had received "delayed reports" of more than 600 other serious adverse events in similar gene therapy trials that had been underway since 1993 (Lehrer 2000).

There have also been documented cases of patients developing second cancers as a result of gene therapy, and the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has halted a number of clinical trials. Researchers at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, recently reported that a human gene therapy treatment that until now has been considered largely successful, is, in fact, riskier than previously realized. Researcher Inder Verma, PhD, reported in the journal Nature that "the healthy copy, which replaces the defective gene can itself promote cancer development," at least in animals.

Her team followed mice that were treated with the IL2RG gene for three times longer than any previous study. They found that one-third of the animals developed lymphoma later in life. The IL2RG gene is the same one that is being given to patients who have X-linked severe combined immune deficiency (X-SCID - also known as the "bubble boy" syndrome) in clinical trials in France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

One Salk scientist concluded: "These results suggest that curing X-SCID by replacing IL2RG in the manner it is currently being done puts patients at an increased risk of developing cancer" (Kirchweger 2006).

Dr. Peng says that the side effects of the Chinese drug Gendicine are minimal and that the drug is "safe and efficacious." He says that some patients experience self-limiting mild fevers lasting approximately three hours. But, he says, "no other serious side effects were observed." He also insists that Gendicine is "genetically nontoxic," and "will not replicate in the infected cells and is incapable of multi-cycle infection and of spreading to the neighboring cells." Nevertheless, historically, gene therapy has had unanticipated dangers.

--Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.

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Fossil Fuel Use Affects Marine Life, Report Says
From the Associated Press
July 6, 2006

WASHINGTON — Corals and other marine creatures are threatened by chemical changes in the ocean caused by the carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, a panel of scientists warned Wednesday.

Much of this added carbon dioxide is dissolving in the oceans, making them more acidic. Such a change can damage coral and other sea life, according to the panel of researchers convened by the National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. Geological Survey.

"A most fundamental property of ocean chemistry, pH, is changing and will continue to change as long as CO2 emissions are increasing. That is not debatable," Joan Kleypas, the report's lead author and a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said in a briefing.

The pH scale measures how acidic or alkaline a substance is.

"In the oceans pH is a relatively constant property, and it has not changed over time scales of hundreds of thousands and probably even millions of years," Kleypas said.

"The pH changes that are occurring in the ocean today are truly extraordinary," she added. "It is vital to develop research strategies to better understand the long-term vulnerabilities of sensitive marine organisms to these changes."

The researchers estimated that between 1800 and 1994, oceans absorbed 118 billion metric tons of carbon, reducing the natural alkalinity of seawater. A metric ton is 2,205 pounds.

Richard Feely, an oceanographer at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, said, "This is leading to the most dramatic changes in marine chemistry in at least the past 650,000 years."

Chris Langdon at the University of Miami said studies show that coral calcification decreases as the oceans become more acidic. That means these organisms will grow more slowly, or their skeletons will become less dense, a process similar to osteoporosis in humans.