James Jeffrey Bradstreet was one of the world’s most famous — or infamous — physicians. He believed vaccines caused autism. He even testified so before Congress. Twice.
But he didn’t just rail against Big Pharma. He also tried to beat it.
Bradstreet offered thousands of autism patients around the globe controversial treatments. He claimed he could effectively cure kids of their autism, cancer and other maladies simply by injecting them with protein shots.
When Bradstreet’s body was found last month in the Rocky Broad River in mountainous North Carolina with a bullet wound to the chest, therefore, friends, family members and patients pointed fingers at drug corporations. The FDA. Anyone but Bradstreet.
“He did not kill himself!” one patient’s parent wrote online.
“May God have vengeance quickly on the evil doers who murdered him!” wrote another...
Bradstreet’s Internet postings tie him to an unlicensed medical factory that was recently shut down for producing potentially contaminated vials of a supposed wonder “cure” called GcMAF.
The day before his death, Bradstreet’s own clinic was raided by federal and state authorities searching for the same untested and unapproved “cure.”
And on the very day of his death, Swiss media reported that a clinic linked to Bradstreet had also been raided after five patients receiving GcMAF died....
Despite scientific consensus to the contrary, Bradstreet believed vaccines could cause autism. And he recommended unorthodox and often unapproved autism treatments including hyperbaric oxygen chambers; hormone injections; stem cell therapy and chelation, a risky chemical procedure Bradstreet believed could remove the mercury supposedly introduced by vaccines.
But perhaps Bradstreet’s most controversial treatment was something called Globulin component Macrophage Activating Factor, or GcMAF. A protein that naturally occurs in healthy human blood, GcMAF can be removed, concentrated and injected into a sick patient.
During the past decade, a handful of doctors have claimed that GcMAF can cure anything from cancer to autism by boosting the human immune system.
Bradstreet was an avid believer. In posts on his blog — deleted but still cached online — he shared his GcMAF patients’ anecdotes. And in 2012, he gave a presentation in England in which he described giving GcMAF injections to 40 autistic patients ranging from 16 months to 21 years in age.
“It’s extremely potent in terms of its ability to work for children,” he announced. “Many from this [experiment] have gone on to basically lose the label of autism. They don’t have autistic distinctions any more after sometimes as little as 20 weeks of therapy.”
It was an incredible claim: a cure for one of the world’s most vexing disorders after just five months of injections...
What he did not disclose, however, was that much of the research he cited had already been discredited and retracted; the journal considering Bradstreet’s paper was the scientific equivalent of self-publishing, and Bradstreet had close ties to Noakes and Immuno Biotech...
“GcMAF treatments are considered investigational, and none are approved or licensed for use by the FDA in the U.S.,” the agency said in a statement sent to The Washington Post.
Nearly all doctors agree...
It’s not even clear if GcMAF injections are safe. An initial “safety study” — the first of its kind — is still trying to recruit participants...
“Dr. Jeffrey Bradstreet has now treated over 2,000 autistic children with GcMAF and the results are well established,” according to one of Noakes’s Web sites. “85% improve, if only a little, and of them 15% have their autism eradicated. In all 3,000 children have been treated with GcMAF with similar results.”
See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/16/the-mysterious-death-of-a-doctor-who-peddled-autism-cures-to-thousands/
Courtesy of: http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/MedicalEducation/52636?isalert=1&uun=g906366d4301R5793688u&xid=NL_breakingnews_2015-07-17
Over the past months, five natural health doctors have either mysteriously died or been intentionally killed, with another five having gone missing under unexplained circumstances.
ReplyDeleteAs we previously reported, the curious deaths began on June 19, when Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, a renowned autism researcher from Florida, now practicing in Georgia, was found with a gunshot wound to his chest. Police were quick to claim that the gunshot wound was self-inflicted, ruling the death a suicide almost immediately.
The doctor’s family suspects foul play with family members setting up a donation page in an effort “To find the answers to the many questions leading up to the death of Dr Bradstreet, including an exhaustive investigation into the possibility of foul play.”
The next suspicious death came only days later, on Father’s Day, June 21, when Dr. Bruce Hedendal, DC Ph.D., of the Miami area, was found slumped over in his car with no indication as to a cause of death. The details regarding Hedendal’s death are even murkier than that of Bradstreet, with very few details being released. Hedendal was reported to be extremely fit and had actually been doing an athletic event earlier in the day before being found dead...
Raising the level of suspicion surrounding these doctor’s deaths was the fact that both had previously run into problems with the feds due to their holistic treatments of patients. Just weeks prior to Bradstreet’s death, his office was raided by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
On the same day that Hedendal’s body was found, Dr. Baron Holt DC was found dead in Florida. Holt died unexpectedly while on a trip to Jacksonville, Fla...
As if three dead doctors in the same field, in same region of the country, and in such a short time span didn’t already raise red flags, Dr. Teresa Sievers, another natural health doctor from Florida, was brutally murdered in her home on June 29..Then on July 1st, Lisa Riley DO, 34, residing in Lee County, Georgia, was found murdered in her home, with a gunshot wound to the head. Her husband was originally suspected, as he made the call to 911 to report her death, but many feel as though he’s being framed. Investigators have called her death mysterious.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/5-holistic-heath-doctors-dead-5-missing-month-run-ins-feds/#Ab2Jx6z4SwJBEGvX.99.
Yet another doctor was just found murdered inside his home; here on the East Coast, of Florida. This makes six doctors to be found dead in the last month; just from this region of the country, alone. Four out of the six were found dead here in Florida. We lost the wonderful, holistic Dr. Teresa Sievers, MD, who was found murdered in her Florida home just weeks ago. We’ve also lost the beloved Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, MD, who was found in a river with a gunshot to his chest. He’d recently moved to Georgia from Florida. We’ve also lost Dr. Riley, who was found in Georgia at her home; just a few hours from the Florida border. She was found with a gunshot wound to her head.
ReplyDeleteDr. Schwartz was found dead on, Sunday, July 19th, 2015 – four weeks to the day, after the death of the first physician: (Dr. Bradstreet MD) who I broke the story on a month ago. His family is still seeking answers as to what happened to him, and they’re some of the kindest people I know. The latest MD, Dr. Schwartz, in the picture above, lived just north of the fit, healthy, holistic Dr. Hedendal; who was the second doctor to be found dead this past Father’s Day, in Boca Raton. This was the same day that Dr. Holt died at the age of 33. Both were fathers; and again, both men died here in Florida, on June 21st, 2015...
My thoughts and prayers go out to all of these doctors; and again, I’ve never said the deaths of these doctors aren’t anything beyond a giant coincidence; yet it always pays to be safe. I’ll be doing the same as well, with my better half; one of the better known doctors in the country.
- See more at: http://www.healthnutnews.com/md-found-murdered-inside-florida-home-today-this-makes-6-in-30-days-5-still-missing/#sthash.5IG1SZcW.dpuf
An unlicensed blood product which claims to treat cancer and autism is still being sold, despite warnings that it could pose a significant risk to health, the BBC has learned.
ReplyDelete"GcMAF" is an injectable product made from human blood, produced by Guernsey-based Immuno Biotech Ltd and manufactured in the UK.
The company claims GcMAF is "the body's way of becoming cancer free", that 85% of people with autism "respond", and "15% make full recoveries". It also claims "full recoveries in 70% of cases" of ME and chronic fatigue syndrome.
But experts say there is no evidence to support claims it could potentially cure autism or cancer.
The Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has also raised concerns over whether the product is sterile and free from contamination.
Earlier this year, MHRA investigators seized 10,000 vials of GcMAF when they inspected the firm's Cambridgeshire factory. They issued a warning about its sterility and said they had concerns that it might be contaminated.
The regulator advised that GcMAF "may pose a significant risk to people's health" and cautioned anyone who had used it to seek professional medical advice. They said the product had not been not been tested for quality, safety or effectiveness.
Guernsey has its own legislative body, and under Guernsey law it is illegal to market or sell an unlicensed medicine from or within the bailiwick.
Despite this, the BBC has discovered the product has not been removed from sale, with the company offering to supply it to an undercover reporter posing as the parent of an autistic child.
A representative at Immuno Biotech's Guernsey office told the reporter: "Our product is still available, it's just that we can't ship to the UK."
She described how the company, which trades as First Immune, continued to supply customers: "What people in the UK are doing is they give us an alternate shipping address: if it's in Europe, we can ship there."
She advised having the product shipped onwards into the UK and added that the product had "wonderful results" in autistic patients.
The National Autistic Society has told the BBC it is "extremely concerned". Jane Harris, its director of external affairs and social change, said: "There is no serious evidence of any kind to support the claims made for GcMAF.
"We are extremely concerned that vulnerable families, struggling with some of the challenges of autism, could still be supplied with GcMAF, despite the MHRA's warning about this unlicensed product."
Fiona O'Leary runs Autistic Rights Together and has two children with autism. She has raised concerns with both the Guernsey authorities and the MHRA about GcMAF. She said: "Parents can be vulnerable when they receive a diagnosis of autism for their child and many are preyed upon."
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34326801