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Topic: Clinical ecology

	Dubious Allergy-Related Practices
		Clinical ecology was founded by Theron Randolph, M.D., who diagnosed "environmental illness" in himself and married one of his patients.
		In 1981, the California Medical Association (CMA) adopted the position that clinical ecology does not constitute a valid medical discipline and that scientific and clinical evidence to support the diagnosis of "environmental illness" and "cerebral allergy" or the concept of massive environmental allergy is lacking.
		The practice of clinical ecology can be considered experimental only when its practitioners adhere to scientifically sound research protocols and inform their patients about the experimental nature of their practice [4].
	www.ncahf.org /articles/a-b/allergy.html (2144 words)

	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
		Most physicians who diagnose and treat MCS identify themselves as "clinical ecologists" or "specialists in environmental medicine." About 400 of them belong to the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM, which Randolph founded in 1965 as the Society for Clinical Ecology, is composed mainly of medical and osteopathic physicians.
		Critics of clinical ecology charge that: (a) MCS has never been clearly defined, (b) no scientifically plausible mechanism has been proposed for it, (c) no diagnostic tests have been substantiated [1], and (d) not a single case has been scientifically validated.
		To protect the public, state licensing boards should scrutinize the activities of clinical ecologists and decide whether the overall quality of their care is sufficient for them to remain in medical practice.
	www.quackwatch.org /01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mcs.html (3216 words)

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		Clinical ecology adheres to the theory of "Allergic Toxemia." What this controversial field of medicine suggests is that by eliminating from the individual's diet things he/she typically reacts adversely to, one will achieve healthier lifestyle.
		Once these "allergens" are removed from the diet for an extended among of time, the patient can then, under a clinical ecologist's supervision, reintroduce the food in to the diet.
		I place the words allergens and allergies in quotes because Clinical Ecology's use of these words differs from Conventional Western Medicine's use of the words.
	altmed.creighton.edu /Allergies/ClinicalEcology.htm (225 words)

	The struggle to include the environment in medical practice
		Clinical Ecologists propose that chronic exposure to common foods, environmental chemicals, and natural inhalants...can trigger a wide range of mental, emotional, and physical disorders in susceptible individuals.
		The summary of its adversarial positions toward Clinical Ecology was as follows: "An objective evaluation of the diagnostic and therapeutic principles used to support the concept of clinical ecology indicates that it is an unproven and experimental methodology.
		Clinical ecologists did "provocative" skin tests, using different concentrations of the test substance, and measure both the local reaction and the patients general response by recording symptoms produced and measuring the pulse rate.
	www.nutramed.com /environment/environmedicine.htm (1518 words)

	Diagnosis and Management of Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance (i.e.,Clinical Ecology)
		The original term, clinical ecology was replaced by the term multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), and most recently has been replaced by idiopathic environmental illness, a term which reflects the uncertain nature of the condition and its relationship to chemical exposure.
		The clinical entity of idiopathic environmental illness has been controversial for decades, in part due to lack of a set of reproducible diagnostic criteria.
		Clinical ecologists who wish to carry out definitive study of provocation-neutralization testing and neutralizing therapy should establish a precise definition of the condition to be diagnosed and treated, and they should document that study subjects fulfill these criteria.
	www.regence.com /trgmedpol/medicine/med37.html (2106 words)

	Oxygen Homeostasis (January 2006)
		Clinical evidence for that is furnished by the pervasive sense of "air hunger" among patients with environmental illness and clinical benefits of oxygenative therapies for such patients.
		Clinical ecology was defined as the study of the effects of the environment upon the individual by the pioneers of the field, including Randolph,
		Furthermore, clinically significant reduction in the frequency and intensity of those reactions was achieved with the use of dietary, herbal, and antifungal agents.
	www.townsendletter.com /Jan2006/oxygenhomeo0106.htm (5183 words)

	Junk Science in the Courtroom -- Huber, Overlawyered.com
		Consider the courtroom antics of a fringe group of quasi-experts broadly known as "clinical ecologists." Clinical ecologists believe that trace chemicals in the environment are the cause of all manner of maladies, from depression to charley horses.
		A pair of clinical ecologists arrive in court in Missouri in late 1985, testifying on behalf of 32 residents of the town of Sedalia.
		Clinical ecology is critical in keeping alive another claim, brought by employees of Firestone in California.
	www.overlawyered.com /articles/huber/junksci.html (3158 words)

	Reference Data Sheet For Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
		The College concluded that existing literature offered "inadequate support for the beliefs and practices of clinical ecology" and that diagnoses and treatments for MCS were ineffective.
		Clinical tests require control and should be based on sound scientific design to remove bias.
		Diagnosis and clinical management should include a detailed history and comprehensive medical and psychosocial evaluation of the patient.
	www.talkaboutsupport.com /group/alt.support.mcs/messages/950.html (558 words)

	ACSH > Health Issues >
		Clinical diseases that the biomedical community has acknowledged—coronary heart disease, diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis, for example—relate to clear-cut patient histories, physical findings, and lab tests.
		Clinical ecology has never been established as a medical specialty, is not advocated in any standard medical textbook, and is not a component of medical-school or specialty training programs.
		The test clinical ecologists consider paramount is called "provocation—neutralization." During this procedure, the patient is asked to report any symptoms that develop after various substances under suspicion have been placed under the tongue or injected into the skin.
	www.acsh.org /healthissues/newsID.650/healthissue_detail.asp (2842 words)

	Chronic Fatigue And Battered Bowel Ecology
		In my view, the most remarkable phenomenon in the entire field of human biology is this: A vast number of clinical problems that are seemingly unrelated to the bowel spontaneously resolve when the focus of clinical management turns to all the issues in bowel ecology.
		Extensive clinical experience has convinced me that long-term clinical results are far superior when the use of drugs is kept to a minimum.
		Extensive clinical experience has convinced me that for nonlife-threatening, chronic disorders, natural therapies are far superior to the huge array of drugs that are foisted upon us.
	www.ei-resource.org /Articles/cfs-art06.asp?showresults=true (3964 words)

	Chemical AIDS vs. Real AIDS -- Huber, Overlawyered.com
		The scientific veneer for this and similar lawsuits comes from the "clinical ecologists," a tiny cabal of fringe representatives of the medical profession, a fringe that includes some family practitioners, psychiatrists, urologists, pediatricians and allergists.
		With faces quite straight, two founders of modern clinical ecology dedicate their work to "all patients who have ever been called neurotic, hypochondriac, hysterical, or starved for attention while suffering from environmentally induced illness."
		Clinical ecologists spin an awfully good yarn, most especially in court, unshackled from science's demands for blind tests, written exposition and peer review.
	www.overlawyered.com /articles/huber/clinicecol.html (811 words)

	Clinical Ecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Clinical Ecology consists basically of knowing all about these possible poisonings and allergies, and therefore knowing either how to avoid damaging agents, or how to protect oneself against them.
		Clinical Ecologists or Allergists therefore offer two basic skills to the Health marketplace: (1) a detailed knowledge of the environment and diet and of the various ways in which they can be damaging (especially to more susceptible individuals), and (2) one or more methods with which to strengthen the defences of those individuals.
		Allergists and Clinical Ecologists in the UK do not have to be medically qualified, although many are.
	www.adhoc-web.co.uk /clinecol.html (677 words)

	III. Theories of Causation and Mechanisims
		Of the neurophysiologic models that have been advanced to explain MCS-related clinical phenomena and to provide possible mechanisms for the condition, the olfactory-limbic and neural sensitization model developed and refined by Bell and colleagues is the one most completely explicated (Bell et al., 1992; Sparks et al., 1994).
		The terms were developed in part because physicians practicing clinical ecology believe that these terms and descriptors better define their patients' conditions than do other terms.
		The clinical presentation is further modified by the stage of adaptation that the patient is in at the time.
	www.health.gov /environment/mcs/iii.htm (4799 words)

	Michael Fumento: Sick of It All
		The American College of Physicians, 1989: "The existence of an environmental illness as presented in clinical ecology theory must be questioned because of the lack of clinical definition." There is "inadequate support" for the basic beliefs of clinical ecology.
		Clinical ecologists and their supporters sometimes turn this requirement on its head, saying that if tests for all ot her types of disease come up negative, then the sufferer must have MCS.
		The study, which followed a protocol considered fair by both advocates and detractors of MCS, was financed by two clinical ecology organizations, the Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy and the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.
	www.fumento.com /sick.html (4974 words)

	Our Mission
		CLINICAL ECOLOGY: The study of an individual's physical, mental, and emotional responses to his environment.
		Clinical ecology is now also called ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE.
		The chief medical organization advocating this approach recently changed its name from the Society of Clinical Ecology to the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.
	www.faim.org /glossary.htm (2473 words)

	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - New Treatments, January 2, 2007
		IEI is described by clinical ecologists as a condition of multiple symptoms involving numerous areas and systems of the body without accompanying abnormal physical findings or laboratory test results.
		The clinical ecology literature discusses a variety of theories and concepts to explain both the etiology and pathogenesis of environmental illness.
		Data from the clinical ecology literature and from independent review of series of patients with IEI lend no support to the diagnostic usefulness of any of these tests.
	www.ccspublishing.com /journals3a/multiple_chemical_sensitivity.htm (811 words)

	Part II: Multiple chemical sensitivity
		The specialty of clinical ecology has no official recognition other than by its practitioners, who tend to be medical or osteopathic physicians.
		Despite clinical ecologists' complaints of an indifferent, even corrupt, medical establishment, it is difficult to deny that MCS is on poor scientific footing: Doctors can't define any diagnostic symptom(s) for MCS; no blood test, laboratory culture or x-ray can tell you if you have it; and no known physiological mechanism explains it.
		Skeptics note that if clinical ecologists were as interested in their patients' well-being as they purport, they would at least be open-minded to a psychological cause of MCS.
	grounds-mag.com /mag/grounds_maintenance_part_ii_multiple (3011 words)

	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome - September 1, 1998 - American Academy of Family Physicians
		The existence of an environmental illness as presented in clinical ecology theory must be questioned because of the lack of a clinical definition.
		In this article, the term "MCS" refers to the clinical syndrome without implying a mechanism of disease, in recognition of the lack of reliable scientific evidence to clarify such a mechanism.
		Followers of the clinical ecology movement believe chemical exposure causes the development of allergy to low levels of many chemicals, not just the initiating one.
	www.aafp.org /afp/980901ap/magill.html (3473 words)

	Indoor Air Quality FAQs
		reported a 65 percent incidence of current or past clinical depression, anxiety disorders, or somatoform disorders in subjects with this diagnosis compared with 28 percent in controls.
		"Clinical ecology," while not a recognized conventional medical specialty, has drawn the attention of health care professionals as well as laypersons.
		The organization of clinical ecologists-physicians who treat individuals believed to be suffering from "total allergy" or "multiple chemical sensitivity"-was founded as the Society for Clinical Ecology and is now known as the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.
	www.aqs.com /iaq/faqs.asp (1566 words)

	clinical ecology - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		clinical ecology - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ecology, the study of the relationship of plants and animals to their physical and biological environment.
		Global Warming, increase in the average temperature of the atmosphere, oceans, and landmasses of Earth.
	encarta.msn.com /clinical+ecology.html (148 words)

	Alternative-Doctor Home Page
		Truss is a psychiatrist with a special interest in clinical ecology; his seminal papers in the Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry (‘Tissue Injury Induced by Candida Albicans’, vol.
		Since that time, the whole theory seems to have gripped the public’s imagination and clinical ecologists have been keen to extol the existence of the problem and the enormous benefits to be gained from tackling it vigorously.
		If there is one valid complaint that members of the medical profession have against clinical ecologists it is their tardiness in backing up ideas with research.
	www.alternative-doctor.com /allergydotcom/falsecandida.htm (1745 words)

	Bibliography: Alphabetical Complete
		Krop, J.J. Clinical ecology and its role in diagnosis of chronic diseases caused by environmental pollution.
		Randolph, T.G. Clinical ecology as it affects the psychiatric patient.
		Ross, G.H. Clinical characteristics of chemical sensitivity: an illustrative case history of asthma and MCS.
	www.mcsrr.org /resources/bibliography/allalpha.html (7486 words)

	The Addiction Pyramid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Theron G. Randolph, MD Theron G. Randolph received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and is board certified in internal medicine and in allergy and immunology.
		Author and co-author of numerous medical articles and books, he is considered the father of clinical ecology; is a founder and past president of the Society for Clinical Ecology, now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine; and is president of the Human Ecology Research Foundation.
		Despite the precautions or because of them, the trip down the addiction pyramid is a rough one; relapse at any time must always be considered a possibility.
	www.nutrition4health.org /NOHAnews/NNW90AddictionPyramid.htm (877 words)

	Reason Magazine - Sick of it All
		The American College of Physicians, 1989: "The existence of an environmental illness as presented in clinical ecology theory must be questioned beca use of the lack of clinical definition." There is "inadequate support" for the basic beliefs of clinical ecology.
		One clinical ecologist, Sherry Rogers of Syracuse, New York, has prescribed a macrobiotic diet--based on grains and vegetables, free of wheat and dairy products--for MCS.
		Black discovered that patients w ho had been diagnosed by clinical ecologists as having MCS were far more likely than other people to have psychological problems such as depression, anxiety disorders, and panic attacks.
	www.reason.com /news/show/29943.html (5007 words)

	American Medical Association report on clinical ecology Nutrition Research Newsletter - Find Articles
		The Council on Scientific Affairs of the American Medical Association has issued a report on clinical ecology and on the diagnostic and therapeutic modalities used by its practitioners.
		Physicians who practice clinical ecology believe that a wide variety of symptoms result from exposure to low levels of substances in food and the general environment.
		Many practitioners of clinical ecology use a technique called sublingual or intradermal provocation-neutralization for both diagnosis and therapy of multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0887/is_n1_v12/ai_13448540 (343 words)

	The Environmental Aspects of Chemical Sensitivity
		The study of the effects of the environment upon the individual is now feasible due to new technology developed in the construction of environmental units.
		When they were better mentally and they were seen in the outpatient clinic, they had a much higher incidence of sinus and asthma problems.
		A clinical example of this is seen in patients exposed to mercury.
	www.aehf.com /articles/env_aspects_of_cs.html (7905 words)

	The Scientist : Association Briefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		An American College of Physicians committee seems to have had an allergic reaction to clinical ecology, a field of research based on the contention that certain people are sensitive to synthetic chemicals at very low doses.
		Terr also points out that what clinical ecologists treat as an allergy may be another, potentially more serious illness.
		Lacrosse, Wis., clinical ecologist David L. Morris says that the paper is focused too much on the "reactions of a few individuals” who have “an ax to grind.” Morris, who reports that 93% of his 900 patients have felt better after avoiding certain irritants and taking medication, says he’s not worried about the ACP report.
	www.the-scientist.com /article/display/9522 (424 words)

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