Thats horrible...
Posted by SForsgren (Member # 7686) on :
He has an amazing microscope and ability to determine what health issues are a problem based on what he sees in the blood. I don't know about credentials, etc. but Bradford is not all bad based on what I have seen and heard.
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
Chula Vista duo indicted in fake Lyme disease cure
12:20 p.m. December 5, 2008
SAN DIEGO - A federal grand jury in Kansas has indicted two Chula Vista residents suspected of selling bogus treatments for Lyme disease, along with a microscope they claimed would diagnose the disease.
The 25-count indictment charged Robert W. Bradford, 77, and Brigitte G. Byrd, 63, with conspiracy, mail fraud, introducing a misbranded medical device, and distributing unapproved and misbranded drugs.
The pair, along with a Topeka, Kan., doctor who lost his medical license, are accused of making more than $400,000 from the alleged conspiracy between April 2004 and August 2006, mostly through a company called CRB Inc. based in Chula Vista, according to the indictment.
In Kansas, the doctor, John R. Toth, used Bradford's microscope and his treatments. He charged patients about $100 for each use of the microscope that supposedly diagnosed Lyme disease and approximately $320 for a series of injections he called antimicrobial treatment, according to the indictment.
Bradford, the founder of CRB, claimed to be a doctor and a professor, although he is not a physician and has no science degree from an accredited university, according to the indictment.
He claimed to have invented the Lyme disease-detecting microscope and conducted human intravenous drug experiments at a hospital in Tijuana that treated the disease, according to the indictment.
If convicted, all three faces several years in federal prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.
Bradford and Byrd have not been arrested but will be told when they are to appear in court.
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Posted by jamieL (Member # 16563) on :
Scott, do you care to elaborate on that?
It sounds ALL bad. Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
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This is not so simple and it may actually cause patients harm in their ability to make decisions on their own.
Some of this news is old - I wonder why they are dragging this up now - and basically comes from the IV use of a bismuth treatment that was fatal a few years ago. Yes, with sympathies to the families, that was awful.
However, we don't have all the facts to know the other things that are connected to this new development. Part of it may be that the appeals process has just wrapped up.
However, just because something is not approved by the FDA does not mean it may not be of value. The FDA is not very keen even on vitamin supplements.
My concern is just who decided something was bogus. I think lyme experts - from both allopathic and complementary - should have had a major voice in this as few others are highly educated enough to really be able to make the proper distinctions.
I'm not sure Bradford's microscope can do all we would hope, but it does have a certain value. Bradford has done some excellent research. (See article posted below.)
Rife machines, that help many, are not approved instruments so I am concerned that this opens the door to squelch a range of products that may be of help.
Still, the reader is not given enough information in the article to learn more about this. I guess one can do more research, though. What precedent is this setting? Did some patients gain value from some of the treatments? Was anyone helped?
This information is strangely absent from the article.
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Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
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This is an excellent article. One note of caution below but, otherwise, excellent information and a thorough explanation of the science of lyme. And you can see fabulous photos - from a special microscope - yes!
BIOCHEMISTRY OF LYME DISEASE: BORRELIA BURGDORFERI SPIROCHETE / CYST
by Robert W. Bradford and Henry W. Allen
EXCERPT:
A discovery of great importance relating to a toxin produced by the causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, has been linked to a similar toxin produced by the organism Clostridium botulinum.
- Full article and great photos at link above.
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NOTE OF CAUTION: While this is an excellent article regarding the information about the spirochete/cyst, there is one serious caution with one of the treatments suggested: Bismuth.
Bismuth, in various forms or methods of use, can (and has been) fatal. So, cross that off your list. If you download the article, please copy and paste this note to top your page.
Reading - and learning - about the nature of this infection is invaluable. The authors offer much in that regard, I'd just wish they'd adequately cautioned bismuth.
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Posted by Hoosiers51 (Member # 15759) on :
What were in the injections mentioned in the article?
Keebler mentioned IV bismuth, but the article talks about injections. Or did you mean bismuth in an injection, Keebler?
Anyone?
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
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Either way - and it's been done both ways - it's not something that is available. The risks are too great.
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