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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- More than 200 medical students from 30 U.S. states descended on Capitol Hill today to participate in the American Medical Association's student lobbying day.

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I was cited yesterday in a Medpage TODAY video by medical internet pioneer George Lundberg, MD, also former editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

An open letter to the Joint Commission. Emphasis in the original:

From: S Silverstein
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 9:21 AM

An updated analysis of data from the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) showed that vitamin E supplements significantly increased the incidence of prostate cancer in healthy men.

At a median followup of 7 years, the researchers observed that the incidence of prostate cancer was increased by 17 percent in men who received the vitamin E supplement alone compared with those who received placebo.

The findings were recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

As Occupy Wall Street has gone from an obscure protest covered only on blogs and social media to a national phenomenon, the apparent parallels between the issues it is raising and the issues we have been raising in health care grows.

99 Percenters

The fruit extract of saw palmetto (Serenoa repens)—a widely used botanical product—administered at up to three times the standard daily dose did not reduce the urinary symptoms associated with prostate enlargement in older men more than placebo.

Prostate enlargement, also called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), can cause frequent urination, a weak or intermittent urine stream, and an inability to empty the bladder completely.

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