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...whatever happened to the "Medical Advisory Board":
"Consulting fees for the Medical Advisory Board ("MAB") were lower ($15,000) in the quarter ended September 30, 2011 than in the prior period, since the MAB did not meet during the quarter."
...who was on the "Medical Advisory Board"?...why was the "Medical Advisory Board"?...what "advice" did the "Medical Advisory Board" give?...will the "Medical Advisory Board" ever meet again?...
..."Changes are a'coming and the shareholders will exalt..."????...were you referring to Despo's leaving?...I still don't understand why he left a company when it's so obvious the company is about to experience a boom in sales and profitablity...especially after how many years of I'm still wondering how much cash he took with him...
..."watch for preliminary studies results in January."????...nothing so far...
..."CPT III code is now effective"????...and of course everyone now sees how impressed BC/BS is with those codes:
"Literature Review
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
There are no randomized trials that compared active with sham scrambler therapy. The only published RCT currently available was a small, short-term pilot study that compared scrambler therapy with pain medication in 55 patients matched for type of pain which included postoperative neuropathic pain, postherpetic neuralgia, or spinal canal stenosis.[1] The authors reported significantly greater pain reduction in the scrambler therapy group compared with the medication control group at 1-, 2-, and 3-month follow-up. While this RCT is useful in informing hypothesis formation, it does not permit conclusions on efficacy and safety due to small size, lack of a sham control group, and short-term followup period.
Nonrandomized trials
The remaining published trials are limited to nonrandomized trials.[2-4] Evidence from these studies is unreliable due to their inherent design flaws, such as non-random allocation of treatment, non-blind study design, and lack of comparison groups.
Clinical Practice Guidelines
There are no clinical practice guidelines from professional associations that recommend scrambler therapy.
Summary
The evidence is not sufficient to permit conclusions about the benefits of scrambler therapy as a treatment for pain from any etiology."
...ditto Medicare and Medicaid:
http://www.indianamedicaid.com/ihcp/Bulletins/BT201164.pdf
..."Would love to see the credentials in support of bioengineer..."???...hmmmm...I wonder why Johnnie won't provide any...
..."The origin of any degrees held by Marineo isn't the focus of CTTC's lawsuit..."???...really?...that's nice...but who cares?...I only wondered what was going to happen when everyone finds out the answer...
..."a home in Kentucky that runs the risk of being auctioned off."????...risk?...hmmmmm...could be...but per a Yahoo post:
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_C/threadview?m=tm&bn=111477&tid=2261&mid=2261&tof=1&frt=2
...my, he's got a kinda mean look about him:
http://www.hl-law.com/view_attorney.php?id=10
...don't he?...and oh, look!...he's even got a master's degree(LL.M.)...and he even tells you up front who awarded it!...how about them apples?!...I wonder if he can convince Johnnie to reveal where Marineo got his ALLEGED PhD...and I wonder what will happen when everyone finds out...
...well, I see where "Bud" invented a "shoulder bag":
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=10&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=D446013&OS=D446013&RS=D446013
...but he's not terribly inventive with domain names:
http://whois.polodomains.com/domain/K7yCGzs9vd8cWeGepX2ZIQ2oV4azIQ02_info.html
...but he must be rolling in dough:
http://www.realtor.com/property-detail/29-Grimes-Rd_Old-Greenwich_CT_06870_a64e9505?source=web
...4 MILLION dollar assessment for a 4,000 square foot home?!...mercy!...are the bathrooms tiled with gold or what?!...
..."sends small waves of electrical currents through the human body’s natural neuropathways"???...as opposed to the "unnatural" neuropathways?...HAW!...oh, wait!...does that mean they're no longer using Marineo's "artificial" neurons?...HAW, HAW, HAW!!!...
...I guess Prescott Group threw in the towel:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/102198/000095012311014165/c12290sc13gza.htm
...quite a decrease from:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/102198/000095012310011996/c96072sc13g.htm
...oh!...another thing I just noticed in the last 14A:
"Beginning in January 2009, Mr. Despo began deferring a portion of his salary until the company was in a stronger cash flow position. This amount includes deferred wages of $32,308."
...presuming that the company had to pay those deferred wages when Despo left -- as it did with Nano -- I wonder exactly how much cash Despo took with him....
...hmmmmmm...it's interesting to read the last 14A:
"Johnnie D. Johnson is currently serving as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, per an amended consulting agreement with IR Services, LLC, a Connecticut company of which Mr. Johnson is managing member. Prior to September 2010, IR Services, LLC had a consulting agreement with CTTC to provide CTTC with managerial advice, investor relations services and public relation services. In September 2010, the Consulting Agreement was amended to include the provision of management services, specifically that of Chief Executive Officer. Per the Agreement, CTTC pays IR Services, LLC an additional $5,000 per month for the management services of Mr. Johnson, in addition to the monthly fee for the aforementioned services still provided under the original agreement of $20,000."
...so now, am I reading that correctly?...CTT was paying Johnboy's company $20,000 a month for IR services even BEFORE Nano left?...$20,000???...a MONTH????????...well, goodness knows "IR Services" did such a stellar job!...uhhhhhhhh...what exactly were supposed to be doing?...
...and it's funny that adding on Nano's responsibilities only gained an additional $5,000 a month...forget being CEO -- investor relations is where the REAL money is!...HAW!!!...
..."None of your points make any sense."????...doesn't seem all that difficult...between the three of them -- D'Amato, Chalmers, and "RMT" -- something approaching SEVENTY clinics either should be open or should be close to being opened...and they should have bought or should be close to buying almost TWO HUNDRED machines...
...D'Amato is now overdue since his TEN clinics should have been opened by this month...Chalmers' Las Vegas and Phoenix offices are about six months overdue -- he still has until September for the other ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX..."RMT" was SUPPOSED to open at least TWO clinics by May and July of LAST year, but I can't find evidence that they have actually opened ANY so far...
...so there's a total of 3 or 4 offices available to potential patients versus the almost SEVENTY purportedly "en route"...no offices available for treatment would seem to make it difficult to attract customers...especially when a website like that of RMT's doesn't bother to include EITHER a telephone number OR even the state where the clinic is located...
..."That is irrefutable with lots of documentation readily available to support that fact."????...true...true...too apparently there isn't similar "documentation" -- refutable or otherwise -- to support Marineo's claim to be a "PhD" or to support CTTC's implication that he is a "professor" somewhere other than the yard of the quaint little house with the the charming red tile roof...
...or so I presume...since CTTC seems adamant in their refusal to release such "documentation," and I can imagine no other cogent reason for such refusal...
...and speaking of running a little late, what about old Sperotherapy and what it said March of last year:
"Spero Pain Relief Therapy has recently opened clinics with multiple Calmare® devices in both St. George and Salt Lake City, Utah, and plans to open an additional 16 clinics utilizing about 150 devices throughout the Western US over the next 18 months, including the Phoenix, AZ region starting in July of 2011."
...which shrunk from the original EIGHTEEN planned per the agreement from February of last year:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/102198/000136086511000063/cttc8kmay42011.pdf
...and which nevertheless shrunk further to FOURTEEN by May of last year:
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/spero-pain-relief-therapy-llc-announces-opening-pain-relief-clinic-las-vegas-nevada-otcqx-cttc-1511172.htm
...hmmmmmmm...Las Vegas?...I keep looking for that one but can't seem to find it anywhere...the address provided is this gal here:
http://generationsmedicalcenter.com/?page_id=61
...but I don't see any mention of no painkillin' bugzappers anywhere...and that one article mentioned a clinic was going to open in Phoenix, AZ, in July of last year:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42112145/ns/business-press_releases/t/patient-treated-competitive-technologies-calmarer-pain-therapy-medical-device-interviewed-morning-news-programs/
...but I sure couldn't find it anywhere...in fact, Spero's website still lists only TWO sites -- St. George and Salt Lake:
http://www.sperotherapy.com/
...seems kinda misleading what with D'Amato saying he's goin' to open TEN clinics, Spero saying it's goin' to open EIGHTEEN then SIXTEEN then FOURTEEN clinics, and RMT saying it's goin' to open TWENTY FOUR clinics and yet -- as best I can tell -- altogether they have only FOUR clinics between them!...if THAT many, since it's not too clear that RMT has actually opened ANY clinics...
...you'd think CTTC would be a little ticked about the situation!...what with D'Amato saying he was goin' to buy TEN machines, Spero saying it was goin' to buy a HUNDRED AND FIFTY machines, and RTM saying it was goin' to buy FOURTY SIX machines!...
...and how many did they ACTUALLY end up buying?...3, 4, 5 maybe????...why that's only around a quarter million dollars in revenue versus two HUNDRED million if all the machines had actually been purchased!...and it probably doesn't do much to help inspire other potential customers to open their own clinics, huh?...
...and whatever happened to those 24 clinics that CTTC announced last April would be opened by "RMT":
"In the agreement, RMT plans to establish eleven new pain clinics utilizing CTTC's Calmare® device throughout the U.S., and a minimum of 46 Calmare® devices are scheduled to be purchased over the next 20 months. RMT's first clinic in Wyoming will open for patients on May 9, 2011, and a Denver, Colorado clinic is scheduled to open in June 2011."
...hmmmmmm...checking the calmarett website, they don't mention any Denver clinic anywhere...and I can't seem to find any other clinics that RMT opened...and isn't it kinda odd that their website says hours are 6 am to 10 pm but doesn't bother to include an address or phone number ANYWHERE on the site:
http://www.chronic-pain-solution.com/
...why, it doesn't even mention what state they're in!...and then when I looked up the address given on calmarett, I found a slew of docs but nary a pain solution anywhere:
http://maps.google.com/maps?pq=parkridge+medical+building%0A6500+east+2nd+street%0Asuite+103%0Acasper,+wy+82609&hl=en&sugexp=pfwl&qe=NjUwMCBFYXN0IDJuZCBTdHJlZXQgU3VpdGUgMTAzIENhc3BlciwgV1kgODI2MDk&qesig=7cCPqcQDST1DVdJEqGhzSQ&pkc=AFgZ2tn7nUWrAJ8DYtW3Q7_CVoEqy6z1wlMp7yM03SsvoUhsDcBoY0KtyV_DZELSIVIbEvG7gvL0SkF3866QDEmxEABZkKvXfQ&cp=0&gs_id=1n&xhr=t&q=6500+East+2nd+Street+Suite+103+Casper,+WY+82609&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1680&bih=961&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x8760b9414ecd5175:0x772eb3706ae322bd,6500+E+2nd+St+%23103,+Casper,+WY+82609&gl=us&ei=XiIST67ANdCltwet_ayoAg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCAQ8gEwAA
...must be awfully hard attracting customers...don't you think?...
..."I have a mosquito problem during the summer months. Could the Calmare machine prove effective in combating this problem?"???...hey!...you might be onto something there!...might be a good idea for Johnnie to try what with all that inventory he needs to unload!...by the way, you haven't seen any of potatoehead's ten clinics running around anywhere, have you?...HAW!!...
..."I'm sure we all hope that the case against Mr. Raymond Taylor of Louisville, KY yields far more..."????...well, as long as it yields the source of Matineo's degree(s?) -- that's all I care about...where are they in the process, by the way?...has discovery begun?...
...I've had two posts removed now...The first time, I requested a review and asked for an explanation but got only "privacy violation" but no explanation of what it was...so I rewrote the post and tried to eliminate everything remotely related to privacy...again it was taken down...again, I requested a review and a detailed explanation...all I got for a reason was "spam" with no explanation whatsoever of how it was considered spam...I rewrote it again this morning and tried to eliminate anything "spamful"...
....it was taken down yet AGAIN but now it's because it is AGAIN some sort a "privacy violation"...isn't some sort of more detailed explanation supposed to be provided when it is requested?...
..."weighing the prospects of an appeal."???...one would think they would learn...oh, wait!...I forgot -- it's not "they" anymore, is it?...
..oh, look!...I just noticed a response to a comment I made elsewhere about Marineo's doubtful degrees and past legal problems:e
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=864900
...someone -- I can't imagine who -- tried to rebut my post:
"..., are you still trying to discredit this? Even after being sued by the company for libelous remarks and torturous interference?
The fact is that the military tested it on wounded soldiers at Walter Reed for a year before they decided to buy a dozen more for Naval hospitals across the country. They were pretty impressed with the pain relief that soldiers were getting. Also, they are conducting trials at the Mayo Clinic and the lead investigator, Dr. Loprinizi, has said that early results are very positive. Loprinizi has decided to conduct multiple trials he was so impressed. And the head of the Duffy Palliative Care at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Thomas Smith, has spoken very positively about it. He said that he's used TENS devices plenty in the past and that this is very different from any TENS device he's used. His last study found an 64% reduction in pain in CIPN patients. There have been plenty of studies that have found a 60-90% reduction in pain using Calmare with a response rate of about 80%.
Yes, the inventor is trying to cure everything with his inventions, from aids to cirrhosis to pain. And yes, the limited edition fan is ridiculous. But if the Mayo Clinic, VCU Massey Cancer Center, UW Paul Carbone Cancer Center and dozens of pain clinics across the country and multiple military bases use the Calmare therpay, I would have to say it's pretty intriguing. Apparently the medical director of palliative care at Johns Hopkins was pretty impressed with it."
...I really liked Dr. Lobell's response to that "rebuttal":
"Useless propaganda, no data."
...ouch!...here's Dr. Lobell's clinic:
http://www.stevenlobel.com/staff.html
...hmmmmm...nice looking place, huh?...but I guess he won't be a CTTC customer anyway soon...well, maybe CTTC could interest him in a "magnetic theraputic diatron"...on the other hand, CTTC could always just sue him for libel, huh?...
..."they don't know the MOA of spinal cord stimulators either but it is a generally accepted device"???...true...very true...however, I quote:
"There are many studies supporting the use of spinal cord simulation for chronic pain. There long-term follow-up of 10-20 years supports the use of spinal cord stimulation for chronic intractable pain."
...oh, look!...that came from an INSURANCE company, no less, that covers SCS devices:
https://www.harvardpilgrim.org/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/PROVIDERS/MEDMGMT/STATEMENTS/SPINAL_CORD_STIM_PAIN_0111.PDF
...in other words, those "many studies" provided a basis for assessing the risks and potential complications of SCS implantation...information that could be used by physicians and patients to decide whether to do the procedure or not...
...has CTTC done any long-term studies to provide similar information?...hmmmmmm...don't think so...yet I recall some therapy providers boast about its safety and lack of adverse effects...why, one could almost argue false advertising...
..."now the FDA should pull a device due to ANONYMOUS internet posters' OPINIONS"???...no, the FDA should pull it because there have been reports of adverse reactions and -- per CTTC and Mr. Marineo -- they really don't know how the device works and no definitive clinical trials have been done to assess safety...after all, the FDA approved it as just another TENS device...if it's doing more than an ordinary TENS, then someone needs to figure out what in order to assess the probability that the adverse events are indeed related to the therapy...don't want any more patients possibly injured due to ignorance now, do you?...
..."I never said it was the conclusion of the FDA."???...you're correct...someone else said that...you said:
"That was NOT the conclusion of the nurse who submitted the report.
...NOWHERE does it say who drew that conclusion...the nurse does NOT specify how the conclusion was deduced...exactly what kind of tests do you think someone could run to determine whether a "scrambled signal" coming from the lower extremities could be intercepted by the bowels and result in obstruction?...
..."Dr. Campbell has been treating enough patients with Calmare therapy to know if it was due to the treatment or not."???...gee, exactly how many is that?...20...30...40...how many?...and if an adverse effect like a bowel obstruction occurred only every one hundred patients, might it not be possible that he missed it...or MAYBE an adverse effect could occur and he would ignore it since he didn't think the therapy could cause it in the first place...that's one reason why conducting phase I studies...
..."Is This An Adverse Event Report?"???...you betcha!...and it's now on the official record for everyone to peruse and contemplate...
..."Is This A Product Problem Report?"????...which means only that the product" functioned as it was supposed to -- i.e. didn't malfunction -- in the course of therapy; NOT that the event was unrelated to the therapy...
...the conclusion was NOT just "unrelated to study participation" but that "the small bowel obstruction and hospitalization were attributed as unrelated to study participation"...the key word being "attributed"...in other words, they did NOT establish that the treatment was unrelated to the problem, only that they could not ATTRIBUTE the problem to the therapy...
...in other words, they just expressed an opinion...and that's the reason the device should be pulled and studies done to determine exactly what it does, where it does it, and what kinds of potential problems may exist in consequence...
..."Well, there you go lying again!"???...what on earth are you talking about?...from that webpage:
"Event Description
Pt presented to emergency room with abdominal pain and nausea for approx 10 hours. Work up showed partial small bowel obstruction. Pt was hospitalized for management/monitoring of small bowel obstructions. Pt was discharged (b)(6) 2011 with no surgical intervention required and symptom resolution. This report is submitted as pt is a participant in a clinical trial that is evaluating the treatment of painful chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy with treatment using either the mc5a pain therapy device vs. Sham device. Pt was treated (double-blind randomization) with 10 treatments to lower extremities below knees) from (b)(6) 2011 - (b)(6) 2011. Pt was previously scheduled to complete study follow up activities on (b)(6) 2011. Pt was seen (b)(6) 2011 by study physician. The small bowel obstruction and hospitalization were attributed as unrelated to study participation. Sae reporting per protocol requirements. Mc5a device vs. Sham device - (b)(6) - (b)(6) 2011; (b)(6) - (b)(6) 2011; (b)(6) - (b)(6) 2011 -10 total treatments."
...below that it says:
Report Source Voluntary
Reporter Occupation Nurse
Type of Report Initial
Report Date 09/01/2011
Date FDA Received 09/01/2011
Is This An Adverse Event Report? Yes
Is This A Product Problem Report? No
Device Operator Health Professional
Was Device Available For Evaluation? Yes
Is The Reporter A Health Professional? Yes
Was The Report Sent To Manufacturer? No
Is this a Reprocessed and Reused Single-Use Device? No
Is the Device an Implant? No"
...now YOU said that was the conclusion of the "FDA's report" -- THAT is false...the FDA made NO report...a NURSE made the report...the NURSE does NOT specify WHO decided the event was unrelated to bugzapper therapy NOR does the NURSE indicate HOW that conclusion was arrived at...
..."Dr. D'Amato is a male physician."????...REALLY?!!!...dang!...I thought it was maybe just the effects of chemotherapy or else really bad genes...HAW!!!...
..."Are you stating that the FDA report is in error..."???...I answered your question -- there is no simple yes or no answer...NOBODY can even so much as assess the probability that the treatment had anything to do with the bowel obstruction since NOBODY has done any studies on the effects of sending "scrambled signals" through the body...for that matter, no one has even established that "scrambled signals" even exist...
...quoting member 152158 from studentdoctornetwork responding to a post by "oncowiz", "If a therapy is powerful enough to make physiologic and biological change for the good, it sure is hell is powerful enough to make changes for the bad. Anything that claims no side effects or badness also claims they are useless."...
...consequently, it's only reasonable to demand some further studies to determine the mechanism of action and to fully assess any risks...
...the quote is from:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=864900
..."That the conclusion from the FDA's report..."???...wellllll...that was the conclusion from the nurse who submitted the report...and since the nurse didn't explain how that conclusion was arrived at, who knows how reliable it is...like I said, no one seems to know exactly how the device works and no safety trials have been conducted that I know of...
...besides, who knows how many other adverse effects might going unreported simply because no one thinks to relate the problems to getting bugzapped...I think the FDA should consider recalling them all pending further investigation of the mechanism and/or any safety issues...don't want to see any innocent patients harmed because of ignorance, do you?...
..."The patient was constipated during the trial."???...and you think being constipated just automatically led to the bowel obstruction?...if that were true, half the country would probably be in the hospital getting treated for bowel obstruction...
...so how do you rule out that the bowel's neurons weren't scrambled by the bugzapper?...do you know exactly where all those "scrambled signals" are going and exactly what they are doing?...for that matter do you even know whether there even are any scrambled signals?...it's not like there's a plethora of evidence explaining how the device works or even a clinical trial to rule out safety issues...right?...
..."So you think that they treatment by Calmare below the knee caused a bowel obstruction?"????...welllllll...ya'know when you start sending out them "scrambled" signals, there's no way to know where they might end up!...right?...and, after all, the bowel is between the knees and the brain...at least in most people, that is...who knows, maybe along the way they stopped and scrambled some bowel neurons...
...and in that last paper, Larry sounded like he didn't really know how the dang thing worked...maybe the FDA should demand a full fledged trial to rule out the possibility of something unanticipated goin'on...you know -- just in case...which reminds me -- does CTTC carry liability insurance in case somebody up and sues them for an "adverse" event?...
...I see another MAUDE adverse effect report has popped up at the FDA:
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfmaude/detail.cfm?mdrfoi__id=2237971
...apparently courtesy of Toby...I love the part:
"This report is submitted as pt is a participant in a clinical trial that is evaluating the treatment of painful chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy with treatment using either the mc5a pain therapy device vs. Sham device. Pt was treated (double-blind randomization) with 10 treatments to lower extremities below knees)..."
...sham?...double-blind randomization?...I am sooooooo impressed!...but why on earth did he include that in the report?...I'm sure the FDA could care less...
..."Why do you call dr D'Amato "binky-boo"."????...well, isn't he supposed to be CTTC's "girlfriend"?...or is that relationship over?...used to seem like he was the bugzapper poster boy but now they hardly mention him...maybe CTTC's ticked at him for sitting on all that taxpayer money and not building any clinics?...could have been some really good publicity there...not to mention revenue...
...and it seems like no-neck is a bit lax about updating his youtube videos -- why, nothing since March of 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CalmareTherapy/videos
...of course, maybe he got a little shy of youtube after getting panned by one of his patients:
...personally, I'm more interested in what binky-boo (aka D'Amato) did with the 250 THOUSAND dollars in taxpayer money he got:
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=229012,00.html
...ostensibly it was supposed to be spent helping build 10 more clinics:
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=206366
...but I can't seem to find ANY of those TEN more bugzapper clinics ANYWHERE!...can you?...does that mean the American taxpayer can expect a refund sometime soon?...I'm going to have to do a little research on this...
..."the prospect of hiring an MD is very positive in my mind"????...I dunno...probably be kinda hard finding a MD willing to accept CTTC stock certificates for a salary...don't ya'think?...
..."Aris Despo out..."???...aw, shucks!...I won't be able anymore to make fun of him never buying a dime's worth of CTTC stock!...oh, well, I guess I'll just have to find sumthin' else to make fun of!...shouldn't be too hard, huh?!...HAW!...
...hmmmmmm...what's Nano up to nowadays:
"131.00 12/19/2011 P SUMMONS Writ, Summons and Direction for Attachment
132.00 12/19/2011 P MOTION FOR DISCLOSURE OF ASSETS"
...hmmmmmmm..."attachment" doesn't sound good, does it?...I wonder what that factoring company will have to say about that?..."disclosure of assets"????...is he joking?...HAW!...since he won, I wonder if CTTC will have to pay Nano's legal fees?...I see he also filed a "caseflow request" yesterday which I interpret as his wanting to move things along...quote from:
http://civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov/CaseDetail/PublicCaseDetail.aspx?DocketNo=FBTCV105029318S#Schedule
...funny, I only just noticed that Nano was a busy bee in December with NINE filings while CTTC hasn't filed anything since 11/21...tsk, tsk...the wheels of justice turn so slowly...
..."Marineo's most extensive description of Scrambler theory that I have been able to find, which smacks of fraud, psychosis, or reasonably coherent scientific babble..."????...which part of it did you find "reasonably coherent"?...
...also, did you have any luck in finding "Centro Ricerche Bioingegneria Medica"?...the way Marineo uses it implies it's a separate entity somewhere but I couldn't find it...certainly not at Tor Vergata...so I think he's just using it as a phrase to describe "Delta Research"...and then people turn around and use it like this:
http://www.neccp.com/meet-the-inventor/
...where the phrase,"Professor Giuseppe Marineo, at the Medical Bioengineering Research Center in Rome," makes him seem credible even though no one can demonstrate he has ever been a "professor" at any college or university and even though the "research center" is likely barely more than a shack with a pretty tile roof...
..."Calmare to be subject of TV News segment this Saturday and Sunday."????...will they be telling everyone why BC/BS won't pay for therapy?...just in case anyone forgot:
"Literature Review
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
There are no randomized trials that compared active with sham scrambler therapy. The only published RCT currently available was a small, short-term pilot study that compared scrambler therapy with pain medication in 55 patients matched for type of pain which included postoperative neuropathic pain, postherpetic neuralgia, or spinal canal stenosis.[1] The authors reported significantly greater pain reduction in the scrambler therapy group compared with the medication control group at 1-, 2-, and 3-month follow-up. While this RCT is useful in informing hypothesis formation, it does not permit conclusions on efficacy and safety due to small size, lack of a sham control group, and short-term followup period.
Nonrandomized trials
The remaining published trials are limited to nonrandomized trials.[2-4] Evidence from these studies is unreliable due to their inherent design flaws, such as non-random allocation of treatment, non-blind study design, and lack of comparison groups.
Clinical Practice Guidelines
There are no clinical practice guidelines from professional associations that recommend scrambler therapy.
Summary
The evidence is not sufficient to permit conclusions about the benefits of scrambler therapy as a treatment for pain from any etiology."
...hmmmmm...I wonder if I got grounds to sue for plagiarism...HAW, HAW, HAW!!!!...
..."Someone like Dr. Smith or Dr. Loprinzi would have much better insight into the efficacy of the Calmare device - and both have commented on how effective that it is."...gee, I guess BC/BS, Medicare, and Medicaid weren't reading their posts, huh?...HAW, HAW, HAW!!!!...
..."a Motion for Summary Judgment"???...hmmmm...could be...the funny thing about it all is that the first rule of any libel case is all the attention it draws to the complainant...which is okay if the complainant wants to advertise that a licensed MD has been saying nasty things about the product that the complainant allegedly wants to market to medical professionals...probably not the wisest way to spend advertising bucks -- don't you know?...hmmmmm...I wonder what the AMA would have to say...HAW!!!...
..."Quite a coincidence?"????...probably just cut and pasted my posts...HAW!!...
..."i don't care to do it"???...or you could just provide a summary with your usual insightful analysis...