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Matthias Rath (born 1955 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a controversial doctor,〔 businessman, and vitamin salesman.〔(S Africa bans Aids vitamin trials ) BBC News, UK. Published 13 June 2008. Retrieved 10 September 2008.〕〔(BMJ pays out to doctor over 'child death' story. ) Press Gazette magazine. Published 5 June 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2008.〕〔〔 He earned his basic medical degree in Germany.〔 Rath claims that a program of nutritional supplements (which he calls "cellular medicine"), including formulations that he sells, can treat or cure diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and HIV/AIDS.〔Articles coauthored by Rath on these topics include: * * * * *(Role of micronutrients in the control of HIV and AIDS. ) Commonwealth Health Ministers Book 2007, pages 187–189. Published by Henley Media Group Ltd in association with the Commonwealth Secretariat.〕〔 These claims are not supported by any reliable medical research.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2 January 2011 )〕 Rath runs the Dr. Rath Health Foundation, has been closely associated with Health Now, Inc.,〔 and founded the Dr. Rath Research Institute. The ''Sunday Times (Johannesburg)'' has described Rath as an "international campaigner for the use of natural remedies" whose "theories on the treatment of cancer have been rejected by health authorities all over the world."〔(Dissidents take their crusade to the streets ), By Rowan Philip and Edwin Lombard. Published in the ''Sunday Times (Johannesburg)'' on 30 November 2004. Retrieved 9 May 2008.〕 On HIV/AIDS, Rath has disparaged the pharmaceutical industry and denounced antiretroviral medication as toxic and dangerous, while claiming that his vitamin pills could reverse the course of AIDS. As a result, Rath has been accused of "potentially endangering thousands of lives" in South Africa, a country with a massive AIDS epidemic where Rath was active in the mid-2000s.〔(Fall of the vitamin doctor: Matthias Rath drops libel action ), by Sarah Boseley. ''The Guardian'', UK, 12 September 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2008〕 The head of Médecins Sans Frontières said "This guy is killing people by luring them with unrecognised treatment without any scientific evidence"; Rath attempted to sue him.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2 January 2011 )〕 Rath's claims and methods have been widely criticised by medical organisations, AIDS-activist groups, and the United Nations, among others.〔(The Denialists: The dangerous attacks on the consensus about H.I.V. and AIDS ), by Michael Specter. Published in ''The New Yorker'' on 12 March 2007. Retrieved 16 April 2007.〕〔(U.N. slams AIDS 'dissident' for attack on drugs ), by Stephanie Nebehay. Published by Reuters on 12 May 2005. Retrieved 9 May 2008〕 Former South African President Thabo Mbeki and former Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang have also been criticised by the medical and AIDS-activist community for their perceived support for Rath's claims.〔〔('Minister defends vitamin guru’s views on AIDS, nutrition’ ) Business Day newspaper, South Africa. Published 13 April 2005. Retrieved 3 June 2008.〕〔(TAC calls for Manto’s head over Rath ). Published 13 June 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2008.〕 According to doctors with Médecins Sans Frontières,〔 the Treatment Action Campaign (a South African AIDS-activist group)〔(South Africa: TAC prevails over Rath. PlusNews Global, 13 June 2008. ). Retrieved 15 June 2008.〕 and a former Rath colleague,〔 unauthorised clinical trials run by Rath and his associates, using vitamins as therapy for HIV, resulted in deaths of some participants. In 2008, the Cape High Court found the trials unlawful, banned Rath and his foundation from conducting unauthorised clinical trials and from advertising their products, and instructed the South African Health Department to fully investigate Rath's vitamin trials.〔〔(South African court bans AIDS vitamin trials ). Published by Reuters on 13 June 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2008.〕 In 2008, Rath expanded his advertising to Russia, a country where the incidence of HIV/AIDS has been increasing.〔 ==Background== Rath studied at the Hamburg University Medical School in Germany〔Natural health in Africa. African Decisions magazine. Issue 3/2004. Pages 26–28.〕 After graduating from Hamburg, Rath began researching arteriosclerosis at the University Clinic of Hamburg. Later, during 1989 and 1990, he was a researcher at the Berlin Heart Centre.〔 He subsequently joined two-time Nobel Prize laureate Linus Pauling at his research institute in California.〔 Ultimately, Rath had a falling-out with the Linus Pauling Institute; after a series of lawsuits and countersuits, Rath was ordered in 1994 to pay the Institute $75,000 and was assigned several patents.〔(A global business built on vitamins – and the claim to kill all disease ), by Sarah Bosely. Published in ''The Guardian'' on 12 September 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2008.〕 Rath subsequently developed his own branded nutrient products, set up the Dr. Rath Health Foundation and Dr. Rath Research Institute, and funds nutrition research with patent development in what he calls "Cellular Medicine". Rath has offices in California, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and South Africa (Cape Town). His foundation also advertises its products in Spain, France, and Russia.〔〔("Discredited doctor's 'cure' for Aids ignites life-and-death struggle in South Africa" ), by Sarah Boseley. Published in ''The Guardian'' on 14 May 2005.〕 According to Eversheds, Rath's solicitor, the Dr. Rath Health Foundation is "a not-for-profit body which conducts research into science-based natural therapies,"〔('BMJ pays out to doctor over 'child death' story.’ ) ''Press Gazette'' magazine. Published 5 June 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2008.〕 but the foundation is estimated to have earned "millions" through nutritional supplement sales.〔('Matthias Rath: Denouncer of modern medicine.' ) S. Boseley, ''The Guardian'', 12 September 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthias Rath」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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