Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #673917 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 124 pages

Synopsis
A Chicago reporter stricken with lupus gives himself the assignment of finding a way back on his feet. After spending nearly two and a half years researching and exactly $4,934.48 on tanning equipment (that's right, sun tanning equipment), he files this report on a long-ignored, drug-free, non-patentable, counter-intuitive therapy that worked. Anthony DeBartolo is a Chicago-based journalist who has frequently contributed to the Chicago Tribune. His feature articles have also appeared in daily newspapers across the U.S. and in Canada, including the Baltimore Sun, Chicago Sun-Times, Orlando Sun-Senntinel, Sacramento Bee, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Toronto Star.

From the Inside Flap
If the demonstrated potential of UVA1 light to improve the lives of lupus sufferers were more publicly known, if research concerning both benefits and risks were accurately presented, if critics were fair, if our pharmaceutical industry didn’t hold excessive power over medical research and practice, if patients were motivated to take more responsibility for their own well-being, Lupus Underground would not have needed to be written. If UVA1 light didn’t alleviate fatigue, it wouldn’t have been.

About the Author
Anthony DeBartolo is a Chicago-based journalist who has frequently contributed to the Chicago Tribune. His feature work has also appeared in daily newspapers across the U.S. and in Canada, including the Baltimore Sun, Chicago Sun-Times, Orlando Sun-Sentinel, Sacramento Bee, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Toronto Star. He lives with a wife he adores, and a cat he hates, in Evanston, Illinois.

Customer Reviews

This book will change the way you think about therapy
This book is one of the best on lupus that I've ever read (and having this disease for 8 yreas now, I've read them all). I never heard of UVA-1 light therapy before reading this book, but after reading Lupus Underground and then doing my own research, I'm now certain this is the way to go.

Lupus Underground is long overdue!
Well-written, well-researched and at times, very funny. I think this book is a must read for all lupus sufferers. Especially those frustrated with currently approved FDA treatments. We're lucky that Mr. DeBartolo, an experienced investigative journalist, got sick. The 2 or 3 years of research he did to find a treatment that worked for him - UVA1 photo therapy - benefits us all. What I do not fully understand is why the work of Dr. McGrath (the book's real subject) at LSU has been so "long-ignored." Is it really because the big drug companies can't make a dime off his work? Makes me want to move to Canada! Especially useful (and informative) is the book's extensive reference of UVA1 lupus therapy research. Thank you, Mr. DeBartolo. You've given me some hope!

not for the newly diagnosed
I think this is an excellent book for all lupus patients to read, but it isn't the very first one you should read. The author says that himself in the book's introduction. DeBartolo suggests reading Dr. Wallace's book first, then his. That's what I did, and I think I appreciated DeBartolo's book that much more.