Product Description

A Chicago reporter suddenly 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 actually worked - UVA1 Phototherapy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #682519 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-30
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 124 pages

From the Publisher
If the demonstrated potential of UVA1 light to improve the lives of lupus suffers 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 more motivated to take 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."

From the Author
If the demonstrated potential of UVA1 light to improve the lives of lupus suffers 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 more motivated to take 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

Where there is light, there is hope
I have reviewed this book twice. I review books for a National Foundation. It offers more information for the treatment of Lupus (withholding drug treatment) than any other book I have reviewed. The information provided in this book allows a person with lupus to "look outside the box" of conventional drug treatment for lupus. Understand that in doing this the person may meet with some resistance from physicians. Who rightfully are doing what they know, what they have been taught. This treatment has not received the attention it deserves. Nor has the physician who heads this research, Dr. Hugh McGrath. The author is amazingly informed of the technology involved. He tells of his own battle and appears driven to regain his health. In searching what may help him, he finds this amazing treatment for the immune system, an approved NIH study, not a fly-by-night theory. I am grateful that the author, Anthony DeBartolo, was inspired to share with us this fascinating technology. Since the treatment doesn't involve drugs, the pharmaceutical companies are not interested. So people, rise up and claim your health, read this book. It may save your life.

Treatment Above-Board
I've had lupus for 10 years and have read everything I could get my hands on. This is positively the most helpful book I've read. What is so surprising is that the UVA1 light treatment has also been around for 10 years. Like I just read in another review, I guess I'm lucky that a investigative journalist got sick. This is one lupus book I'm sure the money-grubbing drug company cartel didn't want written. Thank you!

Lupus Underground was way overdue
Well-written, well-researched, well-reasoned and at times, more than a little funny. I think this book is a must for all lupus sufferers frustrated with currently approved FDA treatments. We're lucky that Mr. DeBartolo, a great investigative journalist, got sick. The 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 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!