With thanks to Medscape Today and British Medical Journal Published online October 13, 2010 – see BMJ editorial by Elizabeth Loder 16.10.10 Volume 341:
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Archive for category Pharmaceuticals
With thanks to David H Freedman and The Atlantic November 2010:
In fact, the question of whether the problems with medical research should be broadcast to the public is a sticky one in the meta-research community. Already feeling that they’re fighting to keep patients from turning to alternative medical treatments such as homeopathy, or misdiagnosing themselves on the Internet, or simply neglecting medical treatment altogether, many researchers and physicians aren’t eager to provide even more reason to be skeptical of what doctors do—not to mention how public disenchantment with medicine could affect research funding.
“If we don’t tell the public about these problems,” Ioannidis says “.. then we’re no better than nonscientists who falsely claim they can heal,” he says. “If the drugs don’t work and we’re not sure how to treat something, why should we claim differently? Some fear that there may be less funding because we stop claiming we can prove we have miraculous treatments. But if we can’t really provide those miracles, how long will we be able to fool the public anyway?
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With thanks to Mark Hyman and Huffington Post 2.10.10:
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A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found over 40 percent of the best designed, peer-reviewed scientific papers published in the world’s top medical journals misrepresented the actual findings of the research.(i) The “spin doctors” writing the papers found a way to show treatments worked, when in fact, they didn’t.
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See this video on YouTube and note how the embed code and comments section has been disabled – which is why you will have to click on the link below to view it………….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqmeB6GB25Q
Note: the information contained in this video is extremely shocking!
With thanks to the British Medical Journal
How much do we know?
For clinicians and patients we wish to highlight treatments that work and for which the benefits outweigh the harms, especially those treatments that may currently be underused.
We also wish to highlight treatments that do not work or for which the harms outweigh the benefits.
Read about more scientific research into homeopathy
With thanks to Mike Adams at Natural News:
It’s being called the largest research fraud in medical history. Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer’s speakers’ bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published in medical journals. Read the rest of this entry »
Following the success of Boots sales of homeopathic remedies, and the fact that Alternative medicine sales soar as consumers shake off cynicism, Martindale have decided to follow suit and advise on homeopathic remedies:
Some people think that, since their purported mechanism of action does not have a convincing scientific foundation and since there is insufficient published clinical evidence, their inclusion is not justified.
But the fact remains that homoeopathic remedies have found their way on to the shelves in many pharmacies across the world, and the Editor’s decision is that they should no longer be ignored.
Thus, in the Martindale tradition of providing sound guidance on identification and nomenclature, we are in the process of including information about the ingredients of the mother tincture and recording the names used in official homeopathic sources such as the German Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, and the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India.
However, we have refrained from commenting on any suggested uses.
With thanks to Mike Adams at Natural News:
Will the next generation of docs turn up their noses at alternative therapies such as acupuncture, yoga, herbs and vitamins – just like the majority of the current crop of docs?
In what may come as a surprise to many mainstream physicians, the answer to those questions may be a resounding “no”. Read the rest of this entry »
With thanks to Mike Adams at Natural News:
In the world of medicine, “skeptics” claim to be the sole protectors of intellectual truth.
Everyone who disagrees with them is just a quack, they insist.
Briefly stated, “skeptics” are in favor of vaccines, mammograms, pharmaceuticals and chemotherapy.
They are opponents of nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, chiropractic care, massage therapy, energy medicine, homeopathy, prayer and therapeutic touch. Read the rest of this entry »
The new 174 page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.
Also, there are no recorded deaths from any CAM product or procedure.
Unfortunately, there an estimated *999,936 deaths annually from iatrogenic causes, and estimated 16.4 million Annual Unnecessary Medical Events – projected figures show that a total of 164 million people, approximately 56% of the population of the United States, have been treated unnecessarily by the medical industry,
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