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Friday, March 7th, 2008I have touted the book Overdosed America by Dr. John Abramson over and over. It is shocking to me that so few people, especially doctors, know that high cholesterol and heart attacks are only correlated through the age of 40. Lowering weight, eating right, not smoking and exercising have more benefits and reduce heart attack […]
Antidepressants – Hidden Drug Trials Show Negative Results
Thursday, February 28th, 2008It almost seems to be an everyday issue, but more and more we see how drug trials that don’t show benefits are being either ignored, hidden or modified by the pharmaceutical industry. In a review of the studies on 12 antidepressant drugs, researchers led by Erick H. Turner found that 31% of the studies on […]
Prozac – A Failure to Heal
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008In an article published in PLoS Medicine by Drs. Kirsch and colleagues shows that the drug Prozac is no better than placebo in treating depression. Given that placebo has no side-effects, this means that Prozac is not only worthless, but dangerous. By including unpublished, negative studies, the authors found out that the drug is a […]
Cholesterol Lowering Drugs are Worthless in Most Cases – Part Three
Monday, February 25th, 2008Before I get into today’s discussion on inflammation, please go to this link put up by Chance News, a group dedicated to reviewing information about the use of statistics in the news. They review the cholesterol news and and the statistics behind it. Go down halfway down the page to see the report. Inflammation. That is the […]
What is the FDA Thinking?
Sunday, February 24th, 2008The drug Avastin, has just been approved by the Federal Drug Administration for the treatment of breast cancer despite it having shown no benefits over exisiting drugs in prolonging life or improving the quality of life of women taking the drug. What is the point of taking a drug that doesn’t benefit the patient aside […]
Cholesterol Lowering Drugs are Worthless in Most Cases – Part Two
Monday, February 18th, 2008In one of my blogs last week, I talked about the issues with Lipitor® and the lack of the association between high cholesterol and coronary heart disease. Now let’s talk about real problems that come up by taking this drug. Say the side-effect rate is 3-5% (which is the pharmaceutical industry line) which means that given […]
Cholesterol Lowering Drugs are Worthless in Most Cases – Part One
Friday, February 15th, 2008While walking through the SeaTac Airport a few weeks ago, I saw an article in Business Week magazine that made me smile as it was saying what I have been saying for years, which is, statin drugs really don’t prevent heart disease. Aside from the Vytorin®/Zetia® debacle, the whole idea of lowering cholesterol (LDL especially) […]
The Deceit Just Keeps Getting Deeper
Friday, February 15th, 2008Just when you thought it couldn’t get any lower, it does. A report published on the Nature magazine website claims that Dr. Steven M. Haffner of the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, forwarded a report to drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline warning them about a paper that was about to be published by […]
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