Public Release: 30-Jul-2017 American Statistical Association BALTIMORE, Md. (July 30, 2017) – Amid the increased quantification of scientific research and a proliferation of large, complex data sets expanding the scope for statistics, debate has been brewing in the… Read More ›
Medical Ethics
With no treatment for low risk prostate cancer, men are 24 times more likely to die of other causes, 20% of those treated suffer from complications
Public Release: 31-Aug-2015 Study: Some with low-risk prostate cancer not likely to succumb to the disease Data on long-term outcomes of 1,298 men point to value of surveillance versus surgery or radiation for some, say Johns Hopkins researchers Johns… Read More ›
Cancer drugs approved quickly but not to patient’s benefit
Public Release: 7-May-2015 Dr. Joel Lexchin cites earlier research reviewing solid cancer drugs within 10 years of EMA approval to point out that these drugs improved survival by just over a month York University TORONTO, May 7, 2015 — Highly… Read More ›
Science and medicine have a ‘publication pollution’ problem
Public Release: 3-Apr-2015 Dr. Arthur Caplan warns that plagiarism, fraud and predatory publishing is ‘corroding the reliability of research’ NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine (New York, NY) April 3, 2015 – The scientific community… Read More ›
Exercise largely absent from US medical school curriculum, study shows
Public Release: 31-Mar-2015 Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Exercise may play a critical role in maintaining good health, but fewer than half of the physicians trained in the United States in 2013 received formal education or training on the… Read More ›
Why people with diabetes can’t buy generic insulin–insulin under patent for more than 90 years.
Public Release: 18-Mar-2015 Drug companies’ incremental changes keep drugs patented, costly, Johns Hopkins study shows Johns Hopkins Medicine Fast Facts Drug companies have made incremental improvements that kept insulin under patent for more than 90 years. Insulin can cost $120… Read More ›
‘Sugar papers’ reveal industry role in 1970s dental program
Public Release: 10-Mar-2015 “they noted that the sugar industry’s current position remains that public health should focus on fluoride toothpaste, dental sealants and other ways to reduce the harm of sugar, rather than reducing consumption. “ University of California –… Read More ›
74 percent of parents would remove their kids from daycare if others are unvaccinated
41 percent of parents say under-vaccinated kids should be excluded from daycare, according to U-M’s National Poll on Children’s Health ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Most parents agree that all children in daycare centers should be vaccinated, and that daycare providers… Read More ›
Giving physicians immunity from malpractice claims does not cut cost of medical care
Study finds such protections do not cut cost of medical care Changing laws to make it more difficult to sue physicians for medical malpractice may not reduce the amount of “defensive medicine” practiced by physicians, according to a new RAND… Read More ›
Corruption of the Health Care Delivery System
” consumer demand for healthcare is manufactured and manipulated, driving up cost, waste and harm ” Public Release: 14-Oct-2014 Higher Integrity Health Care for Evidence-Based Decision Making LEBANON, NH – The foundation of evidence-based research has eroded and the trend… Read More ›
Heart failure patients please go away, you are no longer welcome under the Affordable Care Act
Efforts to curb hospital readmissions take center stage Studies focus on identifying vulnerable patients, early follow up, medication and engagement WASHINGTON (March 29, 2014) — Strategies aimed at reducing the number of patients with heart failure and other cardiovascular conditions… Read More ›
Bill Gates Talks About Vaccines to Reduce World Population
Requested Re-Post “Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.” Public release date: 6-May-2011 Microsoft founder and one of the world’s wealthiest men,… Read More ›
Discrepancies between trial results reported on clinical trial registry and in journals ( nearly all had discrepancies )
– nearly all had at least 1 discrepancy in the study group – Our findings raise questions about accuracy of both ClinicalTrials.gov and publications, as each source’s reported results at times disagreed with the other. During a one year period,… Read More ›
Drug company CEO hangs up on charity head who called with offer to pay $50,000 for life-saving treatment for a dying 7-year-old boy
– the company received $72 million in federal funding to develop Brincidofovir The CEO of pharmaceutical company that could supply a life-saving anti-viral drugs to a 7-year-old cancer sufferer refuses to hand the drugs over Chimerix chief Kenneth Moch hung… Read More ›
Psychological side-effects of anti-depressants worse than thought
– While the biological side-effects of antidepressants, such as weight gain and nausea, are well documented, the psychological and interpersonal effects have been largely ignored or denied. They appear to be alarmingly common.” – suffering from ‘sexual difficulties’ (62%) –… Read More ›
Annual screening does not cut breast cancer deaths, suggests Canadian study
Highlights: – Annual screening in women aged 40-59 does not reduce mortality from breast cancer beyond that of physical examination – .Canada decided to compare breast cancer incidence and mortality up to 25 years in over 89,000 women aged 40-59… Read More ›
Ghostwritten articles overstate benefits of ( Prempro ) hormone replacement therapy and downplay harms
Public release date: 7-Sep-2010 HRR-Re-Posted at Request – analyzed dozens of ghostwritten reviews and commentaries published in medical journals and journal supplements that were used to promote unproven benefits and downplay harms of Prempro – The analysis revealed that DesignWrite… Read More ›
Dosing schedule of pneumococcal vaccine linked with increased risk of getting multiresistant strain
Public release date: 7-Sep-2010 – EEV: Requested Re-Post from the HRR site. – Infants who received heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV-7) at 2, 4, and 11 months were more likely than unvaccinated controls to have nasopharyngeal acquisition of pneumococcal serotype… Read More ›
‘Prostate cancer test has been misused for money’ Claims Pathologist Richard Ablin who discovered the PSA antigen 40 years ago
“Many men get treated unnecessarily – and risk life-altering side effects including impotence and incontinence” Pathologist Richard Ablin discovered the PSA antigen 40 years ago. He says it should never have been used as a cancer screening tool for all… Read More ›
Pharmaceuticals: A market for producing ‘lemons’ and serious harm
EEV: Re-Post Request Public release date: 17-Aug-2010 – they spend two to three times more on marketing than on research to persuade doctors to prescribe these new drugs – Doctors may get misleading information and then misinform patients about the… Read More ›
After Avandia: Does the FDA Have a Drug Problem?
Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 HRR: How a drug company intentionally kills thousands for profit and no one goes to jail. – the agency decided to keep the drug on the market — a move worth billions of dollars to GSK but that… Read More ›
Are you Big Pharma’s new target market?
Taking a cue from Apple and Coca-Cola, pharmaceutical firms are humanizing their brands Version française Montreal, February 4, 2014 — By 2018, it is estimated that the global pharmaceutical market will be worth more than $1.3… Read More ›
Doctors Group Sues FDA, Saying Drug Does More Harm Than Good
roflumilast, a drug used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease By ELIZABETH WARMERDAM LOS ANGELES (CN) – A physicians group sued the U.S. FDA, seeking revocation of FDA approval of roflumilast, a drug used to treat chronic obstructive… Read More ›
Some families would consider terminal sedation for kin in a permanent vegetative state
EEV: Watch the term ” terminal sedation ” become more predominant than euthanasia. Similar to when Global Warming became Climate Change. The language used is the subject, more than what the article is about. Control the language, and you control the… Read More ›
US tested weapons to harm rice crop in Japan, report claims ( rice blast fungus )
– The same experiments were conducted on the US mainland and in Taiwan – rice blast fungus – known to occur in 85 countries – was released over rice fields and data was collected on how it affected rice production… Read More ›
Medical ethics experts identify, address key issues in H1N1 pandemic
Public release date: 23-Sep-2009 – Re-Posted at request – Governments may need to limit three basic personal freedoms – mobility, freedom of assembly, and privacy – in order to protect the public good. – Half of survey respondents reported that… Read More ›
Researchers say fructose does not impact emerging indicator for cardiovascular disease / Funded by the Calorie Control Council – MASSIVE CONFLICT OF INTEREST
HRR: Before you read the article it may be a half truth. Using data from naturally occurring fruit sugars, and not modified fructose products. This is a meta-analysis so confirmation is difficult. However in the face of conventional data, and… Read More ›
Pregnant nurse, 29, is FIRED after she refuses to have flu shot to protect her unborn child
Dreonna Breton from Pennsylvania, became alarmed after the packaging for a number of major brands of the flu vaccine warned it ‘should be given to a pregnant woman only if clearly needed She showed no symptoms of having the flu… Read More ›
Forgotten Soldiers / A cache of musty documents lost to memory exposes a time when the U.S. lobotomized some 2,000 veterans. The nation forgot
A cache of musty documents lost to memory exposes a time when the U.S. lobotomized some 2,000 veterans. The nation forgot. But Roman Tritz remembers. Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber for The Wall Street Journal By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS Roman… Read More ›
NLST data highlight probability of lung cancer overdiagnosis / overdiagnosis rate for bronchioloalveolar lung cancer was 78.9 percent
Contact: Shawn Farley PR@acr.org 703-648-8936 American College of Radiology NLST data highlight probability of lung cancer overdiagnosis with low-dose CT screening Philadelphia, PA—Data from the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NLST)—conducted by the American College of Radiology Imaging Network and… Read More ›
Results from many large clinical trials are never published
Contact: Tom Hughes tahughes@unch.unc.edu 919-966-6047 University of North Carolina Health Care Non-publication is more common among industry-funded trials, study finds CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – A new analysis of 585 large, randomized clinical trials registered with ClinicalTrials.gov finds that 29 percent… Read More ›
Pregnant woman has unborn baby girl forcibly removed by caesarean after social workers obtain court order because she had suffered a mental breakdown
Italian woman claims she was not warned she would be given a ceasarean Essex council obtained order allowing them to sedate her against her will The case has now escalated into an international legal row By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 