So urgent is the desire for a ‘magic-bullet’ drug to counter major diseases such as cancer and heart disease that too many medical trials are ended, usually prematurely, as soon as there is the first glimmering that a new breakthrough drug may have...
Squabbling among drug companies is preventing proper research into AIDS therapy from taking place, a leading AIDS researcher has complained. Dr Joep Lange, from the AIDS therapy evaluation centre ...
Two new studies have shown that the newer style calcium antagonists given to heart patients are no more effective or safe than older style drugs. ...
Medical 'education' companies funded by the pharmaceutical industry are threatening to undermine medical education in the US. ...
In reply to the bit about physiotherapy and its ineffectiveness as put forth by the BMJ study (WDDTY vol 15 no 10, page 6), as a chiropractor, I am aware of these studies that say people get the same results with one treatment or exercises alone...
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Why have we never heard about the outcome of the first statin trial, the largest of them all? .. ...
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