evidence-based medicine in diabetes treatment
WHAT IS THE “BEST EVIDENCE” WHEN IT COMES TO TREATING PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIABETES?(TWELVE POINTS FOR THE DIABETIC TO LIVE BY) Richard Hay – Jacksonville/USA – Pixabay “The inability of current recommendations to control the epidemic of diabetes, the specific failure of the prevailing low-fat diets to improve obesity, cardiovascular risk or general health and […]
the modern medical horror show
IS MODERN MEDICINE REALLY A HORROR SHOW? “Thackeray pushes the envelope of surgical science. He is cast in the mold of the “heroic” surgeon who was quick to intervene in an age of mass mortality, but often killed the patient sooner than the malady would have.” From a television review by Karen Kruse Thomas of […]
ain’t evidence-based medicine just grand?
EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINEAIN’T IT GRAND? Beetlelaaf “The recalls on the list are generally Class I., which means there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.“ From the FDA’s website. HERE is the recall list. Between 2004 and 2011, FDA records show that 1,734 […]
forbes takes on the chiropractic profession
FORBES TAKES ON THE CHIROPRACTIC PROFESSION “Let’s talk about those “egregious” expenditures. In 2008, medical errors cost the United States $19.5 billion, with $17 billion directly associated with additional medical costs (ancillary services, prescription drugs, inpatient and outpatient care), $1.4 billion attributed to increased mortality rates, and $1.1 billion due to 10 million days […]
vaccine experiments
SECRET VACCINE EXPERIMENTSEXPOSED “The fact that no record of these trials can be found in the files relating to the Department of Local Government and Public Health, the Municipal Health Reports relating to Cork and Dublin, or the Wellcome Archives in London, suggests that vaccine trials would not have been acceptable to government, municipal authorities, […]
why is pot legal, but raw milk isn’t?
POT IS LEGAL, BUT RAW MILK IS ILLEGALHUH? Talk about speaking out of both sides of one’s mouth! The NIH’s NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) is the governmental organization charged with stopping or at least slowing down drug addiction. Seems like their stated mission (to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science […]
diet soda for weight loss
Diet Soda for Weight Loss? Surely You Jest! “In unrelated news, the Alliance of Princess Tea Parties has released a study showing that boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider.” Phillip Ryan commenting on a May 28 article by Allison Aubrey (Could Diet Soda Really Be Better Than Water For Weight Loss?). Just […]
statins are safer than we have been led to believe?
RESEARCHERS RETRACT STATEMENTS ON STATIN SAFETY UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL OpenClipart [Our goal with this editorial is to] “alert readers, the media, and the public to the withdrawal of these statements so that patients who could benefit from statins are not wrongly deterred from starting or continuing treatment because of exaggerated concerns […]
aspirin for heart attacks? no way says fda
NEVER HAD CARDIOVASCULAR PROBLEMS?DON’T TAKE ASPIRIN AS A PREVENTATIVE “Consumers and patients who do not suffer from cardiovascular disease sometimes consider taking aspirin to reduce the possibility of having a heart attack or stroke. Reducing the possibility of having a first heart attack or stroke is called primary prevention. The FDA has reviewed the available […]
obese children
ARE CHILDREN REALLY GETTING THINNER? “Research that trumpets a sudden improvement should always be taken with a grain of salt. I would hate for people to think that all of a sudden we have stopped the adult and childhood obesity epidemic, because we most certainly haven’t.” Dr. Stephen Pont, chair of the American Academy of […]
why you can trust drug companies to lie, cheat, and steal
YOU CAN TRUST THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY…. TO LIE, CHEAT, AND STEAL Arek Socha – Stockholm/Sweden – Pixabay I’ve given you DOZENS OF REASONS you cannot trust the Pharmaceutical Industry any farther than you could throw them. A perpetual offender of the public trust is GSK (GlaxoSmithKline). If you remember correctly, it was GSK who beat […]
why can’t we trust medical research?
TRUSTING MEDICAL RESEARCH IS ABOUTAS RISKY AS TRUSTING POLITICIANS Michal Jarmoluk – Kielce/Polska – Pixabay “Looking at the world’s 50 largest drug companies, researchers found that 40% had at least one board member who held a leadership position at a U.S. academic medical center — including medical school deans, chief executive officers, department chairs, and […]
government tells us which diet is best
OUR GOVERNMENT FINALLYREVEALS WHICH DIET IS BEST Zuzyusa – Praha/ČR – Pixabay “Diet is established among the most important influences on health in modern societies. Injudicious diet figures among the leading causes of premature death and chronic disease. Optimal eating is associated with increased life expectancy, dramatic reduction in lifetime risk of all chronic disease, […]
renowned medical doctor says adhd does not exist
ADHD DOES NOT EXIST? “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most commonly diagnosed conditions of childhood in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in 2012 11% of children ages 4 to 17 had been diagnosed with ADHD. In recent years, a recognition that ADHD can continue into adulthood […]
evidence-based medicine failures
WHY EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE FAILS Maklay62 – Sacramento/USA – Pixabay “Figures never lie, but liars figure.” – Mark Twain “Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors – to a striking extent – still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice?“ Dr. John Ionnidis from […]
evidence based medicine and the flexner report
The only place that the old idiom, “he who pays the piper calls the tune,” could possibly be more true than in the field of medicine is in the field of politics. Today we will deal with both. But wait, you say. Don’t we now live in the UTOPIAN WORLD of EVIDENCE- BASED MEDICINE? […]
mammography saves lives?
DOES MAMMOGRAPHY SAVE LIVES? LET’S LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE FALSE POSITIVE: Tests that that show you have a certain disease or health problem, even though you do not have said disease or problem (or the problem is so non-invasive that it would never be an issue in your natural lifetime). FALSE NEGATIVE: A test that […]
the case against evidence-based medicine
THE CASE AGAINST EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE “When I tell friends outside medicine that many papers published in medical journals are misleading because of methodological weaknesses they are rightly shocked. Huge sums of money are spent annually on research that is seriously flawed through the use of inappropriate designs, unrepresentative samples, small samples, […]
infertility and the debate over in vitro fertilization (ivf)
IVF AS THE FRONT LINE FOR INFERTILITYIS THERE A BETTER WAY? Image by Nils Fretwurst “IVF has evolved in many parts of the world as a profit-generating industry that values the money brought in by immediate gains of pregnancy and live birth over long-term considerations about the health of the mothers and children”. Dr. Ben […]
the lack of scientific fidelity in the medical research community
THE COLD HARD TRUTH ABOUTSCIENTIFIC RESEARCH If you have followed my blog at all, you are aware that much of what we refer to as “EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE” is based on just about everything but the ‘evidence’. In fact, the cold hard truth is that this problem is so rampant in the scientific community that it […]