still more financial conflicts of interest in cancer research
IT’S A SHAME THAT SICK PEOPLE CAN NO LONGER BE SURE WHO TO TRUST Financial Conflicts of Interest Just a few days ago, the current issue of JAMA Oncology published a study called Financial Conflicts of Interest Among Oncologist Authors of Reports of Clinical Drug Trials. It’s yet another example of why EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE should be renamed […]
are far too many americans really getting too much medical care?
ARE YOU RECEIVING TOO MUCH MEDICAL CARE? A RECENT CONFERENCE SUGGESTS IT’S LIKELY My hero @garyschwitzer at Too Much Medicine Conference. His @HealthNewsRevu exposes how crap media hype fails to report:1)Costs2)Harms3)Scope of benefits4)Quality of evidence5)Alternate optionsMedia PR has contributed to overtreatment. Only media truth can cure it. #TMMA recent tweet from Dr. Allen Frances, Professor […]
evidence-based medicine: anything but evidence-based
IS EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE REALLY EVIDENCE BASED? I HAVE THIS BRIDGE IN BROOKLYN…. “It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. There is nothing like first-hand evidence.” Sherlock Holmes The great British detective Sherlock Holmes was all about the evidence, which always […]
still more reasons you can’t trust big pharma
More Reasons You Can’t Trust Big Pharma Payoffs. Tit for tat. Quid pro quo. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. Whatever you want to call these “arrangements” (in many cases they are not direct cash payments), they cannot be considered anything less than outright BRIBES. And even though the problem is increasingly being brought […]
more fun and frolic with evidence-based medicine
EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINEMORE FUN THAN YOUR OWN PERSONAL COURT JESTER Braxton University Although he has been said to be, “one of the most highly cited researchers in the world,” medical doctor and Stanford University professor, JOHN IONNIDIS, has become one of Evidence-Based Medicine’s most vocal critics. The late David Sackett, a professor of epidemiology […]
evidence-based medicine, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment
NEW STUDY COMPARES WHAT PATIENTS THINK THE RISKSOF MEDICAL TREATMENT ARE, COMPARED TO REALITY “Most participants in our sample who underwent routine cancer screening reported that their physicians did not tell them about overdiagnosis and overtreatment. The few who received information about overtreatment had unrealistic beliefs about the extent of that risk. The large number […]