new “study” reveals what’s wrong with medical research
270 SCIENTISTS POLLED: HOW BAD IS IT IN THE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ARENA? If you’ve followed the section of my site filed under “EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE,” you are aware that for quite some time I’ve been showing you that medical research, as well as medical practice itself, is often anything but. A recent article in Vox (The […]
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 […]
antidepressants are in the news yet again
DEPRESSED ABOUT YOUR ANTIDEPRESSANT? YOU PROBABLY SHOULD BE! “According to researchers at the Mayo Clinic and Olmsted Medical Center, about 20% of Americans use at least five prescription medications. That same research shows that prescription drug use has been increasing steadily in the U.S. for the past decade.” Cherry-picked from Lacie Glover’s June 1, 2015 […]
evidence-based medicine: who decides what constitutes evidence?
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE: PICKING AND CHOOSING THE EVIDENCE Unfortunately, the title of this post could have easily been, ‘The More Things Change, The More they Stay the Same.‘ According to his Facebook page, Dr. Brian Earp is a Yale-trained scientist who is both a research assistant at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and a […]
should i call you mister guinea or mister pig?
YOU ARE BIG PHARMA’S GRAND EXPERIMENT: AND THEIR SOURCE OF CASH “Annually, prescription drugs cause over 81 million adverse reactions and result in 2.7 million hospitalizations. This epidemic of harm from medications makes our prescription drugs the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Including hospitalizations and deaths from prescribing errors, overdosing, […]
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 […]
drug reactions and under-reporting
DRUG REACTIONS AND UNDER-REPORTING “Off-label prescribing is widespread in Canada and the United States. For 160 drugs commonly prescribed to U.S. adults and children, 21 percent were for off-label indications… In this case, 73 percent had little to no scientific backing and once again psychoactive drugs such as gabapentin had the highest level of off-label […]
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 […]