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COKE PEDDLES MONEY AND INFLUENCETO THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY If you are one of those who refuses to believe that people are not influenced by money,
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COKE PEDDLES MONEY AND INFLUENCETO THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY If you are one of those who refuses to believe that people are not influenced by money,

Evidence-Based Pain Relief: Can the Evidence Be Trusted? The American MEDICAL and PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES (not to mention the FDA) are a lesson in contradictions. On

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

WHY YOU NEED TO BE CAREFUL IF YOU FOLLOW MAINSTREAM MEDICAL NEWS “Science as it is practiced today (and, in fact, as it has always

BIG PHARMA AND THE FAILURE OF EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE “Pharmaceutical companies will inevitably continue to be the dominant influence in deciding what research is undertaken and

THINKING ABOUT SPRINGING FOR AN MRI? CONTROL YOUR EXPECTATIONS “MRI is unnecessarily overused. In a study of 221 patients who had MRIs, the results showed

AMERICA’S EPIDEMIC OF MUPS(MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS) “Unfortunately, many MUPS patients seek care to find an organic disease they fear, but do not have. Doctors

NATURAL MEDICINE IS DANGEROUSHUH? Image by “Mike” on Wikimedia “Alternative medicine is unregulated and unsafe.” From Lisa Szabo’s July 2, 2013 story in USA Today

THE BIG INFLUENCE OF BIG PHARMA ON MODERN CORPORATE MEDICINE “I hate to ruin the fun, but practicing physicians are influenced far more by guidelines,

THINKING ABOUT ANOTHER MAMMOGRAM?THINK TWICE! After dealing yesterday with the twin nightmares of OVER-DIGANOSIS & OVER-TREATMENT, I figured I needed to give you a real-life

ANNUAL PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS: RELICS FROM A BYGONE ERA “When I, as a doctor, say I do not advocate for the annual physical, I feel like

THE FDA FAILS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE… AGAIN Ji-Elle “That misconduct happens isn’t shocking. What is: When the FDA finds scientific fraud or misconduct, the

Press Releases as Evidence-Based Medicine? An Exercise in Exaggeration “Press Releases are frequently about as “Evidence-Based” as Mad Magazine.” -Dr. Russell Schierling “Exaggeration in news

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

MEDIA AS BIG PHARMA’S SHILL I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If I were only interested in making money, I would manufacture

A REVIEW OF DR. JC SMITH’STHE MEDICAL WAR AGAINST CHIROPRACTORS:THE UNTOLD STORY FROM PERSECUTION TO VINDICATION “Chiropractic has endured, grown, and thrived in the United

OBESITY AND WEIGHT LOSSONE OF THE OLDEST AND MOST PRESTIGIOUSMEDICAL JOURNALS ON THE PLANET WEIGHS IN “Irrespective of starting weight, caloric restriction triggers several biological

DIETARY CHOLESTEROLDESTROYER OF HEALTH AND CLOGGER OF ARTERIES? “A government advisory panel has decided Americans shouldn’t worry about too much cholesterol in their diets. The

A NEW GENERATION OF MEDICALTREATMENTS FOR OBESITY “It sounds cool, and, as recently pointed out by the FDA, patients will undertake all sorts of risks

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE: IS IT REALLY AS “EVIDENCE-BASED” AS YOU’VE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE? “[Drug] trials can be rigged in a dozen ways, and
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