interesting articles from a large “medical daily” provides insight into our dysfunctional national healthcare
CAN OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM BE CHANGED? Dr. Milton Packer is no slouch. And although I wouldn’t quite call him Doogie Howser; after getting his undergrad degree from Penn State, he received his MD degree from Jefferson Medical College back in 1973 —- when he was (gulp) 22 years old. Since that time his career […]
evidence-based medicine & reproducibility in biomedical research: reproducing a nightmare
Why No Reproducibility in Biomedical Research? “Credibility is everything for science, and it is built over time in both obvious and subtle ways. Within the last 12 months, the reproducibility of science, a lynchpin of credibility, has come under intense scrutiny, both from the NIH and other government funding bodies, as well as in […]
more fun and games with invisible and abandoned studies
BURYING THE RESEARCH W/ INVISIBLE AND ABANDONED STUDIES: THE NUMBER ONE WAY BIG PHARMA IS BAMBOOZLING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC “This is undoubtedly the single biggest ethical problem facing medicine today. We cannot make decisions in the absence of all the information.” Dr. Ben Goldacre talking about Invisible & Abandoned studies in the Ted Talk below […]
more fun and games with the fda: why you can’t trust medical research
FINANCIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST INSIDE THE FDA:MEDICAL RESEARCH IS A FARCE WITH THE FOXES GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE “He’s the ultimate industry insider.” Harvard Political Science Professor and expert on the FDA, Dr. Daniel Carpenter “Dr. Califf ran a multimillion-dollar clinical research center at Duke University that received more than 60 percent of its funding […]