Friday, May 25, 2012

Yet More on Statins' Lack of Benefit

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One more post about cholesterol and I promise to lay off for a while. Sharon Begley has written a great article for the Saturday Evening P...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Statins in the Water Supply, Continued--Why the New Meta-Analysis Is Unreliable

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In the immediately previous post, I said that I expected more commentary to appear on the CTT meta-analysis of statins for low-risk patients...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Back to Statins in the Water Supply--But On What Basis?

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In the beginning was the polypill. This hypothetical product was first proposed by Wald and Law in 2003, based on the idea that with a gener...

Grief: You'd Better Suck It Up After Day 13

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I have blogged previously about the American Psychiatric Association's controversial revision of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, ...
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Friday, May 18, 2012

Hiding the Truth about Drugs: How Long Are Outcomes Delayed?

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It has been a good while since I reported on drugs like epoetin, used to stimulate the body to make more red blood cells to counteract the a...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Genetic Test Firms Steal Marketing Ideas from Pharma

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Dr. Michael S. Wilkes of UC-Davis (and NPR), who has been eloquent in addressing issues around the ethics and professionalism of drug market...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Bipartisanship in Congress, in Support of Pharma and Device Industries

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It's often said today that Congress is totally dysfunctional and cannot agree on anything due to the huge partisan culture war. Well, th...