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GERIATRIC ISSUES

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There is something very wrong when so few of the drug tested end up in the green,  and so many that don't work are given anyway. 
 

Those who have a financial interest in the outcome manipulate the results, Major study finds that all 37 journal articles, positive effects were over stated--the average was 32%.  Thus even the drugs above in the green, must shouldn't be there. 

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There is a corruption of the production of information through the efforts of big Pharma.  It is driven by their unrelenting march to greater profits.  There is a need for the publishing of cautionary statements, made all the more necessary by big Pharma’s influence upon the media through advertising dollars, which entails that the media provides a less than balanced treatment in the reporting of medical information., by big Pharma’s role in the production of information (research, journals, text books, leading researchers, advertising, conferences, and  because of big Pharma manipulation of the attitude of care givers and also of the general populace—man is a social animal.  It is not how much progress our system of medicine for profits has made, but how much more would have been accomplished if a different system was in place (ran properly) in which scientists made decisions by the yardstick of the public weal. 

MEDICAL LINKS

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#31 TABLE OF CONTENTS healthfully, over 1,200 pages downloaded per day.

 

#7  TABLE OF CONTENTS skeptically, over 8,000 pages downloaded per day.

 

#201 TABLE OF CONTENTS CURRENT NEWS , over 900 pages downloaded per day

 

#209 THE ARTISTS

 

# 220 POD CASTS & U-TUBE, for those who like the visual on skeptical issues

 

#158   RECOMMENDED GATEWAY PAGE  Gateway to the research on pharma and health

 

#152 RECOMMENDATIONS--CONCISE Bad drugs, good drugs, contra pharma

 

#161  RECOMMENDED HEALTHFUL Improving health including diet and nutritional science

 

#157 Video documentaries, mostly YouTube Healthful diet, bad pharma, GMOs etc. with description

 

 

 BUSINESS PROBLEMS:

#158   RECOMMENDED GATEWAY PAGE

#152  RECOMMENDATIONS--CONCISE Drugs to avoid and take

#159  RECOMMENDATIONS--LONG Topics developed

#160  RECOMMENDED EXPOSIING PHARMA Profits before people

#161  RECOMMENDED HEALTHFUL Nutrition in depth, diet myths, plus diets

#156  RECOMMENDATIONS NON-TECHNICAL SUMMATIONS  Simple info

#157  RECOMMENDED MORE BAD PHARMA More profits before people

#166  RECOMMENDED CRITICS

#175  RECOMMENDED DIETARY TOPICS BY JK  Concise non-technical

#167  RECOMMENDED ARTICLES ON DIET AND FOODS

#168  RECOMMENDED ARTICLES ON DIETARY ISSUES

#174  RECOMMENDED DIET TESTIMONIALS

#169 RECOMMENDED JOURNAL ARTICLES

#170 RECOMMENDED MORE JOURNAL ARTICLES

#172  RECOMMENDED DIET JOURNAL ARTICLES

#173  RECOMMENDED HEART ISSUES

#17    QUACKERY  (at skeptically.org)

#135  NSAIDS

#102  QUACK THEORIES & PRACTICES (at skeptically.org)

#41   MEDICAL CRAP

#130  MEDICAL CRAP MORE,

#132  IMAGINARY CONDITIONS

#134  ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

#136  ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

#137  DRUG NEWS--DISAPPOINTING

#141  BIG PHARMA AT WORK

#145  MANAGED HEALTH CARE

#146  FDA  Exposing the façade of regulation

#147  FOR THE CHILDREN

#162  CORPORATE DRUGS

#150  BLOOD THINNERS AND ACETAMINOPHEN

#152 INDIGESTION DRUGS

#151  FAILED DRUGS

#159  CRITICS

                    

 

GENERAL INFORMATION:

#31 INDEX  

#35   HEALTH

#36   WOMEN'S MEDICAL ISSUES

#45   MALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT

#148  FEMALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT

#171  SEX

#154  FOOD

#50   ASPIRIN THE BEST NSAID

#133  THE HEART

#144  HEART MEDICATIONS & TREATMENTS  

#44    ON CANCER

#139  CANCER VARIOUS TISSUES 

#155 CANCER TREATMENTS

#165. CONDITIONS & TREATMENTS

#49    TOBACCO

#131   LONGEVITY

#143  OBESITY

#46    MEDICAL SCIENCE

#47    MEDICAL NEWS

#48    DRUGS AND CONDITIONS

#140   HEALTH & BODY

#138   DISEASES

#142   GERIATRIC PROBLEMS

#149  PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS

#163 NATURALISTIC TREATMENTS (positive)

#153 EFFECTIVE DRUGS

 

MISCELLANEOUS:   

#1 ENLIGHTENMENT

#32 HOME 

#37   BIOGRAPHICAL

#38   LINKS ELSEWHERE

#33  PROSE SATIRE

#34  RHYMED POEMS

#39  RHYMED POEMS ROMANTIC

#40  RHYMED POEMS MELONCHOLY

#42  RHYMED POEMS SOCIAL MESSAGE

#43  RHYMED POEMS SATIRE

#209 THE ARTISTS

#210 SHORT STORY, ETC.

 

 

 

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There is grass root revulsion to the current corporate health industry, with pharma doing the most harm.  The best account of bad pharma is by Danish Prof. Peter Gotzsche in his 2013 book Deadly Medicine and Organised Crime:  How big pharma has corrupted healthcare.  Prof. Gotzsche’s book has won the British Medical Book Award given by the BMA (British Medical Association which is comparable to our AMA).  Further endorsement comes from the Richard Smith former Editor-in-Chief of the BMJ (British Medical Journal) and Drummond Rennie, Deputy Editor of JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) which are 2 of the 4 leading English medical journal.   The President’s Lecture on YouTube by Harvard Professor Marcia Angell confirms Prof. Gotzsche’s book. Pharma is worse than you can imagine.       

 

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