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There is an alarming laxity in the production of research, education of public and doctors, and standards of FDA approval for drugs, as well as the monitoring of safety and effectiveness of drugs.  For 2 chapters of the best book on how big PHARMA has manipulated the above and much more by Doctor Marcia Angell (Harvard Professor and former editor of New England Journal of Medicine).

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The health consequences of tobacco are much more than the average person imagines.  An excellent 
morality comparison reveals the major consequences.  The excessive deaths in the study from cardiovascular problems were over twice that of excessive deaths from cancer.  Cancer, Classification of Cell Types is copied from a medical textbook. 
 

The topics of aspirin and tobacco have their own sites. 

 

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Much of the healthfully website has been devoted to who our healthcare system scams people.  Consider your doctor a sales person, and the literature and advice often not in your best interest.   We recommend a long hard look at the evidence in support of chemotherapy.  Remember that journal articles are positive biased--average over 30%.  Secondly the doctor and his employer have a financial incentive to push chemotherapy.  Third that most chemotherapy extend life only a few weeks and do not appreciable increase survival--jk.   Another British Medical Journal article estimates that only 10% of cancer cures can be attributed to chemotherapy, and most of that is in the few were the drug can actually destroy, rather than rest, the cancer’s growth, such as for a few types of  leukemia and testicular cancer. Finally in the push for the drug, the positive biased studies do not list absolute mortality only that from the treated cancer.  Balanced assessments are rare.  Good sources are Worstpill.org and Wikipedia.org.  If you want to make an informed decision, don’t rely upon those who have a vested interest.   

 

An example of the real costs of treatment:  The widely used breast cancer treatment trastuzumab have shown that it is necessary to treat 100 patients to prevent a single death.  But of those 100 patients 25 will develop heart disease because of the treatment.  The excess heart disease explains why it is necessary to treat 100 patients to save one life.  Is 1 life worth 25 cases of heart disease?  And what of those who will die after the 4 year study from heart disease?  

OUTSTANDING SITES

QuackWatch, guide to health fraud by Dr. Stephen Barrett

 

http://www.worstpills.org/:  Part of the Nader network of Public Citizen

 

http://skepdic.com:  Contains The Skeptic Dictionary by Robert Carroll, over 460 first rate articles on all the topics of interest to a skeptic