We’ve discussed Avandia before in a blog post entitled “Drugs Causing Problems They’re Supposed to Treat.” the corruption in research reporting here, and further on the corruption and the “triumph of new age medicine” here. GlaxoSmithKline to pay a record
I get asked from time to time about home biofeedback stress reduction. This is a nice article about a particular type that I’m familiar with. Good news is that it’s small and easy to use. The bad news is that
The corruption that has occurred with pharmaceutical and medical device companies has become more apparent in recent years. I’ve documented a few instances in this blog. Here we discussed a Texas law suit against Johnson and Johnson for marketing Risperidal
This article by “friend of blog” Vitaly Napadow, looks at resting brain connectivity as a biomarker for pain and pain relief in fibromyalgia patients. He doesn’t mention acupuncture as the treatment modality used, but I emailed him and he said
The highlighted sentence in the second paragraph of this article could have been taken from the Onion.(This article reminds me of an old New Yorker cartoon that showed a doctor talking to a patient at his desk saying. “I’m going
An interesting story about a Russian scientist who has studied the immune system of vertebrates. There is an innate immune system and an adaptive immune system, and he with Dr. Janeway identified the mechanism whereby the innate system triggers the
This to be tossed into the “Corruption” file, or the “Follow the Money” file. I guess they’re sort of one in the same, except the “Corruption” file contains those who have been caught. January 19, 2012J. & J. to Pay
My title is a bit hyperbolic, but not by much. This blog post to be filed in the “It’s about time” file. They are planning on extending this regulation to the medical device industry as well. Note that this law
I will divide this topic into two posts since this article touches on more than one meaty subjects.Applying Principles from Complex Systems to Studying the Efficacy of CAM TherapiesThis article was published over a year ago, but I missed it.
I lamented in a previous post about the fact that many fine minds will avoid the softer and more complicated world of medicine.In John Sarno’s book “The Divided Mind,” he quotes Stephen J. Gould who has the same complaint in
