British Medical Journal (BMJ) 2004;328:485 (28 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7438.485-a Only 6% of drug advertising material is supported by evidence Heidelberg Annette Tuffs
A new study of the advertising material and marketing brochures sent out by drug companies to GPs in Germany has shown that about 94% of the information in them has no basis in scientific evidence. The study was published in this month¹s issue of the drugs bulletin Arznei Telegramm (2004;35:21-3; www.di-em.de/data/at_2004_35_21.pdf). www.di-em.de/z_index.htm http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7438/485-a http://www.drrathresearch.org/ http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/ - Check law suit filed in the International Court at the Hague http://www.mercola.com - 35,000 pages of free health information - confirm JAMA stats. How bad is the problem? Well, according a report issued by JAMA (Journal of The American Medical Association), a total of 225,000 deaths per year occur from iatrogenic causes! Barbara Starfield, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, author of the report, breaks down the death count this way: 12,000 - from unnecessary surgery 7,000 - from medication errors in hospitals 20,000 - from other errors in hospitals 80,000 - from infections in hospitals 106,000 - from non-error, negative effects of drugs Collectively, the 225,000 iatrogenic (doctor caused) deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer. ---I think these numbers are from about 2000. In 2003 the rate of iatrogenic deaths had climbed from 3rd leading cause of death to 1st. (JAMA report) There are many sites that reconfirm the same conclusion. CC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Latta <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:58:10 -0500 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>the vital placebo effect in ms etc Resent-From: [email protected] Resent-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:55:34 -0700 Do you have any evidence of this or is this just more B.S. against "Big Business"? Marshall Dudley wrote: Don't forget that since under the law the drug companies can use anything they want for the palcebo. That means that many now use a placebo that has chemicals or poisons in it to make the condition worse, so that the drug being tested will show up more effective, or even if the drug does nothing, it will still show up as effective when compared to the the placeo. Marshall John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, The most frustrating thing in scientific controlled testing is placebo effect. When testing a drug three groups are needed: 1. Get the drug 2. Get a fake (water) 3. Get nothing, told nothing, just observed normally. ( vis ordinary population with that symptom set) It is CLINICALLY recognised that up to 30% of the groups 2 and 3 will improve/self-cure. BTW: MOST drugs approved today are approved on efficacy rates as low as 20%......... ****************** WHY do the 30% recover? They are actually observable to anyone with open eyes (3rd ones?). These are the positive ones. It would appear that even the most die-hard should accept that the mind is a powerful component of all healing, thus it is highly likely that negative states promote negative health......... Sadly, one group with whom I've had most contact have 100% termination rate UNLESS they self-manage their affliction and my observation is that "cause often shows the cure". Not even quarts of CS can help a negative mind! Nor can even a positive mind can help if the afflicted stays in the zones that created the illness. ( Modern food, modern drugs, modern lifestyle) In watching almost a thousand successful cures of the big C , every one that was successful *absolutely* required a total lifestyle overhaul - otherwise it *does* come back and the worst form of re-infection is from the mind. Big C, MS, Lyme, whatever your case, unless massively interfered with by modern medicine, you can leave it behind. Signed: "Dead Man Walking" (20 years later) -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>
