If you want better [not necessarily good] medical info you need to do the
research. Ad material
just plays "pretty music" to "teach you the tune".
My experience has also been that statistics are quite worthless because
the planet is littered with junk science.
We're all *practicing* medicine, even doctors.
stuff
At 07:49 PM 4/25/2004 -0700, Christine wrote:
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
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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)
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