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Healthcare vs. disease management

June 24, 2010 in Medical Industrial Complex | 26 comments

In a recent post, The Myth of Evidence Based Medicine, I explained that conventional medicine is based not on evidence, but on profit. So how's this working out for us? The U.S. spends far more than any other country in the world on healthcare - a whopping $2 trillion per year. [1. Park, A. America's Health Check Up. 11/20/2008. Time Magazine Online.] Considering this enormous expenditure, we should have the best medicine ...
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FDA approves drug for the annoyingly cheerful

May 3, 2010 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

I came across this video yesterday, and it cracked me up so much I had to share it. Just to be clear, especially for those unfamiliar with The Onion, this is a spoof. A joke. But like all good comedy, it contains more than a grain of truth. We're not far from this today, in an age where any and every symptom is aggressively medicated with little regard for determining or addressing the underlying cause of ...
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When drug trials go terribly wrong

June 11, 2009 in Depression, Medical Industrial Complex | 0 comments

THS reader Christopher Lane brought this article to my attention, and asked me to forward it on to my readers. Yet another tragic consequence of dangerous and overused psychiatric drugs. Mary Weiss, a mother in Minnesota, was one such person who wrote me last month. I'd been on the radio, talking about issues tied to my book. Ms. Weiss wrote an email afterwards, telling me about her son, Dan Markingson, who'd been diagnosed with schizophrenia, though ...
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Study reveals doubt on cholesterol drug

April 11, 2008 in Heart Disease, Medical Industrial Complex | 0 comments

A recent article reported on the results of a trial of the cholesterol-lowering drug Zytorin, which is a combination of Zocor and Zeita - made by Merck and Schering-Plough. Zocor and Zeita lower cholesterol by different mechanisms, so the idea was that combining them into a single drug (Vytorin) would dramatically lower cholesterol and, they assumed, reduce heart disease. They got the first part right. Vytorin did indeed lead to dramatic reductions in cholesterol levels in those who ...
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