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Elective Surgery and Conflicts of Interest
submitted by: admin on 05/16/2024
How do you know if the doctor that is doing your elective surgery doing what is best for you? If you were to go to another region, would you find the doctors there would use another method? If you have breast cancer, how do you know whether you need a mastectomy or a lumpectomy? Dr. Len and Nurse Vicki discuss what you can do to make sure...
Ethical Issues in Medical Research
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
Yale School of Medicine researchers found a clinical trial with neurontin was a seeding trial used by Big Pharma to promote the drug and increase prescriptions. Seeding trials are not illegal but are unethical because they offer no research. They took advantage of 2700 patients and 772 investigators to complete the publication. These people gained nothing for...
Excessive Usage of Health Care
submitted by: admin on 05/16/2024
Health care costs are no longer affordable. We have a model based on getting sick rather than on staying well. This is a failed system: half of us have a chronic disease, the system is not safe, and we cannot afford to sustain it.
Fast Tracking Big Pharma's Drugs
submitted by: admin on 05/16/2024
Certain drugs should be made available as soon as possible. However, generally this approach leads to a conflict of interest between the FDA and Big Pharma that brings drugs to market much easier.
FDA May Allow More Drugs Over-the-Counter
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
The FDA is considering allowing more drugs to become over-the-counter as their patents run out. This, of course, would make it possible for Big Pharma to make greater profits. However, there are serious challenges related to safety in using drugs such as statins and drugs for type 2 diabetes that would emerge. Most people are not sufficiently educated...
FDA Pulls Darvon Off the Market
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
After 50 years the FDA is pulling Darvon off the market. What took so long and what does it reflect in terms of how the FDA works and how Big Pharma withholds what it knows about the side effects of its drugs. Thousands of people have died from heart rhythm disturbances. The lack of ethics, the conflicts of interest, and the dishonesty of the pharmaceutical industry...
FDA Stalls on Evaluating Avandia
submitted by: admin on 05/16/2024
Even though Avandia increases both heart attacks and heart deaths the FDA has been lax in dealing with this problem. The incestuous relationship between the FDA and Big Pharma is disclosed.
FDA Supplement Regulation
submitted by: admin on 05/16/2024
Should supplements be regulated by a competent FDA is a legitamate question. There are too many false claims on supplements and regulation is limited by the FDA. There is also a political aspect involving Big Pharma, physicians, and the supplement industry that gets heated. There are about 10,000 hospitalizations caused by use of supplements, but millions from...
FDA: Good or Bad?
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
Can we trust the FDA to protect us from Big Pharma and from the supplement industry? Fast tracking drugs has plusses and minuses. Should patients have the choice of trying drugs that are not yet on the market? Can we trust the drugs that are on the market that don't do that much? How much do conflicts of interest come into play?
Financial Conflicts of Interest Affect Medical Research
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
Research has documented that 91% of randomized clinical trials that have a financial conflict of interest (FCOI) have a positive outcome compared to those that do not. The most common FCOIs include research grants, employment, honorariums, and share ownership. Of the more than 100 studies reviewed, FCOIs were present more than 50% of the time!
This data confirms...
Food Additives are Poorly Regulated by the FDA
submitted by: admin on 08/23/2013
The August of 2013 issue of the journal, Internal Medicine, reviewed 451 voluntary reports from food manufacturers regarding the safety of their food additives and discovered that the reports were created by the manufacturers or their payed representatives. Of the 451 reports, 22% were made by a company employee, 13% by employees of manufacturer-hired...
Food in Childrens' Hospitals is Unhealthy
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
Only 7% of food in 14 major childrens' hospitals in California was considered healthy according to a new study published in Academic Pediatrics. Researchers from UCLA and the Rand Corporation did the study. They concluded that "as health professionals, we understand the connection between healthy eating and good health..." Nothing could...
Ghost Writing for Medical Journal Articles
submitted by: admin on 09/22/2013
Good research is often misrepresented by Big Pharma writers who skew the data to support positive outcomes. They hire ghost writers for this specific purpose. The business of Big Pharma takes precedence over integrity & service.
Government Regulation of Food
submitted by: admin on 09/22/2013
Food poisoning is relatively common in the US. The FDA does little to prevent this from happening because it suffers from both underfunding and conflicts of industry with Big Agra.
Health Care Reform
submitted by: admin on 09/23/2013
Health care reform is in the news but it is no more than insurance reform and preservation of the status quo for Big Pharma and the medical industry. Certainly we all deserve health care, but we also need a system that preserves wellness and is focused on prevention. The corruption of Congress, Big Pharma, medical insurance, FDA, CDC, medical education and medical...
Health Care Reform Issues, Michael Moore
submitted by: admin on 05/16/2024
Michael Moore has hit the nail on the head when he exposes the conflicts of interest that protect the medical industry and take advantage of the underprivileged. He cites the disparaties in health care and the corruption of those in power that are getting rich
Health Care Reform: A Physician's Point of View
submitted by: admin on 05/16/2024
Dr. Lonnie Bristow and Dr. Len held a town hall meeting on health care reform with the two MDs from different perspectives. The issues discussed include the insurance industry, big pharma, hospitals, universal health care, and solutions we support. We need a health care reform that includes wellness and prevention as well as health care for all.
Healthcare Reform
submitted by: admin on 09/23/2013
What real health care reform is being discussed? The corruption between Congress and the health care industry is explored and the potential outcome of the proposed bill is discussed. The lack of transparency is discussed.
Heart Attacks
submitted by: admin on 02/19/2015
Heart attacks are the leading cause of death in the US, yet a hundred years ago they were a rarity. Artiosclerotic heart disease is a preventable disease that is nearly always reversable by living a health lifestyle. Heart attacks are an epigenetic disease caused by an unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, insufficient sleep, being overweight, being exposed...
HIV/AIDS with David Rasnick, PhD
submitted by: admin on 05/16/2024
The controversy between the mainstream and CAM thinkers is very interesting. We review the arguments and conflicts of interest.
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