Category: Ineffective Treatments

Public Release: 21-Mar-2018 Analysis shows influential US prostate study not representative of real-world patients European Association of Urology Copenhagen: An analysis of 3 US cancer databases has shown that a major US study...

Public Release: 13-Mar-2017   American Academy of Family Physicians   Estimates suggest that 40 percent of eczema flares are treated with topical antibiotics, but findings from this study published in the March/April...

Public Release: 4-Jan-2017   University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus According to a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, a decade that saw the...

Public Release: 9-Nov-2016 Expensive new cancer drugs have little effect on survival of many cancers BMJ Despite considerable investment and innovation, new cancer drugs approved in the past 10 years may have little effect on...

Public Release: 8-Jun-2016   But authors warn that lack of available data from published and unpublished trials leads to great uncertainty around true effects The Lancet Most available antidepressants are ineffective, and...

Public Release: 2-May-2016 Even doctors get confused about reflux disease in babies New study shows that clinical symptoms are only rarely validated by the gold-standard reflux test Thomas Jefferson University (PHILADELPHIA)...

“findings cast doubt on methods used by the entire scientific enterprise and pharmaceutical industry to discover new cancer drugs. “ Public Release: 2-May-2016   Vanderbilt researchers develop new approach to assess drug...

Public Release: 9-Dec-2015   University of Rochester Medical Center Early life exposures to toxic chemicals such as PCBs and DDT dampen an infant’s response to the tuberculosis vaccine, according to a new study from...

Public Release: 8-Dec-2015   Authors of both studies call for clinical trials examining the ability of aspirin to improve care for at-risk patients University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS –...

Public Release: 5-Oct-2015   Osteopathic psychiatrists encourage patients to review treatment options to improve outcomes and reduce risks American Osteopathic Association Patients taking benzodiazepines to treat...