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 comparing surgery with observation in early prostate… Read More ›
Ineffective Treatments
Antibiotics not effective for clinically infected eczema in children
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 issue of Annals of Family Medicine suggest there… Read More ›
New drugs, higher costs offer little survival benefit in advanced lung cancer
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 development of new therapies for non-small cell… Read More ›
Most New Expensive Cancer Drugs are almost totally ineffective
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 survival in adults with cancer,… Read More ›
The Lancet: Most antidepressant drugs ineffective for children and teens, according to study
Public Release: 8-Jun-2016 But authors warn that lack of available data from published and unpublished trials leads to great uncertainty around true effects The Lancet Most available antidepressants are ineffective, and some may be unsafe, for children and teenagers… Read More ›
Pharma Firms may of got caught manipulating data resulting in agony and profit ?
“misleading marketing caused some lung-cancer patients “to die earlier and faster, with more pain.” “This settlement, however, allows the company to avoid the burden, disruption, cost and distraction of protracted civil litigation and to focus instead on our business of… Read More ›
FDA approved devices were not effective in clinical trials
Public Release: 20-May-2016 Flawed data behind regulation of high-risk women’s health devices Some FDA approved devices were not effective in clinical trials Northwestern University CHICAGO — Some high-risk medical devices used in obstetrics and gynecology were approved by the FDA… Read More ›
Acid reflux misdiagnosed 90% of the time in babies
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) – Millions of Americans currently use medication for their… Read More ›
Current cancer drug discovery method flawed: Study
“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 sensitivity in cells Vanderbilt University Medical Center The… Read More ›
Is chemical exposure in mothers, babies, linked to poor vaccine response?
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 the University of Rochester Environmental Health… Read More ›
Aspirin use does not improve outcomes for cancer patients, but may lower breast density
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 – Whether aspirin may help prevent or reduce… Read More ›
Benzodiazepines ineffective in treating anxiety disorders and may increase dementia risk
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 psychiatric conditions should consider transitioning to other therapies because of heightened risks for dementia… Read More ›
Osteoporosis drugs shown to increase hip fracture risk
“the use of oral bisphosphonates was not associated with a reduction in hip fractures in women of 65 but it was associated with a greater risk of atypical hip fractures (subtrochanteric or diaphyseal fractures). “This risk increases when the time… Read More ›
Lice in at least 25 states show resistance to common treatments
Public Release: 18-Aug-2015 American Chemical Society IMAGE: Lice populations in the states in pink have developed a high level of resistance to some of the most common treatments. Credit: Kyong Yoon, Ph.D. BOSTON, Aug. 18, 2015 — For students,… Read More ›
Benzodiazepines not recommended for patients with PTSD or recent trauma
Public Release: 14-Jul-2015 Wolters Kluwer Health July 14, 2015 – Benzodiazepine drugs are widely used in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but available evidence suggests that they are not effective–and may even be harmful, concludes a systematic review and… Read More ›
Mammography benefits overestimated
Public Release: 7-Jul-2015 King’s College London An in-depth review of randomised trials on screening for breast, colorectal, cervical, prostate and lung cancers, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, shows that the benefits of mammographic screening are… Read More ›
Study: Severe asthma fails to respond to mainstay treatment
Public Release: 29-Jun-2015 University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences PITTSBURGH, June 29, 2015 – The immune response that occurs in patients with severe asthma is markedly different than what occurs in milder forms of the lung condition, according… Read More ›
Drug treatments to prevent hip fracture are neither viable, cost effective, yet dangerous
Public Release: 26-May-2015 “Pharmacotherapy can achieve at best a marginal reduction in hip fractures at the cost of unnecessary psychological harms, serious medical adverse events Current strategy is inefficient and associated with considerable harms, say experts Professor Teppo Järvinen and… Read More ›
Noted urologist calls attention to implications of flawed prostate specific antigen data in SEER
Public Release: 18-May-2015 Editorial in The Journal of Urology® warns of impact on previous research results Elsevier Health Sciences New York, NY, May 18, 2015 — The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently announced that it had removed all prostate specific… Read More ›
Alcoholic hepatitis treatments found to be useless
Public Release: 22-Apr-2015 Imperial College London The main drugs used to treat alcoholic hepatitis are not effective at increasing patients’ survival, a major study has found. In a trial of over 1,000 patients, prednisolone and pentoxifylline, treatments recommended in international… Read More ›
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