Was the public health response to swine flu alarmist?
Public release date: 3-Sep-2009 The public health measures taken in response to swine flu may be seen as alarmist, overly restrictive, or even unjustified, says a US expert in…
75 percent would consider letting an unsupervised trainee perform surgery if it could be done quicker
Public release date: 9-Sep-2009 Three-quarters of surgical patients would consider allowing a competent unsupervised trainee junior doctor perform their entire operation if it meant they could have it done…
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Swine flu vaccination: A test subject speaks out.
Public release date: 15-Sep-2009 - The Paediatric Association points to a possibly increased number of unknown side-effects. - she had felt put under pressure by the pharmaceutical industry from the…
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Hormone therapy for prostate cancer patients with heart conditions linked to increased death risk – Kills twice as fast
Public release date: 25-Aug-2009 - , neoadjuvant HT use was associated with nearly twice the risk of all-cause mortality (26.3 percent vs. 11.2 percent). Men with coronary artery disease-induced congestive…
Daily aspirin does more harm than good: study
September 1, 2009 - there was no difference in the number of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events suffered, major bleeding occurred in two percent of the aspirin group…
H1N1 Pandemic Virus Does Not Mutate Into ‘Superbug’ in UMd. Lab Study ( 2009 )
September 1, 2009 HRR - This does not take into account the man made engineering of the virus currently going on. COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A laboratory study by…
Kidney damage from medical imaging procedures can cause long-term health problems
Public Release: 25-Jun-2009 - Most patients are told that injury is only temporary - Kidney injury that can arise after undergoing certain medical imaging procedures increases a patient’s risk of…
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Report: Prostate cancer screening has yet to prove its worth
Public release date: 29-Jun-2009 - the average man who chooses screening decreases his risk of prostate cancer death from a lifetime risk of 3 percent to a lifetime risk of…
Doubts cast on credibility of some published clinical trials
Public release date: 2-Jul-2009 - of a remarkable 93 percent of 2235 so-called RCTs published in some Chinese medical journals during 1994 to 2005 was flawed Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs)…
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Eli Lilly and Zyprexa Under the Spotlight / (( Employees WROTE the MEDICAL STUDIES ))
Public release date: 16-Jun-2009 - was done despite Lilly’s access and knowledge of at least seven studies that showed the drug was apparently ineffective for the treatment of dementia -…
Antibiotics take toll on beneficial microbes in gut / cefaperazone there was no recovery of normal diversity
Public release date: 16-Jun-2009 - mice given cefoperazone, there was no recovery of normal diversity ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It’s common knowledge that a protective navy of bacteria normally…
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Illness, medical bills linked to nearly two-thirds of bankruptcies: Harvard study (2009)
Public release date: 3-Jun-2009 - Most of those bankrupted by illness were middle class and had insurance - More than three-quarters (77.9 percent) were insured at the start of the…
Conflicts of interest in clinical research
Public release date: 18-Mar-2009 - in the study mentioned potential conflicts when physicians recruit their own patients and that only four percent ask doctors to tell their patients that they…
New Discovery Raises Doubts About Use of Certain Targeted Therapies in Bladder Cancer
Public Release: 25-Mar-2009 - found that one of the genes commonly thought to promote the growth and spread of some types of cancers is in fact beneficial in bladder cancer…
Support for adjunctive vitamin C treatment in cancer / Toxic Form of Vitamin was used to discredit Vitamin C for Cancer
Public release date: 5-Mar-2009 - Challem points out two main problems with the study: the oxidized form of vitamin C (dehydroascorbic acid) and not actual vitamin C (ascorbic acid) was…
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Millions of patients may be on statins needlessly
Scans to examine the build-up of calcium in the arteries were far better at identifying patients who would suffer a cardiac event, researchers found. The US study found that 35…
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Older patients with 1 type of heart failure may receive little or no benefit from drugs
Public release date: 12-Mar-2009 - Our review of 142 patient cases found that medications had little if any beneficial effect on five-year survival or rehospitalization for heart problems among elderly…
Questions of ethics and quality cloud globalization of clinical trials
Public release date: 18-Feb-2009 - Glickman says social ecology and genetics may also play a role in trial outcomes, and may limit their applicability to patients who do not share…
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Cholesterol-reducing drugs may lessen brain function, says ISU researcher
Public release date: 23-Feb-2009 - the results of his study show that drugs that inhibit the liver from making cholesterol may also keep the brain from making cholesterol, which is…
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Hormone therapy linked to brain shrinkage, but not lesions
Public release date: 12-Jan-2009 - They found women who had taken estrogen with or without progestin had smaller brain volumes - Brain volume was 2.37 cubic centimeters lower in the…
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