People with ADHD do 1 month’s less work per year
Public release date: 27-May-2008 Workers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do 22 days less work per year than people who do not have the disorder, finds research published…
Emerging Contaminants
Environmental
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Lethal or Unintended Side Effects
Medical Ethics
Medical Propaganda
Drinking water disinfected by chlorine while pregnant may increase the risk of having children with heart problems, cleft palate or major brain defects
Public release date: 2-Jun-2008 Is tap water safe for expectant mothers? Drinking water disinfected by chlorine while pregnant may increase the risk of having children with heart problems, cleft palate…
Why did the EPA fire a respected toxicologist? EPA and Corruption
Public release date: 12-May-2008 longtime defender of scientific integrity speaks out In March, the US House Energy and Commerce Committee launched an investigation into potential conflicts of interest in scientific…
MSU study finds media coverage of breast cancer focuses too little on prevention
Public Release: 15-Apr-2008 EAST LANSING, Mich. — News coverage of breast cancer focuses too much on treatments and not enough on prevention, a trend that could prove risky in the…
Study reveals inaccuracies in studies of cancer treatment / Many survival rates are wrong
Public release date: 21-Apr-2008 Certain biases may exist in observational studies that compare outcomes of different cancer therapies, making the results questionable. That is the conclusion of a new study…
Life expectancy worsening or stagnating for large segment of the US population / National Center for Health Statistics stopped providing data after 2001
Public release date: 21-Apr-2008 Boston, MA -- One of the major aims of the U.S. health system is improving the health of all people, particularly those segments of the…
Lethal or Unintended Side Effects
Medical Ethics
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Pharmaceutical - Medical Devices
Stanford researcher criticizes FDA plans to reduce oversight of off-label drug use ( 2008 )
Public release date: 2-Apr-2008 STANFORD, Calif. - Proposed guidelines from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would allow companies to market more drugs for unapproved uses and are a step…
Free drug samples may burden patients’ pockets
Public release date: 24-Mar-2008 Contact: Maja Fiket fi.maja@googlemail.com 773-702-6241 University of Chicago Medical Center Following free drug sample receipt, patients who receive these samples have significantly higher out-of-pocket prescription costs…
Too much information? Study shows how ignorance can be influential
Public release date: 24-Mar-2008 Contact: Suzanne Wu suzanne.wu@usc.edu 213-740-0252 University of Southern California In the current issue of The RAND Journal of Economics, USC researchers provide a challenge to the…
REVIEW OF GROUP-BASED CANCER TRIALS REVEALS FLAWS IN STUDIES’ DESIGN AND ANALYSIS / “fewer than half of those studies used appropriate statistical methods”
Public release date: 25-Mar-2008 COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new study reviewing 75 group-randomized cancer trials over a five-year stretch shows that fewer than half of those studies used appropriate…
Corruption - Fabricated Data
Ineffective Treatments
Lethal or Unintended Side Effects
Medical Ethics
Medical Propaganda
Congress Releases Evidence Merck, Schering-Plough, Delayed Releasing Bad Vytorin Results – 2008 ( Bribery, Death, and Profits? )
Public Release: 31-Mar-2008 Congress: Vytorin Makers Held Bad News TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A congressional committee, investigating whether the makers of cholesterol drug Vytorin withheld data that would hurt…
HPV vaccine reduces abnormal pap test results
Public release date: 10-Mar-2008 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A significant drop in abnormal Pap test results happened after girls and women were given a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, according…
Solving the drug price crisis – “in 50 years only hedge fund managers will be able to afford prescription drugs”
Public release date: 17-Mar-2008 The mounting U.S. drug price crisis can be contained and eventually reversed by separating drug discovery from drug marketing and by establishing a non-profit company to…
Only two per cent of paediatric drug trials reported using independent safety monitoring
Public release date: 18-Mar-2008 Only two per cent of paediatric drug trials reported using independent safety monitoring committees that can help lead to the early detection of adverse drug…
As depression symptoms improve with antidepressants, hopelessness can linger
Public release date: 18-Feb-2008 A sense of hopefulness does not improve as quickly as other symptoms ANN ARBOR, Mich. — People taking medication for depression typically see a lot…
OTC cough medicine: Not worthwhile for children or adults?
Public release date: 22-Jan-2008 Over-the-counter medicine is commonly and casually used by millions of cold sufferers every year, but there is no good evidence for or against the effectiveness…
Heart and stroke death rates steadily decline; risks still too high
Public release date: 22-Jan-2008 In an appropriate prelude to American Heart Month, which is just ahead in February, new mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
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Ineffective Treatments
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Missed - Medical Breakthroughs
Sex hormones unrelated to prostate cancer risk
Public release date: 29-Jan-2008 Sex hormones circulating in the blood do not appear to be associated with prostate cancer risk, according to data from 18 prior studies. The analysis…
Babies excrete vaccine-mercury quicker than originally thought
Public release date: 30-Jan-2008 (An Extremely Flawed Study) February’s issue of Pediatrics offers another reason to rethink blaming the spike in autism diagnoses on thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative…
Behavior Modification
Counter Intuitive
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Ineffective Treatments
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Missed - Medical Breakthroughs
Why serotonin can cause depression and anxiety
Public release date: 1-Feb-2008 Mood disorders could be caused by a loss of our inherent, reflexive avoidance of aversive events, according to a study published in PLoS Computational…
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