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Psychiatric drugs promote mental illness and early daath--Prof. Gotzsche
Shortages in Essential Drugs--Big PhARMA at work
MOST drugs are from China and India
Medical Device Makers cannot be sued, Supreme Court Rules
Ghost writing the norm for over a decade
journal articles are advertising dressed as science--examples
Top 10 Drug Recalls and Warnings of 07
FDA Fraud Program
Big PhARMA ghost writes journal articles
Big PHARMA pays generic manufacturers to not ...
New CANCER drugs add little to life expectancy--why
Big Pharma influences the DSM manual
Most Drugs Now are both Imported and not Tested for Purity
Slash taxes or we move our facilities
RU-486 comes from China, now--more tainted drugs
Antidepressants Proven useless for most
Heart Medication kills 22,000 in 2 years
Statin combination Vytorin doesn't work, etc.
Off Label Drug Pushers
0ff Prescription Market Law Eli Lilly violates for Zyprexa
Price Gouging for Orphan Drugs
Marketing department ran massive drug trial for VIOXX
Direct to consumer spending on the rise
Pharma Lobby and Democrats
U.S. Pharma Moves to China and India
Research and Production moves to China and India
Cancer Generic Drug Shortage increases sales of patented drugs
BIG PHARMA at work

Todd Schorr
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Business ethics is an oxymoron.  California skeptics are committed to reporting on the incredible amount of harm caused by the intrusion of market-place forces upon our medical system. It isn’t how much better off we are from the snake-oil days, but how much better off we would be if we took Big PHARMA out of the mix.  Nearly every new drug and thus treatment has been made worse by Big PhARMA’s drive to maximize profits.  The same can be said of our managed health care system (managed for profits).   Our medical treatment system rates as the worse among developed countries—ranked 40th by the W.H.O..          

 

Even more telling is the British Medical journal’s article which goes into what has gone wrong with the U.S. health-care system

 

Those who have a financial interest in the outcome manipulate the results


Journal articles are consistently biased because there is no meaningful peer review, for the raw data is not supplied to the journals.  A British Medical Journal article comparing the raw data to the journal articles found a positive-results distortion of between 11% and 69% for the 37 journal articles they examined.  Numerous other journal articles have pointed to this issue, that medical science has been replaced gradually over the last 3 decades with marketing articles dressed up as objectively valid. 

Hoffmann
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In 2011 having realized that scientific fraud was the norm for industry funded work and their key opinion leaders (KOLs), I restarted a new grouping of articles.  The three key areas of focus are medical myths, the harm down by the Western diet and what to do about it.   All those with a “/r” (for “recommended”) have been posted since 2011.


 


New 1/13/17  cancer            #176   RECOMMENDED CANCER, DIET, MACROPHAGE   /rcdm  2/13/17  Neurodegenerative   #177    RECOMMENDED NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES, KETONES  /rndk


Diabetes 6/1/17                      #178    RECOMMENDED DIABETES  /rt2d


Wellness class 6/26/17          #179   RECOMMENDED WELLNESS CLASS   /rwc


 


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MEDICAL LINKS


This site is one of 3 sites maintained by California Skeptics


All with cool art and informative articles   6/1/17


 


#31 TABLE OF CONTENTS healthfully, over 1,200 pages downloaded per day.


 


#7  TABLE OF CONTENTS skeptically, over 8,000 pages downloaded per day.


 


#201 TABLE OF CONTENTS CURRENT NEWS , over 900 pages downloaded per day


 


#209 THE ARTISTS


 


# 220 POD CASTS & U-TUBE, for those who like the visual on skeptical issues


 


#158   RECOMMENDED GATEWAY PAGE  Gateway to the research on pharma and health


 


#152 RECOMMENDATIONS--CONCISE Bad drugs, good drugs, contra pharma


 


#161  RECOMMENDED HEALTHFUL Improving health including diet and nutritional science


 


#157 Video documentaries, mostly YouTube Healthful diet, bad pharma, GMOs etc. with description


 


 


 BUSINESS PROBLEMS:


#158   RECOMMENDED GATEWAY PAGE


#152  RECOMMENDATIONS--CONCISE Drugs to avoid and take


#159  RECOMMENDATIONS--LONG Topics developed


#160  RECOMMENDED EXPOSING PHARMA Profits before people


#161  RECOMMENDED HEALTHFUL Nutrition in depth, diet myths, plus diets


#156  RECOMMENDATIONS NON-TECHNICAL SUMMATIONS  Simple info and advice


#157  RECOMMENDED MORE BAD PHARMA More profits before people


#166  RECOMMENDED CRITICS  Those who expose bad pharma  


#167  RECOMMENDED ARTICLES ON DIET AND FOODS


#168  RECOMMENDED ARTICLES ON DIETARY ISSUES


#175  RECOMMENDED DIETARY TOPICS BY JK


#174  RECOMMENDED DIET TESTIMONIALS


 #173  RECOMMENDED HEART ISSUES  heart


#169 RECOMMENDED JOURNAL ARTICLES


#170 RECOMMENDED MORE JOURNAL ARTICLES


#172  RECOMMENDED DIET JOURNAL ARTICLES


#176   RECOMMENDED CANCER, DIET, MACROPHAGE Cause and starving cancer


#178    RECOMMENDED DIABETES   


#177   RECOMMENDED NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES, KETONES


#179  RECOMMENDED WELLNESS CLASS  


#17    QUACKERY  (at skeptically.org)


#135  NSAIDS


#102  QUACK THEORIES & PRACTICES (at skeptically.org)


#41   MEDICAL CRAP


#130  MEDICAL CRAP MORE,


#132  IMAGINARY CONDITIONS


#134  ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE


#136  ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH


#137  DRUG NEWS--DISAPPOINTING


#141  BIG PHARMA AT WORK


#145  MANAGED HEALTH CARE


#146  FDA  Exposing the façade of regulation


#147  FOR THE CHILDREN


#162  CORPORATE DRUGS


#150  BLOOD THINNERS AND ACETAMINOPHEN


#152 INDIGESTION DRUGS


#151  FAILED DRUGS


#159  CRITICS


                    


 


GENERAL INFORMATION:


#31 INDEX  


#35   HEALTH


#36   WOMEN'S MEDICAL ISSUES


#45   MALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT


#148  FEMALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT


#171  SEX


#154  FOOD


#50   ASPIRIN THE BEST NSAID


#133  THE HEART


#144  HEART MEDICATIONS & TREATMENTS  


#44    ON CANCER


#139  CANCER VARIOUS TISSUES 


#155 CANCER TREATMENTS


#165. CONDITIONS & TREATMENTS


#49    TOBACCO


#131   LONGEVITY


#143  OBESITY


#46    MEDICAL SCIENCE


#47    MEDICAL NEWS


#48    DRUGS AND CONDITIONS


#140   HEALTH & BODY


#138   DISEASES


#142   GERIATRIC PROBLEMS


#149  PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS


#163 NATURALISTIC TREATMENTS (positive)


#153 EFFECTIVE DRUGS


 


MISCELLANEOUS:   


#1 ENLIGHTENMENT


#32 HOME 


#37   BIOGRAPHICAL


#38   LINKS ELSEWHERE


#33  PROSE SATIRE


#34  RHYMED POEMS


#39  RHYMED POEMS ROMANTIC


#40  RHYMED POEMS MELONCHOLY


#42  RHYMED POEMS SOCIAL MESSAGE


#43  RHYMED POEMS SATIRE


#209 THE ARTISTS


#210 SHORT STORY, ETC.


 


 


 


e-mail to thinker@skeptically.org


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There is an alarming laxity in the production of research, education of public and doctors, and standards of FDA approval for drugs, as well as the monitoring of safety and effectiveness of drugs.  For 2 chapters of the best book on how big PHARMA has manipulated the above and much more by Doctor Marcia Angell (Harvard Professor and former editor of New England Journal of Medicine).

Eli Tiunine
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JK’s wish list

 

1).  Long-term independent monitoring of side effects by independent researchers. Easily done thought available data banks of Veterans Administration, Kaiser Permanente, and Medicare.  Such studies cost about 1/1,000th that of a long-term clinical trial.

2). Require reporting of side effects with incentives and penalties administered through a university panel of professors.   

3).  Prompt follow-up on important side effects by independent researchers. 

4).  Permit only independent university medical colleges to run clinical trials and the drug companies couldn’t select where (use random pool method).

5). The researchers/institution would exclusively own the results and their publication rights.

6)   Make readily available for free over the internet   an easy to peruse form the results of studies and reports of side effects which would include comparisons to similar drugs

7).  For FDA approval, heads on-testing (rather than being more effective than a placebo).

8).  When appropriate require that 1/4th those in clinical trial be over the age of 60. 

9).  Key positions in the FDA be filled by researchers without ties to PhARMA. 

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10)  Limit PhARMA activities to research for and manufacturing of drugs, and thus eliminate the sales (including advertising), lobbying, and educational activities. 

11). Forbid direct to consumer ads and ads to doctors.  The medical universities would be in charge of making decisions as to what is to be marketed and for what, like what is done with NICE in the UK. 

12).  Eliminate the ability to extend patents, and also other ways that PhARMA delays the introduction of generic drugs.

13).  Eliminate funding of the FDA from PhARMA for the approval of new drugs, since this provides for the FDA an incentive to approve drugs, even ones not worth taking. 

14)  Side effects would have on package and insert a quantification of side effects in legible size print. 

15)  Require independent accounting of PhARMA companies books, and make it public.

16). Fund from profits on drugs a grant system for university medical basic research. 

17). Establish as measure of a drug a profit and distribution system based only upon service to the public weal