A new section has been posted at /rpts which summarizes the major areas that pharma has manipulated the evidence base so as to increase their profits by promoting illness:  in most cases by failing to efficaciously treat the condition and through the development of new medical conditions, often years later.  Pharma because of their corporate fiduciary model also does tobacco science which they use to “educates” doctors, dieticians, and the public that what is health is "harmful”.  Both are covered in /rpts section.  This section has some of the articles supporting this dismal assessment of health care in /rpts.  

It is not the case histories, but the average results for a large cohort (over 100 patients) followed long-term that determines the merits and harms of a treatment.  Surrogate endpoints such as lower blood pressure or lower cholesterol are not be what determines the value of a treatment, but rather the incident of heart attacks, strokes, deaths; and on the negative side, if the medication increases the incidents of other conditions such as mental decline, muscle weakness, dementia, cancer, weight gain, ulcer, general malaise, and so on. 

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 6/26/16          #177   RECOMMENDED WELLNESS CLASS   /rwc

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MEDICAL LINKS

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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

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

#175  RECOMMENDED DIETARY TOPICS BY JK

 #173  RECOMMENDED HEART ISSUES  heart

#169 RECOMMENDED JOURNAL ARTICLES

#170 RECOMMENDED MORE JOURNAL ARTICLES

#172  RECOMMENDED DIET JOURNAL ARTICLES

#177    RECOMMENDED NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES, KETONES

#174  RECOMMENDED DIET TESTIMONIALS

#177   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.

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There is grass-root revulsion to the current corporate health industry, with pharma doing the most harm.  The best account of bad pharma is by Danish Prof. Peter Gotzsche in his 2013 book Deadly Medicine and Organised Crime:  How big pharma has corrupted healthcare.  Prof. Gotzsche’s book has won the British Medical Book Award given by the BMA (British Medical Association which is comparable to our AMA).  Further endorsement comes from the Richard Smith former Editor-in-Chief of the BMJ (British Medical Journal) and Drummond Rennie, Deputy Editor of JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) which are 2 of the 4 leading English medical journal.   The President’s Lecture on YouTube by Harvard Professor Marcia Angell confirms Prof. Gotzsche’s book. Pharma is worse than you can imagine.       

Harvard Prof. Marcia Angell, MD., former Chief Editor of NEJM wrote:  “We certainly are in a health care crisis, ... If we had set out to design the worst system that we could imagine, we couldn't have imagined one as bad as we have.”  Author of the Truth About Drug Companies, and former Editor in Chief of NEJM.  Her excellent lecture on YouTube presenting the evidence