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Follow the money trail….. all the way to the Lobbyist.
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: With our elected representative being for sale, we see that the laws are created for profit more than for justice. As regards health care: see link…
The FDA meets the Amish
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: This is so sad. Tragic also. FDA Invades Non-Commercial Amish Farm in PA In what used to be a free country it seems the FDA even want…
SSRI no better than placebo.. worse actually.
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Old news. Had the ‘scientific” journals reported the real and total science in the firest place, had the marketers not gagged the investigators (see the fiasco of…
Psychs on the take
Dr. Weeks’ comment: shady dealings. They don’t teach this stuff in medical school. Psychiatrist – Charles Nemeroff – Florida http://www.finance.senate.gov/press/Gpress/2010/prg012010b.pdf failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments…
Another form of elder abuse
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: so sad! Yikes! Cognitively Impaired Elderly Women Get Unneeded Screening Mammography, Study Finds ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2010) — A significant percentage of U.S. women 70 years or…
Two shameful examples
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: What a shame when people claim to take your money for charity purposes yet use it in a self-serving, non-altruistic manner. Here are two glaring examples for…
Old fashioned incentive… cash to increase vaccination rates.
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: This cash incentive is highly suspect: do the doctors honor the foundation principle of informed consent (i.e. did they tell their patients that they are recommending the…
Otherwise stated, you are twice as likely to die depending upon your choice
Study Finds 52 Percent Lower Chance Of Dying At Top-rated Hospitals ScienceDaily (Oct. 15, 2009) — The largest annual study of patient outcomes at each of the nation’s 5,000 nonfederal…
Ghost Writing and the “peer-review” process
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Shame! Shame!! Shame!!! It turns out that the authors of important articles in the august peer-reviewed medical journals are often really NOT the authors… Ghostwriting:…
FDA guilty as charged, they admit it.
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Now what? What reforms are in store for the revolving door ethic between industry and the government? F.D.A. Reveals It Fell to a Push by Lawmakers GARDINER…
