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 …
The Rusty Scalpel
Doctors behaving badly…and government health officials also.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Medical journal accountability
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: the Canadians see this more clearly. “We are concerned that the current intellectual environment in which some clinical research is conceived, study …
Research as marketing
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: The thing to understand is that all research is bought and paid for. “We are concerned that the current intellectual environment in …