In the aftermath of the partial meltdown (or is it?) of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan people have been getting pretty edgy. I was surprised to hear about the large number of people clamouring for potassium iodide tablets after word got out about a radiation leak.
Most people are a little [...]
I have written before about the uselessness of screening for prostate cancer in the past, which brought on the vitriole of some of my fellow MD bloggers, some of whom had vested financial interests in the perpetuation of this looney practice. But now we have none other than the inventor of the Prostate Surface [...]
A recent study from the National Cancer Institute has found that most cancer drugs are not worth the money.
There is a front page story in the NY Times today showing how although death rates from heart disease and stroke have plummeted by more than 50% since 1950 the death rate from cancer has dropped by only 5%. This belies the much touted “war on cancer” which has been trumpeted in the media and amongst our leading medical institutions.
This just in from the New England Journal of Medicine, two large studies adding futher evidence that much of our medical screening and interventions are doing more harm than good
This article just in from the Women’s Health Initiative Study, published in this month’s edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine, on the utility of taking multivitamins for postmenopausal women. Now since the marketing staff of the Drug Safety and Health News Blog have been conducting focus groups amongst the readers of the [...]
A certain SOMEONE that I know who is a healthy middle aged woman had to undergo a colonoscopy cuz her gynecologist came up with a positive guaiac test (screening for internal bleeding). Only AFTER the scope did I start to wonder about if there could be false positives, and me ‘n goolgle learned that if [...]
