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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 [...]
Last week I was asked to give a lecture to the Cardiology Department at Emory and since I had been having an online schermish about the topic I offered “Why I Am Not Getting a Flu Shot This Year“. Well, flu shots are mandated for Emory Healthcare employees so I guess that raised [...]
The vaccine for the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, was mandated for all young girls in Texas in 2006 and there were proposals for mandated vaccination in a growing number of other states. But a flurry of publicity about conflicts of interests by those who were pushing it in Texas and outcries from those [...]
I have been having a back and forth with some of the MDs at Science Based Barfers (oops, I mean BLOGGERS) about the utility of flu shots. I had suspected all along that David Gorski, MD PhD, was behind it all along, as he had been grumbling in the past about me in the comments [...]
I got an extremely lame-o critique from Peter Lipson MD, writing on the “White Coat Underground” blog hosted on science-base blogs. Last time I heard from Dr. Lipson he had “unsubscribed” from my email alerts well over a year ago, but apparently he has kept reading because he had a list [...]
I posted a comment on John Grohols web site at 4 pm Atlanta time when there were 32 comments; now there are over 50 and he hasn’t approved mine so I am going to write from here (currently 9:11 pm local time). All I can say is thank god for the internet which finally will [...]
After I wrote this post yesterday called “Motherhood is Not a Medical Disorder” about the Mother’s Act, which advocates for widespread screening of moms for post-partum depression (PPD), something I don’t think is a good idea because it medicalizes a normal stage of life, increases the chances that people will be but on antidepressant medications that they may not need and that may have side effects, and represents yet another intrusion into privacy, I got this response from John Grohol at psychcentral (“False Claims by Bremner”).
A recent meta-analysis in bmj of the treatment of people with multiple risk factors for heart disease but without a history of heart attacks looked at 70,388 people. They reported a 12% reduction in overall mortality which was statistically significant.
A new polypill for prevention of high blood pressure is advocated for everyone.
I have never been excited about things like taking aspirin to prevent heart attacks as I have written about before, and this week there is an article in Lancet that pretty much sums things up for me. The authors combined data from six large trials including 95,000 people who did not have heart disease who were taking aspirin for the prevention of heart attacks.
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