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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 [...]
A new polypill for prevention of high blood pressure is advocated for everyone.
famous JUPITER study just came out here in the journal Circulation, in which we argue that the results of the study do not dictate that such large numbers of people should start taking statin drugs for the prevention of heart disease based on the marker of inflammation C-Reactive Protein (CRP).
the number of flu strains resistant to the bird flu drug Tamiflu (oseltamavir) is growing.
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
I’ve blogged previously about how clinical practice guidelines are bullshit and that about half of them are based on little or no evidence whatsoever…
This week’s issue of Nature Neuroscience has an article entitled “Beyond extinction: erasing human fear responses and preventing the return of fear.” Well if the title of the article wasn’t enough to get your juices rolling I can tell you that they basically claim that they have discovered a pill that will erase [...]
In this week’s bmj there is an article by Thomas Jefferson of the Cochrane Vaccine Institute (“Relation of study quality, concordance, take home message, funding, and impact in studies of influenza vaccines: systematic review“) whom I have often quoted before (“Flu Shots are for Idiots“) regarding the dubious evidence behind policy recommendations [...]
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