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Peter Selley, un collègue médecin, avec qui je suis en contact depuis près de deux ans, il y a un an a commencé à parler d'essais cliniques sur le VRS.  Je n'y ai prêté aucune attention, mais il apparaît maintenant qu’il a eu beaucoup plus de flair pour “lever un lièvre”. Par “un lièvre”,  j'entends une histoire qui révèle quelque chose d'important sur le monde dans lequel … [Read more...] about Femmes Enceintes et Essais Cliniques

The Daily Telegraph in the UK as well as The Daily Mail carried articles this week on a paper in the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry by John Read and colleagues that was based on the work of AntidepAware. For over a decade, AntidepAware has been cataloguing inquests in Britain where it appears likely the person was taking an antidepressant. The site gave John … [Read more...] about Will Medical Insurers Stop Killing People

Artificial Intelligence, which the Internet of course facilitates, has been one of the main news items lately.  We are beginning to panic about the future. A RxISK post We Will Get Fooled Again picks up some of the mounting concern. The last sentence in the text above introducing Imagining the Internet Centre perhaps unintentionally catches the worries - A better tomorrow … [Read more...] about Twenty Six Words and the Internet

A Suzerain is a Superior Feudal Lord to whom fealty is due - an Overlord.  A Suzerain is a dominant power controlling the foreign relations of a vassal state but allowing it sovereign authority in its internal affairs. This post needs to be read in conjunction with Twas the NICE Before Christmas. The leaders of G7 (US, UK, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, and Japan along … [Read more...] about Can You Hear the Suzerain Call?

This post from our Economics Correspondent is closely linked to Remind Your Sister to Get Vaccinated and also Treatment Great, Patient Died. Portmeirion Village in North Wales provided the backdrop for a 1960s Cult Classic series, The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan. McGoohan was ‘Number Six’. At its core was the Prisoner's unwillingness to be a number. We are all on … [Read more...] about I Am Not a Number, I Am a Free Man

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. T.S. Eliot: The Waste-Land In August 1914, the First World War took shape.  In August 1939, the Second World War was in preparation with Germany launching the first attacks on September 1. At the end of July 2020, the first patient in … [Read more...] about August is the Cruellest Month

Andrew Marriott's  recently published If You Wake at Midnight is a compelling read.  It would have been a great candidate for inclusion on the recent list of Books on Medical Treatments Gone Wrong. It tells the story of Lariam – mefloquine – a treatment to ward off malaria. A drug that for over 40 years has been causing suicides, homicides, depression, and a wide range of … [Read more...] about If You Wake at Midnight

This is a warning about two linked posts - with two more next week. The Eclipse of Health Care features on dhblog.wpengine.com. It has a partner There was a Young Woman who Swallowed a Lie on RxISK.org These were combined in one document - Mandating Unproven Technologies, which along with a set of appendices was sent to Dr Chaand Nagpaul, the Chair of the British Medical … [Read more...] about Health Warning

This post by Johanna Ryan continues a set of posts looking at the changing world of clinical trials - See Clinical Trial Fraud.  These feed straight into and add to the points made in a series of lectures on how trials have developed over the last 3 decades - Clinical Trials Are Not Safe, People are the Data in Clinical Trials and They Used to Call it Medicine - they make the … [Read more...] about From Virtual Care to Virtual Research

Serotonin may be our most primitive neurotransmitter and so on theoretical grounds alone there was reason to think that the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibiting drugs (SSRIs) - sold as absolutely and completely safe, the only danger lying in not having them when you needed them - might have significant effects, not all of which would be good. In 1993, I chaired a … [Read more...] about Venus Rising: Women and Antidepressants