Tag: medicine
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Guinea pigs. (not necessarily rats...)
People in India as guinea pigs. Philanthropy of big pharmaceutical companies and philanthropic institutions with the ultimate goal of espablishing an expensive non-proven vaccine program to a great country. (1, 2) Business as usual…
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Medicine - Not working for everyone...
In a cancer vaccine setback, the drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced yesterday that an immunotherapy it had been testing in a phase III trial had flopped. The company is holding out hope, however, that some patients with a certain genetic signature will still be helped, and the trial is continuing. (1) So I suppose when…
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Medicine, SADS and our "I know everything" mania...
A teenager girl collapsed and died minutes after she was kissed for the first time. Scientists claim that she suffered from sudden adult death syndrome (SADS), without her knowing so. (1) Oh, how teffiried are we to admit that we do not know something. Tagging the death as "SADS" does not solve the mystery of…
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Flu, failed vaccines, modern medicine not working...
Some antibodies to flu viruses may actually make patients sicker, a new study of pigs suggests. The finding, published August 28 in Science Translational Medicine, may point to problems with catchall influenza vaccines. (1) Todays medicine unilaterally treats symptoms only. But the real disease remains deep inside. Medicine must target humans as a whole and…
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Probiotic yogurt, antiretroviral medication, good, evil...
After commencing consumption, yogurt consumers experienced an additional increase of 0.28 cells/μL/day (95% CI; 0.10-0.46, P=0.003). When adjusting for length of time using antiretroviral medication, the additional increase explained by yogurt consumption remained 0.17 cells/μL/day (95% CI; 0.01-0.34, P=0.04). Treatment with antiretroviral medication was associated with an increase of 0.27 cells/μL/day (95% CI; 0.17-0.38, P=<0.001).…
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