Tag: medicine
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Does medicine actually help? [Cure rates and Philosophy analysis of mainstream and alternative medicine]
What would you think about a new pill that treats Hepatitis C ? (1) What would you think about a new pill that treats Hepatitis C and costs $1,000? What would you think about a new pill that SAYS it treats Hepatitis C and costs $1,000 ? What would you think of you gave $1,000…
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Vaccination, over-simplification and the need to have Marketing separate from Medicine...
Vaccination does help. (1) But to what extent? It seems that after vaccines started spreading, diseases started declining too. (2) But what a minute! See how the decline in diseases started even before the vaccines started? (the graph is small if you do not pay for the article, but again it shows) At the same…
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Medicine. The oppression of prediction. Ruined lives.
In Israel there is an orgasm of gene pre-screening tests regarding breast cancer genes. (1) Ruined psychologies... Ruined families... Mastectomies and early marriages, because of the fear of statistics. Prediction is a good thing. But a prediction whose result is accepted anyway as "true" seizes to be a "prediction" and starts becoming an oppression. The…
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Medicine & Marketing: Two close friends...
Known as goat’s rue, holy hay, French lilac and Italian fitch, Galega officinalis was an ancient herbal remedy. Now its derivative, the diabetes drug metformin, may find new uses treating cancer and other diseases. A wealth of studies suggests the drug has cancer-fighting properties, and clinical trials are now under way to prove it. (1)…
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Farming, "clean rooms" and the psychosis of health.
When we left farming life, we lost the microbes that kept our immune systems in check. (1) Our modern psychosis with being healthy all the time, has resulted in more... illness! Health AND illness must exist in an equilibrium. We have lost harmony in our life. Let's get our of the "clean room"!
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