Current Posts – 03 Mar 2020

Drug companies are infamous for playing fast and loose with data about their products. So why have they got a get-out-of-jail-free card for vaccines? ‘These are very effective, very safe, end of. Disagree at your peril.’ Here is data from sensible sources suggesting, how shall I put it, that the HPV vaccine specifically could be improved so it caused fewer side effects. Vaccine Upgrade Deniers (VUDs) are targeting the wrong people. [Read the post…]

The threat of the new coronavirus is growing as deaths and the number infected rise. But attempts to control the epidemic are being hampered by an unreliable test. It can show people as infected when they aren’t and give infected people the all-clear. This makes quarantining less effective and means healthy people will get dangerous and unnecessary treatments. Trials that could improve the test are not being done. [Read the post…]

If you are interested in cholesterol, either because you want to hammer yours right down or because you would never allow any chemical to tamper with your personal levels, then this post is for you. The go-low group will be keen to know more about the new injectable (only twice a year) super son of statins. The hands-off brigade will be interested to learn just how dodgy this new product is. [Read the post…]

There’s plenty to be gloomy about, so here’s an antidote. Events from last year that might just make medicine less focused on drugs and more on patients. They include a way to get research done on promising non-drug treatments that won’t make a fortune, doctors who are challenging drug regulators to do their job properly and a discovery about the placebo that changes everything. [Read the post…]