Patients, Medicine, Science & Trust

Adults with high blood cholesterol levels have been shown to suffer increased chances of having a heart attack or stroke. Various advisory committees have recommended that patients should make ef...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2011/05/treating-lab-tests-or-people-chasing.html

Financial conflicts of interest in research bias towards results, conclusions and recommendations that favour the interests of the sources of the money.  Even though those receiving the mone...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2009/12/peeling-onion-of-financial-conflicts-of.html

The United States Preventive Task Force recently released its latest guidance on screening healthy women for breast cancer. To general astonishment the Task Force recommended that mass screening ...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2009/12/sacred-and-overly-screened-female.html

This situation will surely arise during the current influenza season. In the Nursing Home where I work about 20% of the residents have a long standing dementia. Most are unable to recognize me al...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2009/10/swine-flu-in-nursing-homeshould.html

I’ve had a year. Well almost a year since the last post. Here goes again. A brief explanation involves describing a move to this Island off the coast of Maine and New Brunswick http://www.flick...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2009/07/pops-up-again.html

Censoring Science and scientists - The Insite Example(Insite, Canada's only facility for supervised injections of illicit drugs)Censored is a powerful and friendless word with few public advocate...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2008/09/censoring-science-and-scientists-insite.html

Pediatricians and family physicians alarmed by the growing prevalence of obesity in children in their waiting rooms and increasingly frustrated by their lack of success in encouraging parents to ...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2008/07/screening-for-hypercholesterolemia-new.html

What your doctor is reading or should beTwo clinical trials published earlier this month show that aggressive control of blood sugar not only failed to yield benefits, it made things worse - high...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2008/06/type-2-diabetes-time-to-relax-two.html

A friend of mine thought about buying a car the other day and went to the dealer to inspect new models. He’s interested in reliability of the car as he travels a long distance usually on back r...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2008/06/irritating-imprecision-of-medicine-will.html

What your doctor is reading or should be.April 16, 2008(photo courtesy of nicointhebus (Nicolas Monnot)The recent onset of diabetes in the child of friends of ours led me to the registry of clini...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2008/04/type-1-diabetes-ongoing-clinical-trials.html

Diana Levine, a musician, went to the hospital with severe nausea associated with a migraine headache. She was given Phenergan, a Wyeth drug, by intramuscular injection. When the nausea persisted...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2008/04/wyeth-v-levine-should-fda-be-held.html

Photo Credit vaneska~tHOmz's In seeking to define standards for ‘good reprint practices’ by pharmaceutical companies seeking to provide copies of journal articles to doctors the FDA has had t...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2008/02/us-fda-sets-standards-for-medical.html

What your doctor is reading, or should be. Today, diabetes in adults is common. Yet, when Banting, Best and others in 1922 showed the effects of a crude extract of pancreatic tissue on the blood ...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2008/02/diabetes-cured-rosiglitazone-trials_21.html

About 1 in 3 adults over the age of 50 have chronic pains in the knees. Most are caused by osteoarthritis, essentially a wearing out of the joint, most likely due to age, prior injuries, obesity ...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2008/02/chronic-knee-pain-from-osteoarthritis.html

What your doctor is reading - or should beJanuary 28, 2008Ovarian CancerCancer of the ovaries occurs in about 1 in 50 women over the age of 50 or so. While not that common, the disease is trouble...

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January 25, 2008Editors get a lot of manuscripts reporting relatively small clinical trials, in the range of a few hundred study subjects. Such studies can never evaluate clinically meaningful ou...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2008/01/so-many-small-clinical-trials-so-little.html

Perhaps it’s because they are trying too hard. Or lying to hard. But probably it’s because it is really difficult to bring new compounds to market, costs a lot of shareholder money and is ver...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-do-pharmaceutical-companies-keep.html

I feel sorry for the big pharmaceutical companies. They are picked on by pretty much everyone that is not on their payroll, and even some that are. Take Pfizer and GSK and other drug companies fo...

http://johnhoey.blogspot.com/2008/01/whats-drug-company-gonna-do_18.html

Even General Motors’ design engineers know that to design a new car they must take into account every part that is essential for the vehicle. Further they must be intimately aware and take into...

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