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		<title>Type 2 diabetes drugs: risks w/o benefit</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/12/14/diabetes-drugs-risks-wo-benefit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Actos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amaryl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avandia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diabetes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glucophage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We now have three randomized controlled trials of oral hypoglycemic drugs in the treatment of type 2 diabetes  and based on these three, we doctors cannot offer any meaningful assurance whatsoever that taking these drugs will decrease the likelihood of having a stroke, death before your time, amputation, renal failure, blindness. Anybody who tells you otherwise is exercising firm beliefs in the face of the evidence. They are wont to argue that oral hypoglycemics might have proven effective if we had done a bigger and/or longer trial. Such an argument is on the thinnest of ice. The available trials are impressive for their duration (measured in over a decade for two of the trials) and their size. Little of importance, if anything, has been missed. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=3969&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How good is Tamiflu?</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/09/28/how-good-is-tamiflu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Children's Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[influenza]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flu]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stockpiling Tamiflu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When flu symptoms develop, you are not likely to know whether you have influenza A or B; nor will there be much time for laboratory confirmation. (The test is highly inaccurate anyway.) Chances are high that you don’t have influenza A or B because both are relatively rare, representing less than 10% of circulating viruses. What’s more, the symptoms are indistinguishable from the other 90% of circulating viruses that cause what is known as influenza-like illness. H1N1, or swine flu, is an influenza A virus, which is why this drug is allowed to be marketed for seasonal as well as H1N1 influenza.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=3177&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steroids alone best choice for Bell&#8217;s palsy</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/09/23/steroids-best-for-bells-palsy/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/09/23/steroids-best-for-bells-palsy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>medconsumers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bell's palsy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bell’s palsy is defined as the abrupt paralysis of the facial nerve, resulting in an inability to control facial muscles on the affected side. The good news is most people recover without treatment; the bad news is that up to 30% do not recover completely, often suffering facial pain, psychological trauma, and facial disfigurement. A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=3068&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What about the negotiated drug discounts?</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/09/11/what-about-drug-discounts/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/09/11/what-about-drug-discounts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>medconsumers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama just gave a powerful speech about health care reform, but notably absent was something crucial to people on Medicare—that is, giving the government the power to negotiate discounts for prescription drugs.  Other industrialized countries use the power of numbers to reduce their drug costs.  In our case, it would be the 44 million Medicare enrollees. The U.S. pharmaceutical industry would have us believe that the European countries are getting a free ride because our high drug costs are paying for innovation in new drugs, something that supposedly occurs only in the U.S. This view has gone unchallenged by the mainstream media.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=3029&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anemia drugs hasten death in some cancer patients</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/07/13/anti-anemia-drugs-increase-chances-of-death-for-some-cancer-patients/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/07/13/anti-anemia-drugs-increase-chances-of-death-for-some-cancer-patients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For seven years Johnson &#38; Johnson ran fraudulent ads on prime time TV and in magazines with this recurring theme:  A cancer patient cannot continue working because of debilitating fatigue due to chemotherapy. The ads told people in similar circumstances to ask their doctors about Procrit, which always quickly put an end to the fatigue. There is no published evidence to support the cure-for-fatigue claim, according to a 2007 press briefing at the FDA.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2753&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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