Less Is More in Medicine
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We need to be asking questions about whether sending more of our collective wealth towards our healthcare system is producing good returns. We might expect that... Read more.
The Biggest Breast Cancer Advance in the Last Twenty Years
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Some clinicians and public-health researchers would argue that the media narrative minimizes known and proven downsides of these drugs, often trivializing or ignoring... Read more.
The Ozempic Paradox
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The same week that our drug regulator, Health Canada, approved the first generic version of semaglutide—the active ingredient in weight-loss drug Ozempic—a major... Read more.
Let’s Save Our Doctors’ Time for Sick People
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What would a smarter approach look like? Our health systems need to create clear, evidence-based thresholds for when to recommend screening or primary prevention... Read more.
You Can’t Unsee This
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This latest dispatch from the world of pharmaceutical safety comes from that drug class that is a gift that keeps on giving, the blockbuster weight-loss drugs known... Read more.
What Does the Fifth Doctor Think about Ozempic?
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This is a slightly shortened version of a New York Times article where Katrin Bennhold interviews Dani Blum of the Times’ “Well Team” about Ozempic and GLP-1... Read more.
Book Review of No More Tears: the Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
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Johnson & Johnson’s reputation comes under fire in Gardiner Harris’s new book No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson. He delivers an impressively-researched... Read more.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Weight Loss Drugs
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Gaining too much weight so that it impairs your health is overwhelmingly linked to diet, exercise, and ultra-processed food, yet these behavioural, social, and environmental... Read more.
The Dauntless Dane Exposes the Dark Side of HPV Vaccines
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The real truth about vaccines for HPV cannot be derived from conflicted researchers, shoddy and biased research, or lame regulatory mechanisms. It comes from lawyers... Read more.
Mainstream Measles Mongers
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The current state of Modern Measles Mongering is a leitmotif of post-pandemic public health, where the state and mainstream media measles-mongering is actively telling... Read more.