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		<title>&#8220;When diet doesn&#8217;t work&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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Here is a graphic illustration of the concept of moral hazard as applied to the drug treatment of lifestyle diseases.
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Reprinted from AdWatch

Many studies confirm that doctors’ behaviour can be influenced by drug advertising, but many of them are unaware of this.
Not only the advertising text, but also the images play an important part.
See below, for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1019&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OBSTAT-Doctors being paid to push drug study</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Dr. LeLorier reports having served as a paid speaker or consultant for the following manufacturers of statins: Merck Frosst Canada, Pfizer Canada, AstraZeneca, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.” Why would anyone take any advice on statins from him?
Doctors being paid to push drug study
BY TOM BLACKWELL
National Post
03 Apr 2009

Quebec doctors are being offered $100 for every new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=907&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Marketing by &#8220;Study&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<title>Cardiac disease threatens diabetics</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/cardiac-disease-threatens-diabetics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Terrence Ruddy, chief of cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, says the increasing number of people with diabetes is a major concern across the medical profession.
“The increasing number with diabetes is directly related to the increasing number with obesity,” he says. “We have an epidemic of obesity in young and older people. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=743&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JUPITER is a gas giant</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/jupiter-is-a-gas-giant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent article by André Picard in today&#8217;s Globe and Mail, the only story on JUPITER I have seen in the lay press that reveals the massive fraud behind the reporting of this &#8220;study&#8221;.
JUPITER is aptly named. It&#8217;s gigantic. Probably the largest, most expensive drug trial in history. When one looks below the surface of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=705&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prudent diet staves off heart woes (The Gazette, 21 Oct 2008, Page A4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a surprising finding, Dr. Yusuf. Fifteen years ago Dean Ornish proved that atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of heart attacks, could be reversed with a version of the prudent diet.  So why isn`t everyone doing this? Maybe because the cholesterol myth promoted by drug dealers and doctors on their payrolls convinced the population that all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=600&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Attack at Age 19</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cherepanov is not the first young Russian athlete to die of atherosclerosis. Remember Sergei Grinkov? The Russian diet is highly atherogenic and Russia has one of the highest rates of death from coronary artery disease.
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In 1994 Gordeeva &#38; Grinkov returned to Olympic competition and captured their second gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=584&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Effectively treating atherosclerosis without angioplasty or bypass</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/effectively-treating-atherosclerosis-without-angioplasty-or-bypass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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Below is a example of the issues involved in treating chronic coronary atherosclerosis presented by an intelligent patient who asked questions about treatment and did not accept the mainstream opinion without good evidence.
The vast majority of patients with chronic coronary artery atherosclerosis can be treated as the patient described here. Most cardiologists still believe the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=561&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Online CME &#8211; Drug Dealers&#8217; Propaganda</title>
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		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a classical example of &#8220;free&#8221; online CME (Continuing Medical Education) funded by drug dealers and given legitimacy by association with presumably ethical institutions, like &#8220;prestigious educational institutes&#8221;. Doctors have to accumulate CME credits to maintain their licenses, so they are obliged to look at this propaganda. It seems doctors don&#8217;t make enough to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=413&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Devices &#8211; No Controlled Trials</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I’m not allowed to prescribe one pill unless it has gone through years of trials,” said Dr. Colin Rose, a Montreal cardiologist. “Why can they license these [devices] — which can be just as dangerous — with no controlled trials? What is the difference?
MEDICAL IMPLANTS
BY TOM BLACKWELL
National Post
24 Jul 2008



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