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		<title>Getting more for less in health care (National Post, 06 Oct 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Esmail assumes that producing &#8220;health care&#8221; is analogous to producing widgets; the law of supply and demand applies to both. Not so. Demand for &#8220;health care&#8221;, really disease care, is infinite. Deluded inhabitants of developed societies believe that any money spent on doctors and hospitals will prolong their lives. But, there is no correlation between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1028&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT YOU EAT MAKES YOU FAT</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great article, Joe. We appreciate there are those that are confused. But there are also large numbers who know what is healthy to eat, but easily blind themselves to reality; they are junk food addicts. That “food” they are piling on their plates is specifically formulated to appeal to addictions to sugar, salt and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1010&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FREE LUNCHES COME AT A PRICE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[drug marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No professional should take any benefits from any industry for which s/he makes recommendations to clients. Medical licensing bodies should de-license any doctor who does so.
FREE LUNCHES COME AT A PRICE
ALEX ROSLIN SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
The Gazette
12 Sep 2009

Adam Hofmann is used to getting teased about his lunch. It’s not because his mom gave him [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1007&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MY FAITH IN SWEET SCIENCE IS DOUBLE-BLIND</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bariatric surgery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those chiropractors certainly look like willfully ignorant charlatans but some medical doctors are also guilty of the same unwillingness to perform or abide by the results of randomized trials. For example angioplasty of coronary arteries for &#8220;treating&#8221; stable angina (chest pain caused by inadequate blood flow to the heart during exercise) has been shown in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=987&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advice from the Government of Canada &#8211; Put more pork on your fork</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/advice-from-the-government-of-canada-put-more-pork-on-your-fork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another great example of the Canadian Government&#8217;s concern about the health of the population and the environment. Industrial production of high-fat content, nutritionally unnecessary pork is one of the most environmentally destructive of agricultural activities. So when the pig feeders scream about H1N1, the high cost of corn and protectionism in the US [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=977&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drug costs have ballooned in Quebec</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why am I not surprised? In Quebec, doctors are paid by drug dealers to prescribe drugs.

Drug costs have ballooned in Quebec
AARON DERFEL GAZETTE HEALTH REPORTER
The Gazette
17 Apr 2009

Quebec spends far more on prescription drugs than any other province or territory in Canada – a factor that’s to blame for spiralling healthcare costs, a new study reveals. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=926&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AstraZeneca pays medical students</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it has finally come to this. It is not enough that drug dealers fund medical school faculties, now they are paying medical students. Anyone who thinks this donation to a bursary fund by one of the most aggressive drug marketers is not going to give them a lot of influence over drug policy in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=918&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OBSTAT-Doctors being paid to push drug study</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/doctors-being-paid-to-push-drug-study/</link>
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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>OBSTAT: Doctors bribed to prescribe statins in Quebec</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/doctors-bribed-to-prescribe-statins-in-quebec/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Gaudet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a classic example of drug marketing a disguised as a &#8220;research study&#8221; funded by two drug dealers, Pfizer and Astra-Zeneca, with $1.2 million to give $100 to any doctor who starts a statin in ANY patient for no reason in particular. The goal is to find out why the patients STOP taking their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=872&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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