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The wrong end of the stick
An interesting paper in Science Translational Medicine reports that responses to treatment of induced pain with an opioid analgesic are heavily influenced by expectation. Briefly, if volunteers were...
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Ask the FDA to Inspect Burzynski Research Institute
Why has this investigational site not been inspected by the FDA? I am going to write to the head of enforcement as follows: Constance Lewin, M.D., M.P.H. Branch Chief, Good Clinical Practice Branch I...
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Now we know how Burzynski gets away with it
Further to my questions put to Dr Constance Lewin at the FDA, I was greatly cheered to receive a reply on 12th December. Well of course I didn’t get the honour of a reply from the august Dr Lewin...
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Is the FDA Protecting Burzynski?
And if so, why? Last night is had a phone call with Elisabeth Lee, Regulatory Counsel, Division of Information Disclosure Policy at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. This was in relation to...
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Is Pharma all Bad?
As many readers will know (do I have many readers?) most of my working life has been spent with Big Pharma. I make no apology for that. It suits me, as it’s science based, with a mission to benefit...
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The Burzynski Soap Opera
Burzynski’s Export Drive The saga of Dr Stanislaw Burzynski and his antineoplastons (ANPs) is in danger of turning into a soap opera. Well actually it probably already has, as it has gone on for...
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Too Impressed by their own Cleverness?
This is a rather belated review of the book Tarnished Gold: The Sickness of Evidence-based Medicine, by Steve Hickey and Hilary Roberts. It was published in 2011, and my attention was drawn to it when...
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I’m the Doctor – or am I?
Around the end of 2012 I was alerted to the claims which Dr Jessica Middleton was making on her website, which she calls The Natural Doctor. A central issue was that Dr Middleton (now Dr Braid – see...
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The Myth of Big Pharma
Forty years ago this year (god, can it be so long?), I joined the pharmaceutical industry. Its reputation then was little better then than it is now, various companies having weathered scandals in the...
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Paying the Piper
That guardian of all that’s self-righteous about quackery, the magazine and website What Doctors Don’t Tell You, has its ire well stoked this week. The editors reveal that the famous Clinical Trials...
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Clinical Trials – better outside the European Union?
Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at St George’s, University of London, claims in the Daily Telegraph that “Brexit means we can revive clinical trials killed by the EU”. Departing slightly from my...
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The Charity Commission Consultation
Most readers should be aware that the Charity Commission has issued a consultation on the registration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) organisations as charities. This was after a...
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The world of medical science is awash with predatory journals, and they seem especially prevalent in the USA. You may have seen my previous interactions with Global Advances in Health and Medicine, a...
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