Medicines and Drugs – Do Doctors and Scientists Know What They’re Talking About?!

Here’s a great question from Quora: “Do doctors and/or scientists really understand why or how drugs work or do they only understand that they (begin emphasis) do (end emphasis) work?” I think an accurate description would be, “doctors and scientists mostly understand one or few aspects of how the active compound of a drug could/should [...]

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Why I Chose NOT to be a Doctor

I was once a premed. I chose not to become a doctor because I wasn’t truly interested in the profession, it was something I felt I “had” to do or “should” do because I happened to major in biology. And being a first generation Asian-American there was also pressure from being a “Tiger Cub”: we [...]

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FDA Has to Slow Down to Keep Up with Drug Companies

Steve Woodruff is hopping mad with the apparent gross inefficiency and indecision of the “guidance process” for pharma company promotional practices when it comes to social media, and I can’t blame him! But I’m on the FDA’s side this time. Let me say up front that I never liked how the FDA remains vague and [...]

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Big Pharma Shilling and WebMD.com MayoClinic.com Smack-Down

New York Times Online is likening WebMD’s “information” as “using the meretricious voice of a pharmaceutical rep”. I don’t know… I never found WebMD’s interface “apparently attractive” but I suppose some people like all the flashy stuff. I mean, I find the ads on NakedMedicine.com mildly annoying, but these only go toward keeping the site [...]

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OIG’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives

John Walsh probably isn’t going to be featuring these on his “Most Wanted” show, but these criminals are on OIG’s Most Wanted for defrauding the government (and tax payers like you and me) out of millions of dollars by submitting false claims for services or goods (motorized wheelchairs seem to be a popular vehicle). These [...]

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