By Roxanne Nelson, staff journalist, Medscape Oncology January 31, 2012 — Is the policy for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine at odds with evidence-based medicine? Yes, according to an essay published online December 22, 2011, in the Annals of Medicine. Canadian researchers Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD, and Christopher Shaw, PhD, from the Neural Dynamics Research Group, University of British Columbia, […]
Every Good Doctor Must Represent the Patient: The Malfunction of Evidence-Based Medicine
By Daniel L. Scholten, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (OMNS, Jan 3, 2012) What follows is an innovative new paper that we feel deserves publication. We concede that this article is a stretch for OMNS in both size and content. However, the nonstandard but thought-provoking aspects of this work need to be presented and we choose to let […]
JAMA & Cochrane Tacitly Admit Evidence-Based Medicine Nonexistent
By Gaia Health The prestigiousJournal of the American Medical Association and the Cochrane Collaboration have jointly and officially concluded, albeit tacitly, that evidence-based medicine does not generally exist. To counter that lack, they are suggesting voluntary changes in how medical studies are reported. JAMA’s article on the subject, “A Model for Dissemination and Independent Analysis of Industry Data “, starts […]
Autoimmune hazards of hepatitis B vaccine
Marc Girard* 1 bd de la Re´publique 78000-Versailles, France Received 7 September 2004; accepted 13 October 2004 Available online 5 November 2004 Abstract According to Hippocratic tradition, the safety level of a preventive medicine must be very high, as it is aimed at protecting people against diseases that they may not contract. This paper […]