By DUFF WILSON Published: March 31, 2010 Pfizer, the world’s largest drug maker, said Wednesday that it paid about $20 million to 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals for consulting and speaking on its behalf in the last six months of 2009, its first public accounting of payments to the people who decide which drugs…
DetailsCountry Infant mortal- ity1 Life expec- tancy2 Albania 20.0 77.6 Angola 184.4 37.6 Australia 4.6 80.6 Austria 4.5 79.2 Bangladesh 59.1 62.8 Brazil 27.6 72.2 Canada 4.6 80.3 Chile 8.4 77.0 China 22.1 72.9 Costa Rica 9.5 77.2 Cyprus 6.9 78.0 Czech Republic 3.9 76.4 Denmark 4.5 78.0 Ecuador 22.1 76.6 Egypt 30.1 71.6 Finland…
DetailsDoctors today commonly assert that they practice “scientific medicine,” and patients think that the medical treatments they receive are “scientifically proven.” However, this ideal is a dream, not reality, and a clever and profitable marketing ruse, not fact. The British Medical Journal’s “Clinical Evidence” analyzed common medical treatments to evaluate which are supported by sufficient…
DetailsBS Reporter / Kolkata August 27, 2007 Homeopathy as a reliable means of treatment is gaining ground in India since it is safe and builds on the goodness of zero-side-effect. According to a recent AC Nielson survey, while 62 per cent of the current homeopathy users have never tried allopathy, 82 per cent of homeopathy users…
DetailsPlease read ingredients carefully. Some do contain substances like peppermint oil and tea tree oil that antidote remedies. When you have a situation like lice, sometimes you have to weigh the benefit of avoiding harmful chemicals with the side effect of temporarily antidoting your homeopathic treatments! Quit Nits Complete Head Lice Kit Lice R Gone®…
DetailsEvidence to date suggests that the “H1N1 flu is not a major threat,” and there is little evidence that flu vaccines are effective in preventing the flu, so says Tom Jefferson, MD, arguably the world’s leading expert on influenza vaccines. Dr. Jefferson has authored 10 reviews of research on the influenza vaccine for the Cochrane…
Details