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07/30/2018 / By Earl Garcia

Beta-blocker pharmaceuticals found to be totally useless for heart attack patients… but they are routinely prescribed by doctors anyway

A recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology revealed that beta-blockers, a type of drug typically prescribed for heart attack, may not be as helpful in preventing the disease as previously believed. To carry out the study, a team of researchers from the University of Leeds in the U.K. pooled data from […]

07/25/2018 / By Bridgette Wilcox

Doctors are trained to mass diagnose nearly everyone with depression (and put them on psychiatric drugs)

Health professionals will be the first to say that depression is a serious mental illness that must not be taken lightly — and yet it would appear that they themselves are guilty of doing so, relying only on a simple questionnaire created by a pharmaceutical company to arrive at a diagnosis. The PHQ-9 questionnaire has been […]

08/23/2016 / By D. Samuelson

Big Pharma’s addiction to television ads? The AMA has a pill for that

Well, they don’t exactly have a pill for that. But the American Medical Association (AMA) has recommended that those insipid advertisements for prescription pharmaceuticals be taken off television. But wait, weren’t all those doctors that smoked cigarettes banned long ago? One would think, in a rational world, prescription medicines would never even be allowed on television to begin with. […]

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