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Americans Are Taking Many Drugs That Don’t Work – Society’s Capital is Making People Sick and the Rich, Richer

Companies and physicians at the FDA are increasingly using fast-track approval processes to bring treatments that don’t work to patients. I detail the problems of the US treatment system in my book, The Medicalization of America. One of the problems is that most prescription drugs don’t work. Bloomberg has a good article on one of …

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ALS Drug Pulled From Market; It Should Never Have Gone to Market – And A New Methodology to Better Treat Neurodegeneration

Although a public corporation used poor study design and manipulated data in a small study (Phase II) that found no benefit of the drug, and that truncated needed efficacy studies (Phase III), Relyvrio was approved in 2022 by physicians at the FDA to treat ALS. Now that efficacy studies (Phase III) have been performed in …

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Drugs That Don’t Work But Make Profits for Physicians and Drug Companies

Phenylephrine and other related medications, like Sudafed PE, don’t work. A small example of the larger problem. This is nothing new in our privatized, deregulated US medical system. Most drugs don’t work, and most treatments by physicians don’t work. Whether it’s stenting of those with stable heart disease, where 75% of stents are unneeded, or …

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