Posts Tagged ‘cholesterol guidelines’
Do Statins Really Work? Who Benefits? Who Has the Power to Cover Up the Side Effects?
Corporate-influenced medicine favors the one-size-fits-all paradigm of care, a paradigm that disregards individual human differences, circumstances, and needs. Why? I believe the answer is simple; because the one-size-fits-all is the cheapest most profitable paradigm to get the largest number of customers. “A key drive for unreliable research: the greater the financial interest in a given…
Read MoreTwo medical treatment disputes: hormones for healthy women; statins for healthy men & women
I. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) For decades the norm in clinical practice was to prescribe hormone replacement therapy, a combination of estrogen plus progestin to menopausal women – despite the lack of scientific evidence of its safety and benefits. Science journalist, Barbara Seaman, founder of the Women’s Health Initiative, had examined the evidence and for decades issued warnings…
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