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Check the cherries you pick – they might be rotten
My attention was belatedly drawn to the BBC News item in which the President of the Faculty of Homeopathy, Dr Sara Eames, claimed that there were over 100 clinical trials that provide good evidence...
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Awarded for disservices to health care
Last night I attended the official launch of the Society of Biology, of which I am a Fellow. Whiling away some time before the event, I thought I should catch up with relevant reading, so went through...
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At last – action from Trading Standards
The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (CPR) were warmly welcomed by sceptics in the health care field, as it reversed the burden of proof hitherto enshrined in the old Trades...
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The political plot thickens
Well I don’t think it’s really a plot, as that would suggest that our lords and masters know what they are doing, sufficient to cook up some sort of plot at all. My last post predicted that I would get...
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Regulatory Rigmarole
I promised to update you if and when I heard anything concrete from the General Medical Council regarding its policy on evidence-based Practice. Miraculously, after I drew the GMC’s attention to my...
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Clinical Trials for Sale
The net is alive with the case of The Burzynski Research Institute. It’s actually a very old story, but has had new life breathed into it by an article in The Observer. There is of course a very great...
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Ask the FDA to Inspect Burzynski Research Institute
Why has this investigational site not been inspected by the FDA? I am going to write to the head of enforcement as follows: Constance Lewin, M.D., M.P.H. Branch Chief, Good Clinical Practice Branch I...
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Now we know how Burzynski gets away with it
Further to my questions put to Dr Constance Lewin at the FDA, I was greatly cheered to receive a reply on 12th December. Well of course I didn’t get the honour of a reply from the august Dr Lewin...
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Is the FDA Protecting Burzynski?
And if so, why? Last night is had a phone call with Elisabeth Lee, Regulatory Counsel, Division of Information Disclosure Policy at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. This was in relation to...
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The Burzynski Soap Opera
Burzynski’s Export Drive The saga of Dr Stanislaw Burzynski and his antineoplastons (ANPs) is in danger of turning into a soap opera. Well actually it probably already has, as it has gone on for...
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I’m the Doctor – or am I?
Around the end of 2012 I was alerted to the claims which Dr Jessica Middleton was making on her website, which she calls The Natural Doctor. A central issue was that Dr Middleton (now Dr Braid – see...
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Deliberately Misleading – naturally
I’ve been meaning to post this for far too long, and I have stung myself into it by revisiting a previous post about Dr Jessica Braid (neé Middleton). She operates as The Natural Doctor, from her...
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The General Pharmaceutical Council – as useless as ever
Do we have any health care regulators who do their job properly? Months ago I came across a pharmacist called Christine Glover, who runs Glovers Integrated Healthcare. Any use of the word `integrated’...
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Clinical Trials – better outside the European Union?
Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at St George’s, University of London, claims in the Daily Telegraph that “Brexit means we can revive clinical trials killed by the EU”. Departing slightly from my...
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The MHRA – another weak regulator
A great deal of flak has been fired at the pharmaceutical industry in recent years, much of it justified in my view. The AllTrials campaign, while still guilty of the questionable claim that half of...
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“Not my problem mate”
The old Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain laboured for years under a serious conflict of interest. It supported pharmacists in their role as high street shopkeepers (inter alia), and at the...
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I have for some time been critical of the GMC’s acquiescence over doctors who practise quackery, but I’m concerned now at how it seems to be getting into bed with them. I just came across an...
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How effective is the Advertising Standards Authority?
I should start this post with two big caveats: My purpose is not to criticise the ASA, which in my experience is efficient and rigorous. If there are limitations, they may well stem from...
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