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I'm NOT knocking the medical advances. I AM knocking the military's apparent motivation. To believe ANY military body actually puts a value on relieving human suffering, EXCEPT to have enough superiority of cannon fodder, is very naive. ''Today's permanent wound will be tomorrow's bad memory. Blow off our fingers, and we'll grow them back....'' ...
Posted to Human Nature by kenforst on April 21, 2008
Re: Adherence to prescriptions
This was one of the best summaries of the issue I have ever read. I would add that pharmaceutical companies are key to solving the problem. I know of a drug used to treat MS, which has adherence rates of 95%, because of the patient support program launched by its manufacturer. Because the drug costs $20,000/year, they can afford to provide ''gold ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by jeanlalonde on March 22, 2008
Why Study is Not Well-Designed
This study, like many others on inexpensive nutrients, seems designed to fail with it's extremely low dosage of 400IU. If you look into vitamin D, you'll find that the body requires something like 10s of thousands of IU per day. Vitamin D experts have long been saying that daily supplementation should be more like 4000 IU rather than 400. ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by chaves on February 6, 2008