Cochrane Reviews of Psychiatric Drugs Are Untrustworthy
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The Cochrane Collaboration was established in 1993 as an idealistic grassroots organisation with the aim of publishing updated…
The Cochrane Collaboration was established in 1993 as an idealistic grassroots organisation with the aim of publishing updated…
Date: July 6, 2023 Reference: Hanula R et al. Evaluation of oseltamivir used to prevent hospitalization in outpatients with…
Date: December 16th…
Leadership?
The findings don’t affect official recommendations to get vaccinated.
Tamiflu doesn’t work – at least not for anything important. In fact, because of its many side effects, it is probably harmful.
Jørgensen, 1Gøtzsche 1 and Jefferson 1 consider their analysis was appropriate and that the Cochrane editors substantially…
StoweEM18 day 2 (Part 2) AudioAlso available on iTunesCredit:Meghan Groth, PharmD BCPS @EMpharmgirlKyle DeWitt, PharmD, BCPS @Eme…
Making a patient feel better is empowering and rejuvenates our professional spirits. This is why we all love taking care of the…
iTunes or Listen Here We tackle some free open access medical education from the CDC on the flu vaccine, including…
Tamiflu ist ein umstrittenes Medikament gegen Influenza. Das Mittel scheint bei ansonsten Gesunden nur wenig gegen die echte…
ARTÍCULO ORIGINAL: Early oseltamivir therapy improves the outcome in critically ill patients with influenza: a propensity…
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Compiled by Tom Jefferson, Peter Doshi, Mark Jones, Rokuro Hama and Carl…
University of Oxford, Radcliffe Observatory…
Regulatory Data Workshop: reflections and experience from the Tamiflu and Relenza Cochrane review. (The use of regulatory…
Some people may remember the Great Swine Flu Epidemic of several years ago. Paramedics and other frontline operators were…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has boiled down its public health campaign against influenza to a single…
In 2010, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) put into place the world’s first freedom of information policy that also covered…
Alexander Chaitoff and Joshua Daniel Niforatos, Case Western Reserve…
Health and…
In late 2010, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) became the first regulator in history to promulgate a freedom of information…
1. Which patients with neutropenic fever do you consider for outpatient management? Neutropenic fever is a common presentation…
Credit ECDC – Week 3 # 9642 While North America’s flu season is already well underway (and in some regions has already…
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that people who received this season's influenza vaccine were…
- Kenny Lin, MD, MPHAs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that people who received this season's…
A news story last week reported scepticism about whether GPs should prescribe anti-viral neuraminidase inhibitors osteltamivir…
Podcast Link: SGEM98 Flu Date: December 13th, 2014 Guest Skeptic: Marcus Prescott is a nurse from Norway. He works at the…
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2014-12/04/content_19023278.htm China Daily news service, reporting on…
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2014-12/04/content_19023278.htm China Daily news service, reporting on…
The Gist: Evidence based medicine (EBM) is misunderstood; it's not a randomized control trial (RCT) or "the literature." Rather…
Ben Wolford in Newsweek: On the morning of March 2, 2005, a 14-year-old Japanese girl woke up scared. At first she thought…
Credit UK PHE # 9283 Last spring the Cochrane group made headlines (again) for their less-than-sparkling review of the…
# 8842 Between the frequent hyperbolic demonization of influenza antivirals (see Daily Mail: Ministers blew £650MILLI…
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The following is a guest post from Tom Jefferson of The Cochrane Collaboration, Peter Doshi of the University of Maryland and…
Thursday 10 April saw the publication of the Cochrane systematic review on oseltamivir and zanamivir, or Tamiflu (Roche) and…
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/10/tamiflu-saga-drug-trials-big-pharma In response to the…
reposted from: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/04April/Pages/questions-over-tamiflu-relenza-effectiveness.aspxcrabsallover highlights…
There was a time when the makers of Tamiflu (oseltamivir) ran ads with the tagline "sometimes, what we suffer from is bigger…
Photo Credit CDC # 8457 Earlier today, in Revisiting Tamiflu Efficacy (Again), I wrote at some length on the BMJ – …
Hundreds of millions of pounds may have been wasted on a drug for flu that works no better than paracetamol (acetaminophen), a…
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# 8455 Just over two years ago in The Tamiflu Controversy Continues, we looked at the ongoing debate over the…
Flu is actually a pretty nasty disease. People say they’ve got “the flu” when they’ve really only got a cold, but a genuine…
Scientists say UK wasted £560m on flu drugs that are not provenThe government has wasted half a billion pounds stockpiling two…
Jonathan Nguyen-Van-Tam, virologist and researcher from the University of Nottingham, told a group of triallists and…
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/02/tamiflu-myth-and-misconception/273167/ An article in The…
Podcast Link: SGEM20a Date: January 20th, 2013 Case Scenario: You walk into the emergency department for your shift and find…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/harlankrumholz/2013/01/08/the-myth-of-tamiflu-5-things-you-should-know/ A Forbes.co…