The Lure of Treatments Science Has Dismissed
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Exploring the reasons people swear by treatments that have no scientific evidence backing them.
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Science & environment: Experts welcome drop in unfounded claims, but gaffes still cause concern
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A study intended to demonstrate the safety of a diabetes treatment seems, instead, to have added to the controversy.
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Why Pfizer and Novartis are literally giving genetic information away.
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If they want more new drugs, they shouldn't be looking at the pharmaceutical industry.
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Fools can draw too many conclusions from too little data.
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Doctors deny older people treatments they would offer younger patients, a study says.
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SOME of Britainâs most popular medicines are to be reviewed by drug regulators after claims by an American scientist that they pose severe risks to patients and should not be prescribed.
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Scientists say that although behavior therapies benefit many children, they do not have evidence that any of these treatments improve the core symptoms of autism.
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Why didn&#39;t Bush outright prohibit the research, if he truly believed destroying embryos is killing? BY RAMESH PONNURU. Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor at the National Review.
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Doctors are told too many patients have been let down by poor use of freeze therapy to remove diseased tissue.
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A series of surprising findings about some of the most widely accepted assumptions in medicine has renewed debate about how aggressively doctors use drugs to prevent and treat some of the nation's leading health problems.
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Patients in trials of drug treatments are being left in the lurch when the research finishes, doctors say.
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Scientists have taken an important step towards a new way of treating disease by switching off key genes.
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The first medicine to treat the disease fibromyalgia has been approved, but some doctors dispute the very existence of the condition.
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The stem cell lines available for federally-funded research in the US have characteristics which mean they may never be used for medical treatments in humans, a new study suggests.
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Does the science offer real hope or just hype?