Your medication balance sheet – understanding the plusses and minuses
DRUG BUST Alan Cassels How do you calculate your net worth, the value of your company or your chequing account balance? You don’t have to … Read more
DRUG BUST Alan Cassels How do you calculate your net worth, the value of your company or your chequing account balance? You don’t have to … Read more
DRUG BUST – The people’s briefing note on perscription drugs by Alan Cassels. A few years ago, I was invited to be the guest on an Ottawa radio talk show, the topic being something I was well familiar with, a book I co-wrote called Selling Sickness. The book explores how the pharmaceutical industry influences regulators, physicians and patients in order…
The more you know, the more uncertain you are. – by Alan Cassels – In the 2008 book “Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance”, … Read more
DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels The “Big O” The ‘Osteoporosis Game’ works in five simple steps: 1) Be fearful. 2) Take a test. 3) Get … Read more
DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. – Dr. William … Read more
DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels What are health authorities doing with all that information? “This will only hurt a little,” says the nurse as she … Read more
Neglected people, overlooked diseases DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels Inequity. It’s a damnable word, a cruel word. A word that characterizes the most distasteful, egregious … Read more
DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels A ‘game changing’ new vaccine arrived on the Canadian market last month, promising to relieve you of the pain associated … Read more
DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels I get a regular phone call that I won’t answer. I know what the caller wants and I’m not willing … Read more
DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels “I don’t know how to lay an egg, but I know when it’s rotten.” That’s the translation of the title … Read more