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
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Educating doctors
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…
Is the most widely prescribed heartburn pill killing people?
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
Osteoporosis screening – the fast track to dubious drugs
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
Medication civil disobedience
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
Cradle-to-grave DNA screening
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
Healthcare poverty and inequity in the developing world
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
The new shingles vaccine: hype or good value for your money?
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
Blood supply donors and privateers
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
Saying no to chemo – the medical and media backlash
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