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Showing posts with label hepatitis C. Show all posts

Showing posts with label hepatitis C. Show all posts

Thursday, October 06, 2016

Not So Wondrous Drugs? - New Warnings about Severe Adverse Effects of New, Heavily Marketed Drugs for Hepatits C,

Background - Wonder Drugs for Hepatitis C In our April, 2014, post we noted how Sovaldi (sofosbuvir), the new antiviral drug made by Gile...

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

How the System is Rigged - Johnson and Johnson Board Member Pretends to be Independent Brookings Institution Scholar

Fears that "the system is rigged" may cause the lack of trust marring this year's political season. These fears are not basele...

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Abort, Retry, Fail - Billionaire Bill Gates Opines, Sans Evidence, on ... the Efficacy of Hepatitis C Treatment?

If you needed advice about the technical characteristics of computer operating systems you probably would not go to your doctor for it. So ...

Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Bill Clinton, Paid to Speak to Biotech Conference, Extolled $1000 Pill to Prevent "Liver Rot," Despite Lack of Evidence that It Does

What were they thinking? Former President Clinton Talkes to Pharma and Biotech Executives In mid June, 2015, the Philadelphia Inquirer r...

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Logical Fallacies in Defense of Aggresive Screening for and Treatment of Hepatitis C

And the hepatitis C follies continue... As we have frequently written, most recently last week , the hepatitis C screening and treatment ...

Thursday, January 15, 2015

The Fashion Challenges of the Emperor of Hepatitis C Treatment - Now in the BMJ, but Who Will Notice?

As we wrote, most recently last week, the hepatitis C screening and treatment bandwagon keeps rolling along. There is constant public arg...

Thursday, July 31, 2014

No Treatment or Vaccine for Ebola, but a $1000 Pill for Hepatitis C

The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa continues to grow, and now appears to be the worst known epidemic of that disease to date. In the U...

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