Randomized clinical trials and placebo : can you trust the drugs are working and safe?
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Randomized clinical trials and placebo : can you trust the drugs are working and safe?
(Health and human development series)
Nova Science Publishers, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Randomised clinical trials (RCT) have been accepted as the golden standard of testing, which in turn makes chemical medicine "evidence based". RCT is based on four assumptions: the placebo effect is represented by a placebo pill; it is possible to make a double-blind test with biologically active drugs; beneficial and harmful effects of drugs are fairly measured in RCTs and an appropriate time frame for the test is used. RCTs can turn drugs that are only toxic and not beneficial at all into products sold as useful chemical medicine. Many pharmaceutical drugs on the market today are tested only with this flawed RTC-procedure and we recommend that these drugs be tested again using a rational method. This book presents new research which examines the helpfulness of drugs and the need for clinical trials in order to test whether it is safe to use these drugs or if a return to holistic medicine is necessary.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The errors & deficiencies of the randomised, clinical trial (RCT)
- Problems with the premises of the RCT: The placebo pill has no placebo effect at all so the drugs win the race
- Passive or active placebo
- Measuring the effect of drugs in RTC. Shall documentation be based on disease markers, local symptoms, or global dimensions of self-rated health, quality of life, & ability?
- The observation time of the randomised clinical trial (RCT)
- Efficacy of biomedicine in general practice: Why only one patient in a hundred gets help
- The cost of a patient cured with biomedicine compared to the original, Hippocratic, holistic medicine
- The chemical medicine's efficacy in the serious diseases. Somatic medicine: Cancer & coronary heart disease. Psychiatry: Depression & schizophrenia.
- The marketing strategy, the values, & the people of Big Pharma
- Biomedicine & Holistic Medicine in conflict
- How do we develop medicine from being poisonous drugs into being an efficient & safe medicine?
- Conclusion: The pharmaceutical industry sells poisons as medicine & knows that the documentation should be better
- Scientific resume.
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