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One incompetent regulator, the Professional Standards Authority, approves another, the CNHC
Jump to follow-up The consistent failure of ‘regulators’ to do their job has been a constant theme on this blog. There is a synopsis of dozens of them at Regulation of alternative medicine: why it doesn’t work, and never can. And it isn’t only quackery where this happens. The ineptitude (and extravagance) of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) was revealed starkly when the University of Wales’ accreditation of external degrees was revealed (by me and by BBC TV Wales, not by the QAA) to be so bad that the University had to shut down. Here is another example that you couldn’t make up. ...
Source: DC's goodscience - October 13, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Anti-science antiscience badscience CNHC NOS Professional Standards Authority Quality assessment regulation alternative medicine CAM Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council Harry Cayton National Occupational Stardards Ofquac Source Type: blogs

FDA Proposed Rule Expedited Programs for Serious Conditions – Drugs and Biologics
Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a Guidance for Industry, entitled "Expedited Programs for Serious Conditions—Drugs and Biologics." The draft guidance provides a single resource for information on FDA's policies and procedures for four programs intended to facilitate and expedite development and review of new drugs to address unmet medical need in the treatment of a serious or life threatening condition: 1) fast track designation; 2) breakthrough therapy designation; 3) accelerated approval; and 4) priority review designation. This guidance also outlines the threshold criteria ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - July 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Dealing with the threat of Cancer from Treatment
 I am essentially “cancer free”.  This fall will be the 10 year anniversary of my stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis. My feeling is that once we battle cancer we need to stay vigilant. Like any formidable enemy, cancer is continuing to lurk in the shadows.  I have begun to take this threat more seriously due to the loss of my father to chemotherapy related leukemia – called Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML), 10 years after he went into remission from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.    Treatment related cancers are always a threat to those victorious over the disease. In addition to AML, there is also another leukemia call...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - July 3, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs

Treating hepatitis C by blocking a cellular microRNA
Miravirsen is a drug that binds to and blocks the function of a cellular microRNA called miR-122 that is required for the replication of hepatitis C virus (HCV). Treatment of chimpanzees chronically infected with HCV with this drug leads to suppression of viral replication. The results of a phase 2b human clinical trial in HCV infected humans indicate that Miravirsen reduces levels of viral RNA without evidence for viral resistance. I asked virologist Stan Lemon (who appeared recently on TWiV 235) his opinion of these findings. Are you surprised that the antiviral effect of Miravirsen is long lasting? The Janssen study pub...
Source: virology blog - June 6, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information cirrhosis HCV hepatitis C virus hepatocellular carcinoma liver microrna mIR-122 miravirsen viral Source Type: blogs

Podcast interview with Cancer Treatment Centers of America CEO Steve Bonner (transcript)
This is the transcript of my recent interview with Cancer Treatment Centers of America CEO Steve Bonner. David Williams: This is David E. Williams from the Health Business Group. I’m speaking today with Steve Bonner, CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America.   Steve, thanks for joining me today.   Steve Bonner: You’re very welcome, David. It’s great to speak with you again.   David Williams: What is Cancer Treatment Centers of America and how does it differ from other well-known cancer centers?   Steve Bonner: Cancer Treatment Centers of America is a growing chain of hospitals that s...
Source: Health Business Blog - May 10, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Hospitals Patients Podcast Source Type: blogs

A Path to Personalized Pain Treatment? | Pain Research Forum
Opioids are in crisis. Many physicians and patients say that the medications can be used responsibly to treat chronic pain. Yet experts also warn that prescriptions are out of control and fueling an epidemic of abuse, overdose, and death. Government agencies have responded with tighter regulations, but investigators say the only real solution is to identify the most suitable candidates for opioid treatment: those patients most likely to experience effective analgesia with minimal adverse consequences. In a recent paper, a panel of prominent pain researchers and clinicians outlines a research agenda for ...
Source: Psychology of Pain - April 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

The exploitation of cancer patients is wicked. Carrot juice for lunch, then die destitute
Jump to follow-up The time when I lose patience with quacks is when they make unjustified claims about serious diseases. Giving false hope to the desperate (often at a high price) is plain wicked. If the patient stops more effective treatment, it’s homicide. Homeopaths have been jailed for that. Sometimes it’s a result of wishful thinking. Sometimes it’s to make money. The latter is morally more despicable. Both are culpable. One example was the Totnes (aka Narnia) to “offer real alternatives to the conventional approach to cancer health care“. Another case, the Dove Clinic, was investig...
Source: DC's goodscience - March 25, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Barbara Wren Cancer act Cancer Options Carctol College of Natural Nutrition Karol Sikora Patricia Peat Rosy Daniel University of Buckingham alternative medicine CancerActive College of medicine Source Type: blogs

The Dangers of Big Corporate Health Care: Deceptive Marketing of Cancer Treatments
A series of articles over the last few months, culminating in an investigative report by Reuters, provided the newest example of what can go wrong when corporations provide direct care to vulnerable patients.  In this case, the vulnerable patients had cancer, and the corporation that provided them care was the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA).  I will try to go through the case chronologically.As Rueters reported, CTCA "was founded in 1988 by Richard J. Stephenson, who has been chairman ever since."The Founder's Checkered PastA Misdemeanor As Reuters noted,A graduate of Northwestern University Law Schoo...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 11, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: deception crime marketing Cancer Treatment Centers of America hospital systems complementary/ alternative medicine Source Type: blogs

Planned Destinations on my Wellness Journey
I haven’t traveled as far or as fast as I should have on my wellness journey. I wrote early in the New Year that I was embarking on a wellness journey for my own welfare in 2013 instead of making any resolutions. In addition to a regular visit to my oncologist for follow-up, so far I have had a check-up with a doctor that revealed that my cholesterol is borderline high and an eye exam that indicated I need stronger eye glasses. Although these are all health concerns that needed to be addressed, it is time to switch gears. As much as I support conventional medicine and evidence based practice where cancer is concerned, I...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - February 20, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: alternative medicine wellness journey Source Type: blogs

Policy-based evidence. Department of Health and Prince’s Foundation censor accurate information about magic medicines
This report is really quite contentious and we may well be subject to quite a lot of challenge from the Homeopathic community if published. What on earth? The DH seems to think that that its job is not to present the evidence, but to avoid challenges from the homeopathic community! And true enough, this piece is missing from the final version. A bit later, the NHS Choices draft was censored again “A 2010 Science and Technology Committee report said that scientific tests had shown that homeopathic treatments don’t work” But again this doesn’t appear in the final version. The comment, apparently fr...
Source: DC's goodscience - February 13, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: CAM CNHC College of Medicine Department of Health George Lewith homeopathy Michael Dixon National Health Service Prince of Wales Prince's Foundation Academia alternative medicine badscience David Mattin Sunjai Gupta Source Type: blogs

The Spirit Of The Place: Samuel Shem’s New Book May Depress You
When I was in medical school, I read Samuel Shem’s House Of God as a right of passage. At the time I found it to be a cynical yet eerily accurate portrayal of the underbelly of academic medicine.  I gained comfort from its gallows humor – and it made me feel connected to my peers during the most stressful time of my training. So when I was invited to review Shem’s “bookend” to House Of God, it was with a sense of eagerness and nostalgia that I accepted the challenge. How had the author’s thinking developed since the launch of his first blockbuster in 1978? I hoped to find a kinder, gent...
Source: Better Health - February 6, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Dr. Val Jones Tags: Book Reviews Bill Starbuck Fiction Orville Rose Samuel Shem Starbusol The House Of God The Spirit Of The Place Source Type: blogs

A Parent ’s BSD Challenge
Raising children is a rewarding journey with a most steep learning curve. Any new parent ’s notion that since they are older than their child means they are wiser soon learns that it is the child who teaches the parent many things. Think of the journey of a parent of a child who for no apparent reason engages in aggressive anti social behavior, angry unending tantrums, or a child who is ultra sensitive to all stimuli and overreacts to ordinary things in life, or a child who acts out in school seeking to always be the center of attention. This is the life of a parent whose child has possible BSD disorder. The word possi...
Source: Weird Cake: Myopic musings from a bipolar survivor - November 17, 2010 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Medical treatment alternatives
Discussions about chelation, ginseng ginkgo biloba, and chondroitin, are taking place. Even the NIH (the caretaker of western medicine) is spending 23 million dollars a year in research work on such alternative treatments. Insurance companies are now reimbursing policyholders for wellness plans and alternative medicines, but not for acupuncture.We must be flexible on choosing what is good and what is bad. Doctors say they are holistic. So was the country doctor 50 years ago. The mind and body go together. Prevention of disease is important. You the patient must insist on it. Today’s specialists that treat only one organ,...
Source: Dr. Needles Medical Blogs - July 28, 2010 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Tags: MEDICAL TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES Source Type: blogs