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It ’ s full steam ahead for cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski
Since being given a slap on the wrist by the Texas Medical Board for his many years of peddling his antineoplastons, a treatment that's never been shown to have significant anticancer activity, Stanislaw Burzynski is back in action again, preying on desperate cancer patients like it's 1999.
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 4, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Anna Ortega antineoplastons brain cancer DIPG Mindi Ortega Stanislaw Burzynski Ted Ortega Source Type: blogs
Acupuncture: A point in the right direction, or a stab in the dark?
Acupuncture is a treatment that dates back to around 100 BC in China. It is based on traditional Chinese concepts such as qi (pronounced “chee” and considered life force energy) and meridians (paths through which qi flows). Multiple studies have failed to demonstrate any scientific evidence supporting such principles. Acupuncture involves the insertion of thin needles into the skin at multiple, varying locations based on the patient’s symptoms. Once inserted, some acupuncturists hand turn the needles for added therapeutic benefit. Although there are many uses for acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine, in Wester...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Paul G. Mathew, MD, FAAN, FAHS Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Headache Health Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Old wine poured into a newer skin: The Society for Integrative Oncology updates its clinical guidelines for breast cancer
Just over two years ago, the Society for Integrative Medicine issued clinical guidelines for breast cancer care. Now it's updated them. Unfortunately, mixing cow pie with apple pie for a little longer doesn't make the cow pie any better than it was last time.
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 2, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery acupuncture breast cancer Dugald Seely Heather Greenlee integrative medicine integrative oncology society for integrative oncology Suza Source Type: blogs
The FDA cracks down on bogus cancer “ cures. ” Will this be the last time this happens until after Trump?
This week, the FDA sent warning letters to 14 companies making unsupported claims that their products can treat cancer. Given the new administration's determination to deregulate almost everything, but especially the FDA, is this the last time in the foreseeable future that such a crackdown will occur?
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 27, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Quackery Donald Trump DSHEA of 1994 fda laetrile supplements thermography warning letter Source Type: blogs
The failure of the Texas Medical Board: Houston cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski is back in business
Last month, the Texas Medical Board fined Houston cancer quack Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski and placed his practice under supervision. It did not strip him of his medical license, as he deserves. The result is that families of children with terminal cancer are once again raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to follow his siren song of false hope.
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 26, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Popular culture Quackery Amelia Saunders antineoplastons billie bainbridge Cristiano Sousa Ewa Sitkowska fda Huddersfield Examiner Liza Cozad Orlando Sousa Source Type: blogs
What makes a physician become an antivaxer? (Part 2)
Orac contemplates a reason why doctors become antivaccine that he missed the last time he discussed this topic.
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 21, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Andrew Wakefield Dunning-Kruger effect Stanislaw Burzynski Source Type: blogs
New meta-analysis undermines the myth that negative emotions can cause cancer
Discussion of factors increasing the risk of cancer is today not only the domain of medical doctors and psycho-oncologists, but is also engaged in by some alternative medicine proponents, pseudopsychologists, and fringe psychotherapists, whose opinions are disseminated by journalists, some more thorough than others (see myth #26 in 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology for more background).
Among these opinions is the common claim that negative thinking, pessimism, and stress create the conditions for the cells in our body to run amok, and for cancer to develop. Similar declarations accompany therapeutic propositions for c...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cancer guest blogger Health Mental health Source Type: blogs
Four Crucial Questions To Ask Your Doctor
I am seeing an increasing number of patients who did not know they had a choice about taking a medicine or having a procedure.
Why did you have that heart cath? A: My doctor said I should.
Why are you on that medicine? A: My doctor prescribed it.
It’s time we re-review the basic four questions you should ask your doctor.
I wrote about this in April of 2015 for WebMD. Here is 2017 update:
1. What are the odds this test/medicine will benefit me?
Medical decisions are like gambles. Benefit is not guaranteed. In my field, catheter ablation of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) has a success rate approaching 99%, but th...
Source: Dr John M - April 17, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
Cancer charlatan Belle Gibson: Con artist or delusional?
Cancer huckster Belle Gibson was recently fined for deceiving the public by claiming that she had brain cancer, a story that she used to sell all manner of dubious treatments. Was she delusional or a run-of-the-mill con artist? Does it matter?
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 7, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Popular culture Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking belle gibson delusion Jessica Ainscough Ranjana Srivastava Source Type: blogs
Did cannabis oil save Deryn Blackwell ’ s life?
In a forthcoming book The Boy in 7 Billion, Callie Blackwell claims that cannabis oil, which she had started giving her son Deryn to relieve his symptoms during a bone marrow transplant for two cancers, actually saved his life when the bone marrow transplant appeared to be failing. Unfortunately, her story appears to be another testimonial that confuses correlation with causation.
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 3, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking bone marrow transplant Callie Blackwell cannabis cannabis oil Deryn Blackwell Karen Hockney Source Type: blogs
An as yet unidentified “ holistic ” practitioner negligently kills a young woman with IV turmeric (yes, intravenous)
Out of southern California, comes a lesson that something as seemingly benign as turmeric can kill when weaponized in the hands of a quack.
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 23, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking curcumin eczema Jade Erick Leigh Erin Connealy Mark Stengler turmeric Source Type: blogs
Naturopaths cynically use the murder of a quack to promote naturopathic licensure
The grieving widower killed the naturopath who treated his wife with cancer after telling her that "chemo is for losers." Where I see a tragedy, naturopaths see an opportunity to argue for naturopathic licensure.
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 22, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy News of the Weird Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Fikreta Ibrisevic Juan Gonzalez Kentucky licensure Omer Ahmetovic Source Type: blogs
Please don ’t mix herbal supplements with cancer treatments
One of the questions that I face (and which I am certain many of us do) concerns the use of alternative therapies. Iron chelation therapy, high-dose vitamin C infusions, Chinese herbs — interest in these therapies and others like them are driven by word-of-mouth (“a friend of a friend”), claims on websites and patients curiosity. Cancer is serious, and let’s face it — modern medicine has not (yet) found the cure.
What usually follows is a Western medicine-driven explanation — that as physicians, we seek to uphold the Hippocratic Oath: to “first, do no harm” and to understand the diseases we treat and the me...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 6, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/don-s-dizon" rel="tag" > Don S. Dizon, MD < /a > Tags: Meds Cancer Medications Source Type: blogs
What To Ask Your Doctor (and Why) When You ’ ve Been Diagnosed With Lung Cancer
Heather Mannuel, MD, MBA is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a Medical Oncologist at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. Below are a few questions she says to ask your doctor when you’ve been diagnosed with lung cancer, and why they’re important to ask.
What kind of lung cancer is this? Lung cancers are divided into small cell and non-small cell types, and the treatment is very different for each of these.
What is my stage? The stage helps to give information on whether the cancer is only in the lung or whether it has sprea...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - February 27, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chris Lindsley Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
Google delists Mike Adams ’ NaturalNews.com. His hilarious tantrum about the “ conspiracy ” behind it is epic, as is my schadenfreude.
Mike Adams the "Health Ranger" runs NaturalNews.com, arguably the wretchedest of wretched hives of scum and quackery on the web. Yesterday, Google delisted it. You'll forgive me if I indulge in a bit of schadenfreude, given Adams' long history of promoting quackery, gloating over the deaths of celebrities with cancer who used conventional treatment, and character assassination directed at science advocates, including yours truly.
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 23, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine News of the Weird Politics Quackery conspiracy theories Donald Trump fake news Mike Adams NaturalNews.com Source Type: blogs
