Iatragenesis

Editor Emeritus on December 14th, 2009

The pharmaceutical industry, “Big Pharma” as it is known, is like any other enterprise, so saying that it exists to make money is simply stating the obvious. Or is it? The fact is that Big Pharma deliberately and carefully crafts its marketing to project an image of far higher motivation. The pharmaceutical industry would have […]

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Editor Emeritus on December 11th, 2009

According to a study presented by Marijke Jansen-van der Weideat at a conference at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America on 30 November, radiation from annual mammograms may further increase the risk that young women with genetic mutations or family histories linked to breast cancer will develop the disease. High doses […]

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