Randomized clinical trials and placebo : can you trust the drugs are working and safe? /

Ventegodt, Søren.

Randomized clinical trials and placebo : can you trust the drugs are working and safe? / Søren Ventegodt and Joav Merrick. - New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2012. - viii, 182 p. ; 27 cm. - Health and human development .

Book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The errors and deficiencies of the randomised, clinical trial (RCT) -- Problems with the premises of the RCT-- Passive or active placebo? -- Measuring the effect of drugs in RTC. -- The observation time of the randomised clinical trial (RCT) -- Efficacy of biomedicine in general practice -- 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 and coronary heart disease. Psychiatry : depression and schizophrenia -- The marketing strategy and the values of Big Pharma -- Biomedicine and holistic medicine in conflict -- How do we develop medicine from being poisonous drugs into being an efficient and safe medicine? -- Conclusion : the pharmaceutical industry sells poisons as medicine and knows that the documentation should be better -- Scientific résumé.

9781614700678 (hardcover)

2011020025


Clinical trials.
Placebos (Medicine)
Drugs--Toxicology.
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic.
Drug Toxicity.
Placebos.
Treatment Outcome.

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