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• Ghostly medicine

  All of us at WDDTY are shaken to the core by the recent disclosures that most studies in the medical literature are marketing dressed up as research. For as many as 90,000 published drug trials, a drug company hired a PR firm—a ‘medical education Read More... Posted 02 November 2010 09:46 by Joanna Evans | 6 Comments Filed under: breast cancer, drug trials, HRT, Wyeth

• Asking the obvious

  Someone finally bothered to ask the question: does breast screening work? The answer is a damning and resounding no, as our cover story this month makes clear. No breast screening programme anywhere is making the slightest impact on cancer mortality. Read More... Posted 01 March 2010 17:41 by Joanna Evans | 9 Comments Filed under: mammograms, breast cancer, breast screening