Incretins are the newest and most expensive class of blockbuster diabetes drug but according to a remarkably through investigation just published by the BMJ (British Medical Journal) the risk that they could cause pancreatic cancer is much greater than patients and doctors have been told. The biggest sellers in the UK are Byetta (exenatide), Victoza […]
Yellow Card: parcelling up risk
March 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This was the first posting on on this blog, all the earlier ones are articles. Following up on my feature in the Mail today around Professor Gotzsche’s excellent new book about why it is a really bad idea to have a mammogram I’ve been picking up a lot of material around the issue of evidence […]
Series: Drugged-Up Britain – No. 1
August 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment
No. 1 of 4 articles in Reader’s Digest UK. (August 2011) How did we get to the point where £22m is spent on prescribing drugs—every day? In the first of a four-part special, Jerome Burne launches our campaign to tackle Drugged-Up Britain. When 54-year-old John arrived at a nutritional clinic in south London, he was in a bad […]
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