Drug companies hate anything that fixes peoples health issues, and actively work to limit or even to get good therapies off the market.
I've seen more than one study aimed at the minimally invasive medical device industry designed to show how much more cost effective their drugs are than a simple one time procedure. Usually, they take a limited time frame, say 3 years, show that drugs cost less (usually less than half as much), have better efficacy, and don't require a procedure.
One study I read a report about (~15 years ago), that attacked drug eluding stents, focused on diabetics as the patient group (a small detail in the report). That is a very challenging group to begin with, and ripe for drug therapies. In the time frame of the study (it was the early days of drug coated stents, there wasn't much long term data, and the stents were impacting the refined rat poison market), taking the drugs reduced patient death rates by under 1% (a win is a win), and cost less (estimated, but another win). Of course the study was aimed at the FDA, because they would have influence over federal reimbursements, which would limit the stent procedures. It scared the doctors and hospitals away from using stents.
What they conveniently leave out is quality of life, drug side effects, costs of dealing with the side effects, and long term drug costs and health issues.
I'd like to suggest a couple of books by Forrest Maready: "Crooked--Manmade Diseases Explained" and "Moth in the Iron Lung". This guy is not in the medical field but seems to be a master at observation, research and conclusions. His conclusions are very sound in anatomy and physiology. He has a lot of videos on yt.....SO FAR. I've downloaded all that could be downloaded.
The thing that really distresses me is that the medical cartel has made careers of addressing symptoms instead of underlying causes and not asking questions that they definitely should ask. They're too ready to take out their "cookbooks" on what to prescribe for which symptom which merely masks the symptom while the underlying problem continues to fester and worsen.
Your comments show that you pay attention to such things. I commend you.
Thank you for the recommendations. I added them to my Amazon wish list - I find it's a nice placeholder so I don't forget - I would look for them elsewhere, maybe the library.
Drug companies hate anything that fixes peoples health issues, and actively work to limit or even to get good therapies off the market.
I've seen more than one study aimed at the minimally invasive medical device industry designed to show how much more cost effective their drugs are than a simple one time procedure. Usually, they take a limited time frame, say 3 years, show that drugs cost less (usually less than half as much), have better efficacy, and don't require a procedure.
One study I read a report about (~15 years ago), that attacked drug eluding stents, focused on diabetics as the patient group (a small detail in the report). That is a very challenging group to begin with, and ripe for drug therapies. In the time frame of the study (it was the early days of drug coated stents, there wasn't much long term data, and the stents were impacting the refined rat poison market), taking the drugs reduced patient death rates by under 1% (a win is a win), and cost less (estimated, but another win). Of course the study was aimed at the FDA, because they would have influence over federal reimbursements, which would limit the stent procedures. It scared the doctors and hospitals away from using stents.
What they conveniently leave out is quality of life, drug side effects, costs of dealing with the side effects, and long term drug costs and health issues.
I'd like to suggest a couple of books by Forrest Maready: "Crooked--Manmade Diseases Explained" and "Moth in the Iron Lung". This guy is not in the medical field but seems to be a master at observation, research and conclusions. His conclusions are very sound in anatomy and physiology. He has a lot of videos on yt.....SO FAR. I've downloaded all that could be downloaded.
The thing that really distresses me is that the medical cartel has made careers of addressing symptoms instead of underlying causes and not asking questions that they definitely should ask. They're too ready to take out their "cookbooks" on what to prescribe for which symptom which merely masks the symptom while the underlying problem continues to fester and worsen.
Your comments show that you pay attention to such things. I commend you.
Thank you for the recommendations. I added them to my Amazon wish list - I find it's a nice placeholder so I don't forget - I would look for them elsewhere, maybe the library.
You're welcome.