Big pharma worries that placebos are becoming way too effective compared to their products. Solution : make the placebo appear less effective. How corrupt and desperate is that ? http://asserttrue.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/new-patents-aim-to-reduce-placebo-effect.html
Is Pfizer Liable for Pregnancies Caused by Faulty Birth Control ? - Brad Jacobson - Health - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/02/is-pfizer-liable-for-pregnancies-caused-by-faulty-birth-control/252997/
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer recently announced it’s recalling one million packets of birth control medication because it mixed up the order of the hormone-containing pills with #placebos during packaging, putting an unknown number of #women at risk for unintended pregnancies. While news of this error spread quickly, the question of Pfizer’s liability in this incident and how it delayed to notify the public has received scant attention.
Longue analyse juridique pour savoir si la société Pfizer peut être tenue pour responsable des grossesses survenues suite à cette erreur de packaging : un placebo à la place de la #pilule contraceptive.
Half of all German doctors prescribe #placebos, new study shows | Science | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/mar/06/half-german-doctors-prescribe-placebos
The report says placebos, from vitamin pills to homeopathic remedies or even sham surgery, can prove highly effective in various treatments.
In Bavaria, it found, 88% of GPs have sent patients home with prescriptions for placebo drugs.
C’est plutôt cool, sauf qu’on a là une limite du traitement journalistique : ce genre d’article casse tout ! Puisqu’à partir du moment où on sait qu’on avale un placebo, on se dit que c’est comme si on avalait rien et donc l’effet placebo, qui est psycho-somatique, ne peut plus marcher ou en tout cas pas aussi bien.
Il faut commander une étude sur le pourcentage d’Allemands qui lisent le Guardian…
J’ai bien remarqué que tout ce que l’on me prescrivait contre mes virus est juste de la vitamine C .