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...Cochrane Library published your updated review of all major studies on the efficacy of flu vaccines for the elderly, some of the results of which you believe to be preposterous. Can you explain?We looked at studies on vaccines in the elderly and in health care workers who work with the elderly, and we found an implausible sequence of results. We have studies that claim up to 90% effectiveness against death from all causes [in inoculated patients compared with the nonvaccinated]. If you were to believe that evidence, you would believe that flu vaccine is effective against death not only...
Audience member Plas T. James II ’13 also gave a positive review. “This guy has this funky kind of feeling, feels like you can get down and really go at it,” he said...
...Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, takes a more sober view of the findings, pointing out that 18 of the 26 studies in Noble's review failed to mention addiction. The review authors say they assumed the omissions meant that those studies did not find any cases of addiction, but Volkow says it could mean that they simply didn't look for it. (See pictures from an X-ray studio...
Still, Volkow does not deny that age and prior addiction are key risk factors for drug problems; addiction is primarily a disorder of youth. Based on this review and other research involving middle-aged or older people screened for pre-existing drug problems, Volkow says, "Under those conditions, you can say that the risk [of addiction] is less than 3% [in people with no history of drug abuse...
According to a review presented in February at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's annual meeting, methadone accounted for 5% of opioid prescriptions in the U.S. between 1999 and 2009 but was involved in 30% of opioid overdose deaths, as reported in malpractice cases, medical literature and federal and state databases. Some of these deaths occurred in heroin users being treated with methadone for addiction, but the overwhelming number of cases were in people who were prescribed the drug for chronic pain. (See the most common hospital mishaps...