Expensive New Diabetes Drugs Add Nothing But Cost And Complications

This is the fourth in an ongoing series of blogs exposing the rampant misuse of the medications so aggressively promoted by greedy drug companies. I am very lucky in having the perfect partner in this truth-vs-power effort to contradict Pharma propaganda with evidence based fact. Dick Bijl is President of the International Society of Drug Bulletins (ISDB), an impressive association of 53 national drug bulletins from all around the world, each of which publishes the best available data on the pluses and minuses of different medications. Drug bulletins help patients and doctors see through the misleading misinformation generated by ubiquitous Pharma marketing. I highly recommend Dick's previous blogs: Many Commonly Used Drugs Are Useless  New Drugs Are Often Bad For Patients, Great For Pharma Weight Loss Pills And Products Don't Work And Aren't Safe In this blog, Dick takes on the diabetes racket: He writes: "Diabetes mellitus is one of the developed world's most frequently encountered and deadly diseases. Its prevalence is increasing every year as a consequence of our sedentary life-styles, fast food dietary habits, and rising obesity rates. Diabetes lowers quality of life and life expectancy via small blood vessel disease (causing blindness, kidney failure, and nerve dysfunction) and large blood vessel disease (causing heart attacks and stroke). There are two forms: Type 1 Diabetes (insulin-dependent) and Type 2 Diabetes (non-insulin dependent). In this blog, I will...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - Category: Science Source Type: news