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- From: billmcc@seanews.akita.com (Bill McCormick)
- Subject: Re: FDA still at large
- Organization: SEANEWS - Seattle Public Access News & Mail
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:27:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.132727.27470@seanews.akita.com>
- References: <1992Jul27.082728.7426@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Jul30.191314.6358@island.COM> <1992Jul31.051843.23946@klic.rain.com>
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- In article <1992Jul31.051843.23946@klic.rain.com> keithl@klic.rain.com (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
- >There was an article in the paper this morning about ritodrine, a drug given
- >to over 100,000 pregnant women last year, at a cost of over a billion dollars,
- >to prevent premature delivery. A recent study shows it doesn't work, and may
- >be killing more mothers than saving babies.
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- I'd call this a great argument *for* allopathic medicine.
-
- Scientific validation showed that a treatment was ineffective and now
- changes are being made to change treatment methods. When was the last
- time homeopathic, Chinese medicine, fruit-juicers, etc., critically
- examined one of their treatments and stopped using it because it's
- worthless or worse?
-
- Bill
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