There are now many papers on a type of human cell called CD8 T cells. That news may not seem relevant to the issue of vaccine safety and efficacy, but it's more evidence FDA often approves drugs other than vaccines based on inadequate safety trials. dropped 60% in price when reports of serious side effects from its leukemia drug surfaced after FDA approval. URL Pharma immediately raised the price from less than a dime to nearly 5 dollars per pill. Therefore it gave the company a monopoly for the duration of the agreement. That deal effectively created a patented drug with no generic alternative. The FDA gave pharmaceutical company URL Pharma an exclusive marketing agreement for selling Colcrys in exchange for completing studies on Colcrys and paying the FDA a $45 million application fee. In the summer of 2009, the Food and Drug Administration approved Colcrys as a treatment for gout flare-ups and the Mediterranean fever. Until recently, you could treat your own gout using one of these medicines for pennies a day. Alternative drugs, such as Allopurinal, are also used to treat gout and related ailments.
One trick is to use low doses of the very thing that is to be tested (ha!) -thanks, Jenny Thompson of HSI.Ĭolcrys has been used to treat gout for a very long time, although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had not approved Colcrys specifically for the treatment of gout prior to 2009. Given how sneaky Big Pharma companies have been shown to be, I rather suspect their placebos are engineered in those trials that the companies fund or actually conduct. So, what should go into the ideal placebo? It may depend on what is being tested in medical trials.Īnyway, do note that the contents of most placebos used in trials are not disclosed. Placebos should not contain sugar, given how bad it is for people and other mammals. In fact, the value of the latter is worse than zero, unless they can be used as evidence of sleaze or incompetence. 5 good studies are worth more than 500 fraudulent or bungled studies.
I don't know how many vaccines have failed clinical trials so that FDA didn't approve them. I haven't seen any good study showing that vaccines do more harm than good. Here's some evidence to support the strategy of optimizing your immune system (see the list above): Goji berries protect against the flu ĭee Dee Warren wrote in Facebook, November 17: Hence, it's something when the incidence of sickness in people who didn't get the flu vaccine shot is comparable to that of those who did. Note that if people don't get vaccinated and don't follow the list above, then we might expect some degree of sickness greater than we'd find in people who do follow the list. I think the chances are that you won't get seriously sick and vaccination would be counterproductive. (Thank Heather Robson, whose article was re-published in Independent Living.) This appears to be a great list of things you can do to ward of illness including the flu:ģ)Stay warm (getting cold does not cause illness by itself, but it can weaken one's immune system).Ĥ)Keep the home air adequately humid (the number of germs actually go down the more humid the air is).ħ)Live well eating, drinking, sleeping, coping with stress. We need to discuss things beyond vaccines IMO.