"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
A Seattle nurse claims to have come up with a compound that alleviates the fatigue of MS. Her study involved only 27 patients: 22 took the drug, and 5 did not. They claim a 37% reduction in fatigue in the 22 who took the drug, but what does that mean when it's compared to a control group of only 5? Also, her compound includes caffeine which in itself is a stimulant, and thus could be responsible for the effect. Neurologists are rightly skeptical about the study and the drug. Meanwhile, the nurse sees it as an alignment of an "old boy's club" against her. Baloney. posted by Sydney on
4/02/2002 05:35:00 AM
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