I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.

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For the last 30 years, doctors have been promoting the concept of evidence-based medicine.

What does that really mean?

This is the people's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. Evidence-based medicine certainly seems desirable. Compared to opinion-based medicine, I think we'd all

prefer to have our treatments founded on highly reliable and

relevant clinical trials. Our guest today argues that the pharmaceutical

industry has become adept at manipulating research has this

this compromised the practice of medicine?

Communication about study findings may also be misleading.

Some television commercials are designed to distract more than inform.

Coming up on the people's pharmacy, we'll talk to the author of The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine. based medicine.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, aspirin has been around for more than a century and

doctors are still figuring out the best way to use it.

Initially it was seen primarily as a pain reliever.

However, after the Physician's Health Study was published in 1989,

scientists started looking at it as a way to prevent heart attacks.

That double-blind placebo-controlled trial determined that

LODOSASPRIN reduced the risk of heart attacks among middle-aged male doctors by 44%.

Now, though, the United States Preventive Services Task Force has updated its recommendations on aspirin to prevent initial heart

attacks and strokes.

After reviewing all the studies and modeling the benefits and risks, the Task Force recommends that doctors consult with patients

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