PharmedOut

PharmedOut is a project at Georgetown that advances evidence-based prescribing and educates about pharmaceutical and medical device marketing practices.

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📢New article on vaginal estrogen and the prevention of recurrent UTIs in postmenopausal women from PharmedOut's Patricia Bencivenga, Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, and Dr. Tony Scialli. Read it here: https://t.co/8nsO5dmzjU

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🔴 In F&S Reviews:

Vaginal estrogen and the prevention of recurrent urinary tract infection in postmenopausal women: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Full text 👇
https://t.co/Hn7y82KYh3

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Testosterone Levels and Sexual Function, by @DrJenGunter https://t.co/SoNGybqFYM

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You can also read their accompanying STAT article on the issue, "The perimenopause movement sells women the lie that they are ruled by their hormones" here: https://t.co/3ut1wQEyq3

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Listen to Patricia Bencivenga and Adriane Fugh-Berman talk about the "rise of perimenopause misinformation" on STAT's First Opinion Podcast.

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Are too many symptoms blamed on perimenopause? Two experts weigh in on the “First Opinion Podcast.” https://t.co/hldtDOAkGe

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Antihypertensive treatment is associated with hospitalization or death due to falls- The Lancet Primary Care https://t.co/U2jXqq8kpo

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Kenny Lin: New ACC/AHA statin guidelines failed to do systematic review, didn't include national internal medicine and family medicine organizations, and 12/33 on guideline panel had relevant conflicts of interest. https://t.co/fPb4HmSLOI

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Recent turbulence at the @US_FDA shows why PharmedOut's aptly named report "What Needs to Change at the FDA?" is especially relevant today!
Read the executive summary and the report here: https://t.co/AXg3aEgQbH

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Jeanne Lenzer's great article on tests that make perfectly healthy people think they have Alzheimer’s. Fugh-Berman is quoted saying “These are bad tests designed to make people eligible for bad drugs.” https://t.co/EoDDjfbiue

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So let me get this straight…
What’s in: tanning beds, flavored vapes
What’s out: vaccines, anti-depressants

RFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists https://t.co/3UHqLnIkPe

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As the Sackler family worked through a plan to pay $6.5 billion to resolve their liability over Purdue Pharma’s production of addictive opioids, the epidemic hit even closer to home. https://t.co/UGA9YFPqNW

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F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe https://t.co/qgy3JnhhAC via @NYTimes

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GLP-1 Overdoses on the Rise: Cause for Concern? https://t.co/UjSmUyPgvE

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Top Psychiatrists Call for a Greater Focus on Ceasing Medication https://t.co/Mw4r4jwGCq via @NYTimes

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"Opioid manufacturers unethically changed what prescribers thought they knew about opioids, and changed how chronic pain was treated." Read more here: https://t.co/QiuCxPE3PN

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"Redefining Pain and Addiction: How Opioid Manufacturers Changed Medical Language to Foster Opioid Use" reveals the origins and impact of terms such as opiophobia and pseudoaddiction. Pharma influence on knowledge about drugs is a serious concern.
https://t.co/d3M4iTYYat

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PharmedOut's Caroline Renko and Adriane Fugh-Berman with collaborator Liza Vertinsky expose industry-funded #CME as unregulated promotion in latest paper, "Medicalizing Aging for Profit through Medical Education." Read more here:
https://t.co/lAUW8hVhI3

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@Pharmed_Out @NightShiftMD @TheSGEM certainly not “evidence based care” or even remotely close to any international standard of care. The million dollar question is who receives the @OtsukaUS marketing money and “payment for completion of the clinical research” @VanIslandHealth @BCOmbudsperson @MarjoriePLC @SuzanneMcgurn

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Good news on long term opioid prescribing
https://t.co/04QEWehcHa

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Nothing for something: Marketing cancer drugs to physicians increases increases prescribing without improving mortality https://t.co/hhyf1gEygC

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Patricia Bencivenga and A Fugh-Berman counter the narrative that women are ruled by their hormones: "Perimenopausal women are not ill," and should "fight the disempowering concept that women and their hormones must be medically controlled." https://t.co/3ut1wQEyq3