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Vaccines work: By the numbers
It bears repeating that vaccines are one of the greatest of all the medical innovations ever invented. This infographic illustrates their success. Here’s the source: Why vaccinate from vaccines.com using CDC data. h/t @a_picazo
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2012 in review
Thank you for following this blog. While posts are less frequent than I’d like, the blog received about 290,000 views in 2012. Regular traffic is now over 800 visitors per day, from 190+ countries (so far). Here are SBP’s most popular posts from 2012:
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Tags: top posts, year in review
I’ve been calling on pharmacies to stop selling homeopathy since my very first post, almost (gulp) four years ago. Despite looking like medication, homeopathy is an “alternative” medicine system invented in the 1800′s which rejects established facts about biochemistry, physics, and pharmacology. If homeopathy works, then the rest of medicine we rely on could not […]
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Tags: homeopathy, pharmacy practice
Should you get the HPV Vaccine?
Dr. Mike Evans answers, in a new video: Photo from flickr user VCU CNS used under a CC licence.
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From the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: The Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (CSACI) is very concerned about the increased marketing of food-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) testing towards the general public over the past few years, supposedly as a simple means by which to identify “food sensitivity”, food intolerance or food […]
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Tags: food intolerance, food intolerance tests, food sensitivity, hemocode, IgG blood tests, rexall, yorktest
The Red Flags of Quackery
This compilation made me laugh out loud: From the website Sci-ənce. Nicely done. Anything missing?
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Tags: humour, pseuodscience, quackery, red flags
Third year anniversary!
I recently asked a colleague for search advice on a topic I was researching. When I told her it was for a blog post, she was intrigued. “How much do you get paid to blog?” she asked. When I told her that blogging didn’t provide any revenue, she was dumfounded. “Even writing for [big pharmacy […]
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Tags: blackmores, pharmacy practice
New Year’s Resolutions
Heh. From Cyanide and Happiness. (Email recipients may need to click the links to view.) via Yoni Freedhoff
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From the Nightingale Collaboration, a UK-based group that is challenging misleading claims in healthcare advertising: We know from what our supporters tell us that there are more than a few pharmacists up and down the country who still either aren’t sure what homeopathy is and even recommend it to some of their customers in the […]
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Tags: homeopathy
