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It seems that Teva’s commercial strategy includes promoting fremanezumab (Ajovy) to the general public (direct-to-consumer).  Vall d’Hebron Hospital (Barcelona, Spain) supports and presents as a novelty something that “offers nothing new”.  Such promotion is clearly prohibited by Spanish and European legislation.  It is also accompanied by an incredible and constant “apparatus” of pressure on those [...]

Teva employs multiple mechanisms to maintain its business, from corruption to direct publicity, including the manipulation of opinion leaders (professionals and patients). Nothing compares to the impact of someone who suffers and “plays” in favor of Teva and against science and ethics. A personal narrative of suffering negates all the work that underpins rational and [...]

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a neurodegenerative disease with no current cure. In 2014, the FDA and EMA evaluated a new drug for this condition: ataluren. Ataluren was not approved by the FDA due to a lack of efficacy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, while the EMA granted conditional approval. After marketing authorization in the EU, the [...]

Leaders like Trump and Netanyahu are not an aberration but the expected expression of a regime where mediation collapses, where the state merges with the leader’s desires, and where obscenity becomes a legitimate political response. Thus, the “madness” of accusing of terrorism anyone who writes or shouts “Long live free Palestine!”, or the Big Brother-style [...]

We have problems with measles. But the key question is not the acceptance of the vaccine, but access to it and problems with its effectiveness. Before thinking in mandatory policies, think in improving access and efectiveness. Measles outbreaks, a public health focus. Gérvas J. Madrid, Spain. April 2019. Download article here.

With practical examples based on the real impact of medicalization in people lives and on the results from relevant and well designed studies, Juan Gérvas analyses the importance of certain screening programmes as breast cancer, thyroid cancer, the relevance of health check-ups and the impact of certain vaccines. He discusses the examples of Public Health [...]

Sertindole (Serdolect in the world, Zerdol in Germany) is an atypical antipsychotic agent, schizophrenia. Sertindole side effects include cardiac problems as prolongation of QT interval, arrhythmia and sudden deaths (higher than for other atypical antipsychotics). The FDA analysis of SCoP, made public in April 2009, estimated the hazard ratio for sudden cardiac death with sertindole [...]