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Veoza (fezolinetant) for hot flushes in menopause – think twice!

20 Jan

Veoza (fezolinetant) for hot flushes in menopause – think twice! Mercedes Pérez-Fernández, Specialist in Internal Medicine and retired rural physician, CESCA Team, Spain mpf1945@gmail.com Juan Gérvas, MD, former professor of public health, retired rural general practitioner, CESCA Team, Madrid, Spain. jjgervas@gmail.com https://t.me/gervassalud @JuanGrvas Vasomotor symptoms in menopause Hot flushes are waves of heat sometimes accompanied [...]

Influenza-flu vaccine and covid19. Fifteen questions

12 Oct

The flu vaccine is a failed vaccine, useless at best, that discredits vaccines in general. The situation created by the #COVID19 pandemic does not change the recommendation not to use it. 15 questions with answers and references. Influenza-flu vaccine and covid19. Fifteen questions. Gérvas J. Madrid, October, 2020. Dowload article here.

Coronavirus from Wuhan (China). 2019-nCoV. What you need to know to avoid a panic epidemic

23 Mar

Coronaviruses have been with us for thousands of years, and we are prepared to overcome their infections.  If you have traveled to Wuhan (China) or have had close contact with those who have traveled there and have severe catarrhal symptoms with respiratory distress, consult your doctor especially if you have any underlying disease.  In all [...]

What has evidence based medicine (EBM) done for our patients? We do not know. We must abandon it

18 Sep

We must admit that: a / “if the final objective of EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) is to improve patients-populations’ health, do we have evidence of succeed in this objective?” No, b / is EBM harming patients-populations’ health? We do not know. Evidence-Based Medicine (#EBM) has not demonstrated any impact on patients’ health. It is honest [...]

Quaternary prevention: a task of the general practitioner

18 Sep

-“Prevention is better than cure”. This principle is undisputed. New knowledge points to the fact that prevention can  also  do  harm.  Under  the  concept  “quaternary  prevention”  efforts  are  currently  focused  on  finding  the  right measure of preventive care, true to the old medical tenet “primum non nocere”. Quaternary prevention: a task of the general practitioner. [...]

Medicine and its preventive excesses

18 Dec

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 [...]

Making use of the Food and Drug Administration briefing documents to reconsider the safety of the antipsychotic sertindole

2 Sep

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 [...]