The Lancet Has Made One of the Biggest Retractions in Modern History. How Could This Happen?

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James Heathers The Lancet is one of the oldest and most respected medical journals in the world. Recently, they published an article on Covid patients receiving hydroxychloroquine with a dire conclusion: the drug increases heartbeat irregularities and decreases hospital survival rates. This result was treated as authoritative, and major drug trials were immediately halted – […]

Inhaled CO2 Concentration while Wearing Face Masks: A Pilot Study Using Capnography

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Cecilia Acuti Martellucci, Maria Elena Flacco, Mosè Martellucci, Francesco Saverio Violante, Lamberto Manzoli None of the available evaluations of the inhaled air carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, while wearing face masks, used professional, real-time capnography with water-removal tubing. We measured the end-tidal CO2 using professional side-stream capnography, with water-removing tubing (Rad-97™ capnograph), at rest, (1) without masks, (2) […]

Corruption: Why Corrupt Industry Practices are a Barrier to Effective Tobacco Control

Tobacco Tactics The tobacco industry interference can fall within non-criminal or criminal forms of corruption. In terms of non-criminal corruption, the tobacco industry uses various strategies and tactics to influence the policy making, such as lobbying, creating front groups or funding science … As implementation of WHO FCTC Article 5.3 progresses, there is a risk that the tobacco industry […]

Doing Good by Hammering the Poor

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David Bell “Doing good” on a global scale has never been so popular, and never more profitable. The public-private partnerships that now dominate the global public health industry have generously overperformed since early 2020, enriching private and corporate donors alike. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) ongoing pandemic treaty negotiations hold promise to lock in this […]

Health Canada Wants More Funds from Pharma

Lauren Vogel Health policy experts told CMAJ that parliamentary oversight of cost recovery is particularly important given the potential for conflicts of interest as Canada looks to increase its dependence on industry fees. “The more you get your money from a private source, the more you may consciously or unconsciously see yourself as being in […]

A Novel Approach to Treating COVID-10 Using Nutritional and Oxidative Therapies

David Brownstein et al. At present [July 2020], there is no published cure, treatment, or preventive for COVID-19 except for a recent report on dexamethasone for seriously ill patients. A novel treatment program combining nutritional and oxidative therapies was shown to successfully treat the signs and symptoms of 100% of 107 patients diagnosed with COVID-19. […]