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Drug coated stents may damage your heart!

Poonam , Shimla: Sep 4 2006

Made Popular Sep 4 2006

Recently, the use of drug coated stents, which apparently are quite popular, are found to give way to severe diseases. These stents are tiny and wire-mesh tubes. The risk of possible fatal blood clots can rise with the use of drug coated stents aided...

Tags: Drug-Coated Stents, Arterial Scarring, Health & Fitness

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Julia Schopick

Julia Schopick Nov 22 2006

Another blog, Gooznews (http://www.gooznews.com/), reports on the topic of drug-coated stents as follows:

�The Food and Drug Administration will hold hearings on Dec. 7-8 on drug-eluting stents, which recent studies show are harming more people than the regular stents they replaced. It’s another example where the more expensive ($2,000) technology replaced a cheaper ($800) technology and wound up causing more harm than good.�

This reminds me of a wonderful quote by the late (and great) physician and self-proclaimed �medical heretic,� Robert Mendelsohn, MD, who once said: ”Doctors don’t let go of one medication until they find a more dangerous one to replace it.”

Could it be that this statement is still true today? Please say it isn’t so!

If you’d like to read an article by Dr. Mendelsohn, please check out the link to his 1984 article on vaccines, which appears on the left side of my site, www.honestmedicine.com, under ”other important articles.”

Thanks much.

Julia Schopick
http://www.honestmedicine.typepad.com

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Julia Schopick Nov 22 2006

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Another blog, Gooznews (http://www.gooznews.com/), reports on the topic of drug-coated stents as follows:

�The Food and Drug Administration will hold hearings on Dec. 7-8 on drug-eluting stents, which recent studies show are harming more people than the regular stents they replaced. It’s another example where the more expensive ($2,000) technology replaced a cheaper ($800) technology and wound up causing more harm than good.�

This reminds me of a wonderful quote by the late (and great) physician and self-proclaimed �medical heretic,� Robert Mendelsohn, MD, who once said: ”Doctors don’t let go of one medication until they find a more dangerous one to replace it.”

Could it be that this statement is still true today? Please say it isn’t so!

If you’d like to read an article by Dr. Mendelsohn, please check out the link to his 1984 article on vaccines, which appears on the left side of my site, www.honestmedicine.com, under ”other important articles.”

Thanks much.

Julia Schopick
http://www.honestmedicine.typepad.com

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Julia Schopick Nov 22 2006

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Another blog, Gooznews (http://www.gooznews.com/), reports on the topic of drug-coated stents as follows:

�The Food and Drug Administration will hold hearings on Dec. 7-8 on drug-eluting stents, which recent studies show are harming more people than the regular stents they replaced. It’s another example where the more expensive ($2,000) technology replaced a cheaper ($800) technology and wound up causing more harm than good.�

This reminds me of a wonderful quote by the late (and great) physician and self-proclaimed �medical heretic,� Robert Mendelsohn, MD, who once said: ”Doctors don’t let go of one medication until they find a more dangerous one to replace it.”

Could it be that this statement is still true today? Please say it isn’t so!

If you’d like to read an article by Dr. Mendelsohn, please check out the link to his 1984 article on vaccines, which appears on the left side of my site, www.honestmedicine.com, under ”other important articles.”

Thanks much.

Julia Schopick
http://www.honestmedicine.typepad.com

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