Use this tag for medical drugs, medications, pharmaceuticals etc. For other questions about drugs, use [recreational-drugs].
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Do the majority of doctors in the USA support hydroxychloroquine use for covid-19?
The Claim
Scott Adams recently made the claim that the majority of doctors in the USA support the use of hydroxychloroquine. Normally a cartoonist's podcast would not be a notable source for a claim, so it is worth reviewing the background.
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Do ibuprofen or paracetamol cause hearing loss?
This 2016 Express article gives a rather disturbing warning that two common pain killers might cause the risk of hearing loss.
PARACETAMOL or ibuprofen could cause long-term deafness, experts have revealed. Scientists have revealed the effects…
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Are 99% of US beef cattle given steroids to promote faster growth?
Top google result The Meat You Eat: Steroid Use in Livestock claims
Each year, U.S. farmers raise some 36 million beef cattle. 99% of all beef cattle entering feedlots in the United States are given steroidal hormone implants to promote faster…
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In the past did Martin Shkreli offer free medication for those who could not afford it?
Martin Shkreli was a businessman in the pharmaceutical industry who became famous several years ago when his company increased some drug prices by a huge factor.
I recently watched this video of him in court; to my surprise, I saw multiple people…
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Can Scopolamine turn people into mindless "zombies"?
Vice did a report about scopolamine dubbing it as the world's scariest drug. The story is that people being given that drug can be told to do anything, similar to some popular claims about hypnosis and the zombie myths in the Caribbean.
When I…
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Are EpiPens still effective past expiration date?
Heard a bunch of people claiming that there was a study that EpiPens were found to be medically effective well past their expiration date.
Is the claim true, and if so how sound is the study?
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Is drug development far cheaper than Big Pharma wants us to believe?
In an article titled "The Make-Believe Billion - How drug companies exaggerate research costs to justify absurd profits" in Slate the author writes about a new study about the costs of drug development.
The common cost for the development of a new…
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Has LSD 'been widely used in hospitals for the treatment of mental disorders'?
Operation Moneybags is a video purporting to be a documentary covering medical experiments on British troops,
The film has an opening card (27 seconds in) stating:
This film was made during the course of an experiment to test the possible effects…
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Multiwave Locked System (MLS) laser therapy - is it any better than just infrared light?
Multiwave Locked System (MLS) laser therapy is marketed [1] as a healing and pain-relieving treatment based on simultaneous application of 808nm continuous light, and 905nm pulsed light from laser diodes.
I do not question that generic Low Light…
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Does soursop cure cancer?
I was linked a website about the effect soursop has in fighting cancer. The website heavily implies that soursop is an effective cancer treatment similar to chemo.
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Chemotherapy is a widely known form of cancer treatment and is effective at…
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Have any "cures" been invented since the 1950's or so?
A well reputed professor of neurology once mentioned to me that no drugs have been invented to cure human afflictions since the 1950's or 60's. Are there any drugs that have been invented since that time that are permanent cures of human…
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Is nitrous oxide not used during labor in US hospitals because it is cheaper?
In much (most?) of the world, women are able to use laughing gas (nitrous oxide) to relieve pain during childbirth, but this is almost never available to women in the United States.
Several websites (for example,Laughing gas making a comeback for…
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Is the pharmaceutical industry the most profitable business in the United States?
The Russia Today article Pharmageddon: America’s bitter pill claims
The pharmaceutical industry remains the most profitable business in the US. More success and financial gain for the companies will always remain possible as long as more Americans…
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Does Modafinil make you smarter?
Modafinil (Wikipedia link) is a drug approved in many countries for specific medical conditions such as narcolepsy. We don't, however, have a good idea how it works.
But is is one of several drugs (including the unrelated stimulant Ritalin, which is…
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Are over 90% of school shooters on anti-psychotics?
The video The Truthseeker: Schools, Guns & Drugs claims that over 90% of "school shooters" were on presciption drugs (voice-over) or anti-psychotics (subtitles).
It seems to me that it would be hard to provide backing for such claim. They also do…
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