geoffrey modest medical blogs

i have held back from writing about drug company shenanigans, mostly because their daily outrageous acts could totally fill up my blogs (witness the Mylan epi-pen example). but, since it is friday afternoon and in anticipation of the weekend, i just couldn't resist. i will not repeat what is quite well-researched and written in STAT, but refer you to the URL:  https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/09/23/drug-price-skin-gel/  for details.  but the bottom line: yet again, pretty sleazy business types, moving from one small drug company to another to repeat their predatory practices, are buying out old drugs and dramatically raising their prices. in this case, one of their 3  gels  is composed  of  aloe and  iodoquinol, the latter  when taken orally  being an antiprotozoal/an amebicide!!! , and is being promoted as preventing growth of fungus/bacteria topically to treat dermatitis and ecze...

the following comments are from jonathan berz on the blog on fish oils and cardiovascular disease, see  http://gmodestmedblogs.blogspot.com/2016/09/omega-3-fatty-acids-and-cardiovascular.html   .  they did comment in the study that the observational data on fish did suggest a threshold effect, though the threshold was a little different for different clinical outcome associations.  Jonathan did send this out a few weeks ago, so sorry it’s taken so long after the original blog. geoff --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for reviewing this Geoff. Two points I wanted to add 1.         Not all fish are create equal as you have alluded to. See slide below which shoes quite a variation ( the tilapia that is ever present is probably not so beneficial in this department, for example ) 2.         Also ...