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Social egg freezing: risk, benefits and other considerations

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Family physicians have an important role in advising women about the benefits and risks of egg freezing, argues an analysis in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Doctors are being warned not to encourage young women to freeze their eggs as a way to avoid “future regret,” says a just-published article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that argues egg freezing risks perpetuating expectations that being a mother is central to being a woman.
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Sources and more information

  • Social egg freezing: risk, benefits and other considerations, cmaj, April 13, 2015.
  • Family doctors important in advising young women on egg freezing for future fertility, eurekalert, 13-APR-2015.
  • Doctors warned not to encourage young women to freeze their eggs in new medical journal article, nationalpost, April 14, 2015.
  • Egg freezing not a fertility panacea, Metro Canada, April 14, 2015.
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The FDA and Medical Fraud missing from Public Record

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Faked X-rays, fabricated data, unreported amputations… those are just a few examples of the medical misconduct discovered during Food and Drug Administration inspections. Science Friday interviews Charles Seife.

In his recent investigation about the FDA, fraud and misconduct in scientific studies of medicine, Charles Seife – Journalist, author, NYU professor – and his students revealed that the FDA routinely fails to report evidence of fraud or misconduct when it inspects the way researchers conduct clinical trials, leaving the public unaware of which research is credible and which is not.
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Sources and more information

  • Are Your Medications Safe?, slate, Feb. 9 2015.
  • Research Misconduct Identified by the US Food and Drug AdministrationOut of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of the Peer-Reviewed Literature, JAMA Intern Med. Published online, doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.7774, February 09, 2015.
  • The FDA doesn’t tell you when it finds scientific fraud, theverge, February 9, 2015.
  • FDA fails to report fraud in clinical trials – study, Reuters, February 10, 2015.
  • Medical Fraud Missing From Public Record, sciencefriday, FEB. 13, 2015.
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France Procès Distilbène: une Sarthoise dénonce UCB Pharma

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10 janvier 2014 – Interview de Sylvie Le Cossec

La vie de Sylvie a été ravagée par le Distilbène, cette hormone de synthèse prescrite à sa mère et supposée éviter les fausses couches.

Deux grossesses pathologiques, un fils polyhandicapé à la vie dévastée, une carrière internationale stoppée, une vie de couple bouleversée, un cancer de l’utérus, un quotidien difficile à gérer… Sylvie publie son livre “Distilbène, Mon Fils n’aura Jamais son Bac” et dénonce le laboratoire UCB Pharma.

Le Distilbène DES, en savoir plus
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Medicine’s Missing Half

How withholding clinical trials degrades the evidence base

Science & the City interviews Dr Ben Goldacre – author of Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients – who discusses the pervasive bias in reporting clinical trials of medications.

Dr Ben Goldacre calls for all trials to be registered and for all trial results to be reported. Otherwise, he says, doctors, researchers, and patients are prevented from making discerning decisions about treatments and the field of evidence-based medicine is pointlessly hobbled.

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Breast Cancer: Patti Neighmond reports about DES Daughters

DES Daughters and their Cancer Risk

Award-winning journalist Patti Neighmond is NPR’s health policy correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition.

Patti reported about DES on 08 August 2006, following a “new” study showing that daughters of women who took the pregnancy drug DES, a synthetic estrogen, have a higher risk of developing breast cancer after age 50. Click here to read the story.

DES and Breast Cancer

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Science Weekly @AlokJha @GuardianScience Interview: Dr @BenGoldacre exposes Bad Pharma #SoundCloud

Alok Jha, Science correspondent at the Guardian and BBC TV presenter, speaks with Campaigner, Writer, Dr Ben Goldacre about his investigation into the pharmaceutical industry and his book Bad Pharma.

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Extended Interview with Dr Ben Goldacre on SoundCloud

Guardian Science Weekly

Alok Jha, Science correspondent at the Guardian and BBC TV presenter, speaks at length with Campaigner, Writer, Dr Ben Goldacre about his investigation into the pharmaceuticals industry and his book Bad Pharma.

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Have you heard “The Journey of a DES Daughter”?

Your @DES_Journal Interview by @TheOrganicView is on @SoundCloud

Recorded radio interview by The Organic View, with host, June Stoyer joined by your DES Daughter Domino talking about her journey.

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Culture of Silence on Sex Hormone link to Cancer

A DES Australia NSW Interview, 2011

Listen to “Culture of Silence on sex hormone link to cancer“ , a Radio Interview about DES featuring Carol Devine and Dr Jules Black, produced by Annamarie Reyes, April 05th, 2011.
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14/05/2011, by DES Daughter.

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Listen to “Letter from a DES Survivor”

In memory of Rhonda : a DES Son Testimonial, 2013

Listen and learn about the suffering of a DES Son.

“To all my friends I love ya! It is time for me to go, I have Teak y my black cat, very gentle and only eats dry food, kitty Bob my siemiesi cat needs a monthly depot shop, aergic to flea bites him and bud bud the hemalayin go to getherM Sophie my grey cat and mittens, grey and black cat go together, Bobo the dog is great and needs lots of love. I wish for the horses to be together If possible. These are my only wishes.”

Rhondalynns Chocolatehaus, 27 May 2016.

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