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Research places was Re: Met vs Actos/AvandiaFrom: Victoria (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:27:57 -0500
www.quackwatch.com, http://www.quackfiles.com, http://quackbusters.quackfiles.com are good places to review all sorts of questionable health products and practices. For pretty reliable medical information, check out Medline (medical research abstracts), Medscape (http://www.medscape.com), and mdlinx.com (ob/gyn and endocrinology), and http://www.obgyn.net for medical research studies. Some of the medical journals can be searched for full text papers, some only allow an abstract for free. BMJ is about the only one I know that is permanently free. Points to look for in medical research: 1) double blind study (meaning neither patient nor doctor knows what you are getting) 2) placebo controlled (compares drug against placebo or fake do nothing pill) 3) large number of study subjects 4) same repeatable results over different studies, different doctors with the above criteria 5) are published in peer reviewed journals that are associated with particular specialty associations (like ACOG)
-- Victoria
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