“Here’s an invitation to the whole wide world From your brother to your sister to your best friends girl Can’t excuse it No excuses Everybody get stupid” This is a catchy song and the chorus gets in your head. The invitation to get stupid seems to have taken hold in...
A company called Sprout pharmaceuticals was bought last week for $US1 billion. Not bad for a company which, according to the New York Times, was created in 2011, has 34 employees and has had $US100 million invested since its inception. The company was formed to...
When markets reach “maturity” it is normal business practice to look for new markets. If you are selling consumer products there is no problem with this. But what if you are selling pharmaceuticals? Figures from the USA show that adults are now the biggest market for...
My right foot hurts. It hurts in the middle, underneath, but not all the time, and only when I walk or take any weight on it, especially when I get up in the morning, when it becomes difficult to walk. It has been hurting on and off since I did an 80km trek three...
Regular readers will know that the medicalization of life together with the relentless changing of thresholds of where “normal” is defined is all designed to make more people into patients and consumers of pharmaceuticals or other medical services. Yet the...
We are constantly told that medicine is based on scientific evidence. This chorus is never louder than when professors, academics and health authorities seek to disparage as “unscientific” anything that they don’t like or which challenges their particular view of the...
