BIO SCI D124 Lecture Notes - Energy Medicine, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Electrotherapy
26 Aug 2014
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Still leading in the world but costs per person going up by a lot. Western medicine problems- health crisis in the us: costs in health markers-=paying a lot more than value we are getting. Cat scan typically 1000 + = 10x radiation of chest xray= lead to angiography) Top 10 selling drugs in world= us takes up over half the total percent of them . (example- durg: lipitor- global= 10. 3 bil us- 6 bil > we. Top 10 drugs for self in icted conditions- pain killer, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, anxiety, diabetes, etc. All of these drugs approved by fda- based on clinical trails (positive or negative effect= perform better than placebo= signi cant- some work really well but most work only marginally better than placebo pill (work just not to well)) Every time you put a pill in your body it usually will have some sort of side effect that is bad (rare to not)
