Viral BS
Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them
Dr. Seema Yasmin, 2021 BvtnLib 610 YAS
- reporter / epidemiologist / medical doctor / 1982 UK
- no references
- p001 2014, Texas mother demands Ebola vaccination from pediatrician, scoffs at flu vaccine.
p005 2011? joined CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service, 2014 to Dallas Morning News as reporter.
- p075 Ch13 "The Raging Statin Debate"
- p076 2016 Lancet study: 10K people with heart disease take a statin for 5 years, prevent 1000 heart attacks and strokes
- 50 to 100 would develop diabetes, 5 to 10 would suffer bleeding in the brain
- conclusion? not yet, evidence confusing, "ongoing studies ..."
- WHO's heart risk calculator (?)
- p076 2016 Lancet study: 10K people with heart disease take a statin for 5 years, prevent 1000 heart attacks and strokes
- p155 Ch29 "Does Playing American football give players brain damage?"
- p156 CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopy, brain laced with hyperphosphorylated tau
p161 NFL gave a gift of $30M to research CTE, "no strings attached", withdrew when NIH funded brain injury experts Robert Stern and Anne McKee, finding links between football and CTE
- p181 Ch33 ... Nearly half of all Americans diagnosed with HIV on 2015 were aged 50 and over.