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		<title>Is it ethical to lie to patients?</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/is-it-ethical-to-lie-to-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ask this question because a number of people have spoken to me about SPECAL care (Specialised early care in alzheimer&#8217;s&#8230; erm&#8230; care- it&#8217;s like PIN number). Back in August 2008 there was this article in the Guardian by media psychologist Oliver James. Author of this book: Contented Dementia, which discusses SPECAL and he thinks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&blog=4776290&post=285&subd=soveda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide isn&#8217;t painless</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/suicide-isnt-painless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the punning title, I know Painless was the name of the dentist in M.A.S.H. but I couldn&#8217;t resist.
I was just pondering suicide and euthanasia, this was triggered by world suicide prevention day and the lack of coverage in the media.
Now suicide is a bad thing isn&#8217;t it?
It&#8217;s one of the targets the UK [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&blog=4776290&post=279&subd=soveda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the spinal trap resurected</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/beware-the-spinal-trap-resurected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>soveda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many other bloggers have done I am reposting a version of the Simon Singh article that has got the blogosphere in a frenzy of debunking Chiropractic.
This is the version which is altered slightly from the original. The original is out there if you search.
Here you go:
Beware the Spinal Trap by Simon Singh
Some practitioners claim [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&blog=4776290&post=278&subd=soveda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chiropractic for mental health, Bogus*? Updated</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/chiropractic-for-mental-health-any-evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 10:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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*Deliberate deception not implied
In light of other bloggers looking at chiropractic treatment I thought I&#8217;d have a look from my perspective. According to the BCA chiropractic can be used to treat many conditions beyond back pain but does not appear to mention mental health symptoms specifically.
I thought I would find out if individual chiropracters did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&blog=4776290&post=268&subd=soveda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m starting to think they do it on purpose</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/im-starting-to-think-they-do-it-on-purpose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 21:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again, the BBC website has some more marvellous reporting of research. This time the article is : Trial drugs &#8220;reverse&#8221; Alzheimer&#8217;s
O rly&#8230;
This is the BBC story, note the headline, yes that really does say
Trial drugs &#8220;reverse&#8221; Alzheimer&#8217;s
But if you read further than the headline it says:
In mice, the treatment helped restore long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&blog=4776290&post=265&subd=soveda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The BBC  being accurate again</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/the-bbc-being-accurate-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I haven&#8217;t been terribly active in blogging recently but this story on the BBC website raised an eyebrow. The story in question is about a crop of daffodils being grown in Wales as a source of Galantamine crystals.
For the uninitiated, Galantamine is an Acetlycholinesterase inhibitor, one of the medications used in Alzheimer&#8217;s, more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&blog=4776290&post=252&subd=soveda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The least worst option</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/the-least-worst-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was triggered by a comment about bpsd (behavioural problems and symptoms in dementia) made by The Shrink author of the Lake Cocytus blog (follow the link and read it is a great insight into life as a consultant psychiatrist). Much of what The Shrink writes echoes with me as I have had eerily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&blog=4776290&post=239&subd=soveda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When MMR attacks (or LBC and Jeni Barnett, what were you thinking?)</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/when-mmr-attacks-or-lbc-and-jeni-barnett-what-were-you-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a very quick post, Ben Goldacre has been threatened by LBC&#8217;s lawyers fro infringement of copyright.
The copyright in question is to do with an episode of Jeni Barnett&#8217;s show which was frighteningly ill informed and further scare mongering about MMR. As I&#8217;ve blogged previously, the data about MMR does not show an association with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&blog=4776290&post=238&subd=soveda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s just a little prick</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/its-just-a-little-prick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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But does it do any good?
I&#8217;m referring to acupuncture which is being puffed, sorry reported on, by the BBC again today in this article.
Confusion you say, now what confusion would that be I wonder? Nothing to do with the media portrayal of previous studies surely.
The article refers to a new Cochrane review of studies into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&blog=4776290&post=225&subd=soveda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MMR again</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/mmr-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the Lancet have published another paper on MMR, and this time it&#8217;s not Wakefield, well sort of.
Here it is: Measles in Europe, It&#8217;s behind a paywall so lets look at the press reporting.
BBC
Yahoo
This quote cheers me (my bold):
In a Lancet comment article, experts said the UK was only recovering slowly from the unsubstantiated scare [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&blog=4776290&post=219&subd=soveda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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