French doctors say half of medical drugs are useless...

A new book written by two doctors claims over half of the medicines are available in France are ineffective, and 5 percent of them are even dangerous.

Authors of “The Guide to 4,000 Useful, Useless or Dangerous Medicines”, doctors Bernard Debré, also a an MP for the centre-right UMP, and Philippe Even, director of the Necker Institute, studied the most common medicines and their effects on patients.

They found 50 percent of the medicines were useless, 20 percent were “badly tolerated”, and 5 percent have adverse effects.

Among the dangerous 5 percent were cardiovascular, anti-inflammatory and contraceptive pills. Daily paper Le Nouvel Observateur, which takes extracts from the book in today’s edition, has compiled an all-inclusive “blacklist”.

 In an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur, Dr Even claimed statins, drugs taken to lower cholesterol, were just one of the many drugs found to be “completely useless”. Full story...

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