Medical Quackery

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09/07/2007

In my op-ed in today's Washington Times I compare Jerry Avorn's disdain of a drug for blacks that reduces death from stroke by 43 percent with his love of a one-size fits all prescribing pattern that raises it by 40 percent.

Why does he love one and hate the other?

Because one favors new drugs and the other favors old drugs.

http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070907/EDITORIAL/109070006/1013/EDITORIAL

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