For the record, IMO this is nonsense and an abuse of allstat, because:
1) it is anecdotal and refers to one person
2) it mentions a sign (rosacea) not a diagnosis or cause
3) it claims a "cure" in three days for a condition experienced over
many years
4) it appears to puff a single drug with no mention of rate or method of
application - presumably the patient did not follow the instructions
provided.
Don't understand why Vincent has pasted text from a web page, creating
confusion that the patient is apparently one of Vincent's friends.
Anecdotal accounts are interesting and should be accumulated. James Le
Fanu writes a GP column in the Daily Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk) and
regularly features mystery conditions and random cures.
Allan
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Subject: Home-made clinical trials lead to a cure for widespread skin
complaints
One of my friends (referred to as the patient) holds a Ph.D. degree in
statistics and has been affected with a common skin condition for more
than 20 years, known as rosacea
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001882/). Here we report
how he came with a solution to fully eliminate the problem. Physicians
traditionally agree that there is no cure for rosacea.
This study involves only one patient. But typically, clinical trials
involve a very small number of patients, and data related to clinical
trials is known as "small data", as opposed to "big data". It makes
statistical inference much more complicated. On the plus side, the
patient has tested and tried many solutions over a period of 20 years,
while exhibiting very traditional symptoms getting slightly worse over
time but almost under control, when using traditional medecines.
This is not a story about how the pharmaceutical industry is producing
useless medications. The patient was actually cured in three days with a
drug manufactured by Janssen Pharmaceutica, a drug typically used for
vaginal infections. However, it is a story about how the pharmaceutical
industry, indirectly, forces you to buy expensive drugs all your life
($200/year) when they have a 3-day solution (one-time $20 expense) to
eliminate the problem. In this, it is possible that the pharmaceutical
industry was not able to make a link between rosacea (impacting both men
and women) and fungal infections mostly impacting women.
Read full story at
http://www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blogs/home-made-clinical-trials-l
ead-to-a-cure-for-widespread-skin
(short URL is http://bit.ly/qCZTYM)
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