Re: FDA OKs Pfizer's Lipitor for use in diabetics


"Robert" <RobertsSong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "listener" <listener@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Robert" <RobertsSong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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>> > "Sharon Hope" <shope@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> Your imagined relationships, and perjorative slurs are right up there
>> >> with asking "Have you finally stopped beating your wife?"
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>> >> "Robert" <RobertsSong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> > "Sharon Hope" <shope@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> >> Neuropathy is a major concern for diabetics.
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>> >> > Maybe you can use your inside pull to make her at UCSD publish
>> >> > something or
>> >> > is she just doing the lecture circuit to cash in?
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>> > Ok, let me rephrase it, is she going to publish here definitive work
>> > in the field?
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>> Strange reply....
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>> I contacted her early this year. I was told the study was completed and
>> the results were being assembled for publishing. They could not tell me
>> when that would happen.
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>> L.
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> Some clinical trials are stopped dead their tracks when obviously good
> results are being obtained and it would be immoral to deny life saving
> measures so it is announced for all to see.
> This isn't a blind study but she doesn't seem to be in any great hurry. I
> think she wants to give lectures to have feedback on how to formulate the
> data fro better acceptance.
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I thought the initial part was a double blind study - 2 statins + a placebo
(look for side effects) and this was followed by soliciting information from
the general public. I may be mistaken. I do take a statin, after all. :)

Bill


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