Wednesday, May 8, 2013

A sceptical analysis of Enbrel for Stroke and Alzheimer’s

By    of Science Based Medicine.If you are considering etanercept or Enbrel at all you need to completely read this. I won't be doing this.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/enbrel-for-stroke-and-alzheimers/
A couple of sentences from the post, read it all at the link.
The claims of Tobinick, however, are not in the gray area – they are leaps and bounds ahead of the evidence. Further, the conditions he claims to treat are not clearly immune-mediated diseases. 
Stroke researchers are also very familiar with what is known as the “cheerleader effect.” Take any patient with chronic deficits, give them any intervention and then encourage them to function better, and they will function better.

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