By Steven Novella 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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