Pharma Blog Watch

Pessimism About Preventing Diabetes (DrugWonks)
In his entry, blogger Robert Goldberg writes about new studies in which "drug companies are now seeking to determine whether diabetes drugs can be used to prevent diabetes in those people who are on the cusp of the condition." He is wary that media coverage might criticize the practice, "just as [they] slimed effort to treat 'pre-hypertension' as disease mongering a while ago."

"[S]ince the data comes from drug companies or researchers who receive drug company money, the results can't be trusted in any event," he writes. "So we should simply ignore the evidence and medicine until truly pure research conducted on people at death's door is generated and results in medicines that are given away for free or at a generic price are made available."