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Unethical Standards for Placebo Trials?

March 2, 2018 Jeremy HowickLatest Updates

Trials show that drugs called ‘interferon alpha’ extend life in people with advanced skin cancer (by a bit). If we invented a new drug to treat advanced skin cancer, most patients would want to know whether the new drug was […]

My Life’s Work

January 12, 2015 Jeremy HowickLatest Updates

I’ve been researching how the body can heal itself since my international rowing career was almost destroyed by a series of debilitating allergic reactions. The drugs doctors prescribed didn’t work so as a last resort I accepted my mother’s suggestion […]