[ExI] FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe to Halt DNA Test Service

[Mirco Romanato]

Il 27/11/2013 21:31, Adrian Tymes ha scritto:

> Not necessarily.  Some such treatments are indeed "over the counter", or
> even on the level of fad diets.  Not all such treatments involve pills
> that can be regulated by normal means.

If the treatment is "over the counter" then it is a responsibility of
the patient deciding for himself the treatment.


> There's also the issue of patients convinced they need certain specific
> meds that no reputable physician will give them, because said patients
> do not in fact need them.  If you're convinced you need pill X but your
> doctor says you do not, do you believe your doctor, or do you find other
> ways to get X without seriously considering that you might be wrong? 
> Many people choose the latter.

This is a question of personal responsibility.
What if they are right and the doctor is not?

There are a number of MD that avoid prescribing restricted drugs like
painkillers or anabolic steroids even if they are useful for the
treatment of the patients because they fear repercussion from law
enforcement (often the drugs is not registered for the specific
pathology or problem to threat). Or maybe they are just too much
expensive and the single payer health care don't want pay for them
because they are just 1% more useful (maybe from 98 to 99% efficacy) but
cost double.

> (And then there is user error, such as getting results in an email
> signed with Blowfish and thinking that means they need to eat raw
> blowfish - which has a significant mortality rate, but can be had
> without a physician in the loop.  That's a separate issue.)

Natural selection have its utility, do you know?

Mirco