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New Drugs for Sickle Cell Disease: Small Benefit, Large Price

The FDA has approved two new drugs to treat sickle cell disease. They don’t do much, and they are prohibitively expensive. Sickle cell disease is a serious condition, an abnormality of hemoglobin that is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, where both parents have to pass on the defective gene. The red blood cells take

Analysis of Claims and of an Experiment to Prove That Oxygen is Present in “Vitamin O”

Dec 31, 2003Harriet A. Hall, MDClinical trials, Herbs and supplementsanemia, blood gas tests, Hutterites, John Heinerman, oxygen, R-Garden, vitamin O

ABSTRACT Background: “Vitamin O” is being sold as an oxygen supplement. Direct analysis has shown that it contains no oxygen. A scientific study published on the manufacturer’s website claims to have demonstrated the presence of oxygen in the product indirectly, by demonstrating increases in blood oxygen in anemic subjects taking the product. Objective and design: The study