| Iconoclaster 2005-11-25, 5:49 pm |
| >"You have no concept of the term "clinically effective", quite clearly.
If there is clinical improvment, there is clinical efficacy. If there
is deterioration, there is not"
Well, I do. This "clinical effectiveness you're talking about is very
short-lived. The patient has a brief feeling of well-being (because ARV's
are killing off bacteria and fungi, along with body cells). Then the
patient dies - of liver failure.
This "clinical effectiveness" has been known since 1895 as the Herxheimer
effect. Even cancer patients on chemotherapy show this phenomenon. They
seem to get better, to the delight of close relatives, then they die
suddenly.
For all I care you can stick this kind of "clinical effectiveness" up a
warm and dark place.
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