40% of medicines in Russia do not have evidence base

40% of medicines on the Russian market do not have any evidence base at all, said the associate professor of the organization of drug provision and pharmacoeconomics Kulikov A.Yu. Proceeding from the statement of the competent expert, all these preparations are checked only for safety by the competent organs of the Ministry of Health, but the diseases for which they are claimed are not checked often even by the manufacturers themselves.

This is largely unproved by most immunomodulators, probiotics, hepatoprotectors, that is, those drugs that are in high demand among the population as a result of active advertising from the manufacturers of these drugs. As it turns out not always deservedly.

The scientist forgot to add that of the remaining 60% of drugs, according to all the rules, only a small amount of research has been done. In the rest it will be standard Russian studies, in which 20-50 subjects will be present, well, if with a control group, and even without it.And on such an unsubstantiated conclusion, an allegedly exhaustive assertion will be made that the given drug helps to cure or prophylact the claimed disease in 60% of patients. And how much is cured on a placebo (dummy preparation)?

Given that these drugs for the treatment of diarrhea or protection from viruses, where the very fact of infection is not always likely, it can be argued that most manufacturers simply lie or use analogues of long-proven drugs, whose penny originals have long been on the market. But everyone wants to live well, so you have to spin and release constantly new medications on the basis of old, thus deceiving the consumers.

This is often done not only by Russian producers, but also by foreign ones, which finance the production of new and breakthrough solutions in the field of pharmacology, but at the expense of another reincarnation aspirin cover losses from such scientific activity (the crowd pays for the elitism of certain areas in the treatment). The last approach of companies is at least justified by the creation of something new. A firmochki, which produce only non-original drugs, can be generally removed from the market without losing it,since their production is in various packaging already tested by time substances with an additional mark-up in the form of advertising, presentations and working in the market of medical representatives.

So I, as a professional, first of all pay attention to the active substance of any drug, and least of all I look at any canopies in the form of the presence of "super effective" excipients in the medicine. Since in the majority of such statements are mostly advertising noise.

My dear readers, look at the root and do not fall for the marketing stuff of manufacturers of drugs that do not have an evidence base. Their advertising is usually the sweetest.